Te Whirinawha

Ariki - blue - leader Tohunga - red - expert/knowledge, great learners Mangotoa - Yellow - warrior/defender/protector Aronui - Green - nice/kind/care/organise/equipment

This is how a well balanced person looks.

Where do you see yourself?

Mrs Whitta's looks like this:  I identify as a Mangotoa firstly and an Ariki secondly... 

Here are some examples of the kids and how the identify themselves...

Week 5 Term 2

Today we had Kelly open the door for our visitor (Mrs Mercer) - Kelly welcomed our visitors in.  Next week she will say "Nau mai, haere mai"

Max started our class Pou Mihi by asking the whole class to "E tu", we knew when to start our mihi as he said "Tena tatou..."

Whetu Piata delivered a very clear and well paced Pou Mihi - Ka rawe nga tamariki!!!

We watched a video in TE REO MAORI!!  We could understand what they were saying because of the pictures.

We could identify these words: waka = boat, hangi = food, ano = again, karakia = prayer

Mrs Mercer helped us translate the video so we could understand this more.

video of the legend

Term 2 Week 4

Where we are heading with our Te Reo Maori Programme:

Welcome at the door: Haere mai, Nau mai...

Speaker: E tu

Speaker: Tena tatou (He Whakawhetai)

Who could be our speakers?  Miss Denniston and Mrs Whitta will choose 1 or 2 people to welcome our visitors

Kaitiakitanga (guardian of our land)

• Maori people had to be careful of their resources like wood, sea food, natural resources
• They had to try and trade for the things they needed.
• If they couldn't trade with the hapu around them they would go to war to find the things they want.

Watch this video to help us understand Kaitiakitanga

I have some questions for you...

1. What does whenua mean?
2. What tribe does Riverdale belong to?
3. What does moana mean?
4. How can we look after our environment?
5. What does kitiakitanga mean?

Week 5 with Pa Jack

Ahi ahi maire - good afternoon

Different ways we can greet/farewell in Te Reo Maori:

• Kia ora - hello
• Morena - good morning
• ka kite - good bye
• Tena koutou - hello to you all
• tena koe - hello to one
• haere mai - welcome
• ahiahi maire - good afternoon
• haere ra - farewell to someone who is going
• ka kite ano - 
• e noho ra - see ya later to those who are staying 
• tena korua - hello to two
• tena tatou - hello to everyone including the speakers
• ata marie - good morning
• ka kite apopo - see you tomorrow
• po maire - good evening/night

2016

Today was our first session with Pa Jack.

He came in to talk to our Team about who we are (Pae Ake) and what our names mean (grow with learning).

We had a look at our logo and what each part means.

The lines is the ground and the koru underneath the ground are our roots.  The koru above the ground are our shoots.  If we nurture our roots and feed them with our learning we will all grow with our knowledge.

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!