We are lucky to have our music teacher Whaea Jen at Paparore School. She encourages a love for music, making each lesson an enjoyable and interactive hands on experience for the students. Our class not only learn valuable musical skills but also develop a deep appreciation for the beauty of different types of music that sheintroduces them too. We all look forward to Wednesday with Whaea Jen!
Tēnā koutou katoa
Today we had the privilege of sharing some of our music learning from this year with our whānau and Te Tinana as our audience. The tamariki led this themselves and chose what learning they wanted to share with you all. We had been learning some waiata Māori – E Minaka Ana and Ka Pioioi which the tamariki wanted to perform in kapahaka costume and with moko. We also performed a drumming piece – Seven Nations Army that Whaea Jen had been teaching us.
The proudest moment for me as their kaiako was watching their pride, passion, courage and commitment leading up to and including their performance today.
Ngā mihi nui to the whānau who were able to make it in person, our tamariki were very appreciative as was I, we know it is not easy to make these events with our busy lives.
We hope you enjoy watching these videos of our group performances and those tamariki who were brave enough to do solo performances will share to their individual blog on Friday.
Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa,
Ngā taitamariki me ngā kaiako o Te Manga
This week we started back with our music lessons with Whaea Jen. The students enjoy the sessions and I am quite impressed with their rmusical skills!
Today the students’ learnt to keep to a rythm using drium sticks and the bongo drums. Whaea Jen shared a ‘bucket drumming’ video for the class to play alomg with. There are some very keen drummers in Te Manga this year!
Every Wednesday we have music with Whaea Jen. She introduced different instruments to the students and has been teaching the students how to keep the beat. They have been using drum sticks and the African Bongo drums.
Chase – I like the song turn the tv off right now. There were all sorts of instruments. Whaea Jen was really awesome at the flute. I liked the drums.
Isla – In our musical class we did chords and notes, we used drum sticks. Our lovely Music teacher Whaea jen was fun. She told all of us how to do it. We had to keep the beat we were like music heroes.
Joron – I like Whaea Jen because she is a good singer and good with the drum sticks.
Julia – I like to drum with the sticks. We had to say dog dog dog donkey donkey donkey caterpillar caterpillar caterpillar to keep the beat.I also liked when she sang us a song and when she used the flute. She used the recorder too.
Lloyd – I like drums they look old as and cool and I liked playing them. There was a lady who taught us how to play the notes. They were dog dog dog donkey donkey donkey then caterpillar caterpillar caterpillar.
