Uru Manuka Cultural Festival

On Wednesday night Yaldhurst Model School kapa haka group took part in a kapa haka festival.

our kapa haka group was the only one with year 1 - 8 students in it every other group was from year 3 and up to year 8. when we got there it started to feel very real and i started to get really nervous about going on stage and performing in front of lots of people.

In the group I got to lead the whole entire performance and I got to wear a korowai because I was the leader of the group.

Once I got on stage the nerves started to go away and I started to feel really excited. After the performance we were all really proud of ourselves and were really happy with the performance we gave and here are some photos from the night.

Student council

For student council we made short stories. We made short stories about our hero values at school the values are.
Healthy Individuals
Enthusiastic Learners
Responsible Citizen
Open-minded Explorer

I did mine on open-minded explorer. Firstly we did it on paper and had a structure that we had to follow. After that we wrote it on a doc  and edited it and changed it. And after that we put it into a animation and published it . Here is my finished product. I hope you like it.

Novel Study

Hi Guys!

For Term 4 we have started a Novel Study. 

We are doing this to really focus on understanding what we are reading instead of just reading it and then not understanding what we just read or just not even remembering what we have just read.

Each group in reading has a different book depending on what level they are at in reading and what we are capable of reading. 

My book for my group is (treasure island) Enemy At The Gate, By Philippa Werry.

When I first read the blurb of the book I thought that it looked very interesting and really made me want to read it. This is what the blurb is if you are interested.

"being in quarantine sounds like being in a prison" I said shivering. Lily nodded. " A bit like that. Except that the prison is your own home". "Or like being in a besieged castle" I said, thinking aloud. "with an invisible enemy at the gate".

Doesn't that just want to make you read more. And this is what the story is about

"It's December 1936 when the first polio cases are suspected. Soon a polio epidemic is sweeping the country. Schools are closed, swimming pools and movie theatres banned to children, and travel is restricted. Tom is the best runner in the school, but you can't outrun polio, and nobody knows when it will strike next. and twelve year old Tom is all caught up in the confusion".

So basically the story is a about a twelve year old boy named Tom and his family and their story. I really like this story because it is by a kiwi author and is based in NZ. I also like this because it really shows the raw truth of what life was like back in the day because in the story he talks about how his best friend Charlie and his family are quite poor and most of the time all they can afford for dinner is bread and dripping.

I would highly suggest this book to anyone and everyone because it is just so well written.

But before we could even start reading the book we had a few activities that we had to do first.

Firstly, we had to write all the facts that we already knew about the book by just looking at the front and back cover.

Secondly, we had to write about what we thought the book would be about just by the first look. 

 I hope you guys enjoyed here is the front cover.