Mokau School's Production of Red Riding Hoods Whitebait Fritter Delivery

Please enjoy our production. What clever students we have!

Production Music

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Fairy Tales

We have been talking about Fairy Tales in our class and would love to hear from other people about their favorite childhood Fairy Tales. 

Mr Single loved Jack and the Beanstalk when he was younger because he thought Jack was very brave climbing up the beanstalk and taking the treasure. He also always wished he could plant some seeds and they would grow up into the sky.

Please post a comment below telling us what Fairy Tale you love and why.

Harold is the most clever giraffe in the whole world and he visited us at Mokau School

Today Harold and Megan came to school to talk to us about how to look after our body and keep safe. These are some of the things we learnt.

You have to pat animals carefully.
Kahn

You have to have food, water and oxygen to stay alive.
Claude

People need to keep safe around roads and the playground.
Karnia

You should be a good friend and care about others.
Sophia

We talked to our puppets like they were friends.
Callum

Wear a helmet when on a bike or scooter.
Rico

The Maori word for water is wai.
Rico

My Body Needs:
Te Oranga Tinana

• water
• oxygen
• food
• sleep Brylee
• shelter Karnia
• exercise Emmet
• love Indi
• safety Sophia
• wash our skin Khan

Our heart pumps the blood around our body. Reece

Your lungs make you to breathe.

Claude

Your lungs hug your heart.

Reece

If you are angry go and sit down in a quiet place and calm down.

Olli

Good friends care for each other and look after each other.

Hunter

There are 206 bones in your body.

Claude

IT IS NICE TO BE IMPORTANT, BUT IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO BE NICE.

WE DON'T HAVE TO BE FRIENDS TO BE FRIENDS.

Building a Hangi

Click on this link and have a go at building your own Hangi. It's fun and delicious too.
Next week we are looking forward to having our own real Hangi and being part of preparing the food and watching just how it is done.

Building a Hangi

HP Competition Entry

 Save our IT.

Buddy Reading

We love reading to our Buddies in the senior room. They are enthusiastic and patient and make reading a fun thing to do. We love how they make the books sound exciting by using lots of expression. It is also fun when they ask us questions and we talk about our own experiences relating to the books. Thank you Buddies, you are awesome.

Ngā Mihi - Greetings

In Māori culture greeting others is very important. It is an opportunity for people to show respect, through the language used and its accompanying actions, and the tone for the interaction is set. Whether the greeting is written or spoken, choosing the appropriate language is important.

Learning to greet people appropriately is key to communication success.

                                                Greetings

Kia ora

Hi

Tēnā koe

Hello (to one person)

Tēnā kōrua

Hello (to two people)

Tēnā koutou

Hello (to three or more people)

Inquiring Question

Kei te pēhea koe?

How are you?

Responses

Kei te pai ahau

I’m good

Ka nui te ora

I’m great

Me koe?

And you?

Farewells

Haere rā

Goodbye (to someone leaving)

E noho rā

Goodbye (to someone staying)

Ka kite anō

See you again

Hei konā

See you later

Whakanuia Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2014

Celebrate Māori Language Week 2014 Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2014 

The theme is ‘Te Kupu o te Wiki', The Word of the Week’ 

As this is Māori Language Week we are further integrating Māori into all that we do this week. 
We are very fortunate to have so many students who identify there special Māori heritage at Mokau School. Yesterday we read a neat story about Hine-Matangi and learnt how gardens were cultivated by early Māori. We loved the idea of using large rocks in the garden to catch the suns heat to warm our gardens. This is something we want to try once our gardens are built.

We have also been counting in Māori and we think it is very clever how the reo helps you know the numbers. 

tekau ma rua is 12 (10 and 2)
toru tekau ma wha is 34( 3 10's and 4)

Today we listened to the Minstrel talking about kaimoana (food from the sea) and how we can ensure it will be there for future generations.

Over the next week we will be sharing some of his special messages with you all.

One Cold Wet Night

One Cold, Wet Night

We had a blast reading, exploring and retelling One Cold, Wet Night 

by Joy Cowley and June Meisner.

One of our favourite characters in the story was a giant weta.  A weta is a large insect that is found in New Zeland that is related to the grasshopper.  Take a look...



Please take a moment and read through our own versions of "One cold wet night". We are sure you will enjoy them. Remember we love it when you comment on our work so please give it a go below.

How big is an ostrich egg?

Some of our children read a journal story about ostrich eggs and Mrs Walshaw was talking to them about how she had an ostrich egg at home. She brought it along for us to see and it was huge. Ostrich lay the biggest egg of any bird. We found out you could fit about 24 chicken eggs in 1 ostrich egg. That is a lot of scrambled eggs.

Thank you Mrs Walshaw for bring your eggstremely big egg to school. It was eggcellent.

Kiwi Feathers

Many thanks to Brynn for bringing in some real kiwi feathers for us to look at from Paparahia Station. They were so soft. We all loved looking at them and gently stroking them. Brynn told us that there use to be kiwi at Paparahia and two were taken away to the Kiwi House to breed. At least one was left behind with a tracker but that went flat along time ago and now they don't know where it is or if it is still alive. We wonder if there are still kiwi there and how we could find out?

Oh No! Pests at Mokau

We had another great visit from Kris from the Kiwi Trust and some of her friends. They weren't actually her friends though as they were pests. We did an activity where we were given clues and we had to figure out which pest was being described. 

We learnt that even cats and dogs can be a real problem with kiwi. We love Hamish our cat but we think we might have to put a bell on him so he can't sneak up on birds especially kiwi. We also decided that we want to find out what pests we have living around school and at home. Next term we are going to build some tracking tunnels to put around our school which we will monitor for footprints.

Did you know that Emmet and Reece made some neat tracking stations and we found mice prints in Reeces and Emmets peanut butter was eaten? What do you think we should do about our mice?

The kiwi that got away

We are currently looking at how we can help kiwi in our area and has part of this inquiry we travelled through to Tongaporutu on Thursday to see a wild kiwi having its transmitter battery changed. The weather was lovely but the kiwi decided it didn't want to come out of its burrow. Kris from the Taranaki Kiwi Trust and two of her colleagues spent the afternoon trying to persuade  it out but it was to clever and used its extensive burrow and tunnels to elude them. We did manage to check out a big dead rat that had been caught in one of the roadside traps which was interesting. It was pretty gross but we were happy that the trap was doing its job. We also got very good at Eye Spy and Claude was crowned the king after correctly identifying our objects numerous times. Many thanks to Gail and all our parent helpers and Maxine for the yummy lollipops. We are all looking forward to a future visit with the cheeky kiwi and will let you know how we get on.  

Cushion Star

Did you know that Cushion Star are the most commonly found sea star in New Zealand? They may be but not at Pioi!