kapa haka

On Tuesday there was kapa haka and we all lined up to get our moko on all the boys in the front row got a full face moko.  Once we were ready to perform we lined up and there was videographer with all his gear ready to record. The link to our bracket is here. Kapa haka video

Green team ilminster

 Ilminsters green team was holding a show and we went we arrived at the hall When I sat down nanny koura was telling her granddaughter a story about the humans who keep on littering and putting plastic in her tummy "the humans would always come to the skate park and litter, the rubbish that they threw on the ground would end up in the ocean and our sea creatures.  " Please nanny koura could you say another story please just 1 more" fine she said.

"This is the time your nanny saved the world from aliens, then came the weirdest sound I ever heard it was the alien mother ship they landed close to the skate park three aliens came walking around the corner the alien king wanted to know if this planet was clean enough for them to dump all of their rubbish here.  And it was, so the robot that they threw out was still working, so the skaters grabbed the robot and they were real mad and they told the robot to call the aliens and the robot did what he was told.

The aliens were mad but they came instead of the skaters talking the aliens just dumped more rubbish.  So the skaters went to nanny koura and nanny koura told the robot to call the aliens so he did the aliens came and the aliens thought that nanny koura was there long lost queen so she told them to clean up there rubbish and leave and that's what they did. 

Hamanatua stream walk

 On Tuesday we went on a walk to the end of Hamanatua stream so we set off,  about 5 minutes in the walk we were at the bridge I was doing fine when we crossed the road we went up the road and set on our walk we made to the farm.  Oska started to lean on a gate and "ZAP" he got a shock in his arm and Stormer didn't believe him so he held the gate and then "ZAP" he got shocked too     and then Max held the gate and "ZAP" Oska and Stormur started to laugh at him "haha".

Anyway we started the walk it was very muddy and then I saw people at the front of the line jumping across a small stream.  I was waiting and watching everyone jump Lola gave her bag to Rio and lola made the jump then Rio through Lolas bag and it landed in the water 

Jean Batten day

 I was making careful folds on my paper plane called a moth it was the last fold it was perfect everyone in my team finished their planes so we all went to test our planes accuracy through a hoop so we lined up.  Everyone in my group missed the hoop by a mile.  So we moved on to "MAYDAY MAYDAY" we all lined up there was a bullseye taped on the door, but we all failed again.

The next course was whos paper plane could fly furthest it was my turn to throw but all my plane did was loop de loops and didn't get a metre far so I lost and Cory won after all the teams did the courses only one person made it through the hoop he was Stormur.

We then went onto the next activity making a buzz plane with a toothbrush, small battery, thumb tack and two small led lights , we grabbed the toothbrush and cut the front off,  then you get the thumb tack and stick it on the front of the tooth brush then grab your battery and stick the red wire to the thumb tack then put the battery on top of the red wire and stick the black wire up. 

Then it should start vibrating , once it does put it onto a hard surface and it will most likely do donuts on the floor.

Cross country

"On your marks, get set go BANG!" I sprinted, my legs moving faster than light "swoosh".  People got a glimpse of me, before I sprinted past them, "arghh". I felt a sharp pain in my chest, it hurt badly, causing me to rapidly slow. Before I knew it, people started passing me. At this point, I was now 10th placing. So again once again, I started jogging. I was at the sand dunes running up the hill and then down.  I was running down the dip, my chest still in pain but I persevered and kept going.

Now in my second lap, the crowds had began to cheer and shout as I jogged passed. I was super puffed, it was getting harder and harder to breath, sweat was dripping down my face, and my legs were on fire, and felt like they melting right to the bone. I was exhausted, gasping for breath, yet I kept on pushing. 

I came back to the dip, I nearly fell down the hill while I was running.  You know what was even worse? I had pins and needles too.  I was set to tie 8th with Cash, I wasn't having any of this! so I sped up, I was roughly a metre in front of him, the crowd were shouting "go Reef" but then I looked behind me and I saw Cash sprinting too, so I ran for 8th place and that was my final placing.

snowboarding

 Snowboarding

Icy fingers gripped my arms, it was Bodhi we were on a snowboarding trip in taupo.  This was my first time snowboarding, I was getting my binding on I got both of them on.  I didn't know how to control it I went flying down the mountain.

I tried to stop but I went flying face first into the snow.  I was on the chair lift and I was having a race with Bodhi and Ziggy I won obviously.  I started to get the hang of it I was really good I started to get the jumps nailed.  But then I face planted and Ziggy ran into my leg and he got smashed.

