Maori Language Week

For Maori language week we learned the Maori body song which is this :

Mahunga, pakihiwi, poku, hope, wae wae

Mahunga, pakihiwi, poku, hope, wae wae

Mahunga, pakihiwi, poku, hope, wae wae

Taringa, karu, ihu, waha e
We had to teach it to Room 5 and we also had to teach them what it means in english

Mahunga means head, pakihiwi means shoulder, puko means tummy, hope means hips, wae wae means legs, taringa means ear, karu means eyes, ihu means nose and last of all waha e means mouth. 

My Speech

on Wednesday 6th  of June room12 presented their discovery speeches I was really nervous about my speech, my speech was about Thomas Edison. I think I did well using my clarity of voice, memorizinig my speech and having a prop. Improvements I think I have to make more informations about how he did his inventions and making more eye contact and what I learnt about Thomas Edison is that never give up easily.                                                      

Term 3

This term I'm looking forward to focusing on Olympics, the Disco and Cross Country training. I want to improve on doing my work fast and my maths. One thing I would like to do is to get our 20 marbles so we can have a game or something else.

Maths

In room 12 we've been learning a lot of maths.  In my group, Porohita (Circle), we've been learning to solve problems like 23+__=71 by jumping a tidy number and then jumping back a small number in a number line.

example: 46+__=92 we go 46 +10 until we get to 96 so the number of jumps we made was 50.  We have to take away 4 from 96 so that will equal 92 then take away 4 in 50 and that  equals 46 so 46+46=92 and thats what we've been learrning at maths.

Remembrance

In Room 12 we've been learning about ANZAC. Mrs.Parkinson give us a sheet the tittle was Gallipoli Slang, we had to find what the words means in the sheet and if we don't know what the word means we have to guest and here is some of the words.

• Typewriter - Machine gun 
• Smoko - A break for cigarette
• Brass Hat - Nickname for higher officers
• Broomstick Bomb - Turkish bomb contraption filled with high explosive, metal scraps and a long stick 
• Digger - A shovel

Room 12 Assembly

In Room 12, 25th of May we had our assembly it was about remembrance, we had a play and I was with Arzoo,Temple,Zahle,Raniera,Corban, and Usman in Training in Egypt. We had two Sargent's and it was Arzoo and Corban and the rest of us was doing a mini course with the Sargent's telling us what to do. I think all of us did a great job because we all worked hard and tried our best. In the end we had a treat from Mrs.Parkinson and Miss Ford for doing a great job in our assembly.

The Swimming Sports

On Thursday 8th March we had our swimming sports and it was so exciting because all of the seniors were supporting their teams. We got there by bus, we went to the park beside the pools and then went swimming. The House colours are Rutherford, Hillary, Batten, Ngata and I am in Rutherford. My team members are Emily, Temple, Tia, Corban, Melissa and me. It was so fun because everybody was cheering and shouting for their teams and we got to do a song and every house colour has a house captain. We have Emily for Rutherford and she made this really cool song and it goes like this "Ngata Ngata in the bin Hillary Hillary further Batten Batten on the top here comes Rutherford squash you lot GO RUTHERFORD". So what did I do on swimming sport day? I did Backstroke length and I came 4th and freestyle widths and I came 5th. After all the children finished swimming we did the class relay team's and we WON. I was really proud of Room 12. After that we had to race the parents and we won too " YAY " . That's what happened in swimming sports day.