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Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori 2020 | Your Moments

One Million Moments

On 14 September at 12pm over 1 million of you took part in the Māori Language Moment. In joining our Māori Language Moment, you became part of a movement that began a generation ago. Check out some of the awesome moments from across the motu and share your favourites to inspire others to join the movement.

Honour our past, celebrate the present, and join together for our future.

Kia kaha te reo Māori!
Kia kaha Aotearoa!

2023 2022 2021

Layla and I read her books that are in Te Reo.

Melissa

Pānuitia with my pēpi.

Melissa

Melissa

Anei he whakaahua o tāku Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori. Over 50 of my Air NZ Digital Apps & Dev colleagues joined me for an online session on pronunciation and pepeha - it was awesome! Kia Kaha Te Reo Māori, Mauri Ora!

Melanie

We sang Tutira Mai which is a Ngati Kahungungu song. Our school is in Ahuriri so meaningful for us. Tamariki loved it!

Mel

Toi Ohomai, Tauranga Campus share korero and the korero O Mauao.

Mel

Our beautiful 2-5 year old tamariki. They were so excited to do the countdown to midday and sing one of their favourite waiata. Our kaiako are super proud of them and their love of Te Reo Māori

Rhys

While in Paris (in Kaiapoi) I sang the national anthem in reo!

Megan

We had a shared kai, opened with a karakia and then spoke Te Reo Maori over our lovely kai

Megan

Practiced a waiata ‘Te aroha’

Medadane

Finishing an epic rendition of Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi!

Matthew

Living in Japan we try to keep in touch with our Maoritanga. Mauri ora!

Matthew

Fishing charter with Tihema Emmitt my moko in whakatane 2020. Best mate. A strong 13yr old helping me his Nan. Got heaps of ika.

Maryanne

I reira au i te tau 1972. Kei te whai tonu au i te reo, kei te ako tonu. Kei te hapahapai i te reo. Ka pērā tae atu ki taku otinga!

Mary

We were in the library so read a large book ‘Rangi and Papa’. Only one student had heard this legend before and they really enjoyed it 😊

Mary

We invited a few friends round for lunch and practiced singing the national anthem and te aroha. We also gave our mihi - but in English. We all had fun and I decided to make my task for the week to learn the complete first verse of E Ihoa Atua - and finally catch up with my grandchildren on this!

Mary

Five of us - rather elderly, two in the their seventies and three in their eighties - met for lunch. Before kai we sang the national anthem in Maori. We then each gave a mihi about ourselves and finished with the waiata, Te Aroha. Before eating we said a karakia together -"e te ao, e te ao marama, e te ao aroha. Mo enei taonga kai o te ao, he mihi nei , he mihi nei, he mihi nei. "

Mary

We did a karakia, specially selected by one of our members, in the middle of our fortnightly mentoring group session.

Marlies

I played he waiata aroha ‘Rimu Rimu’ on my clay nguru underneath this ponga in the ngarehe near our whare.

Mark

Marika

The whole school particitpated at 12pm sharing what their whanau was going to do for this historic event. Some sang a waiata, listened to Te Reo music while learning about Harakeke and making putiputi. Another class did the haka during their whanau Hui and others shared their Pepeha.

Marietta

My Pepeha

Marienne

My lovely cousin and friend sang at Kaitoke Aston Norwood cafe when we realised it was midday. I filmed them.

Marie

My tamariki and I sat and sang along to all our favourite maori waitaha from 1130am till about 1pm. . with my youngest fab being Wairua by Maimoa and Pipi Ma's Rere Aku Poi . . . .

Marie

The best start to the week at mahi was seeing this on our board at work. Kia kaha ki te korero I nga wa katoa 👌😊 Shot fonterra 👌

Maria

This is my 2 year old showcasing what she is learning from our childcare centre❤

Maria

I did a karakia and a waiata with the children and we said the date and had a game of naming things in the classroom. Then all my 24 children did their mihimhi on seesaw and sent it to their parents. We have done lots of korero, kemu me waiat a ringi holki.

