Visit from Hokitika Primary Bilingual class

Yesterday, we had a visit from the bilingual class from Hokitika Primary School. They had come up to Greymouth to do some rock climbing and had a spare hour to stop in and see us. We introduced ourselves and then sang some waiata, The Matariki Macarena and Taukaea Aroha (Ko te Whirika) and then went outside to play Crazy tag.

Singing a waiata

Playing Crazy tag

Matariki planting

This week we were lucky enough to have Whaea Eli come into school and work with some classes in the garden. The classes planted seeds and seedlings in our greenhouses and some children learnt how to cut the runners off the strawberry plants to replant them. Te Hiringa joined Mamaku 3 for their gardening. Whaea Eli also offered to run a gardening club at school too, lucky us!

Visit to the Whare Akoranga

Te Hiringa went for a visit to the Whare Akoranga at Greymouth High school on Monday. We went to look at th carvings on the front of the Whare Akoranga and listen to the story behind what each of the carvings meant. Whaea Catherine told us the story of how Aoraki and his brothers became the Southern Alps as they huddle on the back of their upturned waka. We also played games, sang waiata and did our mihi.

Whaea Catherine telling us about Tuterakiwhanoa and his toki

Listening to Whaea Catherine

Book Week Mural

For Book Week we had to choose a story to turn into a mural. We used the legend of the separation of Papatuanuku (Earth Mother) and Ranginui (Sky Father).

We chose three main parts from the story to illustrate.

Kahoot!

Having a go at Kahoot!

We were all hooked! Whaea Katie created some quizzes in te reo Maori for us. We did E hia? - How many?, He aha te tae? - What is the colour? and Ko wai? - Who?

Glued to the screen. We loved seeing who could get the most points.

Reading the questions and answers.