Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori 2021 | Your Moments

From schools, to workplaces to whānau and friends. Thousands of New Zealanders stopped to share in a moment of unity for our people and our language. In joining our Māori Language Moment, you became part of a movement that began a generation ago.

Kia kaha te reo Māori!
Kia kaha Aotearoa!

2024 2023 2022 2020

For my Māori moment I ran the reo Māori Kahoot quiz with my hoamahi to test them on their te reo Māori knowledge in a fun and inclusive way. I even learnt a couple of kupu hou as well!

Matahana

Ashburton District Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and Councillors share a message.

Ruben

Utilising Māori greetings and sign offs in email and conversation. Mōrena XXXXX Ngā mihi nui Andy

Andy

Kia ora koutou, Kia pai to rā, Mā te wā, Ēri

Ellie

A little waiata on our Te Reo journey from our Auckland lockdown family bubble.

Tori

We sang some Te Reo songs in our Play Centre Space class via Zoom.

Lisa

My Pepeha :)

Jocelyn

I panui i te pukapuka Poaka Kunekune i runga i a huitopa.

Marama

Our kapa haka roopu performed some waiata on zoom together.

Adam

I asked hubby to translate this old whānau waiata I roto I te reo Māori for me. I'm loving learning Te Reo at this time because it's so LEARNER FRIENDLY

Gloria

Te wa mahana ana te ngakau, tenei moko maua ko nana Mar. Tino arohanui ki tenei mokopuna ataahua. Tona ingoa ko Waiaaio Rauaroha Haparangi Morunga.

Marlene

Kia Ora these are some of our tamariki who have returned to kohanga after lockdown. There are a still tamariki away who are sick. This waiata was composed by our chairmain Tuhoe Huata for our kohanga

Judith

We took part in learning kupu hou, we used a te wiki o te reo māori quiz in the paper and had a teams meeting online.

Kuruho

my pepeha

Kenoni

Through my awesome workplace - an accessible media company - we shared phrases and words we love in te Reo Māori through Microsoft teams. We learnt from each other and it was awesome!

Clare

Kei te ako ahau i te reo Māori. I want to play my part in ensuring our beautiful indigenous language is understood and spoken by all who live in Aotearoa.

Lesley

Sang songs and danced to different waiata. Songs were -I Saw a Taniwha | Kids Maori Song -Tutira mai nga iwi Lyrics etc

Sharmila

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Our tamariki are singing Pakeke mai o matimati and Tohora nui for Poly Fest. This is them practicing these waiata. They enjoy learning kupu hou through waiata me waiata a ringa.

James

This is my level 4 to 5 class with me on zoom in class and the rest are in class in Kaitaia Te Wananga o Aotearoa I am Dr Mary-Anne Baker and sitting in Hineamaru Ngati-Hine Health Trust doing mahi as essential worker in Kawakawa

Mary-Anne

Me and my new entrant class at Paeroa Christian School

Leanne

Kia ora whanau I picked this song waiata because it being me back to when I was a child and everyone know this song and I wanted share it with my daughter Te aroha and I was amazed she joined in so proud to be Maori , Kia ora

Jaqualine

Ānei ētahi o ā mātau tama o Lindisfarne College (Hawke's Bay) e whakanui ana i te wiki o te reo māori. Kia ora tātau.

Pomare

We read the book "Ngā Tae" in te Reo Māori, English, and Makaton sign

Sarah

Kia ora

Megan

Kia ora. While working at our marae today, one of our colleagues shared a beautiful karakia with my class. We farewelled each other using "Ka kite apopo! " and I went through my mihimihi at home at 12 noon. Tomorrow evening, our Te Ataarangi class are meeting online to continue our Level 1 studies. Nga mihi.

Jenny

My work team met online from all across Aotearoa, we opened & closed our session with karakia, and we sang waiata. Ka rawe!

Megan

Teaching my toddler Mahunga, pakihiwi, puku, hope, waewae song he absolutely loves it and trys to sing along to.

