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Mollie

Mollie Knight

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Mollie

Mollie has taken part in:

#Kaitahi - Matariki 2021
MLM 2021
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I'm reflecting and remembering the past. The not so long ago past where tāngata whenua was punished when they kōrero in their language. When te reo was banned in kura and schools. And when the ban was lifted, because of the years of not speaking, teaching and learning in te reo Māori, tamariki was still not being taught in Te Reo Māori. Te reo Māori should not be confined to one week of the year. We should be normalising the kōrero. I wonder how many shops, TV news, radio etc will continue the kōrero next week? This week I went out of my comfort zone by videoing myself doing kupu o te rā and sharing my learning journey with my mahi (ECE) and joining my universities MLM through zoom and kahoot. This made me realise how many people want to learn and want to kōrero, they just never got the opportunity. My Māori Language Moment won't be just one short moment. But the rest of my life will be my Māori Language Moment.

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I have just started working at an early childhood centre and I wanted to celebrate Matariki with the tamariki. Each day we focused on one of the whetū by learning about the whetū and doing an activity which embraced their meaning. For Waitā we made ika out of harakeke. We learnt about the process of cutting and harvesting harakeke and the tikanga that surrounds it and what it can be used for. I sat with the tamariki and we slowly made some ika to put around our Waitā that was on the wall. For Hiwa-i-te-rangi we baked cookies in the shape of a whetū and before we ate them we did our karakia to Hiwa-i-te-rangi and each made a wish for the new year. When we ate the cookies the wish comes true. For Ururangi we made some kites so the tamariki can visually see the winds. I'm excited to see what the tamariki come up next for our next Matariki activities

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