Kapa Haka Festival

We have been practising for the kapa haka festival pretty much all year. We finally did it today. I was in the front row so we had to wear these pew pew things and we had to put on some black undies cause that's we wore underneath it. I felt kinda nervous, but also excited.

In the morning we got our mokos on and tried not to smage them up. Then we got on the bus and went to where the festival was. After that we the front row boys and girls got their pew pews on and got in our rows. oce we did that it was time to preform. We got on stage I could see people everywhere and boom we were singing away. It got to the part where the boys moved to the front and did the haka. We did the haka and then we sang a few more songs and got off the stage. 

We waited for the wai and nui to do their performances. It started to hurt though because we were sitting down for ages At the end our hole school sang our school song. Then we got back to see our parents and stuff like that. We got on the bus and started heading back to school.

Milos Term Round Up

 Lets just say this term has been pretty fun. We have just moved into the hall to so that has been pretty crazy but we are all set now so that's good. This friday is a teachers only day too so that means that there is only 4 days in this week and it's the last week so that means it's the holidays more early than it usually would be.

That means that there's only 3 more days until the holidays because today is monday and we only have till Thursday. On Wednesday (i'm pretty sure) we have a fundraiser thing and you get an ice cream but you have to pay 3 dollars to get one. I hope its a hot day on that day because it will be way better when it's a hot day and it will cool me down.

  We have speeches coming up though and i hate speeches they suck. I'm not sure what im gonna do mine about yet though but ill guess i will have to wait and see what i pick. So overall i think this term has been pretty crazy because all of the moving into the hall stuff. It feels pretty weird being in the hall too but oh well, i will have to get used to it i guess. That's the end of this blog today.

Making An Ice Cream Sunday

 Last week in our writing group we made ice cream sundays. First we had to make up our own recipes and stuff. We didn't know we were actually making ice creams though we thought it was just the writing and that's it. The rugby boys and the netball girls had a game that day so we gotta do it early.

Some of the kids forgot to add a spoon in though so they only were able to eat with their fingers. Luckily i added in a spoon because otherwise i would've had to eat with my fingers. The thing that i did forget though is the marshmallows. They were originally wafers but i forgot those anyway. 

After we had all of our ice creams it was time to go back to class. So that's it for today i hope you enjoyed this blog    

Just dance

In my school there is this thing called just dance. It’s where you copy dances off a youtube video. I’m pretty sure it’s like a video game that’s just been recorded but it’s still pretty fun. We do it every day after morning tea. But not on fridays because it's a discovery option.

You can do it in groups of 4, 3, 2 and 1. But only MLH (Moana learning hub) does it . When we get to the hall after morning tea they tell you how many people in a group. Then we pick our groups and start. It goes for about 20 to 30 minutes everyday. When we first started it we did silent reading first (silent reading is when you just read silently) but now we just go straight to it. When we first started to not silent read before we went to the hall I thought we only did it for 10 mins but then i realized we didn’t because morning tea ends at 11:50.

After a while I get pretty tired but I just keep going and take my jumpa off. You can also just take your shoes off but I like to just take my jumpa off. Then after just dance we come back into the classroom to do steps. So overall i quite like just dance and you should try it all you gotta do is search it up on youtube and copy the dancing.

By Milo

Milos lockdown journey

 It all started on the 25th of march. That was when the lockdown started. So then all the schools had to start these google meets and do this online learning thing. It was way better than learning at school because instead of the whole day it was just a few hours of school work. But it was hard to not get distracted at home but I just got on with it.

I woke up at 8:00 to 9:00 o’clock and did my work. Every day we had to fill out this google form to tell how we were feeling and tell the teachers what time we were joining the google meets. The meets were at 10:00 or 2:00. At least that was the time at the start of lockdown then it changed to 10:30 or 2:00. I had mostly joined them at 10:30 but luckily you had to mute your mic while the teachers were talking, because otherwise my baby brother would have been too loud.

Then Coronavirus started to ease off and lockdown was almost over but it was still level 3 so school wasn't started yet. After a while it went down to level 2 and before I knew it school was starting back up again. Then it was my baby brother's birthday so i didn't go back to school on monday. But i went to school on Tuesday and it was finally back to normal.

First week Back at WBS

Hi, this is my first week being back at WBS (Wainui beach school) in 2020. I'm a year 6 now but it still feels like I'm a year 5. The main things that I'm most happy about being a year 6 is I get to do school surfing and I get to go on year 6 camp. My class that I'm in this year is MLH 2 (Moana learning hub).

It's really fun because we have these groups called Buzz groups, a Buzz group is just a group of 4-5 kids and we do heaps of activities one of them was we had to walk a couple of metres with a balloon in between our legs. One of the other games we play is called Tension what you have to do is the teacher picks up a card and the card will say that we have to name ten things in a certain amount of time. 

A few days have gone past and it's already been kinda challenging but let's keep going and see what  else 2020 brings me.