Our 'moment' - Celebrating Maori Language Week

In 1972 - 30 000 signatures were presented to parliament in a bid to safeguard Te Reo Maori. Today we joined the rest of the nation in remembering and celebrating this moment in NZ history - with Maori being one of New Zealand's 3 official languages. 

To celebrate this moment, we stood and sang 'E Ihoa' and 'Tutira mai' with Whaea Maryanne as a whole school @ 12pm. We also celebrated by writing a kupu/word we know in Maori and sharing it with the class. Check out our 30sec video to celebrate this moment.

Room 11.

Te Whare Tapa Wha - Taha Tinana

Today's Taha Challenge was set by Fonua. We had to see how many push ups we could do in 1 minute. The girls could do the girls version if they wanted to.

Mrs Ilaoa played Rocky Balboa's theme music to get us pumped for this challenge. It was fun and very competitive. We hope to try this again on Friday and try and beat our score. Our class ranged from 10 - 35! Very impressive. 

Now your turn to give it a try and leave us a comment about how many you managed to complete in a minute. Good luck & have fun!