Kapa Haka

 Last week we had our kapa haka performance, but it was a little bit different. Because of Covid we couldn't perform at the festival, so someone came and filmed us. For me it was a little bit sad because it was my last Kapa Haka at Wainui, I was in the third row. Here are all the songs.

  Utaina mai nga waka

  Nga waka o te motu

  Hoea mai ra ki uta 

  Ki te takotoranga

Hiki nuku hiki e

Hiki rangi, rangi e

Tena tena ra

koutou katoa

UTAINA Haka

 

  Utaina mai Hi!

Utaina mai Hi!

Utaina mai nga iwi o te motu

Ki runga Whakatu e tau nei

Hiki nuku e! Hiki rangi e!

Hiki rangi e! Hiki nuku e!

I a ha ha!

Ka hikatia tana iwi

Ka hapainga I tana waka

Aue! Aue! Aue!Aue!

Song two: Ka Waiata 

Ka waiata ka Māria
Hi-i-nei wha-kāe
Whaka-meatia mai,
Te whare tangata.
Hine pūrotu, Hine ngākau,
Hine rangi-māri-e
Ko Te Whaea, ko te whaea
O te ao 

  Song three: Aue, auē Rona ē

Takoto ana au

 Ki te moenga uriuri 

Tū ake āu 

Titiro ki te atarau 

Kei runga rā 

Te marama e whiti ana 

Kei arā Rona 

Kei roto rā 

Piri ki te taha 

Piri ki te ngaio 

Aue, auē ra

e Rona ē

Aue, auē Rona ē

Song four: Kapanapana

A ra ra! Ka Panapana! I a! ha! ha! Aue! Ka rekareka tonu taku ngakau ki nga mana ririki pōhatu-whakapiri (Kia) haere mai Te takitini (Kia) haeremai Te takimano kia paretaitokotia ki turanga. Katoa: Hi! Ha! Aue! Kaea: He mamae, He mamae Katoa: I! A! Ha! Ha! Aue! Kaea: Ka haere, ka haere taku Powhiri ki te tai whakarunga Katoa: Hoki mai, hoki mai taku tinana Kaea: Ka haere, ka haere taku Powhiri ki te tai whakararo Katoa: Hoki mai, hoki mai taku tinana Kaea: Kia huri au ki te tai whakatu a Kupe Ki te tai o Matawhero i motu nei! Katoa: E ko te hoa riri ki roto i aku ringa,.kutia rawatia. Kia pare tonu ihu Hi! Ha! Aue! Ana! Ana! Ana! (Ksss…..Ksss….Ksss)

Song five: Toia mai

Toia mai te waka nei

Kumea mai te waka nei
Ki te takotoranga i
Takoto ai
Tiriti te mana motuhake

Te tangi a te manu e
Pipiwharauroa
Kui, kui, kui!
Whiti, whiti ora!
Hui e
Taiki e!

My favourite song is Toia mai, then Ka Waitata, then Utaina

Ilminster Green team

 This morning most of Moana syndicate went to Ilminster Intermediate  to watch a play performed by the Ilminster green team. The play was about recycling. I was very excited.

Firstly Nanny Kōura a crayfish told her grandkids to go to bed but they wanted another story so she decided to tell the story about the time she saved the world from the aliens. Secondly some kids went to the skate park and dropped lolly wrappers. Then the king Alien, two normal  Aliens and a robot decided to dump their rubbish at the skate park. Then they left the Robot there. The next day the kids went back to the skatepark and found the robot, they got the robot to call the Aliens and told them to stop dumping their rubbish, but they didn't listen.

Secondly the kids went to Nanny Kōura and asked her to help Nanny Kōura said she wouldn't help because they dump their rubbish, then Nanny Kōura agreed to help. They got the robot to call back the Aliens and Nanny Kōura pretended to be the long lost Alien Queen and made them stop dumping rubbish.

I loved the play it was very fun to watch and had a good message about not littering. 

