Wāhanga 3, 2013

What do we have installed for this term?

• Peke Taura mō te manawa
• Rōpū Waiata Tira - Bay Court
• Drinking Anchor Milk in school & packing it down for recycling
• Manu Kōrero kei Te Kura o Peterehema
• Clean up of our local estuary 
• Following the Maramataka Māori for preparing our kakano for planting, and then transfer into our garden boxes; we have peas, corn, tomotos, brocoli, beans, parsley, potatoes, cabbage, kamokamo, cauliflower
• Uterlising the compost from the beginning of the years food scraps, we have rich soil that can be folded into our garden boxes.
• Looking at how a worm farm works
• Last week of term Parent interviews and showing childrens portfolios.

Here are some of us drinking our anchor milk.

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  Once we had all finished with our cartoon of milk we all had to fold them a certain way before they were returned to be picked up.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Here are some of our herb plants
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Here's us preparing this PVC, we will be transferring  our strawberries in to it, but first we are just decorating the casing.
  
  
  

  
  

  Before we prep our summer gardens we had to plant our seeds in

  one of the seedling houses that was donated by our Rotarians.

  
  

  

  
  

  Here's some of us choosing all sorts of yummy seeds for planting.

  Check in later to see how our plants are growing.

  
  

MATARIKI

Friday 14th June

Ngā Whetū o Matariki

 Ka kitea a Matariki i te atapo, ina tiro koe ki te raki-ma-marangai i te mutunga o te marama o Haratua. Ka tino kitea i roto i nga wiki e whai ake ana i muri, ka piki haere, nawai a, ka eke ki runga rawa, ka ahu whaka-te-tonga tona pikinga ake ia.    

Matariki becomes visible in the pre-dawn sky looking north-east towards the end of May. It becomes more clearly visible in the following weeks, rising further and further towards the south once the shortest day is past. 

As part of a School-wide kaupapa we having been looking at Matariki. 

Researching and finding out What is Matariki?

We know that Matariki is Māori Tau Hou (Māori New Year). 

We have found out that some iwi say they are the Seven sisters of Matariki. Their names are Ururangi who is the pōtiki (baby), Waitī, Waitā, Tupuārangi, Tupuānuku, Waipuna and Matariki.

We know that some other cultures' also use the stars as icons for instance the Japanese use the starts on their Sabaru vehicles. There are other cultures that use the stars in there own way. New Zealand Māori celebrate by bringing people together. It's a new beginnings. As a kura we have brought all our tamariki together to work together by having a whole school Matariki Rotation day on Friday 14th. Through the various rotation there was some outstanding Tūākana Taina (senior junior) mahi going on through out the day. 

During these rotations we had Māori past-time games being taught. Making Manu Aute by using materials of today, but still learning the skills of how you would make one if you used natural materials. Art making stars using technology. Making harakeke putiputi, Making awhiowhio (spirals) with paper. Weaving with paper. Researching on the computer about Matariki.

Next Thursday 20th we will have a day of presenting and have some entertainment and to end off our kaupapa with our whānau whānui celebrate by having a hāngi. All these skills are intergrated in all  curriculm areas, and at the same time the tamariki are not only learning but they are having fun while they have participated.

Photos' will be added later 

PROMOTING NGĀ HAU E WHĀ

Anei ētahi whakaaro o Ngā Hau e Whā

20 o Haratua, 2013

This week a question was asked of our tamariki in Ngā Hau e Whā;

Why do you like being in Ngā Hau e Whā?

Here is what some of our tamariki said …

• ·      To learn in Te Reo Māori
• ·      We don’t learn in Pakehā (we live in a world of English so it is not taught)
• ·      Good behaviour ( Learn values – tīkanga, know the expectations)
• ·      Waiata – (through waiata we learn maths, health, literacy, science, social studies)
• ·      Marautanga – (We learn all curriculum areas)
• ·      Hākinakina – (through various sports we learn values and respect not just skills)
• ·      Kai tuari – shared kai / Manaaki / aroha / open door ā akomanga (Teachers want to celebrate our successes)
• ·      Kaiako / Kaiawhina – (Good relationships)

POWHIRI

Ko te Rāapa te 22 o Haratua, 2013.

Matua Rawiri Kutikuti

I tēnei rā i haere mai tētahi manuhiri ki te kura.

Ko tōna ingoa ko Rawiri Kutikuti (David Shearer). Ko ia te rangatira o te Pāti Reipa.

Kei te hiahia ia ki te titiro ki te kura, ki te kōrero hoki ki ngā tāngata mai i te hāpori ō Tūtarawāngana.

Ka powhiritia ia ki tēnei kura.

He mihi nui hoki i a ia.

Homai ou whakaatu mō ēnei pātai e 3.

1.     Ko wai te ingoa o te manuhiri?

2.   Ko ia te rangatira tēhea Pāti?

3.   He aha te take i haere mai ia ki tēnei kura?

TIAKINA, MANAAKITIA NGĀ MANUHIRI

Tiaki ia ā Papatūānuku i ngā wā katoa.

Ka kōrero atu ngā Pouako ki ngā tamariki o Ngā Hau e Whā, mēnā ka kite koutou ētahi rāpihi, ka aha koutou? I kōrero mai o rātou whakautu, "ka kohi rāpihi purua ki roto i te ipupara".

Kei te tino mihi ki ngā tamariki o Ngā Hau e Whā, na te mea inanahi i haere mai tētahi rangatira o te Pāti Reipa.

Hei whakapaipai o tātou kura, me whakarite te wāhi mo te hui mōna.

I te mutunga o te rā ka whiwhi ngā tamariki tētahi ahiporaka.

Tā mātou haerenga ki Te Kohanga Reo o Tūtarawānanga

Anei āku akonga me ngā tamariki o te Kohanga Reo, kei te waiata mātou ngā momo tamariki o tangaroa kei raro i te moana.

WĀHANGA 2, NAU MAI HOKI MAI KOUTOU

Kia ora e hoa mā! One of our kaupapa for this term will be to  prepare ourselves for whole school cross-country. How will we do this? By running around the whole school and improve by running a little bit further each day. We are so lucky because we run around with our tūākana from akomanga 1.

Here's us at Kapa Haka practice. Whaea Tarnz is our Tutor, she is awesome! We practice every Tuesdays in the Action Centre.

At the moment Whaea Tiria Mauder is standing in as the Kaiako for the Kohanga Reo. We will be having little visits each Monday afternoon. This is so that the tamariki get to know who we are, and so when they start to transition into our akomanga they won't be too shy and they will be ready to start kura.

Last Monday we took a book over to read. Faith read 'Kei Roto i te Moana' to all the tamariki and to the Pakeke. She did such an awesome job they sang a waiata for her. Next time I'll have more pics to show.

We will be also looking at Te Māori Tau Hou, me ngā Whetu o Matariki. Watch this space in the coming weeks