Reomations

This reomation introduces us to Te Awarangi's family members – grandparents, parents and siblings. Te Awarangi elaborates more, using photos on the wall. 

We describe certain people’s jobs 

We meet creatures from all around the world, but our final creature is not of this earth; he is from outer space. 

The children and the teachers have all gone home from school. A wee mouse enters one of the classrooms, darting all over the place until he chances upon a cupboard of musical in...

Piripi is a boy who is always losing things – every day of the week in fact. He even gets lost himself. Luckily, while walking home, he finds his lost items – and hi...

Piripi is a boy who is always losing things – every day of the week in fact. He even gets lost himself. Luckily, while walking home, he finds his lost items – and hi...

In this reomation, children tell us how they came to school. Some travelled in conventional ways, for example, bus, car. Others had more exciting modes; in particular, one boy c...

Despite this being a very simple animation, it is effective with children because the smaller fish (‘ika iti’) gobbles up the larger fish (‘ika nui’)! Yo...

Paora the pūkeko is hungry. He rubs his puku (stomach). From the sky (as it were) drops some food, but he likes none of these foods. He provides reasons why. However, interestin...

Bossy Jenny is giving Sam instructions on what she needs to make a sandwich. We see Sam ‘flying’ off screen to find what Jenny needs. Sam looks hungrily at the finis...

It’s lunchtime at school. The children are asking about the contents of each other’s lunch boxes – and swapping food accordingly.

The characters are exposed to different types of weather. The wind is so strong that one boy, who is flying a kite, is lifted off the ground. His friend, who is trying to keep h...

Marama is talking to her koro (grandfather) on the phone. He lives in Tāmakimakaurau (Auckland). After exchanging greetings he describes Auckland’s weather – which h...

Te Awarangi and Jenny are ‘performing’ their own weather forecast, using a cardboard box for the frame of the TV screen. Different props are introduced to make assoc...

In this reomation there are two sample weather forecasts, at different levels of difficulty. 

In this reomation there are two sample weather forecasts, at different levels of difficulty. 

In this scenario, the children are playing tag. A taniwha (who’s been hiding behind a rock observing) joins in the game by chasing the children. They end up playing string...

The scene is the gym – where Piripi is exercising

This is a spoof on Jack and the Beanstalk. Te Awarangi plants two seeds in the ground, while Mere looks on doubtfully. The camera zooms in on the two seeds, one of which is frig...

The scene is Te Awarangi’s food stall which he has set up outside his house. We see his friends negotiating prices with him. Unfortunately they have insufficient funds to ...

This reomation focuses on counting people and pets. 

This reomation is useful for “bundling” in tens. 

This reomation shows how to express expanded numerals, as needed in dates. 

The scene is grandad’s birthday – a celebration. We see the children helping to set the table. They put so many candles on Koro’s cake that he needs a fire ext...

This reomation features Te Awarangi’s birthday. His mum makes a cake, while he plays with Piripi. Then we see a balloon being placed in the middle of the ring cake. When t...