At Auckland Preschool, we have jumped into Deaf Studies this Year!

All year, we have been learning about 'Who am I'? Through learning to introduce ourselves to our classmates, teachers and visitors to our preschool, we've been practising using our own and other people's sign names. We've also started trying to fingerspell and write our names on paper, linking fingerspelled letters with print.

Recently, we took this idea of introductions to another level and practised presenting our pepeha at Rūaumoko Marae!

Introducing ourselves by using our sign names, fingerspelling, and pepeha helps us link Deaf and Māori culture, as well as phonetic awareness, and it starts to build our individuality and identity as young Deaf learners.

Ka pai Auckland Preschool!