TAHA WAIRUA - Healthy Spirit - Saying Thank You - HANNAH

Hannah's TAHA CHALLENGE for today will help you to focus on nurturing a healthy spirit by building up our TAHA WAIRUA powers.

CHALLENGE:

Make a card or write an email for someone who
has been kind, cool or helpful to you.
Explain what they did and
why you appreciate them

Visit Hannah's blog and leave a comment for her.

Who encourages and supports you?
How will you say THANK YOU to them?

TAHA TINANA - Healthy Body - Healthy Snacks - NINA

Nina's new TAHA Challenge to start our week is to help build our TAHA TINANA for a healthy body.

Challenge: 

Share a recipe for a healthy snack or meal and

show how to make it.

Check out Nina's blog and leave a comment about her delicious AND nutritious fruity snack!

School Assembly - ANZAC Day - Lest We Forget

ANZAC Day, the 25th of April is an important date in New Zealand history. It marks the day in 1915 when soldiers from Australia and New Zealand landed at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. This is a special day to remember all the New Zealanders who have served our country in wars in times gone by.

This year, ANZAC Day will be a little different. People will not be able to come together to pay their respects because of the Level 4 COVID19 Lockdown. Instead we are being asked to 'stand together, apart' in your living room or at the end of the driveways and take part in a virtual dawn service.

Pt England School marked this important date with a special assembly that was streamed online.
Check it out below:

LEST WE FORGET...

TAHA WHANAU - Healthy Relationships - Fun Facts from Bubble Whanau - MAMAREI

Mamarei has a new TAHA Challenge for us today for TAHA WHANAU to help build healthy relationships in our families.

Challenge: Describe one person in your whanau bubble.
Share 6 fun facts about this person

Visit Mamarei's blog and leave a comment for her.

Share your own blog post about
someone in your bubble whanau 

TAHA WAIRUA - Healthy Spirit - Personal Values - THA ZIN

Tha Zin is back with another TAHA CHALLENGE. Today you have the chance to focus on nurturing a healthy spirit by building up our TAHA WAIRUA powers.

CHALLENGE:

Interview someone in your whanau bubble. What are their personal values? What are your personal values?

Values = qualities or beliefs that are important to you

Watch Tha Zin's video to find out the qualities which are important to her and her younger brother.

Visit Tha Zin's blog and leave a comment for her.

What values are important to you? 

TAHA TINANA - Healthy Body - Situps - HANNAH

Talofa Lava! Hannah is back with another TAHA Challenge. Today she has an exercise that will help us build up our core (the middle area of our bodies), especially our abdominal and hip muscles. Core strength is important for a healthy flexible body. This kind of TAHA TINANA power means we can stand tall and bend easily in all different directions.  

Challenge: Do 25 sit ups in 2 minutes or less

Get your timer ready! How many sit ups can you do in 2 minutes? 5? 25? 50?

Have a go and share your experience on a blog post.

Check out Hannah's blog and leave a comment for her.

TAHA HINENGARO - Healthy Thoughts - Positive Messages - THA ZIN

Mingalaba! Hi! Today, Tha Zin has a TAHA Challenge  for us  that will help encourage healthy thoughts to strengthen our TAHA HINENGARO.

CHALLENGE:

Find 5 - 10 inspiring messages. Write each on a piece of paper. Keep them in a container (e.g. a box or a jar) to read when you need a positive message for yourself.

Watch Tha Zin's video to see how she created her
own personalised collection of inspiring quotes using origami.

Visit Tha Zin's blog and leave a comment for her.

What quotes would you find inspiring?

TAHA TINANA - Healthy Body - Yoga - HANNAH

Malo e lelei! Today Hannah is trying out TAHA Challenge inspired by the practice of yoga. It will help strengthen your posture (how you stand) so your TAHA TINANA  is in balance for a healthy body.

Challenge: Stand on one foot and place your other foot on your knee. Close your eyes for 1 minute.

Can keep your balance with your eyes closed for the whole 60 seconds without falling over? Give it a go yourself and share a blog post to tell us how you went. Leave a message for Hannah in the comment box below!

TAHA WHANAU - Healthy Relationships - Playing games with whanau - KAHURANGI

Kahurangi has another TAHA Challenge  today for TAHA WHANAU to help us build healthy relationships in our families.

Challenge: 

Play a game with someone in your whanau bubble.

Watch Kahurangi's video and see who won the race between him and his younger sister - yellow or blue?

 Leave a message for him in the comment box below.

What games are you going to play with your
bubble whanau today?

TAHA WAIRUA - Healthy Spirit - Research and recite your personal pepeha

The new TAHA Challenge today is to help build our TAHA WAIRUA for a healthy spirit.

Mamarei has taken up the challenge to research and recite her own personal pepeha from memory. Listen to her share her pepeha in Cook Island Maori. She has included details in her pepeha that connect her to specific places in the Cook Islands. Can you recognise any of the place names she mentions?

Feel free to leave a message for Mamarei in the comments box below. Try out this challenge for yourself!

Easter Learning Journey - A Special Time - ZAMERA

Ngā mihi o te Aranga! Happy Easter everyone!

This year, the way we celebrate Easter will be different as we stay in Lockdown and in our bubble. Read how Zamera usually spends this time of year with her whanau.

