Nga kiriata kiriahua mo te wiki o Te Reo Maori

Nau mai haere mai ki Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori.  In Room 2 we have been creating our own Maori Selfie videos.  For some of us, we have just worked on saying our pepeha and our whakapapa with confidence, for others we have been extending our reo by saying what we like and our goals.
First we wrote what we wanted to say in Maori, some of us used Maori dictionary for kupu (words) we did not know, but most of us asked Whaea Sally to help us.

Finally, we recorded our own selfie movie.  We recorded our kiriata in a variety of ways, some used green screen, some used screencastify and others just recorded using our chromebook camera.

Kia kaha ki te korero Maori, ahakoa he iti -give speaking Maori a go, no matter how little.

To matou mihi

In Room 2, we have been extending our mihi by learning new tauparapara.  A tauparapara is usually an opening to a mihi, such as a proverb or wise saying.  Below are Kyla and Koda practising their mihi using two of the new tauparapara we have been learning (underneath each video is the tauparapara and its translation).  

Whakarongo ake au                       I listen

ki te tangi a te manu                     To the cry of the bird                                     

Tui, tui, tuituia                             "Bind  together"

Tuia i runga                                  Bind from above

Tuia i raro                                     Bind from below

Tuia i waho                                  Bind from without

Tuia i roto                                    Bind from within

Tui i te here tangata                     Bind with the bonds of mankind

Ka rongo te po                            May there be peace by night

Ka rongo te ao                             Peace by day

Ka ao, ka ao, ka Awatea              The day has broken

Tihei Mauriora!                           Behold there is life!

Korihi te manu                            The bird sings

Takiri mai te ata                          The morning has dawned 

Ka ao, ka ao, ka Awatea              The day has broken

Tihei Mauriora!                           Behold there is life!                            


We will continue practising our new tauparapara and saying our mihi confidently before it is our turn to take morning taumata for the school.  We are also learning how to extend our mihi tautoko - this is a mihi that acknowledges those who have taken the morning taumata - by acknowledging the teachers and students of the school as well.

Mauriora!