Melville Intermediate - Levi's 2013 Mihi Slideshow

Levi Mihi 2013 from Myles Webb

Melville Intermediate - Daniels 2013 Mihi

Daniels Intermediate Mihi from Myles Webb

Melville Intermediate - Icis Mihi 2013

Icis Mihi 2013 from Myles Webb

Melville Intermediate - Tutoring in Maori Language

As we're approaching Maori Language Week again, and now fully operational in the classroom we're again offering tutoring through Skype for students in Maori Language.  We've done this for several years now, with our Mihi work and our general activities, and its proved very popular! We have a team of students and connections with other classrooms that are available at different times to suit, if you are interested please let us know.  To remind some of you about our past experience have a look at this selection of video work.
Here's Hayze and Mackenzie two of our Tutors from 2011 explaining what a Mihi is and giving examples:
But its not only students in New Zealand that we've been teaching Maori Language to. Last year we had interaction with students from Lyudmila's Classroom in Kransnoyarskiykray Kray, Siberia, Russia. There students learnt to introduce themselves in Maori and say the days of the week!
We've also worked with numerous schools throughout New Zealand including Waiuku Primary School in 2011. This video shows an example of some of our Tutors at work with a classroom teaching their students Maori Language.

Melville Intermediate - Skyping wtih Appleby School

Yesterday we started our Maori Language program by using Skype to make contact with Appleby School in Nelson. They are learning about Maori Language and we had a group of students talk with them and Skype with them to help them with their pronunciation. The students really enjoyed the interaction in a creative way.

We'd like to thank Allanhk and her classroom of students at Appleby School for making us available for our first Skype contact of 2011.

We made a short video of our Skype call which you can watch by clicking on the link here. You can also make sure that you check out Appleby Schools wonderful classroom page by clicking on the link here.

Skyping with Appleby School 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Learning Maori Online in 2010

Thanks to all of you who have so far responded and are interested in having our students teach some Maori language to your students and your classroom in the coming weeks!

We're currently sorting through everything and should have all the information organized, sorted and posted shortly. We'd love others to be involved around the world in this, if you are interested we'd like to Skype with your classroom from a class in New Zealand and teach you some basic phrases/introductions in the Maori Language. It won't just be Room 8 but also some of the other classrooms from Melville Intermediate School! Should imagine that most of this would be completed with a single Skype Session so if you are interested and haven't already put your name down, please leave a comment on this post!

I am sure the students from Room 8 will be extremely excited to be doing this when they come back to school, as will the students from other classrooms at Melville Intermediate School. I think that it will be an exciting way to introduce a lot of students to online collaboration this year. In the mean time while you are waiting you can have a look at a few things related to Maori Language from last years Room 8 @ Melville Intermediate School class! This is our schools fabulous CPA - Cultural Performing Arts Group, performing a Maori Poi Dance during one of last years concerts night from our School Hall.



For preparation to learn a Mihi have a look at our first posts of 2009 they include the format for the Mihi (Greeting) that Room 8 will be teaching and also a couple of slideshows that the students created last year to help with the learning of them. You can also view this link to Mr Lamsheds Class in Adelaide, Australia, of their students learning last year (remember New Zealand and Australaia are seperate countries!)

You can view some of the Maori Language Videos that were created by Room 8 last year including how to count to 100 in Maori by Arahia. You can also take a trip down memory lane and view material that was created in 2008 by Mr Webb's old classroom before he came to Melville Intermediate, in these lessons the students spoke some Maori Language. Finally you can also click on this link to view a link to Appleby School in Nelson where we had a link for their class to learn a Mihi, their fabulous teacher Allanh K also recorded some of the teaching that we did with her class for their Mihi (although it has a seperate format for what we will be teaching, slightly) and you can view this video by clicking here! We also had the prviledge of conecting and collaborating with our students sharing their culture with other students around the world last year. In probably Mr Webbs favourite video of the year two of our Room 8 students, Destin and Cleveland viewed material on Mr Lamsheds Class of their Haka. The Boys wanted to help them and scripted and produced this video (with help from Tavita a teacher aide at school), it still sends shivers down my spine watching it. Enjoy.

Mr Webb on behalf of Room 8, Melville Intermediate School, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.

Melville Intermediate - Online Collaboration Speaking Maori

Our students who will be at school again shortly (in three weeks) to begin the year have a task relating to the learning of their Mihi (greeting) in Maori. Once the students have learned this greeting we'd like to give them the opportunity to teach a Mihi to another classroom. This year at Melville Intermediate all of our Y7 Classrooms will be doing this online, so we'd like to get at least five classrooms that are interested. Room 8 did this last year with Allanhk's Class at Appleby School near Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand and it was one of the highlights of the year (view it here!)! If your class would be interested you can leave a comment to this post and we'll get you sorted from Mr Webb.

Melville Intermediate - Count to 100 in Maori

This is the second lesson in the series. In the first Arahia and Bailey show you how to count from 1 to 10. In this short video Arahia and Vitolina show you how to use that knowledge to count from 11 to 99. In the Maori language their are no 'teen' numbers so 11 is literally ten and one (Tekau Ma Tahi). Twenty Five is Rua Ma Rima etc. The Girls will go through some examples to help you with this, but once you get the idea its easy! Just as your learning this online its something that Room 8 is doing for our Te Reo Maori Language Work. Filmed at Melville Intermediate on 4th May.

Melville Intermediate - Learn Maori

This is the first in our 2009 Learn Maori series of lessons. This is how to count from 1-10 in the Maori Language. The video is hosted by Arahia and Bailey. In this episode Arahia will say the numbers in English and then Maori and Bailey will repeat in Maori. There's a deliberate error in there too! For ten the Maori word is tekau (te-kau)... Bailey says "te-ka" now some of you will know that teka means something else entirely to do with teaching! (sort of!). Watch carefully for this in the video! This was filmed at Melville Intermediate School on Wednesday 8th April. The camera person was Vitolina.