TE PUAWAI COMMUNITY CONCERT

Last night we had our annual Te Puawai convert and hangi.  The children all sang so beautifully and the food was delicious.  It was great to see so many friends and family come and watch us perform.

We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Brooke, Ryla and Fai'ana who were awarded the privilege of being named Junior Kaia for 2019!

TE WHIRINGWHA

Today was a pretty special day in Piako Rua.  The teachers and Pa Jack talked to us about Te Whiringawha.  On a Marae, there are four different roles that people play.  They are:

Ariki

• Leader

Tohunga

• Expert
• Treasure

Mangotoa

• Defender
• Protector

and finally...

Aronui

• Adminiatrator
• Carer

The teachers explained that we are made of parts of each of these.  Some of us have more Aronui for example, than others.  When we grow, we might change but in the meantime we had to have a think about what colours we thought we are now.

We each were given a stylised picture of a person that we had to colour in.  We needed to think about how much of each colour we think we are.  The teachers were amazed with how well we knew ourselves.

You might like to talk to us about this at home.  You will be pleasantly surprised with how well we can articulate what we talked about today.

ACHIEVING TAU

Pa Jack came to talk to us today about how we can create tau (balance) in our lives. We learnt about 3 different things.

Toiora - This is when you are the best at something or you won something.  You are soooo happy and

have lots of energy.

Tau - When you are chilled out, relaxed, and everything is cool.  You feel balanced. The teachers never get tired of people being tau, we want you to be tau. This will help you to make friends. It is when you know the rules and know how to stay out of trouble.

Kahupo - This is when you are sad, unhappy, lost or worried. Maybe you don't know what is going to happen and you have butterflies in your tummy. This might happen when someone is mean or nasty to you.

Kia tau, i nga wa katoa - In all things, seek balance

Everyone will find tau in a different place. Take a look at how some of the children find tau.

 

Braxton likes to play                                                   Charlie likes to lie in her bed.

Rippa with his dad

  Jacob likes to play soccer.

William likes to play with 

his superheroes. 

TE REO MAORI - COMMANDS

Pa Jack came to visit us yesterday.  We are working on learning some new commands.  They started pretty easy but got a LOT harder!

You can help us practise them at home.

TE WIKI O TE REO MAORI

Pikao Rua celebrated Maori language week with a game show.  Mrs Lunn was the Quiz Master and Mrs Ruawai and Mrs Kenyon were her lovely assistants.  You might like to play the game at home with us!  But be warned... we are pretty COMPETENT with our Reo so we will probably win!






After our game show, we made games to play with our Piako Tahi buddies when they come to see us.  There's nothing quite like sharing our love for the Maori Language with our friends.

HOMAI TE ĀHUA - PASS ME THE SHAPE

Today when Pa Jack came, Mrs Lunn taught us a new sentence structure - Homai te ...  This means pass the ...

We applied our knowledge of names of shapes in Maori to this sentence structure.



Then we completed an activity with our hoa (friend).  We had to ask them to pass the shape we needed to make our pikitia (picture).

Look how clever we are!
We are definitely becoming EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS in Te Reo Maori!

HE AHA TE ĀHUA? WHAT IS THIS SHAPE

Today we learnt the name of shapes in Maori.  Mrs Ruawai helped us by showing us a slideshow with all the shapes on it.

Pa Jack came and helped us learn the Maori words.  We needed to check we were saying them right.



We practised saying the names of the shapes and we had a worksheet to do.  Some of us made puzzles with Maori designs on them,  We played a matching game too.

By Jacob N and Elliot

PIAKO TAHI COME TO VISIT

We love it on Thursday afternoons when Piako Tahi come over.  Today we played some games with them.  We are great friends...

KO WAI KOE? - WHO ARE YOU?

We had a great time learning Te Reo with Pa Jack today.  

We learnt how to ask 'who are you?'

Mrs Lunn had made a slideshow with different animals on it.  We got to pretend to be those animals and answer who we were.

Mrs Lunn even put in a slide for Ollie.  

He loves Beauden Barrett so he got to pretend to be him today.  It was pretty cool.

Next we had an activity to do.  We needed to colour in the animals and match them with the correct speech bubble.

Ethan and Oliver - what lovely smiles!

Guy and Mason enjoying their work

  Some of us finished quickly so we were able to draw another animal off the slideshow in our books.  The teachers were so impressed with us that they took photos of our work to share with you.

                                                      

PA JACK'S FIRST VISIT OF THE YEAR

Mrs Mercer and Pa Jack came to visit us today.

We are learning about Mihimihi - greetings in Te Reo Maori.

Today the teachers showed us a slideshow with the different greetings we can use


You can help us at home by getting us to practise using these greetings.

You might like to even have a try using them yourself.