Kapa Haka

 I was so excited but nervous standing in my underwear singing and dancing to our Maori songs. The girls were at the front of the stage and the boys at the back and we were about to sing E TE ARIKI. Matidia yelled out 'WHAKAPURI' and Moana went in a group. It wasn't that pleasant because of people behind me yelling instead of being smooth with the song my brain forced me to look back. 

When we finished the song the boys walked backward facing the audience. The reason why the boys went back was it would be disrespectful if our backs are facing the audience it means that ' and the girls went to the side and some went back. It was time to sing UTAINA.

It was a great song and I was really enjoying it while I was doing that, I pictured the crowd naked to make me feel less nervous. while we were singing the song the boys transitioned forward and the girls went back. We were still singing until it was time for our HAka.

Our first Haka was the Wainui Haka. Bay called some words and we started our first. I thought it was really fast but I just went with the flow, Some people were making it go faster but I didn't mind. Our last Haka was Kamate. Our leader yelled out 'TARINGA WHAKARONGO KIA RETE KIA RE KIAMO'  and then we all yelled 'HI'.

The rest of the Kapa Haka was great we sang RONA 3 times and sang WAINUI E twice, the second time we sang WAINUI E twice, is the boys went off the stage and the girls went off in rows. We were still singing when we were off the stage it was amazing!

After Wai and Nui sang their songs the whole school sang our school song TU MAIRA. It was an amazing experience and one of the best Kapa Haka I've done.

Brain Facts For Kids Part 2

The brain weighs just 3 pounds (about 1.3 kg) and is a wrinkly, pink organ that feels a bit like a soft mushroom. 

Hmm, not sure we want to touch it too much! It is about 6 inches long (16cm), about 5.5 inches wide (14cm) and nearly 4 inches deep (10cm).

But this magical machine controls everything you do from thinking, learning, feeling emotions, even breathing and your heart rate.

This is one seriously complex organ that has baffled scientists for years. 

Even though the brain is just 2% of your body weight, it uses around 20% of all your energy from the blood and oxygen in your body. That’s a lot for such a small organ. Your brain stops growing when you're 18, but don’t be calling your parents silly just yet. It actually keeps on developing and learns new things until you’re in your 40’s. So your parents are really super smart! You won’t be able to fool them. 

Ever see a picture of a person with a light bulb over their heads? Well this fact puts a whole new light on those pictures (“new light” – get it?). Did you know that your brain actually produces enough electricity to power a light bulb? Yep, it’s true! It would be cool to know how to actually power up that light bulb with our brains, maybe someday we’ll know.

Brain Facts For Kids Part 1

 You will not believe how amazing the brain is, and we’ve got the coolest brain facts right here. Ever wondered who the boss was? Well of course it’s your Mum or Dad, but the boss of your body is actually your mighty brain!

It helps you remember how to get to your friend’s house, makes you blink without thinking, and even controls your dreams. But it’s way more than that.

Read on, you will be seriously surprised – oh and your brain will be working 

The Brain – an Awesome Organ

Bet you think a computer is the best thing in the world right? Think it’s super speedy and can do everything? Well, it’s not. Welcome to the brain…it’s much more powerful than any supercomputer you can find!

Think about when you have to act in a hurry, maybe a glass is just about to fall off the table.Your brain controls everything that you need to do to save that glass from falling. First, your eyes check out what’s going on, then tells your brain how quickly you need to react, and then your muscles spring into action.

That is super speedy timing and is just from one little organ in our bodies. No computer could ever come close to that!  Cool hey.

Math Whizz

This week our class learned a math website called Math Whizz. Math Whizz is awesome because you can learn a lot from the website, addition and subtraction to equations that are really advanced. But most importantly it's at your level. 

I think I am really good at maths so I get harder equations from the rest of the class. I get maths questions like what is the remainder of this division? 3 digit numbers times 3 digit numbers too. There are gems that you complete weekly the first week I got nine gems but this week I'm aiming to beat that. 

There are coins if you are wanting to fill your space or jungle. I have a lot of coins because I haven't been spending them yet but I'm going to do that now. You get about twenty coins per 5 questions. When you have a lot of coins you can buy stuff like animals or furniture for your jungle or space theme. 

If you are wondering what the jungle and space theme is, I will tell you right now: When you log on for your first time it tells you what theme you want jungle or space. When you have chosen your theme you have a background of your avatar in space or in the jungle. The stuff you buy with your coins is the stuff the paragraph before this one. You can put the space animals or furniture in the space or jungle background to fill it up... So I hope you like and get what I said because if you like math LOG ON!

Healthy Lifestyles

This week we wrote down four answers to four questions to do with healthy lifestyles. We have to write around 50 words per question. For the first question I wrote over 100 words.

Term Two Holidays

It was so amazing when it was the holidays but it was short too. I loved it because we went to open gymnastics on the first week and on the second week, we went to Rotorua for three nights and that was awesome two!

The first week amazing we had open gym soccer camp for one day and open trampoline.

I loved the gymnastics club me and some other people (some came from my school) built forts like, houses, huts, castles, and other things.

Over the days they had a tumbling track that we can play on but, there is only two people aloud on per run.

Anyways it had a foam pit where you can bounce off a trampoline and into it.

Me and my brother Arthur went to open trampoline to to play around, I was practicing my tricks for my trampoline competition in September.

The next week was even better, are family met with are second cousins at Rotorua Thermal Holiday Park which was amazing

We did so many things like the aquatic center, motion - laser tag and flip out, mountain biking, and more.

And best of all we went on the luge!!!

Long division at home

This week, I was determined to learn how to do long division. It's quite weird at first. But when you get the hang of it, it's quite straight-forward.

Here is an example. What is 4698 divided by 3?

Well, there are many ways to do this.

This first is to pick up a calculator and type in 4598÷3. But that's too easy!!!

The second way is to try to guess it. But you'll probably be wrong:)

There is another way which is suppppppper fun if you love long division or math! You go like this:

3⟌4698

Here are the steps:

a) First divide 4/3. The answer is 1 with remainder 1 (for example: 1R1).
You then put the first 1 above the 4, and the second 1 in “superscript” to the left of the 5.

1

3⟌41698

b) Then you divide 16/3. The answer is 5 with remainder 1 (for example: 5R1).
You then put the first 5 above the 16 and the 1 in  “superscript” to the left of the 9.
Do you get the pattern now? If you don’t read it again.

1 5

3⟌416198

c) Now you divide 19/3. The answer is 6R1. Let us put that in now.

1 5 6

3⟌4161918

d) Now you divide 18/3, which is EXACTLY 6!! (That was a fluke to get it without a remainder).

1 5 6 6

3⟌4161918

e) So what’s the answer?! IT’S 1566 !!!! WOW! Now you can check it on your calculator.