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Ko wai te whaea? - Who is the mother?
Achievement objective
2.5 Communicate about characteristics.
Learning intention
Students can:
- describe their own, and other people’s, family.
Modes
At the end of this lesson, students can:
Pānui – reading: Recognise and understand simple, familiar written words, phrases, and sentences.
Tuhituhi – writing: Write simple, familiar words, phrases and sentences using spelling and punctuation conventions.
Materials
Teachers’ notes 2A Te whānau o Hera (Word, 26 kB)
Teachers’ notes 2B Te whānau o Iritana (Word, 26 kB)
Crossword 2A Te whānau o Hera (Excel 2007, 11 kB)
Crossword 2A Te whānau o Hera Answers (Excel 2007, 13 kB)
Crossword 2B Te whānau o Iritana (Excel 2007, 11 kB)
Crossword 2B Te whānau o Iritana Answers (Excel 2007, 13 kB)
Lesson sequence
In this lesson, the students will discuss family relationships based on a basic whakapapa, or family tree.
Use the family tree from Teachers’ notes 2A: Te whānau o Hera. Show it to the students. Discuss with them how we could describe the relationships shown, for example:
- Hera is the mother because she is on a level above the children.
- You can tell she is a woman because there is an ‘F’ next to her name for female.
- The people in the lower line are brothers and a sister because they belong to one family.
- Hōri is the older brother of Mere and Pita because his name is written first, going from left to right.
- The ‘=’ sign joins Hera and Rangi and indicates that they are married/partners.
To reinforce the way that relationships are shown in a family tree, ask the students where they would place their names in their own family tree.
- Are you the oldest or youngest child?
- How many children are in the second row of your family tree? (For example: where do you and your siblings sit?)
- Are you an aunty or an uncle yourself?
Introduce the family terms related to this basic family tree by asking:
| Ko wai te whaea? | Who is the mother? |
| Ko Hera. Ko Hera te whaea. | Hera. Hera is the mother. |
| Ko wai te tuahine? | Who is the sister? (of a male) |
| Ko Mere te tuahine. | Mere is the sister. |
| Ko wai te matua? | Who is the father? |
| Ko Rangi te matua. | Rangi is the father. |
When the family terms have been introduced, display Crossword 2A: Te whānau o Hera and answer each question together as a class.
Use Teachers’ notes 2B: Te whānau o Iritana and ask the students to complete the crossword themselves on copies of Crossword 2B: Te whānau o Iritana.
Language to use
| whaea | mother |
| matua | father |
| tuakana | older sister (of a female) older brother (of a male) |
| teina |
younger sister (of a female) younger brother (of a male) |
| tuahine | sister (of a male) |
| tamāhine | daughter |
| tamaiti | son/child |
| tungāne | brother (of a female) |
Tip
The students could work in pairs when completing Crossword 2B: Te whānau o Iritana.