Maori Language Week

MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK

TE WIKI O TE REO MAORI

(1 – 7 July 2013 - Week 9)

This week is Maori Language Week so be ready for some exciting activities around te reo.

Lets have fun and learn together!!

The theme is Nga Ingoa Maori – Maori Names

Arohatia te Reo (which means to cherish the language) remains the tahuhu, the base for Maori Language Week, however the ‘ingoa’ theme asks us to consider important matters such as correct pronunciation, understanding the meaning of place names, and using Maori names more often. The teachers and students are going to have a challenge this week to pronounce New Zealand place names correctly and to greet each other in the mornings using ‘kia ora’, ‘ata marie’ or ‘morena’. It would be great if you could join us in this challenge. A good website to help you practice your pronunciation is www.korero.maori.nz/forlearners/basics/pronunciation.html 

Matariki

Wow, we have had a busy week learning all about Matariki which is our very own Maori New Year. It is associated with the celebration of harvest, of gifting food, and planning or preparing the ground for the new year's crops. Matariki is a time to come together as whānau (family) and a time for celebration. This year it is also about celebrating the people in our lives we look up to. The shining stars in our school community – the role models who share qualities with Matariki and her daughters.  In Ruma Kotare we made vegetable soup and invited our buddy class to come and share it with us. We also worked in the garden and put the compost in to get our soil ready for planting. We shared stories about the past and legends about Matariki and her sisters. 

Have a look on our blog to see our garden journey or what the photo peach slide of our soup sharing with our buddy class.

Sustainable Kai

We have been working really hard with our inquiry about Sustainable Kai. Read all about our journey on our Enviro page. We also have a book in our class where we are putting in our diary entries each time we work in the school garden and a display on our wall to show our journey.

Sustainable Kai

Welcome Back

Hi
Welcome back to Term 2. Wow, we have been busy!! 

Miss Crawford has been with us for three weeks and we have had lots of fun doing sport and vegetable collage art with her. We really enjoyed having another teacher in our class to help us and to support our learning.

We have already been on a trip to the Hamilton Gardens and we had a fantastic time walking around the ‘Sustainable Garden’, ‘Herb Garden’, Te Parapara and the large ‘Kitchen Garden’. Thank you to all our parents who were able to join us and get us there and back safely. This trip has helped us to decide what we need to do with the school garden which we are in charge of with Ruma Korimako. 

We are in the middle of testing at the moment which is always hard as everyone needs to be powerful self managers so it is a quiet environment for those people who's turn it is to share their knowledge.

Next week there will be more on what is happening in our garden and with our inquiry so watch this space.

Don't forget to leave a message and to look at the Links and Activities page to practice your Times Tables and practice your spelling for the week on Spelling City.

Have fun
Miss Lehan


 

Have a Happy Holiday

Hi Ruma Kotare
I am at school sorting out what we are going to be doing next term so watch this space. I have moved all our groups around and changed some things on our walls ready to start the new term.

Hope you are all being good for families and are enjoying your holidays.

See you all soon

From Miss Lehan

Ruma Kotare 2013

Here we all are excited to be Year 4 learners at Goodwood School!