Maori

LI: to learn more about Maori
This week for Maori the first thing we did was read a story about the beginning of earths creation. It was about the earth mother and the sky father being together with no light, but the sons of earth and the sky wanted to be free so the sons separated them. Then there was a stream of light flowing everywhere. Later the sons became gods. Tu became god of man and war, Tangaroa became god of the sea, Tawhirimatea god of wind and storm, Haumia became god of cultivated food and the wild, and lastly Rongo became god of peace and agriculture. Then we watched a video explaining the story of the beginning in Sand Art.

 Later for Maori we learned about the history of the first Maori man to discover New Zealand, the maori mans name was Kupe. The name Aotearoa came from the wife of the Kupe. The wife of Kupe said "He ao, he ao, he ao tea roa".Then Kupe looked around New Zealand and told everyone else from his village about New Zealand. Then they all wanted to go. The reason they left was because back in the small island they were living in they were complaining about land, and food. But New Zealand had plenty of that so that's why they went. They also went in groups. So the went in Waka Migrations or Great Migrations. Waka migrations is when there are only two wakas going at a time. But a great migration is when seven wakas could go at a time.