Saturday, August 20, 2011

Goodnight Kiwi

Here's the TVNZ Goodnight Kiwi cartoon.

Hine e Hine

Hi all Here is a video of this old maori classic. It was the closing song of TVNZ back when TV shut down at midnight. This is an example of live teaching during lunchtime with the ukulele orchestra at Balmoral School. The kids are really keen and have a lot of fun. Hope you all enjoy it!

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Year 4 Waiata Term two 2011

Welcome back everyone! We have started the year off with a wide variety of acitivities and everyone is haveing fun.

This term the year 4 children are learning a few waiata. Here are a couple of links for children to continue to learn the actions and sing along with. We have been having loads of fun learning these songs in year 4 and the children are picking up the actions really quickly.


When we are up to performance level I will post a video of classes doing some of these songs.

Today we also had a lot of fun dancing to the Jump Jam videos. We did three songs - The Men In Black, Umqombothi, and Star Wars. Jump Jam is an excellent resource both for fitness sake and as an exciting way to learn to move to music and to increase rhythmic awareness. Any dancing is great for these things in fact and I encoruage children to do this kind of activity often.