Te Reo Language Term 2
This term we worked on increasing our integration of the Te Reo language we were teaching. At the beginning of the term we were learning about shapes and so we brought this into our language teaching. The students used some of the same games/activities from our shape lessons to learn the maori words for the shapes at the same time. We had lots of fun with this and the students enjoyed learning about the different names.
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We also did an integrated art/english/maori unit with our myths and legends art. They always enjoy the myths and legends work that we do and again we took this into creating sun artworks in the classroom, looking at koru symbols also and what these mean. We took this up a different step this year by also using the knowledge we learnt from Christine Brown about harakeke. We decided to take the students out and harvested harakeke. We said the karakia to the right and then we harvested it as we had been shown. Finally we put out mats in our classroom, set up appropriate protocols and had the students try to plait some flax as they did in Maui and the sun. This was very difficult but I think it was so worthwhile for the students and us to do and I would definitely do it again in the future. I think this was great to use our skills and actually incorporate some of the other areas that are important in maori culture, not just language.
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