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Why do it?
- Baby will enjoy sharing a book where each page has an interesting sound for the grown-up to make.
- With repetition, baby begins to associate a sound with the picture of the animal or thing that makes it.
- Baby and grown-up are sitting close together and sharing attention.
How to do it
- Get a ‘board’ book with animals, or kinds of transport or anything that makes a noise
- Baby and parent need to be comfortable.
- Baby may want to turn pages — this is fine, it’s play!
- Mum or dad can make the noise that goes with the page they’re looking at with baby.
- When baby goes to turn the page, say, ‘Turn the page’, so the action and the words happen together.
- Joining a library is a very good idea to access lots of different books for free.
Using more reo Māori
Te reo Māori |
English |
Māku e pānui tētahi kōrero ki ā koe |
Shall I read you a story? |
Kei hea te pukapuka? |
Where is the book? |
Titiro ki ngā pukapuka |
Look at the books |
Hurihia te whārangi |
Turn the page |
Titiro ki ngā kararehe |
Look at the animals |
Kei t e kī te ngeru meow |
The cat says meow |
Kei te kī te kuri woof! |
The dog says woof! |
Kei te kī te manu - tweet tweet |
The bird says tweet tweet |
He kau tēnei |
This is a cow |
He aha te tangi o te kau? |
What sound does the cow make? |
He hipi tenei |
This is a sheep |
Ko ‘baaaa’ te tangi o te hipi |
The sheep says ‘baaaa’ |
Titiro mai, he aha tēnei? |
Look here, what’s this? |
He waka tūroro tēnei |
This is an ambulance |
Titiro mai, he aha tēnei? |
Look here, what’s this? |
He waka tūroro tēnei |
This is an ambulance |
He waka toparere |
A helicopter |
Whakarongo
whakarongo
(whakarangona) to listen, hear, obey
Maori | Verb
|
Listen |
Rongo
rongo
To hear, feel, smell, taste, perceive - used for all the senses except sight
Maori | Experience verb
|
Hear |
Kei te rongo ahau i |
I hear a |
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