Going To 'Kapa Haka Regionals 2020'

Kia ora bloggers, On Sunday my nan, aunty, uncle, three cousins and I travelled to Whangarei to watch the Kapa Haka regionals 2020, and see my cousin and his roopu (group) Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa perform. If you don’t know who ‘Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa’ is, they are a school from Kawakawa, Te Tai Tokerau who has a Kapa Haka group that travels and goes to Kapa Haka competitions. My favourite song and haka I really enjoyed was, I think their third song and haka because I was really interested (sorry I don’t know that name of the song and haka). Something that I also really liked was, their first song they performed started off calm and then they went hard out. There is nothing I didn’t enjoy about going to the Kapa Haka regionals because I enjoyed everything. My favourite part about going to the regionals was, I got to spend time with my family and see my cousin do his best because he worked hard and earned his spot in the roopu. I remember when I yelled out ‘go JJ and everyone looked at me, but I just laughed because Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawa Roopu were so loud they didn’t even hear me, but my cousin and the roopu knew that I wanted him and them to do great. Overall Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa came third in the Kapa Haka regionals and I think they did amazing and they earnt it!. Kawakawa now have to make a new bracket for the nationals which I am really excited for! What is your favourite kapa haka waiata (song)? Here is a video clip of Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa performing:

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100 Word Story - Ghostly Shadow

In Te Ngahere some of us have been doing some 100 word story's. This is my fourth 100 word story I have wrote. We picked an appropriate picture and started writing about it. We made sure we kept the mood and atmosphere all throughout the story. I decided to pick a picture from Pobble. If you want, can you please comment how you liked my 100 word story. My 100 word story is called 'The Ghostly Shadow'.

Here is my 100 word story: Hope you like it!

One second you see it, the next second you don’t. She knew she had to turn around because something wasn’t right. But curiosity got the best of her. The fog she was slowly walking through started to feel thicker and thicker. The trees, dead branches and crackling leaves didn’t make one sound. Not even a sway of wind. She started to feel anxious and afraid. Feeling something crawl up her spine, she froze. She didn’t know what to do, so she just started running and running and running rapidly. Looking over her shoulder she saw some kind of ghostly shadow…

Hope you like it!

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100 Word Story - It Must Be Magic...

In Te Ngahere some of us have been doing some 100 word story's. This is my third 100 word story I have wrote. We picked an appropriate picture and started writing about it. We made sure we kept the mood and atmosphere all throughout the story. I decided to pick a picture from Pobble. If you want, can you please comment how you liked my 100 word story. My 100 word story is called 'It Must Be Magic'.

Here is my 100 word story: Hope you like it!

Sabre felt the cold reaching up her spine. She thought to herself “should I turn around?”. Sabre did a 180 degree turn and something hit her right in the forehead. A few minutes later she awoke feeling very dizzy. She looked over her shoulder with the pain starting to kick in. Sabre picks up the rock feeling confident. She started to get a tingle down her back. Somehow Sabre heard a voice come out of the rock saying “magic is not a myth Sabre”. She froze like the ice in the freezer. She said to herself, “it must be magic”...

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100 Word Story - On Repeat 2

 In Te Ngahere some of us have been doing some 100 word story's. This is my second 100 word story I have wrote. We picked an appropriate picture and started writing about it. We made sure we kept the mood and atmosphere all throughout the story. I decided to pick a picture from Pobble. If you want, can you please comment how you liked my 100 word story. My 100 word story is called 'On Repeat 2'.

Here is my 100 word story: Hope you like it!

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On Repeat 2

The past few months he had been having the same dream. In his dream he would walk around with an umbrella in hand. He would keep walking in a circle, again and again and again until he woke. It was like he was in an enormous heavyweight hamster wheel filled with dead trees. When he awoke each morning, startled by the feeling of being trapped that he experienced night after night. But one morning when he awoke, he asked himself ‘why do I keep having the same dream every night?’. He thought to himself and said ‘something has to change’...

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100 Word Story - The Tunnel

In Te Ngahere some of us have been doing some 100 word story's. This is my first 100 word story I have wrote. We picked an appropriate picture and started writing about it. We made sure we kept the mood and atmosphere all throughout the story. I decided to pick a picture from Pobble. If you want, can you please comment how you liked my 100 word story. My 100 word story is called 

'The Tunnel'.

Here is my 100 word story: Hope you like it!

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The Tunnel

She had been tracking the lost deer for around just over an hour. She had followed the trail of broken twigs and leaves the deer had nibbled on. Creeping slowly and quietly, not even making the slightest sound, she remained undetected. She stumbled across the mysterious circles in a clearing in the forest. The deer enters the first mysterious circle fiercely and vanishes, completely vanishes. Not even the leaf the deer was nibbling on was left. She stopped with shock and fascination, her face looked numb and she looked ice-cold. Feeling anxious, she steps into the mysterious circle and then...

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Te Reo Maori

In Te Ngahere we have been doing some Te Reo Maori. For Te Reo Maori we wrote scripts and did a screencastify in for a weather report in Maori. In my group Jade, Mikaila and I. We had to be able to pronounce the words in Te Reo with the DLO that we made after. When we thought we could say the script in Maori, we had to say it in front of the teacher. If the teacher said we pronounced it correctly we could make a slide with the script on it and little characters of us, then start screencastifying. I really enjoyed this Te Reo Maori because I learnt more Maori words and sentences. 

What language/s do you speak? 

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The Pool-Tastic Trip

Kia ora, when I was on holiday one of the things I did was go to the pools with my sister and friends. At the pools, there was a yellow slide, blue wiggly slide and black wiggly slide where you couldn’t see anything. I remember when my sister, friends went in the black slide, we bumped  into each other very hard but we laughed. My favourite slide would be the wiggly black slide. My sister, my friends and I went into the big pool, then the three slides, then the warm pool so we would be warm when we leave the pools. I really enjoyed going to the pools because I got to spend time with my sister and friends. I enjoyed every bit of it and would love to do it again. My sister, my friends and dad went the second time and it was a lot of fun. Do you prefer swimming at the beach or pools?

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