Weekly Te reo Māori Journal.

Planning:

Week One:

23^rd- 27^th July- This week I was playing some waiata in the playground and one day a taniwha played and a couple of children stopped and listened, I then said to them “we haven’t sung this song in a while, have we" the children replied “no" as the song played the children listen and sung along to parts of it then one child asked me “what is a kowhai tree”, I then replied with it is a rakau which has kowhai putiputi on it. Then asked them if they would like to look up and see what it looks like, they all said “yes" so we went and got the iPad and searched up kowhai tree and saw some pictures of it. We then played the video of one day a taniwha and they spotted the kowhai tree in the video. I also say haere mai kei te whāriki and haere mai kei te wharepaku often to the children when asking them to come to the mat or to the bathroom.

Week two:

30^th July- 3^rd August- This week I had to keep reminding some children not to sit on the tables and as I was doing it I thought about it and I explain it to them why we do not sit on top of table because that is we placed our food and we do not want to place our bottoms on a surface that we place our food on and eat from. I also said “titiro, he whaka rererangi” to the children outside when we saw a plane fly above us. 

Week Three:

 6^th- 10^th August- This week I created an obstacle course and as the children were using it, I would use works like oma, oma tere and rere and pekepeke when they were jumping. I had my visit from Robyn on the tenth and while she was there I used Morena when creating a child who just arrived, I also talked about the colour that they had like that’s kowhai yellow I also said that their work was ātaahua and once the children had finished painting I said to them Horoi o ringaringa wash your hands. 

Week four: 

13^th- 17^th August- This week we had some of our mat time resources our and there was the lego blocks we have when we are singing our Māori colours waiata and a boy had them and he was saying the colours in English and then he was trying to say them in te reo Māori and I could see and hear that he was having trouble with some of them, I then suggested that he could sing the waiata to help him remember them. He then sang, and I assessed when he got stuck in singing the waiata.

Week five:

20^th- 24^th August- This week we had some songs playing and E rere taku poi started to play and I was using the poi already and I started to use the poi to the song while singing e rere taku poi and this got some more children interested and they came up and use the poi to the song as we were using the poi, I did have to remind them about how the poi is used for dancing and that we do not hit with the poi.

Week Six:

27^th- 31^st August- This week like every other week when I ask children to come to the bathroom, I say haere mai kei te wharepaku to them and for some children, I say it again slower or possibly in English. This week I also sat with a few children building and there was waiata playing behind us and te hora nui come on and we start singing it, then after the song continue to build and while building, I start describing the creations we have made, for example, that building is tino roa and nui. Also used poto and some shapes, porohita, tapawhā rite and tapatoru.

Week Seven:

3^rd- 7^th September- This week like every other when I am outside, and it is time to go inside to mat time I say to the children haere mai kei te whāriki and most of the children go running inside, but some do say outside in which I go up to them and say to them haere mai kei te whāriki, it’s time to come and sit on the mat then they come with me inside. This week I also Simon says with the pre-schoolers in which I said Simon says pekepeke, hikoi, oma, rere, ringaringa e mahunga.

Week Eight:

10^th- 14^th September- This week at uni to celebrate te reo o te wiki there was a game in the hub around making te reo Māori sentences which I participated in and got a poaka for doing it I then later came back to the game and led the game for some of my classmates and for that I got a Makimaki. When I when to my centre later on that week I talked to the children before I left, and they saw my poaka and Makimaki hanging on my bag and they commented on it. I then told them that I got the poaka and the Makimaki when I was at school this week for participating in a game. Also, this week on Friday the children got the opportunity to watch Moana in te reo Māori and the four children that stayed for a long time, we talked about the movie and the characters within the movie.

Week Nine:

17^th- 21^st September- This week on Thursday to follow on from Friday last week when we watched Moana in te reo Māori I placed on the soundtrack to that movie on by the sandpit and had some boys come up and start to dance and try to sing along to the music play. This week on Friday I sat with some of the younger children and I put on the waiata Paki paki tamariki mai and I we sat and stood and danced and did the action to the song. 

Week Ten:

24^th- 28^th September- This week I brought out of hacky sacks that we have that are different shapes and I sat down with them and I had a few children come over to me and we started to play with them and I would be naming the shape and the colour it was and then the children started to ask me the shapes and then would ask them what they thought it was. I also said homai te porohita and other shapes and colours.

Week Eleven:

1^st- 5^th October- This week while handing out the fruit at morning tea, afternoon tea and mostly at late snack I would offer and say either aporo, panana, ārani. And mostly at late snack as there are fewer children the children were able to ask what ārani and the other fruit was when I said it in Māori and then they started to ask for the different fruits in te reo Māori. Also, when saying goodbye, the children as I left, I said ka kite apopo.

Week Twelve:

8^th- 12^th October- This week I took a wa whāriki in which I did a waiata in which is an action song called Sticky sticky bubblegum in which you stick your ringaringa on different body parts, so I used ringaringa, mahunga, pakihiwi, puku, waewae, ihu and taringa and to count before the pop I said tahi, rua, toru.

Week Thirteen:

15^th- 19^th October- This week while outside with some children who were digging at the rakau and we were taking about paptuanuku and tanē and how tanē made the rakau and the ngāngara and while taking and digging the children found a noke. The children then looked at the noke and other children told the one holding the noke not to have it on your skin as it hurts them, so they placed it in a container to continue to look at it and when it was time to go inside, they wanted to keep it. I then told them that we manaaki the noke and keeping it in a container is not the best place for the noke to be so the children placed the noke back in the kari. Also, on Friday at lunchtime instead of saying haere mai kei te whāriki, I changed it to haere mai kei te kai as we were not going to be doing a mat time, we were going to have kai.

Week Fourteen:

22^nd- 26^th October- This week to expand on and change haere mai kei te whāriki I said haere mai kei te wa whāriki over the couple of days at morning tea and afternoon tea as they are the times that we have mat times and at lunch I kept to saying haere mai kei te kai and as in every meal time when I am at the taps I say to the children haere mai, horoi o ringaringa. 

Week Fifteen:

29^th October- 2^nd November- This week as it is getting hotter pōtae have come back out and so this week I have been reminding the children about their pōtae buy saying “Kei hea tō pōtae” and I would also sometimes just have to start pōtae to the children and then they would run off and grab one, I did use tēna, whakamaua tō pōtae a couple of times and when the children would come back with one on I would say “homai te rima” and hold my hand out.

Week Sixteen:

5^th- 9^th November- This week I placed out some books and puppets outside an I was sitting with a few children when I child handed me the rabbit puppet, so I placed it on and started to sing oma rapete with the rabbit and they children just laughed and smiled. This week I continue to ask children “kei hea tō pōtae” and when I it was my day to do the nappy changing and bathroom, I still used haere mai kei te wharepaku but I also tried wa panoni kope, nappy change time with the younger children.

Week Seventeen:

12^th- 16^th November- This week when I was in the whare moe I would tell the children “wa moe, sleep time.” Also, on Friday Robyn visited and during reading the pukapuka kaha the kea I talked about what colour kaha had and when in the sandpit I did some counting with the children as they were placing out the bommy knocker that they had found inside the sandpit. Later, Friday I brought the lyrca back out and I sat down with the children and we sat and played with the lycra I used “kei runga, kei raro and whero when describing the lycra.