Taha Whanau: NZSL

NZ Sign Language Wk 2020

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog, this week is New Zealand Sign Language week. The topic that goes with Sign Language is 'Sign language is for everyone!'.

This week is to acknowledge the deaf people and those who help teach them sign language and ways to communicate to others. It is important to never make fun of people who have trouble hearing because they are the tough ones who learn sign language so that they can talk and introduce them to others. 

Task Description: Today in our Te Whare Tapa Wha work, I am focusing on Taha Whanau. As it is Sign Language week, for our activity we had to record ourselves introducing our names in NZSL Alphabet /Fingerspelling. Learning NZ sign language helps us make a better connection with friends and whanau who are deaf or hard of hearing. In this video I started off by saying Good Morning and introduced my name by saying My Name is Hannah! This was a really educational and fun activity to do.

Taha Whanau: Special Occasions

Taha Whanau

Task Description: This morning for our Te Whare Tapa Wha work, we looked into Taha Whanau. By doing that our activity was to look into one special occasion that is from our main culture. Mine is Tonga so I decided to choose 21st Birthdays as my occasion. I've been to many 21st Birthdays and nearly all my aunties and uncles have had it. 21st Birthdays are really big in Tongan Culture, so I'll like to share some key points from it to you. I hope you learnt different things from my culture, ENJOY!

Taha Whanau!!

TAHA WHANAU!!!

Today Room 3 decided to reflect back into our Te Whare Tapa Wha work, the one we were focusing on is Taha Whanau. If you forgot what Taha Whanau is, it is all about your family and friend relationships. The task today was using Avatar Creator we had to create our members of our family or our bubble. Once we finished our avatars we had to write next to them things they do in our bubble. It could be their roles, chores or the things they do, in my family we all get a share of chores we have to do each day. There is no one that does nothing in my bubble, we all do important things. ENJOY!

Taha Whanau

Te Whare Tapa Wha: Taha Whanau

Walt: List 3 things I did with my whanau during the weekend!

1. On Saturday Afternoon we celebrated my Nana and my Mum's birthday, we also invited my auntie and my other cousins and we all had a great time eating, watching the rugby game and making fun videos
2. On Sunday morning we had our lotu together as a family
3. My cousins, siblings and Aunty went for a nice walk along the beach and around the block

Spending time with my family is the best and the most important thing to me in the world. Even if it's like cleaning, walking, eating or getting into trouble together we always have a great time together. 

Taha Whanau Challenge

Taha Whanau Challenge

Today, for inquiry we have been learning and researching about Te Whare Tapa and it's 4 key elements: Taha Hinengaro, Wairua, Tinana and Whanau. Today for Monday's work we are focusing on Taha Whanau and building our Healthy Relationships. By doing this Kahurangi challenged all of us to make a memory poster of someone in our family like Grandparents, parents or even aunties and uncles. We had to put information on our poster like what their favourite food, sport is, where they grew up and their happiest memories and what 

their advice is for us growing up.

 Here is my poster of my Grandma

 I made for this challenge. 

Taha Whanau Challenge - 6 Facts about someone is your BUBBLE!

  Taha Challenge - Taha Whanau

Today I did the Taha Whanau Challenge. For this challenge today I had to write 6 facts about someone in our bubble, I decided to choose my sister, Katherine. Here are the 6 Fun Facts about Katherine. This challenge was really fun and creative to do, I recommend and encourage everyone else to do this amazing challenge. ENJOY :)

Taha Whanau Poster

                              In our Inquiry lessons we have been learning all about Te Whare Tapa Wha                              and what it is all about. Today to reflect more on it, we had to create a poster                              about one Taha in Te Whare Tapa Wha. I chose Taha Whanau which is all                                    about family, friends, support and love. Read more on my poster to learn                                        more about Taha Whanau.