Tongan and Maori Language week celebration

Week  7 and 8 we celebrated Tongan and Maori Language week.

In Week 7 we had some students from Y4 come to visit us, They wore their traditional costumes and did a performance. Room 12 were impressed with their confidence and Manaakitanga skills.



Whaea Hamida helped us to learn some Tongan words and showed Rooms 11 and 12 some special items that Tongans use.

Writing 

This week we celebrated Tongan language week. I know that there are many islands in Tonga. We got to watch a video. Whaea Hamida chose Mattias from Room 11 to be Mr Tonga and she wrapped the Tongan flag around him.

Muhammad

We went to Nga Ringa Awhina with Room 11 and learnt some Tongan words. We got to look at some of the special items used by Tongans . Some students chose to stay and do Tapa art  with Whaea Hamida. Mr Tonga had  a special bag that had the magic of kindness.

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 Maori Language Week 

During Maori Language week , we have been singing Te Reo songs like 'Tutira mai nga iwi' and 

 He honore.

We were getting better playing the 'Buzz game' by counting numbers to 10 in Te Reo. We had to remember say the word  'BUZZ' for the numbers 'Rima' and Tekau.

Rooms 24 and 6 's Assembly was really good.