Month: June 2024

Science – DNA

Hello fellow readers! This week for science we are learning about DNA which stands for ‘Deoxyribonucleic Acid’. Pretty long word. We had learned that we have about 20,000,000,000,000 copies of DNA strips in our bodies and we had 3,000,000,000 base pairs located in each cell. We had made a clone of what DNA strips look like but with lollies. Our science teacher had made us calculate how long the DNA strips would be it they were the size of gummies which is 8.6cm. First we had to multiply the size of the basepair which is 8.6cm by 3,000,000,000bp and convert this to km, so we had to divide the answer by 100000 and the answer is 258,000. This means that 258,000km DNA base pairs could circle around the whole earth roughly about 8 times. This was really fun to make and yummy too.

Here is a picture of the gummy replication we made of 1 DNA strip.

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Matariki – Māori New Year

Kupu Hou -
Matariki - Māori New Year \ Star
Whānau - Family
Iwi - Tribe
Kai - Food
Hākari - Feast
Hangi - Earth oven
Maramataka - Māori Calendar
Kōrero - To speak
Whakapapa - Genealogy
Pūrakau - Story
Whanaungatanga - Connections
Moemoeā - To dream
Takitahi - Individual
Takitini - Collective
Wetereo - Grammar
Āhea - When will\is (asking when something happens)
Āhea a Matariki? - When is Matariki?
Ko Hune te marama o Matariki. - June is the month for Matariki.
Ko wai a Matariki? - Who is Matariki (As a person)
Ko Matariki tētahi whetu. - Matariki is a star.
Mānawaita a Matariki - Celebrate Matariki (As the holiday)
He aha o Matariki? - What is Matariki? (As the holiday)
He tau hou o te ao Māori. - The Māori New Year.
He aha tāu Moemoeā? - What is your dream?
He *insert* taku moemoeā - My dream is *insert*
What is the origin of Matariki?
- Matariki has 7/9 Stars
- Different types
- Celebration \ Rememberance
-> Tawhirimatea
- There are 7 or 9 Stars depending on what tribe you come from

Ko wai a Hiwa-i-te-rangi?
- Who is Hiwa-i-te-rangi?
Bright, shining of star of Matariki.
Star of giving wishes.
First star of the night.
Star of prayer.
She is the guiding star, will illuminate pathways for us.
She is the star who has something to do with growth.
Hiwa-i-te-rangi is called the wishing star

Weekly Reflection – Friday, 14 June 2024

Weekly Reflection 

Week 7 Term 2

 

As part of our Wānanga activities this term we are going to reflect on our learning across all our subjects.  

Reflecting is a great way to think back about our learning and celebrate the things that went well and look at the things that might not have gone so well and make goals for the following week. 

 

This is my week that was good.

 

What went well this week and why? Something that went well this week was Food tech and this is because we successfully made chocolate chip muffins by ourselves with some help from the teacher.

 

Something that challenged me this week was: Something that challenged me is Social studies.

 

This challenged me because: This challenged me because we had to make our own graffiti art.

 

One new thing I learnt this week was: How to make banana chocolate chip muffins.

 

My goal for next week is:  Focus more on my work.

 

The emoji that best represents how I felt this week is:  🙂

 

Ngā Marama o te Tau – Months of the Year

Kupu Hou
Māori Calendar - Maramataka

Ngā Hounga - Seasons
Takurua - Winter
Kōanga - Spring
Raumati - Summer
Ngāhuru - Autumn / Fall

Ko te aha - Words with important meaning, Use instead of 'He aha' - What is

Ngā Marama - Months
Hanuere - Janurary
Pēpere - Feburary
Maēhe - March
Āperira - April
Mei - May
Hune - June
Hūrae - July
Ākuhata - August
Hepetema - September
Ōketopa - October
Noema - November
Tīhema - December

Wetero - Grammar
Ko te aha - What (Proper noun)
Tēnei - This (1 thing)
Ēnei - This (More than 1 thing)


Ko te aha tēnei / ēnei marama?
- What month is this \ are these?

Ko te Hune tēnei marama.
- This month is June.
Ko Hune, Ko Hūrei, Ko Ākuhata ēnei marama o Takarua
- June, July and August are the months of Winter