Lockdown 4

 Kia ora Bloggers,

How did you guys feel about being back in lockdown? I felt awful I hate having to go in lockdown. It was hard for me to keep track of what I was doing because we had to babysit my little baby cousin. Every day we have to complete 3 or more pieces of work. Because it is hard for the teachers to find all of the students work. We had to put our work on a special slideshow to show our work. My favourite school activity was doing my Pepeha As a extra piece of work. It was my favourite thing to do because I got to spend heaps of time with my family during this to get photos of my family. My favourite activity to do at home was my online Acro class. Acro is cool flexibility tricks and stuff like that. Anyway I got a brand new gym mat for it which I was also really excited about. Coming back to school for me is amazing because you get to see all of your friends even though you have to social distance a little bit. Anyway here is a picture and a link to My Pepeha.

My Pepeha

Kaiwhare LEGO workshop

Fakalofa lahi atu Bloggers, 

On the 18th of November My class Kaiwhare had a Lego workshop it was so much fun. It took place in Waikowhai Primary Schools hall. When we first sat down on the mat they introduced their self's Their names were Claire and Vanessa. And then Claire showed us a few sets of Lego that here and her family had made together. Then My teacher divided us into groups and we went to different tables and had to make sets of Lego. My favourite station was a Lego workshop you had to have a work table and little tools on it. Once we had gone around two stations we were able to pick a station, I picked the little workshop. At the end when we had finished everything we got to see who got the best builds I got two of the best builds which meant I got to pick a... Prize. I got a Lego poster and a wonder-woman sticker. My day at the Lego workshop was amazing I hope you at Waikowhai Primary had fun too. Here are some pictures of the day.

SLD famous paintings draws.

Konichiwa Bloggers,

On Monday the 30th of November Te Ana Ako did something called... Art Colouring Book. We got to pick a famous painting and colour it in. The one we did was allowed to be the same or different it didn't matter. We got to pick at least 5 paintings. Here is some writing and a picture of my art.

Kaiwhare skating.

Konnichiwa Bloggers

On the 13th of November Friday the middle school had Skateboarding skills. It was amazing to learn lots of new tricks. We did a crab walk and tic tacs and lots of other really cool tricks. They were sort of hard to learn even though my dad has a skateboard. First we had to pick a skateboard and a helmet. By the way, the skateboarding teachers' names were Ben and Lawrence. After that we had to do a warmup to find out what leg had to be at the front and what we have to be at the back of the skateboard. We had to fall forward and see what leg went out first and that was what had to go at the front. Next Lawrence taught us how to skate and stop so then we got to skate around for a while. Then Ben and Lawrance taught us some more tricks. After that we played a game called What’s up wolf pack. It was sort of like what’s the time Mr Wolf, except we had to go back 4 skates if we moved. After that it was time to go back to class but… we had another lesson later on the same day hooray. Here are some pictures of the day.

Production

Hey Bloggers,

Our school Waikowhai Primary has a production every two years that we perform. Last week we held our 5 performances of Jasmine and Aladdin at Waikowhai Intermediate school hall, Also our wonderful parents and any adult in our family were allowed to come and watch on three of the days that we performed.    

"Kaiwhare" Mrs Rai beckoned with her hand. It was my classes turn "yay" I said in my head. For me it is exciting to go on stage because I have been on lots of stages before. As I walked up the stairs and onto the stage a extremely bright light shone and the audience went pitch black. Suddenly music started to play I danced my hand went up then down and I carried on my dance then my class went back down the stairs and back to our seats and we watched the rest of our production performance. Here are some pictures down below. 

Mangere Mountain Trip.

Mangere Mountain Trip

Talofa Lava Bloggers,

On the 16th of November The middle school went to Mangere Mountain on a school trip. First two of the guides sang a Karanga to welcome us then we sang a Karakia and got told we were very good. Then they told us the daily timetable of what we were going to do on that day and some safety rules. 

Secondly we had morning tea and went to the toilet if we had to because there was no toilets on the Mountain. After that we started walking to the Mountain. We were walking and walking until we were at one of the craters. Ellie my groups guide told us all about the mountain guess what apparently people used to live on the mountain 70000 years ago. Then we carried on our Hikoi / walk. When we got back to the Mangere centre we had lunch and then had a little play in a small park. After when the time was up they said we were going to do some workshops. One workshop was making a tool that people uses to cut wood with 70000 years ago. The second workshop was when Leilani the other groups guide took us on a walk to see the different trees that were used for Maori medicine. When we had finished that little walk we all got to taste some Kawakawa tea for me it was disgusting. Both groups got a turn at each workshop. My favourite part was when we got told that people used to live on the Mountain even though it was hard believe it was true it was my favourite because i learnt something new and we also walked to some places that they lived in and it was really cool to see where they used to live in person. Then it was time to go I had an amazing day and it was so fun.

Athletics Day

Athletics Day

“It is so hot!” On Tuesday the 27th of October Waikowhai Primary School participated in athletics day. We rotated around to 14 different activities in age groups plus our whole school relays at the end of the day. I was in the 9 year old girls group. If the parents were able to come they could and watch their children or child. I know there was 14 activities but my group only got to do 13 because the was not enough time to do that specific activity. My favourite activities were high jump and long jump. I liked high jump because I came third and learnt how to jump higher to get over the bar. I enjoyed long jump because I got a place as well but not third this time. I got second.  I also learnt how to throw different objects in fun throws and shot put. Here are a few pictures of the day. (They are not all of me by the way.)