Maria

Tieki Taiao Marae Wananga. Wharekahika. Maua ko Teah taku tamaahine Ko te kiriata ki Hinetamatea. Anaura Bay. Maua ko Teah taku tamaahine

Maria

I rongo au i te Irorangi o Aotearoa i te poupoutanga o te ao, kātahi ka waiata au i te waiata Maori

Malcolm

Saying my pepeha on social media for the first time ever ❤️

Makaia

Music is definitely our way of keeping Te Reo alive. I am honestly not musically inclined but my children, well they take after their dad for that. Kia Kaha Te Reo Maori!

mikie

Sharing in singing in karakia via zoom

Maj-Britt

I researched, learnt and documented my mihimihi/pepeha. Mauri ora!

Maire

My grandma, friend, and I shared our pēpeha, did some activities in the new Māori made fun book, listened to a Te Wiki o te Reo Māori playlist, and we did a Māori tikanga kahoot

Maddie

https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=OfKIcw-F93M I completed level 2 Te Reo last year and this song is one that I found privately and that really moved me. I sang it for my class at the end of the year.

Lynne

Tutira mai nga iwi -on the farm.

Lynn

I was on a zoom call with women from all around the world and greeted them in Te Reo and told them what we were doing. They all had a go at saying Kia ora with an American, Irish, Australian and English accent. It was fun.

Lynette

I have no visual record but at midday on Monday I was with my 92 year old mother in her resthome. She has fond memories of the music of Howard Morrison. I played for her a YouTube clip of him singing Whakaaria Mai. And then the version by Teeks and Hollie Smith at the memorial service last year. The music and the beautiful words filled her room and made her smile - and have a few years. She does not know many words in Maori but knew what I meant when I then told her that her kai was ready. Kia ora.

Lynda

I stopped my Hauora Māori zoom lecture at 12 noon, to share the proverb "Kia whakatõmuri te haere whakamua" as I felt it was relevant to the topic.

lynda

On the dot of 12pm I broke out in Waìata. I was the passenger at that moment

Lucy

We chose to keep fit and complete a physical activity using the Maori Movement site - focusing on the Tāne Māhuta course (God of the Forest and Birds). Our students were being active and enjoying their brain break activity that keeps them moving and learning.

Lua

Nga Mihi. I work in an Organization in which myself and Collegue encourage saying Kia ora when answering the phone. I work along side someone supporting him in with the art of Maori designs and te reo Maori. Waiata is incorporated in a Ukulele Group I have established in my work place as well.

Louise

Listened to a podcast about learning Te Reo and started my learning journey.

Louise

I sang Tutira mai in the Auckland Central Library with many others (keeping appropriate distance between us), and then a few more waiata.

Louise

We had 55 students singing this Waiata together for the Maori Language Moment. There is lots of ceiling filmed to protect student identities but it was a beautiful and touching moment to hear them sing.

Louisa

Kei awhi whanau childcare centre - Day 3. . . . Waiata tinana

Kristin

My cushion covers featuring every day life reo

Lou

We had over 50 employees at FCB NZ Zoom in for a te reo story. We would have been together in one space but we had to social distance!

Lizzie

Harekeke Puti Puti Te Kura o Ōhinetahi-Governors Bay School.

Elizabeth

Kia ora rā koutou He kaiwhakawā au - I am a Judge - so when the clock in the courtroom showed it was te poupoutanga o te rā I acknowledged that in Te Reo, and I then also greeted everyone in the courtroom and acknowledged te tīmata o te wiki Reo Māori. Then the court registrar also gave a greeting to everyone. Ngā mihi nunui Lisa Tremewan District Court Judge Waitākere District Court

Lisa

This is our syndicate practicing for an inter-syndicate ‘haka challenge’ on Friday.

Lisa

We celebrated te reo màori with waiata and karakia.

Lisa

We are a small family-owned education and care centre in Alexandra, Central Otago with a mixed-age group from 6 months - 5 years. We all came together just before our midday kai and had a kapahaka session with whaea Nicole. Nga akonga me nga kaiako love waiata and te reo and it's an awesome opportunity to celebrate te reo! Here's Hana (1) working her poi! Tu meke!

Linley

I spent my ‘moment’ listening to the lovely Reanne from ‘Two Hands Traditional Māori Healing and Bodywork’; she was celebrating and acknowledging te reo Māori, along with singing a beautiful waiata. ♥️

Linda

I lay in bed and watched youtube content in te reo Maori. My favourite was the waiata Hareruia from the Kaikohe Intermediate kapa haka group.

