Melville Intermediate - Rocky River Elementary

In New Zealand we are currently approaching the halfway mark in the school year, which is scheduled to finish in December for 2011. Our global friends in the USA are currently on their Summer break, yesterday we had a wonderful comment left on our class page from Brenda Todd from Grade Two, Class 117B Rocky River Elementary School in North Carolina, USA. On their page they've created a wonderful farewell video for the their friends and have highlights of their learning for the school year. If you watch the Animoto you'll see a certain Melville Intermediate and a Maori co-ordination hand game featuring Hayze and Mackenzie from Room Eight feature from the 52 second mark to about 1:20. We're going to be watching this as a class Monday but the students will be thrilled to see a lesson in Maori created in New Zealand being taught to students in the USA! If you haven't yet visited their wonderful class page then you can do so by clicking the link here.

Melville Intermediate - Hand Games for Maori Language Week 2

This is the second video in the series. This is a Maori Hand Game that is a co-ordination activity. Students have a series of five actions that they need to memorise and then repeat without error. If both students or groups of students can repeat them then the students or groups of students go through them again, repeating the process but faster, and continue to do so until someone makes a mistake. Your hosts for this activity Hayze and Mackenzie go through the five actions and then in additional bonus footage compete against each other to demonstrate the game. Filmed at Melville Intermediate on Tuesday 7th June 2011.

Maori Hand Game Tutorial from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Maori Hand Game

This video is a Maori Hand Game that your students can learn for Maori Language Week 2011.  We're going to publish the rules on Tuesday - in the meantime you can learn the moves from the video today.  If you would like to put this video on your class page, or any of our class videos, you are more than welcome!   Don't forget if you would like an online tutorial from the students responsible for this video, leave us a comment and we will contact yourself and the students in your classroom through Skype! Filmed on Friday 3rd June 2011 by Shaylee and featuring Mackenzie and Hayze.

Maori Hand Game from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Counting to 100 in Maori

Firstly, before you watch this video, make sure that you've watched video one and two in the series.  The first video teaches you basic counting from one to ten in Maori.   The second lesson in this series focussed on the absence of 'teen' numbers from Maori counting and covered how to get to twenty five.   This lesson covers the numbers from 25 to 99.   Its presented by Mackenzie and Hayze and was filmed by Shaylee.  Filmed at Melville Intermediate 13th May 2011.
Counting to 100 in Maori Toru from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Counting in Maori Part One

This is the first in a new series of videos entitled 'Counting in Maori'.  Maori is a fantastic language to learn how to count in, as it has ten basic numbers which all the other numbers from 1 to 99 work off, so once you've learnt the numbers from 1 to 10 your nearly there.   The new series of lessons are presented by Hayze and Mackenzie, two students from Room Eight, who were also responsible for this years Mihi videos, and furthermore are available to chat with your class using Skype to help tutor you with Maori Language! This video was filmed by Shaylee.  The words will appear on screen but you need to practise the following:


Counting in Maori 1-10 from myles webb on Vimeo.

• One - Tahi
• Two - Rua
• Three - Toru
• Four - Wha
• Five - Rimu
• Six - Ono
• Seven - Whitu
• Eight - Waru
• Nine - Iwa
• Ten - Tekau