Musical Festivals - Matatini - Bonus Activity

Hello Blogging world! For today's bonus activity we have to watch 3 videos from a every 2 year festival called "Te Matatini." These performances are pretty cool but we had to rank them our favourite #1 to least favourite #3 and say why we ranked them like that. Here is the rankings.

#1 Tamatea Arikinui 

#2 Te Puku O Te Ika

#3 Iti Kahurangi

There was all the rankings. I ranked Tamatea Arikinui first because they were the only group that have danced and their harmonising is really good! The reason why I ranked Te Puku O Te Ika 2nd because their costumes were really pretty and they were doing the dance for their granddad. The last reason why I placed Iti Kahurangi 3rd is because most of the time they were just standing at one spot but their singing was still really good like the other ones. 

From making this blog post I learnt what a Matatini means, it means this type of Maori festival. It was hard to choose which dance should be first, second and third. It was easy to add the video of the winning dance because I have already chosen the winning dance. I hope you have enjoyed this blog post and would like to see more! Please feel free to leave a comment to improve my work! Bye! Bye! Blogging world!

The Waiata - A Song in Your Heart - Day 4

Hello Blogging world! Today is day 4 almost the last activity on week 1! Do you like singing to songs or listening to them you maybe like these traditional Maori songs they use to listen to them when they were younger. We listen to a lot of these songs and they are called " Waiata," and find our favourite one! Here is a link if you want to know more about Waiatas click here. Here is my favourite Waiata.

There it is! Do you like it, maybe comment down below your favourite Waiata? From making this blog post I learnt what a Waiata is and how graceful the songs are. I like this particular Waiata because, it is very upbeat and sounds amazing when you are in time! It was hard to find my favourite Waiata because all of them sound so good! It was easy to say why I like this song because our school use to use this song for Kapa Haka. Next time I will try explain what a Waiata is using my own words. I have really enjoyed making this log post because I like listening to music. Bye! Bye! Blogging world! 

Acknowledging Ancestry - Activity 2

My Pepeha

No New Zealand Ahau

Ko Mt. Roskill Toku Maunga

Ko Manukau Toku Moana

Kei Auckland Taku Kainga

Ko Yao Long Toku Koro

Ko Gui Xiang Toku Kuia

Ko Hua Han Toku Koro
Ko Hui Zhen Tu Kuia
Ko Jerry Toku Papa

Ko Rui Ming Toku Mama

Ko Lily Toku Tuakana

Ko Jack Toku Tungane

Ko Amie Taku Ingoa

Tena Koto, 

Tena Koto, 

Tena Koto, 

Ka Toa.

A house or a home? - Day 2 Summer Learning Journey.

Hello Blogging world! On the 2nd day of the Summer Learning Journey we had to go back in time and think about the 1800's. They didn't have proper houses to live in but now in 2017 we do! The houses they used to live in is a wharepuni, If you would like to find some more definitions of wharepuni click here. 

Now you have read what a wharepuni is we have to write 2 similarities to our own home and the wharepuni, and 2 differences about your home and the wharepuni. Here is what I thought...

1. The first reason why it is similar to my house is because it is a house and anyone can live in it.
2. The second reason why it is similar to my house is that my house is a wooden house too.

Ok, now on to the differences...

1. The first difference that I spotted out was that my house didn't have any of those Maori designs that were on the side of the wharepuni.
2. Another difference I found was that their doors were always opened because they didn't have doors that time!

From making this blog post I learnt what a wharepuni is and how useful it was in the old days. It was hard to find the similarities because that was a long long time ago! It was easy find the differences because their were so much not in common to my house. Next time I will try and find better reason why it is kind of the same as my house. I hope you have enjoyed this blog post and would feel free to leave a comment! Bye! Bye! Blogging world!