My Pepeha & Mihi

Kia Ora, In Te Ngahere we have been learning our pepeha. We were also learning a simple mihi to go with our pepeha. For our pepeha we had to say our maunga, awa, waka, iwi, hapu, marae, surname, school, your family, where your from and your name. We were learning our mihi and pepeha to welcome our new students and if we need to say something on the marae we will know what to say. I enjoyed this because I now know my mihi and pepeha of by heart. The only thing I struggled with was saying my iwi before my hapu. Do you know your mihi or Pepeha?

Here is my Pepeha and Mihi:

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Going To 'Kapa Haka Regionals 2020'

Kia ora bloggers, On Sunday my nan, aunty, uncle, three cousins and I travelled to Whangarei to watch the Kapa Haka regionals 2020, and see my cousin and his roopu (group) Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa perform. If you don’t know who ‘Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa’ is, they are a school from Kawakawa, Te Tai Tokerau who has a Kapa Haka group that travels and goes to Kapa Haka competitions. My favourite song and haka I really enjoyed was, I think their third song and haka because I was really interested (sorry I don’t know that name of the song and haka). Something that I also really liked was, their first song they performed started off calm and then they went hard out. There is nothing I didn’t enjoy about going to the Kapa Haka regionals because I enjoyed everything. My favourite part about going to the regionals was, I got to spend time with my family and see my cousin do his best because he worked hard and earned his spot in the roopu. I remember when I yelled out ‘go JJ and everyone looked at me, but I just laughed because Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawa Roopu were so loud they didn’t even hear me, but my cousin and the roopu knew that I wanted him and them to do great. Overall Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa came third in the Kapa Haka regionals and I think they did amazing and they earnt it!. Kawakawa now have to make a new bracket for the nationals which I am really excited for! What is your favourite kapa haka waiata (song)? Here is a video clip of Te Rau Pou Manawa o Kawakawa performing:

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Te Reo Maori

In Te Ngahere we have been doing some Te Reo Maori. For Te Reo Maori we wrote scripts and did a screencastify in for a weather report in Maori. In my group Jade, Mikaila and I. We had to be able to pronounce the words in Te Reo with the DLO that we made after. When we thought we could say the script in Maori, we had to say it in front of the teacher. If the teacher said we pronounced it correctly we could make a slide with the script on it and little characters of us, then start screencastifying. I really enjoyed this Te Reo Maori because I learnt more Maori words and sentences. 

What language/s do you speak? 

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Learn Some Maori Words and Sentences With Me!

In Te Ngahere we have been doing some Te Reo Maori. For Te Reo Maori we had to write a script in maori about children going to a sports field and learning new sports because we were learning new words and sentences in maori. To make our DLO we had to make sure our script was green on the hand in sheet. When that was done we had to screencastify ourselves saying the maori words because we were learning how to speak more maori. We also had to make sure we could read and say the Maori words and sentences. I like that we did Te Reo Maori because I learnt more maori words and how to speak and pronounce them correctly. Do you know any words or sentences in Maori?