Lion Dance

On Wednesday we did a lion dance. We were supposed to do the lion dance on discover china week but they could not be there because of some issues. 

First we partnered up, one person as the head, and one as the butt.

I was with Sammy an I was the butt of the lion.

We learnt some moves then we got into the costumes. There were only 4 costumes so we has to take turns.

There was a orange, red, yellow, and white lion.

When I was in the butt of the lion, Sammy had a rope tied around her waist and I held onto it while I bent down to make the lions back. 

Here is some photos.

(Me and Sammy is the white lion.)

Probability

 In maths we have been learning about probability. We did some work on it and we had to make a slideshow about the scales on probability. Here is mine.

Discover China Day.

 We did a discover china day in class that went on for two days, we 5 different rotations on the course of each day.

On the first day we did calligraphy, fan dancing.

On the other day we did Chinese music, ta quan do, and martial arts.

Here I am doing Chinese calligraphy with ink and a paint brush.

We wrote 4 different words. 

The words were 

thank you

hello

goodbye

you are welcome

Here we are doing fan dancing. We all got some fans and learnt a dance to do. It was very challenging.

When the fans opened they made a big noise.

We did some Chinese music and the instruments were called Guzheng. We listend to some of the history of the Guzheng, and the Guzheng being played. Then we played it. We had two song choices to play from.

We are doing this tai quan do thing. First we looked at some weapons the man had for training then we did some tai quan do. It was fun.

Otaki Youth Space

 On Wednesday KCDC came to our school and they used our class to see what they should include in a youth space in Otaki. They were given an amount of money to spend on making the youth space feel safe and fun.

We did different stations and they split us into groups. The different stations were about where we would like the location, what we would like in it, what feeling we want to feel, how we find out information about things, and what we worry that the youth space might have.

There were lots of different opinions on things.

At the end we were asked what we would like added to Otaki, lots were adding McDonald or KFC and others were about more shops and sport courts.

It was really fun.

I thought that:

 -it should have a bookshelf for reading

-it should be near the countryside

-it might have too many rules.

The adventure of Hinepoupou.

 In Dance and Drama we read a story about Hinepoupou. We had to do a play, do a dance, or write a short script scene about the story. 

I did the script scene.

Here is mine.

(Brother) I'm sure Hine Poupou could not have followed us across Raukawa."

(Husband) You're right, we should start fishing before night falls."

(Hinepoupou) "I swam across Raukawa for 3 days and all they did was abandon me to greedily fish at the fishing ground."

(Hinepoupou) "Revenge calls me."

(Hinepoupou) "From the storm of the mountains to the breath of the sea, from the seed in the earth to the stars in the sky, may your body now rest in peace."

(Brother) The skies are turning grey, a storm is coming."

(Storm) Too late now, Hinepoupou has gotten revenge."

(Hinepoupou) "Now you may rest."

Gardening

 In class we are helping out Mike in the Horticulture block.  Mike is fixing the garden and we are helping him to do it. 

We all did something different to help. Some people did composting, soil testing, filing wheelbarrows with mulch, raking the mulch, and picking out weeds of the garden beds. This was all done over the course of a few days.

I did the soil testing, picking out weeds from the garden beds, and raking out the mulch. 

Here ia a picture taken of us helping.

I am the blonde one.

My Tapa Art

In Homeroom we made Tapa art for Tongan language week. 

We used: brown paper, vivid, and dye.

First we researched some designs for ideas. On a blank piece of white paper we did a sketch of our design then we drew it onto our brown paper. 

We went over the pencil lines in black vivid. 

Once we had drawn over our line we coloured is in with black and brown vivid, leaving some space empty. Then we scrunched it up multiple times. the paper to give it texture.

After that we started to dye it, we had a few colours of dye to use for it.

I did a turtle with patterns inside of it and two pattern things on the edges.

                                                                     My design