My Marae Recount

      Room 7 and room 5’s Noho Marae Stay

It started on May the 1st at Karoro school.   We began getting into
our car groups. Room 5 and room 7 were getting ready to go on camp. We
were heading to the Arahura Marae. We were going there because we were
learning about our local marae.  I was with Donna in her car. We arrived at the
top of the hill where we could see the marae. We walked around to the gate
where it all started.

Before we started the porwhiri we quickly practiced our waiata. Then the  
women did the karanga. We started walking towards the wharenui. Then I
realised soon I would have to do the hongi and I got very, very nervous.  But once
it was all

over I realised it wasn’t so bad. Then we had our kai. It was so good and the
cake was inā rawa/AMAZING!

After that we went to look for pounamu and  there was a small creek with stones
sticking out of the water. We walked along the top of the wet, slippery stones.
Me and Sapphire ran around everywhere looking for it. But we had no luck. I
started losing hope and got annoyed so instead of walking on top of the rocks
 I just walked on through the water. Sapphire wanted to walk to the other
side so I gave her a piggyback so she didn’t get her feet wet. When I took her to
the other side I kept walking through the water. About two or three steps later I
found some pounamu!

Later on, about 7.00 o’clock we started our evening activities. There was soap
carving, tukutuku panels, technology challenge, indoor games and weaving.
I did the indoor sports games and for our first game we played rats        
Room 7 and room 5’s Noho Marae Stay

It started on May the 1st at Karoro school.   We began getting into our car
groups. Room 5 and room 7 were getting ready to go on camp. We were
heading to the Arahura Marae. We were going there because we were learning
about our local marae.  I was with Donna in her car. We arrived at the top of the
hill where we could see the marae. We walked around to the gate where it all
started.

Before we started the porwhiri we quickly practiced our waiata. Then the  
women did the karanga. We started walking towards the wharenui. Then I
realised soon I would have to do the hongi and I got very, very nervous.   But once it was all

over I realised it wasn’t so bad. Then we had our kai. It was so good and the
cake was inā rawa/AMAZING!

After that we went to look for pounamu and  there was a small creek with
stones sticking out of the water. We walked along the top of the wet, slippery
stones. Me and Sapphire ran around everywhere looking for it. But we had no
luck. I started losing hope and got annoyed so instead of walking on top of the
rocks  I just walked on through the water. Sapphire wanted to walk to the other
side so I gave her a piggyback so she didn’t get her feet wet. When I took her
to the other side I kept walking through the water. About two or three steps later
I found some pounamu!

Later on, about 7.00 o’clock we started our evening activities. There was soap
carving, tukutuku panels, technology challenge, indoor games and weaving.
I did the indoor sports games and for our first game we played rats and rabbits.
It’s a game where we had to chase each other. We also played a game where
you had to get all of your team on and off a towel and into a hula hoop. Later at
8.00 I did a technology challenge. We organised our groups and had to dress
one person up as a taniwha. We lost to the other team by half a point. I was
very disappointed but I still had a lot of fun.

I was really nervous to go to the marae and I almost didn’t want to go but in the
end I really enjoyed it and especially all the activities we did.  My favourite part
of all was looking for pounamu. Overall I just really enjoyed it a lot more than

thought I would.

and rabbits. It’s a game where we had to chase each other. We also played a
game where you had to get all of your team on and off a towel and into a hula
hoop. Later at 8.00 I did a technology challenge. We organised our groups
and had to dress one person up as a taniwha. We lost to the other team by half
a point. I was very disappointed but I still had a lot of fun.

I was really nervous to go to the marae and I almost didn’t want to go but in the
end I really enjoyed it and especially all the activities we did.  
My favourite part of all was looking for pounamu. Overall I just really enjoyed it
a lot more than I

thought I would.

Self portrait- Quote Art Term 1 2019

In term one we looked at our school values and what it takes to be a good learner and classmate at Karoro School. As part of this we drew self-portraits and chose quotes that reflected something we believed in or a value we see as important.

If I Had Wings

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This week's task was a poem if I had wings. First we had to answer some questions and then colour in the piece of paper with the poem. We had to use sticky (Interesting) language, the five senses and interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem.

Powhiri Process

We have been learning about being welcomed onto a marae. Here is my writing work about powhiri

Get NZ Writing - poetry

Over the past few weeks we have been part of the 'Get NZ Writing' poetry project. This project aimed to get 96,000 poem written across NZ!! We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here is my poem. 

Kawa of Care

We have been learning to the Kawa Of Care which tells us about how to look after your Chromebook and be cyber smart. We had to chose three rules to write about. Here is my work.

wharenui

Wharenui

A wharenui is a meeting house where you can go and learn.
It represents an important ancestor that belonged to that tribe.
The tahuhu or spine runs along the top of the wharenui.
In the centre is the poutokomanawa or heart of the ancestor.  
The head is called koruru, the arms are called maihi and at the end
of the maihi are raparapara, or hands. The amo or legs are below
the maihi. Inside the wharenui if you look up you will see the
heke, rafters or ribs which are carved with stories of maori history.

A wharenui can open its doors in a natural disaster if some people's
house are damaged and they give them food and a nice place to stay.
They can stay there as long as they want until there house is fixed.
In Auckland they open their doors for the homeless because there
was so many of the homeless people on the streets in winter.

Wharenui can be used for celebrations like weddings and birthdays.
They can be used for meetings. You can also have a funeral there.