The Marae

The car slid up the hill and in to a park in the parking lot at arahura Marae.

It was a school camp. We had left around 8.30 and were now arriving at our
destination.

For the last few weeks in Ms Kemp's class we had been learning more about the
Marae.

We clambered out of the car. Several people were putting there bags in other
cars that would be staying for the night.

At last Ms Kemp's car pulled into a park and stopped.

Soon the whole of Room 1 and 8 walked around the side of the fence and up
to the gates.
Then all of us started singing He honore a Maori waiata ( well maybe only a

couple sang).

The gates shuddered then slowly opened. We slowly started walking along
the long path to the Whare.

Miss Ireland started singing the karanga and was replaced by a maori lady
standing at the front of the Wharenui

. We finally got to the front of the whare and the girls stepped aside to let the
boys
take off their shoes. When we

went into the Marae I saw lots of poe and carvings on the walls and big lights
that changed colour on the roof.

One of the Tangata Whenua started to talk in their own language about the marae.

When he had finished a man that had came with us started to talk in maori back
to him.

Then we hongied all of the Tangata Whenua and left to the Wharekai to eat.
They served us pies and cake.

Later on we made sculptures of Poutini or Waitiki from a maori legend.

Poutini was a Taniwha and Waitaiki was a woman. I worked with Nathan K,
Nathan J, Xavier, Tyler, Charlie, Callan and Me and we made a sculpture of
Waitiaki. After that our dad came and took us home for the night since it was our
mothers birthday. I enjoyed the stay at Tuhuru the Marae and also enjoyed the
food.

The beach cookout

Room one and Room eight left the school at 5 past 11 to the beach for a beach cookout. With us were Ms Kemp, Mrs Glue and Mrs Mclean. In the group that I worked in was Dakota, Charlie, Summer and Me. Our parent was Tim Robbins Dakotas Father. The parents for the other groups were Angnus, Craig and Matt.

We made a pyramid shaped campfire with kindling then we put bigger wood on to the kindling and then we put tinder (Old Mans Beard and Gorse) inside the pyramid campfire. After we finished making our campfire we lit it. Soon the flames were really high and we started preparing our meal.

We made Taty Fry with potatoes, onion and herbs cooked all together. Our group wandered around other groups and waited until our fire went down to ashes and then we started to cook our food on the fires ashes . Soon the food was ready for us to eat , it was nice. After eating our main course we started to stir the pancake mix together for an after snack. Charlie and Summer went down to Watsons Creek to clean our utensils. Soon we were eating our pancakes with maple syrup. I really enjoyed cooking and eating the food we made.

Maths DlO

A moment in time writing

A moment in time

The tiny bump grew bigger as I came nearer I looked over it and saw it drop down.I decided it might be better to stop instead of going down. Then I stupidly slammed my front brake on and… well what happens when you go  whizzing down a slope and put your front brake on?

Well your bike simply tips over and you go flying over the handlebars. Then what happens when you keep holding onto the handlebars? You fall to the ground and since you’re holding onto the bike it falls on top of you. Any way I stupidly slammed my front brake on and my blood froze I felt a tip would the bike go over? My hair wanted to stick up but the helmet stopped it.               

My learning dlo.

The Treaty of Waitangi

                                                In Ms Kemps class we have been learning about the treaty of Waitangi

My Mihi