Thursday Quick Write

Thursday Quick Write:

What has happened to these vehicles, how were the people rescued?
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DRIVE Inquiry Term 2 research ideas

Kai and Cooking
What did the early Maori people eat, how do we know?
What did they cook in?
How did they cook?, How do we know that they cooked like that?Did they eat only animals?  What vegetation did they eat?

Seafood  Maori Foods       
More about Kai
Kai- Traditional
Genuine Maori cuisine
Maori Kai
Videos about Kai


Hunting and Gathering
What did they hunt?  How did they hunt?  What did they use?  Did they plant plants to eat? What did they use to gather their catch?

Early Settlers
Moa Hunters
Birds as Food
Stone Tools
Traditional Food Gathering

Maori Tools, fishing and hunting

tools with facts

How-do-the-maori-hunt-for-food?


Homes and Living
How did they live?, What did they do?, What did they use flax for?  How did they fill in their time?

Maori Customs
Maori Clothing
Maori Hairstyles
More about Maori Clothing
Maori Culture
Maori History
Maori Culture
Maori Houses
Thatched Houses

Daily-life-in-maori-communities
Interactive Map Village



Videos about Maori Traditions


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Hangi -Videos

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Digging our hangi pit

We had plenty of help to dig out hangi pit.  Carefully measured 130cm by 230cm and 55cm deep. 

Maths in real life- photos

What do you notice, what do you see?

Maths in Team Kereru

We are all learning about multiplication at the moment we have been shopping at the Warehouse, buying groceries with decimal points and making array sky scrapers!  

Sport with Mrs Muir

We are so lucky to have Mrs Muir come and take us for sport.  We learnt about running styles and discus today, it was awesome. 

Our Quick Write this week

Think about these questions as you watch the short video clip 
If you were going to write a recount from the boy or the puppy what could you say?

0.38   Why isn’t the boy playing outside?

0.43   What’s in the box?

0.57   Why did mum give him a puppy?

1.00   What is his initial/first reaction?

1.07   Why does he change his mind about the puppy?

2.17   Is the boy interested in the puppy? How do you know?

          Why does he resist liking the puppy?

2.46   Why do you think the boy changes his mind about the puppy?

3.07   Why did the mum choose this puppy for her son?

The Puppy Video

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ALL Writers

Wow- check out this amazing pavlova that was made out of the ALL writers recipe book!  Ryan and his Grandma made it together.  They will then write about making it.  

Our Hangi

The Team Kereru pupils have created an iMovie to share how our hangi was created and what we put in our hangi.

I think that this being their second time using iMovie for a class task they have done a super job.

2016 Team Kereru Daisy, Zach, Peyton Hangi from Edendale Primary School on Vimeo.

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