Year 8 Formal 2021

On Tuesday, the 7th of December, most of the year 8 students here at Rawhiti went to formal that we had in our school hall. My friends and I (Naquita, Mailli, Kymaira and Kahukura) didn't tell or show each other what we had planned to wear or our hairstyles so when we all showed up, we all looked very different but all very beautiful. Formal started at six but as Nogo said "A lady comes late not early because if she's early that means she wants attention". 

The menu we for the dinner the adults made was 

- Chicken

- Pulled pork

- Beef brisket

- Potato salad 

- Pasta salad 

Then for dess
ert we had the choice of 

- Chocolate cake

- Vanilla cake

- Blueberry cake

- Ice cream 

The drinks they handed out were

- Juice 

- Lemonade.

After we all finished eating, we then had karaoke in the library and a dance party in the hall, the photo booth was running again. The girls and I all did karaoke and we thought we sounded amazing but compared to what the kaiako are saying, many people thought we sounded terrible. 

I loved seeing everyone dressed up nicely and having a good time. It was a very memorable moment that I will cherish forever. 

My End Of The Year Memory Time Capsule

 Today Whaea Jasmine sent out to us tuakana a 'End Of The Year Memory Book time Capsule'. Here is the work I did. 

Cultural Clothing

 For our inquiry this term, we've been researching about different cultures clothing and why it's important to them and their culture's history. This started with a stem challenge where my class and I got put into different groups as well as mixed year levels to then create an art of clothing based on space. A few day later, Whaea Jasmine then wrote down on the whiteboard cultures and the name of the cultures dancer/special clothing. Once we picked 3+ cultures to learn about, we had to make a slide and then start to research on what the clothing were made out of, when it's used and what it's used for. Below is the slide I created. 

Parihaka

 As part of literacy today we learnt about Parihaka. The narrative was told from a granddaughters thinking about the life of her grandmothers living in the Pa. The people of Parihaka started a passive protest against the government selling Maori land to pakeha settlers in 1879. I personally think that we should celebrate Parihaka on November 5th instead of Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes has nothing to do with us as New Zealanders. Parihaka is apart of our New Zealander Maori history and everyone should know about what happened. 

Space Science Project

 For the past few weeks of this term Ata Hāpara have been doing a space science project. We first had to complete a few slides last term about each planet as well as the asteroids, comets and the Moon. After that, we had to choose a question to then learn, create and share. The question Kymaira and I chose was “Why Do The Planets Orbit The Sun”

Once we gathered our information we started to create our planets, Sun and we also painted a box black then flicked white paint on to it.

Here is my video I recorded explaining the facts we found.

What do you know about Space?

My Writing Of How To Play Netball

 

What we've been learning for our writing in class is cause and effect for about three days. We then had to write a story about something that we're really good at, I decided to write about netball. 

Here is the link to my doc. 

Whakatauki

The task I chose to do for Te Re Maori was to find a kiwaha or a whakatauki that relates to my whanau's experience during this lockdown. The whakatauki I chose was "Ka pu te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi" which means "As a old net withers, a new one is made". This realtes to my whanau because lately during lockdown we've been finding my Oma's really old baking/cooking recipe's and adding in new ingredients as well as sorting through her old teaching stuff.