HANGI NOTICE

Kia ora whanau,
hope you all recieved the notices for the hakari a ta Raapa ki te haere mai nei.

INVITATION: Ka haere mai nei ki te kura mo te Hakari.
This coming Wednesday.

ROOM 9 AND 11would like to invite parents along to share in the kai to celebrate finishing of our topic Matariki.

WHAT WE WILL BE DOING: The children will be celebrating this Monday and Tuesday finishing with a kai / Hakari.

MONDAY / RAHINA
* We will finish our mini study.
* Start our raranga/flax weaving
* Share songs.
* Share what we have found out about MATARIKI.

TUESDAY / RATU
* Continue with flax weaving
* Play string games
* Rakau / stick games
* Sing waiata.

WEDNESDAY: RAAPA
* Story telling / Legends of matariki
* Preparing for hakari
* Finish weaving etc...

Please feel free to come and celebrtae along with your child. This is a good time for parents to meet eachother and meet the teachers and our support staff within the immersion unit.
We would love to see you there.

EXCHANGING GIFTS
Room 9 children would also like to bring an old toy or an old keepsake gift wrapped.The exchanging of gifts is celebrating a new beginning and setting new goals for term 3. Please allow them to wrap it up. Doing this helps to make goal setting meaningful.

Kia ora koutou whanau

Happy New Year

Na matou ko whaea katipa.

Ko whaea Ngamihi.

Ko whaea Alayna.

Ko whaea Diane.

MATARIKI: What is Matariki

Difinition of MATARIKI:

In the Maori language Matariki is the name of Pleiades star cluster, which was important for agriculture in establishing the correct time to plant crops.

What is MATARIKI?

There are two explanations of the name of MATARIKI firstly, MATARIKI (small eyes).

or MATARIKI (eyes of god).

Matariki is a small but distinctive star cluster whose appearence in the north eastern pre-dawn sky in late May, early June marks the start of a new phase of life.

NEW BEGINNINGS

For Maori it marks the beginning of a new year a time of the year when the food storehouses are filled for the winter (Hotoke) and is the start of replanting new beginnings, new growth, new developments .

FESTIVE CELEBRATIONS AND TIME TO GRIEVE.

It is a festive time celebrated with waiata/feasts hangi, games, giving of gifts and also a time to remember those who have passed away since the last time of the coming of Matariki.

There are many other cultures all over the world that celebrate the coming of Matariki.

African Drumming

Tena koutou katoa

This is room 9 at african drumming. "Look at whaea Katipa!" Sybo and Jimi were the instructers.

Sybo had a good sense of humour.

Here are some comments from our class:

It was a thrill to watch all of the teachers trying their hardest, to do a funny African dance!

from Jonni.

Kalarney says, "It was exciting to be druming, and I liked the different names of the drums."

Ka taea koutou, ki te titiro a Brodie.

Tu meke aye whanau.

He was also thrilled to be joining the team for the drumming experience.

Isaia says, when he was dancing: It was excilerating

and i was very nervous.

It was very hard to concentrate with

hundreds of eyes staring at me.

This report was posted by Clarke, Lachlan. and Kees

Clarke matou ko Kees ko Declan ko Cypress nga haututu.

Hello whanau this is Clarke,Kees,Declan,Cypress last term we went to camp .

The photo was taken on camp with the rest of room nine. Don"t they look mischieveous.

From Lachlan Spence.

Leave a comment whanau.

Anei nga tamariki o te ruma iwa. This is the students of room 9 Apanui School.
We are one of two immersion classes in the town of Whakatane. Whakatane is on the east coast in the North Island of New Zealand. We are a level two immersion class. We learn the Maori language, waiata, waiata-a-ringa. (songs action songs). We are also practicing tititorea the short sticks games Maori children played on the Marae. Watch this blog for a video clip of room 9 children performing the short sticks.

KO KEES RAUA KO CYPRESS, KORUA HAUTUTU

Kees and Cypress are students of room 9. Kees is very confident on our paetapu at the start of our school day. He is fluent when delivering the greetings to our kaiako and the children in the class. He is fluent in two kiwaha (Maori proverbs). When Kees is on our paetapu we all sit up and take notice. kia kaha tonu Kees.

Cypress we are sorry about your accident on the playground that left you with a broken leg.

Great to have you back in class. We missed all your questions. Mauri ora korua

Please leave the boys a comment.

ELLA HAMER:

This is Ella Hamer she is a student of room 9 part of the whanau. We think she's really clever when she writes stories. She can really use words to paint a picture in the reader's mind.
Leave Ella a comment whanau.