Jul292010

Korero Mai!

By Marama | July 29, 2010 | Posted in Information, Te Reo Maori, Visitors | Comments (0)

Jerome Kavanagh came to visit today.  The students learnt lots of new Maori words.

Jerome talking to the Pukeokahu Students

Jerome talking to the Pukeokahu Students

How many do you know?

Ae – Yes

Kaore – No

timata – begin or start

Ka pai – good

karakia – prayer

nui – big

iti – small

marama – understand

He also taught the students four phrases that they can use everyday.

Homai te pakipaki – Give them a clap.

Koa e hoa! – Thank you my friend.

Homai te _______ – Give me the ______.

Anei he _______ – This is the ______.

The children practised these phrases with the kakahu (clothes) he brought along.

Anei he potai nui.

Anei te potai nui

Anei te potai nui

Anei he potai iti.

Anei te potai iti.

Anei te potai iti.

Anei he kete.

Anei te kete.

Anei te kete.

Anei he piupiu.

Anei te piupiu.

Anei te piupiu.

Anei he korowai.

Anei te korowai.

Anei te korowai.

How many can you use?

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Jul292010

Pukeokahu Hall Renovations

By Marama | July 29, 2010 | Posted in Community, Information | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Hall is looking fabulous – we have new benches in the kitchen, a shiny new bar with shelving and fabulous new deck out the front.  Thanks to Todd Chapman from Double D Construction for all your hard work!

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Jul222010

Fun with Poetry

By Marama | July 22, 2010 | Posted in Literacy, Poetry | Tagged , | Comments (0)

We have begun the term with some fun nonsense poetry, called Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo.  Here are Lochy and Grace’s Poems, make sure you check out the other poems on the students’ ePortfolios!

Hop-hop on a kangaroos sock,

Snore-snore on a beaches shore,

Go to bed with a bit of led,

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo!

Waddle-waddle on a turkys gobble,

Poor-poor with a glass of shore,

Don’t be shy with a old mans pie

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo!

Tuter-tuter says the mans puter,

Shoot-shoot the dumb guys flute,

Go to sleep counting sheep,

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo!

Ski-ski on a big fat flea,

Laugh laugh with some bath,

Make your lunch with a painful punch,

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle,

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo!

By Grace

Rip rip on a tumbling tip.

Claw claw on a fat cats paw.

Go to bed feeling like red.

Chiddlewaddle diddlewaddle doooooooo!

Stab stab a farmers stag.

kill kill abatmans till.

Go to home on a garden knome.

Chiddlewaddle diddlewaddle doooooooo!

Jump jump on a bottle of pump.

Eat eat something sweet.

Go to school and swim the pool.

Chiddlewaddle diddlewaddle doooooooo!

Ping ping on someones swing.

Buy buy a fat fly.

Go to sleep and try not to weep.

Chiddlewaddle diddlewaddle

Chiddlewaddle diddlewaddle

Chiddlewaddle diddlewaddle doooooooo!

By Lochy

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Jul022010

Important Dates For Your Diary

By Marama | July 2, 2010 | Posted in Community, Fundraising, Information, Interest | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Pull your diaries out folks and get these dates in for the 2011 year.

The Pukeokahu School Horse Trek will be held on the Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th of March 2011.

AND

The Pukeokahu Big Back Country Big Ride will be on Saturday the 30th of April!

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

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Jun302010

Students’ Term Two Reflections

By Marama | June 30, 2010 | Posted in Literacy, Uncategorized, podcast | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

We have had a busy term.  The students at Pukeokahu School have reflected on everything they have participated in this term and published their reflections in Audiopal to create these little audio bytes to share with you all.  You can also hear their reflections on their personal ePortfolios.

Abbey:

Tristin:

Jonny:

Lochy:

Grace:

Thomas:

Millie:

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Jun242010

Five Dangerous Things for Kids

By Marama | June 24, 2010 | Posted in Community, Interest | Tagged , | Comments (0)

A Twitter friend of mine tweeted this TED Talk the other day and I quite liked it.  I know I did 5 of the dangerous things he suggested when I was a child.  Maybe we should have a Tinkering Day at school sometime?  Who wants to volunteer to mind the fire?

I would probably include cooking freestyle to this list and blowing something up (preferably not together though).

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Jun242010

The Taihape Schools Cluster Art Exhibition

By Marama | June 24, 2010 | Posted in Art, Community, Interest, Trips | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

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Jun172010

Print Making with Mrs Gordon

By Marama | June 17, 2010 | Posted in Art, Literacy, Visitors | Tagged , , , | Comments (6)

Last Friday Mrs Gilbert was away so Mrs Gordon came to teach the Pukeokahu school children.  The students had a lovely day playing and experimenting with print making.  Here are a few photos from their day.

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Jun162010

Just A Bit Of Fun.

By Marama | June 16, 2010 | Posted in Animation, Interest | Tagged , | Comments (0)

I love this Youtube Clip.  It was made as part of a University project and you can see the making of clip here.  Animation is my favourite form of film making and I am looking forward to doing some animation with the kids next term.

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Jun152010

The Importance of Water

By Marama | June 15, 2010 | Posted in Information, Interest | Tagged | Comments (0)

Mum sent me this today, and I thought that it was really interesting.  It made me think about how much water I am drinking and also how much the students are drinking during the day too.

Water

  1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. 
(Likely applies to half the world population)
  2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak 
that it is mistaken for hunger.
  3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as 3%.
  4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs 
for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of 
Washington study.
  5. Lack of water, is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
  6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of 
water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain 
for up to 80% of sufferers.
  7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term 
memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on 
the computer screen or on a printed page.
  8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of 
colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast 
cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop 
bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water 
you should drink every day?

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