First Encounters Popplet!!

For the past few weeks we have been doing a timeline about the first encounters. We had to get all the information first and put it on a slide to make sure the information was correct then put it on a Popplet. It was different, like the site we used was different to what we usually use. It was pretty easy getting the information we needed, also having the help of some friends when me and my group got stuck ( Me, Miria and Jacque. ) Our group is very thankful for having the help, and we are happy to have it done.

Matariki Day!

On Thursday last week we had a Matariki whanau day, which is Matariki day but with whanau from home coming to school and us showing them our learning in class. It was a big massive and busy day. We had to get a project done before morning tea which was quite hard, because some of us were doing screencastify and we had to do it in the class in front of everyone, so then we decided to do it during morning tea but that was also hard as well because we had to wait for our friends to film. It was a fun and cherish moment while filming them because we had our little laughs in between each moment they accidentally made a mistake. After morning tea though our whole school had to go across the road to thank the family members of some students who had came, we had thunk them with a kapa haka performance ( kapa haka performances. ) The order of the performances were junior syndicate, middle syndicate, senior syndicate, Te Mana Tamiriki then Te Rau Po Manawa O Kawakawa. Each syndicate/roopou had performed around 3 waiata. After the performances it was time to head back over across the road and eat the hangis that Nga Rau Rangatira and Nga Rau Puawai had prepared and made. Then after lunch we just played sports which was really fun!! : )

Tuna & Takakau

Last week throughout the first three days ( Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday ) we had tuna and takakau coming in. It was a competition, for both the tuna and takakau, the tuna was to see who weighed the most whose was the longest and whose was the widest and the takakau was to see whose was the better taste, texture and better looking because you could decorate it. If you bought in a tuna it had to be a short fin tuna, then it'll get measured and weighed. It was definitely a fun week doing all that. It was fun getting to taste the takakau and getting to look at how big some of the tuna were. 

I'm sorry for having a non interesting blog post and being a bit slack. I couldn't exactly think of much but I hope you get a little sum of what I was saying : ) *Also sorry again for not getting in any photos.

Maromaku Day!

Last week some of us students had the opportunity to go to Maromaku, Maromaku Day is a day where a couple of schools get together from around the Bay of Islands and play some sports. The sports that are played at Maromaku is Netball and Rugby. I played in the Netball team, the first team we played was Moerewa school which I was excited for because I knew a lot of people that was in that team. Our first game we had won, our second game we had won again; by 19 points, our third game we had won which was a nice and light game. In our fourth game we had won again, luckily myself and the GS ( Miria ) was getting our goals in. Our fifth game we had won and it was a really fun game. The fifth game was pretty much semi finals but not, cause they had said it wasn't semi finals yet the fifth game was to see who'd be playing in the finals to place for first and second. Then we had made it in to finals and preparing ourselves to play against Taumarere. The time was ticking, it was getting closer and closer, and everyone in our Netball team could not wait. It then got to the time everyone had got themselves into their positions and mentally and physically prepared themselves for the game. We were all yelling to get the ball, intercept, defend and do as much as they could. The timer had stopped everybody went to go ask the score takers what the score was, but the main question was "Did we win?" the score takers answers was yes and our team were so proud and thankful for making it and winning. There was me, Jacque, Miria, Ocean, Dakota, Payton, Tunisia, Flo,  and we had all had good games.