Kapa Haka Trip

 LI:  To learn the teachings of our tupuna (ancestors) and the history of New Zealand's native people and their land.

This week on Wednesday the boys from LS2 went on a trip to the Auckland Museum  to learn about our Tupuna\Ancestors. to start it off We met in the hall,and watched the museum video,then we  talked about the challenge for the day. The challenge was to search for the answers of 6 questions. Throughout the day, we added extra questions. Those that met the challenge and answered all 10 questions correctly get a prize. All the answers to these questions were in the talkings. 

The first challenge was to answer the 6 questions which where what is the mountain the the Auckland Museum is on,what is the Auckland Museum name in maori, what was the names of the two long weapons and two short weapons that the moari people used for war. Then if you finished the 6 question Matua Ngarimu and Matua Kingi  

Would give you 4 more questions to look for to add with your 6 questions you already had. When you finished all of the 10 questions Matua Ngarimu and Matua Kingi  would ask us about the 10 questions.After that  Matua Ngarimu and Matua Kingi were asking us questions  about the treaty o waitangi.

  

Te Whanau Raukura Performance

 

Today we were visited by the Te Whanau Raukura. The Te Whanau Raukura is a kapa haka group they performed for us and told us that they had a taiaha, poi and a te rakau and they used them to explain the meaning behind elements of the Maori culture.After that they split up and came to a class each and in there classes they were playing a game with us the the teacher that was in our class was Mrs Bekah

she told us how to play this game could pukana. How you play this game is you get in a round circle and if one person says pukana to you you say it back to them or to the next person next to you if the person that says pukana to you and his or her hand is not facing you you do not say pukana back to her or he. It was a wonderful and nice performance.