Over term 2 my focus in teaching Te Reo Maori and Tikanga Maori was to complete a visual Mihi following on from the term 1 focus on introducing ourselves using our Mihi. The visual Mihi gave the children the chance to use pictures to represent their awa, maunga, moana, marae, iwi & whanau.
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| Model used to create our visual Mihi |
We incorporated ICT with the children learning how to take a selfie on a Chromebook and how to insert it into a google doc. They then typed their mihi in the google doc to print off and place on the visual mihi. The children then decorated their Korowai (cloak) using symbols or words that were important to them (family, flag, friends etc). Unfortunately, we couldn't explore Maori art (symbolism of koru, mangopare etc) to support the decorating of the cloaks as planned as WIFI was down. We have displayed our visual mihi with our matariki art in our corridor learning space. Our children greet all our visitors and families each morning.
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| Model of the korowai |
The children's next step is to continue practising their mihi orally and work on accurate pronunciation in preparation for our Arowhenua marae visit.
We also read different Matariki stories over the last couple of weeks school. For many children, this was the first time they had heard different stories around the Maori New Year. We then finished our term with a shared lunch to celebrate Matariki with the children and one of our classroom sponsors. Reihana was given a leadership role of karakia mo te kai, with Cooper chosen to support him to do this. Lara (Reihana's Mum came in to support him also).
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| Reihana doing our karakia mo te kai |
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| The children enjoying our Matariki feast! |
This was a wonderful way to reflect on our term and relax together and catch-up.
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