Maori Pronunciation

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing things around Te Reo Maori. We had to record us repeating and learning the Maori alphabet, Maori place names and Maori vowels. During this session I learnt how to pronounce Maori place names properly and learnt what the Maori words are for the place names. During this I thought I did well at the Maori vowels, and the Maori alphabet. I think I need to practise more on pronouncing my Maori place names more accurately and need to pronounce the vowels correctly.

Best Lunch EVER!!!

 On Tuesday my class went to Greens for Shivam’s birthday Shivam is one of my classmates in Te Ngahere. The reason we went to Greens was because Shivam’s parents own the restaurant. We started walking to Greens around 11:45 it took us around 5 minutes to get there. When we got there we went into the indian cuisine when we walked in we said hello and then got seated. I was sitting on a table with Tawhiwhi, Angela and Jade, after sitting there for a few minutes they gave us a can of Coke or Sprite I got Coke. Then after a few minutes of waiting we finally got our food. We were given Butter Chicken. When my table got our food it was so delicious I felt so happy when I ate it. It took us around 20 minutes or longer to finish when we finished we got surprised at the end with a trolley of easter eggs. They handed them out we got one each there were Pineapple Lumps and Freddo I got a freddo. By thanking Shivam Angela and Jade gave Shivam a birthday card to say thank you, when we gave it to him we put our things down and then performed a few songs for his family to say thank you. Have you had Butter Chicken before?

Smart Surfing

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing something called smart surfing. Smart surfing is when you find the key words in a sentence and use those keywords when you google something. For example, let's say the question is “What does a spider eat?”. The key words in that question would be spider and eat. Let's change the word eat to diet so now it is “spiders diet” why you change it to spiders diet is because when you write spiders eat it won’t make sense but when you say spiders diet it will make more sense. It is better to use keywords in a google search because when you search the whole sentence you will get an inaccurate result while when you type in keywords in a google search you will get a more accurate result. You get a better result because you when you search the key words it will search the web for those words mainly so when you click on one of the links you will get a more accurate result.