Tongan Language Week

Mālō e lelei

It's Tongan Language Week!

Today Room 6 had a visit from Iunisi's parents, Mr and Mrs Takitaki. 

We learnt how to say hello and goodbye in Tongan. We also sang the Tongan National Anthem and learnt about the meaning of the colours and symbols on the Tongan flag.

We also learnt the sounds of the Tongan alphabet. It was a bit different to our English alphabet but we did really well.














Finally we looked at some of the beautiful mats and ngatu. They looked amazing and we could see how much work had gone into making them.

Mālō Mr and Mrs Takitaki. We loved learning more about your lovely culture and language.

Earlier in the week we had a go at making our own ngatu.  We looked at pictures of ngatu (also known as tapa, siapo and masi in some countries). They look fabulous on our classroom wall.