Kapa Haka - Reflection

IALT: reflect on Kapa Haka.

Ever since term 4 began.. Koha (Our Kapa Haka tutor) hasn't been with us, due to another one of her Kapa Haka teams making nationals, and overall placing 2nd place. Amazing right?! Anyways..

There was no time to muck around so we got learning, and they got teaching. We learnt a new haka for both the boys and the girls. But before learning the haka we talked about where we came from in New Zealand, whether it was up north, waikato, hamilton, or wherever. We realised the south coast is where we all live and come from (including waikato). Honestly, I was a bit lost, on why we were ever doing this but it all seemed to link up in the end! Our haka was about Waikato.

We learnt the lyrics on board, yet to be memorised and remembered by heart, and we learnt the actions, which is the same thing as the lyrics.. yet to be memorised and remembered by heart.

We then moved on to playing a game. Koha, would write up a song learnt in our past session, with missing gaps and words. We would be spilt into 2 teams, and the gap she points at the first team with all there team members hands up, is choosen to answer first, Matua Braedy, would choose which team answers first. Oh yeah, Matua Braedy is our other Kapa Haka tutor (aka Koha's partner).

Sadly, myself and Ana weren't able to stay for the whole Kapa session as we had another commitment to attend to (kiwi can jam). But with the Kapa Haka session just passed, I found it fun and enjoyable.

Personally, our listening skills as a group needs to improve. Some people were off fooling around, laughing over nothing, while other were really there to learn something. Which is what I think as a Kapa Haka group we all need to improve on.

Challenges? That had to be learning and trying to memorise the lyrics and the actions to the Haka. Only because the moved were a bit confusing.

My likes of the lesson? We hit term 4 with a big one. Coming straight in, learning a new haka the moves, and keeping it 'chill' and sensible to. Apart from our listening skills mentioned above.

But.. what your thoughts on my reflection about Kapa Haka, drop it down below in the comments!

Muchly Appreciated,

Kapa Haka

IALT: reflect on Kapa Haka.

Ever since term 4 began.. Koha (Our Kapa Haka tutor) hasn't been with us, due to another one of her Kapa Haka teams making nationals, and overall placing 2nd place. Amazing right?! Anyways..

There was no time to muck around so we got learning, and they got teaching. We learnt a new haka for both the boys and the girls. But before learning the haka we talked about where we came from in New Zealand, whether it was up north, waikato, hamilton, or wherever. We realised the south coast is where we all live and come from (including waikato). Honestly, I was a bit lost, on why we were ever doing this but it all seemed to link up in the end! Our haka was about Waikato.

We learnt the lyrics on board, yet to be memorised and remembered by heart, and we learnt the actions, which is the same thing as the lyrics.. yet to be memorised and remembered by heart.

We then moved on to playing a game. Koha, would write up a song learnt in our past session, with missing gaps and words. We would be spilt into 2 teams, and the gap she points at the first team with all there team members hands up, is choosen to answer first, Matua Braedy, would choose which team answers first. Oh yeah, Matua Braedy is our other Kapa Haka tutor (aka Koha's partner).

Sadly, myself and Ana weren't able to stay for the whole Kapa session as we had another commitment to attend to (kiwi can jam). But with the Kapa Haka session just passed, I found it fun and enjoyable.

Personally, our listening skills as a group needs to improve. Some people were off fooling around, laughing over nothing, while other were really there to learn something. Which is what I think as a Kapa Haka group we all need to improve on.

Challenges? That had to be learning and trying to memorise the lyrics and the actions to the Haka. Only because the moved were a bit confusing.

My likes of the lesson? We hit term 4 with a big one. Coming straight in, learning a new haka the moves, and keeping it 'chill' and sensible to. Apart from our listening skills mentioned above.

But.. what your thoughts on my reflection about Kapa Haka, drop it down below in the comments!

Muchly Appreciated,

Kapa Haka Reflection

IALT: reflect on what I have learnt in Kapa Haka.

As always after interval every Tuesday we had Kapa Haka until 12.30PM. Koha, our Kapa Haka tutor and her partner Maatua Brady, came in. We played games to warm us up, and ran through new and old songs that have been taught to us and yet to be taught to us. This lesson was different but with this reflection I won't focus on what we did so much, but how I felt about it. So in doing that I've decided to create DLO using a Google Drive Application - Google Presentation... showing my dislikes, likes, and a goal I would like to achieve in next Tuesdays Kapa Haka session.

With out Kapa Haka group we accept all year levels from years 5-8. This personally was a challenge for the years 7 & 8 students, knowing that our former Kapa Haka groups only allowed for year 7 and 8 students to join. Which I was a part of also! I found it interesting, yes it is a bit difficult because some of the young ones aren't so understandable and aren't so fast in learning the moves... but as leader I shall lead by a positive example!

Forget about the long boring paragraphs, I have a challenge for my audience...! Just by reading, try to read between the lines to find more out. With publishing your predictions as a comment on this very blog post, might just test your ability on whether your very good at this type of thing, or you're still on the track to success with things like this!

Now I want your honest thoughts! What did you think about the presentation I created. Please comment all your thoughts whether it was..

• Too long
• Too short
• Non-Detailed
• Not Specific enough

Or anything going through your head.

With some of my past blog posts.. I've realised that some students/blog viewers and reader haven't been publishing comments because there are scared of what I might think. If anything I will appreciate viewing a comment. It shows your bravery, and it also shows your willing to read MY work, and publish a comment on MY own personal school blog! It gives me that 'buzzy' feeling.

Anyways, please do leave a comment down below. Any questions also drop them below. And just a special reminder.. 'there is no such thing as a wrong answer, or comment'.

Many Thanks!!!