Te Reo Maori Challege

For the past few weeks we have been completing a te reo challenge. This te reo challenge is where you create an animation that explains the different body parts. I chose to use Powtoon as my platform to create my animations. I worked with Victoria to get this animation completed. I enjoyed creating this animation as it gave me a chance to try a new site out and learn new words in a different language.

Te reo Challenge

L.I To create a family tree showcasing your family.

This week for the te reo challenge our challenge was to create a DLO showcasing your family tree. We started off with writing in our book and writing down the family members we knew, then if we wanted we could ask our family to know other family members. I haven't added all my family members as my family is too big for the google drawing but, other than that I enjoyed creating this family tree.

Matariki challenge

L.I: To create a drawing that shows the Matariki stars.

This week for the Te reo Challenge we have been given a challenge to create a drawing that showcases the Matariki stars. We were given the rule that we are not allowed to trace. As you can see I made my drawing and have named them. Did you know that there are many legends on the Matariki stars. Some believe that one of the stars is the mother and the other 6 are the Daughters. I really enjoyed doing this activity because I was able to use my drawing skills to create it.

Kowhaiwhai Patterns

L.I To design a Kowhaiwhai pattern for our PBS Te reo blog.

For the past few weeks we have been creating Kowhaiwhai patterns for Ms. Pryde to use on the background of the Te reo blog. My Kowhaiwhai pattern are hooks upside down in the shape of hearts.  The hooks are to resemble good luck and the hearts resemble love.  I enjoyed this activity as I was able to create my own design. 

Te Reo Maori Phrases

L.I To showcase Te Reo Maori phrases.

Today I have decided to blog the Te Reo Maori DLO that Victoria and I worked on. This activity was to create a DLO showcasing some easy weather phrases and feeling phrases. Victoria and I worked collaboratively to get this completed. We also added a photo of a hook that is also used on the wall of the Junior classes at our school (Panmure Bridge School). We enjoyed doing this activity as we got really good feedback from it. :)

Maori

L.I to match the Maori places with the correct English places. When we started Maori Mrs Whaea Odie played Christmas Carols. We had to try and guess what song it was in English. I put my hand up for every song but I was not picked. This week for Maori we had to match the Maori places with the English places. We had to translate the Maori Places for the english Place. We had to use our smart searching skills to find the correct places. We had to write down where it is like if it were to be in South Island or North Island. While we were doing that Mrs Whaea Odie played Maori Christmas Carols. At the end of our session we had to listen to Mrs Whaea Odie to get the answers for the Maori Places.

Maori | Nga Taone o Te Ika a Maui

This week we had Maori. This week for Maori we listened to Maori Christmas carols. We listened to about 5 songs. Some of the songs were the same as the English version. We were shared a document called Nga Taone o Te Ika a Maui. We had to find the meanings of words. To find the words we had to use site like Maori dictionary or translate.

Maori

L.I To say our manners in Maori.
This week we had Maori. For Maori this week Mrs Whaea odie gave us a an activity. The activity was to match up all the Maori words with the right meanings. We had to look some of the words up in a Maori Dictionary or translate. It was difficult for me to find the right meanings. Mrs Whaea Odie would also call some people to say some words in Maori. She would offer something to you and you have to say Thank you or use your manners to show that your polite. We also had to give our object back to Mrs Whaea Odie. We have to say "Here is my .... " The Object I got was the Pineapple. The Maori word for Pineapple is Painaporro. The Maori word for Here is your.. Is Homai te. The Maori word for Thank you is Anei. For the Maori Places match activity Mrs Whaea Odie is going to bring the answer sheet next week for us to see if our answers were right.

Maori | Food | D.L.O

This week for Maori we watched a Maori Video. It was a Myth/Legend story of how New Zealand was created and how men went on a Voyage to discover land. In the video one of the men threw out his fish hook at grabbed onto a big fish. That big fish brought up land  and created the north island. Later in the video the men were frozen into stone because of how cold it was out in the ocean/sea. Their bodys were formed as mountains and their canoe was formed as the south island. I really enjoyed this video. After that we got onto the task. The task was where we had to work in partners and pick a number to work on. I was partnered with Pua. We chose the number 16. We had to find photos of the food we found and write down what the food was. I really enjoyed learning about the Maori Myth/Legend and how a Fish  and a boat made up New Zealand.

Maori

This week for Maori we read a story called The Clay woman. The clay woman was about a God named Tane Mahuta. Tane Mahuta was a clever god. One morning he woke up to a sculpture made into a woman. Tane Laid his head against the sculpture, but with one blow the sculpture became a real life woman. People called her The Clay Woman because she was made out of Clay that Tane had been touching. For our task we had to make a D.L.O Showing the word Paikea in the middle, the map of New Zealand on one corner, The Whale and man in another corner, a photo/drawing of a Maori carving and a photo of the Ngati Porou Maori tribe. In my D.L.O I traced out 3 of the images and left one photo untraced.

Maori | Te Huarere | Research

This week for Maori, We had to listen to a story. It was about the weather during a week. We had to make our own story about the weather. We had to try and remember what the weather was during this week. On Sunday the cloud's came into Auckland/Auckland City, On Monday/Rahina it was dropping rain in Auckland City, On Tuesday/ Rain appeared over Auckland, On Wednesday Sun shone thru Auckland.

For the Maori Version we had to go on Maori Dictionary to see if our words were right. The first thing that we had to go on was Google maps.

