Pepeha

Hi everyone, today I'm going to be talking to you about My pepeha. A pepeha is when you talk about where you are from and also if you want you can add a little bit about your ancestors. I will show you what my pepeha looks like and then below it there is a Maori to English version. And also a story of the taniwha Paneiiraiira that swam in front of the Tainui waka to calm the waters in front.

Tena koutou e te whanau - Greetings everybody (family)

Ko Taupiri toku maunga tapu - Taupiri is my sacred mountain,

Ko Waikato toku awa - Waikato is my river,

Ko Tainui toku waka - Tainui is my waka,

Ko  Tainui toku iwi - Tainui is my tribe,

Ko Waahi paa toku marae - Waahi paa is my Marae,

He piko he taniwha - A taniwha on every bend

He piko he taniwha - A taniwha on every bend

No Waikato I tupuna mai - My ancestors are from Waikato,

I tipu ake ahau ki Otautahi - I grew up in Christchurch,

E noho ana  ki Otautahi - I live in Christchurch,

Ko Richard toku Matua - Richard is my Papa,

Ko Kelly toku whaea - Kelly is my Mama,

Ko Tyrell toku parata - Tyrell is my brother,

Ko Mereana Morgan toku ingoa - My name is Mereana Morgan.

Te puurakau o Paneiiraiira - The story of Paneiiraiira the taniwha

Ko Paneiiraiira toona ingoa - His name is Paneiiraiira

I kaukau ia i mua i te waka o tainui - He swam in front of tainui waka

Naa Paneiiraiira i marino i ngaa wai - It was Paneiiraiira who calmed the waters

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.

Always be safe

Hi everyone today I'm going to be talking to you about a scenario that we got given. (Not true). There was a boy and his mum sent him on his bike into town to get something for her. On the way two bullies from school came up to him named Dean and Elliot. We had to chose four options to use, the consequences for them and what the best option would be. So here is mine.

I hope you enjoyed and let me know what you think would be the best option and if you have anymore options. Bye.

 

Netherlands report

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today I'm going to be talking to you about my information report on the Netherlands. We got to pick a country and write an information report and I chose the Netherlands. I will show you my introduction.

Introduction

Location and climate

The Netherlands is a country in western Europe bordered by the North Sea in north and west, it is bordered by Germany in east and Belgium in south. The country also shares maritime borders with France and the United Kingdom.1 The Netherlands is 33,893 square kilometers and the capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam. Daytime temperatures varies from 2°C-6°C in the winter and 17°C-20°C in the summer.

Flag

In 1575 the original flag was horizontal orange white and blue lines, but in 1630 they changed it from orange, white and blue to red, white and blue. The original flag was based on the colours of 

Population  

The population of the Netherlands is 17,110,970. In the Netherlands there are lots of different ethnicities in the Netherlands, 73.9% dutch and 26.1% other.

I hope you enjoyed and let me know if you have ever done an information report. Bye.

Create task

Hi everybody welcome back to my blog. Today I will be sharing with you one of my create tasks. For this create task we read a book called Don't sit if you want to keep fit. And then by looking at the front cover and some pictures in the book, we made four predictions and then we wrote comments next to them after we read the book to see if our predictions were right. So here are mine.

Thanks for coming back let me know if you have done predictions before. Bye.

Cook Island doughnuts

Hi everyone, still carrying on with our instructions with the same country we made a recipe with food from that country so I made Cook Island doughnuts, so here's the recipe.
Ingredients:

• Ingredients:

  • 8 cups of plain flour, plus 2 cups extra for kneading
  • 3 cups of warm water
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons of active dry yeast (or 3 sachets)
  • 1 cup of warm milk
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • 1/3 cup of oil (or melted butter)
  • 3 eggs

  Method:

1. Whisk the yeast and warm water in a medium bowl and set aside for five minutes.
2. in a large mixing bowl, combine 8 cups of flour with the sugar, make a well. Whisk milk, oil & eggs into yeast mixture then pour into the flour/sugar bowl. Using your hand, mix the ingredients together, until the dough is smooth. The mixture will be quite sticky. Cover & leave to rise until doubled in size ( 1-1 ½ hours).
3. Transfer dough onto floured bench, knead the dough, adding flour as you go until the dough begins to have had sufficient flour added that it is less sticky, and more manageable. Then break off 40 chunks of dough to make each doughnut. Knead each dough into a ball & set aside. 
4. Heat oil in a large pot. Test oil with a small piece of dough (should rise & brown lightly within seconds).
5. To make donuts, pierce a hole in the middle of the dough with your finger, then slightly stretch it out or spin it around your finger to enlarge the hole to about 3cm, then carefully lower the donut into the hot oil, turning the donuts as you go. Fry for about 3 minutes or until golden brown & cooked through. Transfer onto a rack to drain and cool.

Thanks for looking at my blog and let me know if you have had these before, bye.

Top team

Hi everyone welcome back to my blog.

Today I'm going to be talking to you about top team, top team are a group of people that came to our school and ran really fun activities for us to do. All together including the Tumu hub (year 5 and 6) and Kaupeka (year 7 and 8). Two teams verse at every different stations. There were a lot of different activities like catapult, water activities, pattern activities and more. I will talk about a few of the activities, the first one my group started at was catapult. At catapult you put and little beanbags into a rubber catapult. There were two water activities one of them was when we all had small buckets and we had to pour the water in them behind us to the person behind us and they keep going back about 8 people until the bucket at the back. whoever had the most water in their bucket at the end wins. The pattern activities was a guessing game, you had to step on different squares one by one and the person there would tell you if you were on the right square or not and it had to be in 8 moves.

Thanks for reading today's blog I hope you enjoyed and let me know if you have ever done top team before. Until next time, bye.

Tough kids

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog.

Today I'm going to be talking to you about tough kids on the 20th of November. Years 3 to 8 from St Francis Assisi school went to tough kids in South New Brighton. We ran 2.3 kilometres approximately and went through obstacles, over and under things. We went through the estuary twice and when we finished we went through a slip and slide while there were firemen spraying water at us with hoses from their fire trucks.

Thanks for reading my blog and let me know if you have done tough kids. Bye.