1 hour later Bodhi was freezing he had to stop we all went inside the cafe and ate our lollies and had a hot chocolate.  Me and Ziggy wanted to go to the top of the mountain but the conditions were so bad the top was closed so we stayed for another 3 hours.

we had 3 more runs down the mountain Ziggy was to cold for another 3 runs so bodhi came up with no gloves and no helmet after the 3 run I was extremely numb it hurt to take the gear off it was so cold it was hot.            

Counting kakahi

 Hannah Rainforth is a scientist she is interested in kakahi also known as black water mussels.  She is from Whanganui river in NZ.  Kakahi are one of the most threatened groups of animals worldwide.  You might wonder why she wanted to study kakahi well she started researching and found out that they have nearly disappeared in the Whanganui river.

So she wanted to find more kakahi in NZ also find the remaining kakahi in the river.  If there were very few or none juveniles the kakahi will end up extinct.  The female kakahi releases tiny larvae into the ocean the larvae have to latch onto a fish or it will die.  Kakahi can live for fifty years, you can see how old they are by counting the growth rings on its shell.

She caught 185 kakahi when Hannah moved up the river that's the most she has ever caught in her years of searching.  Caring for our waterways will help kakahi and other fresh water animals can thrive.    

rugby game Cobham

Rugby

We were in the van heading to Cobham school.  I had my boots on and my t-shirt we arrived at the school.  And hopped out of the van and put my mouthguard in I grabbed a ball and did some passing with Rori.   After the warm up we went into our positions.   I was winger.  we were missing a lot of our players.  Like Oska and more.

It was our kick Mahanga was kicking he kicked it straight down the middle we all ran for it she picked up the ball and started running she didn't have much of a run up Rori got her on the ground we were blowing over but they got the ball.  they ended up scoring a try the score was 10-5 they were winning.

After half time it was 50-40 they were still winning " 5 minutes left " someone shouted from the sideline we ended up scoring 2 more tries in the last couple minutes.  We tied.      

rugby game

Rugby game

It was a normal friday day.  We had a rugby game we were facing Awapuni.   Are kick off Rori booted the ball super far everyone chased it.   He picked up the ball and ran it straight up the guts to Cash he got him down on the ground.   And the other team was blowing over.    We were trying to push them out of the ruck.

It didn't work they got the ball to the half back he passed it out to one of the backs he ran but then passed it to another back and he got it out to the winger he was extremely fast I was chasing after him but he got the try.   They had to kick off the half back kicked it Momo got the ball and started running he passed it out to Rori he was zig zagging in and out of the other team.

He got tackled,  cash got the ball and started running he got through the team but someone got his ankle he had a tight grip everyone else jumped on him he was pushing through the team Cash was about 1 metre away from the  try line he had to off load it to Cory he ran and got the try. 

It was half time and they were now beating us.  They kicked it towards us, Mahanga caught the ball he was running two people tackled him he held the ball out but they won the ruck and got the ball.  They got a try.It was a really nice game.  We put our hands in the middle and shouted three cheers for Awapuni 1 for the ref 2 for the supporters.  Then lined up and shook hands.

 They beat us and we had a big drink of water,  took our boots off and put our shoes on got all of our stuff then we jumped in the car and left the school grounds. 

rugby game

The ball was in the air it was heading to the other wing it dropped on the ground it bounced back up it was falling Vinnie caught it and ran he passed it over to Stormur had a run but he got dropped on the ground.  He held it out me Rori and cash blew over so no one could walk over Stormur and grab the ball.  Flynn grabbed the ball out of his hand and passed it to Taimana I ran back out to the wing the ball got passed over to me.

I started running through the people zig zagging in and out but then the big boy caught my leg and everyone jumped on me I went to the ground and held out the ball for Flynn to grab it.  He ran but he eventually got tackled Saint mary's got the ball and ran he got passed us and scored the try.

at half time the score was 40 - 50 they were winning at the end of the game it was 60 - 50 they won but at the end we did a karakia and we ate all of the shared food that the parents brought.  It was a nice far game.    

Rugby training

 On thursday 1.00pm we had rugby training I got my gear on and ran onto the reserve/field, I was on the field and one of my mates held up the the rugby bag and I ran and tackled it. Then we were practising rucks.  After that we played a game, it was are kick off Oska kicked everyone ran with the ball.