Mikaela

Kaua e whakama has been my kīwaha the past few weeks and Karawhuia! ! I thought I knew my pepeha and was confident in my korero but after a whānau reunion I realised I had been mixing my Nans whakapapa from Te Rarawa with my Poppa’s from Ngati Kuri. So now I am relearning the correct version. I hope this is okay xx

Stacey

This is a haiku I wrote. It shows my usual optimism when planning an online meeting with my whole class of 30 students and then how many actually join. Mōrena koutou Haere mai ki tenei Zoom. . . . . . rua akonga!

Kathryn

Kei te whakarongo ahau ki te kai panui

Liz

Horoia ō ringaringa! Wash your hands! Our tamariki love singing the 'Kina kina' waiata I first learnt at kōhanga reo with my irāmutu nearly 20 years ago! We adapted it to help them learn how to wash their hands thoroughly. Ngā mihi ki Pānia Papa, we referenced the translations in Kat Quin's Kiwi & Friends Māori Picture Dictionary & Siouxsie Wiles' advice about good hand washing. Kina, kina Wheke, wheke Kōnui, kōnui e Whatingaringa Whatingaringa Matihao, matihao e Mirimiri! actions: interlaced fingers overlapped fingers thumbs wrists claws/fingernails rub together

Kay

We opened with a shared te reo prayer at lunch for our kai.

Wayne

Brilliant website to use to #mymihi

Gina

Had a Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori quiz with my work team today!

Josiah

Learned some signing off options. Learned the pronunciation, and have changed my work signature.

Irene

Tau kē! The team from Leadership New Zealand | Pūmanawa Kaiārahi played your awesome Kahoot quiz to mark the Māori Language Moment. (I won - neat alright! )

Anya

I took part in a group lesson learning some history and how to say words. I am still conscious that my prounounceation is terrible but I am more than willing to improve!

Julie

Ko te kiwaha o te ra ko “He waka eke noa”

Samantha

Ko tēnei Te Whānau Reo Māori o Te Kura o Manutūkē e whakanui ana i Te Wiki Reo Māori mā tēnei waiata. (Nā Herea Winitana ngā kupu i tārei mō Te Rangapū 11 o Te Panekiretanga. Nā Rongomai Smith i whakarangi. Nā Dayne Hollis i whakaako i ngā tamariki).

Tiria

Kei te ako i te reo rangatira au! He tino pai te pukapuka. Ngā mihi ki te kaiako Scotty. Kia kaha te reo Māori.

Caleb

My staff meeting via zoom - we all did our school mihi and then listened and danced to the Te Reo version of Slice of Heaven

Lara

We've teamed up with our northern emergency partners/whanau, Northland Rescue Helicopter, to share a Māori Language Moment with New Zealand today. Stay safe. We are all in this together. Kia noho haumaru. Kei runga katoa tātou i tēnei waka.

Lincoln

Kia ora tatou, Toku ingoa ko Tara. Haere ra.

Tara

Being in Tāmaki meant we had to do our moment online! ! We played a kahoot and one of our kaiako sung us a waiata!

Te Kura o Pātiki- Rosebank School

This is the class' first go at our school haka

Ben

Read this article about celebrating te reo Maori and did the quiz with my whanau https://www. stuff. co. nz/pou-tiaki/300403956/aotearoa-celebrates-te-reo-mori-together-in-a-single-moment

John

learning an lol more about whakapapa and to all the iwis that I belong too and I wanted to connection to all of my whanau alol more around aotearoa and my connection to whanau apanui tuwharetoa. te arawa. ngati kahungunu and lol more kia kaha aotearoa

khan

E ako ana ngā tauira ki te whakahua i ngā kīwaha i te wā tika, ānei o rātou whakaaro.

Talia

Saying the Lord’s Prayer in Te reo or singing the Lord’s Prayer in Te reo is a great way for us to experience and learn an amazing language like Te reo. Kia Ora

Joanne

Some tamariki from Year Tahi me Rua from St Clair Kura ki Ōtepoti

Jo

We celebrated the Te Reo Māori moment by saying "Kia Kaha te reo Māori" as a school!

