He aha te tai...Learning the colour song

The Whare has been teaching us a new song that we can use back in our class to describe colours of everyday items. Room One was keen to step up to the challenge and once we had mastered it we asked if we could present it to the Whare on our next visit. Room One was so proud of our achievements and even though we had a little stage fright by the time we were on the second round it sounded great. This song has really helped embed the Maori names for colours into our tamariki, and now I often hear tamariki either singing the song or testing each other on their colours, often using the sentence 'He aha te tai?'

We have now asked the Whare if they could teach us the waiata about the great migration, as each time we have heard it sounds so beautiful and Magik is already trying to sing along.

Incorporating Tikanga into my daily teaching practice is important to me and even though I acknowledge that this isn't a strength of mine I am committed and always trying to improve my practice and the learning outcomes for my class.

In Room One our morning karakia and kai karakia are entrenched in our daily practice but I wanted to build upon our knowledge and skills so approached Cherrie and Poipoi about whether Room One could join the Whare on a Friday morning for karakia and waiata. They were as excited as I was and we have now had this routine for the last three terms. We have enjoyed learning new waiata and actions and customs related to starting the day in the Whare. It has been wonderful to experience the Whare taking us under their wing and sharing their knowledge and supporting us on our learning journey.

Today we had a class session on Te Reo with Marion. The schedule was running late so we only had her for 15 mins once the the computer glitch was sorted.
The session was really rushed and I felt it didn't really engage our tamariki, it wasn't interactive and because it was rushed didn't capture their interest.

I felt our previous session on feelings was much more effective, our tamariki were able to interact with Marion and it was fun.

I hope next week when we are making kawakawa balm that it is more to a five year old level and it is interactive to hold tamariki interest.

Teaching Portfolio 2018

This a a space for me to collect and present the evidence needed to show that I am meeting the NZ Practising Teacher Criteria. The twelve criterion are listed on the right side of the page  and have a number to show how many pieces of evidence I have collected,. An initial post was needed to set up the 'label' needed to make the list. With each post of text or photo/video, I can add a date and a label to show when the criteria was met.