The Schools Unveiling!

Hi everybody! On Monday we had a special Unveiling of the new garden and The schools art! We went outside in house groups and went to our New garden. The Middle school made rocks to put around it and painted them. There were ribbons around it and there was also our Kowhai tree we planted from the mosque. We sat around the garden and sang our song that one of the parents made for our school. The eldest and the youngest student got to cut the ribbons on both sides for the garden. There was a metal label that was on both languages Maori and English of the friendship chair. After that we moved under the Gum tree and did the Unveiling of the Cultural people we made. We had different countries that each class painted and designed. Two students from each class got to pull down the clothe to show to our community. The drone that we got was up in the sky taking photos of everybody sitting on the grass. There were twenty countries on the fence and took photos of when the unveiling was done. The bell rang and everyone looked at it after school when it was time to go home. Thank you for looking at my blog and make sure you look at photos before you go! Bye!

The Ribbon cutting!

The Unveiling!

The New Garden!

                                   

Our Cultural people! 

Choir rehearsals at Oratia school!

Hi bloggers, Welcome back to my blog and on Thursday 30th of October we went to Oratia District school to have Choir rehearsals. As you know we got three and a half weeks till the Choir concert and I'm really nervous! We did all the songs we knew in the first half and then all the songs that we need to practice in the other half. We spent the whole day singing and standing up and down and now my back is really sore. There school is really big that they have a bike trail and heaps of bikes. They had a hall that looked like a big church with a big bell at the top of it. Both of the sides could fit in one humongous school hall!

My favorite song out of all of them is Les miserable because its really fast at first and then it goes to soft and slow. The songs are based on a movie thats a about poor people that fight for there right to have freedom! When its the Choir concert our Choir trainer said to sing our hearts out and that means sing as loud as you can without shouting. Thank you for reading my blog and next time I might be able to put photos up from our concert in our next time!bye!

Supermarket trip!

Hi everybody, Welcome back to my blog and now today we are going to be talking about the Supermarket. We went to the supermarket to look at the sugar total on food packets. We went in classes and cars from parent volunteers that took our class. We had a worksheet and went in groups with a parent to find food that was healthy and food that is not healthy. We looked in each section like muesli bars, bread, dairy food, and snack packets. Our main thing we were looking for is what has the most sugar and what has least sugar. We started at different sections and looked for healthy and unhealthy foods. My group started with the Muesli bars and there was tons of unhealthy bars to eat. The main thing we were looking in Muesli bars were the sugar total. We moved on to the next section which was Dairy food. Yogurt is really healthy to eat all the time and then we moved on to snack packets. They looked really yum and our aim was sodium and fat total.

Our last one was bread and the bread was the healthiest foods out of all the sections.  After we finished we had to go to the fruit and vegetable section, but our group took to long so we had to go outside and wait for the other groups. We waited for everyone else outside and then we all got a free lunch box. It was green and it had at the back of the lid of what we eat everyday and what  we eat sometimes. Each class in the syndicate got a free gift card that had $60 to spend on something healthy we could make for lunch! That's what we did on Wednesday 23rd of October. Thank you for reading my blog post and make sure you look at the photos before you go! Bye!

Pillow day!

Pillow Day

Hi everybody, welcome back to my blog. Today I'm going to be talking about pillow day, last Thursday we had a fun day called Pillow Day! The teachers made a fun day which was pillow day, we had a  lot of activities and work to do. We also had a special guest come to our school because it was Duffy Assembly. We went into the hall with our pillows and sat on them while listening to our guest. Then after the assembly we got our box of books and went outside with room 2. We read the books they got to them and some of us got to read to ourselves. We got to have half an hour to read our books and then go to our class. When we went inside we played a game of kahoot about the Maori gods and what we know in Maori. After the game of kahoot we played again, but this time it was about our own knowledge. I came 16th place and I didn't even know that much knowledge about movies, math's, and even the Alphabet. At the end of the day we lay down and chilled out till we had to get up and hand out notices. It was a fabulous day and it was the most craziest day of my life too. Thank you for reading on my blog and make sure before you go look at the photos down bellow. See you later bloggers!

Fun Cross Country!

Cross Country!

Hi everybody! It is nice to be back on the bloggers website. Today I'm going to talk about Cross Country on Wednsday the 11th of September . It was amazing and fun because there were relaxing stations where you got a combo of an ice block or a banana cake or a brownie. We first started off at different stations. There was an obstacle course through the mud on the field. There were also soccer goals where you had to kick 25 goals into the soccer goals. The hardest one was skipping 120 skips with a skipping rope and doing it for fifteen minutes. Each rotation we were at, we stayed there for at least fifteen minutes and then the hand bell rang for our next rotation. Skipping is not my favorite thing and kicking soccer goals is also not my favorite thing either. Waikowhai was cheering on each year group until it was our turn to go next.

