More Te Hora

We had some delicious meals together. Each time before we ate we would say a prayer or karakia to give thanks for what we were eating and to those who had provided and prepared the food. As you can see from the photo we were behaving with much respect.

Our night at Te Hora was pretty different. We laid out all our sleeping bags and bedding on mattresses that when placed side by side filled the whole wharenui which is a big meeting house. The night was snuggly, warm, snuffly and snorey. We went to sleep late and woke up early. here we are getting the scene set for the night. Sophie and Mia look happy to be there and together.

Te Hora Marae Visit

Our whole school stayed over night at a quaint wee marae over the Whangamoa Hills at Canvastown called Te Hora Marae. We did plenty of interesting and exciting things such as a powhiri, some weaving, kowhaiwhai and tukutuku activities, sung many waiata, enjoyed the beautiful urupa - graveyard - at Te Hora, presented our mihi in the wharenui, slept altogether for the night, visited Canvastown School and ate plenty of delicious kai - ka pai! Parents stayed with us and we learned such a lot about Maori culture and language. Here are a couple of photos of some of the happenings. We are all walking through the entranceway / gate / waharoa towards the wharenui to do the powhiri and Emma is having a hongi with the rangatira of Te Hora.

Just checking - there's been a few changes to how this blog site is operated so bear with me as I do some dummy runs yeah? We've been doing some interesting writing of plays in Room 3 along with creating stunning kowhaiwhai patterns based on whakatoki - proverbs or sayings. These are followup activities to our school marae stay @ Te Hora Marae. We will post some snaps of these as we go along. Pam and Room 3 X

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Here we are again after a long hibernation.
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