Melville Intermediate - Teaching Poi Making in the South Island

If you haven't checked out Allanhk's Appleby Class Blog recently, you really need to do so, not just because its such a wonderful resource and place for great work and ideas, but there's a very special post about Poi Making. The videos for this were created by students in Room 8, and the students in Appleby School made the Poi, you can see them using them! Its been another great collaboration between our classes and we're very proud to be featured on their wonderful blog. You can click on the link to their work here or on the picture.

Melville Intermediate - Maori Language Week 2010

To celebrate Maori Language Week this week we'll be doing some special work in class. In the meantime you can also view some of the examples on this blog created by Room Eight students. You can learn Days of the Week in Maori, learn how to Make Maori Poi in one or two lessons, learn how to play with Rakau Sticks, lesson one or two or watch Mrs Yollis Class from the USA doing it, You can learn how to say a Maori Mihi as a video or a slideshow or watch students from Siberia, in Russia with their Mihi they learnt from us. You can also look at how to count from 1-10, 10-100 or 100 to a thousand in Maori with Arahia from last year. Destyn and Clelveland produced this Haka video tutorial. Another of our Y7 Classrooms Room 14 also combined Matariki, the song poi-e by the Patea Maori Club and Kapahaka inspired by the movie 'Boy' and came up with this video. Finally our school Cultural Performing Arts Group are famous for their Maori cultural displays you can watch some of them by clicking here, here or here!

Well be posting all week special Maori Language Week: Mahi Kai work so stay tuned! You can check out some Maori Language sites by clicking here.