Te Reo Māori with Whaea Saf

Although today was the hottest day of the summer, the Maths students in Room 11 had an amazing Tuesday afternoon! After lunch, we met in the Whare Fono for our weekly Te Reo Māori lesson with Whaea Saf!  The students in the Pav love singing waiata and this week Whaea Saf taught us a new one for us to work on learning.  We are working very hard to be the leaders of our school and that includes being able to confidently sing all of our school waiata.

It was so hot and sticky so Whaea Saf let us have a "relaxed" mat session this afternoon.

Terrific Thursday!

Today, we started out with our Star Student, Kharizma, reading her very own book to our class.  She did a fantastic job, and we loved how she showed us the pictures on each page!

We were even very lucky to have two of our school's ambassadors spend the day with us!  We really enjoyed having Jordan and Aaron in our room!  They helped us finish our writing, played math games with us, and they helped us with our reading!  We even spent some time showing them our Maori songs, and they showed us the motions to one of our special school haka songs, Powhiri Mai. Thanks for being so wonderful Jordan and Aaron!  We hope you come back to help us learn again soon!

Jordan helping Israel with his reading.

Bryston enjoyed reading his book to Aaron.

Leah and Persia are helping Jemma with her new book.

Exodus S. is doing a great job reading a special book that he picked out all by himself!

Check us out learning the motions to Powhiri Mai!  

Experiences with Poi

Every Friday afternoon, the lucky learners in Class 24 are so excited to see Whaea Saf at our door ready to teach us more Te Reo Maori!  Today, she came in with a cart all loaded up with large containers!  We were so excited when she allowed us to sing one of our favourite songs using the Poi.

We think we're getting pretty good!  How do you think we're doing?

Poi Day from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.