Kia ora everyone,
today we being handing out learning packs to whānau who can come in to collect. As well as the mainstream activities that cover reading, writing and mathematics, I am adding a collection of whakatuakī activities for our akomanga across the Māori bilingual unit. Whakataukī are traditional proverbs or sayings, which hold wisdom in them and help us connect to and strengthen our Māori worldview. The picture here is a sample of what the learning activities look like.
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Kia ora everyone! I found these online activities today to help you practice and learn some kupu Māori. These words are all for parts of your head and face.
Let me know how you go!
And speaking of heads and faces: ask the pakeke (adults) in your whānau to friend me on facebook and then I can help you out on messenger with some awesome, individualised, online learning sessions :)
I hope you are safe and well. I'm at home in my pyjamas writing this. Btu just because I'm in my PJs doesn't mean I am not working and learning - and I hope the same is true for you :)
This week, whānau, please put aside some time each day to sit down together and debate a topic with your child/ren. It is really important that they keep up their persuasive language skills over lockdown. The topics don't have to be serious but each side should think of at least three points for their point of view and then elaborate them and give examples. Here are some topics you could choose from:
THE FOLLOWING IS A PIECE OF WRITING THAT WE ARE STILL WORING ON.
Why share it when it isn't yet finished? Because writing is a process.
Should you get a growling if you don't join in with kapa haka?
Kapa Haka is a special performance for Māori so everytime we have shows we get better at it and practice it.
When you join in with practice you get better at actions.
Kapa Haka is important because we learn Māori waiata in kapa haka time.
Today we used our existing knowledge and experience to draw pictures of REALLY SCARY animals and published these in books. From sharks with terrible teeth and tyranosauruses with sharp claws to possums with rabies, our mixed-age writing group all used persuasive writing format to convince the reader that their creature was the most terrifying. What do you think?
At the end of last term the whole whānau (rooms 16 and 17) wrote and presented a play for our school.
Here is the first part of that play for you to see.
