Tahiti

 This week I have been researching about a country for our kaupapa mahi. We have been looking at cultures around the world and we have to do multiple activities for it. One of them was to research about a different country and questions about them. The country I chose was Tahiti also known as french polynesians or tahitians. The part I enjoyed about this was looking at photos of tahitians because I love there culture. The part I disliked was researching different things because it was to confusing on what I was trying to find out. The easy part was putting my slide together and making it look cool. The hard part was making sure it was the right information and not fake. ( I did right it in my own words. ) Here is my research about Tahiti.

Mihi

Last week I recorded myself doing my extension mihi and it was pretty easy because I  already new how to say my mihi. If you didn't know a mihi is pretty much where your from and who your whanau is. The part I enjoyed about saying my mihi was the tauparapara I said because I enjoy saying that. The part I disliked was saying the part of my waka becuase its a tongue twister and I sometimes muck it up. The easy part was saying my whanau becuase I love my family and I always can remember them. There was no hard part besides that tongue twister and the thing I will do next time is just to take my time. Here is a link to m y recording of me saying my mihi and a photo of my mihi.

My mihi

O te hapai o

This week my class and I have been learning about a new song called O te hapai o. It is a song for the ringawera and it is appropriate for a wedding, tangi, chrisning and more places. The hard part about learning the actions because they were pretty hard and weird. The easy part was leaning the words because they were just so easy to learn. The thing I will do next time is put more time into the actions  because I didn’t really know them. Here are the words and it is a Maori song 

O te hapai o  mokore an o Nga mihi na koutou te Kia I Taka ko ki, ko ngata, ko makona ka puta pito e

Matariki

Last week my school and I had a matariki day it was very cool and fun day. The part that I enjoyed the most was eating the hangi because it was very nice. I also enjoyed prepping the hangi because we got to go to whaea Tonis house. We got to carry wood, stack the wood and got to dig the hole for the hangi. My favorite part about helping was taking photos because it was a easy job. The thing I didn't really like was taking the photos because the people that I was taking photos of kept pulling signs. The job I did like was scrunching up the paper to lit the fire because it was a simple job that I really liked. The hardest job was caring the wood because some of it was very heavy. Here are some photos of us.

Waka Haerenga

Today we ( whole school ) went to Opua for a waka haerenga. Why did we go there because we had to learn about voyaging, hekenukumai busby and his wife Ngahiraka. The boats name was named after Hekenukumai's wife Ngahiraka mai tawhiti. How was it? It was a great experience because I had learnt about voyaging and how to command a waka. Here are a little sneak peak of what we did.

Matariki

This week we have been learning all about Matariki it has been really fun. The hole school got put in different groups I was in group 6 retailing the story of Matariki we made some animations. I learnt that there is more than one Matariki story. The easy part was thinking of an idea to do the animation about. The hard part was making it in two days. The thing I will do next time is to stay on the topic and stop changing it. Here it is.