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...

Hareb Wins Japanese Surfing Comp...

In Moana every week we have to do something called word work. For word work this week we had to choose an article from kiwi kids news and answer some questions about it. In this task we are learning to use the 5 Ws and the H and to find clues in the text to answer the questions.

Kiwi kids news -

New Zealand’s top woman surfer Paige Hareb has won the White Buffalo Hyuga Pro in Japan.

Hareb, 28, beat Australian Isabella Nichols in the final of the World Surf League qualifying series event.

It was Kiwi surfer Hareb’s first win on the qualifying series in 10 years. Her last victory was at Margaret River in Western Australia in 2008.

The win was crucial for her chances of continuing in the top bracket on the Championship Tour. The result see her move up to third on the qualifying series standings behind Americans Caroline Marks and Coco Ho.

The top-six in the qualifying series book their places on the Championship Tour, with just one major event remaining for the year at Birubi Beach in New South Wales next month.

Recall

1. The main person in this news article is Paige Hareb.

2. The key event in this news article is that Paige Hareb has won the White Buffalo Hyuga Pro in Japan.

3. This event took place in Japan.

4. This event started on the 19th of October 2018.

Thinking

1. "I love sports and have a go at everything so watch out!" Is a quote from the main person in this news article Paige Hareb. 

2. What happened in this news article is that Paige Hareb won the White Buffalo Hyuga Pro.

3. This event took place in Japan. Japan's population is 126.8 million as of 2017 and current prime minister is Shinzo Abe.

4. This event happened on the 19th of October 2018. In the future another surfer will win the White Buffalo Hyunga Pro Competition.

5. This event took place to determine the winner of the White Buffalo Hyunga Pro Competition.

6. Qualify - qualifying - be entitled to a particular benefit or privilege by fulfilling a necessary condition. Crucial - Decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something. Remaining - Still existing present, or in use; surviving.