Te Kupu o te Wiki for the week starting Rāhina, te 18 o Here-turi-kōkā, 2014 is:

 engari. engari: but
Kei te hiakai au, engari, kore kau he kai!
I am starving, but, there is absolutely no food!

Kei te pai au, engari kei te tangi ia.
I’m ok, but she’s crying.
- this is an example of an active sentence

Te Kupu o te Wiki for the week starting Rāhina, te 11 o Here-turi-kōkā, 2014 is:

nau mai.
nau mai: welcome

Nau mai ki Aotearoa. Welcome to Aotearoa.

Hear this kupu spoken and get the PDF

Rātū, te 5 o Here-turi-kōkā, 2014.

hākari(a): feast

Ka kai tahi tātou i te hākari.
We will eat the feast together. - this is an example of an active sentence

Rāhina, te 4 o Here-turi-kōkā, 2014

Te Kupu o te Wiki is poitarawhiti.
poitarawhiti: netball

Te Tīma Poitarawhiti o Aotearoa.
The New Zealand Netball team.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori 2014 (Hurae/Hongoingoi 21st - 25th)

Last week I had placed kupu for the day and the week. 
I will now continue with "te kupu o te wiki.

Last weeks (Rahina 21 Hurae) Kupu was: apopo - tomorrow
This weeks (Rahina 28th Hurae): Heihei - chicken

Maori resources

http://quizlet.com/2610722/maori-greetings-flash-cards/


http://quizlet.com/2612188/maori-colours-flash-cards/

Term Two

Te Reo - we will continue with Greetings as well as refreshing Akomanga (Clasroom) which students were taught last year. Tuesday - Thursday.

Te Ao - we will be covering MATARIKI with Ranginui and Paptuanuku. Near the end of Term Two we will start "Te Kupu o te Wiki o te reo Maori 2014 as Te Kupu o te Wiki o te reo Maori 2014 (Maori language week) begins first week of Term Three through out NZ. Tuesday-Thursday.

Kapa Haka will be Mondays and Friday with the help of Whaea Lena and Matua Wiari. Everyone is welcome to come and awhi.

Marae visit to the College with Room 1,4,6 and 7

Today  (Tuesday 08th April) we visited the wharenui @ Matamata College.

Maui - Matau

Ex pupil Cole helping Joshua - Janine knows how!

Gina and Jayden taiaha training

"E papa wairangi"  - rakau game

Whanau and tamariki's awhi @ Hangi Time

Wednesday 26th March 2014

Thank you to all the whanau who helped with this amazing "fund raiser". I was over awed with the amount of support that we received from vegetables and meat donations to preparing and serving the Hangi. Tino rawe whanau - mean maori mean

Few photos of our amazing whanau - Nanny Karen and her moko's peeling away

          Cyrus with Whaea's Kellie, Lee and Jodi making stuffing

       Whaea's Amanda, Kellie and Jodi peeling and cutting veges.

           Alex and Irene have the steam pudding wrapped

   Shar, Janine and Whaea Amanda making "mean az" fried bread

           Anei nga dough for the Fried Bread

         Sooty and the girls preparing the baskets for the Hangi

        Our beautiful whanau ready to "dish" up the Hangi

HANGI - Wednesday 26th MArch 2014

Whanau help is needed for donation of food as well as kai mahi - meat, vegetables and bread is needed.

We will be peeling and preparing the food on Wednesday around 10.00 o'clock  ish as well s we will need help with setting up and serving the hangi around about 4.30 ish.

All this aroha mai will help with brand new Kapa haka unforms for our tamariki.

Last day to purchase tickets will be Monday 24th March 2014 as we need to establish how much meat and vegetables will be needed.

There will be NO ticket sales on the day of the HANGI

ERO Powhiri

Tamariki from Te Ao and Kapa Haka awhi mai Whaea Louise with the powhiri. Great karanga from Te Ihiko, Gina W and Tiamoana T and great waiata lead by Tiamoana, Trinity, Gina, Te Ihiko and tamariki from Firth Kura.

"Tino Rawe"

 

2014 - Te Ao

We will be covering Waahi tapu - places sacred to Maori in the traditional, spritual, religious, ritual or mythological sense.

2014 - Te Reo

This term we will be covering Greetings and Te Marae.

Greetings will be  - Tena Koe (hello to 1), tena korua (hello to 2), tena koutou (hello to 3 or more). Ata marie/Morena (Good morning), Ahi ahi marie (Good afternoon), Po marie (Good night)

We have a Marae visit happening in Week 8 so this will be covered over the next 7 weeks Marae kawa (protocol).