Haka Time!

Cheesy grins and burning legs

Today in Kapa Haka Miss Washington shared her mihi with us.  She had really good pronunciation.

We are enjoying going over all the songs we have learnt in previous lessons and enjoyed our first performance in front of an audience, as the girls performed for the boys and then the boys for the girls.  We had fun learning that raising our eyebrows is a way to say hello and that we need to have cheesy grins when performing.

For Haka practice the boys were in front of the girls.  The boys worked on their stance and felt their legs burn.  "Don't hold back!"  said Matua Steve.

Matua Steve also showed us some videos of people performing Kapa Haka.  We hope that we will be that good one day!

What do you like about Kapa Haka?

Tyler:  "I like the haka"

Jorja:  "I like how we did the performance for the boys"

Morgan:  "The haka burns our legs!"

Ruby:  "I like doing it because we learn another language"

Puku Breathing

This week at Kapa Haka we learnt that our breathing is really important when we are singing. We learnt how to do ‘Puku Breathing’. This means that we need to keep our air down in our puku not up in our shoulders. We let it out slowly and consistently. We practised this to be better singers.

For the first time ever, we started to learn … HAKA! The boys moved to the front and they learnt how to stand. We can’t wait to continue this learning next week. 

What's Kapa Haka like?

Libby says, "I’m enjoying learning new songs each week and secretly doing the Haka."

Jacob says, "I like learning a second language."

Will says, "it is exciting learning new songs and actions."

Gabby says, "Matua Steve is really great because he teaches us slowly, not all at once."

Max says, "I like learning about the Maori culture."

Lesson 2

Today was our second Kapa Haka session with Matua Steve. 
We were learning a new song called Tutira. First we learnt the words to the song and had a go at singing it together. Next we had a competition, the girls were louder but the boys won because they were in tune. Then Matua Steve taught us the extremely difficult actions. We loved the water splash movement and the Morepork action.
Check out some of our awesome photos and videos from our amazing lesson. 
By Room 13

Our Amazing Kapa Haka Lesson

Team Pukeko had their first Kapa Haka lesson today. It was amazing! We will have a lesson every Tuesday morning with Matua Steve. At the beginning of the lesson we do a Mihi, Karakia and Waiata. Our four goals (Nga Whainga o Wha) are leaning, knowing, performance and excellent performance. We learnt a new song and moves, in the song we had to count to seven in Maori. We also had to do some other songs. Matua Steve lead the songs and actions and we had to copy. We had to make sure that we were in even rows, I hope we remember where we need to stand next week! We had lots of fun and can't wait for our lesson next week. By Room 12

Welcome

Welcome to our Te Reo Maori and Kapa Haka blog.

This term we are going to be working with Steve Reid learning about Te Reo Maori and Kapa Haka.  Please keep checking in so you can see what we are doing each week.