Wharepuni Structure Week 1, Day 2

Maori Translation: Ko taku Wharepuni rite Whare Ko te rereketanga i waenganui i taku whare me Wharepuni he 1) kaore a Taniwha e haere ana i waho o to whare, 2) kaore he ahua Maori i whakairohia ki to whare. Ko nga rite rite ki te 1) e rua nga wahi he harakeke i waho i te wa e ora ana ahau i te ngahere me te 2) e rua nga rakau e whakamahia ana hei hanga io tatou whare. Na Aedan Gunn 2017

English Translation:

My Wharepuni Like House

The difference between my house and a Wharepuni is 1) we do not have Taniwha roaming around outside our house and 2) we do not have Maori patterns carved into our house.

The similarities include 1) both places have flax outside as I live surrounded by bush and 2) we both have wood used to build our house. 

By Aedan Gunn 2017

Setting Sail! Week 1, Day 1, Part 2

Maori Translation: Ko te Waka Trip E hoa Norman, Ki te korero koe i tenei, ka koa ahau ki te korero ki a koe e haere ana matou i te taha o te moana takutai ki te rapu whenua. Kaore i roa to maatau kai ka haere matou ki te hī ika i to matou ara ki reira, ko te ahua o te waa he waka tawhito. I te nuinga o te waa na te waka i pupuhi i nga ika ika me o tatou poari ika i marara noa atu i te waka. Me horoi te wai e nga tohunga i runga i te poti, na, i te mea ka nui atu to maatau ika, ka mau ahau ki te iti o te waa, i whangaia ai matou mo tetahi waahi iti o to maatau haerenga. I te mutunga ka kitea e matou te whenua me te ingoa o Niu Tireni, Koinei pea te whenua matomato kua kitea e au i to maatau haerenga. Na Aedan Gunn 2017

English Translation:

The Waka Trip

Dear Norman, If you're reading this, I'll be glad to tell you that we're on our way across the pacific ocean in search of land.  Our packed food didn't last long so we had to go fishing on our way there, it was almost as if our waka was an old fashion fishing boat.  Especially because the waka reeked of fish guts and our fishing rods scattered across the waka.  The water had to be purified by the experts on the boat, so while they did that we did more fishing, I caught I small flounder which fed us for a small session of our trip.  Eventually we found land and named it Aotearoa, It may have been the greenest land I had ever seen on our journeys.

By Aedan Gunn 2017

Māui And The Giant Fish, Week 1, Day 1

Maori Translation:

Māui me te ika nui
I mohio ahau ki te mahi a Māui i tana raina ika me te muka, he pehea tana korero i tana karakia i te kaha o tana aho ika, me te pehea i whakamahia ai e ia tona kauae tawhito i hoatu e tona tupuna ki a ia, e mau ana ki te raina. I ako ahau mo te hiahia nui o nga tuakana o Māui ki te kai, me pehea to raatau ki te kai, me te hiahia ki te whiwhi i a raatau katoa kia whiwhi ai i nga moni katoa. I mohio ahau ko te whenua o Aotearoa i hangaia no te nui o nga ika nui o ana ika i kii atu ai ona tuakana ki a ratou ano, ka waiho ko te okiokinga anake mo nga rau tau me nga mano o nga tau i hangaia nga whenua o Aotearoa. Na Aedan Gunn 2017


English Translation:

Māui And The Giant Fish

• I learned how Māui had forged his fishing line with strong woven flax, how he recited his karakia giving his fishing line strength, and how he used his ancient jawbone his ancestor had given him, bounding it securely to the line.
• I learned about the enormous greed in which Māui's brothers had towards food, how they were extremely selfish towards food, wanting to earn it all by themselves to get all the credit.
• I learned that the landscape of Aotearoa was formed because of the gigantic parts o giant fish his selfish brothers had claimed for themselves, leaving the rest alone for hundreds and thousands of years forming the landscapes of Aotearoa.  

By Aedan Gunn 2017

A Maze!!!

Back Of The Bookmark

Back Of The Bookmark

                 

This week I will be creating the back of ALL of the bookmarks.  It will be created based on the benefits of READING.

From Aedan Gunn 2017

Next Steps

Next steps for today are too cut out the bookmarks and possibly decorate them.  Also it will be a possibility that more bookmarks will be made for the students of Grey High to use.

Service

This week I've been working on my bookmarks, the bookmark I'm creating at the moment a cat bookmark.  The bookmark will have a cat on it saying "Books are purrfect", the cat will be orange with white spots and purring quietly.

By Aedan Gunn 2017