Kapa Haka 2021

 Last week Moana syndicate performed our Kapa Haka bracket, but because of Covid restrictions we couldn't perform to a live audience so we videoed it. 

We started with Utaina, a song about paddling your waka and that song was lead by Zoe. That was quickly followed by Ka Waiata a song about Mary, Jesus mother. Then E Rona, lead by me, that was our Poi song. Afterwards Zoe and I lead Ka Panapana and during the middle of Panapana the girls walked to the back with the boys walking forward. Max and Stavis then lead the Wainu Haka and to bring the the girls back to the front Koka Sue played the starting part of Toia Mai then Zoe and I lead that together and suddenly it was all over! Suddenly all my nerves were gone and I could look forward to the intermediate interview I was going to have that afternoon! 

Speeches ! :-)

 The year has come around to the time of year when speeches are starting up again ! The topic is " Going for gold " and I am writing " Does everyone see things the same way? " This connects up to going for because once someone realizes that they see things differently they might get glasses to whatever they need to release their full potential and can go for gold ! 

This is my speech so far.

My speech is about going for gold, or is it yellow or orange ? How do we know that we see things the same way as the person sitting next to us ?

There are like 1, 2, 3, 4, ( counting off on fingers ), Whatever! Thousands ! Of reasons why people all see things differently, but I will only be sharing 3 reasons today otherwise, you will be sitting here for 3 hours and will be fast asleep. 14% of the population has Irlen Syndrome, What I have the coloured glasses thing. 46% have reading or learning difficulties including dyslexia. Now that I have got the hard numbers out the way, let's break it down.

That means out of all of us there are most likely 4 people who have undiagnosed Irlen, 3 counting me because I KNOW I have it. Irlen is just one of many different ways people see things differently, most commonly it’s diagnosed as ADHD or Dyslexia, because not many people know about Irlen, or other kinds of things like Irlen. My point is that there are so many people who have trouble doing things because they don’t know  that the words on a page aren't meant to float or move. My cousin didn’t know that the lines on the netball court were straight. She thought they were wavy. Things like this happen to EVERYONE.

Let's get down to the nitty gritty, how does Irlen and other things like Irlen work ? You would think that finding it hard to read  would mean that the problem  comes from the eye. WRONG. For Irlen the problem actually comes from the brain.

People with Irlens, brain just can’t handle some light waves, kind of like it’s allergic to some lights. It can cause headaches, problems with depth perception and tiredness. The part of the brain that is affected is the visual cortex ( the part that sorts through what you see ) and incredibly the only thing that sorts it out is coloured overlays or coloured glasses. The colour of your glasses and overlays changes as you get older. I had orange lenses, then pink, then berry tea, the colour I have now ( I called it berry tea because I couldn’t decide whether it was pink or purple. )

I still have to work on my intro, last reason, explanation and conclusion. So far I think I have done kind of well, what do you think ?

Green Gold Reflection day.

 On Tuesday WBS had their Green gold reflection day. WBS is an Enviro school and there is different levels of Enviroschools, Bronze, Silver and Green gold. Green gold is obviously the highest level so far so it was a big deal to try and get that level. 

The day started off with a powhiri for the people who will see whether we could be a Green gold school, but of course because of Covid the whole school couldn't participate so only the front rows, some extras and the Enviro team came. After the powhiri the Enviro team gave there presentations as Izzy and I presented ours. It went really well! Ours was about the school pepeha. 

After all of the presentations we gave them a tour of the school. This took quite a long time so it took us to lunch. We went to Hamanatua for a picnic lunch and we got to eat the leftovers of the Quiche and bacon and egg pie ! Then we went back to school to start working on the guiding principles of Enviroschools. There was pieces of paper that had sentences of them like, 'The guiding principles enrich our daily routines', and then we would put sticky notes on the pieces of paper with examples of this sentence at school.  At the end we voted whether the sentences described WBS and we voted that all of the sentences described WBS so the judges said that we are now a Green Gold Enviroschool !

`Thank you for reading my blog !

