Maui Legends

  Maui and the Big Fish - Stick Figure Animation  

Maui Legends

Maui and the Giant Fish

Maui Legends

How Maui Brought Fire to the World

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Kowhaiwhai Patterns

The Maori word Kowhaiwhai refers to a traditional red, white and black colored pattern. These colors resemble the origin of the Maori tribes and were commonly found on rafters and meeting houses.

More specific; they refer to ancestral lineage and genealogy. In this matter the patterns are an expression of the power and spirits of the ancestors (genealogical mana).

The names of the specific patterns on the picture are from top to bottom; Koiri,, Patiki, Kuhoro and Mangotipi.

Kowhaiwhai ornamental scroll paintings traditionally decorated walls and ceilings of dining halls (whare kai) and ancestral houses (whare whakairo).

This ancient Maori tradition of creating complex and symmetrical patterns represent the stories of legendary ancestors.

Maori Alphabet Song

This song introduce the main letter combinations and the corresponding sounds they make in the Maori language.

Once you can sing along to this the challenge is to get faster and faster!

Days of the Week

This video introduces the maori words for the days of the week.

The video was created by a group of year 5/6 children.

Start thinking about making your own short language video.

What's next?
Could you make your own video to teach the maori days of the week?
Create a song and some pictures then do your video with puppet pals.

Maori Numbers

This video introduces the maori words for numbers.

This video was created by a group of primary school children.

Use this example to help you to start thinking about making your own short language video.

What next?
Create your own educational video to teach the numbers in maori to others.
Make up / create a song and make cool visual images to go with your video.
What about basing the counting on counting numbers of native animals?

Ruakau Stick Games

Traditional maori activities.

Watch, learn and try.

This is a quick lesson presented by students in my classroom in Hamilton, New Zealand on how to play Raukau which is a Maori stick game. This is for beginners we will be doing harder ones later. Filmed at School on 26th March 2010.

And a bit harder...



And then all together...



How much practise did these boys put in?



What next?
Make a group
Teach yourself some ruakau stick moves
Create a video to each others and present your skills

Willow Bank - Maori Village Review

Think Pair Share Questions

What did you enjoy about your visit to Willow Bank yesterday?

Favourite animals?
I like these animals because...

Favourite cultural activity?
I enjoyed this activity because...

A surprising moment was when...

I wish we could have spent longer...


What new thinking - ideas, learning or questions do you now have about Maori Culture?

What other learning did you do yesterday?

Willow Bank

The Making of New Zealand

Myths and legends are old stories that have been passed down from one generation to the next.  They are a way of explaining how things have come to be, why certain things happen or they give a reason why the people should behave in a certain way.  Many of these stories have a moral or a message for the new generation to learn.

How it all began.

Thinking and Questions

Maori Greetings

Greetings

Kia ora

Hi

Tēnā koe

Hello (to one person)

Tēnā kōrua

Hello (to two people)

Tēnā koutou

Hello (to three or more people)

Inquiring Question

Kei te pēhea koe?

How are you?

Responses

Kei te pai ahau

I’m good

Ka nui te ora

I’m great

Me koe?

And you?

Farewells

Haere rā

Goodbye (to someone leaving)

E noho rā

Goodbye (to someone staying)

Ka kite anō

See you again

Hei konā

See you later

Haere Mai

This is a well known waiata that we will sing at our whole school assembly in week 2 of term 3.