Aotearoa Kinesthetic Education & Entertainment
2014 MENU OF ACTIVITIES
ECE SERVICES
DURATION
AGES
COST*
40 minutes
2 – 12
$250
40 minutes
2 – 12
$250
10 minutes
2–5
$50.00
10 minutes
2–5
$50.00
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ACTION-LEARNING PUPPETRY
Storytelling with puppets
Toro Pikopiko Puppets presents “Apo The Greedy Taniwha”
a musical show featuring life size side-ways moving plywood puppets.
Touring from July 2013 – August 2014.
From August 2014 Toro Pikopiko re-tells “Ngā Rā Ā Māui”,
celebrating the extraordinary life of Māui Tikitiki.
#2
ACTION–LEARNING NUMERACY
Numba Haka
(Dancing Mathematics.)
Akonga/ Learners
#3
ACTION–LEARNING LITERACY
The Letter Heads/ Ngā Mata Oro
(An Interactive Reading with Letter Head puppet wands.)
Chapter 1
The Vowels
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ACTION-LEARNING WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS
A combination of A.K.E.E. professional development workshops
including Numba Haka, Practising Puppetry,
The Letter Heads and Hear & Say. 20 adults maximum
1 day Workshop
6 hours
Hear & Say/ Whakarongo Mai Kōrero Mai
(Te Reo Māori Pronunciation sessions)
20 adults maximum
Introductory Workshop
I day Workshop
4 session Workshops
2 hours
6 hours
4 X 2 hours
Adults
Adults
Adults
Adults
$1500
$500
$1500
$2000
* Prices negotiable for multiple bookings.
Payments/ Donations to Aotearoa Kinesthetic Learning Charitable Trust are eligible to claim a 33.33% Tax Rebate.
#1
ACTION-LEARNING PUPPETRY
Storytelling with puppets - Up to 60 children per show
Apo, the Greedy Taniwha is the only taniwha to have a ‘hypnotising-tummy’, which she uses to catch her prey
with. Determined to make a little boy called Uira her next meal, an epic chase ensues through the forest realm
of Tāne Mahuta, the rocks of Rūaumoko, the kūmara gardens of Rongomātāne, the windy world of
Tāwhirimātea and ending in the seas of Tangaroa where the hunter becomes the hunted. This colourful, highly
interactive show has its audience singing along to original songs, while volunteers play the parts of trees,
boulders, clouds, fish and even kumara mounds! Featuring striking kinetic plywood and felt puppets, Apo, The
Greedy Taniwha is a visual and aural feast for all ages to partake in, as Apo eventually learns to ‘feed the need
and not the greed’.
Ngā Rā A Māui is a musical puppet show for children about the extraordinary life and death of Māui Tikitiki.
Beginning with his undersea upbringing this colourful, interactive show weaves many of Māui’s greatest feats
including the fishing up of our land, slowing down of the sun, shape-shifting and bringing fire to humankind. This
Māori culture-enriching version of one of our most famous, legendary super heroes features the innovative use of
large, side-ways-centric plywood puppets. Audience children play the parts of Māui’s brothers and sister, the Sun
and Moon, fish, birds, flames, and a giant eel called Tunaroa – they will be chanting and singing along as they are
immersed in non-stop action and drama.
BENEFITS:
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- Participant’s singing, clapping & performance skills developed.
- Live theatrical story-telling experience provided.
- Fluid transmission of traditional Māori cultural knowledge,
in community venues, to people of all cultures.
ACTION–LEARNING NUMERACY
Numba Haka - up to 60 children per reading
Numba Haka is based on the kapa haka principle of putting actions to words, but instead puts actions to numbers
and mathematical symbols, resulting in the dancing out of numerical sequences and equations, to live drumming.
Originally developed as a Te Reo Māori resource called Kanikani Pāngarau with funding from Mā Te Reo, Numba
Haka is now being taught bi-lingually in Te Reo Māori and English.
BENEFITS:
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- Fundamental numeracy knowledge reinforced.
- English & Te reo Māori mathematical vocabulary extended.
- Numba Haka is a form of aerobic exercise.
- Sense of rhythm and full body co-ordination developed
ACTION–LEARNING LITERACY
The Letter Heads/ Ngā Mata Oro - up to 60 children per reading
The Letter Heads/ Ngā Mata Oro is an alpha-numeric story told in rhyming verse, about alphabet beings called the
Letter Heads, who escape from the 2-Dimensional confines of Letterland, via the Big Letter Book. While exploring
our 3-D reality, the Letter Heads undergo a transformation from ignorance through to understanding, learning
language and literacy skills by grouping together to describe the world around them. Partnering the English
version of this story is a Māori language version - Ngā Mata Oro, whose alphabet characters are the 'faces of
sound’. Pre-school and new entrant children interact with the Letter Head characters by animating them to
become the ‘voice’ of their own Letter Head.
BENEFITS:
- Identification of individual vowels and consonants practised.
- Pronunciation of individual vowels and consonants developed.
* Prices negotiable for multiple bookings.
Payments/ Donations to Aotearoa Kinesthetic Learning Charitable Trust are eligible to claim a 33.33% Tax Rebate.
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ACTION-LEARNING WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS
Hear & Say/ Whakarongo Mai Kōrero Mai
(Up to 20 adults per workshop)
These are Te Reo Māori pronunciation workshops that vary in length from two hours to eight hours in duration.
Participants deconstruct everyday Māori words and phrases into their component vowels and consonants, before
reconstructing them using our Letter Head wands, forming words from a variety of categories and collectively
practising their pronunciation. The aim is that by the end of the workshop the participants will be able to hear
when they are ‘talking out of tune’, and have the ability to self-correct, by following the pronunciation guides
provided in the workshop. Hear & Say/ Whakarongo Mai Kōrero Mai is primarily for adult learners and is
delivered to corporate, community and educational groups.
BENEFITS:
- Increased confidence with speaking Te Reo Māori.
Ability to self correct pronunciation of Te Reo Māori developed.
- Understanding of the
meaning of Māori words increased.
- Māori vocabulary extended.
- Pathways to further Māori language learning identified.
Action Learning Puppetry, Literacy & Numeracy
This six hour long professional development workshop explores all aspects of the A.K.E.E Action Learning activities
– puppetry, literacy and numeracy, woven together. Participants spend time on each of these activities,
practising their new skills, with feed-back and support given by the tutors and fellow participants. Vocabulary for
the reo Māori pronunciation component of this workshop is tailored to the workplace or teaching environments
of the participants.
BENEFITS:
- Participants develop skills so that they can teach the basics of Numba Haka.
- Participants gain knowledge of how to teach with Letter Head wands.
- Participants develop the ability to make and use their own resources to inspire others to
practise Māori themed Puppetry, Numba Haka and the Letter Heads within their own teaching
environments
* Prices negotiable for multiple bookings.
Payments/ Donations to Aotearoa Kinesthetic Learning Charitable Trust are eligible to claim a 33.33% Tax Rebate.