Maori | Research

This week for Maori we had to listen to a story that Mrs Whaea odie read to us. It was called Remember that November. In the story i focused on one text. The text was when this man choose a topic. After we read the story Mrs Whaea odie  asked us to do research on Parihaka and Taranaki. We also had to search up a song by Tim Finn. It was called Parihaka. We also needed to search Parihaka and Taranaki on google maps. We have got gaven a paper of New Zealand. We had to draw a big dot so the people will know where Taranaki and Parihaka is.

Maori

This week was our first lesson on Maori. Mrs Whaea Odie read us a book to us. She read the book to us 2 terms ago. We then got to watch a video of a man drawing in sand Link. After we watched the video we got to learn a new song called Hoki mai e tama ma. We learnt it by looking at lyrics and listening to the song. The Song was very catchy so i caught onto it pretty fast. After that we had to get our Computers and search up Rohe of NZ. We found a link to a site that showed us places of where the Maori tribes stayed. We learnt that they stayed near the sea because there was food for them to eat. They would sometimes find coconut trees and grab the coconuts off the tree. Because it has coconut water in it and it has the white food part in it. So the Maori tribe keep it in the back of their canoe so if they really need something to drink and eat they would have the coconut.
Links:
Hoki mai e tama ma
Maori Creation Sand art
Country site

Matariki Celebration

This week we had a Matariki celebration outside. Our whole school participated in this event. The Senior and junior Kapa haka group performed and so did the Pasifica group. We got sausage sizzles and we got 2 for each person. I was in the Pasifica group so I performed in front of everyone. I enjoyed the whole day because it was full of excitement and was really tiring. In the Pasifica group we did a cook island dance for our dance with our school uniform on.

The junior kapa haka/Boys did the haka while the girls danced with the traditional skirt and tattoo/fake. The seniors did something similar, the boys did the haka but the girls used the poi and danced with the traditional skirt and tattoo/fake. The songs that were sang was E nga iwi e,Rona and the Moon,Tenei Matoe,Matariki Macarena,Lean on me and heaps more. We would like to thank Mrs Whaia Odie and her husband for bringing in the sausage sizzle and organizing all of this. Also Thank you to Mr Johnston for helping with this event.This again was to celebrate Matariki and the six sisters.

Matariki

L.I to understand what Matariki is about. This week for Maori we had a Matariki Celebration. I worked with Magenta,Fui,Joel and Sandra. We made D.L.O's about Matariki and how we collaborated with LS2. We made a Slide presentation and a Google drawing. The Google Draw was for the Poster and the Slide presentation was for what Matariki is about. We made eleven Slides for the Slide presentation. We did some research on What Matariki is about. We found out the Matariki was about the 7 sisters. I wrote down facts about the Matariki stars and what they mean. During our process through creating our presentation we all worked collaboratively and as a group we had lots of fun. As our guide we used our researching Skills and we also watched videos that helped get a more understanding meaning to our Presentation. I think as a class LS1 and LS2 really bought the Matariki spirit to the game.

Maori | String games/Making

L.I to make string shapes with a string. This week we made some cool things with our strings. the things we made were two diamonds,Cup and saucer,Effile tower,Witches hat and a parashot. The photo is Fau she has made the two diamonds. I know how to make all of the string things. The things we made with the strings were very interesting because I learnt how to make things with string. I might do these all the time at Maori time.

Maori | Story | Weave

Story,Raranga video

L.I to make a raranga fish. I learnt how to make a weaved fish/ika. First we read a story. The book was called Ngake and Whaitaitai the two taniwha of wellington harbor. The book was about two Taniwhas by the name Whataitai and Ngake. Whaitaitai and Ngake got into a fight and Ngake made a big hole in the harbour because he wanted to escape. Then Whaitaitai tried to make another hole. Whaitaitai thought that he was big and strong like Ngake and he got stuck in the sand. Whaitaitai wriggled around to try to escape but he just sank into the sand. After a few years Whaitaitai would call help everyday but no one heard. One day a bunch of wakas floated across Whaitaitai and Whaitaitai would yell at them to help him. But after the people in the waka played a song/waita. Soon he came free. 

Maori | Word find

This week for Maori we had Mrs Odie. We did some puzzle that were involved in Matariki.
Some of the activities were the word find and we read a booklet. I really like the activities we
did because of the word find. The begging of Matariki new years was is June 15th and it ends
on June the 30th. For the word find we had to find lots of Maori words. We didn’t do the Booklet
because we ran out of time. On the back of the paper we had to write the Matariki Macarena and
write our name of the front. Mrs Odie showed us what some Maori words meant.

Matariki

A Matariki Story,Matariki and Matariki Waiata.

This week for maori we had to watch some videos about matariki. Did you once every year seven stars come out and they have names the names are Waiti,Waita,Waipunarangi,Tupuanuku,Tupuarangi,Ururangi and Matariki. Their are six kids and one mother, the mother is Matariki and the rest are the kids. Maoris new year is on June 15th. Sometimes on June 15th people have a feast and people will have food and they would sing a few songs. We might have a feast because that's what our Maori teacher faiodie said. We might be singing the matariki macarena,Ao ke ti a rangi and one other song.

Maori/Kei te pehea koe?

L.I to draw emoji matching the phrase. I learnt how to draw emoji that match the Maori phrase. I learnt this by writing down the feeling on the bottom of the box and then I started to draw the expression, then we had to color the face in.  The feelings were Kei te pai, Kei te makariri, Kei te riri and Kei te wera. Kei te pai means Are you good, Kei te makariri means are you cold, Kei te riri means I am angry and Kei te wera means you are hot and sweaty.