sea week is coming up

We also have set up an information centre about the sea,  have our sea creature puppets living in our dolls house and our fish and kite game (with woven flax rods and laminated fish photos- tamure, Hapuka etc)  and  set up alongside our fish posters.

Meanwhile our freshwater  tropical's just keep Growing thanks to Emma's great care.

Music Term 4

Animals at the beach, Nga kararehe i te one

He Kākara, a Whelk
Karengo, sea lettuce

He akiaki, a red billed gull.

He Ngaeti, Some periwinkles.

Rimurimu, neptunes necklace

He tākapu mate, a dead gannet

He ataata, pūpū, a catseye.

Nga tio Piripiri, Barnacles

He Papatangaroa, A spiny starfish

He weki, a snakestail star

He Tarawera, a common shrimp

He piritoka pākai anga (trans.), he rori, a shield shell limpet, Scutus antipodes.

He Rori, a sea slug (so cute!)

He Potipoti, a sandhopper

He Pāpaka Ura, a red rock crab.

He Pāua, an abalone

He rērere, a marbled rock crab (common rock crab)

He weki huna, A mottled brittle star

He Kina, a sea urchin

He Kāunga, a Hermit crab

He Pāpaka Huna, a dressing crab

He Kapu Parahua, a Cushion star

He Kōkopu (trans.), a common triplefin

He Kōkopu, a marine bully or variable triple fin

He karoro, a black backed gull

He punua ika?, a young fish?

THE ART OF MAORI HAKA

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Nga Tikanga

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Nga Paki Ako - Term 3, Week 2

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Rewena Paraoa (Maori Bread)

For our recent Matariki celebrations it was decided that we make some Maori Bread to compliment our Pork meal. I shared with the team that I had a family recipe but unfortunately did not have an active ‘bug/plant’ (leavening culture) essential to make a traditional bread. Therefore I had to start from scratch with a ’starter plant’. Here is the recipe...

Rewena (Leavening for Maori Bread)
Original Starter:
2 cups of Plain Flour
1 teaspoon of sugar
3 slices medium sliced potato (or kumara)
Boil potato slices in 1 cup of unsalted water to mashing consistency. Cool. When lukewarm, mix all ingredients together to a fairly firm dough texture. Add more warm water if required. Put in a lidded container and leave in a warm place to ferment. This can take up to 1-4 days dependant on temperature. Then...
Feed this raw dough one day with 1/2 cup unsalted potato water, and the next day with 1 teaspoon of sugar. Mixing well each time. Continue alternate daily feeds.
After a few days of feeding, you generally have enough Rewena to make your first loaf.

Rewena Paraoa
5 cups of flour
1 teaspoon salt (optional)
2 tablespoons Sugar (adjust to taste)
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
Rewena mix

Method
Put flour, sugar and salt into bowl. Make a well in the centre and pour Rewena in and sprinkle baking soda over. Stir. You may need to add more lukewarm water. Mix and knead lightly for 10 minutes.
NB: Keep 2 heaped tablespoons of this raw dough in a large jar with lid (I have a small pierced hole in my lid). This becomes the next bug/plant which you need to feed daily.
Put into a lightly greased and floured round deep cake tin and cover with a lid or light damp cloth. Leave to rise to at least double it’s size (can take up to 7hrs to rise). The hot water cupboard is a nice warm place.
Bake in preheated oven 200 deg. C for about 30—40 minutes until golden brown. When cooked it will sound hollow when tapped. Rub a knob of butter on top to glaze. Enjoy...well worth the initial effort. (Sharon SciaScia, Matariki—25th June 2009)

It took ages to rise, so it was cooked that evening and eaten at kindergarten the next day. YUMMY KAI !

Mä is white

Adrianne's be singing a range of waiata Mäori with the tamariki, and it's great to hear they've been singing them at home.
Remember if your not sure of the words just ask we're always happy to pass on the lyrics.
Here's one popular one
Ngä Tae –The colours
Mä is white,
whero is red,
Käkäriki is green,
Pango is black,
Mangu too,
A, E, I, O, U
Köwhai yellow,
Parauri brown,
kikoangi blue, (Kahurangi blue)
karakaraka is our orange,
A,E, I, O, U.
Try http://folksong.org.nz/kids_waiata/index.html I'm pretty sure they have an mp3 of the song if you forget the tune.

Te wiki o te reo Mäori

Tënä koutou e hoa mä, as last week was Te wiki o te reo Mäori I thought I’d add a quick pronunciation guide to the blog. It should be fairly accurate as I’ve borrowed most of it from the NZEI building the Reo series.
Each word in broken into syllables, each syllable ends after the vowel
So Köhungahunga
Is ko-hu-nga-hu-nga.
Ko-as in core
Hu as in hoo
Nga as in singah
Hu as in hoo
Nga as in singah

Try and catch repeating syllable combinations as this can help your pronunciation, in this case, hunga-hunga.

The macron above a vowel eg ö indicates it’s a long vowel with an extended sound.

Here’s some common sounds, unless a part is underlined it’s said as if for the whole word.

Ra as in rah
Re as in rare
Ru as in roo
Ri as in Regard
Ro as in raw

Ta as in tar
Ti as in tea
Te as in tear
To as in tore
Tu as in too

Ka as in car
Ko as in core
Ku as in koo
Ki as in key
Ke as in care

Me as in men
Ma as in mah
Mo as in maw
Mi as in me
Mu as in moo

Ha as in hah
He as in hear
Hu as in hoo
Hi as in he
Ho as in haw


Ö as in or
E as in air
A as in ah
I as in ee
U as in oo


Nga as in singah
Wha as in far
Hea as in hair
Täu as in toe
Kau as in co
Nei as in neigh

And some phrases

E hia ö matimati? –How many fingers/toes/digits (matimati) do you have?
Tekau ö matimati – You’ve got ten fingers
He tekau nga matimati ahau –I have 10 fingers (my own phrasing)
Me kaute täua ke te tekau – Let’s count to ten

Tahi
Rua
Toru
Whä
Rema
Ono
Whitu
Waru
Iwa
Tekau

You might like to visit http://www.korero.maori.nz/
Or http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/ngata/ an online dictionary and phrase guide.

Have fun and enjoy te reo Mäori