2017 Proud Moments

Libby's 2017 Proud Moments

2017 was a spectacular year for me... I was pushed out of my comfort zone, taught new things, and so much more! I made a slide show of all of my proudest moments.

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Passions - Clay Relics with Mrs Strathern

Clay

Term four for Kahikatea and Kawaka was different, we did passions hour. There were so many options, but I had to choose Mrs Strathern doing 'Clay Relics'. What sparked my interest was that I had lots of different foreign from different countries... Wales  (where my granddad is from) really intrigued me.

From Wales where Celtic people, and their magnificent designs called 'Celtic knots'. Mrs Strathern gave us a technology process which went like this: 1, Create ideas and question yourself how it's going to work. 2, Imagine your possibilities, then plan you idea in an inquiry book. 3, Design, think through your ideas. Reason with them and see if they'll work. 4, Create with clay. 5, Modify your ideas and structure. Now this process was repeated until you were happy.

Intricately placing the last touches on my sculpture, my mission was completed! 

Now that our passions have came to a close, I have plenty of photos to present, here they are. I also made a flower after I had done my final copy of the Celtic knot.

The flower I made.

My final copy

Book Week

My grin was wider that my face, and my teeth in its pristine order. I was ecstatic to be dressed up, and to see everyone's magnificent costumes. So much time and effort went into these costumes, I couldn't believe my eyes!

My heart was pounding... I wasn't ready for the parade! The results were in, who had the two best costumes in room nine? DRUM ROLL PLEASE... Mac as Mr Stink, and Isabella as The Queen Of Hearts! Not really minding that I didn't win, I kindly congratulate Mac and Isabella for their achievements.

The 'These People Love Reading' activity is next, it is announced that room nine is having Kat Merewether as our person that loves reading! Kat is the author and illustator of the 'Kuwi The Kiwi' series. Kat taught us a couple of things: How to draw expressions , and Kat also read us hew new book 'Kiwicorn'!

Room nine and the rest of Pirongia School really appreciated all the hard work Mrs Bryant put into book week 2017.

Here is my costume on book day, I was Pippi Longstocking.

How the Kiwi Lost It's Wings - Reese & Libby's Maori Myth and Legend

Preparing Our Maori Myth & Legend:

Steadily placing the finishing touches onto the background, Reese and I were ready. Rehearsing our lines carefully, we needed to remember the so we were able to tell this wonderful story. Practicing the full thing, we were ready!

                    

                    How the Kiwi Lost his Wings

One day, Tane-mahuta was walking through the forest. He looked up at his children reaching for the sky and he noticed that they were starting to sicken, as bugs were eating them.

He talked to his brother, Tane-hokahoka, who called all of his children, the birds of the air, together.

Tane-mahuta spoke to them.

"Something is eating my children, the trees. I need one of you to come down from the forest roof and live on the floor, so that my children can be saved, and your home can be saved. Who will come?"

All was quiet, and not a bird spoke.

Tanehokahoka turned to Tui.

"Something is eating my children, the trees. I need one of you to come down from the forest roof and live on the floor, so that my children can be saved, and your home can be saved.

"E Tui, will you come down from the forest roof?"

Tui looked up at the trees and saw the sun filtering through the leaves. Tui looked down at the forest floor and saw the cold, dark earth and shuddered.

"Kao, Tanehokahoka, for it is too dark and I am afraid of the dark."

Tanehokahoka turned to Pukeko.

"Pukeko, will you come down from the forest roof?"

Pukeko looked down at the forest floor and saw the cold, damp earth and shuddered.

"Kao, Tanehokahoka, for it is too damp and I do not want to get my feet wet."

All was quiet, and not a bird spoke.

Tanehokahoka turned to Pipiwharauroa.

"Pipiwharauroa, will you come down from the forest roof?"

Pipiwharauroa looked up at the trees and saw the sun filtering through the leaves. Pipiwharauroa looked around and saw his family.

"Kao, Tanehokahoka, for I am busy at the moment building my nest."

All was quiet, and not a bird spoke. And great was the sadness in the heart of Tanehokahoka, for he knew, that if one of his children did not come down from the forest roof, not only would his brother loose his children, but the birds would have no home.

Tanehokahoka turned to Kiwi.

"E kiwi, will you come down from the forest roof?"

Kiwi looked up at the trees and saw the sun filtering through the leaves. Kiwi looked around and saw his family. Kiwi looked at the cold damp earth. Looking around once more, he turned to Tanehokahoka and said,

"I will."

Great was the joy in the hearts of Tanehokahoka and Tanemahuta, for this little bird was giving them hope. But Tanemahuta felt that he should warn kiwi of what would happen.

"E kiwi, do you realise that if you do this, you will have to grow thick, strong legs so that you can rip apart the logs on the ground and you will loose your beautiful coloured feathers and wings so that you will never be able to return to the forest roof. You will never see the light on day again."