Linda

Lidu

My name is Libby Hodgson. I belong to a ukulele beginners club run by Lynn Aro Mitchell. We meet on Mondays at the Lotus Realm in Thames. At 12pm myself (from left) Lynn, Rose and May recorded 'He Puru Tai Tama E' as our #Reo Moment. Ka pai te wā o te reo Māori, tino pai te Mahuru Māori hoki. Mauri ora!

Libby

Horowhenua District Council Mai Medley which we shared on our Facebook page and got our community to join in - a range of schools and other venues joined with their songs too!

Lewis

Our whole school came together to sing our school waiata, He Maunga Teitei.

Lesley

Wore my Māori labelled t shirt going up Mauao. Challenge was to get as many people as I could to either greet me in the Reo or engage me in the kōrero. Worked really well, Pakeha, Māori era atu tangata greeted me in the Reo. Tau ke!

Doubtless Bay

Kia Ora , I live on Rakiura & am mana whenua . I have begun my journey of learning Te Reo this year & secured funding to allow a kaiako to hold wananga once a month over a weekend for a small group of us to learn all things māori together. We have many māori place names on Rakiura ( Stewart Island ) that I chose to record a kupu a day on Facebook for the month of September, so those whom wished to learn how to pronounce them correctly in our community could do so . I have been blown away by the amount of postive feed back & people watching each day ☺️ . . . . I’ve tagged you in each day so far with the hashtag & shared the 14th sept video above . This weekend our group is also hosting a waiata wananga for our community. I’m so inlove with our native language of Aotearoa, & love sharing the little I do know as I journey on this waka with those whom ask .

Lania

Ahakoa kei te tīmatanga o tāna haere mā te ara o te reo Māori, ka kōrero tahi māua ko tāku hoa rangatira i roto i te reo Māori.

Lachy

I spoke with my son about how proud I was to watch TVNZ news at six, and to hear two feature stories delivered in Te Reo. He asked me when I was his age, 16, could I ever imagine this would happen. I said no. I love how Aotearoa is slowly changing. Makes me proud to be Maori. 😊

Kylie

Doing some kai prep with my son so we talked about different colours in Te Reo Maori.

Krystine

Te Reo me ona Tikanga. Ko te Kohanga Reo te kaupapa whakatipu i te Reo Maori.

Kristin

We read our favourite Reo Pepi book, Te Kaute!

Kristina

A day in the life of our Kõhanga Reo Na ngā tamariki i whakahaere te mahi ia ata. Na ngā kaimahi hei awhina. I te rā nei, i haere te roopu teina ki a Raukawa. I mahia mātou ngā waiata ki ta rātou taha i te 12pm. Hoki atu koutou ki te kõhanga reo me mahia tā rātou mahi ia rā, ia rā. Kei te kõrero mātou i roto i te reo māori ia rā, ia rā, ia wiki, ia wiki, ia tau ia tau. Ehara tētahi wiki anake. Kia kaha tātou ki te kõrero. Whai atu ki ngā mokopuna o te kõhanga reo me karawhuia😊 (Our kids lead their mahi every morning while the teachers helps them. Today our Teina group went and joined in with Raukawa to sing some waiata at 12pm. Then back to kõhanga to continue with our everyday mahi. We speak our reo every day, every week, every year not just Te wiki o te reo māori. Be strong to speak our reo. Copy our mokopuna at kõhanga 😊) #MahuruMāori #ReoMāori Te Wiki o te Reo Māori #RuruTeTupunaKõhangaReo (Waiata credit to Te Wharekura o te Kaokaoroa o Pātetere)

Kororia

Waiata with Mum on the farm

Kirsty

Drama / Whakaari Classroom - subject terms in Te Reo Māori.

Kennedy

In class we sung then enjoyed a story ‘Ko wai Te Huna ana?”

Kelly

Kia ora, I have written a dog safety education book, and recently released it, 'Dog safety education with Peaches and Rangi' it is in both Te reo and English, I wrote this book especially to keep our tamariki safe, My mahi is called Kelsview dog safety education. My kuri is called Peaches, she has helped hundreds of children to keep safe, here we are at a local kindergarten, having just read our new book to the tamariki. . We are contracted out to Rangitikei District council and Manawatu District council, where we educate dog safety in schools and kura. Nga mihi Kelly Jordan

Kelly

One of our many in class reo games. This one is their fave so we chose it for our “moment”.

