Year Five Week

The year five's in my class were having a very fun week with out the year sixes, the year sixes were at Camp Kaitawa, until they came back on Friday.  In the week we made boats and smoothies. Go into the slides and have a look, they are very interesting!  The slides will turn every thirty seconds for you. 

Boat Racing

 Boat Racing 

Yesterday afternoon our class started making boats, just out of masking tape and butcher paper, in pairs of two.  My buddy was Lila. It was very hard making a boat, just out of two things. First, I folded up some paper and put heaps of masking tape around it. After, we had finished making our boats, we were going to put them in our school pool to see who's boat floats for the longest, and who's moves the fastest in the strong wind. Rolling and and peeling the materials made my hands sore.  We made the sails and the foils. 

Lila and I kept rolling, twisting and cutting. It was incredibly exciting.  Our class had a bit more time to finish our boat before we went to test them in the pool.  Things kept breaking off and falling over but we were resilient and determined for our boat to succeed. We did some finishing touches on our boat then we were ready to go.

 It was time test the boats in the pool. We went over to the pool, Lila and I held our paper boat and dropped it into the sparkling water. As soon as our boat hit the water it fall over disappointedly. The winner of the boat competition was Millie and Bridie, The had a flat bottom on their  boat to make it stable. Our boat had a V  shape bottom so that's what  made our boat fall over.  Next time Lila and I would do a flat bottom to make it balance and we would make a bigger sail that has not that much masking tape on it so the boat does not tip. 

We did this activity because newzealand one the america's cup, and that gave us the idea. The america's up runs every four years. Each team from most countries make a boat in those four years and then practice until the competition is on.

 

Action day - Harvesting kumara

 Action day -  Harvesting kumara 

We were off in the morning, Koka Rozie was writing all of our amazing ideas onto to a big whiteboard. After Koka Rozie  rote all of our interesting ideas onto the whiteboard, our class went outside and started  weeding all of the class gardens. It was hard work weeding and harvesting everything out of the gardens, with the boiling hot sun shining right on us.  It took lots of time, we all had to be resilient and determined to get it done. We went out in the gardens to harvest all the kumara we planted a few months ago and to dig out all the plants that were not meant to be growing in that place. An action day was to do heaps of work around our school, to make our school look nicer. 

Diggggg the bell loudly, for a long amount of time it was time,  it was time to go to morning tea.  Codie was coming to teach us some new things about being a 100/100 enviro school. Moana two ( That's my class ) came back in class after morning tea. Codie was ready to talk to us.  Codie comes to enviroschools and talks to them about what they are doing as an enviro school and how they could improve to get better than before. Codie told us lots of interesting things that I did not know before. She showed us lots of pitchers that were very interesting and asked us some questions while we were looking at the pitchers.   

Back in the garden we travelled ,harvesting kumara. To me it was very fun. One after another we found kurara. Digging aur hands around the kumara until you could pull the kumara out , without it breaking because you want one whole kumara not pices. Everybody's fingernails were very dirty from digging most of the day. It was very hard working in the hot heat. 

At the end of the day we had cleared out the whole garden, there was only soil left. I was proud of my self and my class. It was hard work. Have you ever heard the saying: Do the mahi get the treats, that's how I felt today when we started and did the mahi, then when we finished we got the treats by seeing that its done. Do you like weeding. 

Why is growing your own food positive?

- Its fresh

-Healthy

- You know where its been

- Less money

- You only plant the seedling and then the seedling does the work for you. 

Lots of others as well. Try listing as many things as you can about why is growing your own food positive?

Inter School Swimming

Inter School Swimming

It was a bright morning, I woke up feeling very nervous but ready to race. Blue sparkling sky reflected on the tall grassy green hills. I hopped in the car after getting ready.  Me, my Mum and my brother Zebedee arrived at school,  we ran to the hall.  I sat down and listened carefully, the teachers told some instrruand we got ready.  Wheels rolling round and round as our car was driving to enter prize pools. 

We hopped out of the car when we  arrived.  Sitting on the hard concrete seet feeling nervous was not that nice to me.  I rapped my towel around me while I was waiting for my race to bergen.  Some people hopped in the pool to do a warm up but I didn't want to do it.  Freestyle and back stroke had finished then it was breaststroke up next, I was entered in breaststroke.  I was called up, I lined up and walked out side. 

