Introducing Others In Māori

Introducing Yourself and Others In Māori

In He Kakano we have been learning how to introduce ourselves and others in Māori.
This is a video on what we have been learning and the translation to what we were saying.

Translation from Māori into English

Ko Mackenzie tenei ( This is Mackenzie).
He pai ki a is te pūrei tenehi ( Mackenzie likes to play tennis).
He pai ki ahau te  pūrei piana me puoro. ( I like to play music and piano.)

Ko Jennae tenei( This is Jennae).
He pai ki a ia te pūrei pahikiteporo ( Jennae likes to play basketball).
He pai ki ahau te pūrei tenehi. ( I like to play tennis).

He Kuri Tāku Mōkai- He Ngeru Tāku Mōkai

 He Kuri Tāku Mōkai and He Ngeru Tāku Mōkai

This week and last week phrases of the week were 'my pet is a cat' and 'my pet is a dog. ' On this post there is a screencastify recording of the phrases of the week on a coding website called scratch.

This is the link to my scratch animation I made for this week.

Our Kowhaiwhai Pattern

Our Kowhaiwhai Art

In He Kakano ( senior Māori group) this year we have been learning about different kowhaiwhai patterns and what their meanings are.

This term our He Kakano group had to choose a kowhaiwhai pattern to draw and paint or create our own kowhaiwhai pattern. We have chosen to work together to create our own kowhaiwhai pattern. We figured doing an animal in the middle would be a good ideawith koru patterns as a border, then we painted it.

To the left we have our full traditional design. The honu or turtle symbolizes a navigator in the moana with the traditional pattern around the edges which represents the waves.We chose this pattern because the traditional colours pango, whero and māare known to work together to get the job done. The blue paint isthe blue moana. Our whole design means, the turtle in our moana  helped navigate waka to Aotearoa.

We enjoyed doing this task of painting and creating our own design for our kowhaiwhai pattern. We believe that we did a good job of our mahi toi and took our time with it, with a great outcome.

This is an image of our kowhaiwhai art Mackenzie and I designed, created and displayed.