I am humbled and valued today!
Our Maori language expert was in today.
He sat with me after his session to share with me that he was very impressed with the pronunciation, commitment and ability of our learners (including me!) in picking up this complex mihi he has provided us with!
A week or two ago he arrived to teach us a graphic way of remembering the components, only to find, we had already employed the exact strategy he wanted to show us - and to great success!
We have been utilising visual cues (from The Writing Book) in our writing and we had the idea to use them to remember each line of our mihi.
So we all have a coloured strip of paper with circled stick figure images that trigger us to remember the part we are up to.
We are ingenious apparently!
He also made a point of acknowledging my part in the improvements in attitude, behaviour and engagement of some of the more infamous members of our learning environment.
That is just the pep one needs every now and then!
#feelingblessed
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