Nothing Ever Happens Poetry

Waka Whanake read a fantastic Poem by Lorraine Williams called Nothing Ever Happens. We used the structure of her poem to create our own inventive, funny pieces of poetry.

Using our e-learning skills and a fantastic app called Aurasma, Miss Fraser recorded us reading our poems.

You need to download the Aurasma app to view the videos. Here is a link to the Apple app or the Google Play app.

Once you have downloaded Aurasma, click the triangle menu button at the bottom of your screen.
Then click the magnifying glass button and search "Waka Whanake". Select to "follow" us.
Click the square viewfinder button on the bottom of your screen (the one in the middle) and hover your device over the pictures below.  Make sure the whole picture is in the frame and there is no glare or shadows on the picture.
In a few seconds, the video should start.

Good Luck and happy watching!

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think of our poems? Have you written a great poem that you could share with us? We love your comments and feedback!

Enviro Week

Last week was enviro week at Waipahihi.  Mrs Wills organised lots of great events to get us all thinking and acting enviro friendly.  One of the challenges was to create an outfit out of recycled goods.  Here are some of the amazing entries from Waka Whanake...

Zoey's dress was gorgeous.  Zoey's mum and her spent all weekend on this creation.  She used plastic bags, newspaper and pages from magazines.

Pippi and her mum made this stylish hat.  They used and old light shade and hot glued plastic bags on every second wire and then made newspaper bows.  They used crazy looms to tie them on.  She has a gorgeous bow made out of a plastic bag tied under her chin.

Anna sewed her own bag.  She glued old material onto it for decoration and collected loads of Dad's old bottle caps and shells from the beach to attach to the handle of her owl bag.

Amber made this beautiful dress out of old parachutes!  Her dad helped her cut the amount of parachute needed.  Her Mormor (Swedish for Granny!) who very kindly sewed it for her.  She cut the bottom off the dress to make a belt.  And glitter for bling!

Noah made a robot outfit out of boxes from Pack n Save.  He had to cut a flap so that he could see.  He used sharp scissors to cut the middle of the box out so that his Dad could tickle him!

Here are Lewis and his little brother Tate.  They came 3rd in the creation competition.  They made an owl using all sorts of things from their Dad's workshop and from around the house.