Pepehā

= = = Tōku Pēpeha. =

//Ki te taha o tōku papa,//
//**Ko Ngāti Ingarangi rāua ko Ngā Niu Tirini ōku iwi.**//

//**Ki te taha o tōku māmā**//

**//Ko Whangaehu te awa//**
**//Ko Kurahaupo te waka//** **//Ko ruatea te tangata//** **//Ko Ngāti Apa te iwi//** **//Ko ngā Wairiki te hapū//** **//Ko Kauangaroa te marae//** **//Ko Kimihia te warepuni//**

**//Ko Marcus tōku pāpā//** **//Ko Shannon tōku māmā//** **//Ko Jasmine tōku tuakana//** **//Ko Kiwikiwi rāua ko Freckles āku naki//** **//Ko Stormy ahau//**

Kia ora te Whānau,

Mā koutou ko __k__ā tamaiti tēnei pepa e whakakī.He taha tō te whāea, he taha anō tō te matua. Kei raro rā te wāha__k__a mō __k__ā tuakana, taina, mōkai, aha rā nei… Whakarā__k__ai, tuhi pikitia hoki kia maumahara te tamaiti i ōna pepehā.

Tirohaka whakamua, whakamuri hoki!
I’m really please with our gradual lead up to the Manu Kōrero to be held in Term 3. Starting early and working on small chunks at a time ensures that there are less disruptions to our other core learning areas. It also means that children are able to stand with confidence in their own abilities as they are well practiced.

Pepehā…
The children are able to stand and do their pepehā with growing confidence. Thank you for your support and follow up. A few of the children have a some gaps ie, “I can’t remember my waka”, so you may like to double check that they have all the information they need. We have begun to practice one of the two tauparapara (e.g. Ko tēnei te ruru... or Ka taki te tītī...) and short mihi that we do in class. If you would like them to have their own tuaparapara now is the time to start working on it with them so they can use it in class and gain confidence in presenting it.

In class we have been learning to use simple descriptions of someone we would like to acknowledge. This is something the children are able to do by spending time thinking and gathering their ideas, it would be great if it were to become something they could use spontaneously in a variety of different situations where mihi is appropriate in class. If you would be able to support this by finding ways of using this sentence format too that would be great. This is the sentence format we follow: //He kōtiro kaha, kōtiro māia a Hinemoa//. (From the book Hinemoa te Toa.) We used this type of sentence in our farewell letters to Whaea Ally and to Jai, e.g., //He kaiako whai whakaaro, kaiako mīharo koe. He tama manaaki, tama kaha koe Jai.// This term we will try learn to use it to thank each other for various things and we will be building on the sentence with kīwaha and whakataukī.