Kia Manawanui Production Reflection

WALT: use scripts and skits to tell stories about Natural Disasters.

Throughout last week we practiced our natural disaster skits, these skits were based on real life natural disasters that happened all around the different Pacific Islands because as you may know Natural disasters is our inquiry topic. The Islands were Tonga, Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand and Niue.

 The group I had been put in was Cook Island and the natural disaster that we got was a volcanic eruption, the story also involved the traditional cook island drums.

Small Paragraph of what the story was about -

The story was about two tribes (Rarotonga Cook Islands and Ra'iatea French Polynesia), these two tribes both had a drumming challenge to determine who was the best drum player in all the pacific. The two tribes called upon the gods to choose the winning drum player, so both men got their best drummers and drummed away. After the men were finished the gods made the decision of picking the winner which was Rarotonga. The chief of Ra'iatea was so mad he chucked his drum stick as hard as he could causing a volcanic eruption (The volcano of Rarotonga exploded), lava spat everywhere and the gods and the Rarotonga men knew they had to stop it so they got the god of winds to blow the lava to cool it down and stopped the flow. After the Volcano settled down the gods banished the chief and his men of Ra'iatea from the Island of Rarotonga.

Practicing -

Practicing this skit/play was actually really fun because I got to work with a group of people I would probably not work with and it was fun to see people from different cultures in different cultural groups. In our skit we did have a lot of performances altogether I think we had about 5 performances where other groups only had 1-3 performances because our welcoming song, boys had to play the drums, girls had to dance, then the boys had to drum again and then the girls had to dance. 

Script -

I think personally I learnt my lines somewhat fast considering that we had our scripts and story changed, but I think the thing I struggled with the most was being really loud and saying it really clearly because I usually don't shout or be really loud so that was something really challenging I found with this but I guess I somewhat got there in the end. 

Dance and Drums -

 I really enjoyed doing a Cook Island welcome song and dance because it is my culture but the first thing that was hard was teaching the other girls how to move there hips correctly and properly only because they didn't know how to do it properly. Luckily my friend Bianna helped me otherwise I would have gone crazy. The thing I know my group struggled with was the drums because they were off beat they didn't drum together and the drums were just being really annoying for everybody, that's why we went with one that was on youtube.  Even though the girls already did a welcoming dance we had to dance to a fast drum beat and that was even harder because we had to teach the girls how to shake and move their legs, feet and hips to a faster and harder beat, and after the first drum beat and dance it got faster and faster so then we had to teach the girls how to do it even faster than before and that was a struggle.

Next Steps or what I would work on next time -

In the future if I was to do something similar I think I would be a lot louder and a lot more clear and also not as tight, only because it shows like you can tell your scared and people might not hear what you are saying, and even if you say it loud you probably wouldn't understand cause you wouldn't have said it clearly.

Photo of Rarotonga -

Photo of Ra'iatea 

LINK TO THE DRUM BEAT

LINK TO THE WELCOME SONG 

Mary Jane and Monita Indigenous Games

WALA: different indigenous games all around the world.

This week we have been working on a slide with indigenous games. The definition for indigenous is originating from that country, so you can only find that thing in that country, so things like animals, games, people. So like the kiwi is an indigenous animal of New Zealand because you can only find the kiwi in New Zealand. 

In this slide we got asked to research a sport that was already on this slide and given to us, then we got asked to answer all the questions that were beside the sport. Questions like Where is this game played? Where can you find and play this sport? What do you need to play this sport? These were all the main questions that were asked in this slide, and other activities that were cool and fun to do.

Technology, Cooking Lesson 1

Last week for Technology we started a new rotation, this time we are not doing, graphics or hard materials. This time we are doing cooking, in the first cooking lesson we cooked hot cakes.

Ingredients -

1 1/2 cup of self raising flour 

1/2  cup of sugar

1 egg 

1 cup of milk  

First you want to add the sugar and self raising flour in one bowl and mix them both together before adding the other ingredients into another bowl. After that you want to add all the wet ingredients into a bowl so your egg and milk, and whisk them together until they are nicely combined. 

After mixing your dry ingredients and wet ingredients in separate bowls you want to incorporate them together in one large bowl, mix it well and it should look nice and smooth and just a little bit thick. After you have mixed everything you want to add butter into the hot/warm pan, after the butter has melted add 1/2 a cup of the pancake mix into the pan. Once the pancake develops bubbles on the top surface it should be ready to flip.  and when your finished cooking all your mix add whatever you want on top so things like golden syrup, chocolate sauce also fruit and other things.

I really liked cooking this because it was super easy I really believe that everyone and anyone can do this because it is that easy.

Photos of hotcakes -

Tongan Language Week Reflection

Because I was not here for Monday and Tuesday I can't tell you what happened on those days but because I was here from Wednesday till Friday.

The thing I remember the most on Wednesday was that we did a slide with basic phrases and sentences, some of those phrases and sentences are Malo e lelei (Hello/Hi), Fefe Haka (How are you?), Sai pe malo (Good thanks).

Here is the slide that I have completed -

On Thursday we did our usual Thursday routine which is going to Tamaki College for Technology,  so nothing related to Tongan Language week happened on Thursday.

Friday was the best day because this is when the Tongan group had done all there preformances, I really enjoyed this day because it was very entertaining, everybody was happy and everyone was happy to join in especially all the family that came.

On this day we first just had a normal first block where we just did normal learning things like our film script reading, but after morning tea we had our Tongan assembly where a lot of family, friends and others joined us to celebrate this fun and amazing week. But the best part was getting to watch the performances, watch the mums and family sing and EATING!

We ate many traditional and local Tongan food like pork, Tongan donuts and the very good and delicious Otai. Otai is a traditional Tongan drink which is usually drunk with big meals and gatherings, Otai contain coconut cream, fruits like watermelons, mangos and pineapples.    

Terrible Tsunami Poem

The Terrible Tsunami -

The day was clear and the sun was bright, then the volcano erupted,

plates moved, and the world split and the ocean erupted.

With a bang and a woosh.

It wanted pounce, it wanted to destroy, it wanted debrey to float 

But instead,

I saw was panic, all I heard was loud screams and I stared death right in the face.

But it's over, the terrible Tsunami tortured those trembling people.

The sea came and it left a deadly trace.

The end.

Images -

My Pepeha

IALT: speak the Maori language by doing a Pepeha.

On Monday morning in the learning block we started the Maori language week by creating a pepeha, a pepeha is like an introduction its like introducing yourself to someone or people. Anybody can create a pepeha because they are really simple. 

If you know yourself then i'm sure you can finish and complete a pepeha.

Here is a link to my screencastify where I recorded myself saying it.

LINK

Here is my presentation 

Have you ever done a pepeha?