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Showing posts with label Maori. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maori. Show all posts

Monday, 11 November 2019

Traditional gathering and harvesting of kai

W.A.L.T: Investigate traditional gathering and harvesting of kai.
FACTS:

  • The main types of food the Maori ate were usually birds and fish and sometimes they would also eat wild herbs.
  • Maori people cooked their food under ground which is called a Hangi.
  • In Stewart island people still harvest Mutton bird which is an oily meat.
  • Titi is the maori word for mutton bird.
  • Maori people made wine for a drink.
  • When the English came and introduced guns and metal tools the methods of cooking changed.
  • The Maori word for gathering is hui.   
       Here is a photo of a hangi.


Tuesday, 11 June 2019

MATARIKI POEM

                           Matariki   

WALT: Write Matariki poetry. 

                 Matariki
        is a
         Maori constellation
     Placed in the mighty sky of New-
     Zealand

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Monday, 26 November 2018

Maori - E-portfolio sample Term 4 2018

Māori - E-portfolio sample Ngā hākari (Celebrations) Term 4 2018


Share your Term four classroom whakatauki (both in English and Maori)
He aroha whakato,
he aroha puta mai.
If kindness is sown
then kindness you shall receive.

Vocabulary: List 8 new words you have learnt this term connected to “Ngā hākari (Celebrations)” eg May = Mei
  1. Pipiri (June)
2. Haratua (May)
3. Keke (cake)
4. Here turi koka (August)
5. teti pea (teddy bear)
6. rorohiko (computer)
7.huri tunguru (February)
8. whiringa a nuku (October)


Kei hea to ra whanau? (answer in Māori)  
Ko taku ra whanau i te tekau ma rua o Hongongoi.

He aha taau e hiahia ana mo to ra whanau? (answer in Māori)  
E hiahia ana ahau ki etahi aihikirimi.

Monday, 25 June 2018

Term 2 Taku Akomanga

Term 2 Taku Akomanga

Share your Term Two classroom whakatauki (both in English and Maori)
Titiro Whakamuri Kokiri Whakamua

look back and reflect so you can move forward.

Reflect on the new vocabulary you have learnt so far.

I now know the following words/things… (add as many as you can)
  1. Classroom = Akomanga
2. Pen = Pene
3.Pencil= Pene rakau
4.Cupboard= kapata
5.Stand up= Etu
6.Sit down= Enoho


I have been brave during this unit when I tried to draw a cupboard with the door opened.