Back to school

4 week's ago we started school I am now in year 6.The first day was on wednesday we got to see the other kids in our class and get to know each other .We did a piece of art witch explained what we liked and our goals for this year. We went surfing on friday the second week of school it was quite dumpy but fun as.

 

On the second week we went to our awa witch was Hamanatua(river). We were making sand castles and stuff after that we went up maungaroa because it is our maunga.It was very tiring.After that we went to Te Poho -O- Rawiri  and we learnt a song called Mama Panda. After that I realised we were going to our pepeha.

Kapa Haka

 On Wednesday we went to kapa haka festival.We went on a bus to the showgrounds to do kapa haka I was kind of nervous but then I realised it wasn't so bad after all.We also got our fake moko on

 It was actually fun our first song we did E te ariki we all bunched up in one group and started sing then the kya said neke atu and we all spreaded out again.Then we started singing u tina after we moved forwards to do the haka.I was in front row I was nervous at first but then it was fine because last year there was a lot more people but it wasn't as much this year. First we did our haka then we did kama te after that we did wainui E 

Then we left the stage and sat down in front of it and waited for the rest of our school to finish.We sang with wai and nui and the song we sang was tu te ra mai and then we finished And headed back to school.

Gordon Walter

Today we did some Gordon Walter art it was very fun.We had to get a rectangle and put a circle at the end of it so it looked like it was combined that is what I tried to do. I made a few shorter than the others so the teacher told us we could add a extra circle at the end of it.Our teacher said that she likes google so I tried to make it look like google but the colors are to bright especially the green dot I got it printed and now it is in a frame now and it might be at the craft fair if you don't know what a craft fair is it is basically a gala.It is this friday I am going but am  probably not going to bye my art because it would be a lot of money.

Inter School Athletics

 Yesterday I went to the inter school athletics.I got in for ball throw and 100 meter sprints.First I had ball throw me and my friend Reef and Cash we had to wait in line for our throw a lot of the people through pretty far but when i through it went so far it got me in first place Cash through further than everyone else except it was a no throw if you do not know what that is it it is when your foot goes over the line and that was what Cash did .Nobody bet so over all i came first.

100 meter. In the 100 meter I was in the second heat the calls was take your marks which is when you come up to the line then it is set you get ready then he clap these two wooden blocks.After the first heat went it was my turn.He did the calls and I ran off it was very tiring I came 1st by about an inch Awapuni came 2nd only just though I got in to the finals He did the calls and every one sprinted of I did okay for a while I nearly go 2nd but I came 3rd or 4th 

New term!!!

 It is a new term and this term we have speech's and athletics and the year six's get to go to camp next week.I wish we get to camp because their going to hastings.I have done most of my speech but I am just finishing it off. For athletics we have to do high jump, long jump, ball throw, 100 meters and 200 meters. My brother is going to camp because he is a year 6. My speech is about henry ford."I am looking forward to this term"

Cross-Country

On monday we had cross country first it was the year six's first my brother came first by quite a lot then 2nd place for year 6 boy was a kid called oliver and then 3rd place angus.Next it was my race the teacher Matua Nic had some blocks and he claped them together and we sprinted for a while then I kept a steady pace. There is a place in the course called the dip it is like a giant hole that you run in.The entire course is 2 km it is tiring but the inter school is a lot more tiring because it is 3 km after all I came 2nd just though I nearly got first. It was fun over all.

Pihitia station

 Last Tuesday we went to Pihitia Station. First, we went to see a cow and how diary things are made with milk like cheese and whip cream and chocolate milk. I patted the cow without getting kicked in the face. The cow was very big. Sophie the person who was showing us the cow gave us a jar of something I am pretty sure it was cream. We had to shake it a lot to make it butter. We did not get to keep it in the end though.

Next we went to a shed where there was a butcher. He cut up a sheep. The meat looked yum some kids decided to go outside because they didn't want to see the meat get cut up. Maybe it was because they were vegetarians, maybe I am not sure. The man had a machine that is like a saw but it is automatic he used it to cut up some meat.

After that we went to weigh some sheep. There were a lot of big ones but some did not weigh as much. We also went outside to look at some sheep in a paddock there were two dogs one was called Cruz and the other one was Boy. Cruz did the barking at the sheep and Boy stared at them if they tried to escape. They had a call and a whistle and they would do their thing. After that we went inside to look at a drone fly around it had a camera and that was hooked up to a tv we saw a person tipped on a quad bike but then my friend who lives at the farm said that it was fake so that gave it away. It was fun.