My Day In a Wheelchair

Today I went to technology in a wheelchair it was hard at the start but then I got the hang of it and I now feel different about people in wheelchairs because I have experienced it the hardest part of today was in cooking when you have to get in to small spaces and when your on the grass :)!


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Cultural Festival 2012

On Tuesday the 4th of September Burnham School Kapa Haka Group were backstage ready to go on tho the stage to perform at the 2012 Cultural Festival at the CBS Arena. Gem from What Now was on stage giving out a Cultural Festival t-shirt. Finnly was really nervous, I just told her to breathe and imagine no one was there. The two hosts Matai and Ra said,"We now have Te Kura O Tiori, Burnham School reaching for the stars".
All I heard was Hannah's sister Michaella say," Go Burnham"
The boys haka's were really loud and the stage was shaking and made our performance come come in with a bang. Then we got into Ka Pioioi, our kaea's Taleah, Hannah and Britteney sounded amazing and lead us in brilliantly, the group filled the stadium with noise, it sounded amazing.
Our last song was Reach for the Stars, but we sang it in Maori with a mix of English. The first verse was the girls poi and the rest we did actions to. When we got back to our seats I'm sure we all still had that adrenaline in us, but we soon settled down.
The Cultural Festival was really fun this year, it was my 5th time I have performed at a Cultural Festival
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Statistical Investigation Poster

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Our groups statistical investigation was I wonder if boys can throw further than girls?
The type of graph I created was a bar graph.
The results show that boys can throw further in distance and longer from the time in the air.

Speech and Mihi

The class said I had good eye contact, clarity, volume and pace.
The class wished that next time I could improve my pronounciation.
Next time I deliver a speech I will try to look up from the paper more and maybe practice my mihi a little bit more.

Mardi GRAS mask

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Compared to my plan of my mask the shape, decorations and colour has changed. The hardest part in making my mask was making the shape of my mask because it was so hard to make the shape I wanted in the end my mask didnt look how I wanted it to. The colours I decided to use represent me because I used my favourite colours. My mask shows my personality through the culture of me and because it has my favourite colours and I made it unique. My mask is is suitable for celbrating 30 years of the Cultural Festival because it is unique and I think every culture is different and unique.

Native Bird Artwork

When we made native bird sketching what I did well is the colouring and the bird shape.
What I could of done better is made the kiwi's whiskers better and more realistic and the background in lighter shades.
In order to create the artwork we had to do this step by step firstly to lightly draw an outline of our bird and decide what native bird we wanted to do. Next we lightly coloured in the base colours. Then we went around the background and in the middle of the kiwi and coloured it in darkly. After that we got a black crayon and made an outline for the picture. Finally we dyed the picture with orange, brown, yellow and green.

Goals

Literacy- Layout of work setting it out so it is meaningful.
Numeracy- Quick recall of my basic facts to help solve problems faster.
Values- Based with speaking in public with confidence.