Natural Disasters

This is a presentation that can help me with my languages by saying all the words that mean every natural disaster, nearly in the whole world.  

Inquiry Presentation - Governance Group

Our group was researching Maori governance as part of our topic Whanaungatanga. Did you know it were the tohunga that upheld Maori laws before the missionaries arrived? Neither did we! Watch to find out more!

My First Movie!

Miss Hansell set a challenge of making our very first movie using iMovie! We had to take the pictures, add transitions, add music and edit it all ourselves! Here is the end product, I hope you like it.

Information Report - Harakeke Medicine

Harakeke is a type of rongoa (medicine) that was used by the early Maori people. Did you know that some of these traditions are still used today?

Harakeke is a green type of plant, but it is also spiky and very ancient.
Are you aware that the smallest leaves grow in the middle and as they grow bigger they start to grow towards the outside. The grand parents are the leaves on the outside, then comes the parents and in the very middle is the baby, you must never cut the baby.

The roots of the harakeke are roasted on hot rocks and the leaves are boiled. Many people don’t know that the fibre of the harakeke can be used to sew wounds.

In the early days only a tohunga (priest) could heal with rongoa, because they had the authority and the power as well as the knowledge of what was tapu to prepare and heal the people . These days anyone can do it! Now that I have told you, you can try it!

Alphabet key

Alphabet key
A-Aroha
B- Building relationships
C-Co-operation
D-Determination
E-Encouragement
F-Friendship
G-Growth
H-Harmony
I-Intergrity
J-Justice
K-Kotahitanga
L-Looking after each other
M-Marae
N-Nice
O-Opportunity
P-Peace
Q-Quality friends
R-Respect
S-smoke free
T-Trust
U-Understanding
V-Values
W- Whanaungatanga
X-Ex-ellent learning
Y-young people working together
Z-Zig zag patterns on the marae

Prediction Key

I have used my Prediction Key to think about what the Tamaki Primary School uniform might look like in 50 years time. Here is my design!

Osaiasi term 2 goals

Term Two Learning Goals
My learning goal for Reading this to:
Try and reach 3p by the end of this term.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Take a book from the library each day so I can read one chapter every night.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Listening to me when I read and help me read with expression. Also asking me questions about what I read to check that I really understand it.

My learning goal for Writing this term is:
To remember to put punctuation in the right place.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Play some writing board games to improve my punctuation.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Writing me stories with no punctuation and I could figure it out.

My learning goal for Maths this term is:
To learn my time tables all the way up to 12.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Practise my times-tables facts. I could write myself maths questions or play maths games.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Playing Maths Tiggy with me in the afternoon.

My personal goal this term is:
Try and be number 1 in ‘Tut-Pup’.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Play ‘Tut-Pup’ as much as I can.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Challenging me in ‘Tut-Pup’.

Marae Recount

Yesterday, Wednesday the 6th of April was a great day. The whole senior syndicate travelled by bus to the Orakei marae. Everyone was so excited we couldn’t wait. As soon as we got there everyone jumped out of their seats, but the teachers told them to settle down. We all lined up to walk in the admin area, but before that Mrs Hansell had a little talk with us about what her expectations were. We walked into the whare kai and lined up in girls and boys lines.


When we got outside and we were under the entrance way to the atea. We had to get into our lines. The boys that were at back, but had to go to the front because they had to do the hongi with the tangata whenua. This is a tradition because in the olden days the tribe that they travelled to might have wanted to go to war with them so the men would go first, so that the women would be safe. The kai karanga called us on and as the manuhiri we had to put our hands near our stomach to remember all our ancesters. When we entered the marae we had to take off our shoes. The tangata whenua sang waiata and then it was playtime. After play the boys and girls split up. The girls went with Whaea Celeste to learn the poi and we went with Matua William to learn the haka.


The haka was especially challenging for me because we went over it many times. I couldn’t keep count. Next we had lunch time, we swore to Matua William that we wouldn’t tell the girls what we were doing. It was time the girls showed us their items and we showed them. Both items were amazing. It was a great experience going to the marae. I learnt a lot of things including building relationships and how knowledge is the most important thing. I had a great time and I hope we get to go back there again.

This is Me

I am Osaiasi and I like my netbook because it doesn't give me a sore hand, before we got our netbooks we wrote lots of lines that made our hands sore.