-Klara🐈‍⬛

Cross country

 Our class had been preparing for cross country for weeks on end, and today we finally could do it ! In practises I had been coming second most of the time, so I felt kind of confident. Year 6 girls were first up, so I lined up with my friends ( more like rivals ! ) and tried to loosen up my muscles because I was cramping up I was so nervous. 

Koka Sue took a picture of us in our starting poses and then counted us in, On your marks, get set , GO ! I sprinted up ahead with Charlotte M ( a very fast girl who usually wins sprints and cross country and things like that ), Charlotte A ( my friend  rival ) and Kale'a my other friend  ultimate rival ! Soon we had blown the pack apart and the people who weren't up front with the sprinters had already sort of tired themselves out trying to catch up with us. 

We soon settled into our normal pace and continued on. After the second hill Josie had caught up to me and passed me and I made a mental note to pass her once I caught my breath. Turns out Josie was faster than I thought or I took longer to catch my breath but anyways she finished in 4th. The run was as groeling as user well but there was a light drizzle so I didn't over heat that much. 

It was a race for 5th between Charlotte A and I. She would gain a little ,then slow down, I would pass her and then she would catch up to me again. This repeated a few times before she had to stop to tie her shoe lace. I took this opportunity to try and catch up to Josie. I failed. Charlotte caught up to me but then had to tie her shoelace, AGAIN ! I tried to speed up a bit to make the gap between Josie and I smaller. Nearing the end I heard panting and a slight stomping of feet I looked behind me to see Charlotte A,  AAHHH !! I sprinted to the finish to get 5th place,  Charlotte close behind me. 

Charlotte M got 1st, Kale'a in second, Lola in 3rd , Josie 4th and me in 5th. I think that I ran as hard as I could and had fun. My favourite part was the big hill because there was a downhill and then the uphill and I love pushing myself up the hill. 

Lockdown Learning. Again !

 I have been doing lockdown learning for a week now. LL ( lockdown learning ) is almost the same a last year, but instead of just having whole class google meets we have been doing Maths, Reading and Writing google meets. At some points during the day I feel bored, even though there is so many activities for us to do. Speaking of activities I have been doing some Duolingo and I have been learning Dutch. Dutch is very similar to Flemish, the Belgium language which is were my Dad is from. 

Link to my P.E slides

Term 3 !

 Term three started with a bang and already I feel like I have been at school for weeks! The timetable hasn't changed much for me, so it is quite easy to get to workshops on time. I have moved up from writing Early Level 3 ( EL3 ) to Level 3 ( L3 ) which is great because I have been in EL3 for ever. 

Quick writes have changed a little, instead of having heaps of different topics now there is just story starters.  I quite like writing in narrative style and using lots of creativity, so the story starters are perfect for me! I wrote an interesting quick write yesterday, and the story starter was, There was smoke everywhere, so I thought I would put it in my blog. 

There was smoke everywhere. I HAD been reading  peacefully in my bedroom, but now my peace had been destroyed. That younger sibling of mine is a real handful sometimes. No, I change my mind ALL of the time, but this time she and my parents had gone too far. For starters who in the world would trust a pyromaniac seven year old to set the bonfire alight safely? Now because of my crazy younger sister all of Mum's prized Dalias are burnt to a crisp. Well done little sis, even I couldn't do that at your age plus blame it in me. 

I had to put out the fire, wash all of Izzy's ( my sister )  soot stained clothes and explain to Mum why her prize Dalia's are as dead as a dodo. I really had a good day to day! ( NOT! ) 

Do you like the story? I like how it is short, sharp and has humor and good ideas.

 

Aurora Drama Performance.

On the twenty third of June, Ella, Alice and I performed a play that we wrote with the other Aurora drama students. The play was about Whirikoka and his seal Oioi. Ella was Te Marama, the moon and she got to do  dance with Anoura and Grace. Alice was Te Kumi the Taniwha with Celia and Lilla. I was Oioi the seal. 

I was so nervous before the play my stomach was cramping up. Everyone else was nervous too, but we ended up having a really great show !