Kaiapohia Pa

Hi there, today I will be blogging about the siege of Kaiapohia Pa.

When did Maori establish Kaiapohia Pa?They established it in 1700 and was also built in the 1700 by Turakahutahi of the remaining Waitahstronghold. Like the Huriawa and Mapoutahi, was said to be built on a peninsula of the landaccessed by the narrow neck. On all other sides it was surrounded by the lagoon and the swamp. 

Who was involved in the siege?Te Rauparaha was involved in the siege. In 1831 the Kaiapoi pa was attacked byTe Rauparaha and his northern flowers. Many people were killed as they all fled from the pasite through the surrounding swamplands. This attack was at the beginning of a dark time forNgai tahu with the loss of many people in a number of the further bloody battles.

Who was Te Rauparaha? Te Rauparaha was a Maori rangatira known as chief and a war leader of the Ngati toa tribe who took a leading part in the Musket of wars. He was the influential of the original sale of land to the New Zealand company, and was a participant in Wairau Affray in Marlborough.

What was Te Rauparaha feared from? Te Rauparaha soon became alarmed at the flood of the British settlers and refuse to sell any more of his land. This quickly led to a tension and the upshot was the Wairau Affray when a party from Nelson tried to arrest Te Rauparaha, and 22 of them were killed when they got fired upon Te Rauparaha and his people out of fear.

Where was Te Rauparaha from?

He was from Kawhia Harbour.

What is pa?

Pa means a village or defensive settlement, but often refers to the hillforts.

                                                            

Athletics 2021

 Hi everyone today I will be talking about what we did in P.E and Athletics day as well.

Term 1 Athletics Blog post

Athletics even that I have learnt this term.

I have learnt how to do High jump so that next time when I do High jump I will know what to do so that I can make the jump next time. I have also learnt how to do shot put by following the steps so that I can throw the ball quite far, and I just need to practice more of throwing the ball much more far so I can get a higher score. I learnt how to throw a discus by making my hand quite flat on the discus so that I can throw it on the direction I want it to be, I also learnt how to swing the discus quite far by just swinging the discus quite more before throwing. I learnt how to be a little bit more faster on the 100m sprint by just focusing the lane and pushing myself a little more to be quite faster. I also did long jump and I learned how to jump quite high that I made it quite far on the sand pit, I just need to run a little bit more faster so that I can jump a lot more far on the sand pit. The last thing we did was the relay we practiced our running skills and we were holding a metal thing and we will try to past it to our partner so that we can win, I need a little more practice on my running skills so that I can run much more faster. 

List one technique helpful for each event.

To focus more on what you are on so that when you run it will be much more easier for you to jump and you can make it, but you just need to also follow the steps of what the person is showing you so you can be a little bit more confident on jumping. 

Practice running so that you can be a little bit more faster then there is a chance for you to be a little bit more faster because of the practice that you have been doing.

When you are holding the ball and the discus make sure that you are aiming it where you want it to be so that no one can get hit and you just need to lean back a little bit more so that you can push quite more harder and you can throw a lot far.

List your results for these events in PE or on athletics day.

Long jump: 3.1m

High Jump: 1m

Discus: 7.63

Shot put: 3.55

100m sprint: 23sec

Did you bring your P.E gear each session?

I brought my P.E each session because It's easier to do the sports that we are doing, and it was important to bring our P.E gear so that your uniform wouldn't get dirty.

Did you participate each week?

I participated in each week because I wanted to see how I will go in the sports that I'm doing. I also wanted to try the sport because it looked quite fun so that next time I will know what to do if we are doing that sport again.

What did I enjoy about the school athletics day.

I enjoyed watching the people do different types of sport. I also enjoyed doing the High jump even do I failed and I also enjoyed watching the relay because it was really fun to watch.

 

Athletics day

 Hi everyone today I will be telling you what happened in Athletics day and what did I do.

We had to wear the color of our Kahui and the Kahui colors are Mohua-Yellow, Riroriro-Blue and Tieke is Red. Each of us has to do a sport atleast so that we can earn house points for our Kahui. I am in Mohua which means I have to wear the color yellow so that its easy for them to know which Kahui am I in. When it was after morning tea we have to meet at the basketball court but only the Mohua people have to meet there and the rest of the other Kahui's have to go somewhere else. 

We started to say our lines about mohua and it was (Mohua who are we? = MOHUA, We can't hear you, who are we? = MOHUA tahi rua toru fa we are the warriors of Mohua = TAHI RUA TORU WHA WE ARE THE WARRIORS OF MOHUA) and after that the year 7/8's went together at the gym and the year 9's went at the front of Riroriro. We started to do sport and the first thing we did was High jump, second was Discus and third was 60m run. I only did the High jump because my leg started to get hurt after, so what I did the whole day is walk around and watch.

