Kids at Home are proud to help celebrate Maori Language Week. 

Here are some ways to incorporate Te Reo Maori into your day:

- Improve your pronunciation of Maori words - for help click here

- Improve your pronunciation of Maori place names - for help click here

- Say "kia ora" when greeting your friends and family 

- Put up a welcome sign on your door saying: "Nau mai, haere mai" 

- Find out the Maori names for items and use them 

- Watch Te Karere (the Maori news on TVNZ) with your family in the evening 

Kids at Home has some additional resources for you to use (these are taken from our Educator Manual).

Click here for some Maori songs.

Click here for a diagram of your body showing the Maori names for your body parts.

Click here for the Maori words for colours, counting and days of the week.

And here is a basic glossary:
Te Reo - the maori language

Tikanga - customs, values

Whaanau - extended family

Tangata whenua - people of the land

Te Tiriti o Waitangi - Treaty of Waitangi – referring to the Maori version

Kohanga Reo - Maori language revitalisation early childhood movement

Kura kaupapa - Maori immersion primary school movement