Marae Trip

This week on Wednesday, we went to a Marae. We went to the Unitec Marae. When we got there we learnt about the history of that Marae. It is exactly 10 years old! Then we had some morning tea. After a little run around we went back into the Marae to learn a Haka. When it was time to leave the Marae the year five and six boys performed a haka. I think we all enjoyed having the oppourtunity to go to a Marae and learn some Maori traditions.

Maori Art

At the end of last term we learned about Peter Gossage. He is a New Zealand artist and author and we used his drawing style to create our own Māori art. We began by sketching our drawings out on A3 paper, then we went over our design in sharpie. To add some colour to our art, we coloured our drawings with pastels. After this we dyed the background any colour we wanted and I chose black. This is my Māori art.

Kapa Haka

Mana, power and pride would be a few words to describe the feeling as the Good Shepherd School Kapa Haka group took the stage. During the weekend a large group of year 5 and 6 students took to the stage to perform at the Eden Albert Cultural Festival. There were a few nerves before we started but once we were underway the excitement of performing kicked in. We felt proud as a team to perform for so many people. Kia Kaha! The highlight of Kapa Haka for me was the song Hareruia

Kapa Haka

In a few weeks we are going to be performing at at Eden Albert cultural festival. We are doing a song called Hareruia. 

Maori Words

In Maori we have been learning new words for the weather. We did an activity to match up the words to the pictures. It is displayed in our Maori launguage book. This is mine.

Hangi Slide Show

This week room six did a presentation on how to cook a maori hangi. This is my slide show.

Whakatauki

In Maori we have been learning about a Whakatauki

A Whakataui is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture. The Whakataui that we have been learning about is if we all shared then no one would go without. We would be able to provide for all that come to us.There are also Proverbs in the Bible that encourage us to share.

Read these proverbs : Proverbs 19:17; 22:9; 31:20.

Jesus also showed us the teachings of God when he feed the multitudes of people with the fish and the loaves. Read more about this in the Gospel of John: 6 or the Gospel of Matthew: 14.

Maori verbs

In room 6 we have been learning about verbs in maori (Action words.) The question "Kei te aha ia?"which means what is she/he doing. La is the pronoun for both he and she. We have mached verbs up, filled in croswords and played Simon says.

Pepeha

During this term room 6 has been learning how to write a Pepeha . A Pepeha is a Maori introduction that establishes your identity and heratage. We learned how to say our Pepeha and we said it in front of the class and then we used screencastify to video it. This is my Pepeha.

Tēnā koutou, 

Ko owairaka te maunga 

Ko pacific te moana 

Ko pareparenga poraka te awa 

Ko Hepara pai te marae 

Ko Michael tōku pāpā 

Ko Joanne tōku māmā 

Ko Soeun tōku ingoa