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Quick links: What's cook'n? | Gone shopping | Crosswords | Proudly Pacific | Map it out | Pacific style | Mathematics - QuizIt | Tā Moko | Traditional navigation game | He kēmu whakatere nō mai rā anō. Kotahi te piro mō tēnei mahinga. | Wiki says hello | Kia ora ra, te kī a Wiki

What's cook'n?

Your challenge is to add your favourite traditional Pacific Nation recipe to our online cookbook.

  1. Ask friends and whanau for their favourite Pacific Nation family recipe.
  2. Record the recipe in Microsoft PowerPoint. Add headings, pictures and colour for interest.
  3. Send your slide to ed@tki.org.nz.

As an extra challenge you might like to make your dish for others in your centre.

Gone shopping

Ed has been asked to buy the food for a family umu. When he reaches the market he finds out he can't read the list because it was written in Samoan. Can you help Ed translate these words?

  1. Use the Samoa Live dictionary to help you translate the words.
    • Please note: this dictionary does not necessarily represent the current position of the New Zealand or Samoan Ministries of Education and is to be used at teachers' discretion.
  2. Once you have translated the list, send your answers to ed@tki.org.nz.

Earn a bonus point

More people have arrived for lunch. Ed will need to double the amount of food he buys. Can you adjust the list for him?

  1. Change the quantities on your translated list and send it to ed@tki.org.nz.

Crosswords

  1. Choose which version of the crossword you would like to do.
  2. Finish the crossword then take a screenshot to send to ed@tki.org.nz.
    • Press the Print Screen button on your key board.
    • Open a Microsoft Word document.
    • Press Ctrl V (Paste).

Proudly Pacific

Your challenge is to design a flag that represents all the Pacific Island nations.

  1. Check out the World Flag Database for ideas for your flag.
  2. Design your flag in paint.
  3. Write a caption underneath the flag, explaining your design.
  4. Send your flag to ed@tki.org.nz.

Map it out

Oh no! A rainstorm has ruined Wiki's map of the Pacific Islands. Can you help her by drawing in the missing countries?

  1. Download this map and save it to your My Work area.
  2. Locate these countries on a world map. Use the Information Station to help you.
    • New Zealand
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
  3. Use paint to add the missing countries to the map.
  4. Send your finished map to wiki@tki.org.nz.

Pacific style

Can you design a traditional siapo pattern for Tipani's new lavalava?
  1. Create a large rectangle in paint. This will be the outline of the lavalava.
  2. Draw your design and colour the lavalava. Look at the siapo/tapa patterns on this website for ideas.
  3. Save your design and send it to tipani@tki.org.nz.

Mathematics - QuizIt

  1. Choose which version of the quiz you would like to do.
  2. Finish the quiz then take a screen shot to send to ed@tki.org.nz.
    • Press the Print Screen button on your keyboard.
    • Open a Microsoft Word document.
    • Press Ctrl V.
  3. Send your screen shot to ed@tki.org.nz.

Tā Moko

Use the paint tool to colour the moko for this wheku, (Māori mask). Take a look at this Tā Moko website to help with ideas for your moko. E-mail your mask to Wiki.

Whakamahi te tohu Peita kia whakataangia tēnei wheku. Tirohia tānei paewhakaata Ta Moko hei awhina i a koe. I-mēra mai tou wheku ki a Wiki.


Traditional navigation game.

Navigating the pacific before western culture came to Aotearoa was done with the stars, weather patterns and knowledge of the sea.

Take a trip on this Wayfinder website waka and find out what it must have been like in those days to navigate around the Pacific Ocean.

Email the name of the island you arrive at to wiki@tki.org.nz to receive your one point.


He kēmu whakatere nō mai rā anō. Kotahi te piro mō tēnei mahinga.

I mua i te taenga mai o ngā tikanga o te hauauru ki Aotearoa, whakaterehia ai te moana-nui-a-Kiwa mā ngā whetu, mā ngā tohu huarere, me ngā mōhiotangā ki te moana.

Whakahaerengia he haerenga māu i runga i te pae whakaata o Wayfinder, ki te tiro i pēhea rawa te haere o te hunga o aua wā rā, i a rātau e whakatere ana i te moana-nui-a-Kiwa.

Imerahia mai te ingoa o te moutere i tau ai koe, ki a wiki@tki.org.nz kia whiwhi ai koe i tō piro.


Wiki says hello

While Wiki was travelling the Pacific Ocean she learnt to say hello in six different languages, match the correct greeting with the country.

Rarotonga Bula vanaka
Aotearoa Talofa lava
Hawaii Kia ora
Samoa Iorana
Fiji Kia orana
Tahiti Aloha

Email your answers to wiki@tki.org.nz


Kia ora ra, te kī a Wiki

I a Wiki e hurihuri ana i te moana-nui-a-Kiwa, ka mōhio a ia ki te kia ora atu i roto i ngā momo reo e ono, honoa te kōrero ki te moutere e tika ana.

Rarotonga Bula vanaka
Aotearoa Talofa lava
Hawaii Kia ora
Hamoa Iorana
Whītī Kia orana
Tahiti Aloha

Imerahia mai o whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz


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