Kapa Haka Festival!

Chatters spread as we hop off the bus at the showgrounds. It was Wednesday the 20th of November 2019. We were going to the Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival our whole school was doing the kapa haka. Everyone was buzzing with excitement and nerves. We went into a huge hall to watch Wai. We got told to be quiet. After Wai had finished we went outside to get the piupius on for the front row. The moko kauae and black lipstick was getting irritating. We tiptoed over some sharp little stones to get next to the stage.

"Please welcome up Wainui Beach School!" We walked up onto the stage. Kamo the kaea shouts. Our first song goes by in a blur and we are already onto haramai a paoa. The crowd applauds us as we finish our song. Ka pioioi Toho aroha haukainga e hoki mai ra. Yay the poi I thought in my head, because it is one of my favourites. Remember to smile I thought to myself as we started Utiana. Kaimo He! The haka had started. Two more songs I thought, Wainui e and then He Honore. As we went off the stage all the audience exploded into an applause. We all did it to show what we can do.

"Kai Pai everyone! You can go to your parents quickly if you want."  I went over to my mum she took a photo of me and my brother and then me and Sarah. Then I went over to my dad. Me and some other girls got a photo altogether. Then we got the bus back to school. I felt like we had done our best.

 

Doulingo

Last week we got introduced to a site called duolingo. The site is about learning languages. There is a range of different languages that you can learn. I am learning Russian lots of people say it is the hardest but it isn't that hard.

Our class has to do 10 minutes a day. You have a range of different badges. Once you have learnt a bit of the language that you are learning you will get asked to say something in the language that you are learning. Eto means this is. I really enjoy doing duolingo.

Winter Solstice

In class we have been learning about the Winter Solstice. For one of our priorities ,priorities are things that we have to finish off by the end of the week, we had to do mapping of Stonehenge, Newgrange and Maeshowe. This was proof to the teacher so that they know that we know about the Winter Solstice. This is what we found out.