Kaitiaki Writing!

 Kia ora! Today I did writing about Kaitiaki

(caring of the environment)

And this is it! Feel free to tell me some changes. 

Maori Language Week!

 Hi. If you didn't know already, it's Maori Language Week! And so for Room 11, we have Maori Language Week slides. In those slides, every day for a week we will learn one of the tasks (In order)

And our first task is to learn this karakia for kai: 

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Maori:

Ki taku whanau

Me nga hoa

Me te kai, 

Kia ora. 

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English:

Our family,

Friends and food,

We say thank you.

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Here is a video of me saying it: 

Kapa Haka!

 Hi. If you don't know me yet, I'm Grace. An almost 10 year old student from New Windsor School.

And if you didn't know, (which if you are new then you definitely wouldn't know,) I do Kapa Haka.

If you don't know what Kapa Haka is, it is where you preform Maori dances and songs in front of an audience. 

It takes lots of time to practise the dances and memorise the songs. 

And some of my favourite songs that we do in Kapa Haka, is

1. Nga iwi e

It is a super fun song, and it makes me nice and energetic with how happy the song is.

2. Toku reo.

It's really fun to sing and I'm obsessed with how it sounds when all of us are singing it!

3. Uia.

This is our poi. If you don't know what poi is, it's these things and you make movement with them, I'm not really sure how to explain it. And I love how at the start of the song we do a 3 part harmony. 

Poi video here:

Thanks for reading my blog post and feel free to ask some questions about anything. Have a great rest of the night or day!

Working On Art!

 Hi, how's lockdown? For me, it's sad because we can't see friends in person. Only on call. But there is some things that are good, like how we can still do art! Rather it's drawing digitally or just on a piece of paper. Or maybe it isn't drawing, it could be crafts. 

But I LOVE drawing, and I am doing an art task, for 30 days. 

I am working on day 2. The task is draw a butterfly with exotic colours. 

This is my butterfly so far. I still need to colour it and do some more outlining. 

And also, since I love doing art I have been working on another drawing of a girl I found on google. 

If you are struggling to find pictures of people, search up on google photography of ___ (what you want to draw)And you will find some really cool photos. 

Here is the drawing so far.

Thank you for reading this blog post, and I hope the rest of your day or night will be good!

Me And My Friends Re-write Of Goldilocks And The Three Bears.

 Kia ora. This is a re-write of Goldilocks And The Three Bears. This is unfinished, and is made with my friend Anna. Check out her blog, too. Maybe you could find some cool work there.

(Anna @ New Windsor School)

Feel free to comment some ideas, or recommend some changes to the story so far. 

My First Time Using Scratch!

Hello! Today I'm sharing my first ever Scratch animation. It is not finished, so feel free to comment some ideas.

Goodbye term 2, Hello term 3!

Goodbye term 2, and hello holidays! 

9th, July, 2021.

Yes, you know what this means. Last day of school until the holidays.

This term flew away quick, so let's do a reflection on some things room 11 has learnt, and done. What was new to the class?

*rewind...rewind...rewind....*

Start of term 2, 2021.

Back here, we were learning about DMIC and how it works. 

We did DMIC a lot in maths. We would sit down on the mat, Mathpie, or Mathcraft, and we would get into groups of 4. Then we would have a maths problem we had to figure out.

Now, if we weren't on the mat, we were doing an independent task on our chrome-books.

Let's go a bit further on in the year. 

June, (or May can't remember)  2021 

We had this thing called tuakana-teina day.

Where the little kids came to do work with us.

We buddied up for the day, and did this Matariki work.

Another thing, 

Yesterday I finished an activity where you make a rap. Here is the video below:

                    

We have lot's of other good memories, but I think I'll just do those three since this is getting pretty long. Thank you for reading probably the last blog post for this term! Have a nice holiday. Bye!! ❤