Making Poi

Tena koutou katou
here's the finished product the Poi. Traditionally the poi was used
by men to make the wrists supple in preparation to use weaponry.












Here's Tehouhi using

her school made

poi.

The first step is to do four plat then you must tie a rive note.

There's Courtney and Laynah working on there poi but they were a bit to distracted by the camera.

There's cypress and Robert looks like there poi is not going to well. Once again the camera has attracted there attention.

Here's James Taylor and Ngaleigh
making the puffy bit on the poi.

There's Mereana and I working on our first poi and looking as good as ever I might add,

Here's Tehouhi again using the poi

the traditional way.

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These are the tamariki during their Maori language rotation.
We rotate the interactive wall as well. Good one Kees, Kalarney and Mere.

"Tino Ataahua wahine ma

o te ruma iwa. ka mau te wehi1"

"Beautiful room 9 girls in their kapahaka costumes. U da bomb!"

Kia ora whanau, this is room 9's blog. This is about our fun run which is taking place on the 31/8/10.

Brodie and Isaia protested about having this picture up on the blog.

This is just one of our warm-up excercise's we do before we practice cross country.We're getting sponsered

Whanau, we are raising the money to get a prize just ten dollars can get you a prize.

Look at these 4 weirdo's,"ha ha ha."
This is another one of our excercise's.

This is Monty he is the mascot travelling around with the Westfield team who visit schools to talk to themabout the fun run and to show all the prizes they could win. Please support your child as they will need to collect sponsors for the prizes they have chosen.

POSTED BY ROOM 13 TAMARIKI

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.

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