Hello, my name is Nathan and it has been 3 weeks in Hornby Highschool, and the past weeks have been fun. I expected it to be a bit boring and for there to have no additional people in my friend group, but a year 7, Tyler, is pretty cool so he entered our friend group. Most of the new year 7s have been quiet to say the least, and the class has become calmer. I sometimes like the calmness, but mostly it’s pretty boring. For some reason, class seems faster than last year, so that’s a plus. As of term one, the subjects we have are wananga, maths, literacy, social studies, PE, art, Japanese and DTE, my favorite of which being DTE.

Kupu Hau:

Whare – House

Kainga – Home

Akoranga – Classroom

Ruma – Room

Ruma noho – Living room

Ruma Moe – Bedroom

Ruma kai – Kitchen

Ruma kaukau – Bathroom

Whareiti – Toilet room

Ruma horoi kakahu – Laundry

Moenga – Bed

Tepu – Table

Turu – Chair

Ipu mpara – Rubbish bin

Whata kakahu – Wardrobe

Pouaka Whakaata – Television

Whariki – Rug

Wetereo:

He aha – What? (Thing)

Kei te aha koe – What are you doing?

Tenei – This

Tera – That

Enei – These

Era – Those

He aha tenei ruma? – What room is this?

He whanerui tenei ruma. – This room is the wharenui.

Kohitatae – Hanuere – January

Hui-tanguru – Pepuere – February

Poutu-te-rangi – Maehe – March

Paenge-whawha – Aperira – April

Haratua – Mei – May

Pipiri – Hune – June

Hongongoi – Hurae – July

Here-turi-koka – Akuhata – August

Mahuru – Hepetema – September

Whiringa-a-nuku – Oketopa – October

Whiringa-a-rangi – Noema – November

Hakihea – Tihema – December

Maramataka – Maori calendar

Wetereo

He aha? – What object?

Ko te aha? – What? (Proper Noun)

Kei te aha koe? – What are you doing?

Tenei – This

Enei – These

Tera – That

Era – Those

Ko te aha tenei Marama? – What month is this?

Ko te Noema tenei Marama. -This month is November.

Ahea tou huritau? – When is your birthday?

Maehe tekau – 10th of March

Kupu Hau – New Words

Rahina – Mane – Monday

Ratu – Turei – Tuesday

Raapa – Wenerei – Wednesday

Rapare – Taite – Thursday

Ramere – Paraire – Friday

Rahoroi – Hatarei – Saturday

Ratapu – Ratapu – Sunday

Ra – Day

Wiki – Week

Tau – Year

Apopo – Tomorrow

Inanahi – Yesterday

Marama – Month

Wetereo – Grammar

Ko te aha? – What name?

He aha? – What thing?

Kei te aha – What doing?

Tenei – This

Tera – That

Enei – These

Era – Those

Ko te aha tenei ra? – What day is this?

Ko te Mane tenei ra. – The day is Monday.

Ko te aha te ra āpōpō? – What day is tomorrow?

Ko te aha te ra inanahi? – What day was yesterday?

Kupu Hau:

Ma – White

Whero – Red

Karaka – Orange

Kowhai – Yellow

Kikorangi & Kahurangi – Blue

Kakariki – Green

Waiporoporo & Tawa – Purple

Mawhero – Pink

Kiwikiwi – Grey

Pangu & Mangu – Black

Uenuku & Awinawina – Rainbow

Wetereo:

He aha? – What?

Kei te aha? – What doing?

tenei – this (by me)

tera – that (over there)

enei – these (by me)

era – those (over there)

nga – more than

tae – colour

He aha te tae o tenei? – What is the colour of this?

He kakariki te tae o tenei. – The colour of this is green.

He aha ngā take o enei? – What colour are these?

He whero, he kikorangi ngā take o enei. – The colour of these are red and blue.

Kupu Hau: New Words

Ngā wāhi – Places

Aotearoa – New Zealand

Te ika-a-Māui – North Island

Te Waka-a-Māui – South Island

Te Waipounamu – South Island

Rakirua – Stewart Island

Tāmaki Makaurau – Auckland

Kirikiriroa – Hamilton

Te Whanganui-a-Tara – Wellington

Whakatū – Nelson

Ōtautahi – Christchurch

Ōteputi – Dunedin

Waihōpai – Invercargill

Wetereo – Grammar

Nō hea? – from where?

Hea – Where

Nō – From

Turangawaewae – Where I am home

Q – Nō hea au? Where am I from?

A – No Aotearoa au. – I am from New Zealand.

Q2 – Nō hea koe? Where are you from?

A2 – Nō Rakirua koe. You are from Stuart Island.

Q3 – Nō hea ia? Where is he/she from?

A3 – No Whītī ia? He/she is from Fiji.

Kupu Hau – New words

Australia – Ahitereria

Korea – Kōrea

America – Amerika

Philippines – Piripīna

England – Ingarani

India – Īnia

Hungary – Hanekari

China – Haina

No Piripīna au. – I am from Philippines.

Hello, in the past few weeks, we have been learning about senses. This week, we have been learning about sight. The activity we did was with a  big protractor and we put a pin at exactly 90 degrees, then we had to put shapes with different colours at 0 degrees, going to 90. The person was not allowed to look at the shape and when the person sees the shape in their peripheral vision, we had to stop moving the shape and write the degrees down.

Here is my friend Patrik holding the p̶r̶o̶t̶r̶a̶c̶t̶o̶r̶  nose moustache.

We then made a chart of how much degrees we couldn’t see. Keep in mind, that the higher the number, the worse the vision.

According to the chart above, green is the best colour and pink is the worst, pretty surprising since pink is brighter than green. It also looks like Bailey has the worst peripheral vision (No offence) Patrik has the best, and I am in the middle.

ā ē ī ō ū

Kupu Hau

Au / Ahau – Me / I

Koe – You

Tōku – My/Mine

Tōu – Your

Tōna – His/Hers

ōku – Plural

ōu – Plural

ōna – Plural

Ingoa – Name

Ingoa Whānau – Family/Last name

Wetereo:

Question phrase – Ko Wai? – Who is?

Ko wai tōku ingoa? What is my name?

Ko wait au? Who am I?

Ko Nathan tōu ingoa. My name is Nathan.

Ko Nathan au. I am Nathan.

Ko wai tōu ingoa? What is your name?

Ko wai koe? Who are you?

Ko Patrik tōku ingoa. Your name is Patrik.

Ko Patrik koe. You are Patrik.

Ko wai tōna ingoa? What is his/her name?

Ko wai ia? Who is she/he?

Ko Caleb tōna ingoa. His/her name is Caleb.

Ko Caleb is. He/she is Caleb.

To introduce myself, I can say

Ko Nathan tōku ingoa.

Ko Galit tōku ingoa whānau.

Today, we made fake news. We basically made a fake magazine cover to show us how easy it is to fake news. I made fake news about Rick and Morty getting banned in Arizona because of a joke they made about America. It was pretty easy for me to make and that shows just how easy faking news is. Here is the fake news I made.