How to make Tapa

 

1. After the hiapo is cut down, women and girls peel the bark from the tree.

2. They hang the bark in the sun to dry.

3. They soak the dried bark in water to make it soft.

4. They beat the bark with a wooden tool called a ike to make it thinned and wider

5. They dry the bark in the sun again

6. In the school hall, the women and girls cover the table with material. This will be backing for the ngatu.

7. They line up feta'aki along the table on top of this backing material. The they paste the edges of the feta'aki to the back material. 

8. They cover the backing material with paste.

9. They carefully lay the feta'aki over the top of the backing material. Then they press the two pieces together and slowly toll them up.

10. They carry the ngatu outside and roll it out on the concrete so it can sry in the sun. When it is dry they will paint the ngatu with some brown dye, using a piece of feta'aki as a brush

Learning How To Read Notes

Today we had Jelly Beans Music with Risa. We learned how to play Mary had a little lamb on a the glockenspiel. It was easy and the main notes was E D C. After we learned it Mr Naidoo picked some people to play it by themselves. Many of us didn't learn it fully but Jaylove played it well. When we finished playing Mary had a little lamb we played hot cross buns but with the same notes. After learning how to play it we played them together. When we finished we went to grab a instruments. There were drum discs, triangles, tambourines and castanets. When we were playing it I learned how to read notes and it wasn't that hard. I had fun and I was happy that I learned how to read music notes.

 

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Te memeha

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Maori Language Week

 

Change the things you can and accept the things you cannot change

 Today we had bounce back and we learned that you can change things in your life and things that are done is done and can't be undone. What it means is that if someone says something mean and you start a fight but then after a while you go apologize and that person apologize back then its done and cannot be undone. Do your best to keep trying to solve problems and change things you don't like in your life, but know when it is time to accept what you can't change. Sometimes you can't change a situation because it is not within your control. There is no point in getting upset over what you can't change as it wont make any difference to the situation.  

Tongan Pepeha

 My Pepeha

I would dance sequence

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Today we had our first dance lesson with Miss G. First we walked in and sat down, next the dance teacher told us her name. Then she said, "So we are gonna find a partner and make a hand shake with only 4 movements". When she was finished telling us the instructions we stood up and started making our handshake. When we were finished we sat down and Miss G picked to groups to stand up and show us there handshake. The 4 girls went first and showed our 4 movement handshake and the boys were the audience it was fun and then after the boys showed us there 4 movement handshake. After we were dont we had to find another partner and make up a different 4 movement handshake without your hands. You could yous your head, leg, feet, shoulder, knee and other body parts besides your hands. When Miss G said GO we were all running but luckily no one was hurt. My next one was Damani and we made a amazing handshake with the side of out foot and our elbow. Next Miss G told us to show our handshake and remember then we showed the boys our handshake. Then the boys showed us there amazing handshake. When we were finished showing our handshake we had to make another 4 movement handshake. After we did the same thing then we all sat in a circle. We sat in a circle because we were playing a clapping game. The game was to clap then Miss G does another beat clap and we follow her. We had 3 different clap movements we practice 3 times and we had a challenge. Our challenge was to try beat room 10's score. There one was 7 seconds. Mr Naidoo started the time then we all clap really fast. Our score was 5.25 and we were shouting loud that we couldn't stop. After celebrating we sat down in front of Miss G and we had to describe how lockdown was. We came up with a lot of words then we had to make something. First we made shapes for the ingredients second we added the flavour and the flavour was to do a roll, turn, jump and some other things. After doing those we added the method and it was reverse, repeat, locomotor, and other things I forgot. We put them all together and we performed in front of the class. They all were amazing. It was fun and awesome that i wanted to stay. 

Who's to blame

In our Bounce Back program we were learning how to blame fairly. It means for an example if we lost a basketball game by 2 points, who do you blame? In the story that we read, Josh blamed it on himself because he missed the important 3 pointer and Hunter blamed it on the 2 people that came late. whose fault is it? 

If you were in a fight and you didn't do anything but you blamed it on yourself how would you feel? I'll feel sad because I would regret it. If you see someone sad and the person blamed it on his enemy but it was actually your friend and you blamed it on your enemy because you know how your friends gonna feel. Do you think it's fair? I'll say no because that's what you call a fake friend, you have to trust them for you to think that person's fake or real. Don't blame everything on other people because sometimes it's just bad luck. I learned that sometimes it's just bad luck and if it was you just take the blame and learn from it.