Facts about Ara Ngapuhi Haka!!!

Last week the Kapa haka roopu of Paihia School learnt the proper pronunciation of Aha Ngapuhi E. A few weeks back our kapa haka tutors went to a wananga for Ngapuhi to learn the proper Ngapuhi haka. I learnt that saying the right kupu makes the haka sound better. All along our school has been saying the wrong kupu to this haka. It was hard for me to pronounce some of the kupu but I practised and practised. After the kapa haka roopu learnt the haka we had to teach the other seniors the haka. Next time I think that I should have taught it to them slower so the other kids could speak the kupu correctly. Does your school do this Haka?

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Interesting facts about swim safe !!!

Last week on Thursday Whaea Tracey talked to us about how to stay safe on a boat. Some of the things that she talked about I already knew but I also needed a reminder. I also learnt that if you don’t feel safe at the beach then don’t swim. Always have an adult with you and before you swim, check the current before you enter the water. I learnt some new things and one of them were flares. Here are the three types of flares, the parachute flare, Orange cloudflare and firework flare. One of the best flares is the parachute flare because stays up in the sky for longer than the other flares. Here is a DLO that I created about five ways to stay safe on a boat. Now with my new learning I’m going to teach others how to stay safe on a boat and stay safe at the beach. I will use this new information when I go fishing and next time I go swimming. Could you please give me some feedback on my DLO?

The Funky Newspaper Tower

.In Te Ngahere this week we were learning to build a freestanding tower using limited materials. We were given two sheets of newspaper and 30cm of sellotape with the time limit of 20 minutes. Our group worked together as a team and came up with an idea and started building. We learnt that we should have made the base wider than the top, and the top narrower. If we were allowed to create another tower we would use the newspaper wisely. What I enjoyed was working as a team to create our tower.