My Marae Recount

 Rm7’s Noho Marae  Experience

On the 1-2 of May, room 7 and room 5 went to the local Marae. It is could the Arahura Marae. We went there to learn about marae.

At theRriver
We went down to the river with Jerry & Tangi (they are staff from the marae) to look for pounamu. The first thing Jerry said was don't look for green.  A couple of minutes later lots of kids came running up to Jerry and asked him, “Is this greenstone?”, and he said, “No No No No.” After that not many people found some so we went back.

The walk at Lake Mahinapua
On the walk we got these sheets with photos of trees,  plants, and leaves on them and you had to find what was on the sheet. The reason we went was because one of the wars happened there. The name of the lake is called Lake Mahinapua. There was 2 carvings in the marae that were about that war. They were
a Tohunga was a Maori sorcerer  & Hikatutae who was a warrior.


Jerry
Carvings
In the afternoon Jerry talked to us about carvings in the wharenui. He told us about Hikatutae and the sorcerer. Hikatutae was a Ngai Tahu warrior and he came to Lake Mahinapua with a war party to try and take over the and get greenstone. The sorcerer from the West Coast sensed the war party and made a storm and tipped their waka over. Some of them then drowned and some of them went to shore and got killed.  Hikatutae wanted to save his chiefs bodies so  he had to chop their heads off so he could take their heads back to the East Coast in Christchurch. Some of the carvings had earrings and greenstone necklaces on them. On one of the carvings in their tummy was the Lake Mahinapua shape. It was cool sleeping in the marae because all the carvings were next to you. They were so cool to look at too.


Personal comment
It was my first time on the marae.
I loved  the food, it was so good. I was a bit nervous to do my mihi in front of everyone. The smores were so yummy.  I’m really glad I went because I never knew how amazing the marae looked. 

Inspirational Quote art

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. Here is my artwork.

If I had wings

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky ( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem

School poem 1

 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 poems written across NZ! We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here are my poems.

Powhiri

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

Kawa of Care

We have been learning to follow the kawa of care which tells us how to look after our devices and be cyber smart. We had to chose three rules to write about. here is my work.

Marae by Kade and James

This is our marae that we have made.We are going to stay at a marae.