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?
My house we have a Door we have windows and we have a roof and walls.
Wharepunis have a Door we have windows and we have a roof and walls.
So that's what they have thats simulare.
well my dads house has timber walls but my mums house doesn't.
Anyway that's what I did.
Hey Abby,
ReplyDeleteIt's Jade C from the Summer Learning Journey team 2018. I will also be reading your blog this summer! I can't wait to read more of your blog posts.
Your writing was like a secret code! I thought that nothing was written on this page (other than the activity question), then I highlighted the letters to make it visible! Was this on purpose? Maybe you could make the writing in black or something dark rather than white :)
Well done for finding the similarities (having doors, windows, roof, and walls). How about the differences? What would be a difference between wharepuni and our normal house?
Let me know down in the comment below! I would love to hear back from you :)
All the best,
Jade C.
Kia Ora Abby,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Georgia and I am the cluster manager for the Kaikohekohe (Northland) area. I really enjoyed reading your similarities of a Wharepuni to your home. Another difference would be the Maori carvings that are on Wharepuni's.
It's great to see you've completed a few activities with the Summer Learning Journey so far. You've still got two weeks to complete others too! So keep up the great work and I hope to read more blogposts from you soon.
Nga mihi
Georgia