Krystal

Chalk drawings with my kuri

Kelcey

I was on a field trip with Year 12 students to Kakahu and Wapouri (Mt Horrible) so we used the Māori names for the places and animals that we saw including putangitaingi and piwakawaka.

Keely

Kia ora e hoa mā. I spent my wā listening to a Taringa podcast.

Kaye

nurses at the cancer society myself in the middle . Learning Reo maori

kaye

Reading with the mokopuna.

Kay

I watched the video about the first singing of the national anthem in te reo.

Kay

My Māori Language Moment was shared with over 300 people in our company. I was asked to open our week's mahi with a karakia that was gifted to us. This was also recorded!

Katrina

I taught my team of 8 to say Ko (name). au. At 12 we all stood up and said it. It was fun

Katrina

In conjunction with PRINZ, I created this short clip to encourage people to overcome their fear of failure and take the next step, however small, in their te reo journey.

Kathryn

I didn't take any photos, but I listened to Maori Music all morning, it was lovely, it soothed my soul, they were mostly the old Waiata, at midday I greeted our visitors in te Reo and told them we had to talk in te Reo and that was as far as we got.

Kathryn

In the office and outside I make an effort to use te reo greetings. . . I've have written the phrases on the window next to my desk as a constant reminder to stick with it.

Kathrin

My students and I have been playing different games of Te Reo bingo this week. . . They now know all of these fruit and are getting awesome at pronouncing them

Kate

I sang a waiata

karon

For my moment I read Kei Hea te Hipi Kākāriki which really helped me learn words as the actions helped work out what the sheep were doing. I found the green sheep sleeping under a bush.

Karena

This pūrākau was written by my beautiful friend, Kathleen. It was a challenge for me, especially with the Ngāi Tahu dialect!

Karen

These are the phone greetings ACC have been encouraged to learn this week!

Karen

Art with my students at Wairau Valley Special School Transition Centre

Karen

Ordering a coffee in te reo for the first time!

Kaitlyn

Me and my tuakana run a 10 week course where we teach reo, learn the history, have wānanga, learn the stories of waiata and in the case play games. This game we played here was a game I made up. Ko te ingoa ko “Waiata Mai” ka whākina e au i tētahi kupu māori kātahi ko te roopu tuatahi ki te tū ki te waiata me te kupu i kōrerohia e au ka toa! Nā reira, kei te whakakīngia e mātou ngā pouaka katoa 😊 ngā mihi

Kahurangi

We used Zoom to launch a Kahoot LIVE into every House Class in Buller High School. Ākonga joined the game on their devices, and competition was hot! We gave out prizes to half-a-dozen students who got the highest scores. The joint winners Scarlett Hall and Jayde Barry had come through Primary School in Westport North’s Bilingual Unit, karawhiua Eke Pānuku!

Julie

I was driving for work at the moment, so could not join our company's organized Zoom celebration. Instead, I sang along to a Te Reo Maori waiata CD - courtesy of Te Wananga o Aotearoa- in my car.

Julie

My husband and I sang the Lord's Prayer in Te Reo Māori at noon to join the moment.

Julanne

I was too busy participating in Kapa Haka to take a photo or video! As a whakangungu kaiako/student teacher it was the first time I had been at the school I am learning how to be a kaiako at. The Kapa Haka kaiako was amazing! He was so positive and encouraging. He had over 100 children and 8 adults totally enthralled. I have seen a number of kapa haka kaiako and he is tino kino te pai. He was teaching the kids Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah Chorus, in Maori, Ngati Toa's Ka Mate Haka(hakahttps://www. tepapa. govt. nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/watch-ka-mate-haka-performed-ngati-toa-rangatira) and telling the story behind it; teaching us how to pronounce local words correctly and so so so much more. I don't think I have ever smiled or had so much fun since I fell off a tandem into a ditch when singing and doing crazy actions with my sister when we were 12. The Kapa Haka Kaiako is awesome. Ka mau te wehi!

Jude

My daughter first performance at Koroneihana @ Turangawaewae in Ngaruawahia.

Juanita

Learning karakia for Kai, brought One Māori phase a day Book and sharing daily with Whanau

Juanita

I shared a short pepeha on my Facebook to encourage people to use Te reo māori.

Joseph Tavita

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I shared a short pepeha on my Facebook to encourage people to use Te reo māori.