MihiMihi

Kia Ora Koutou

Greetings to you all

E ngā manuhiri tuārangi, ngā tauira, kaiako, kaumātua,

To our distinguished guests, students, teachers, elders

kua hui mai nei

who have gathered here

ki tenei wahi

to this place

ki te mau mai

to bring

i nga whakaaro pai me te aroha

the good thoughts and the love

Ka nui te koa

Great is the happiness

mo to koutou kaha

for your support

ki te aro mai

in attending

ki te hapai

to uplift

i nga take

the matters/subjects

e pa ana ki tenei hui

concerning this gathering

Tēnā koutou

Greetings to you all

No reira tena koutou, tena koutou, tena ra tatou katoa

Therefore greetings once, greetings twice, greetings again to us all.

FiaFia!!!

FiaFia was about celebrating the 60th birthday of our school and to help celebrate, each kid from our school performed in a cultural and entertaining group such as the Samoan group, Tongan, Hawaiian, Hip Hop, Unicycling and much much more. Many parents and teachers also set up stalls to sell food and sweets.

Hearing the bell ring, I look towards the door to find kids flooding through. Squeezing past them, my friend and I run to the library ready to get changed. Arriving at the library, Jorja, Tyla and I get changed into our uniforms and line up for our moko. After that we went to get our feathers and had a few practices. Now we wait for our cue. Being the first ones on it was a bit nerve racking.

Walking up the stairs, I take my place on the stage and start to wiri. While I was waiting for the whaea's call, I smiled and looked out to the humongous audience. "Hope....Takahia!" There was the call. I started our performance and started singing. We did a few songs including both a girls and boys haka, a song that would start off the juniors, and another well known song called Kei he te Tuna. Then we finished with a "Tahi, Rua, Toru, Wha, PUKANA!

Rushing back to the library we got changed and sat down at the back of the other performers. This was truly a very entertaining event.

New Zealand Poem

New Zealand

Aotearoa
Te Reo Maori
Blossoming pohutukawa Trees
Red Beaked Pukekos
Long strong harakeke
Rare brown Kiwis
Land of the Long White Cloud
Strong Fierce Haka
Special Family Marae’s
Skillfully Designed Carvings
Smoothly Carved Green Stone

Weekly Diary... Tuesday

When I got to school I remembered that we had a test. So I ran to class. Luckily they hadn’t gone to the hall yet. After a few minutes we started to get ready. Grabbing our chairs we walked in a line to the hall. After finishing the star test we walked back to class quietly. When we got back it was morning tea time.

When I got back from morning tea we did the quick 20. After maths we played a game called Around the World. After we played Around The World Whaea Raywyn came. We had maori. As the bell went we packed up and went home.

Making Our Movie

“Hooray!”I said. Today we were going to start filming. Finally, Tyla and Calvin had sorted out what they were going to wear and we had finished most of our script. We still had to look for more.

For scene 1 we had to record Jonita ( the mum ) telling us it’s time to go to the museum. It took us a while because me and Jonita kept looking at the camera. Whoops. Unfortunately all the shots we did were like that. Too bad, I thought.

On day 2 tried to film as much as we could. “Wow, where are we?” we yelled ( but not too loud). It was a bit from 1 of our scenes. We had just arrived where we call the olden days, when Maori's were around. Soon Tyla and Calvin walk up to an old lady that I had been talking to. Soon the other group did their’s but they were doing a shooting scene so we did the noises.” shoo, pshoo” we laughed.

Day three. We filmed the rest of scene 2 and then moved on to scene 3. This time we filmed us going to Rangimarea’s( old lady ) whare/(house). We are still getting the rest done. I think we have done a good job. I can’t wait to finish it.