Magical Marae

On Thursday the 12th of September the Nui syndicate were dropped off at Te Poho o Rawiri Marae, our school marae. Once everyone had arrived we had a powhiri and got welcomed onto the marae my the tangata whenua - Aunty Buba, Aunty Charlotte and Papa Albie. The tangata whenua told us about all the panels in the whare and some stories and legends.

We participated in a bunch of rotations in our groups like Maori games, Weaving, Honga and walking up Kaiti hill. My group walked up hundreds of stairs to get to the lookout of kaiti hill. We also played a fun game with sticks using left and right in maori. There were lots of other new and interesting activities too. We ate our packed lunch and had some delicious Nachos for dinner with ice blocks for dessert.  We had a concert with jump jam, ukulele, kapa haka and even stand up comedy!

The next day on Friday after a long night we were all exhausted, but after a torturous run we were starving as well. We were now the tangata whenua on the marae and were getting ready to welcome the Wai syndicate on as well. We had a Haka Powhiri and now the whole of Wainui Beach School was tangata whenua on the marae. We continued on with our rotations and learnt some string games and played handball. We had yummy hotdogs for lunch and then packed up ready to leave the marae. It was great fun but I was ready to go to bed by the time we got back to school.

Perfect pick a paths

YAY!!! Most of our EL4 writing pick a path stories are complete. In the last couple of weeks we have written our plans into a document and then finalized them into a google form. We had to learn how to make the google form so that if you clicked an option it would be a link to the correct section.

1. First you make a title and intro

2. Then press the button on the right that will add a section in. It looks a bit like this =.

3. Next you have to press the plus sign to add a question and multiple choice options.

4. You have to create all the sections you need.

5. After that click on an option, go to the right where it will say continue to next section. Change that so it will link to the section you need it to go to.

I found the pick a path writing really fun. The planing was a little bit difficult and confusing but other than that it was AWESOME!!!

Here is a link to my pick a path form: Pick a path

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: