Kapa Haka!

Today I decided to write about Te Rau Pou Manawa O Kawakawa and our practices.

In the second week of the holidays Te Rau Pou Manawa O Kawakawa had 2 workshops on Monday and Tuesday then we had a wananga from Wednesday - Friday and got so much done. Over the past couple of months we have been working hard for Nationals coming up in week 4 this term. I have mixed emotions for when we're going to perform, I'm going to be nervous, happy, excited and many more. We have started polishing our formations actions etc, and it is going really well. We have a dress rehearsal coming up in the weekend and we have to be up by 4:30 am because when we go down to Waikato we are performing in the morning at 9:45 so we're prepping for that. Another reason why we're waking up at that time is so we're out of bed and have our beds made then by 5:00 we'll be getting dressed doing our hair etc. There is going to be so much stuff happening I can't wait but then again I can.   

Weekly 3

This is my Weekly 3 we do prototec, number of the day and e-ako

End of Term 3

So this week is the last week of school and I thought I'd finish me free writing streak off with how my terms been. We have done so much this term such as Camp, Netball ending, Technology, Matariki concert etc. We have had such a busy Term and it has gone past real fast, which then means Term 4 is gonna end fast as well, and by then me and my friends will be graduating from Primary/Intermediate. It has been an extraordinary term with my friends, and soon this term is coming to an end, but yay to the HOLIDAYS! but then again Primary/Intermediate is almost over. Also Kapa Haka is going to be next term in Term 4 and we're leaving for the week, so we have so much practices and Wanangas coming up, and a whole week practice in the holidays.

!NETBALL BREAKUP!

In the weekend we had our netball breakup. We all met up at the school ( Kawakawa Primary ) then jumped into the two vans. We had two vans because there were two teams, but then again we also had a couple of cars to fill up with there family. We all jumped in to the vehicles and I sat at the back with my Ipad and speaker, and we were blasting the music out loud. We then traveled down to Whangarei and made our way to Jump. Jump is a place where you have trampolines all over the place, it was very fun/funny at Jump because I kept landing on my face when we trying to win $10 from jumping off one wall then flipping then back on to the other wall, the hard thing was that we only had one bounce to do it in. Then after that we headed on over to the wave pools.....while we were swimming 1 of our coaches went to go and get pizza....when she walked in with the pizza we were all buzzing out and say "THAT'S A LOT OF PIZZA!" Then we walked on over by her....outside then majority of the pizza was gone. 

Technology

 These last couple of weeks us year 7 and 8's have been travelling to Hikurenui School by bus to go and do technology. Me and my group can't wait for next week because we're going to be cooking and we stay in there for 6 weeks. What we are doing now is Soft material stuff, there is 3 different groups there are no names just Group 1, 2 and 3 when we get there each group goes off to there class. The classes that are there is Soft materials, Hard materials and Cooking, which everyone loves the cooking class and my group can not wait to swap next week for cooking. We have been making necklaces and little things to put them in/away.....we have made 4 and they're all done differently.

Fun Run 2019!

On Monday we went for a hikoi downtown to the train station to catch a ride to the UK rugby fields for our fun run. We then arrived at the fields and jumped off the train to go set up where we're going to sit down and put our bags. We then had a chant off which was very fun then after that we got the year 1's ready to run first, then so on and so on, like after the year 1's it went to the year 2's then year 3's all the to year 8. When it got to the year 7's and 8's we went for a run but we took the longest cause we had a mud fight and got the teachers dirty and then went for a swim which was very cold but entertaining at the same time.

Honey Bees

A honey bee is a close relative of an ant and wasp that is a flying insect. They’re found on every
continent of earth, except for Antarctica. Honey bees have to gather nectar from 2 million flowers to
make 1 pound of honey. At least 1 bee has to fly around 90,000 miles/three times around the globe to make that one pound of honey. They communicate by dancing to each other. Female bees are
the only ones that do all the work because the male bees are just there to mate.

Appearance:

The honey bees measure up to around 15mm long and are the colours light brown, yellow-ish and black-ish. They’re usually oval-shaped creatures with  golden-yellow colours and brown bands. The body colour of honey bees varies between species and some honey bees have predominantly black bodies almost all honey bees have varying dark-to-light. The light and dark stripes serve a very meaningful and strong purpose for the survival of honey bees. The 3 main body parts of a honey bee is the head, thorax and abdomen. The head contains the eyes antennae, and feeding structure, the thorax contains wings, legs and muscles involved in movement. Finally the abdomen which has seven segments and contains female reproductive organs in the queen, male reproductive organs in the drone, and the stinger in both workers and queen. Unlike other species, that just hide from predators when they’re nearby, the brightly coloured bodies of the honey bee act as a warning to predators or honey robbers of the honey bees’ ability to sting. 

Habitat:

Honey bees natural and original habitat are tropical climates and heavily forested areas. Honey bees thrive in natural or domesticated environments, although they do prefer to live in gardens, woodlands, orchards, meadows and other areas with flowering plants are abundant. Within their natural habitat, honey bees build nests inside tree cavities and under edges to protect themselves from their predators.

Diet:

Bees, bees are colour-sensitive insects that rely on their sense of vision to locate food. They are most commonly seen when they are foraging, which is the process of finding food and water. Bees sometimes fly up to around 6 miles to find food, and are mostly quite far away from home if you see them in your yard or neighbourhood. They are attracted to very sugary things, but mainly/especially attracted to liquid sweets. That’s why when you see them around your yard and you have a whole lot of sweets that’s why they’re hanging around.

Honey:

Honey starts off from the nectar of flowers collected by the bees, which then gets broken down simple sugars store inside the honeycomb. The design of the honeycomb and constant fanning of the bees' wings causes evaporation, creating the sweet liquid honey. Honeys flavour and colour varies based on the colour of the nectar collected by bees; For example, honey made from orange blossom nectar might be light in color, whereas honey from avocado or wildflowers might have a dark amber color.

Bees are declining from starvation and pesticides. People are spraying pesticides on plants to
kill weeds or harmful insects or bacteria. Honey is incredibly healthy and includes enzymes, vitamins,
minerals. It’s the only food that contains “pinocembrin”, an antioxidant associated with improved brain
functioning. They have been producing honey the same way for the past 150 thousand years. Bees
do not pollinate corn, but the corn's pollen makes its way onto flowers and other crops, whereas the
bees are exposed.  

By Roxy

These last couple of weeks for writing we have been doing research on honey bees, because we are going to be getting honey bees at the back of our class.