Fun Writing Idea!

We had the first performance of our show Colour My World today and we had a fabulous time!  Because we were all a bit tired, Mrs Wood thought it would be fun if we tried a fun activity for writing.  We went to a website called Piclits and chose some photos to add captions to them.  These are some of our better captions.  Click on the pictures to make them bigger so you can see the writing.

Pacific Island Drumming Lessons

Untitled from Robyn Wood on Vimeo.

Strike Percussion Group Visits St Clair

Strike Percussion on PhotoPeach

More Kapa Haka Photos

Kapa Haka 2011 on PhotoPeach

Why the Pukeko is Blue - by Oliver

One day Pukeko was admiring the bright blue sky thinking about how nice it would be to be blue and not orange, when the ground started to rumble and split in two.  Then smoke drifted out of the hole.  A few seconds later a rocket emerged from the hole in the earth and a door opened slowly.  An alien stepped out and said, “are ya’ coming or what?”  Pukeko spluttered back, “where are you taking me?”  “Ah, well, to outer space,’ he said finally.  “So why do I need to come?”  “To turn blue,” said the alien.

So the Pukeko stumbled into the rocket.  The alien fumbled around with some buttons and “three, two, one… lift off!” boomed a deep voice.  Whoof went the engines, roar went the boosters and zing, they were off!  They zipped past comets, shooting stars and planets.  The pukeko hadn’t noticed what the alien was doing behind his back.  When he turned around, “wow,” he exclaimed for he had a jetpack on his back.  “Stand over there,” said the alien, so he did… then the floor fell open and pukeko dropped into orbit.  Pukeko circled around for a few hours then he started to change blue.  “Wow,” shouted pukeko.  If he got too close to the sun he went red.  He went red on the beak, legs and feet.  Then pukeko hit the sun with his tail and blasted back to Earth.  When he broke through Earth’s atmosphere, his tail cooled off then went out.  Falling, falling the world was spinning and finally he landed with a thud.  Everything stopped spinning.  When he looked at his tail it was burnt white and that’s how pukeko turned blue.

Why Dogs Chase Cats - By Kayla

WHY DOGS CHASE CATS

One day there was a dog and cat.  They were at the pool.  Dog was in the pool and cat was lying in the sun.  Their names were called Pup and Puss.  One day dog said, “get in, it’s great!”  But cat said, “no!  I do not like water!”  So he lay back down.  Cat did not know that dog was getting out of the pool.  Dog picked her up and threw her in the pool.  Dog started laughing and laughing until cat came out grumpily.  Then cat pushed dog into the water.  Then… dog got out and that’s why dogs chase cats!

Why Pukekos are Blue - by Kohen

Once upon a time there was a bird called Pukeko.  Pukeko was red but one day he turned a different colour.  Pukeko was disgusted with his swamp so he wanted to get out of his very, very stinky swamp so he ran as fast as he could out of his stinky swamp.  He looked and looked for a clean forest and eventually he found one.  Pukeko saw some bees and touched one of them.  They were so angry at Pukeko that they stung him until he squawked very loudly.  The bees buzzed away buzz, buzz back home.  Pukeko started to run back to his musty swamp.  While Pukeko was running, Pukeko ran into loads and loads of blueberries and turned blue.  When he returned to his swamp, nobody recognised him because he was a different colour thanks to the blueberries. 

By Kohen 

Why Seals Bark - By Victoria

A long time ago, Tesha the seal was all lonely in a shipwreck.  She wanted a friend because she was very lonely and wanted another seal to play with.  Then she saw a dog.  She really like the dog’s barking.  So she decided to eat the dog.  She ate the dog and every time she spoke she barked.  The dog like living inside the seals tummy and barking every time she spoke.  “I like talking because the dog barks when I speak,” said Tesha the seal.  Tesha really liked her new friend and why she is barking.  That’s why seals bark, because Tesha ate a dog because she liked the dog’s barking.

Why Monkeys Eat Bananas - By Ben

One day a monkey named Nick was looking for some food when he found a strawberry and took a bite.  He spat it out because it was so foul and the he kept on walking.  Next he found a plum and took a bite and it was tremendously yucky and so he kept on walking.  He was getting sleepy however, so he lay under a tree to rest.  But… a huge banana toppled out of the tree above him and donked him on the head!  He tried the banana for the first time and it was sensational.   Next he told the rest of the monkeys in the jungle and they all loved them too so that is why monkeys eat bananas. 

