Waka haerenga

Today we went to Opua to learn about Hekenukumai busby's legacy and his lives work. We learnt some waka positions and learnt about the knots and how to tie them properly and how they navigate on a traditional sailing canoe and how they navigated from one place to another. Here are some photos from our haerenga.

Waka reflection

Last week we tested our waka we all built different waka. The easy part was making the design the hard part was holding the coins on my boat. And they were all buoyant until we put coins on we started seeing different waka sink but most that sunk were made out of tin foil and the ones were made out of bottles floated the bottle made boats were less dense so they floated the tin foil was less dense to but they didn't have the support to hold a coin so it sunk here is one of the successful boats. Next time I will make sure my materials are durable and strong

How to make a Christmas tree

Yesterday we made Christmas trees  out of:

           Materials

• 3 cupcake cups
• 1 Popsicle stick
• 1 glue stick
• 3 pom poms
• Ribbon as long as your forearm
• Tape

Method

1.  Grab 1 cupcake cup
2. Fold it in half
3. Next unfold it then push the corner in
4. Repeat with the other two
5. Grab your Popsicle stick and your glue stick
6. Arrange it how you want
7. Glue your cupcake cups on
8. Grab some ribbon and cut it as long as your forearm (get help if you need it)
9. Make it like an X at the bottom
10. Tape it to your tree
11. Glue your pom poms on how ever you want then your finished here's my finished one

                                                                       

Athletics day

Yesterday we had athletics we were learning to co-operate and support others and have a good attitude towards what were dong and just having fun.  I like the house relays because we were coming second in every other race until we raced. The easy part was long jump whilst I was just having fun because I came 4th. The hard part was the full on sprints because I knew there were fast people but I tried my best anyway. When the first  people ran they were neck-n-neck and then we they handed the batons to us everyone dropped it except for us so as soon as we got it we were gone here is some photos of us

Waka test

Today we went down to the pool to test Honekais boat we filled it with water and we had to predict whether it was going to float or sink it obviously sank because of how solid the inside was if it had no water on the inside it will float because its less dense

Paying it forward

In the mid 1930's things began to change for the better in New Zealand. More people were able to find work and receive a steady paycheck. They were still careful, with their money and rarely, if ever bought treats of gifts for one another.

Imagine if you were able to travel back in time to visit a family in . What special gifts or treats would you like to bring with you? I would like to bring back Jordan 12, a Rolex, blue eyed pit bull, 1 million dollars and Elvis Presley

Float or sink

Last week Nga Rau Rangatira and Nga Rau Puawai went down to the pool to test our boats. We used coins to see how many coins we could fit on our boat (coins=people) first we saw if our boats could float and they all did next we started putting coins on and then boats started to sink one by one to the bottom of the pool.