Friday, July 31, 2009

Celebrating Maori Language Week

Māori Language Week 27 July - 2 August 2009

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 27 Hōngongoi - 2 Here-turi-kōkā 2009


This week is Te Reo Maori language week.

This week Room 9 celebrated MaoriLanguage week.

We had a book read to us in Maori then in English by Matua Elmars.

We have been doing Maori greetings in the monning.

We have learned our colours in Maori.

We sang some Waitatas.

Today at assemby we watched a poi show.

It was great!!!


By George N and Pete

To continue the learning at home you might like to check out these cool links:

100 Maori Words every New Zealander should know:

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/tereo-100words (if you click on the words you'll be able to hear them pronounced correctly)

Play the Maori Language "How are you feeling" game

http://www.cybersoul.co.nz/tauihu/howryou.html (listen to the question "How are you feeling" in Maori and see if you can guess what they are saying their feelings are)

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