The Maori is taking over my brain

For today’s lesson, I will explain to you different pronouns!! (at least, I think they’re pronouns..)

First we have nāku which means I did (something), nāu which is you did (something), nāna he/she did (something), nā tāua we did, you and I did, nā māua we did, he/she and I did, nā kōrua you two did, nā rāua they did, nā tātou we all did, nā mātou we did, they and I did, nā koutou you all did and nā rātou they all did.

Some examples:

Nā wai ngā kūtai i huaki? – Who shelled the mussels?

Nāku ngā kūtai i huaki. – I shelled the mussels.

Nā wai ahau I whakahoki ki Rotorua? – Who will take me back to Rotorua?

Nā Mere ahau i whakahoki ki Rotorua. – Mere will take me back to Rotorua.

ALMPST FORGOT THE LINK HAHAHA

Why?

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This is my tenth Maori post

Today’s Maori lesson is about kai, (food) some words you can use to describe food items are kakukaku – crunchy, kākatikati – chewy, waiwai – juicy, pūhanahana – spicy, pakapaka – crispy and reka – sweet.

Here are some examples of sentences with those words.

He pakapaka te parehe – Pizza is crunchy.

He reka rānei te aporo? – Is your apple sweet?

He totetote te kai – The food is spicy.

Here’s my Google slides that I based this off of. Link

Do you like crunchy food?

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Science ouuuuuuuu

Yesterday two people from Otago came in to teach the class about pūtaiao, (science) and the importance of harakeke and tīkouka. Their names were Tewharau and Marijn. (I think)

They taught us that our tupuna used harakeke and tīkouka to survive, they used it to make shoes, shin guards, sails, rope, rain coats, and food.

We got to go outside to harvest harakeke and tīkouka, but before we could harvest it we had to learn some rules about it. Before you harvest the plant you have to do a karakia to pay respects to Tane Mahuta, when you’re cutting the harakeke you have to cut it diagonally, cause when it rains if you cut it horizontally the rain will stay on the top of the cut part and it’ll eventually rot away. If you cut it diagonally the rain will slide off the harakeke and it won’t rot, cutting the harakeke this way allows it to regrow as well. Also, in a harakeke plant there’s the grandparents, parents and the baby, when harvesting you can only harvest the grandparents because the baby is the center of the plant so it’d kill the plant to harvest the baby.

We learnt that there’s stringy stuff inside harakeke called muka, muka is very durable and strong but we wanted to test how much weight it could hold, so we did a tensile test. We found out it could hold up to 28kg bucket of weight combined with water.

After that we learnt about the compounds inside harakeke and the processes, then we got to make our own glass sliders to look under microscopes. First we cut a bit of harakeke or tīkouka, then we put it in the slit of a potato and cut the excess, next we used razors to scrape the plant off and shook it off into water, afterwards we got a paintbrush, picked up some floating bits and carefully put them onto the glass slider, finally we dropped dye on the sample, let it sit, and flushed away the dye with water. And then we got to look under the microscopes and see what harakeke looks like up close.

Do you like science?

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Māori (I’m tired)

So today I had to read a piece of text in Māori then answer the set questions.

It wasn’t really that hard, it was just some basic questions like “How old is blah blah” and “What did they eat for breakfast??”, so yeah.

We were supposed to do a Mote which if you don’t know is basically a voice note app built into google slides, we were unable to do so though because school has poopy WiFi (like always).

Some new words for me are: Whakareri, whaiāipo, and haeana. Whakareri means to prepare/get ready, whaiāipo means to be in love with/significant other (boyfriend/girlfriend), and haeana means to iron or to shoe a horse.

Here’s the link to my slides

Did you learn something new reading this?

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Animals Are Dying >:(

This week I have been learning and researching about endangered animals.

The animal I chose to research is the Hamilton’s frog, I learnt that this species has become endangered because of the inclusion of stoats and black rats in the environment. I also learnt that they live on a specific set of rocky islands at the top of the south island, they’re called the Stephen and the Maud Islands.

I documented all my research on a google slide where I created the title page, my burning questions, and all my questions and answers. I’m still working on them.

Here’s a fun fact! Did you know that Hamilton’s frogs don’t croak? They actually squeak and chirp, despite not possessing vocal cords.

My favourite part was when I found out that the froglets cling to the backs of their fathers, it’s so adorable!!

Do you like frogs?

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Hey guys Maori time is back :D

Today I learnt two new kupu (words), ōrite and rerekē. The word ōrite means the same,

E.g: He ōrite te kakahu kaukau o ngā tama – The boy’s togs are the same.

And the word rerekē means different,

E.g: He rerekē te tae o te makawe o Tui raua ko Zyah – Tui and Zyah have different coloured hair.

I made two recordings of sentences I made myself that include rerekē or ōrite, or comparison sentences.

Here they are,   #1.   #2.

What’s your favourite Maori word?

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Basic Your Mother Facts 23 x 3

For basic facts today I did my 8 times tables, because although I passed my 9 times tables, last week didn’t have 8 times tables so today I did 8 times tables rather than 11.

In two minutes I only did 22 questions, which means I didn’t pass because I need 23 correct questions to pass to the next times table, which in my case is 11. (since I passed my 9s as previously mentioned)

I have cleared my times tables 1-7 and 9, I’m currently working to complete the 8s, I have 11-mixed 3s to pass next.

I had a hard time trying to work out all of the questions on 8s, so maybe next time I could properly learn them for next time, so I can get faster at doing times tables.

Do you like pangarau? (maths)

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Anti-laziness week (FITNESS)

For the past 2-3 weeks, I have been doing fitness exercises in the mornings to become more fit.

Some of these exercises include: planking for 1 minute, situps, burpees, and more. Following this exercise routine, I had to record my data into a table chart so I could see my end results in Term 3(?)

So far, I personally think I have been making good progress other the last few weeks, others may not think so but I literally don’t care about other people’s opinions.

Although I didn’t enjoy doing 74 star jumps and 15 burpees in the mornings, I did like doing the planks because that’s what I’m actually good at so.

Do you like exercising?

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Uber day (but it’s not about ubers)

This week I learnt about arbor day. For those of you who don’t know, arbor day is a day about the importance of trees, on this day, people across NZ do something relating to trees, like planting or gardening.

A fun fact I learnt about arbor day, is that it is specifically celebrated on the last Wednesday of April, or the first Wednesday of May. I found this fact to be quite interesting.

From this assignment, I was tasked to create an informational video about the importance of trees with my o’dear sister; Eva. Unfortunately, I did not have enough time to start creating this video due to my need of a script, so you don’t get a video this time.

Do you know when arbor day was first celebrated?

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(Also, happy first of June!! ^^)

whaaaaaaaaaleeeeeeeeeessssssss +dolphins

Today I had to make a poster about what to do if you find a whale or dolphin stranded at the beach.

Firstly, I had to watch an informational video about, what to do if you find a stranded whale. A tip I found interesting was, how you should pour saltwater onto a whale (or dolphin) to keep them cool.

And also how you need to make sure you don’t pour it into the whale or dolphin’s blowhole, because that’s basically it’s nose and, “You wouldn’t want someone throwing water up your nose!”.

I’m glad I finished my poster because it’s literally almost home time and I’m on a tight schedule TwT, anyways, here’s my finished product! I hope you like it.

Have you seen a whale or dolphin before?

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