Malo Lelei,

On Friday 5th April we celebrated Gumboot Friday, Gumboot Friday is a day when all
New Zealanders wear gumboots to support Mental Health. Mental Health means to take
care of yourself especially if you just lost somebody special to you or you are very ill then it
would be very unhealthy for you if you just continue to be depressed and especially if you take
it out on other people. Waikowhai Primary supported Mental Health by writing uplifting,

kind and thoughtful quotes onto a piece of paper. Our Teachers and some Students also
brought their Gumboots along to school.

After we wrote some  positive quotes on the piece of paper we showed the teacher and then

they would give us another piece of paper to write more quotes on. So after we finished writing
our 2nd card we would end up with

two pieces of papers full of positive notes.

This also relates with our School theme which is Hauora, which means Well being.
On Tuesday the 9th of April we collected our cards and we got into 8 groups one adult and
8-10 children.Then we travelled out two different streets and then placed the pieces of papers
into the letter boxes that way when the owners of the letter box,
reads it they will feel very joyful and hopefully feel very good about themselves.
if you receive one of these notes then when you're finished with it please don't throw it away.
Share our love and post it into someone else's letterbox because you know how it feels to
receive a letter like that so if you spread that around to other people it will bring joyfulness
to the world. Here is the card that I wrote along with other different photos:

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SWOOSH Soccer Zones

Football Zones

Malo Lelei students, parents, caregivers and teachers,
Today's blog is going to be about Waikowhai Primary School’s Soccer Zones at
Eden Park Stadium.

Our Waikowhai Primary School students were transported with the
Teachers & Parents vehicles.

The first few seconds I had on the field, I felt a little nervous because it was my
first time actually playing against another school for football. While I was playing,
I got a lot more used to it, then I started to enjoy it is really fun and I would want
to do it again.

We tied one game and we won all the other 6 games. The boys team had
one every game they had. At the end we got pink wristbands that said

#Get in to girls and women's football.

We grabbed our bags and walked back to the vehicles then we drove back to
school then got ready for home time.

Have you guys had your Football Zones?

What is your favourite Zones?

Here are some photos of the day:

Waikowhai Assembly for Christchurch

We are here for you Christchurch!

Most of you heard about what happened in

Christchurch, it is very sad news.

Everybody across the world is trying their best to help. At Waikowhai Primary School we are looking at ways we can help. On Monday 18th March we had a Special Assembly in our School Hall, talking about what happened down in Christchurch.

We have recently been visiting the Give a Little Page,

It’s basically a site where people give donations to a company to help events that have been happening across the world. This page has raised $8,851,539.40 just for Christchurch. Here is the link for the website:

https://givealittle.co.nz/

They also fund raise for other effects that have happened.

Our entire school practised a pretend lock down, if you don't know what a lock

down is, for our school we know when it is a time for lock down because our school bell rings twice, the whole class including the teacher get low in a hidden area, hiding from gunman or a person threatening the school.

It is also good to lock windows and doors and if you can shut all blinds/covers.

Just like what Christchurch schools had to do for 4 hours.

Hopefully your school can do the same because when one person is hurt,

everyone is hurt because we are one, if we fight as one, we win as one.

Tena Koutou, Tena Koutou, Tena Koutou Katoa.

Kia Ora students, teachers, parents and caregivers.

Today, I hope you will learn some facts about me.

I am going to share my Getting To Know You form with you.
Basically, it is just a form that has information about myself.
Everyone in my school including the teachers fill out this form at
the start of the Year.

Here is a Picture of my form:

On this form, it is talking about my Family Background,
Things I Like, My Friends, Things I am good at,
What do I want people to know about me, What is important to me
and my family and Things I do not like.

Thank you for reading this blog post

See you next time, bye!

Summer Learning Journey Activity 1

For my learning today we have been starting the Summer Learning Journey Activities. My first challenge is to go on this website
 https://www.newzealand.com/int/article/fun-facts-about-newzealand/
and then find 3 fun facts, here are my 3 facts

1.  Gisborne is the first city in the world to see the sunrise because it is 496.3 kilometers away from the International Date Line.

2. To become a New Zealand citizen, you must swear an oath of loyalty to Queen Elizabeth.


3.

TRI STAR GYMNASTICS!!!

Gymnastics

Kia Ora Students, Teachers and Parents,

During our trip down to Tri Star I was wearing sport shoes, that was fine, but the distance we had to walk was TIRING.
My legs hurt and I was just super.
When we got to Gymnastics we had a 5 minute break to play on the playground but I was so tired  couldn't even play so I just sat down. Then the Teachers called us in but then we sat down again agents the wall. 

This Blog you are starting to read is about my experience during Gymnastics at Tri star Gym. When I first heard that we are walking down to the Tri Star Gym I freaked out because I know most of the equipment there that are quite hard and I am not a Gymnastics type if person so I tried to stay calm but when I walked through the doors of The Gym I FROZE!!!!

Inside there were Beams, Bars, Trampolines, Bouncy Floor for floor routines (don't know what it is called), 2 skinny bars to crawl across and a Ball Pit with a Diving Board in other words a Plank. My favourite Activity out of all of those was the BARS.
My less Favourite was the 2 skinny bars to crawl across because when I was crawling I felt very uncomfortable and it was quite high.

When we finished everyone raced out the door to the drinking fountain, 
when I finished my turn drinking then I went to go sit down agents the wall again but then got up again to get another drink.
Then we walked down to Waikowhai Primary
School.

Here are some photos:

SUMMER LEARNING JOURNEY!!!

Summer Learning Journey

#Day 1

Archive Activity: Australia

I chose Australia because Australia has lots of different Interesting Animals and I love Animals which means they must have a humongous Australia Zoo and I also really like Journeys and adventures. 

Here are 3 facts I found on google: 

Australia is a continent surrounded by the Indian and Pacific Oceans, 

The most Important cities of Australia is Canberra the capital city, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide 

and last fact is Australia is known for it's Sydney Opera House, The Greart Barrier Reef.