Colour Wheel Art - By Maddie

Room 9 has been making colour wheels.  In a colour wheel there are primary, secondary and tertiary colours.  We put an inner core on it.  An inner core is a shape inside it and you put complementary colours on it.  Complimentary colours are the opposite colours on a colour wheel e.g. yellow’s opposite is purple.  Blue’s opposite is orange.  Primary colours are yellow, blue and red.  Primary colours cannot be made.  Secondary colour are orange, purle and green.  The secondary colours ca be made e.g. yellow + red = orange, yellow + blue = green, blue + red = purple.  There are also tertiary colours in the colour wheels. 

I think colour wheels are fun.  Why don’t you give it a try?

Why Pukekos are Blue - by Isabel

A long time ago in a swamp, a pukeko was asleep.  In the morning Pukeko was just about frozen because it was so cold, so Pukeko decided to find a new home.  He went into the forest.  Suddenly he saw a painter painting the fence in the forest.  He took a step back and he stood on a stick.  “Crack,” said the stick.  The painter looked back at the Pukeko and he ran up to the Pukeko shouting, “shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo.”  The Pukeko ran and got away from the painter.  Pukeko was shaking.  He went over to the beach.  He fell into some water.   It had blue paint in it.  When he hopped out he was covered in blue paint.  Pukeko liked it.  He thought he was beautiful, as beautiful as a parrot but he was cold so he went back into the forest to find a home.  He flew to a tree that had a hole in it.  Pukeko loved it so he decided to live there.  One day when Pukeko set out to find some food, he noticed that all the birds were looking at him.  When Pukeko went home he saw a bird in his home.  It was a girl bird.  The bird woke up.  She was surprised to see a pukeko in her house  The birds were just about to start a fight then “stomp, stomp, stomp” a man was coming to cut the trees.  The man cut one, then two, then three trees, then he was going to cut the tree that Pukeko and the bird were in.  The Pukeko jumped out of the tree and the bird flew out of the tree.  The Pukeko and bird flew out of the forest.  The Pukeko was sad that he didn’t have a home so the bird and Pukeko walked and walked and walked and walked until they were in a different forest but it wasn’t a different forest it was the same one they were at before.  So they kept walking, then they stopped and took a step back and their eyes just about popped out since they were open so wide.  They they saw a beautiful forest and decided to go and live in there.  So they went into the forest to get a home.  When they went to the end of the forest, there standing right in front of them was a bird house, so the bird and pukeko decided to live there.  Some other birds and pukekos wanted to live there so the pukeko and bird said they could live there with them.

Why Pukekos are Blue - a Myth By Marcel

One day pukeko set off from his swamp. He was walking. A plane landed about five metres away from him. He said, “I will go there”, so he ran to the airport (he didn’t know what that was). He went inside. There was lots of colour. There was lot of boards and shops so he decided to blend in because he was white. He tried to get into a shop. He got inside. It was amazing. He hid under a soap tray then tried to eat some. “Bah! That’s disgusting,” he said, “I’ll try something else”. It was a supermarket, so he went to the apple stand. He tried a rosy red one. “That,” he said, “was amazing.” It was so yummy he took lots of them and snuck out. He hid in a back pack. It was dark in there. He said “who turned the lights off?” Someone heard him talking. “Is it me or is your bag talking?” The pukeko saw blue hairspray in there. He pushed the button. The blue hair spray wen on him except his tail and his feet that were still red. He hopped out of the back pack and looked in a mirror. He was so shocked he ran back to the swamp.. And that is why pukekos are blue!

Rugby World Cup Celebrations

Why Pukekos are Blue - a Myth By Katie

Long before now, Pukekos were black.  They waded through the swamp like specks of crest fallen shadows. 

Pukeko was once a gloomy black coloured bird and as you all know he is now an alluring sapphire blue bird.  He lived in the murky, stench-filled swamp with its polluted water making his day dull and lifeless.

Pukeko hated his home so much, he desperately wanted to leave, but then he would think, “where would I go?”  One day he just couldn’t wait any longer, so he set off West. 

