Eva's Kapa Haka Learning Story

Are you aware of how hard we have to practice Kapa Haka every Thursday? This story talks about how hard we have to practice.

Our rules are we always have to show discipline a.k.a respect while listening to the tutors or the teachers and also showing respect with the way we speak and posture ourselves. I am good at managing myself because when Matua Todd and Whaea Clare are talking, I listen and use my taringas.

During the past few weeks we have been learning songs  for e.g i ehoa, hareruia and papaki titaha. While we sing, we have to sing strong and proud.  When doing Kapa Haka, I use the K.C skill of participating and contributing because I never give up and I always try my best.

Being in Kapa Haka has made me feel like this has been the greatest opportunity I’ve taken and also it has been such an amazing experience for me. I think I need to work on managing self and at the same time I’m good at it but sometimes I get distracted by the conversations and instead of getting distracted, I should just avoid my friends.

Reading Learning Story (AKA) Book Report

My book is called body and soul.

Its purpose is to entertain me and hook the reader in.

I located information so I found out that there is a boy his dad goes to work at 6.00 in the morning, his mum is sick because she worked at a place that experimented on people. So the boy has to go and get all the food while his mum is sick.

The reason I choose this book is because I read the back of this book and it sounded really interesting and freaky and that really hooked me in, it made me feel like I was there, it also made me feel a little bit scared.

Eva's Art Learning Story

\We were learning to communicate our ideas effectively through our cubist art.

The first thing I had to do was find a good place to help me focus on my work. I had to take a risk and try my best and just go with what was happening  with my art. I had to try not to worry if it didn’t look the same as the cubism art that I had to copy.

I had to try and add my own style to my cubism art by changing the colours of my cubism art. I did that by making it not the same colour as the original piece of cubism art.

When I choose the piece of cubism art that I wanted I had to use light lines to make it more easy to draw the bold lines.

Then we got told to make the lines more bold to make the cubism art stand out more, we also had to shade in some parts that we wanted to be dark and some places we wanted to be light.

Then we had to choose some nice contrasting colours so that it would look nice with the cubism art that we were doing. When we got all of it finished it looked really good. I liked how we got through the whole thing and it turned out really well, also I think I was good at using bold lines and contrasting colours.  

My next steps are:

• Including my own style
• Stop worrying if it doesn’t look the same.

Eva's Key Competency Expert Profile (My Reflection)

My reflection

My key competency strength is in: Asking for help, aiming for gold and laughing and enjoying things. because I am good at: Asking for help when I get stuck or don’t get what the problem is about.     I always try to aim for gold with whatever task I am doing. I always look for the bright side in things that I find challenging and always try make things funny enjoyable.

The key competency I need to work on using is Relating to Others I need to get better at working with people that I don’t usually work with. I will do this by stepping up and choosing other people to work with. (not my friends) I will do this by: starting to work with boys and other girls that i don’t really work with. I will do this by: not being picky with who I want to work with (get the teacher to choose who I work with if I am being picky)