The cool breeze was quite cold but luckily it was a sunny day. The ladies outside put us into our hearts. I felt nervous but also ready to race. Walking back inside seemed way louder than out side. The man saidy ready and bepped a loud buzzed, I dived in the warm sparking pool. I gave it my hunderea present best. I came first and I felt very proud of my self. I don't know why there were only three people in my heat. The time keepers had a little break out side, that was nice to be in the cool fresh air again. 

Results came to us and I found out that I was in the breaststroke final. I  felt very happy. The time came so  fast that I was lined up and it was my race after the boys. I was very nervous. Again the man beeped hais buzzer, I was off. At the end  I was very proud of my self. I don't know what I came but it doesn't matter only if you do your best and I did my best. On the way back to school my Mum stopped and got all the people that came in our car and Ice- Cream.  When I went back to my class I was tired but also very proud of my self. 

The End 

Berry Breeze Smoothie

 Berry Breeze Smoothie 

Early in the morning I arrived at school with all my ingredients.  Today at school we were making smoothies in buddies, my buddy was Lila and Zoe.  Our smoothie had lots of ingredients in it, so we all bring some.  I brang Cinnamon, almonds , yoghurt and feijoas.  Our teacher koko Pip gave up a plate to put all of our ingredients on once they are ready.  I  cut the strawberries and scooped the flesh out of the feijoas, pored the yoghurt. It was very fun preparing all the food.  We put the food on the clean plate because our teacher was going to film us make our smoothie, so we wanted it to look nice. 

Time to make the Berry Breeze

Slowly and carefully we carried our plate into the filming room. There, we placed it on the table and stuck our recipe behind us with sticky blue tack.  The camera started filming, we were on! 

Firstly, we introduced ourselves. Next Lila said what materials we needed to use.  Zoe and I then explained the ingredients we needed. As we read each instruction, we also did it. At first I was nervous but then it was fun. After we did all the steps, we blended it all up. When we blended it all up it was very loud!

 Our group tasted the smoothie, it was very thick and tasted like cinnamon. But we liked it. We poured a cup for Koka Nolian and Koka Margo, they are our judges. I started cleaning out the smoothie blenders for other groups, as they were next up.  I found it very interesting watching all the other groups do their videos.

Koka Nolian and Koka Margo came in and judged that afternoon. There were five groups in total. our first judge, Koka Nolian, awarded us in 5th place. With Koka Margo, we came 4th. I loved making the smoothies it was cool.  We did the smoothie day to learn how to make smoothies, to learn camera angles and to do something fun because the year sixes were on camp. Next time we would put way less cinnamon because I think we might have put too much in. 

Berry Breeze DIY Tutorial 

Very Scary Friday

Very Scary Friday

The Earthquake

Waking up at 2.30 in the morning with my bed shaking and rumbling, doors shutting and opening. There was an earthquake.  As soon as I woke up I placed my hands over my head because I thought my bunk was going to fall over. I was worried because my little brother was on the top bunk still asleep.  After the ground stopped shaking, I rushed to my Mum and Dad's room.  I asked my Mum if there was going to be a tsunami, she rushed to her phone and looked at all the websites, the websites said there was a low possibility, this made us all feel very relieved. My family tried to go back to sleep because our house is safe behind heaps of high hills. Even still, I found it hard to go to sleep after that. 

Time to wake up

It was morning and the birds were chirping loudly, it was time to wake up and get ready to go to school. The sparkling sunlight shone over the tops of my curtains, it woke me, but I still felt tired after being woken earlier that morning. We hopped on our bikes and rode to school listening to the waves crashing from a distance, the cool breeze blowing my silky long hair as the sun rose higher and higher.  We arrived at school, shoved my bike in the rack and travelled to class.  Loudly the nine o'clock bell rang, we all sat down on the mat and the teachers told us about the earthquake. Our class had an assembly but not with the whole school because of COVID. Half way through koka Rozie's phone beeped, she rushed out of the door  to go talk to koka Nolian. I felt scared and worried. 