He was still walking when he caught a glimpse of flaming red swooping in and out of the sky.  He ran forward, he couldn’t believe his eyes.   Pukeko began to feel jealous.  “Oh,” he moped, “if only I looked like that”.  He kept on ambling on and on until he reached sand.  He was now far out of the forest.  He gazed longingly at the swirling current.  The cerulean blue waves looked so phenomenal, maybe he would just take a bit of that colour he thought.  He sprinted happily down to the aqua blue waves lapping on the shore.  He then grabbed a feather and began to paint himself blue.  “Oh bother,” he muttered.  His arm stretched out behind out behind him but he could not reach his bottom.  He promenaded back to the forest proudly.  “Wow,” the birds sighed as pukeko paraded past, “aren’t his feathers beautiful?”  “Who is that?” other birds would say.  “Ah, who needs a better home when you’ve got beautiful feathers?” he muttered to himself as he padded back to the swamp. 

The Colour Wheel

Yesterday room 9 had to finish some art.  It was of a colour wheel.  A colour wheel is when you mix colours and you make dark blue or dark purple.  To make a colour wheel you need some primary colours.  They are red, blue and yellow.  We painted it and we chose a shape.  I chose a wiggly shape.  I also got to choose my background.  I chose pink paper.  We used vivd.  For the outside, we mixed a lot of colours.  We mixed yellow and red to make orange, and yellow and red to make green.  My favourite colour is pink and purple. 

By Mackenzie 

Maori Haka Stirs Powerful Emotions - By Wesley

KAPA HAKA

Last week on Wednesday, all the Kapa Haka kids went into the hall to have a final dress rehearsal for the real performance.  In the heall they tried their best.  As the girls were twirling and twirling the pois at the back, the boys sand loud and strong.  As they were finishing off the song all the boys stamped their way to the front to do the haka.  Tai was standing in front of all the boys.  Tai and all the strong boys stomped hard on the ground.  As the boys were stomping on the ground, Tai started the song, then all the boys slapped themselves like they’ve never done it before.  When the boys were singing  the song to the haka, most of the boys had red faces.  All the boys had a powerful emotion because of their strong moves.  At the end of the performance I was so proud of them that I had to clap like someone going mad. 

By Wesley

Colour Wheel Art

Kapa Haka Dress Rehearsal - By Victoria

KAPA HAKA DRESS REHEARSAL

As I sat down on the carpet to watch something in the hall, I was extremely excited to watch the dress rehearsal of the Kapa Haka.  I couldn’t stand it any more.  It started and I was so, so excited.  The girls were so pretty in their blue dresses.  The boys were really loud when they did the haka and I couldn’t really hear the girls singing.  They swapped places and I didn’t know what they were doing.  They got into their places and boys were in front and the girls were at the very back against the chairs.  The boys were screaming across the room.  I nearly had to put my hands over my ears.  Their moves were big and really strong. 

Stars on Stage - by Shanaye

I stepped outside and waited for the bus.  I was thinking about when the bus was going to be here.  I had make-up on that made my eyes itchy.  “Yay,” I said, “the bus is here.”  I slowly went on the bus.  I was shivering.  Okay I’m at the Regent Theatre.  “Oh no!  I can’t see my mum.  Oh there she is.  Now I’m on.  Yay”, I said.  Okay it is my turn.  I was embarrassed.  Time for the other group to come on.  Now everybody comes on.  Done.  “Mum!  Mum!” I said.  “Oh,” mum said.  There you are.  Then we went home.

Kapa Haka Performance

Kapa Haka - Polyfest Dunedin 2011 on PhotoPeach

Kapa Haka by Kayla

Going to the hall, I do not know what is going on.  I saw people in costumes, now I know it’s… Kapa Haka.  I started to smile.  I saw the dance and I thought that I should have done Kapa Haka too.  I got out of that moment of thinking about being in Kapa Haka.  When Kapa Haka was done I was proud.  Then walking out, I remembered back to last year and when I was doing it.  Then I said to myself, “I’ll do it next year.”  I now know that Kapa Haka is so much fun to people that are in it, and by their faces that they were very, very happy with what they did.  I think they did too because I loved what they did. 

Kapa Haka by Mackenzie

Last Friday was Kapa Haka, the real performance.  I was so excited when I walked on stage.  I saw heaps of people.  I saw my Mum and Dad.  I started to sing and dance.  A shiver crept up my spine.  I felt so nervous I nearly fell off the stage.  I swung my poi up and down.  I got hit in the head.