🌊🛶 Ko tōku Awa, Ko tōku Waka

🌅 Recap & Warm-up (10 mins)

Maunga Mahi Tahi: Students share their maunga line with a NEW partner.

Quick review: Call on 3-4 volunteers to share their maunga sentence with the class.

Today's preview: "Today we're adding TWO more lines — our awa (river) and waka (ancestral canoe)!"

🌊 Focus 1: Ko tōku Awa (15 mins)

Pronunciation:

• awa = "ah-wah" (river, stream)

Discussion:

• Rivers are the lifeblood of the land — te awa = the veins of Papatūānuku
• Many iwi have special relationships with their awa (e.g., Whanganui River has legal personhood)

Activity: Find Your Awa

1. Using a map, find rivers near where you live or where your family is from
2. Choose your awa and write: "Ko ______ tōku awa."
3. Practice with a partner

🛶 Focus 2: Ko tōku Waka (15 mins)

Background:

Māori ancestors voyaged to Aotearoa on great oceanic waka (canoes) from Hawaiki. Each iwi traces back to a specific waka.

The Main Ancestral Waka:

Activity: Research Your Waka

1. If you know your iwi, research which waka your iwi descends from
2. Ask your whānau — they may know!
3. If unsure, you can skip this line or say a waka connected to your area

📝 Grammar Focus: Tōku vs Ōku (10 mins)

Key distinction:

Example: If you have TWO significant rivers, you use "ōku" (plural).

🎤 Oral Practice (10 mins)

Build your pepeha so far:

1. Stand and face a partner
2. Say your THREE lines so far:
   • Ko [Maunga] tōku maunga.
   • Ko [Awa] tōku awa.
   • Ko [Waka] tōku waka.
3. Partner responds: "Tēnā koe!" then shares theirs
4. Find a NEW partner and repeat