Monday, March 11, 2019

Manuhiri

This morning we had the pleasure of welcoming a group of students from Sonoda Women's University and their teachers to the school. Alyssa welcomed them and we did a waiata to support her. Then we broke into groups and the Japanese students read us picture books that they had translated into English of very old traditional Japanese fables.





5 comments:

  1. Tena koutou Rūma Toru. Thank you for your wonderful welcome yesrerday for our Japanese visitors, they really enjoyed themselves and said they would have liked to stay longer! They also left us two of their traditional stories that I will share with you.

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  2. Kia ora koutou
    Thank you for hosting us from Sonoda University last week. We learned a lot about your school and also about Maori culture.
    We hope you will enjoy the stories from Japan. Japan is an interesting country and maybe you can learn Japanese and visit there one day.
    There are many exciting things happening in Japan soon. It will be Spring on the 1st of April. School starts then. The cherry blossoms come out and people have parties under the beautiful cherry trees.
    There will be a new Emperor in Japan this year on the 30th of April. There will be a lot of celebrations.
    The rugby world cup will be in Japan this year too.
    And next year will be the Olympics!
    Thank you for hosting us.
    Nga mihi nui.
    Arigatou gozaimasu.
    Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
    Geoff Moore

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  3. Kia ora koutou,

    I am a teacher at Yaldhurst School and I think it's fantastic that you were able to give your visitors a fantastic welcome and that they were able to spend time sharing Japanese tales with you. I had the pleasure of visiting Sonoda University many years ago and they were very welcoming and helpful. I had a fantastic time visiting their school. I am interested to know about some of the stories they read to you. Were they similar to our traditional tales/fables? What one was your favourites?

    Mrs Taylor :)
    Rimu Class Teacher
    Yaldhurst School

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  4. Hello, I am a year 8 at Yaldhurst model school Te puna I really like your blog post about your picture books. And it looks like it was a fun day you guys should add like a video so we can watch it, But I really like this blog post keep up the good work so I hope you had a good day. So keep up the good work.

    From Jacob.

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