Cash started running with the ball everyone went to tackle him someone tackled him and we won the ball and ran he got tackled.  They one the ball and everyone chased the ball.  In the end we one. and it was super fun. We all went back to class.            

beach clean up

 On a wednesday morning we headed down to the beach we were in groups of 3 I was with Cory and Oska.  We grabbed our bucket and lined up we headed out for a beach clean up we arrived at the beach and Oska was holding the bucket me and Cory ran out Cory found a beer bottle in the first 3 minutes.

20 minutes later are bucket was fulled and Cory was holding the bucket and I found 3 balloons and Oska found a balloon to.  We got back and we sorted out are rubbish into bins then we went back to class.    

Scientist

 On a Monday morning after brain break, we went on a zoom call with 3 scientist their names were Wolfgang Rack, Shanelle and Sandy.  They are studying Antarctica. Wolfgang is a glaciologist, he drills holes in glaciers. Sandy was studying the seals. Shanelle tells stories about Antarctic history.

We got to ask them questions of our own and some of the questions were; what's the biggest glacier you've seen?  how do you count the seals? what's your favorite story? how bigs the drill? how much stories do you know? and more. We had to hop off the zoom call because another class joined.       

Soccer game

 It was a Saturday morning it was raining, I got my gear on and went to the field the rest of the team came to the field we were facing mangapapa we went for a run around the field doing high knees and kicking are butt and we did 1 more lap and sprinted the whole way we go into are positions and I was left defender the whistle blew.

the ball was coming down to me I booted it down the line to Harry M.C he passed it down to jaxon one person of the mangapapa team kicked it out and it was a corner Jaxon kicked it to me I jumped pulled my head back and smashed it in the goal.

After a while it was 10 nel we were winning it was the second half and I was in goal keeper I could of took a nap at the end of the game we won 16 nel and I got player of the day they picked me up and dropped me on the floor 

blue penguins walk survay

 This Term is focused on the smallest penguin in the world called the little blue penguin, they are 30 to 35 cm tall.  We went on a walk to Douglas st. and moana road before that, the teacher gave us two surveys to hand out once we passed Hamanatua stream we split into 3 groups I was in the group that went down moana road after we all handed out our surveys we all headed back to school. We had to wait and to this day were still waiting.      

soccer trials

 it was a thursday afternoon I got my boots on and then we started I was really pumped to get in the game I got in and I was defender the whistle blew The opposite team was coming with the ball me and the other defenders went in and took it down to the other side and passed.  we shot but we missed we kept on playing for another 15-20 minutes and then I switched to goalie.

The score was 3-2 we were winning  then the whistle blew and then we went home a couple of days later I found out that I made the team.

   

week 7 slides

3 weeks ago, The Wainui Beach School years sixes went to Camp Kaitawa. It was really fun, we did lots of walks and kayaking. I had the worst sleep waking up at 6.00 every night.  Here is a link to my week 7 slides. The food was really good.  There was a concert and I did jokes here's one why did the possum cross the road he went to see his flat mate.    

Cooks cove walk!

I took the the first step up cooks cove walk, as soon as I took the first  step I knew this was going to take a long time.  We starting walking up we got up to the beacon of light that's where we had a water break after the water break we kept on moving.

30 minutes past until we stopped to look at the amazing view I also had some water and the we were going down on the other side of the hill.  Once we got to the bottom of the hill we headed to a forest we were walking in the forest for about 15 minutes and then we came across a baby owl in the trees we all stopped to look at the owl and then kept on moving.

We got out of the forest and there was a wharepaku about ten of us went toilet once everyone got back in there groups we kept on moving we got to the end of the walk and had a snack and then walked back it took us 2 to 3 hours to finish the walk and my legs nearly melted of my bones

At the end I felt good and exhausted once I finished school I went home and had a nap.         

 

Back to school

4 weeks ago I came back to school for the first time since the holidays had started last year. On the second week we walked all the way to Hamanatua stream, the sun was blazing down upon us. On the next day we walked up to Mangaroa, it was really steep, and the rocks made it easy to slip. The fields stank with cow poo, luckily it didn't put me off my exquisite lunch . 

 

On the 3rd week, on the Friday we were sorted with parent transport to go to the beach. Hamish, Max's dad was the parent that would push me, Tre, Millie and Cory into waves he pushed me on a good as wave I stood up started turning and riding on the wave then it just smashed me off my board.  

 

          It was week 3 and we were going to Te Poho -O- Rawiri marae and we learnt a song called Mama panda, its about the elders making bread for the younger.  And then I realized we were going places of our pepeha.                                                                                         

Te Poho -O- Rawiri

Maungaroa