How to make Takakau

How to make Takakau

We are learning to follow the structure of a procedural text.

Introduction: Takakau is a maori bread that was first made when the Europeans came to New Zealand and they brought flour to the country. You use butter and syrup to soften it or you can have it with a boil up.

This is all the stuff you need to make maori bread.

Takakau Ingredients

1 teaspoon salt (to your taste)

2 cups flour

2 teaspoon baking powder (optional)

100 ml milk or water

• First Sift all the dry ingredient including flour, baking powder and salt
• Then pour in the milk slowly until is doughy (texture)
• Once you have finished put the dough onto a pan and sprinkle flour onto it.
• After that knead it and make in flat
• Then cook until golden brown in an oven at 200 degrees Celsius. :3

He Inu Māu?

A little bit of stuff I learnt to day

• I learnt not to rush my work and learnt how to do fractions. 
• I learnt not to play in the rain, to respect others.

New Goal's

• My new goal is to manage myself and listen to any teacher
• Focus on my work and finish in time and when I have time don't waste it by playing games
• Don't play around when someone is doing something important or dangerous 
• Respect others and make better choices, don't follow people's bad behaviour.

Five Facts About GI

 

Day 1: 100% PURE New Zealand

Activity 1:  Go to the Tourism New Zealand website and click on the ‘Facts - New Zealand People’ tab. Read about the people of New Zealand and then choose three interesting facts to post on your blog. The facts must be written in your own words. Do not simply copy and paste the facts from the website☺.

Three interesting facts

• The Maori had sailed the seas, from Hawaiki searching for new land,soon  finding New Zealand. Maori are very similar to other polynesian cultures like Tahiti and the Cook Islands.

• One New Zealand Demigod, is Maui. Maui the Demigod is famous for many things. He had taught humans the useful arts and had pulled the sun in making the days longer, but he is mostly famous for fishing up the North Island.

• To catch the Huge Fish, now known as the North Island, he had used a hook the he had made secretly using a magical ancestral jawbone, pulling the fish up with help from his brothers.

Explanatio[Matariki]

Matariki is the new year for the maori people, matariki is also known as the 7 sister and the mother surrounding there six. Matariki is invisible until the next June. In English people call matariki pleiades.

During Matariki Maori people celebrate the Maori new years, maori dance with their friend and family when matariki When Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatūānuku, the earth mother, were separated by their children the god of wind, Tāwhirimātea, became angry, tearing out his eyes and hurling them into the heavens.

Matariki has two meanings, both of which refer to the cluster of stars. Mata Riki means Tiny Eyes, and Mata Ariki means Eyes of God.

Some people celebrate new years when the new moon rises and other people celebrate new year after the new moon. In Samoa it’s called matali’e.