My scratch project-Te Rea Maori

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week- Korero o te Wiki.

WALT:
- use scratch to code for computational
thinking
-learn how to create basic code on scratch
-say basic phrases in Te Reo Maori

Click here to see are our Korero  o te wiki- Phrases of the week
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1soDr946oBzf0tqOLumchhaizJ5VQemVC_Li8PvBwKHI/edit
See my scratch project here

My Marae Recount

   

Rm 7’s noho Marae                                               Experience

     

On the 1st-2nd of May rm5, rm7 and parents and some teachers  went to the local Marae  called Arahura Marae. We went to learn about the marae. When we got there we practiced our waita before the karanga started.

                      Going to Arahura river

 We got to go the Arahura river and your only allowed there if you get permission and you can only get permission by the marae staff. We were lucky to get permission to go there. We had to go down a steep hill to get to the Arahura river and then we went down this path. Then we got to the river and Jerry told as a little bit about greenstone. He said don’t look for green, look for a crispy white colour. Then me James, Joe and Jack went looking on the river bed. We kept finding some but it wasn't greenstone. Then Joe and James found greenstone.  After that we were finished so we walked back up the path and up the steep hill. Then we walked back to the marae.    

                                 

Story about carvings

When we got back from the Arahura River, Jerry told us a little bit about some of the the carving and the stories about the carvings. I really enjoyed them and there was three chiefs that went to Lake Mahinapua. They came from the East Coast to fight the West Coast because of pounamu. But there was one chief on the West Coast that knew they were coming so he changed the weather to really bad and their waka’s tipped and some drowned and others got to shore but the chief from the West Coast sent other fighters to the shore and killed the people from the East Coast. So three days later another chief from the East Coast searcher to get the three bodies of the top chiefs because he wanted to take them home to bury.   But he could not carry the 3 bodies so he cut of their heads and took them back to burry them.

                                                 

                                    Evening rotation

   In the evening we did our evening rotation. I stared with Adrian and Phaedra. We started with a game called rats and rabbits. I was a rabbit and Noah was a rat so I versed him and when Phaedra called rats the rats would chase the rabbits and tag the rabbits so the rabbits did not get to the end. But when she called rabbits the rabbits would have to chase the rats so the rats don’t get to the other side. When we finished that game we played hockey but with a big ball  and newspaper for the stick. Then we played one more game. It was just like ping pong but you could not hit the ball and the the ping pong bat was a paper fan.

Personal Comment

 For the first time going to a marae it was not as bad as I thought. I thought the food was going to be bad but it was amazing. I thought it was going to be small but it was really big. I learnt more about the Māori culture than I thought I would have and I really enjoyed it. 

By Cooper 

If I had wings

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky ( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem.

Get NZ writing-poetry

Get NZ writing-poetry Over the past few weeks we have been part of the Get NZ writing poetry project. This project aimed to get 96,000 poems written across NZ We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here is my poem.

The Powhiri Process

The Powhiri Process

THE WERO

The wero is a greeting to see if you come in peace.They will
send the fastest runners to see if you come in peace. They
will place a stick or a feather on the ground and the visitor
will pick it up. If they pick it up they come in peace and if
they don’t pick it up they come in war. Today this is only for
special visitors.

Karanga

       The karanga is a welcome call performed from the
woman. It lets the visitors know that they can come on the
marae. It also welcomes the dead. And it tells the people
who you are.

Whaikorero

A whaikorero is a formal speech made by men.  The hosts and
visitors do these speeches. They acknowledge the dead and
welcome the people and they can argue about any issues.

Koha

The koha is a gift to the marae. The gift can be food, treasure or
money. It shows appreciation for staying at the marae. The
gift helps with the running costs of the marae. The speaker
with the guest will place the gift after his speech.

Waiata

A waiata is a maori song and it is a form of greeting.

In ancient times the waiata would normally be sung by woman.

HONGI

A hongi is where you touch noses with the marae people.
To make it more comfortable they would put your hand on
there shoulder. A hongi show respet.

Kai  

After the hongi the they go to the dinning hall to eat the kai.
They will eat breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Bye Cooper

Kawa of Care

We have been learning to follow the Kawa of Care which tells us how to look after your Chromebook and be cyber smart. We had to chose three rules to write about. Here is my work.

Why Marae Are Important

Why Marae Are Important

I wrote this writing to explain what a marae
is and all its details

A wharenui represents an ancestor that has passed away so they can remember
them. A wharenui is a carved meeting house. In the front of the marae the is a
caved head called the koruru. On the front there are carved arms called maihi.
On the end of the arms there are hands called raparapa. On the sides there are
ribs called the heke. And straight through the middle is the heart pole and the
Maori name for it is poutokomanawa.

When there is an earthquake the marae will open the doors for people who has
lost their home and the marae people will start to cook them some food. In
Auckland they will open the doors for the homeless people and they will also
cook them some food and also they would help the people that need help. Some
people celebrate their birthdays at a marae and some people celebrate
weddings at a marae. But some people might be sad about when people have
passed away so they will go to a marae for their funeral.

By Cooper