Maori Culture

Kia ora This week (Week 2) we are learning about Maori Culture

I have heard that some of the native birds, plants and names are just Maori names (e.g. Kea, Kowhai, Tui). In our Learning pathways we wrote Digital mihis in our 'about me' page, we have to write about ourselves in Maori, so what our nearest mountain or river and what you like is in a Mihi. Manuwera Intermediate went to our school to teach the boys the haka and teach the girls a waiata. We also learnt how to pronounce some feelings, native birds and nature in Maori with Mrs Dillner and with Mr Dyer we sang some other waiatas with sign. On Thursday we went to the zoo to learn about animals, we mostly learnt about cheetah's, flamingo's and african elephants and I learnt some of the animals Maori names. Maaori is quite tricky to learn because nga sounds like na.

Thank You

Collaboration

it is term 3 and we are back in school, this term we are collaborating

If you don't know what collaborating means, it means that your working together in a team. We need to work together to get more ideas and if we are arguing then you haven't noticed that you are getting ideas so you need to mix those ideas to get something different and possibly better then what you were expected. Teamwork is working together so you can have more fun and more strategies on how to get on with things. Do not be afraid to ask other people to help you finish an answer on something or how to do the strategies on a confusing question. Collaborating is like connecting too because if you work with some new people then your connecting with them. If you don't know what connecting means, it means that you are connecting your learning that is similar to your old learning and it also means you are making connections with your friends too  and it's one of our 4 C's. You don't have to do the same thing, you can do something that your good at and the other person can support and do something that their good at.