Many New Zealanders associate 5 November with Guy Fawkes. On the other hand, others remember the date for a very different reason. They commemorate what happened in Parihaka. The Day of Plunder Taranaki Māori remember 5 November 1881 as ‘Te … Read More
Learning te reo Māori is becoming more popular. Te Wiki o te reo Māori is a week assigned to highlighting Aotearoa’s important taonga, te reo Māori. Here are some resources and ideas to help you use more te reo during … Read More
Thinglink is back! By popular demand, I have resurrected my Matariki Thinglink from 2016 and added some of the recent popular activities. The beauty of this is that the Matariki activities are all in one place for busy kaiako. CLICK … Read More
Try this free te reo printable to use at home with your tamariki. It will help them learn or reinforce the colour whero in te reo Māori, by putting it into a meaningful context. Above all your tamariki will be … Read More
Over the next few weeks I will be posting some ways of incorporating more te reo for Te wiki o te reo Māori. At one of the schools I’ve been in the librarian brought in a cool idea. “Stop, … Read More
Enjoy this freebie te reo Māori printable in your school, home or office. Whakatauki are such a rich part of te ao Māori. Te Ao Māori is founded on a deep tradition of oral history. What are whakataukī? Whakataukī are … Read More
I have always loved putting a “flap” on top of pictures,words puzzles etc. This is one of the pages in a “Ngā tae” colour scrapbook I made. It is one of the large scrappies and every page has a compilation … Read More
