Matariki stars/Matariki birds

 LI: to celebrate matariki

This week our focus was about Matariki, as it is the time of year we see the Matariki stars in the sky. It is the Maor on Wednesday is was the Matariki celebration. During this week we have had many different task about the Matariki celebration. Today we had four task to complete about the Matariki celebration. The first task was to find where we will see the matariki stars. The next task was about where in the sky is the Matariki stars and write where they are. The third task was about why does the matariki stars disappears in may and reappears in june. The last task was about learning about the three birds that they feast on in the matariki celebration.

Inside/ouside brochure

 LI: to celebrate matariki

This week for the matariki challenges we created 2 brochures which was an inside brochure and an outside bochure. For my inside brochure, me and my group explained about the matariki stories, how matariki was celebrated in the past and what food was harvest at the festival. For my outside bochure, we explained matariki and wrote fact about it too.

What I found a bit hard is that i didn't know any fact so I had to reaserch it.

Kapa haka trip

To learn the teachings of our tupuna (ancestors) and the history of New Zealand's native people and their land.

This week the yr 8 & 7 boys went on a trip to the aukland war memorial museum to discover the information and history of moari/kapa haka. We met in the hall with Mr ogilvie, Mrs Pride, Mrs Fisiahi matua Ngrimu and matua Kingi.

Museum

After we all met we started to line up and walked into the bus. While we were in there, everyone practiced the words of kamate. When we arrived we entered the back of the museum. When we were exploring I saw a lego rocket ship and a lego sailing boat. We went in the dining room to have some snacks then went into the maori history section. Matua kingi gave us some questions to answer and we had to explore to find out. Then we went into the hotonui and learnt about the carvings and the art and we also learned what they represent. Then we started to continue searching for the answers. When it was lunch we had pizza and we had to find a partner to share it with.

Taiaha

After that we started to walk down the pukekawa hill then we had to walk around a field. After that matua Ngarimu taught us how to use a taiaha and this included eight steps. After we did them we did the whole thing using all eight steps. Then we packed all the taiha up and went back on the bus to go back to PBS.

I enjoyed the museum because we learnt a lot of things in the Marae which was called hotonui and I also found the quiz hard barbecue there were answers that I forgot.

Kapa Haka performance

 Today I went to watch a Maori performance at assembly.

First the performers blew a conch while walking on the stage. They also introduced them sleeves by performing a few dances that used Maori weapons. Afterwards they informed about the different kinds of weapons that they used. 

Next they performed a Haka dance. After that our Kapa Haka boys replied back with their own Haka to the performers.

Lastly we learned to play a game called Maui Matau using the taiaha. When playing this game we had to go left when he said Maui, and go right when he says Matau. When moving left to right we needed to let go of the stick and get the stick before it drops on the ground. 

 

I enjoyed performing the Haka because I have never performed a haka to the performers.

Maori | Translate

This week I translated names and conversation for the learning task. 

First I learnt new Maori words such as Anei"Here", Ae"Yes", and etc.

The next I wrote the date in Maori. The date was "Ko te ramere tenei ra te rua tekau ma ono o whiringa arangi", which means "Thursday the twenty seventh of November".

Lastly I translated the Maori names.. Some of them that i translated are Ana(Anna), Arana(Allan), and Rona (Lorna). 

I found this hard because I had to translate them without using the Maori Dictionary.

Maori names

 This week for Maori we were learning names of people.

Our task was to read the Maori names and translate them.

After we were finished we had to see if we were correct.

Our The Maori alphabet has no 'j,s' so we used 'h'. Also there are no 'i,d' so we used 'r'. also there are no 'v' so we used 'w'. And there are no 'b' so we used 'p'.

I enjoyed this Maori task because it taught the names of people in Maori.

Kupu

This week for maori we used a dictionary to translate maori words to english words.

The task we did was to highlight the english words in green if they were right.

Then we matched the picture with the words.

I enjoyed this activity because i learnt new maori words.

Te reo maori

This week for maori we learnt how to say body parts.

First I highlighted the maori words I knew in blue and the ones I don't know I left them blank. 

Then I matched the words along with the pictures.

I enjoyed the task because it taught me body parts in maori.

About me 2020

Ki orana 

My name is Elaario. I am Cook Island, Maori. I am in LS1 at Panmure Bridge School. I enjoy Art, Sports, playing with my friends, and I enjoy LS1.

advertising

LI: to make a poster for advertising

This week for our selling poster we were learning advertising. We had to use one of our frames and we had to describe about it. Then we had to show the school class to let the people know were it is.