Visit to the Whare Akoranga

Te Hiringa went for a visit to the Whare Akoranga at Greymouth High school on Monday. We went to look at th carvings on the front of the Whare Akoranga and listen to the story behind what each of the carvings meant. Whaea Catherine told us the story of how Aoraki and his brothers became the Southern Alps as they huddle on the back of their upturned waka. We also played games, sang waiata and did our mihi.

Whaea Catherine telling us about Tuterakiwhanoa and his toki

Listening to Whaea Catherine

Maths games - Tuakana/Teina

Today the tuakana buddied up with their teina to play 'Poaka', similar to the maths game Bankrupt. We had to keep track of our dice rolls by recording them on our sheets. The tuakana helped the teina to add their scores up. We got to choose the goal, most of us chose first to 50 or first to 100. If we rolled a 1 we lost all our points for that round!