Task Description: For this task we had to write what our family's do on a normal Easter Sunday. My family does lots of fun things, we have a BBQ, go to the beach and sometimes go up to our family house up north. This is task number 1 and 2 and also day 9 of the 2nd week of the Easter learning journey. Doing the Easter Learning Journey is really fun and also helps us with just keeping up with blogging.

TAHA TINANA - Healthy Body - Play Mitimiti/Matimati - JARREKA

Jarreka has a new TAHA Challenge for us today to strengthen our TAHA TINANA to build a healthy body.

Challenge: Play the traditional Māori game, Matimati or Mitimiti with a buddy from your bubble

This game was used to train toa (warriors). It helped them to 'read' their enemies moves and evade and disguise their attacking moves.

See how quickly you can move your body so you don't get tapped! See if you can trick your partner to move in the wrong direction!

Level 1 - Tap your partner's shoulder

Level 2 - Tap your partner's shoulder or waist

Level 3 - Tap your partner's shoulder, waist or knees

Have a go at building your TAHA TINANA powers today playing Matimati (or Mitimiti).

Leave a comment below on our Room 2 Class Blog for Jarreka

TAHA WHANAU - Memory Poster - Ms Tapuke

For this TAHA CHALLENGE, Ms. Tapuke created a poster about her uncle. She enjoyed spending quality time with him and found out a lot about  his early life and he even revealed a well-kept family secret! He is a wise person and had some excellent advice to share.

Who is someone in your whanau bubble you could talk to and find out about some of their child hood memories.

TAHA HINENGARO - Healthy Thoughts - Being Grateful - MAMAREI

Mamarei's  TAHA Challenge for today will help develop our TAHA HINENGARO.  When we focus our attention on positive thoughts we build a healthy mind.

Challenge: Sit quietly for five minutes and write down three things you are grateful for

Watch Mamarei's video to find out what she appreciates most in her life.

Share three things that are important in your life and complete today's TAHA Challenge!

TAHA WHANAU - Healthy Relationships - Memory Poster: KAHURANGI

Mamarei has a new TAHA Challenge for us today for TAHA WHANAU to help build healthy relationships in our families.

Challenge: Make a memory poster. Talk with the eldest person in your whanau. Find out their earliest memories -where they grew up, their favourite foods, favourite games, happiest memory and their advice for you growing up.

Visit Kahurangi's blog and leave a comment for him about his cool MEMORY POSTER he made about his Dad.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE - Choices - TAHA WAIRUA - Ms. Tapuke

For this TAHA CHALLENGE, Ms. Tapuke chose an inspirational quote from the book, Bag of Jewels. The messages are positive and uplifting - some funny, some make you think deeply!

Check out this video to see the quote Ms. Tapuke has chosen to share to improve our TAHA WAIRUA. She says,  "I really like this quote because it reminds us all that we always have a choice about how to act and behave.  We can either look for opportunities and ways to focus on the positives or only see the negative in any situation".

Think of a poem, quote, bible verse or prayer you could share. What does it mean to you?

TAHA WAIRUA - Healthy Spirit - Words with Meaning: PASCHAL & JARREKA

Paschal and Jarreka have a new TAHA Challenge to share today to help build our TAHA WAIRUA for a healthy spirit.

Challenge: Share a poem, prayer, bible verse or inspirational quote and explain why it is important to you.

Visit Jarreka's blog and leave a comment about her Cook Island translation of the Lord's Prayer.

Easter Learning Journey - Poster/Text Message from SONNIA

Sonnia has been taking part in the Easter Learning Journey these holidays and has some advice to share from her whanau to help stay safe in Alert Level 4  for the COVID19 Lockdown and a message for us all!

Day 5 Activity 1

Task Description: For this task we had to Create a poster that shows 3 key quotes that we have heard our family say since being in Level 4 alert.

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Day 5 Activity 3

Task Description:

For this task I had to write a message to NZ only using 10 words. So my 10 word were 

Stay Home Safe Lives Stay Strong were in it TOGETHER.

Building Taha Powers - TAHA HINENGARO - Meditation - Ms. Tapuke

Today, Nina's challenge was for Taha Hinengaro to build a healthy mind through meditating. Visit her blog to see her meditation styles - make sure to leave a comment for her.

Ms. Tapuke took on Nina's challenge! First, she set the timer on her phone for 5 minutes and then she practised square breathing.

"The neighbour was doing his lawns so it was hard to block out the noise at first! After a while, I just focussed on my breath and counting to 4 seconds. The five minutes flew by. I think I will try and to this in the mornings. It reminded me a lot of Tai Chi and Qi Gong, where you are moving in time to your breathing."

Need some tips on how to meditate? Check out this video, then try this TAHA HINENGARO challenge. Don't forget to share your experience on your blog.

Easter Learning Journey - New Flag Design - MOHAMMED

Mohammed  took part in the Easter Learning Journey and designed a new flag for New Zealand/Aotearoa. Mohammed's description shows he has given a lot of thought to the colours and the symbols he has used. Let him know what you think of his awesome design. Leave a comment on his blog.

This is a flag that I designed for New Zealand. I chose this colour because it shows that there
is a lot of beautiful green things like trees and grass. Then I chose this flower to show that in
New Zealand there is a lot of love and peace. Also, I chose the white Colour to show there is
peace in New Zealand.