Rugby

 Kia Ora this week we learnt how the game of rugby was born.

Rugby was born in 1823 and came to NZ in 1870. Rugby was created by William Webb Ellis. William was playing football at Rugby school in England,  and he picked up the ball and ran with it. No one had ever done that before and the game of Rugby was born! In 1870  Nelson born Charles Monroe introduced  rugby to NZ. After he went to a football club and told them to try rugby and they did and loved it then changed there name to NZRFU New Zealand rugby football union and had a team of rugby players and a team of football players.

I learnt about the teams that were there before the All Blacks there were the NZ Natives they were called the NZ Natives because most of the team was Maori and NZ's native people are Maori.

After I learnt about the All Blacks history I was really proud of my self because I could tell other people about NZ's rugby.

Spark Arena 😁

 On May 17th 2021 the year 6's went to Spark Arena for a art exhibition.   

 When we got to spark arena we had to go into a room that had a stage and a music lab and drums and a whole lot of music stuff. There were people to tell us where we will be going. The room we have to go first was called"The Happy Place" First we went to the ball pit and there was this really deep hole and there were a mountain of balls in it and we had to jump into it I did a front flip into it. Next we went to a yellow bath with a yellow background and yellow shelves full with rubber ducks.

When  we left the happy place we went to"Sounds Fun" room and that is the room that we first walked into when we arrived. I went to the piano first but it wasn't like a real piano but it was a iPad with and piano app on it and it was like a mini piano , then I went to the drums the  drums were like the piano when I was finished with the drum game I gave it to someone else and  carried on and went to the trumpets. The person working there gave me a huge trumpet and a mouth piece and he said just spit in to it. I made a huge sound that the kids  with headphones could hear me. Then I took it of because it was to loud. After that  I went to the music keyboard and you could sing and rest of the kids could make the beat.  I sang pepa pig and baby shark songs . Then we went to the art room.

The art room was all Van Gogh's panting. We went through this place with such big screens, they were bigger then a movie screen.  There were about eight of them then there was one screen that was talking about his life.  They had flower paintings and Japaneses paintings. After they took us through a room with just flowers. They took us outside and gave us a lunch pack with a sandwich an apple and some fruit juice.

 It was a really fun day and I am so grateful that we were allowed to go the spark Arena for free and it was an amazing experience.

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STEM week Waikowhai Student led toolkits

 Kia Ora Bloggers on Friday the 11th of June Waikowhai Primary had their very first Student led Toolkits.

The first toolkit I went to was my own one we did Google Maps. On Google Maps you can look and lots of planets and some plants that are not even in our solar system you can look at transport and how long I will take to get to a place and how much it will cost and you can even look inside the ISS International Space Station and you will find astronaut suits.

The second toolkit I went to was my own and toolkit and we did the same thing with a different group of people.

The third toolkit I went to was Incredibox with Incredibox you can make really cool beats and songs I made quiet a few beats and I liked them a lot.

I really liked Friday and I am so happy that we are allowed to do these things and this week was all about STEM. Stem is science technology engineering and mathematics