I learned how to make a porotiti u pull on the string and make the wood swing

The thing I enjoyed most about this game is that it was easy to learn and it was fun connecting with my peers.

It was a bit like netball, you had to throw the ball up and hit the post.

This photo is me doing my practice string to practice the four plaiting. After finishing my practice on the four  string Poi I move on to my real poi. In the real poi we use eight strings instead of four. in the middle of making my second poi I realized my poi wasn’t looking anything like the other pois that were for show. Then Hera showed me how to properly plant and I was actually pretty easy after you get use to it.

Matua Lloyd teaching us how to carve

Some things that I learned about carving is that you can make straight lines without a ruler

Something I need to work on is carving in a straight line

Something I did really well was listen to Matua Lloyd

Kia ora!!

Earlier this week we got to do Maatauranga witch is a day where we get to do lot’s of Maori activities.

These are a few of the options I chose for this activities.

Some things I learned:

• Taonga takes days to create
• The story behind tamoko
• How to play a new sport

Some things I need to work on are the poi, I can’t plat properly.

The best part about learning how to make taonga was doing it with my friends

At the moment we are making a foot stool

Something I did really well was ask for help when I didn’t know what to do

The best part about learning how to make a foot stool was it was fun

Some things that I learned about Poi are that it was originally made for the men, later on the women took over  and now in some cultures its tapu for men to use Poi.

The most frustrating part of making Poi was getting the four strand plait started, because when I first started mine I started doing the wrong pattern and had to restart. 

I now have a new skill that I have been using at home to make my whanau Poi.

On Monday. The first day of Mātauranga we had a powhiri first block to welcome the tutors, after everyone had finished and eaten it was time for the workshops to start. The First workshop I had was traditional māori sport with Mr Wong, this was the thing I enjoyed most about the whole maātauranga days, this was my favourite because everyone played and contributed in each team which made the game really enjoyable. We only had one more workshop for the day and then had workshops all day Tuesday. All of the other workshops were really fun and a great experience as well! I added this photo because I’m in  it and this was my favourite game we played.

A photo from the sports workshop ^

This is a photo of the bro Jaius showing us how to do some carving.

Something I did really well was having good patience. 

Something I need to work on is to keep the carving tool straight.

The most frustrating part about carving was having to try keep your arm still.

The thing that surprised me was how fun all the workshop’s were  .

One of the interesting things was how some of the instruments were used for healing .

The thing that confused me was how to 4 plait but in the end I think  I got it .

Some things that I learned about  is that there are several steps that you have to do, like sand the bone and then when you have finished sanding you took it over to the teacher and he polished it which made the taonga shiny.  Then you could put it onto the string and then you could wear it around your neck or give it away as a gift

We had some very nice and talented experts come in for two days to take us through some workshops.

We got to do 5 workshops and there were ten to choose from, I chose harakeke, ta moko, tukutuku, taonga making and whakairo.

My favorite was probably the tukutuku panels because  that was the one I was the best at,  but I enjoyed all of them and I am very grateful for the opportunity.

On Tuesday, we had the maatauranga days at our school. I chose tukutuku. The thing I enjoyed most about tukutuku was making the patterns, and learning about the story behind them. The most frustrating part about tukutuku was tying the knot at the end. Something I need to work on is cutting my string the same size   I personally think that it was easier to use the needles to place your string through the holes, but some people used their hands ! And the reason   I chose this photo, was because it shows me doing one of the cool tukutuku patterns!

Some things I enjoyed most about Whakairo was getting to know how to use a chisel, being able to learn about pattern names and the story behind them. Some things I disliked were:  drawing my designs and making my chiseling look good.

This is a photo of me carving out the border of my carving.=

This is a picture of us making a fishing net

Something I did really well was making a paper star in harakeke

Something I need to work on  is tying the harakeke up 

Something I realise is it’s hard to work with harakeke because it is a bit slippery and hard to split into skinny pieces.

When we were in the Harakeke workshop we were learning that they used harakeke to make fishing nets and that you could make many thing with them like a rose, different types of flowers and even hearts.

One thing that we had to know is that you must say a prayer before you decided to cut it down and use it.

For the past few weeks my class has been learning about Polynesian explorers.

We have been learning how they lived on the sea, what they ate and how they navigated .

The coolest thing about being on the waka would be seeing all the fish and wildlife 

The hardest part about it would be the shifts that they had to tack in the middle of the night .

The scariest part would be if I fell into the sea. 

We looked under stones and in the middle of quadrats to find some interesting little creatures.

I enjoyed calculating how much of everything that there is in the middle of the quadrats

Have you ever been to Orapa reef?

I sat on a rock and found crabs Opara reef trip when the rest of the class did the reef study.

I enjoyed finding crabs.

Question:

How many crabs do you think you could find in 5 minutes?

When we went to Orapa reef we looked and crabs and other sea animals  and used 1m by 1m quadrats.

What I enjoyed about the trip to the reef:that we got to go learn how to add up all the crabs that we found and that we got to have turns on using the quadratic.

Question:

did you know that Orapa reef was in witara.