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Here's Our brainstorm about what a Hangatiki Learner looks like if they Stand Together - Stand Tall. Hangatiki Learner Brainstorm

Here's a brief slideshow of our students' Kapa Haka performance during our Matariki celebrations

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Check out our Photo Story on how we made Hot Cross Buns - DELICIOUS!!!

media type="file" key="HotCrossBuns.wmv" align="left" width="300" height="300" Paris and Ngaremu: In making this Photostory we had to select the photos we wanted to use to show people how to make Hot Cross Buns. Then we had to put them all in order. Then we had to figure out what we wanted to say and write it in so we remembered it. Then we had to read it and record ourselves. We learnt we had to sit back a bit from the computer so the microphone was clear. It was a fun way to learn and we could use this again by ourselves next time.

Mrs R: These students worked really hard to sequence their ideas and to write clear instructions. They also read back their own words and sometimes edited what they anted to say. A great first effort.

__**What we were learning about in our Hot Cross Buns Unit**__

//We were learning to compare and contrast some of the customs, traditions and values related to the making and sharing of Hot Cross Buns in the past and present//

Our class decided to learn how to make Hot Cross Buns. We were wanting to learn about the traditions to do with Easter. And we wanted to eat Hot Cross Buns of course!

First we found out what we all knew about Hot Cross Buns and what traditions our families had around eating them. We found out that most of our families have Hot Cross Buns around Easter and we all like to eat them hot with butter. Everyone's families bought the buns at the shops instead of making them. Some people bought currant buns and some people bought chocolate chip buns. We thought that selling them at Easter was a custom, eating them hot with butter was a tradition and the value was something to do with Christian beliefs. Denise knew a rhyme/song about them that her little brother used to watch on the Wiggles.

When we looked at the recipe and the ingredients we were trying to find out how long people have been making Hot Cross Buns. While our dough was rising we found some information and discovered they were made by people in England in 1733! Christian people made them with the crosses on the top to remind people about how Jesus died on a cross. We learned that Queen Elizabeth I was going to ban Hot Cross Buns because they were used as a way of helping Catholics (who were fighting against her). Instead she only let people sell them on the street on Good Friday. There were heaps of traditions people used to have about Hot Cross Buns. Like if you shared a Hot Cross Bun with someone you were supposed to be friends forever. People hung them in their kitchens to keep away bad luck and they hung a new one up each year.

When we compared our traditions and values with people from long ago we realised the only traditons most of us had in common were that we still thought Hot Cross buns were special things to be shared with family and friends at Easter time. What we think about how life works now is different from the people in the past. We wouldn't keep a bun in the kitchen to stop a fire we'd get a fire extinguisher. We thought that Christian people would still value the cross on the top because of their religion and so they should just sell the buns at easter and not all year round.


 * //Well done to Paris, Ngaremu, Denise, Braxton, Paige-Beth, Tshanna, Ocean and Cheyequan for their work in producing this summary.//**