I want a dance subject at HHS!

Today we have to write about what subject we want at our school, I'm choosing dance. I love to dance and school would be so much funner for me if dance was apart of school. 

The reason why I want dance in HHS is because I am a dancer myself and I am really committed to my dancing. I dance all the time at home and at school in my own time. 

I could get a lot more opportunities to have more dance performances, I would be able to perform more and I think I would be more confident in myself while performing.

I can dance more often and I would love to get the chance to do that! 

Dream Holiday!

Today we are blogging about where we want to go for our dream holiday. I really want to go Bora Bora because it is such a beautiful place. Bora Bora in a small South Pacific Island Northwest of Tahiti in French Polynesia. Bora Bora is surrounded by Sand Fringed motus and Turquoise lagoon protected by coral reef. Bora Bora is known for their scuba diving. It's also a popular luxury resort destination where some guest bungalows are perched over the water on stilts.



Otemanu is a mountain in Bora Bora. It is one of the two peaks of an extinct volcano located in the centre of the Island. One peak of the mountain is called Mount Otemanu and the other is call Mount Pahaia. This is the only Island that is a perfect score of a ten on the amazement scale by tourists.



Bloody Mary's is one of the Pier's in Bora Bora. It is also a Club Yacht, Restaurant and etc. It's not only a Restaurant though it can be toured by tourist. You can experience walking on sand floors, sitting on coconut stools under a thatched roof and you are surrounded by exotic plants.

Dance

Dance is my favourite sport, I do Jazz, Contemporary and Hip Hop. About a month ago I had my exams. Exams is where you learn heaps of syllabus work. Syllabus work is heaps of short dances and partner work. This year we had a really tough examiner, she was looking for everything we missed, all the technique we added and stuff like that. I had 3 exams and I got top marks for my Hip Hop and I am really proud of myself. I got 3rd marks for Jazz and 2nd for Contemporary. 

After we had our exams we move on to show work. At the end of every year we have a show at the Middleton Grange Theatre. There is heaps of dances we need to learn and I am in the middle of learning 4 dances. The names of those dances are Western, Plain Bellied, Hooded and Hip Hip VS Classical. For the Hip Hip VS Classical I am in the Hip Hop part because I'm not a Classical person. Western and Plain Bellied is more of a Hip Hop Jazz type dance and they are really fun dances to be in. Hooded is a Hip Hop dance and for me so is Hip Hip VS Classical. 

I love to even watch dance I watch it all the time. I really enjoy watching Dance Moms when I'm not dancing around the house at home, but sometimes I will watch any dance video I see. 

Pizza (Foods tech)

Today in Tech we made Pizza's. 

The steps are 

1.  Get your pizza base.

2. Put Pizza sauce on it.

3. Get your toppings.

4. Put cheese + toppings on.

5. Cook in the oven for 10 minutes on 180 degrees on fan bake.

Then take it out of the oven and time to EAT. 

I really liked my Pizza because Pizza is my favourite food. My pizza was pretty basic the toppings I had were just Cheese, Salami and Ham but I still liked it. 

Orana park

Yesterday we went back to Orana park with Mt and Ds. We saw heaps of animals like Gorilla's, Giraffe's, Lemurs, Kiwi's, Owl, Leopard's, Spider monkey's, Kea's, Lion's, Cheaters, Rhino (fat unicorns) and different reptiles like Tuatara, Frogs, Gecko's and ect. My favourite part of Orana park was lunch, my favourite animals was basically all of them because I kept saying they were cute. We were spilt into 4 groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 our leader's name was Elizabeth. We got to feed the Giraffes which was really cool. 

After we went into the kiwi encloser we had a we talk about Ferrets and Rats and animals kind of like that. They had stuffed Ferret's and a stuffed Rat and we got to touch them they actually felt so real! 

When we went to go see the Kea's there were 2 of them Arthur and Teike. At first Arthur was jumping on some people and then Teike jumped on and pushed Arthur off. 

We got to look at the lions and they were HUGE but they were still cute.

We saw a Lemur and it WAS ADORABLE!  

We saw a Rhino/Fat Unicorn

Orana Park was really fun and I love the animals if you ever want to go there this is the address: 

793 Mcleans Island Rd, Harewood, Christchurch 8051.

Ki o Rahi - P.E Hurumanu

In P.E we have been learning a game called Ki o Rahi. We had to research the legend bout Ki o Rahi and this is my research.  

When you’re playing Ki O Rahi there will be a set time to play in, it will be 4 quarters or 2 halves. Teams will switch roles of Kīoma and Taniwha at half time or in each quarter. Both teams score differently Kīoma scores by touching the Pou With the Kī then they run the Kī through to Te Roto and placing it down in Pāwero/Te Moto. This means they will get points after touching the pou. If the Kī goes out any team can pick it up. Teams can decide to change the rules before playing the game, normally they will just keep playing as if it was Tatu. The Taniwha team scores one point for hitting the tupu which is in the middle of the field. There a several circles which makes the Ki o Rahi field and they have specific names. The outer ring of a Ki o Rahi field is called Te Ao, the next ring in is called Te Roto, The next one is Pāwero/Te Motu. There is a little circle around the Tupu is called Te wairua. 

This is what the field looks like:

The equipment you will need is Kī (ball) Pou (pole/post) Tupu (Barrel) bibs, cones to make the outlines, you can also use spray paint to make outlines. 

The legend:

One day an enemy tribe from a far off mountains kidnapped Te Ara. Her Abductors casted a spell on her causing the vegetation to become really dense and impenetrable so nobody could track where she was. Rahi was very determined to find Ti Ara, with the help of his family and tribe he built a huge kite and called it Manu Tangata. Before going on his journey Rahi prepared several “Kī” (Flax Bags) he then filled it up with a large Moa (Extinct New Zealand Bird) eggs so he can eat something during his journey. Tawhirimatea the god of wind blew Rahi and his Kite high up in the sky, before he gently landed Rahi in the bush. When Ti Ara was being taken away through the forest she secretly folded back leaves of the silver fern. Which was exposing the silvery underside of the leaf so Rahi was able to follow the silvery trail that Ti Ara had left.

CIP (Tane Mahuta)

Today in CIP we were doing more gardening. First period we had our year 7/8 Hui then afterwards I had to go to Kapa Haka. When I was gardening I was picking out the weeds. While some people were picking out the weeds some other people were raking over it to make it more tidier to plant in. 

In period 2 when I was in Kapa Haka we were in groups the groups were Leads, boys harmonise and girls harmonise. I was in the lead group, the lead group is basically carrying the whole Kapa Haka group. The boy harmonisers go more deep and the girls harmonisers go really high so the song sounds better. The song we are doing is Whakarongo and today we also cleared up the actions. We haven't quite perfected the actions yet but they are more clearer than they were before.