A7, A8 and A9 singing beautifully a powerful song, Awakairangi E to celebrate Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori, which was in July and focused on pronouncing place names properly.
Awakairangi E is about the Hutt Valley. Us teachers were so impressed with how you learnt the song so quickly and how you sang it so nicely.
We have been learning lots at our school during Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori (Maori Language Week). Here are some links to what some classes have been doing. Click on the name of the class or the picture to go to their blog post. Check back later in the week for more updates.
C1 (Year 1) have also been learning their mihi in Te Reo
C2 (Year 1) have been using the ipads to help them to learn some new Te Reo kupu (words)
C3 (Year 1) have learnt a song in Te Reo on the ipads
B1 (Year 2) have been learning some actions and commands in Te Reo Maori and also learning about Maori placenames
B2 (Year 2) have been learning their mihi in Te Reo Maori
E4 (Year 3) have been learning about Maori place names
Check out this video of the Nga Tamatoa group performing at assembly last week. This is a leadership group for senior boys lead by Matua Whaitiri. They demonstrated what they have been learning over the past 10 weeks. This group has been developing their leadership, discipline and confidence through the learning of Haka, Patere (chant) and Mau Rakau (long sticks).
We have been celebrating Matariki 2013 in lots of ways at Eastern Hutt School. Here are some photos of some of what we have been doing across the school. Click on the link to be taken to each blog post.
Waiata for C1
A9 News : Matariki News
It's Matariki this week! Therefore, people have been celebrating around Aotearoa the Maori New Year.
A9 reporters, we interviewed Mia about Matariki celebrations at Waiwhetu marae.
In class we have been reading a few stories about Matariki and seeing how they are all different. We have been drafting, editing then publishing sentences about words that describe Matariki. We published these into stars to represent the constellation of the seven stars, which is called Matariki.
Here is our work.
Ka kite ano,
Ainsley and Ariana
A8 Matariki is a Māori word that can be translated as tiny eyes, or eyes of God. It is also the name for the Māori New Year celebration and the Māori name for a small group of stars (Pleiades) that drop below the horizon in April and reappear in June. When this happens, it is the signal for the Māori New Year to start. Early Māori sailors used these stars to help them find their way.
We read three stories about Matariki and brainstormed words that summarised each one of them. Then we chose seven words that represented each of the seven stars and wrote them into sentences. Lastly, we chose our favourite and published it on our very own Matariki Star.
B2 and A10 (Year 2 and Year 4) spent their buddy time reading the legend "The Star Fishes" and then they made some colourful Matariki art
B3 (Year 2) made a beautiful paper Korowai (feather cloak) and published some facts about Matariki on the laptops
B4 (Year 2) made another beautiful Korowai with facts about Matariki on the feathers and also did some art and writing about the legend The Star Fishes
C1 (Year 1) also made some sparkling Star Fishes artworks
E7 (Year 1) also made kites and then flew them out on the Senior Field - they made a great video and posted it on their blog.
E3 (Year 3) created some poi dances - click on the link to see videos of their amazing moves!
A9 (Year 5) have been reading lots of stories about Matariki and they also interviewed one of their class members about Matariki celebrations at her marae. They published their learning on beautiful stars. Click on the link to watch their amazing Matariki news video!
