Te-Reo 2022

 In term 1 we focused on learning our morning karakia, days of the week and our class names as well as attending kapa haka sessions to learn some waiata. Unfortunately due to the nature of the term with covid we only had a couple of kapa haka sessions and were unable to have the time in these to really learn any new waiata. As we had our BSU focus this term instead of having longer Te Reo sessions once a week we had our Te Reo focuses at different times of the day e.g. morning karakia time at 9, days of the week during our homeroom sessions and throughout the day we were learning to recognise our classroom/hub names.

We also used the Te Reo language for our movement breaks. The tamariki responded really well to this and thoroughly enjoyed when we do the movement breaks. We have these up on the wall beside our teaching station and can pull them off as a visual reminder if students need additional support to the oral language being used.

We also spent some time looking at our cultures and developed our cultural wall for this year celebrating where we all come from. We ensured that we talked about how we are all New Zealanders and that some of us have other cultures that we identify with also. We looked through this cultures slideshow to learn a bit more about each of our cultures.

Term 2:

We have continued learning the morning karakia, days of the week and our class names as well as attending kapa haka sessions to learn some new waiata, although this has been difficult as the children are not able to learn at the pace that the tutor is working at.

We have also been exploring the names of all the buildings in the school and when we leave the classroom to go to another space we use the name of that space for example we go to the whare manaaki at least 3 times a week and I feel if you asked the children where it is they would know. We do lots of little snippets of learning throughout each day. We have also explored a few more picture books for our story-sharing time that have a lot of Te-Reo in them or that are Māori stories also. See this link to check out the books we have explored. 

 

We used the How Maui slowed the sun as our book review for the leaders of literacy and it was exciting to see the children retelling the story in their own words and saying what they really liked about the story.

For next term: To help with our new children and whānau transitioning into our space I am going to put the Karakia up on the wall in the space of the classroom that we do it so they are able to see it and make connections to it. We are also looking at Karakia Kai and when we can do this. Moving to do Kapa Haka within our own space so we will explore the waiata and actions that we want our tamariki to be learning and strong in.