This week in Tautoru we have been immersing ourselves in Māori and Pacific Migration. We've been speaking about why people choose to migrate and the reasons for travelling, alongside creating our own waka. Māori methods of transportation were also quite different to what we're used to today! Our tamariki have learnt how Māori travellers used the stars, waves, clouds and birds to find their way across the pacific.
Tuesdays school trip to Te Papa aided in this learning. We saw models of waka that were used to travel, alongside a real waka from all that time ago! Our tamariki explored different waka hoa, traditional Māori resources and lots more. A standout piece of learning was this karakia, which gave directions of the stars used as a guide to find Aotearoa. It was Hukenukumai who passed on this knowledge which we all get to enjoy today.
Kupe is an important figure in Māori migration history, as alongside his wife Kuramārotini he was the first to discover the land of the long white cloud. One of our year 2 students wrote a beautiful piece of writing about Kupe:
Kupe was very brave. Once he realised that all the villagers and his food was gone! A little while later an octopus stole it. He chased it around Aotearoa and he couldn't catch him for a long lone time. Around Aotearoa the waka was storing food and his friends came with Kupe. Finally Kupe caught Te Wheke!
Here are some photos from this weeks learning.
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