Te Marae

This week is looking at the past and present marae around Aotearoa. we would look at the different whakairo (carvings) and what they mean to the marae.

Achievement Objectives:

5.4 describe, compare, and contrast people, places, and things.

WALT(We are learning to)

Tuhituhi: Use resources, for example, dictionaries and glossaries to experiment with some new language in writing and to check spelling

Pānui: understand specific details in contexts that may contain some unfamiliar language.

Activity:

to look at the marae itself and look at different 

Sentences structure

whakairo- Carving

Marae- spiritual building

Kowhaiwhai- a Spiral artform

Tekoteko - carved statue

Kaitiaki- guardian