Super six!

Kia ora,
Kya here from Wainui Beach School! This year i'm a year 6, which means lots of fun activities like surfing and school camp. I can't wait to create some awesome new blog posts and share some of my learning with you. Be sure to leave some positive and helpful feedback so that I can improve my posts.
Thanks for reading!

Culture club

This term our inquiry focus has been to learn about different cultures around the world. Each person had to create a presentation about their chosen country and then share it to our whanau on Friday. Everybody brought in a national dish from their country so that we could all try something new! Here is the presentation and video that my friend Perle and I made about Greece:

LINK TO CULTURE CLUB PRESENTATION

Our video: LINK TO CULTURE CLUB VIDEO

Cool Kapa Haka!

Last week on Wednesday Wainui Beach School participated in the Turanganui Kapa Haka festival. Our syndicate learnt 6 songs including the girls Poi and the boys Haka. Then some girls created the poi actions and we then performed to our community. Lots of families came to watch and it was a very exciting day! My favorite songs are He Honore and E Minaka. Here are a couple of photos taken on the day:

Culture Club!

This term instead of the usual friday music lessons, the teachers are testing a new program which includes the whole school including the juniors - who didn't participate in school music in previous years. This term is a trial run to see if they want to continue doing school music this way for next year. Every student is assigned to a teacher and activity. For example every Friday I go to room 11 and do drama with Koka Claire. Other kids go to room 4 to dance. The year 6s who surf on Friday go to room 5 and watch a movie when they come back. I enjoy the new scheme because it gives me the opportunity to participate in things like drama and dance. I also appreciate that Koka Sue our music teacher is still running the year 5 & 6 Ukulele lessons.

Spectacular Shakespeare!

This week I got moved up to the reading group Huia. Huia is an independent reading group and this week we had to learn about William Shakespeare. We all had to make a slideshow about Shakespeare but most importantly why Shakespeare's writing is still important approximately 400 years later. Here is my slideshow:

Spectacular Skydiving...

This week I completed another word work activity which was to complete Recall and Thinking about a Kiwi Kids News article. We also had to complete an extra activity to fully complete the task. For my activity I created a slideshow about what I know about the topic (skydiving), what I would like to learn about the topic and what I learnt about the topic. Here it is...

Awesome Argentina

Last week once I had completed all my work I created an alphabet project about Argentina. An alphabet project is when you learn things about a country and then create a presentation about that country. I hope you learn a lot...