KAPA HAKA!

  Kia ora, today i'm going to share with you all of our kapa haka songs that my syndicate and I have  been learning through the year. I will also include a video of us. Your also probably wondering how we can perform under the covid rules? Well, the teachers organized someone to come and video us! I feel that the teachers want to congratulate us and also show our community how far we have come with all the difficult kupo that stretches our brains and our mouths.  

Song one:                                                                                        

  Utaina mai nga waka

  Nga waka o te motu

  Hoea mai ra ki uta 

  Ki te takotoranga

Hiki nuku hiki e

Hiki rangi, rangi e

Tena tena ra

koutou katoa

UTAINA Haka

 

  Utaina mai Hi!

Utaina mai Hi!

Utaina mai nga iwi o te motu

Ki runga Whakatu e tau nei

Hiki nuku e! Hiki rangi e!

Hiki rangi e! Hiki nuku e!

I a ha ha!

Ka hikatia tana iwi

Ka hapainga I tana waka

Aue! Aue! Aue!Aue!

Song two: Ka Waiata 

Ka waiata k'a Māria
Hi-i-nei wha-kāe
Whaka-meatia mai,
Te whare tangata.
Hine pūrotu, Hine ngākau,
Hine rangi-māri-e
Ko Te Whae-a, ko te whae-a
O te ao 

  Song three: Aue, auē Rona ē

Takoto ana au

 Ki te moenga uriuri 

Tū ake āu 

Titiro ki te atarau 

Kei runga rā 

Te marama e whiti ana 

Kei arā Rona 

Kei roto rā 

Piri ki te taha 

Piri ki te ngaio 

Aue, auē ra

e Rona ē

Aue, auē Rona ē

Song four: Kapanapana

A ra ra! Ka Panapana! I a! ha! ha! Aue! Ka rekareka tonu taku ngakau ki nga mana ririki pōhatu-whakapiri (Kia) haeremai Te takitini (Kia) haeremai Te takimano kia paretaitokotia ki turanga. Katoa: Hi! Ha! Aue! Kaea: He mamae, He mamae Katoa: I! A! Ha! Ha! Aue! Kaea: Ka haere, ka haere taku Powhiri ki te tai whakarunga Katoa: Hoki mai, hoki mai taku tinana Kaea: Ka haere, ka haere taku Powhiri ki te tai whakararo Katoa: Hoki mai, hoki mai taku tinana Kaea: Kia huri au ki te tai whakatu a Kupe Ki te tai o Matawhero i motu nei! Katoa: E ko te hoa riri ki roto i aku ringa,.kutia rawatia. Kia pare tonu ihu Hi! Ha! Aue! Ana! Ana! Ana! (Ksss…..Ksss….Ksss)

Song five: Toia mai

Toia mai te waka nei

Kumea mai te waka nei
Ki te takotoranga i
Takoto ai
Tiriti te mana motuhake

Te tangi a te manu e
Pipiwharauroa
Kui, kui, kui!
Whiti, whiti ora!
Hui e
Taiki e!

Going for Green Gold!

 So if you've read some of my other blogs you would know that as a school we are going for Green Gold. If you haven't, well I can tell you about it. For about 7 years my school has been working to be awarded the great honour of being a Green Gold School! First of all there's bronze, then silver and last but definitely not the least, GREEN GOLD. The way to accomplish that goal is to follow the guiding principles to be Kaitiaki.

The guiding principles are, Learning for sustainability, Respect for the diversity of people and cultures, Empowered students, Sustainable communities and Maori perspectives. If you know what these mean and how to use them in everyday life, well then you mostly have that award under your belt. So what I'm going to do is try to explain what all of them mean and how we incorporate them at my school.

Learning for sustainability means learning how to make a stable and lush communities for the native flora and fauna to live in. At my school we have a lady called Kauri that comes in to show us how to improve our  gardens and life. Respect for diversity of people and cultures means understanding and being ok with things that can be different or new. In my class we like to be ourselves and show how we would think or do things.  Empowered students means taking matters into our own hands, while getting supported with what you choose to do and how you do that. An example of this for ME would be that I've made my own kawakawa balm out of our school leaves and students brought in old containers to put it in. Sustainable communities means that the community is healthy with bird-life and flora. How we do this at our school is  we go down to Hamanatua stream, and our whanau comes to help out. Maori perspectives means watching and learning how Maori used to do things and how they used to live off the land.

If you ask me, I think I did a pretty good job. Thank goodness for that, because yesterday we were awarded the GREEN GOLD AWARD.

My Venn Diagram

 Hello, this week my teacher wanted us to read and compare two texts. The first text was more harder and more complicated then the second one, but they still had things in common.  The texts were about Matariki. Do  you celebrate Matariki? At school the teachers try to incorporate it as much as possible.  I enjoyed comparing two texts. My learning intention was, compare information within & between texts.  Now I will show you my Venn diagram!

A Busy Week

Kia ora, this week is Maori week and at  my school we've been trying to incorporate that idea . So this week our priorities were based on activities that would help us learn more about the culture and language. But this week we have been very very busy and hectic because me and my class moved into our school hall while our classroom is getting renovated. And we went up to a frame for a day too. But in all the distractions I've been trying to learn about the Maori language. It has been a whole lot easier with the website that my teachers shared with me because it adapts to how you answer the questions.

The first busy thing I had to do was move into the hall with my class. I helped move things into the hall all day. Koka Ngaire said that we had to move everything in our classroom to the hall including all of our art work. At first I was really sad because I liked my old class but now I think I've gotten use to the idare.  Our new class is really big and it's way easier to see when one of my workshops are on because there's no walls through the middle of the room. I also really like our reading space because it has lots of room and alot more books.

The second busy thing that happened was that me and my class went to a farme for the day. The frame is called Pihitai Station and the William's own it. But when we went up to the some of the farmers from down the road came to help out. The Lands, the  Thouises and the Williams had 6 rotations for us and they were all interesting.  The first one was the vehicles they use on the farme. We also got to chase sheep around. Third of all the dogs rounded up the sheep then we got to see a drown. Then we got to look at traps for pests and my favorite was the cow because we got to shake the milk and it turned into butter.