Production Diary 2014

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WALT: record and share our thoughts. Text type: Diary or Journal

Success Criteria	Self assessment	Buddy Assessment	Teacher Assessment
Introduce yourself and your role “Dear Diary...”
Honest thoughts and feelings at the time
Likes and dislikes
Expression / Personality (sounds like you)
Date plus optional title for each entry
Actions from practice and performance

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25.8.14

Dear Diary, let me introduce myself. My name is Kiana Pohe and my role in the production is a poi girl and a singer.   So far I think my voice is loud but I need to work a bit with the poi to get in time with the other girls. I am kind of sick of that strobe light it makes my eyes glitch and I get abit of a headache.

26.8.14

Dear Dairy.

The second day of production and it was dress rehearsal! I was a bit late because I had a doctors appointment. Practice was in room three, I thought when we practiced today it was a lot better especially when we were in time with Poi E.

The strobe light went on well I was performing. I think I looked a bit silly covering my eyes. It doesn't just affects me I think it affects others as well. Over all today I thought it was pretty awesome getting the opportunity to dress up in all our costumes.  

27.8.14

Dear Diary

Today was the day of the performance to the school. It was my first time getting a moko on my chin. It stunk when Mrs Roil stuck it on, I learnt that you have to be quick to put the paint on all else you can’t put sparkly red glitter on it. After the big performance Miss Hill gave us an ice block because her and the other teachers were happy that we stepped up and did better today than yesterday.  

28.8.14

The big night was here, it was my first performance in front of an audience.

I was petrified. I have never sung in front of this many people before. As I was getting ready, my friend’s and other classmates gave me a nice compliment. That made me happy and excited before going on stage. It was my time to shine. As I was walking behind the dark black curtain I could see the light shining and the crowd laughing. My heart was beating more and more faster. As we were singing Aotearoa my nerves went away and then my dress popped  undone!  Oh blasted I said to myself, now what am I going to do. I had a plan. My plan was to put all my weight into it so it didn’t go down and the crowd didn’t see my undies! After finishing, a lovely parent offered to do my dress up. Luckily she had more pins to put on my dress. That was my first night of production.

29.8.14

Dear Diary

I think Bella is so good at Mauis Wife. She has expression and she even has a bit of attitude in her line. Now where was I, oh that's right how it felt sing and walking on stage. Well walking on stage is nerve wracking the light’s are shining red bright in your eyes and the crowd is staring at you. When the music comes on I have a great time. I laugh I even do a bit of a pukana when I feel like doing one. I thought it was awesome. My production group keeps improving every night. Oh there was one thing, the boys on the curtain they closed it well we were still performing. That was quite embarrassing.

30.8.14

Dear Diary

I had just spotted my family in crowd. Then, I did this big grin and my poi whacked me in the face, Ouch I mattered. Then I realized that my dress had popped undone, silly dress how times has it popped undone now. Wow Hugh is really good at Maui he has expression and his acting is great. I think this performance has been the best one yet.   

2.9.14

Dear Diary

Today is monday the last week of production. I thought I did quite well tonight. I kept my head still I smiled and some of my pukanas were awesome. It has been good, Mr Ford hasn't put that strobe light on that much tonight. The crowd was hard to get a laugh out of so Mr Cottrell is laughing and trying to get us to laugh but no one followed. After production my mum got me KFC for dinner, I love there chicken and there chips are so nice with their salt on it.  Bye Diary

3.9.14

Dear Diary

Another night of production. I am so tired, I just wish this production thing would finish, Seriously.

The movie we watched before the performance was scary and I like scary movies. As we all waited  in room 21 before going on stage, A girls dress popped un done. I was kind and did it back up. You know when you get that feeling and you just smile if you look at someone you know well, my friend Poppy who has a speaking part in the crowd keeps making my smile and laugh and that's a good thing.