Kate

Kia ora koutou e te reo Māori whānau. This week I am continuing to study and practice te reo Māori with the help of our tutor whaea Pippa Hakopa who comes to Rakiura and teaches a class of about 20 people every week! We kōrero, use our Te kākano pukapuka, play games, learn Waiata. Have wānanga and learn so much more! She is helping and encouraging bringing forth the history of Rakiura and te reo Māori to us all.

Simon

The Haka represents the Maori ceremonial dance or challenge. It is seen before sports games and at Maori festivals. The one that Max was dancing was for kids.

max

I am learning new reo and phrases and waiata to use in our kai area and sharing it with tamariki and their whanau. I am also practicing my mihi. ❤️

Aimee

So hear in my video its about me playing a game which was about Matching the days of the week next to the english name.

Alania

I was so proud to be part of the Māori Language Moment and go on-line to see all of my 500 tamariki and their whānau joining in with learning, practising and celebrating this special and essential language. Ka rawe Freemans Bay School Waiatarau!

Cindy

We held a meeting as a team where we shared our mihi, whakatauki and waiata

Anastasia

Karawhiua e te iwi o Aotearoa. Ko wai au - Val Panui no Tamaki Makaurau ahau ko Taumarunui tōku tūrangawaewae

Val

Briar was learning the waiata Tutira mai nga iwi at her early learning service prior to lock down . . . she is yet to say an official 'ka kite' to them as she has turned five during this lockdown in Tamaki Makaurau - we thought to celebrate our reo Māori moment singing this legendary waiata together. Hopefully there will be more reo Māori opportunities at her new school! Mauri ora whānau, Aunty Shelley and Briar! !

Shelley

This video shows some of our staff getting together at the Museum to sing a Waiata - E hara i te mea.

Hannah

Kia ora koutou, our whanau celebrated Te Waa Tuku Reo Maaori 2021 by bringing together kiwi's based in Port Vila, Vanuatu and starting our very first kapa haka roopu. Ka mau te wehi!

Nikki

Ko Allan Faalavaau ahau, Ko Ngati Hamoa toku iwi. Singing He Honore with my wife Ngaire, who is Tainui toku iwi.

Allan

Our children at little footsteps at Taylor pass have been practicing for taiopenga.

Louella

Kei te kōreo te reo Māori anake mo tētahi hourua ki roto o tōku karaehe i oku tauira tau iwa. E mahi ana au ki roto i tetahi kura auraki, ki te tari toi.

chance

My Pepeha

Keila

Kia ora to Jason for organising the Sport Canterbury pepeha practice and waiata session.

Rebecca

Great Waiata at BOPDHB today

Helen

The Lower North region from Ara Poutama (Corrections NZ) took part in a Kahoot Quiz.

Fale

Aroha ahau ki aotira

Hafsa

Here's Video 2 of 2 of staff from Ko Taku Reo Deaf Education taking the challenge to race each other in signing and/or saying - Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

Kathie

"Kia Kaha te Reo Māori" - Let's make the Māori language strong - Te Reo Maori whakatauki 2021 Whaea Dee - I was listening and singing along to waiata and learning kupu by playing an online game which consisted of vocabulary, colours, fruits and vegetables and animals. link: https://www. digitaldialects. com/Maori. htm. My personal whakatauki: "Aroha mai, aroha atu"

Whaea

Kia ora Koutou, at our Heartist Townhall (Kaimahi Hui), all our heartists online and in the room recited the Te Reo Kaikohau. This is a room full of people from 15 nationalities, doing mahi at every level of our hāpori. Nga mihi, Sofitel Wellington

Raymond

My 10RA English class spent the lesson sharing their knowledge and teaching the rest of us some Te Reo. We did a range of activities: Everyone introduced ourselves in Te Reo (some using the cues on the whiteboard). We viewed a segment of a children's Te Reo language video on youtube which some particularly requested. We did some of the activities suggested by Ako Panuku (brainteasers, tongue twisters, vocabulary, etc. ) We ended with a kahoot on Te Reo. Quite a lot of fun!