All was quiet, and not a bird spoke. "E kiwi, will you come down from the forest roof?" Kiwi took one last look at the sun filtering through the trees and said a silent goodbye. Kiwi took one last look at the other birds, their wings and their coloured feathers and said a silent goodbye. Looking around once more, he turned to Tanehokahoka and said, "I will." Then Tanehokahoka turned to the other birds and said, "E Tui, because you were too scared to come down from the forest roof, from now on you will wear the two white feathers at your throat as the mark of a coward. Pukeko, because you did not want to get your feet wet, you will live forever in the swamp. Pipiwharauroa, because you were too busy building your nest, from now on you will never build another nest again, but lay your eggs in other birds nests. But you kiwi, because of your great sacrifice, you will become the most well known and most loved bird of them all." Here's our video link: CLICK ME

Kahikatea Team Camp 2017

Raft Building

The raft rocked from side to side. My mind raced we needed to think of a way to stay on the raft before it engulfed us into the freezing water! Our legs were rapidly getting swallowed deeper and deeper into the water. The raft rambunctiously flipped us off the raft, leaving us in the icy water!

Before all of the drama: Time ticked, we needed to get this raft finished! Tighten the loose knots! Or else the barrels wrapped in the rope would come undone and they would separate and go their own ways! Time was up, the raft looked sturdy and tight... Was it enough?

Anxiously placing the raft into the water, it floated, that was definitely a relief to all of us! One by one, our group piled onto the raft. It wobbled to and fro. What will happen next? (The answer is at the top.)


Here's a photo of our talent show group:

The Pig is Addison, on the left me (Libby), in the middle is Lexi, and on the right is Hannah.

I couldn't manage to find a photo of group four on the raft, but I hope you like this photo of our talent show group!

Lacrosse with Team Energize

Enthusiastically scuttling to the side field, I was ready for some fun! Claire, our team energizer was there, but with someone else? We couldn't remember his name but room 9 just called him Jeff.

Everyone had to have a buddy, I chose to go with Dareeya. Daintily looking around waiting for instructions, I wonder what those big sticks are... The first instruction was for one person to grab the big stick, and the other grab a tennis ball.

Claire and 'Jeff ' show us a very precise demonstration of what we need to do. Dareeya carefully aimed the ball toward my stick, and rolls right in, yipee! Now for a more advanced one: the person with the ball does an underarm throw while the person with the stick tries to get the ball into their stick.

Jeff and Claire thought we were so good we could have a game of lacrosse with defined rules. Sadly, I didn't manage to get hold of the ball. Although, it was VERY fun! I reckon this was one of my favourite lessons we ever got from Team Energize.

Choices for Life Production

Kahikatea team produced an amazing production this year called ‘Choices for Life’. We had to audition for a part in the play, but if we didn’t get the role we wanted we still got a speaking part in the production. My role was to be a talking tree! We didn’t come on until quite close to the end of the production but, it was worth it!

When I was learning my lines Mrs Strathern made us perfect at saying them. There was a continuing monotony of Mrs Strathern saying “Use EXPRESSION!” So of course we had to use EXPRESSION. I also learnt that if we got cut off or we forgot to say our lines, the audience could’ve missed a vital part of the play.

During the first few performances it was like butterflies were flipping my stomach! At least I didn’t have lots of lines! Our final production was sad because all the fun performing time was over for the year. :(

My favourite part about the production was seeing everyone in their AMAZING costumes people put time and effort into. The other thing that I loved was the exTREEmely cool tree jokes the three adventurers did!

Moving to Pirongia

Moving to Pirongia    

By Libby

Stressfully packing my last little toys into the box, the moving truck is ONLY minutes away! Breathing a relaxed sigh of relief, I wave a goodbye to the moving truck leisurely driving into the hazy sunset on the horizon. My eyes flutter open, realizing it is the day I get to see our new home! Triumphantly plopping down onto my seat, we set off onto our journey to the ‘new house’! I knew it would be a great day…           

Frantically searching through the boxes for something precious and valuable, my mind races wondering where it is in this lost sea of boxes! Every nook and cranny investigated but not a single sign of my great grandmother’s China doll! Racing with a roar, as he dashed into my room was Lewis with something dear and close to my heart… It is my great grandmother’s antique China doll! A big bear hug to thank him was given. (I knew he didn’t like it! )

Staring gleefully through the transparent window, I tightly clutched the rundown China doll. I knew I could call this place home.

The Goose

                                                          The Goose By Libby

It screamed at the little girl. Looking it cautiously in the eye, his yellow eyes glared at me, giving me the warning to run. He looked malicious and ready to fight. I had to run…

Squabbling at me, he took one graceful step towards me. Staring forlornly at me, my brother stood there in a gaze - not doing anything at all! The creature made a deafening squeal, piercing my eardrums with the hideous noise.

His steps looked careful, edging closer to me. His pace had picked up, now he was a speeding train - or a bullet aiming for its target… and that target was me!

Sneakily creeping toward me, my toes tingle as the thought of the animal biting my innocent little toes horrifies me! Crunch!  Slimy saliva covers my toe, slowly realizing the pesky goose had taken a nibble out of my toe! I try to wiggle my toe - it wouldn’t budge…

I did this writing with the help of Mrs Strathern’s great feed-forward and feed-back to help lift the level of my words and gems.

                                  

Libby's Leaning Conference Term 3 2017

I walked gleefully into the classroom.  Five chairs sat neatly, waiting for somebody to sit on them. Plopping slowly onto the chair, as I patiently wait for Mrs Strathern put my slideshow on the screen. I read aloud my slideshow while having a conversation with the slide. Time ticked quickly, all went well... Until the bell rang and I hadn't finished showing mum around the room! Oh well, I had already showed her enough.

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