4.9.14

Dear Diary

The lucky last night of production, I am excited. As I am walking on stage I saw Mr G with his video camera. I got a bit nervous but when the song came on I was fine. When we were singing Aotearoa the spotlight was on me and my friends it was quite cool getting a bit more light. I could see my mum in the crowd waving, I was embarrassed but she said she was only doing that to get me to smile and pukana more. After Mr G said a speech Hamish lead a big haka and everyone was joining in, the boys literally blew the roof of. I thought tonight was a massive night I know I definitely enjoyed myself. I think the teacher's have done a great job to set this up. I hope I get another opportunity next year to be in the production.

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Moving Schools. 

Do you ever get that feeling where huge butterflies fly around in your stomach and you feel a bit funny? Well today it was like that. I had moved from Henry Hill in Napier,to Parkvale in Hastings. I was getting nervous and even a bit speech less. My lips were going dry and I was getting shy. I don’t know why, because I’m normally quite confident when meeting someone new.

I met my new teacher, Mr Cottrell. I wonder what he thought of me. The bell had rung and two girls Tiana and Georgia came to introduce themselves. While my teacher was doing the register we all got into a circle for circle time. I found out all the kid’s name’s in my class and what they enjoy. It was Mr Cottrell’s turn to speak now. He is a tennis coach and his favorite subject teaching us is P.E and wants to teach us more of it.

It was my turn to introduce myself. I said that I enjoy athletics, netball and soccer and then I heard Mr Cottrell whisper “who’s your mum”. Yeah thats right my mum is Mrs Hardaker and she is a teacher at this school in room 19.

So now you know what butterflies feel like on my part of the story.

Motor Cross Champs

Motocross champs

Scenes word	Exciting words	Surroundings
I could feel my hands sweating	Adrenaline pumping	People Cheering
I could hear the birds tweeting	nerve wracking	Birds tweeting
I could taste The red bull still sitting in my throat	Gulp Gulp	Trees moving side to side
I could  see other competitors  in front of me	Exciting
	Persevering
	Petrified

I got to the start of the track, my adrenaline was pumping and I was ready to roll until this boy whispered,

“Sophie what are you doing? You're a girl, you can’t race us boys”.

As I Gulped I said to myself, maybe I can’t do this, he might be right.

The competition had just started and I could hear birds tweeting up in a tall tree.

I came to one of the steepest ramps in the competition.

Everyone I looked at was cheering, I knew they were relying on me.  

It was nerve wracking, I’ve never been down one of these ramps before, I was petrified.

As my engine accelerates I got my confidence back. I was ready to go 42km down this ramp.

Woah! I yelled throwing one hand in the air.

Now I’m in third place I better go catch up to these boys, I thought in my mind.

As I skid around a bendy corner, I can see a boy up a head.

Now is my chance I chant in my head.

I just past Mac, I have raced him a couple of times in some other Motor bike comps.
“ Hey I never knew you could beat me, you must of improved,” Mac Shouts.

Home strege is in site I need to finish first.

The judges called out “come on Soph speed up you can do this.”  

Thats right I can do this, I mumbled

I saw the other contestant in front of me  

Now is my chance, I press harder on the petal and fly past the boy in front of me. The finish line is right there, the judges are smiling and the crowd is cheering. The commentators are talking about the finish and how well I did. I have never been in this situation before where I’m excited and nervous about getting a gold medal.   

What a great felling!

 

 

The Beep Test

Today was the day of the beep test. A beep test is a fitness test where you run 20m and try to make it to line with out the beeper going of.  I thought I did well with a score of  2.6. I think my goal this year is to improve my fitness and go up 2 or more levels next term.

Yeah Kiana  you are going to nail this and get a better score, my friends chattered well we were walking to the court. The beep test had started and we were all in a line, in a line isn't Aniela and Rogan  meant to be in front. I had just beat my score that I                                                                                        got last time I was so pleased. After I got to                                                                                                 number 12.4 I was so tired I stopped. I think I                                                                                             determinant myself to do my best. Now my feet are                                                                                      killing me they are stinging so hard and I have a                                                                                            blood blister on my foot.

Silhouette art with Mrs Hind

Art with Mrs Hind 

For the first week of term 3 Mrs Hind came and taught us. Mrs Hind taught us many amazing thing's including silhouette art. You had to choose an animal that had a pattern and then color the pattern in then Mrs hind would print a black silhouette out and then we would stick it on our page.