Everybody was cheering really loud and some of them were screaming. Before we did the run we had to do a warm up with one of the teachers. After the warm up we were at the starting line and I was really nervous. Then we started running after one of the teachers said go and people were already ahead of me. We did two laps around our field, it was difficult but at least I made it to the finish line. I didn't really except a long run when we had to go through a bush. Even with people that had bare feet.
My favorite thing about the day was having lunch with my friends and resting after that long run. The thing I wanted to go to was the bake sale, but I had no money. We went back inside and talked about how it was. That's how Cross Country went on 11th of September. Make sure you look at the photos and make sure you come back on my blog.

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The most amazing camp at mt ruapehu!

Awesome Camp At Mt Ruapehu

Hi everybody, welcome back to my blog and during week 4 we have been on camp. I was really excited by the time we got there. Enjoy the story of camp!

Feelings about camp and packing things.

While I was trying to find my gear, I didn't have all of it yet. It was really hard to find somethings. Some of the ski jackets we brought from trade me did not fit me or my brother. Anyways they were too small for me when we wasted a lot of money. I had ski pants, but not a ski jacket or waterproof gloves. I was not very happy when I had to pack all my things and trying to fit all my clothes inside the big Kathmandu bag. While I was packing I thought I would not be able to look after myself or my brother. I felt really scared going by myself and making sure that I don't get into trouble.

Traveling to different places.
While we were in the bus we traveled to a park called Jim Barker Park. It was made from a famous guy called Jim Barker. It was really cool and there was two flying foxes that were really fun. There was a boat and a water stream flowing by. After we went to the park we also went to Hamilton Gardens and it was amazing. It was colourful and it was full of decorations even though it smelt a lot. We did a treasure hunt around the gardens to see who would find all 24 gardens first. We took photos of our teams and a big one all together at a water fountain. After that we were heading towards the Ed Hillary Walkway and did a treasure hunt again. We went in buddies and started looking at the boards where we collected information. There were also sounds,  you needed to press a button on the left side. Then we had lunch and headed of to Taumaranui School to have a little play on the playground. Me and my friends were playing tag and then we played on the playground trying to climb up the rocks. About half in hour later we went into the bus and was of to The Crossing Backpackers, where we were going to sleep at. 

Arriving at The Crossing Backpackers!
By the time we got there I thought that the bedrooms were going to be really big, but they weren't  and I thought that we were also going to suffocate inside the room.
There was a tiny window and the bathrooms only had two lights on for the girls to go in. At night time we had a lot of fun and we played spotlight with our torches too. Before we went outside we had to check if our layers were thick enough to go outside because it was really cold even though we were far away from the mountain. I was also amazed about the movie room and how they made it inside a wardrobe. They put in three couches, some pillows and beanbags, and a big TV for everyone to watch movies. The food was amazing that on the last day which was Thursday we had the best nachos in the world. They were so tasty I had to have seconds after I finished my plate. For dessert we had ice cream and donuts and a flake in the middle. On top of all of that we had chocolate sauce and it was delicious.

Mountain time!
The next day we went up on the mountain it was freezing like you were turned into an ice block.

I was really cold, but I had fun playing with snow and making snowballs. I was so happy when I went to go and do sledding down the snow. There was different types of lengths. There was a long one, a short one, and a medium one which I went down the fastest. We also went skiing and snowboarding down to the bottom of the hill, where a queue of people was waiting to go on the chairlifts. On the mountain the weather was crazy and when snow was falling down it hits your face like prickles from plants. We had a lot of people complaining about the boots we put on because they were way too heavy. I was not happy at first, but then when I started skiing I was happy again. I was so relieved when we left the mountain because my feet were sore and I was really hungry.

Free time with friends!

Taupo pools was the best and the thing I loved about it was that it was really warm. There was a Tarzan swing were you swing off the rope and there was also floaties to lie on. There was a small area around the corner were you could just relax and there was a bombing zone which almost all the boys went to. There was a BBQ area and the teachers and parent helpers were cooking hot dogs. The best thing about the pools is that I got to play games in the pools with my friends and that we got to eat a brownie or a cookie and 2 hot dogs.

How I felt after camp was really sad because I wanted to stay there just a little bit longer and then go home. I also felt happy because I got to see my family again and got to have pizza. That is my story of camp in week 4 and make sure you have a great time at camp if your going soon. Here is a link of my reflection slideshow of how I felt. I also have another slideshow about the details about Mt Ruapehu. press the link and it will take you to my slideshow. Don't forget to look at the photos! Bye!

Orienteering!

Talofa everybody! On Tuesday, the 21th of May, the seniors of Waikowhai primary school went to Orienteering at Blockhouse Bay Reserve. Orienteering is when you find the pegs by reading a map and to collect stamps on a piece of paper and find the finish line. They also time you and calculate it with other times that you raced with other schools. We went in different groups and went at different times to race. Some of us got different courses on our sheet. Our group came third or fourth place out of all the schools that raced against us.

It was long and fun race while trying to find the pegs. 

After the long run, we gladly took a rest and drank a lot of water and had time to enjoy the playground. It was really fun that we got to keep the map and go there again. Some people got lost and at the end the leaders went to search for the lost students so that they know who won and lost. So 

here are some photos. Thank you for looking at my blog post.

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