Sirens echoed across the school. Our whole school had to evacuate to our meeting area at the back off the school and below the big hill.  Koka Nolian told us about a tsunami, she announced that one was not going to come, only up the coast from Tolaga bay had to evaluate. That made me feel better.   She went over our plan if one was going to come. She also said that there was another earthquake out deep sea, this one was stronger than the one last night.  Travelling back to class knowing that the teachers have a plan. 

Ending

There was no tsunami the whole day in Gisborne but there was  a little tsunami up the coast. It did not take out any houses, that was good, it just came through the bay like a huge wave. Have you seen a  tsunami before? I felt nervous that whole day.  Luckley school had all the alarms  we needed and a plan if there was going be a tsunami. I told my Mum all the news when I got home, she told me some things as well.  At the end of the day, there were no more tusimsi warnings and all the people from up the coast could go back to their homes . That was probably the scariest Friday of my life. 

The End 

Off To School 2021

                                   Back to school

My eyes opened in the morning with the sunlight coming through the tops of my curtains.  I was ready for a day of awesome learning at school,   I  got ready and hopped  in the car with my family. As I walked through the school gates I felt nervous + excited to come back to school and see my new class.  Wind was blowing my hair back and forward as I walked down the deck to hang my bag up.  After my mum came in our class's the nine o'clock bell rang very loudly.  Bubbles of hand sanitizer  swirled on my hands as I entered the bright classroom. Our class played some games and later on in the day I knew everyone's name.  After morning tea we started some Art.  Art is one of my favourite subject's . You had to draw twenty, twenty one ( 2021 ). Well the twenty, twenty one art took a lot of time but it was very fun.

Off To Our Pepeha  / Pepeha Week                                                                                                                Off to hamanatua awa

Hats on said the teacher its a hot day.  Boling hot tar melted in the sun as our class and I crossed the road. In straight lines our whole school was off to our awa - Hamanata. We arrived  and sat down on the soft sand.  Sand was flying into one pile as me and my friends were making underground tunnels.   I felt happy.  After that we sat down and had some kai, then travelled back to school in the boiling hot sun. I arrived at school so hot, I scrubbed the sand off my legs and walked into class.                                      

Off to our monga- Monungaroa

Moana syndicate was off to our maunga Maungaroa.  As we walked along the dusty foot path the sun was shining on bright, I could not look up. Travelling all that way moana syndicate finally arrived on Lloyd George Road, down the long drive way we walked to take us to the bottom of Maungaroa. Dusty, slippery, slidey gravel was falling down Maungaroa  as we were trying to hike up the hill.  Boiling hot sun was shining on everyone the whole time but luckily there were some trees when we were travelling up at the start. We kept going round and up the hill, we found a nice flat spot tucked into the side and we stopped for brain break.  Travelling back to school in the hot sun was hard but on the way back we walked on the wet and cold sand.  It felt so nice on my feet. We arrived at school and wiped the sand of my feet. When I got back to my class I was so tired. 

Te poho o Rawiri mare                                                                                                                    

Big buses arrived, Moana syndicate hopped on. The engines stopped as we arrived at  Te poho o Rawiri marae.  There was a powhiri when we arrived.  Inside there was heaps carvings and mats for us to sit on.  Some kids and the teachers got up to give the people at the marae a hongi. Aunty Bubba told us some stories and  taught us a song called Mamma Panda, it's about her grandma making bread for her.  Aunty Bubba told us lots of stories but one of them was about her family with another marae becomes another family and that they call everyone cousins, Aunties, Uncles, brothers and sisters.  When it was time to go  home we hopped on the bus. Arriving at school the bell was nearly going to ring. We cleaned our class.

What is a Pepeha 

If you don't know a pepeha is something about you.  Some people have a  Your name, Maunga, Awa, Marae, some people have a tribe- iwi  some people have some other things as well.  Some people use there pepeha a lot and some don't have a pepeha. If you don't have a pepeha thats ok but it would be cool if you could find it out so it any asks you, you could say it.  I'v got a bit of my family in mine as well. 

Ending

I loved walking to Hamantua awa, travelling up Maungaroa and going on a bus to  Te poho o Rawiri marae. It was very fun starting back at school. I felt happy to be  back at school even though my holiday was awesome.  Going to all parts of the school pepeha meant that I got to know those places better because  our school finds that very important.  Now that I've told you all those reasons why a pepeha is so important I hope you find your pepeha out. The End