Term One Inquiry

This term our Inquiry focus is all about how we greet and welcome visitors to Kohara.

We started out by sharing what we knew about greetings using a define map and then we went out near Te Puna to be Greeting Detectives just before home time. We observed all sorts of different ways to greet people! We then took another look at our define map about what a greeting is and decided which ways of greeting people we thought would be best for greeting visitors to our room.

  

Then on Tuesday Kohara was lucky enough to have Tahana's mum Melanie come along and talk to us about Maori greetings and welcoming people. We found out lots of information about what happens when you visit a marae and the protocol for being welcomed on. Melanie also shared her pepeha (what we often call a mihi) with us. Soon we are going to have a go ourselves at learning a simple pepeha or mihi. 

Tahana also shared a karakia that his family say before eating. We are going to learn this as well as we found out that sharing kai (food) is an important part of the welcoming process. We discussed how when we have friends over to play, we often have a shared afternoon tea, just like people share kai when they visit a marae. 

Thanks Melanie for sharing your knowledge with us.