Desire

Learning Māori greetings and using them lots in emails given the current climate. Eg: Ngā mihi, Morena or Nāku noa, nā

Leila

Today our kaiako came together to kanikani and waiata along to Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi.

Donna

Aloha mai! I am a student learning `ōlelo Hawai`i and desire to learn reo Maori since we have ʻohana in Hamilton!

Val

We composed a waiata of our company values which we will send to our Kaumatua for his whakaaro

Debbie

This is a poster I created for my classroom and shared with other teachers and parents on social media. We practice this everyday and hoping for our tamariki to start using them in their everyday conversation.

Aya

Doing some hard out mahi with tāku pukapuka ako :)

Helen

Kei te koa ahau ki te mahi mō tetahi kamupene e tautoko ana i te reo Māori. Kia kaha te reo Māori, ka pai Trustpower

Annie

Created my pepeha for the first time :)

Jocelyn

Scattergories in Te Reo Māori was a fun way for secondary students to identify the Reo Māori they know and what areas they need to learn new kupu in.

Olivia

Tēnā koutou katoa. I have been studying Te Reo for over a year now and as a Wildlife / Bird Photographer I thought I would create a video showcasing some Whakataukī that make reference to manu. All images in the video have been taken by me. Studying Te Reo is important to me as it helps me connect to the taiao and whenua that I call 'Home'. Ngā mihi nui.

Kurien

This video was done to help promote safety during covid lockdown level 4 Tamaki Makaurau

Arthur

Kia Ora, I joined our groups waiata turei, shared my pepeha with my team, shared 2 links to maori songs that i enjoy to listen to and i also shared basic maori greetings with my team.

denise

A brief waiata from the Birthright Hutt Valley crew :)

Sarah

I'm a florist - we are learning our flower names in te reo and sharing to our followers on social media. Todays flower is rohi - rose.

Olwyn

Kia hari koutou katoa

Chris

we listened to a waiata playlist on spotify at work

Susie

Kia ora!

Ellie

I drew some yummy Kai to share

Coco

At Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa | NZCER we used the moment to share our favourite kupu, rerenga kōrero, kīwaha. You can see by the big smiles on our faces that we enjoyed sharing this moment.

Te Raehira

We listen to a spotify playlist of Waiata Reo songs See link below

Charmaine

I tēnei mōteatea i tuhia nā Piki Kereama. He tauira mātou no Te Wānanga o Raukawa.

Tabitha

Kia ora, this is my pepeha. I am on this reo journey, after 72 yrs of trying to find who I am. Now on a study of tikanga, having completed 5 mths online te reo with Te Awanga Raukawa Otaki. " Whaia te mātauranga hei oranga mō koutou". Nga mihi Dianna

Dianna

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā karanga maha o te wā, tēnā koutou katoa” Ko Velebit tōku maunga Ko Adriatic tōku moana Ko Koroatia tōku iwi Nō Whanganui-a-Tara au Kei Ospri au e mahi ana Ko ahau te kaiwhakahaere hauora me te ahuru Ko Marcus tōku ingoa ”No reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa

Marcus

Spanish-Maori song in the Spanish class MĀ is White Mā es blanco Whero es rojo Kākāriki verde Pango es negro Hina es gris A E I O U. Kōwhai amarillo Pākākā marrón Kikorangi azul Mawhero rosa Karaka naranja A E I O U. Tahi es uno Rua es dos Toru es tres Whā es cuatro Rima es cinco 1 2 3 4 5. Ono es séis Whitu es siete Waru es ocho Iwa es nueve Tekau es diez 6 7 8 9 10.

Virginia

kia ora

Ollie

My Pepeha and Porirua Union & Community Health Services waiata (General Practice Clinic)

Demelza

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Maori Languge Moment 2021

My Pepeha and Porirua Union & Community Health Services waiata (General Practice Clinic)