I need to Wake Up: Lyrics for Assembly

I need to Wake Up

Melissa Etheridge

Have I been sleeping?
I’ve been so still, afraid of crumbling
Have I been careless?
Dismissing all the distant rumblings

Take me where I am supposed to be
To comprehend the things that I can’t see

'Cause I need to move,
I need to wake up
I need to change,
I need to shake up
I need to speak out, something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep and I need to wake up now

And as a child I danced like it was 1999
And my dreams were wild
The promise of this new world would be mine

Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth
To listen to an inconvenient truth

That I need to move,
 I need to wake up
I need to change,
I need to shake up
I need to speak out, something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep and I need to wake up now

I am not an island
I am not alone
I am my intentions
Trapped here in this flesh and bone

And I need to move,
I need to wake up
I need to change,
 I need to shake up
I need to speak out, something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep and I need to wake up now

I want to change,
I need to shake up
I need to speak out, oh, something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep and I need to wake up now

Ko te aroha waiata

We have been learning a new song in Kapa Haka.

Click this link to sing along with Whaea Ania.

Here are the words:

KO TE AROHA

Ko te aroha, tetahi ki tetahi

Ko te hakarongo a taringa

He ahuatanga Maori

Ko te noho ngatahi

I raro i te rangimarie...

Ma te whai whakaaro

Ki te tangata

Ahakoa ko wai e tuwhera

ai te wairua Maori e...

Ki te ngaro i a koe, te huarahi tika

Kimihia ki te riu

o to ngakau...

Katohi nei, ka kitea

i to wairua Maori e...

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori!

Tena Koutou!

This week is Maori Language Week. We are learning to speak te reo Maori. Check out the links on the website and our te Reo Maori page. Download an app for your Apple or Android Tablets and Smartphones.

Here is a cool video made by Rm 11 about the Weather, te Huarere:

Homework Help: 2012

Welcome to the Homework Help website for Te Kura Pihi, the Year 3 and 4 classes at Westmere School. On this site you can find links to other websites that help children practise spelling, basic facts, writing and reading. Over time we will add further websites that are interesting or challenging.