Māori Greetings Spinner

I want to put together a set of resources to use for a te reo lapbook so thought I would start with simple greetings. It occurred to me that I could use a spinner element to show the different greetings you use for one, two and more people in te reo Māori and so that is what I made.

My illustration skills are rudimentary and my Adobe Illustrator skills are virtually non-existent, so I used a tutorial from the Guardian How to Draw series to help me make some cute little aliens for my spinner.

I have made two sizes. The original printed on A4 paper and works fine but the drawings are quite small to colour (perhaps blow up to A3?). This version has some brief instructions.

The slightly larger version that prints on two A4 sheets. The pictures are still quite small, so I have included a colour one as well as black and white.

Kupu o te Wiki - Marama

Ka whiti te marama i te pö.

Kupu o te Wiki - Tāwhirimātea

Ngä tohu a Täwhirimätea.

PS: my apologies for the illustration!

Kupu o te Wiki - Wahine

Kei waho te wahine i te whare.

Kupu o te Wiki - Kaiako

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He kaiako ahau.

Kupu o te Wiki - Awa

Ko Te Mata te awa.

Kupu o te Wiki - Pahi

Kei te haere ahau mā runga i te pahi.

Kupu o te Wiki - Niho

Ngā niho mā - white teeth.

Te Kupu o te Wiki - Rangi

Tirohia ngā kapua i te rangi.

Look at the clouds in the sky.

Te Kupu o te Wiki - Waea

Kei runga te waea i te tēpu.

Te Kupu o te Wiki - Nau Mai

Nau mai ki te kāinga.

Te Kupu o te Wiki - Poitarawhiti

 Te Tīma Poitarawhiti o Aotearoa - The New Zealand Netball Team.

Te Kupu o te Wiki - Heihei

E kai ana te heihei i te pātītī - The chicken is eating the grass.

Te Kupu o te Wiki - Āpōpō

Āpōpō ka haere au ki te kura - Tomorrow I will go to school.

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Learning Te Reo

The cat is in the Christmas tree.

The Te Reo component of my teaching Diploma was one of my favourite parts of the course. The visit to Ōrākei Marae was a huge highlight, but it was the language section that really engaged me. We did several sessions of total immersion learning using the Te Ataarangi method. It really whet my appetite for more and when I saw a similar course offered at the local college night school last year, I decided to give it a go. Three terms later, I know more than I did but am still very aware of how far I have to go.

As the college no longer offers community education, I am hoping to continue my learning at another venue later in the year. Until then, I thought it might be fun to search through some of my old (and new) photos and attempt to use my (limited) Te Reo skills to caption them. Practice makes perfect!