Speech performances and Flooding

Last thursday we did speeches it was good it was on thursday because there was so much rain we couldn't go outside. My speech was about Emma Twigg. There were loads of good speeches that I enjoyed.

About 3/4 of the way through one person went home, an then another and another. People kept coming in to tell people their parents were here to take them home. I had already done my speech but it was really annoying getting disrupted.

Almost half the class had left when the teachers (Koka Rozie and Koka Pip) decided we should just stop speeches because of all the disruptions. Then someone asked 'why is everyone leaving' Koka Rozie replied 'there's a risk of flooding from all the rain. And parents can come pick up their children' I looked out at the grass there were ankle deep puddles everywhere and little awa on the hills that wasn't there before.

I stayed at school for a little longer then mum came and picked me up. We had to drive out to Campion- my sister Nellie's school- to pick Nellie up. On the way we had to drive through massive puddle, it was like swimming. We picked up Nellie and two of her friends on the way back from Campion Gisborne was declared in a state of emergency so we went home and ate mars bars and hot chocolate. Sponge bay was told to evacuate. Our school hall was a safe place for people who had to evacuate.

Term 4 Week One/Speeches

 On Monday everyone came to school for the first time in 2 weeks and this term we have speeches. My speech is about Emma Twigg an Olympic gold medalist in rowing, I hope you like it.

Lisa Mangum said “Make your own decisions. Make your own choices.” It’s a simple quote but I think it’s very impactful. I think NZ's most inspirational olympian, Emma Twigg definitely made her own decisions and choices- With her job and relationships- about things that made her happy and didn’t care what others thought.

I think Emma Twigg is NZ's best olympian because she is very passionate and had to persevere a lot to win a gold medal. And went to the olympics four times before she won a medal.

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th” Julie Andrews. Emma Twigg  went to the olympics in 2008 in Beijing, 2012 in London and  2016 in RIo de Janeiro and of course 2021 in tokyo. And the first time she went she came ninth, then in 2012 she came 4th then she came fourth again by 0.3 seconds, then this year she won her first gold medal. She retired from rowing twice.  Once for master level studies then a second time after narrowly missing a medal in 2016, then started training again in 2018.

Rachel Wolchin-author of the good vibe- once said People too often forget that it is your own choice how you want to spend the rest of your life. I think Emma Twigg didn’t forget this and made the choice to marry Charlotte, knowing that people might judge her, not agree with her choice. She is very comfortable talking about her choice.

Emma Twigg has a few major achievements. Like a few world titles and an olympic medal. All of which she had to work very hard to achieve.

Jean Batten

On Tuesday we had a Jean Batten day we did fun things and had to piece together her medal. My group was Ella, Momo, Arthur and Raphi.

My group started with the compass called Archie Thunder we got scrabble that spelt Archie Thunder then we unscrambled it, and found out it said under the chair. Then we used flags to communicate with another team. Then we did this thing with time and numbers.

We also played games, my team came third in the end we piece together the medal and Koka Ngaire gave out pin with different words. Mine said creativity in french.

The day was Amazing.

Cross Country

 Yesterday on the 15 of September we had cross country. Because of lockdown we couldn't go with the whole school and people couldn't come to watch. 

First the year 5s and 6s went down, then the year 4s went down the year 3s, 2s 1s and o's went down. I was really excited and when I was lining up my stomach was doing summersaults, Koka Sue blew the whistle and I sprinted off, I didn't pace myself very well but I came Sixth.

When we got back everyone got ice creams I didn't get one though. I am very Happy with my result.

Lockdown

Noooo! 

That was my reaction after I learnt all about lockdown 2.0. On tuesday the 17th of august 2021 the whole of New Zealand went into lockdown for the second time. But this week was the first week of learning from home and google meets and no code cracking I went to three meets on monday, (L3 number, MLH Hui and Question time.  

We are also started speeches we have to do them about going for gold. 

I started learning spanish on duolingo all the lockdown work is really fun, I hope we move into level 3 or 2 next week because we can get takeaways in level three. But I also miss going to school.