Learning about our Maori Culture in New Zealand -Aotearoa

We have been learning more about Maori Culture and adding to our Maori Language.

Just having visited our amazing Museum in Auckland we all learnt so much

The JUNIOR SCHOOL VISITED THE Maori Galleries

ALL of us found out that the Auckland Museum protects and cares for  many Maori treasures (taonga).
We saw many display cases There are over 1000 taonga  displayed in the main Maori galleries, He Taonga Maori (Maori Court) and Te Ao Turoa (Maori Natural History Gallery) and many more are held in storage. These taonga are from of all the major tribes of Aotearoa. The taonga provide information about descendants. Whaea Kereana called them" Our Grandparents". In the carvings in the Meeting House she told us about their history and the people that came before them. The  taonga shows examples of Maori Life
Here we found out about the the nature and history of the Maori, and Aotearoa, New Zealand.

HE TAONGA MAORI - MAORI COURT

Visitors to He Taonga Maori (Maori Treasures) are presented with a story that relates the past, the present and something of the future of Maori in New Zealand. This gallery contains over 1000 artefacts from around Aotearoa which date back to the arrival and settlement of Maori.

TE AO TUROA - MAORI NATURAL HISTORY GALLERY

We saw the canoes that brought the Maori people to New Zealand We used spinners and had heaps of fun with the Maori tools especially the hammer axe. We could see how these were all made.It was a great day.

Sound by Room 1

Sound!!!!!!! sound!!!!!!!!sound!!!!!!!sound!!!!! by Room 1
We are studying sound and different sound and how sound is made. We made telephones from plastic cups and string so we can see how sound travels. It was lots of fun. We worked with a partner and put a hole in the bottom of the cup to put the string through We had to tie knots in the end of the string so the string would stay and we could join it to the next cup.

 Here we threaded through the string

We talked through our phones to each other.

The Best and Wonderful Strips of Aotearoa

My strip of Aotearoa looks colourful. the colours of my patterns are red,blue,green and yellow and also I used brown and purple and light green. I thought my work was fabulous. When we dried it it looked like a rainbow and the colourful clothes that I wear to church.
By Serina

My Dye Work by Loto
On my dye work I put some Maori patterns. I use some colourful colours. I use heaps of patterns and steps.My colours were pink, green,blue,yellow, brown and purple. It was fun doing our strips of Aotearoa. I thought it was fabulous. I liked the wave that colour.

The Best Dyed Strips of Aotearoa

Litia's Strip
I have lots of patterns in my strip I have a blue sea with the hammerhead shark and a white mountain with green and brown earth. My sun is yellow in a blue sky.

Vainikolos Strip
My picture has orange, pink,yellow,green and blue. My picture is lovely because it is dyed.

Paul's Large Dyed Strip
I was painting on my strip and the colours into my shape. I used brown and  yellow and blue and green. After I was making patterns. In my patterns I used circlesas spirals and diamonds for the patiki

Large Dyed Strip by Alex and Charlie

My picture was colourful. After I used dye, it looked wonderful.
by Alex

We used black vivids for the lines. Green dye for mountains. yellow for my sun and red for my sunset. I thought my picture was fabulous and the flowers were too.The earth was brown, the sea is blue, coming up to the green.
by Charlie

Large Dyed Strips of Aotearoa by Whairoa, Ritza-Dee and Fasi

My picture was a strip of a hill and a sun. We used dye and thin brushes
By Whairoa

My strip has lots of patterns and I used lots of colours with the dye. That made my Maori patterns look great.
by Fasi

I used lots of great dye colours in my strip starting with the pink earth and mount and big yellow mountains with the blue sky and the yellow sun with pink sunset
by Ritza Dee

Fantastic Big dyed strips by Newsam, Danny,

My strip ofAotearoa that I put outside to be dried had lots of colours. We had painted our patterns with dye to be beautiful.
By Newsam

The water starts coming down first and it goes all the way from the top. The mountains went up to the sky. It went high up to the sun. My picture was colourful and beautiful. I paint my strip and I use green and red and all of the colours. I let it dry because it has some colours already on it. I like using the dye.
By Danny