The competitive people had to go early because they chose competitive and they have to do ever sport that it says on their timetable. Some of them also did the Relay at almost end of the school. There were a lot of sports there and there were quite a lot of food also. We have breaks after about an hour doing sports and after we finish all of the sports we can wonder around and watch people but we can't go to the part where the people are running at later on.

The social people did theirs somewhere at 11 and we only did like 3-4 sports and after that we were aloud to go and have a break and we can just wonder around after as well. Each of us had to do a sport atleast so we can get a house point for our Kahui.

The relay was about to start and we all have to sit in our Kahui and we have to get of the track where people are doing the relay which is the people who is running. After that when everyone is set up the people who are racing started and everyone was cheering for their Kahui and the winner was Riroriro!!

9 Esol

 Today I will be talking about the 321 RIQ strategy of reflection. This is all about what we remember and some other more things that I will be talking about here.

3 Recalls of what I remember about the lesson.

- The first thing that I remembered was a game that was all about knowing each other and repeating what the person said after you have said your line. To play the game you have to think of an adjective word that starts at the first letter of your name, after you think of and adjective word that starts with the first letter of your name. You say it in a sentence, when you are close to the end of your sentence say what you like at the end but it has to start with the first letter of your name. Then after that you have to repeat what the person said when you said your sentence and so on. The game is called a name game.

- The second thing that I remembered was about writing why the blogging is good or why blogging is not good.We had to write about 200 words or more if you'd like explaining why blogging is good or why blogging is bad. We also wrote about why writing is good for you in quite a long paragraph explaining why it's good.

Now I don't really remember the third thing that we did because I forgot it already.

2 new things I learnt about this lesson

I learnt about how to write properly and getting quite better at it little by little. I also learnt about why blogging is good for you most of the times because it's quite important for you in school

1. For now I have nothing to question about yet.

The year 9 Esol is going good so far and I'm looking forward of what is gonna happen next, and the reflection of 9 Esol is going quite good.

Cheetahs

 Hello everyone today I will be telling you what topic I did for writing. The topic that I chose was about Cheetahs, I will be showing you my writing about Cheetahs and hopefully you learnt something good from it.

Did you know that cheetahs are the fastest land animal in the world?

Cheetahs can run up to 96.5 kilometres per hour, they are built to run faster than

a human. What are cheetahs?Cheetahs are one of the strongest cat members in the

Felidae family. Although Cheetahs are much bigger than a regular cat, they are

indeed one of the fastest members that exist in the Felidae family. Cheetahs are

faster and stronger than a regular cat. Cheetahs can run up to 96.5 kilometre per

hour, while a regular cat can run up to 48 kilometres per hour. Cheetahs are

mammals, they are also a carnivorous animal and also a predator.

What is their habitat? What do they do in their spare time? What is their diet?Well Cheetahs live in an open grassland area. They mostly are open in an emptygrassland that is quite near to animals that they will hunt and eat. Cheetahs musteat the meat quickly before leopards, lions, baboons,  jackals, vultures, or hyenaschase them  away to eat what cheetahs are eating. So Cheetahs have only onechance to eat their meal because of those  animals that will be chasing them awayjust to steal what the cheetahs are eating. Cheetahs spend 12 percent of theirtime  just moving quite a lot, when they raise themselves up to go find food, thedistance they covered positively correspondent to the size of their prey thatthey tracked down.

What are Cheetahs scared of? What makes their skin really useful for them?

Cheetahs are scared of most animals that are larger than them,  or any differentanimals that aren’t running away from the Cheetahs. What I almost hear every

time about Cheetahs skin is that it helps them camouflage in the long grass while

they are gonna attack their prey, and it helps them have more time to get closer

to their prey and attack them. But they have to run first for their prey IF the

prey sees the Cheetah is gonna attack them. There is a chance for their prey to

be a little bit faster than the Cheetah, once the Cheetah gets faster their prey

will become a little bit faster. 

I hope you learnt quite a lot about the Cheetahs. There are still so many things

to learn about Cheetahs, hopefully you learned some Cheetah facts here and

about them.  Learning Cheetahs is really interesting and fun to learn, so try

and know about them because it is really fun to learn about them :)!

Please tell me on what should I add and what can I change! But overall I hope you learnt something about cheetahs!

About Margaret Mahy Playground

 Hi people today I will be showing you about Margaret Mahy. Its the activity I chose from the EOTC slide.

Here it is:

Please tell me what to add so I can change and add. :>!  

Jellie Park

 Hey People today I will show you what activities I did from the EOTC slide.

The first thing that I did was the 8 tips of the Jellie park rules. 

if you have anything to say of what I can add please tell so I can see whats my mistake.