Taku Akomanga Vocab

Watch the Mice are stirring on Reomations
to see how many words you know

The Mice are Stirring


Here is the script to check what you know

Transcript and Translation

Speaker	Māori	English
Rōpū tamariki (off-screen)	Ka oreore ngā kiore	The mice are stirring
Rōpū tamariki (off-screen)	Ka kuhu te kiore ki te rūma. Ka peke. Ka āta haere ia. Ka oma ki raro i ngā tūru. Ka tae ki ngā pukapuka. Ka piki ki runga. Ka peke ki te tēpu. Ka takahurihuri haere. Ka ohorere. Ka oma, ka heke ki raro. Ka kuhu ki roto i te kāpata.	The mouse enters the room. It jumps. It moves slowly. It runs under the chairs. It arrives at the books. It climbs on top. It jumps to the table. It turns around. It darts off. It runs and goes down. It goes into the cupboard.
Kiore	Ka oreore ko ngā kiore Ka oho, ka korikori e Kei te mahi tahi, te iti me te rahi Mai te ahiahi, ki te weherua pō! Āta nekeneke, āta nukunuku Kia tūpato, kia mataara Ki te ngeru weriweri O te kura nei!!	The mice are stirring. They wake up and move. They work together – the small ones and the big ones. From afternoon, to midnight! Moving slowly, moving carefully Be careful, keep watch For the awful cat Of this school!

Here are all the words in Te Reo for things around our classroom / taku akomanga

Try to learn them all and use them

akomanga	classroom
kaiako	teacher
kāpata	cupboard
karaka	clock
kūaha	door
kura	school
kutikuti	scissors
makatiti	stapler
matapihi, wini	window
mea	thing
papamā	whiteboard
papatuhituhi	blackboard
peita	paint
pēke	bag
pene	pen
pene hinu	crayon
pene rākau	pencil
pepa	paper
pikitia	picture
pukapuka	book
raiti	light
rapa, ūkui	rubber
rorohiko	computer
rūri	ruler
tēpu	table
tūru	chair
whāriki	mat

Netball

Netball

by Eila and Karisa

Every Monday and Wednesday girls at PPS in year 4 and 6 play netball over the North Shore. The girls in the netball wear a skirt and shirt that say Ponsonby on the back. 
In netball you are not allowed to wear jewellery on and your not allowed to do a thing called contact.  This is when you push and shove. 

The year 4 team has to get to school at 8:00 until 9:00 to practise. Each week the teams play either at 4:00 to 5:00 and 5:00 to 6:00.   Each school has a umpire that tells you if it was not right. The PPS empire is called Ella and she used to go to PPS.

Miss Cowsill has added some photos from last night.

How the World Works - Magnets

Our inquiry this term started with a  wondering, as all good inquiries do - Hamish's wondering - how do birds navigate when they migrate? He wondered this after learning about how Maori used the stars to navigate in his Matariki research.



Watch the video again to find out about this.

What scientists have found

Now read a bit more about what scientists are doing.

Birds Can "See" Earth's Magnetic Field

John Roach
for National Geographic News

September 27, 2007

To find north, humans look to a compass. But birds may just need to open their eyes, a new study says.

Scientists already suspected birds' eyes contain molecules that are thought to sense Earth's magnetic field. In a new study, German researchers found that these molecules are linked to an area of the brain known to process visual information.

n that sense, "birds may see the magnetic field," said study lead author Dominik Heyers, a biologist at the University of Oldenburg.

Magnetic Orientation

Human-made compasses work by using Earth as an enormous magnet and orienting a tiny magnet attached to a needle to the planet's north and south poles.

Scientists have thought for years that migratory birds may use an internal compass to navigate between their nesting areas and wintering grounds, which can be separated by thousands of miles. (Related news: "Migrating Birds Reset 'Compasses' at Sunset, Study Says" [April 15, 2004].)

The new research helps explain how this natural compass may work.

Heyers and his colleagues injected migratory garden warblers with a special dye that can be traced as it travels along nerve fibers.

The team put one type of tracer dye into the eyes and another in a region of the brain called Cluster N, which is most active when birds orient themselves.

When the birds got their bearings, both tracers traveled to and met in the thalamus, a region in the middle of the brain responsible for vision.

"That shows there is direct linkage between the eye and Cluster N," Heyers said.

The finding strongly supports the hypothesis that migratory birds use their visual 

The finding strongly supports the hypothesis that migratory birds use their visual system to navigate using the magnetic field.

"The magnetic field or magnetic direction may be perceived as a dark or light spot which lies upon the normal visual field of the bird," Heyers said, "and which, of course, changes when the bird turns its head."

The study was published in a recent issue of the Public Library of Science journalPLoS ONE.

We need to explore magnets ourselves in class to understand more.  

Please, we need magnets to help with this!

What do you think we need to understand about magnets? Make a comment about this.