Welcome back everyone to Term 2! I hope you have had a wonderful holiday.
Our children are happy and settled back into the classroom. We have a couple of new children that we welcomed to our class.
This week, we are learning about Kupe the first person who arrived at Aotearoa. Kupe was chasing the wheke from Hawaiki. Kupe was an amazing ocean specialist and had great knowledge about the ocean and how to navigate his waka to Aotearoa. He used stars, waves of the ocean, clouds and ocean creatures to get to Aotearoa.
As we have learnt the story of Kupe, we also learnt about the waka he came in. It is called waka haurua. The children made their own waka haurua.
We then made a big waka haurua for us! The children acted out being Kupe and the wheke!
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