Summer Food - Corn – Taumata 2

Peaceful Words

Rongomātāne
Āio
Aroha
Hua o te ora 

What you need

• Copies of He Kupu Rongomau 1 and He Kupu Rongomau 2 printed onto card and cut into sets

See the “About this resource” box below to download the resource:

• He-Kupu-Rongomau-1.pdf
• He-Kupu-Rongomau-2.pdf

What you do

• Play a memory card game. Each player turns over two cards at a time and keep any they need to make a set of 4 different cards. The goal is to find one of each word/picture card to make a set and win.
• Every time a player turns over a card they have to say the word aloud and put it into a sentence. You can scaffold this activity by writing some cue words and/or contexts on the board that they could use.

What you do

• Trace the heart template onto the inside front of the card.
• Punch holes along the heart shape with a needle.
• Thread the wool onto your needle and knot the end.
• Starting from the back, thread the wool through the holes in various directions.
• Cut off the wool on the underside and tie up.
• Students write messages to their mum/valentine/birthday person using the sight words and read them aloud at the end of the activity. 

He Rourou mā Koutou

Nau mai e Rongo

Ako ā-Kākā

Teach the karakia by rote and practise daily. This is a good karakia for starting the day. Practise reciting the karakia as a whole group and in time students can recite the karakia independently. 

"Nau mai e Rongo

Nā Nuki Tākao i tito. 

Nau mai e Rongo

Nau mai e Rongo

Tau mai e Rongo

Tau mai ko te āio

Tau mai ko te aroha

Tau mai ko ngā hua o te ora

E Rongo whakairia ki runga

Kia tina, tina

Hui e. Tāiki e." 

Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi

This whakataukī is also about rourou and can be used to build on the value of manaakitanga and the symbolism of sharing and giving to empower and enhance the mana of all.

• Talk about the whakataukī with the class and learn it together.
• Have the students add this (or other appropriate whakataukī) to the end of their mihimihi as a closing thought. You can also ask them to write the whakataukī in big letters on card and illustrate it appropriately.

Make a Rourou

• Students make and decorate their own food baskets (e.g. paper plate woven baskets) and put ‘food’ (actual food, cut out card pictures or clay models of fruit & vegetables) in them. This link provides instructions.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhAqPwx97jo&feature=youtu.be
• Working in pairs, they can then practice saying the whakataukī, focusing on using the possessives, ‘nāku’, ‘nāu’ and ‘nāna’. This activity will also incorporate the locatives ‘tēnei’, ‘tēnā’ and ‘tērā’.
  • “Nāku tēnei rourou.”
  • “Nāu tēnā rourou”
  • “Nāna tērā rourou.”