Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

E te ti, e te ta!

He wiki hou, he kaupapa hou. Hei te wiki e tu mai nei, ko te kaupapa matua mo te Wiki o Te Reo Maori ko - Whangiahia te reo ki nga matua. No reira, i tenei wiki, ka hangaia e matou ki nga momo rauemi mo to matou kainga hei whangaia te reo mo aku matua i te kainga. He tino maha enei mahi ki a matou, engari he mahi tino whakahirahira hei tautoko i tenei kaupapa otiria hei oho ake te reo Maori i oku kainga.

No reira, aata haere mai i ta matou mahi :)

Greetings to all!

A new week, a new topic. This weeks topic is about Maori Language Week - Nurture the language for our parents. So, this week we will be making different resources that could be used at home to not only support Maori Language Week but to also keep our language alive. It'll be tough, but worth it in the end.

So, stay tuned for what we have install.

Here in a link to help you at home - http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/a-matou-mahi/te-wiki-o-te-reo-maori-mi-nz/2015-kaupapa-te-wiki-o-te-reo-maori/

Police deliver a positive message

During week 1 we discussed with 2 local police officers the laws and meaning of STEALING. We firstly discussed what are laws, what happens if you were to break a law or rule in school and what are the consequences of breaking the law outside of school. We had lots of interesting ideas to share and appreciated it when the officers took note of what we would say.

Following on from this, we came up with our own answers for the meaning of stealing - most of our answers were taking things or items that don't belong to us or without any permission from the owner. This made us think about the little things like a pencil or a rubber that we may have taken from someone in class. The police officer said that even taking something as small as a rubber without asking is stealing. 

The officers also gave us the opportunity to think hard about some stealing scenario's that we may have come across in life or that we may encounter, we had to decide whether the scenario was classed as stealing or not stealing. Whatever we decided we had to back up our answer with a reason why. Some scenario's were tricky, but we managed to give some valid reasons. 

Thanks ladies for the visit, hopefully we won't see you for something bad.

 

2 down, 2 to go!

Welcome back to term 3!

During the holidays we had an unexpected event - our youngest class member, Matariki bit the bullet and decided to move down the line with her mum and younger sister, Mairangi. We were all hoping Matariki wouldn't leave us as she brings so much life and happiness to our class and Te Whanau Awhina. Thank you for being a bright and happy member of our class Matariki. Here's a quick selfie of you and Whaea Ata before you left C.P.S.

Another Holiday event was when Te Whanau Awhina performed for the opening ceremony of the Matariki Art Market at the Auckland Memorial Museum. Unfortunately Whaea Ata was unable to make it - a tinana (physically), but she did hear that Tamara smiled through the whole performance. Ka mau te wehi Tamara! The remaining students also performed well and confidently. Congratulations to you and your tutors Te Whanau Awhina.

Mana Wahine!

Throughout this term we have been very fortunate to have 'Mana Wahine' lessons. We have learnt a lot of skills from these lessons and are always trying our best to use them in our every day lives. Here is a short video of us creating our very own "Mana Wahine" chant.

**Please note we only made this chant up 5 MINUTES prior to Whaea Ata videoing us and it is only half of our actual chant.

Nga mihi kia Matua Were mo tona awhina ki a matou.

Dexarne, Sandra, Jada, Christina, Calais.

Ka kite ano Whaea Francis!

Here's a video created especially for Whaea Frances, our wonderful student teacher who joined our class for a total of 5 weeks. We will never forget all of those tireless push-ups that we had to do at least two times a day, minimum. Thank you Whaea Frances!

Nga Koohine Kahu!