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Tuesday 15 February 2022

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Tuesday 17 November 2020

                                                 talofa,'Malo e lelei,Kia ora,

 te reo Māori helps students to grow as learners. They discover more ways of learning, more ways of knowing, and more about their own capabilities. 

They may become more reflective as they compare what they know of their first language with what they are learning in te reo Māori. They ask questions and challenge themselves. They learn how to learn.

Studies show that students who speak more than one language perform, in a number of ways, at higher levels than those who speak only one.

Students who develop equivalent skills in more than one language tend to be more creative and better at solving complex problems than those who don’t and also to score higher than monolingual students in verbal and non-verbal tests.

Students who develop equivalent skills in more than one language tend to be more creative and better at solving complex problems than those who don’t and also to score higher than monolingual students in verbal and non-verbal tests.


Monday 21 September 2020

How to make ngatu

 

1. After the hiapo is cut down, women and girls peel the bark from the tree.

2. They hang the barkin the sun to dry.

3. They soak the dried bark in water to make it soft.

4. They beat the bark with a wooden tool called an ike to make it thinner and wider.

5. They dry the bark in the sun again. 

6.  in the school hall, the women and girls cover the table with material. this will be backing for the natu.

7. They line up feta'aki along the table on top of this backing material. Then they paste the edges of the feta'aki to the backing material.

8. They cover the backing material with paste.

9. They carefully lay the feta'aki over the top of the backing material. Then they press the two pieces together and slowly roll them up.

10.They  carry the ngatu outside and roll it out on the concrete so it can dry in the sun. when it is dry', they will paint the ngatu with some brown dye, using a piece of feta'aki as a brush.


these strips of dry, flat bark are called feta'aki. The hiapo tree doesn't grow well in new zealand, so feta'aki isn't made here -it's sent to the group from tonga.

Jellybeans music

 

Today we learned how to play glockenspiel. We played Mary had a little lamb on hot cross buns. First we played Mary had a little lamb. The main notes were E D and C. It was a nice beat and it was not that hard. After we played hot cross buns and we used the same notes E D and C. I liked the beat because it sounded the same. When we finished playing it Mr Naidoo picked someone to play it but some of us didn't know how to play it fully.