Jump Rope for Heart

Jump Rope for Heart - Jump Off Day!

Jump Rope for Heart, is where people skip and get donations from others, like family and friends, we raised this money for children with heart problems. We had 5 rotations, one for every whanau. It was a fun morning and it was really nice to see lots of older buddies helping the littler ones. The teachers from every whanau, Te Waka, Te Moana, Te Wheuna, Nga Manu and Te Awa, set up a course or activity, as you will see in the photos below. Well done to everyone that took part in this day, keep skipping!

Here To Say Topic - Guest Speakers

Yesterday, after lunch, the Inquirers Syndicate had 2 guest speakers, the first one was Mr Tran and then Mrs Johnstone. They talk about how the immigrated from Vietnam (Mr Tran) /South Africa (Mrs Johnstone) to New Zealand. Some of the things Mr Tran talked about were, he came to NZ in 1994, it takes 30 days to travel from Vietnam to Hong kong, he has lived here for 20 years and in Vietnam, you only get 30 minutes to collect water. Mrs Johnstone spoke about she came to New Zealand in 1986 when she was 17, she came with her mother and brother, she lived in Auckland by herself at 17 years old but she couldn't stay because she had to go back to South Africa to get a job, then she could move back to NZ and she has been in New Zealand for 28 years.

Here To Stay Topic Area

Globe Trekkers

As you may know, the Inquirers Syndicate all took part in the production, Globe Trekkers. Every classes theme was based on their chosen Commonwealth country, my class, room 13, were Asia. We all made a costume based upon our own story. My costume is called "The Sun God and His Workers". We, Jamilla Lockyer and I, really enjoy making our costume together and I think Jamilla was a really great model for our costume. The others who weren't wearing/modelling a costume got to take part in it as well. The boys who weren't modelling the costume did some sort of martial arts, where as the girls performed both a parallel/umbrella and fan dance.

Mine and Jamilla's costume - The Sun God and His Workers

Our Class Trip To Te Papa

On Monday the 4th (August), Room 13 went to Te Papa for the day.

We did the roll as usual, then hoped on the bus to go to Wellington and after about a hour we arrived at our destination, Te Papa! We already were in groups, in my group I had Tom's Mum, Jamilla, Tom, Grace and myself. The first exhibition we saw was the WOW factor wearable arts one. After that we had lunch at Frank kitts park. Once lunch was over we went to our next exhibition, the Matariki Activities. Then we all lined up and went back to school on the bus.
I think everyone thought it was fun and we would love to go back again sometime and see the other exhibits.

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Commonwealth Games Day - Kapanui School Version

Yesterday at Kapanui School, we all competed in the Commonwealth games day.
We all competed in 5 games, but not everyone got to do the same as others.
We were all in a country, mine (and the rest of Mr Tockers whanau class) were Guyana, however other whanau classes were countries, such as, Falkland Islands, England, Scotland (who are the host of the commonwealth games 2014), Australia and New Zealand.
Did you know, facts about Guyana:

• The capital of Guyana is Georgetown. 
• The official currency is the Guyanese dollar.
• The longest river in Guyana is the Essequibo River.

Some of the games that some of other countries/whanau classes competed in were games like, musical statues, beanbag throwing, balloon volley ball and "crab walk" racing!

Well bye for now.

(PS: Have you noticed that the colour of the text is the colours of the Guyana flag?!) (PPS: The Guyana flag is below)

First Post!

Hello! This is my very first post on my own blog.
I hope you enjoy looking at my blog, and if you can see them, have fun with my virtual pets!
Well, bye for now, have fun looking around my small (at the moment) blog!!!