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Monday 18 December 2017

Day 2: It’s All in a Day’s Work

Activity 1: A House or a Home?

In the 1800s, most Māori lived in villages called pa. Each village had many buildings – kauta where people cooked, pataka where they stored goods and wharepuni where the Māori slept. A traditional wharepuni had a thatched roof and walls made of timber, fern, rushes, and bark. Look at the picture below of a traditional wharepuni. Does it look like your house?

On your blog, compare the wharepuni to your own home. What are two similarities and two differences between a wharepuni and your house?

Similarities-  
It's a house
People sleep in there       

Differences-
The door was small           
It's made out of timber, fern, rushes, and bark   
                                         




3 comments:

  1. Hi Samuel,

    Me again!
    Good job. Those are good similarities and differences. How can you tell that the door was small? My next door neighbour has a funny little door in her house that is only 1 metre tall. None of us can fit through it without crawling!

    One of the differences between my house and the wharepuni is that my house does not have a thatched roof. How is a thatched roof different from a normal roof I wonder? Can you help me find out?

    I look forward to reading more of your blog.
    Cheers,
    Ruby.

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  2. Hi Samuel
    My name is Sarah and I go to Glen Innes School
    Well Done

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  3. Hey Samuel,
    You are doing good in your blogging, keep it up!.

    Good work
    Jerome;)

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