Multilingual Moments at TIS

Children in New Zealand enjoy learning an ancient Maori language By  Agence France-Presse, adapted by Newsela staff Text Level  3 10/02/2018 Word Count  459   Arts Children in New Zealand enjoy learning an ancient Maori language By  Agence France-Presse, adapted by Newsela staff Text Level  3 10/02/2018 Word Count  459 Image 1. People walk past Maori language signs in Wellington, New Zealand, on September 13, 2018. Photo by: Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images Students gather under the carved wooden roof of a meeting house. They live in New Zealand. It is an island country near Australia. The students are watching a play at a high school. The school is in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. The play is performed in a language called te reo Maori. It is the language of New Zealand's indigenous Maori people. Indigenous people are the first group of people to live in a particular area. Eds Eramiha is an...

Our Grade 2 teachers Ms. Alison and Ms. Fatima are sharing their successful multilingual moments with us. Below, our teachers explain how their lesson turned into a fun and engaging activity when using different languages.  We appreciate our teachers' flexibility, their effort and dedication to multilingualism at TIS! "We were introducing how we express ourselves by expressing different feelings through facial expressions, voice, sculpture, etc.  Students had a personal visual with facial expressions to use during the session to support participation. Afterwards, some of the students in pairs (according to home languages), translated all of the expressions into home languages and then presented to the rest of the class. Then, another student said- "I want to do it in Russian!" Another one said, "Me too, in Uzbek! and then, "Can I do in Hindi?" One student did the activity in class, and two took it home.  The next morning some students ...