Cook Island Language Week

It was fun learning Cook Island words!

On the Monday of the third week of term 3 I was sitting in the classroom reading before school when Mrs Kumar came in and said ‘’ Today it is the start of Cook Island language week. ‘’ Then I stopped reading and started to talk to Mrs Kumar after a little while I got bored and went outside to play on the playground when the bell rang and I ran to the line. I was first in the line so I was happy.

 Mr Hendricks came from the office and started talking about how all the classrooms had a tight schedule, then he stopped mid sentence and sent two seaniars on a run to the two rubey posts on the field. One of the people was a girl and she went running and the other was a boy and he walked.

When the assembly was over room ten was sent first because they had special maths to go too. Room 11 had left earlier in the assembly but I didn’t know why. When it was time for room 8 to go Mrs Kumar said we were going to do fitness so we all went running around the curt.

When we were on the second round of running it started to rain just a little but just enuff to be annoying. Mrs Kumar called us all into the girls and boys lines so we could go back to class. In class we all sat on the floor when Mrs Kumar said “ all the boys in the front and all the girls at the back” because all the boys liked to sit at the back and the girls in the front.

Then Mrs Kumar Casted on the TV so she could teach us how to have a conversation in Cook Island. Some of the words were Kia Orana ( Hello), Pe’ea Koe? ( How Are You?), Meitaki au ( I am fine) and Akape’ea koe ( how about you?). The next day at morning assembly Mr Nido greeted us all in Cook Island and we had to reply in Cook Island.

Finally we got to go back to class because Mr Nido had made us talk to each other in Cook Island. When we got in class we all sat down on the mat ( girls at the back and boys in the front).and watched another video and learned how to say goodbye. The person who started the conversation would say Aere ra and the other person would say Eno’ ora. (  both words have the same meaning.) I felt so proud of myself for learning Cook Island Language.