Mana

Mana

In Maori culture, mana is many things. It is honour. To have mana is to have great authority, presence or prestige. It is respect. Mana is a word found in Pacific Ocean native languages meaning "power, effectiveness, prestige, where in most cases Mana is the soul. The exact definition depends on the language. This concept is a major one in Polynesian Cultures . It is part of Present Pacific islander culture.

The term came to the attention of western anthropologists through the reports of missionaries in the islands. Its study was included in the topic of cultural anthropology, specifically in the anthropology of religion. Links were seen between it and an earlier phase of western religion, animism at first, then pre-animism.

Uenuku the god of rainbows

Uenuku is the god of rainbows. As a man he fell in love with the morning-mist maiden, Tairi-a-kohu. They married under the condition that Uenuku would not tell his people about her until their child had grown up. He tricked her into staying after dawn and when she found out she left him. Desolated he wandered the earth trying to find her, eventually Rangi the Sky father took pity on him and changed him into a rainbow so that he could join his family in the sky.

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Tuia i runga

Bind above

Tuia i raro

Bind below

Tuia i whao

Bind without

Tuia i roto

Bind within

Tuia te here tangata

Bind together the people

Ka rongo te ao

Plan for the day

Ka rongo te po

By looking to the past

Tihei mauri ora!

Behold the sneeze of life

Our Camp

We recently had our school camp at Murchison and we learnt all about the history and we went and did some really cool activities. We went on the buller gorge jet boating, the comet line (zip line), NZ's longest swing bridge and rafting down the river. My favorite activity was was the jet boating because we did lots of like 360's in the water and donuts. We stayed in Murchison for 4 days. I had a few questions before we went on camp and answered them all when i got back. Here is link to poster. The Link. 

We stayed in tents at a motor home and in my tent we had 5 kids and an adult. For dinner the first night we had bacon and egg pie and salad it was awesome because of the bacon ;) The second night we had all the kids into groups and cook our own meals plus the adults ones. We had been practicing for a while to know exactly how to cook our food. For my group we cooked Pumpkin soup for the entree and for the main we had tacos and the dessert we had pancakes with cream and jelly. Here is the menu we made. Menu.

I would love to go on camp again but next year i am going to high school so this was my last camp.

My week end

On the week end me and my family went camping up at Waipara. When we arrived we put up our tents and then because we were only there for a round about 24 hours we went swimming at a lagoon. The water was really deep in the middle like I couldn't swim to the bottom. There was 3 rope swings and a water slide. Soon it became night so we made dinner but my dad forgot the fry pan for the gas cooker, so we cooked sausages on a stick over the flames of the camp fire. Then we did the same with some marshmallows. In the morning we packed up everything and went back to the lagoon for one last swim. after that we went home. 

My experience with the earth quake

I was sound asleep in my bed when suddenly I heard a creak from the wall and the ground underneath me started to move, my bed, swaying from side to side gently. My wardrobe was swinging open and close and other cupboards were shutting and closing. I sat there in silence for twenty ish seconds and it didn't stop it just keep going. I got out of my bed struggling to stand up straight. and slowly walked over to the door and opened it and leaned against the door way until the shaking stopped.

Game and Goals

Hello and welcome back to term 4 I hope u had a good holiday's I made this video hope u enjoy it :)
this term my school is having camp, swimming, athletics day and we get to see a Navy show

Game And Goals

Put down in the comments what u think was the lie and one thing u enjoyed in the holidays.

Pet Day

In the first week back into term 4 my school is having a pet day where we bring all of our pets. I am bringing  rabbit. We have to do a pet project like explain all the stuff about our pets and what they do.

Olympic Commentary

My class had to pretend that we were commentators from sports games or horse races and write what we think would happen in a Olympic event. Hope you like it :)

Welcome back to another breath taking event, the 100m sprints, in the 2016 Olympics with Usain Bolt in lane four, the previous world record holder. I’m expecting big things from this guy. Over in lane one, Alex Manner, who has recently recovered from a sprained hamstring. In lane two, we have Sam Blake from Canada. Three, we have Donny Matt from NZ.  Five, we have Samuel Matt from Ireland. Over in lane six, we have Brad Pitt from USA. Seven we have Benjiman Hut from Germany. The last in lane eight, we have Noah Sparks from Argentina.

All competitors are lined up, bent down, waiting. The hundreds of thousands of people watching on are building up the suspense.  Ready… GO! Thier off! Donny’s behind Alex, Alex is Coming in on the outside of Sam, Whittwickey is chasing down Noah, Benjiman is behind Blake and Blake is behind Usain Bolt but only just. Side by side. Bolts in front by a foot now. What a nail biting sight. Coming up on the final 30 metres and Bolt is taking the lead with a sudden burst of speed. This just goes to show that we have no idea what Bolt has in store, and he has done it! Bolt has set a new world record time of 9.55 seconds. The crowd is going crazy at this once in a lifetime sight.