FiaFia Practices

For the last four weeks Pt England School has been going to FiaFia practices. I am in the Bollywood group / Indian group. The dance we are doing  (Bollywood) is a piece of cake for me. 

It is so frustrating because the little kids dont really know the dance.  They just stand there. Us seniors have to be good role models. Our song we have to dance to is Ja Ho.  

Our Bollywood teacher is Ms Lou she steers us in the right direction. Sometimes she gets frustrated because the little kids dont pay attention.

When it is the night to perform I am going to show everyone how good I am at the dance. I enjoy dancing. FIA FIA IS COMING !

Picking Harakeke (flax)

Kia ora, everyone can you guess were room 19 went last week? We went to the Omaru Creek straight across from our school. Our class went to Omaru Creek not only to pick flax but to learn the meaning of what you don't do and what you can do with it.

First Ms Tito gave us a korero (talk) about the flax. The main thing that she was wanting us to know was that the Harakeke was a taonga to the Maori.

One of the rules were that there were a family of harakeke in the bush. There are three harakeke and they are very special. There is a pepi (baby) harakeke in the middle and a Matua (Dad) on one side and a whaea (Mum) on the other side. If you cut these the whole plant will die.

When you cut harakeke always cut it diagonil. You never ever cut harakeke when it is raining or when it is night time because you might cut the Pepi.

When we got back as soon as we got started I had to go to quoir practice. It was a real number because I missed out. But that is all right I already know how to make a Putiputi (flour). It was amazingly fun picking Harakeke.

Flute making

At the end of this week some kids that finished all of their work got to make Koauau (the maori name for a flute).

First we had to cut our cube of clay in half with a string. We had to smack into a ball. Then we had to use a clay tool to cut the ball in half. It was very tricky using our thumbs and fingers to curve it like a bowl. The method was pinching the clay.


Then we had to use a special tool to put lines on the lip of the bowl. People call it criss cross. After that we had to use a toothbrush and some water to make the clay stick together. We had to do that on both halfs of the clay.

After that we had to stick the clay together and put our initials on the it. Then we had to wrap it up in plastic bags and tape it up because if we let it out without wrapping it up it would of dried out with the heat.

The next day we had to make a hole for the mouth. We used a special tool for it . The tool was sharp. I was blowing in the Koauau . We made three other holes as well. We had to rub it with the spoon (it was called burnishing) to make it shiny.

Stay tuned and read my next post. We are going to carve it.

D.L.O(Digital Learning Object)

School Picnic

The Pt England School Picnic
Last week on Friday Pt England School went to the beach. We went to the beach so that we can have a picnic. First me and my mate’s headed to the beach and we were dancing to the music. The weather was a little bit overcast , but that doesn't mean it rained it was just really cloudy but that was fine because i didn't want to get sun burnt.

Then we went down to the beach and made some clay heart’s but unfortunately I dropped my clay heart. It was a little bit windy at some time’s but other than that it was fine. Then it was time for team 1 to go in the water and swim. Just watching them made me want to swim , but we were going to be last at swim.

Finally after three hours it was our term to go and swim and jump of the rock’s. It was amazing. Then After that it was time for Karaoke me and my friends went up and sang. For the first time it was nerve racking. Then we had to go back to school.That was the end of the picnic.

Dedicated to our Teina

Hi my name is Anamei and i am in room 19.
Every Tuesday room 19 goes to the library with room 9.
Tuesdays are dedicated to our Teina (little brothers and sisters).
kids from room 9 read to my classmates. It is to help
the little kids learn how to read better and faster.
I think that my class really enjoyed it and i think they want to do it again.

Honesty

What is honesty ?Honesty is the best policy. 

Being honest is good because then everyone else will trust you and you will be trustworthy. 

When you tell a lie to someone you are also lieing to yourself. Lieing is bad because 

when you lie to someone they can actually take it seriously and they could cry.

Remember to all ways tell the truth because lieing is mean.