Tōku Pepehā Book

The Tōku Pepehā Book is an ambitious project designed to get students using real and relevant sentences to talk about themselves. This was inspired by 'Tōku Pepehā' by Arahia Books. 

We designed this book around one-page books, where a single A4 sheet is folded to create a 14-page book. You could modify this to have more or fewer pages as you like.

Based on teaching this the first time, please note:

• This extends students far past colours and counting.
• There is a wide variety of different sentences for students to say. Several of these require students to find out Māori words or ways to say things, such as things they like or characteristics of a whānau member.
• There isn't a good student-friendly online Māori dictionary (at least, that I have found).
• Siblings can be tricky for students to get their heads around. 
• Careful organisation of student work is suggested, as this requires several sessions and it can be time-consuming to locate previous sentences from prior sessions.

Nonetheless, this project is immensely rewarding as it leads into whānau, community, relevant teaching and learning of Te Reo Māori, as well as future learning in traditional pepehā, questions and answers about self, and so on.

This page is a bit of a work-in-progess: I'll put more examples of student work and variations on a theme as they come available. 

Damian's example, includes fabulous art:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QTwSig0ctdL3_Axeo4cywK8A-TCg4PJG/view?usp=sharing

One-page summary of what you could include:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10e-4oTcB1yAm_KCSN1b1Hmb6ChYjabLzJLHo3f4o0IM/edit?usp=sharing

Tōku Pepehā student planning sheet:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ccI_1t1eD44z0xU5mBgUt8Jud5BH_ZpSd5JFJ6NU2Xc/edit?usp=sharing

Am happy to share resources and answer any questions you have.

Ngā mihi,

Damian Hardman
damian.hardman@birchwood.school.nz