Rich conversations makes for meaningful learning

Today students spent the majority of the lesson constructing sentences in Māori, it was interesting listening as they reasoned with each other about their choices for using particular words, articles, verbs and nouns to form parts of texts. The interesting outcome was the ability for students to come to a consensus amongst themselves by double checking through meaning, sound and look. They used a number of other tools such as the online dictionary, Rangatahi books, sounding out the sentence and writing it out. The discussion was so rich and meaningful that students forgot all about the time and were so caught up in what they were doing they forgot about the bell, māuri ora tauira mā.