African Drumming

Tena koutou katoa

This is room 9 at african drumming. "Look at whaea Katipa!" Sybo and Jimi were the instructers.

Sybo had a good sense of humour.

Here are some comments from our class:

It was a thrill to watch all of the teachers trying their hardest, to do a funny African dance!

from Jonni.

Kalarney says, "It was exciting to be druming, and I liked the different names of the drums."

Ka taea koutou, ki te titiro a Brodie.

Tu meke aye whanau.

He was also thrilled to be joining the team for the drumming experience.

Isaia says, when he was dancing: It was excilerating

and i was very nervous.

It was very hard to concentrate with

hundreds of eyes staring at me.

This report was posted by Clarke, Lachlan. and Kees

Clarke matou ko Kees ko Declan ko Cypress nga haututu.

Hello whanau this is Clarke,Kees,Declan,Cypress last term we went to camp .

The photo was taken on camp with the rest of room nine. Don"t they look mischieveous.

From Lachlan Spence.

Leave a comment whanau.

Anei nga tamariki o te ruma iwa. This is the students of room 9 Apanui School.
We are one of two immersion classes in the town of Whakatane. Whakatane is on the east coast in the North Island of New Zealand. We are a level two immersion class. We learn the Maori language, waiata, waiata-a-ringa. (songs action songs). We are also practicing tititorea the short sticks games Maori children played on the Marae. Watch this blog for a video clip of room 9 children performing the short sticks.

KO KEES RAUA KO CYPRESS, KORUA HAUTUTU

Kees and Cypress are students of room 9. Kees is very confident on our paetapu at the start of our school day. He is fluent when delivering the greetings to our kaiako and the children in the class. He is fluent in two kiwaha (Maori proverbs). When Kees is on our paetapu we all sit up and take notice. kia kaha tonu Kees.

Cypress we are sorry about your accident on the playground that left you with a broken leg.

Great to have you back in class. We missed all your questions. Mauri ora korua

Please leave the boys a comment.

ELLA HAMER:

This is Ella Hamer she is a student of room 9 part of the whanau. We think she's really clever when she writes stories. She can really use words to paint a picture in the reader's mind.
Leave Ella a comment whanau.

TINO KA PAI RUMA IWA.

This is a photo of the awesome room 9 children showing off on our playground.

They are the koolest bunch of tamariki. Scroll down to feed room 9's makimaki.

TE REO MAORI INTERACTIVE WALL

What do you think of our interactive wall whanau.

The children like to rotate the Maori activities.

The children are learning about the use of personal pronouns in Maori.

HOW MAUI SLOWED THE SUN

Ka pai ke, tamariki o nga mahi toi.

Room 9's artwork and a written recount of the Maori legend. How Maui slowed the sun.

OUR WRITING GALLERY

Our writing gallery is where all our choice wriitng is diplayed. We write alot in our classroom. Take a geek at our photo of our writing display in our class.

ROOM 9'S TANIWHA HAUTUTU

Aue! Aue he taniwha haututu tenei.

This is room 9's taniwha and he loves playing with words.

Taniwha haututu is part of our classroom environment.

Tau ke! whaea Alayna. Thank you for our taniwha he's kool.