Summary Of Royal Cup Song

 Sarah Stone

W.A.L.T: Summarise

• Short sharp
• In our own words
• Use a topic sentence
• Use Key words
• Use the main points

 

Today I watched one of my class mate Shakayla, perform a cup song that she created by herself.

At first Sarah started to make mistakes. She couldn't get her head around the beat.I thought once she tried a couple of times she got it.  

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Negative numbers

Yesterday Georgia and I did negative numbers strategies. I hope you learn something.

IMG 0925 from Tipene Cottrell on Vimeo.

This is a song to remember the 7 stars of matariki

My mum has taught me a song that helps you learn the 7 stars of matariki. ( But tepa tiki is not a star it means in maori to enjoy and have fun)



Matariki song to remember starts from Tipene Cottrell on Vimeo.

My water cycle writing

                 How the water cycle works

Have you ever wondered how the water cycle works? Well the water cycle has a very important job it repeats it’s pattern continuously and uses evaporation, condensation and transpiration. Water is vital to the earth. If we didn't have water we wouldn't be alive.

                                                                                         

Evaporation: When the sun heats up the water it turns it into mist and then evaporates into the air. When the water droplets reach a certain part of the sky it forms a cloud.    

Condensation: This is all the water that is evaporated from the sun to form a cloud but when the cloud gets too heavy it rain’s sometimes it can cause floods in the oceans, rivers and lakes and when the rain lands on mountains the snow start to slide this is called surface runoff    

Transpiration: Transpiration is just like evaporation but it works with leaves, the water comes out of the leaves from the plant or tree and evaporates into the air and makes a cloud.

So maybe you and your friends can help by planting more greenery in the world and being a good participant to the earth.

My bread recipe

My Bread recipe

Do you know how to make bread? Continue to read and you can learn how. There are many ways to make bread but today I am going to show you how I was taught. The task was to cook a meal with your whanau. Make a presentation about it and bring some for Mr Cottrell.

First: Wash your hands thoroughly.

Next step your ingredients: 2 teaspoons of yeast (if you don’t have yeast add 2 teaspoons of baking powder), 4 cups of flour (add a bit more if wanted), a half  a cup of warmish water (add more if needed) and  1 teaspoon of salt.

Method:  1.Put the yeast in a container and add warm water to it do not add hot or cold water because it will kill the yeast. Next put the yeast up somewhere where the sun can reach it. After that leave it for 10 to 15 minutes and the yeast will start to rise. When you see that your yeast has rose halfway tip it into your bowl.

2. Tip 4 cups of flour into a bowl and mix the yeast and flour together.

3. Once the flour is stiff add 1 cup of water and start mixing the flour and water together then normally I tip a quarter of flour into the bowl and add the water that is left.

4. Mix until all lumps are not seen in your mixture.

5. Preheat your  oven to 375.

6. Once your mixture stiff enough and not gooey tip it out on a chopping board (and a tip put some flour on the chopping board before you tip your mixture).   

7. Now that your mixture is on the chopping board start kneading. If you don't know how to knead I’m hear to help. Firstly you put the palm of your hand on the bread and flip it over, then your other hand flips the other side over and that pattern will keep going continuously for 8 minutes.

8. Spray your cooking tray will cooking spray but if you don’t have cooking spray just use butter.

9. Now it is time to put the bread in your tray.

10. But your bread is not ready to go in the oven yet.  You have to put it somewhere warm like the fire where it can rise for 45 minutes.  

11. Now its time for your bread to go in the oven. Set your timer for 30 minutes and turn the oven

light on to so you can see it cook and rise even more.

12. Once that is done you have lovely bread to munch on.  

Waka trip

Today room 7 had an awesome exprience to get out of school and learn about the Taki timu waka at the Ngaruroro river (Clive river).This was an amazing opportunity for working as a team. I learnt new things about the waka Taki timu and how they used it in the past and some of my ancestors. I enjoyed going under the bridge because when the gentlemen that owns the waka Jim yelled the maori chants out it was very loud.