Matariki

Kia Ora, bloggers. Today I wold like to share when we celebrated Matariki. It was yesterday the 23 of July. We did the activities and we went in a rotation. There were 3 activities. The first one I did was to recreate a Matariki story (or make up our own story) with playdough and animating it with stop motion. We could either use playdough or draw our characters in the story. I worked with Jeremiah, Brayden, and Marcus. We made our own story but it didn't turn out good. We did this until morning tea, which was 11:00 - 11:30. After morning tea it was time for our 2nd activity - strip making. We had to make strips of Maori patterns with Maori colors (red, white, and black). Then we put them onto a kite frame to make a kite. I didn't really like it because it was boring just coloring in patterns. We did this until lunch which was 1:00 - 1:50. After lunch it was time for the 3rd and final (and my favorite) activity - cooking. First we washed our hands.We all divided into groups of 4 (but my group had 5 people). My group had Jeremiah, Brittany, Brayden, and Marcus. First we got a bowl and put self - raising flour in it. Then we mixed the flour and put water on it. Everyone had a turn mixing it. Then we put the dough out of the bowl and split it into 4 groups. After that we rolled the dough and after THAT we cut it into six pieces. Then we put it in the fryer to make it fried bread. After that took them out (carefully) we put toppings on top (I did golden syrup). And then we ate them. I really liked that last activity. Here are some photos.

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Cross Country 2020

Kia ora, bloggers. Today, I would like to share Cross Country. Cross Country is an day that happens every year. On that day we do activities plus a run which is the most tiring of all the activities. Everybody had a group according to their year group. The first thing we do on the day is that we go to all our groups. For example I am a Year 5 so I go with all of the year 5's. Then we all go to the first activity. Every year group has a different activity. The year 5's first activity was a resting activity. That wasn't fair because we hadn't really needed to do anything before that. We could play on the playground or wecould play games. Me and my friends built a giant jenga tower using blocks and it was taller that each of us. Then we broke it down and we played with throwing rings. You throw the rings onto the pole to get points. Then the handbell rang and that meant it was time to move on to the next activity. The second activity was tennis. I normally like playing tennis, but, I didn't like playing tennis today because it was sooooooo crowded that you couldn't hit the ball anyways. After that we were doing hand ball. I hated it sooooooo much that I didn't play. The next activity was a blindfold challenge. We had to go in pairs and one of us had to wear a blindfold. The person who doesn't have the blindfold has to guide the person with the blindfold to pick up the bean bag toys. The person with the blindfold has to obviously have to do what the person without the blindfold says. And I am bad at doing both of those so I didn't do it. Then we were cheering for the other group running. It is probably what you would expect. Then we did the run. We had to run a loooooooooong trail 2 times. I came last because I bumped my head VERY VERY  hardly into someones head and that slwed me down. If you want pictures, I have pictures.

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