Activity:In the 1800s, most Māori lived in villages called pa. Each village had many buildings – kauta where people cooked, pataka where they stored goods and wharepuni where the Māori slept. A traditional wharepuni had a thatched roof and walls made of timber, fern, rushes and bark. Look at the picture below of a traditional wharepuni. Does it look like your house?

On your blog, compare the wharepuni to your own home. What are two similarities and two differences between a wharepuni and your house?

Answer: Our house right now is a normal house, like everyone's. But in the old days their house's were way different. Here are my compares to the olden day house and the house I have now.

My House now:

A lot of space.

Wifi.

New phone's

Pet's.

T.v

Olden day house's:

Not much space.

Old cell phones

No Pet's.

Television

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Bonus Activity.

Bonus Activity:

To this day, the people of New Zealand still use waka. Instead of using their waka to transport them from one place to another, they sometimes use waka in special events and in sports such as Waka Ama. Both boys and girls compete in Waka Ama boat races. Watch this short video of a Waka AMA race. On your blog tell us you want to be in a Waka AMA race one day. Why or why not?

Answer: I would love to be in a Waka AMA race because, I would have more experience and know how to drive a waka. I love to try new things everyday. Today I learned how to ride a electric scooter.

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Summer Learning Journey.

Activity 2:The first settlers to come to New Zealand must have been really brave! They had to leave their original homes and sail thousands of miles across the ocean on a special boat called a ‘waka’ to reach New Zealand.

Imagine that you were on board one of the wakas. On your blog, write a short letter to a friend telling them about your voyage to New Zealand. In the letter be sure to tell them how you feel about moving to a new country. If it was me, I would have felt really nervous…

Answer: If I was moving from New Zealand to another country I would feel really nervous because, I wouldn't know what is in that country, or the danger's of the country. And leaving my home would feel uncomfortable because, I've been living in my house for 3 whole years. So the people in the wakas must real brave to leave their country.

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My Fist Activity For Summer Learning Journey!

Activity:It is widely believed that the first people to arrive in New Zealand came from Polynesia. Most historians believe that they landed in New Zealand over 700 years ago. Although they were originally from many different countries, these settlers learned to live together and, eventually, formed their own distinct culture known as ‘Māori.’  Māori have their own language, traditions, and culture.



Answer: Today I learned that the first people to step on New Zealand were Polynesia. They Landed here 700 hundred years ago. These settlers learned to live and play together and formed a culture named Māori   That's AMAZING. The Three stories I heard about Maui Are:
1. Maui and his brothers slow the sun down together, so they have more sun light in day time.

2. Maui uncle's brother take's care of Maui, and when you grows up he looks for his mother.

3.Maui Brother's fell in love with these woman and became weak. But Maui Defeated the woman and saved his brothers.

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New cybersmart game

Today our teacher, Miss Mills, showed us a learning game called Interland. I learn how to make a more secure password, and to stop cyber bullying and to keep away from inappropriate websites.

There are four worlds you can do:
Secure passwords, Stop Cyber bullying, Reality River and Mindful Mountain.

I have only completed: Secure passwords, Stop cyber bulling and Reality river.
The password I made was: frUi7 (aRRy
Here is the link of the learning game: https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/interland

You should give it a go! It is really fun!

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A Close Encounter.

Today a teacher named Miss Jones, brought a chick and a hen into our class. The chick was adopted but had no mother, the chick was a Australorp. The chick was always crying. So they adopted a mother. The chick was walking around the adopted mother, until Miss Jones raised the mother's wing and put the chick under it.

The mother was a Silkie hen. 

These are the facts I learned from Miss Jones students, an egg needs 38 degrees to hatch, and the life cycle of a chicken is, egg, chick, chicken then a egg again. It takes 21 days for a egg to hatch.

Hope You Learned something.
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