Name three great resources we can use to help us whā the language to our kids.

Answers to Sue Thompson, and chocolate fish to be handed out at the waiata / kai event at 1pm in the Pacifica Lali Room, MB.

Kia ora koutou

(Huge, embarrassed apologies for displaying the macron incorrectly in previous ‘Question of the day’ posts – I’ve been posting from home and didn’t notice my computer at home was scrambling this.)

Our young can learn te reo in simple ways right from the start. You can help them by starting with basic body part words – translate the following parts : Puku, poho, niho, manawa, turi, upoko, and ihu.

Answers to Sue Thompson – chocolate fish prizes to be awarded at our waiata / shared kai event tomorrow in the Pacifica Lali Room, from 1pm. Come and join the fun, ka kite apopo!

Name a waiata that is suitable for singing as a lullaby (pōpō or oriori) to your kids.

Answers to Sue Thompson and be in to win a chocolate fish!

Te Kōhanga Reo is a total immersion Māori language family programme for young children from birth to six years of age. (www.kohanga.ac.nz)

When and where did the first Kōhanga reo open?

Send your answer to Sue Thompson!

From this youtube clip, provide one of the reasons Finnian Galbraith gives for why correct pronunciation is important.

Send your answers to sue.thompson@canterbury.ac.nz and you could win a chocolate fish.

Kia ora aku hoa mahi!

All library staff are invited to come sing waiata, mingle, and eat together.

Come and learn some waiata, bring your tamariki (I’m bringing Lily who is 4), and some kai to share.

When : Râmere 31st July, 1pm-2.30pm
Where : Pacifica Lali Room 208, MacMillan Brown Centre

We’ll be singing the waiata some of us have already had a go at singing, see here.

You can book here.

Ka kite âkuanei!
Sue T.

Hi all

We’ve made a slight change to reference interloans at the desk.

On a patron arriving to collect, take the interloan out of the reference envelope, and pass item to patron – there should be no papers, barcodes, etc with the interloan, and nothing to check out on Horizon. We monitor due dates behind the scenes.

See our team manual or get in touch with me if you have any questions!

Cheers
Sue T

An interloan from another library was signed for by the mailroom in January, but never made it to Interloans. On the off chance the book may be on a desk somewhere, the title is ‘Integrated design and simulation of chemical processes’. It’s almost 700 pages, so fairly hard to miss.

Hi all

The interloan zportal account where patrons request interloans from is down this morning. We’re hopeful this should be fixed today.

Thanks,
Sue

James Hight building turns 40 on 23rd March, and to celebrate this we invite you to participate in a staff photograph on the main steps and afternoon tea tomorrow (Friday 21st):

3.30pm – assemble on front steps
3.45pm – photograph
4.00 – afternoon tea in Level 5 tearoom (bring a plate to share – tower-shaped cakes anyone?)
Memories and stories are welcome during our shared afternoon tea,

Cheers, Sue T