Waiata: Hareruia

Post by The Northern Advocate.

Pronouncing Māori Place Names

How do you pronounce those tricky Māori place names like:
Ōtautahi - Christchurch
Motukarara
Koukourarata - Port Levy
Te Waihora - Lake Ellesmere
Papanui
Aranui
Ōtākaro - Avon River
Waimakariri River 

Listen to this short movie that shows us how to break place names into vowel groups.

• Try making your own movie to teach others how to day our local place names?
• I challenge you to use this learning to help say the longest Māori place name:

Taumata whakatangi hanga kōauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pōkai whenua kitanatahu.

This name translates into English as 'the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater', plyed his flute to his loved one.'  

Locals simply call it Taumata Hill. 

Break into pieces of a consonant and vowel or two vowels together like this:

Tau ma ta wha ka ta ngi ha nga ko au au o ta ma tea tu ri pu ka ka pi ki mau nga ho ro nu ku po kai whe nua ki ta na ta hu.

Te Reo: What can you do? Ka taea e koe te aha?

We are learning how to ask and answer this question in class.  Allana has only just learnt at her Te Reo class so we are keeping up with her!  

Check out our sheet below.  Can you ask this question in class today?

kai = eat

moe = sleep

kanikani = dance

pakipaki = clap

oma = run

waiata = sing

korero = talk

hikoi = walk

inu = drink

whakarongo = listen

titiro = look

pānui = read

Harriet's Mihi

Tate's Mihi

Lucy's Mihi

Estēe's Mihi

Ko te aha tenei ra? What is the day?

This is our very first attempt at asking what the day is in Te Reo.  Keep watching the blog to see how we improve.

What is the day - in Te Reo

Just so you can review what we have already learned - here is the skipping rhyme we love so much.  It will help you remember the days of the week.

Remember to make an action for each day to help your brain make the connections.

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2013

Welcome to Māori Language Week.  (Click on the pictures for a larger view)
These resources were either created by myself or come from Te Wanaga of Aoeteroa, with permission for classroom use.  Please see more resources on Te Reo 4 Springston)

We have really been working on our Te Reo this term and this is an excuse to learn even more.  We would also like to make some resources to share with other shools to support their Te Reo Learning.

These are some of the things we will be learning this week:

Personal Mihi:
Practise our personal mihi and make a Puppet Pals video of it.  We will share these during the week. (Make sure only to record the first names of your family members so we can safely post them on the blog.)  We will connect them  to our visual mihi for you to see next week.

Who is in my whanau?
We will find out the names of the people in our whanau so we can ask and answer the following questions.

Kapahaka - Te Aroha

How are you? Kei te pēhea koe?

We are learning to say hello and ask how someone is in Māori.

Take a look at the movies to learn the feeling words and what to say.

Question: 

Kei te pēhea koe?

(How are you to one person)

Answer:

Kei te __(pai)____ ahau.

(I am feeling good at the present moment.)

Can you say hello in Maaori?