1. I live in a special place

2. When the tide is high you cannot reach my home

4. At low and half tide you can drive around the reef to the seaweed pickers huts where I live

6. Sometimes when there is much seaweed we stay on the reef for weeks

7. We collect sea weed and lie it in the sun to dry

8. I can find paua in the guts inside the reef

9. I know how to use the knife but I haven’t yet learnt how to use a pencil

10. I notice many things in my world - the changing shapes in the sand

11. The sea is not always blue

12. I know about hiding

14. We are a community

15. Sometimes one isout of place

16. Ahipara is where I will start school

17. How will you teach me I know how to hold the knife carefully to cut the that the paus How will my world knowledge help me to learn, when I walk through your school gates? Are you ready for me?

18. Maybe my alphabet could be: paua instead of pig or reef rather than racoon

19. WEEKEND STORY I went to the beach doesn’t really work for me

20. I could start my story with the different tracks in the sand ……

21. OR Many shells …………..

22. I could tell you lots about the seaweed

23. How do you get to know your learners?

24. Nau te rourou naku te rourou Ka ora ai te iwi With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive