Friday, 16 April 2021

My Culture and Me

Yesterday we were celebrating the cultures we come from! Some people (like me) wore costumes and each one of us had to bring a plate of food from our cultures.
There were so many foods from our cultures and I wanted to try all of them! (And I did) 
We also had to do a Culture presentation, and I did China!
I enjoyed making the google drawing! I also enjoyed sharing things from my culture with others!
I found finding the facts a bit tricky because there were so many facts I wanted to include! 

Here are some of the photos from yesterday! (And my presentation) 










Monday, 12 April 2021

Women's Native Tree Nursery Visit

 Today I am reflecting on when my class went to Women's Native Tree Nursery. 

We had a person called Kauri teach us how to take cuttings from native trees in our Riringa Awa and also how to extract seeds from native trees also in the Riringa Awa. We  also learnt that some of the trees had some healing properties. We also extracted TONS and when I mean it, I mean it! We extracted TONS of cuttings and seeds from all the different native trees in our Riringa Awa! We also had to spray-paint some trees because some trees were actually not native ones and we didn't want the to be in our Riringa Awa, so on one of the trees, we stomped on the tree and snapped it!

After that, we walked to the Women's Native Tree Nursery! We went under the bridge, and walked all the way to Riverdale school, which the Women's Native Tree Nursery was next to. As soon as we got in Kauri asked if we wanted to go under the sprinklers! Of course we said yes because it was BOILING! 

 Then, we started to plant the seeds we collected. We had put the seeds into trays and after that, we planted the cuttings. We went under the sprinklers from time to time because as I mentioned, it was boiling hot! 
We then watered the plants, and then we had to get back to school. We said goodbye to the plants and Kauri and headed off.

My digital learning object shows that I can emebed photos into this blog post
Here are some photos of us planting!
Next time I would put the photos into a slideshow







Marae Noho

 Today I was reflecting on my trip to Takipu Marae. On Thursday, we got onto the buses that would take us to Takipu Marae, the trip took around an hour because the Marae was out in the country. After we arrived, we had some people welcome us and we shook their hands. After, we went inside the Wharenui and layed the matresses out and made our beds. After that we had some free time and we went outside to play some games with our friends. After we had our morning tea, and then resumed to our games.

We then ate dinner after a while and we had burgers! They were very delicous! Then, we changed into our Pajamas, brushed our teeth and we had a movie night! Some people like me, brought their sleeping bags and pillows. The movie we watched was 'Yes Day!', but unfortunately we didn't finish it because it was our bedtime! When we went to bed, it was a bit noisy because some people were whispering while others were trying to fall asleep! At last, the chattering stopped and we went to sleep.

The next day, we woke up, changed into a fresh set of cloths and ate breakfast. After we ate breakfast, we again had free time with our friends. Then, one of our teachers announced that we would be a history lesson (learning about the history of Takipu Marae). We learnt that Takipu Marae is related to the Horuta! Amazing! After, we learnt about the history of Takipu Marae, we had some teacher activites. We had capture the flag with Mrs Naden, but instead of flags we had a squeaky chicken and a hamburger! We had craft activites with Mrs Aperahama and Cup games with Mrs Hickling!

After we finished the teacher activites, we had some people from the museum teach us about our ancestors from New Zealand. We learnt a lot and we also learnt some constellations! We also played some traditional maori games that kids would play back in the day. After we had lunch! we had sausages, some meat patties from yesterday and some pasta! After, we had free time and then, we had to pack our stuff, put away the matresses and say good-bye to the Marae. We hopped onto the buses and went back school.

Here are some photos from where we went to the Marae!