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A monthl y newslet ter for kiwi kids abroad .com
March 2018
And get one for
that shark too!
H O M E T O
O M E
WELC A R K A B L E S
OUR R E M
If you have a dream
– dream big
Footprints in the
peanut butter
And give
that boy
a pie!
IT IS COOL TO KORERO!
Aotearoa doesn’t have enough te reo Maori teachers
to go around. Waiting lists for people wanting to learn
te reo Maori are growing everywhere. There’s simply
not enough capable reo Māori teachers throughout
the country to meet the demand.
Tamariki Times - March 2018
AND GET ONE FOR THAT SHARK TOO!
O M E T O F O O T P R I N T S I N T H E
C O M E H S
W E L K A B L E P E A N U T B U T T E R
R E M A R
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for more Tamariki news!
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Each school has four student leaders equipped with iwi he
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predator fighting kit. And lots of knowledge! DOC’s
pest-detection dogs Flint and Kowhai have helped
teach the kids. The hard work involves
setting peanut-butter-baited tracking tunnels and
WHAT ARE THE CARP DOING chew-cards, to determine the presence of predators.
Read more: Predator Free Wellington
HERE ANYWAY?
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youngsters last mo d to New Zeal and in a
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for 26 years! wer
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won consignment of gold
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er Zoi Sadowski-Sy 1950s. By the 1970s numbers of
koi
Wanaka snowboard
bronze in the Ladie
s’ Big Air Final. carp have had a noticeable effe
ct in
H T A N D D A T E D E B A T E
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days! The pair are lakes and rivers.
loc al Ni co Po rteous is just 16, and 91 to win an Olympic
Her fellow i athletes
cond-youngest Kiw
the youngest, and se
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his return home fro
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Nico’s ult eat a good
here: “I just want to
South Korea. Watch
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A lucky Whittaker’s chocolate lover
nami ng and relea sing a baby kiwi
unique experience of
one of New Zeala nd’s prote cted kiwi sites. As well
into
ious chocolate!! A
as a year’s supply of Whittaker’s delic
etitio n calls for pred ictio ns on the gender, weight
comp
h around Easter
and birth date of a kiwi, due to hatc
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Mention an A&P Show to most Kiwis and it will conjure
D O F T H I S P L A C E ?
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memories of tractor rides, candy floss (aka cotton candy)
and hot dogs with lashings of Wattie’s tomato sauce.
In 2018 the Auckland Easter Show will celebrate an
E V E R H E A E A T U R I P U KAKAPIK I
impressive 175 years. That’s a long time in Kiwi years!
A M A T
K A T A N G I H A N G AKOAUAU O T
Today’s there’s a lot more to the show than sheep
TAUMATA WH A
W H E N U A K IT A N ATAHU
UKU POKA I
MAUNGA HORO N aybe the worlds? Find out more. . .
shearing and The Gravitron. It is home to NZ’s largest Art
Competition: eastershow.co.nz/art-world
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nges t place name.
That’s NZ’s lo
WOO
SUPER KURI! WOO F!
F!
Kiwis use dog (kuri) super senses to make
a difference for all sorts of awesome stuff
WEAVING MAORI
Help people with
hearingproblems
CULTURE INTO WOMAD
be alerted to
efs perform
sounds actors and even ch
Artists, musicians, d Da nce. Three
Music, Arts an
over the World of ion al kai, and
ds, sensat
days of great soun ra na ki in March
te ar oa’s fin es t take over the Ta
Ao d.co.nz
every year. woma
each day –
ople are expected
Around 17,000 pe , an d who knows
nd glampers!)
Find bad stuff 4,000 campers (a . You could
iwis love their cars)
at the border who many cars!! (K vo ur by
l fla
get a little festiva h
e fe st iva l ap p. It includes a Teac
downloading th ide for
, a pronunciation gu
Me Te Reo section ra se s. Learn how
eetings and ph
common Māori gr
d family in Te Reo!
to greet friends an
verage and you’ll
aland’s festival co
Go to Radio New Ze
i favourites
hear from rising Kiw
Hunt pigs Hopetoun Brown
Aldous Harding
The Miltones
ist Maisey Rika
or i soul acoustic art
Award winning Mā hānau-a-Apanui)
Te Arawa and Te W
(Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe,
Black Quartet
s
And Ta ran aki locals The Slack
Stop criminals in
their backs (even if
they’re this cute!)
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AND NOW, WE’RE T P R OBL E M P E S T . . . F IS H !
O S N IF F O U
HAMILTON T the Waik ato Ri ve r. A sin gle female koi ca
rp can potentially
ke a look at thes
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ke d to environ mental damage in nearly half a million baby fish! Ta ’s Do g La b.
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event
our in Waikato Un
iversity
Thousands of ko gs , so sniffing out ju to detect fish od
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havioural psycho
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