Maori Cultural Day 26/7/12

To celebrate Maori Language Week Gore Main School held a Maori Cultural Day!  Exploring different Maori traditions took place in different classrooms and the children had the opportunty to try 3 different Maori traditions.  The day was very busy but everyone had an awesome time.  Some of the activities that took place were:  Maori cooking (Rawena bread), Weaving with Harakeke, Kite making, Kowhaiwhai and Koru patterns, Maori legends and Kapa Haka.  Kia kaha!

Yummy!  Maori bread

Colouring in Kowhaiwhai patterns

 Ingredients for Maori bread

Room 2 children mixing up Maori bread

Mixing bread

Cooking Maori bread

Room 1 colouring in Kowhaiwhai patterns

Room 1 colouring in Kowhaiwhai patterns

Room 3 - Working with Koru designs

Room 3 - Working with Koru

Beautiful Koru!

Koru Art

Koru Art!

Room 3 children hard at work on their Koru Art

 

Making lollycake! 20/7/12

The Room 3 children are such hard workers!  To celebrate their hard work we made lollycake!  The children all had to do this themselves, from the mixing to the rolling!  They also enjoyed eating it as well! 

Getting ready to roll lollycake in coconut!

Yum!  Look at our lolly cake ball!

Lolly cake mixture!

Mixing the lolly cake mixture!

Mixing the lolly cake mixture!

Lolly cake mixture!

Rolling the lolly cake in coconut!

Bible in Schools play!

As part of our Bible in Schools instruction some  of the Room 3 children got to dress up and take part in a play based on a story from The Bible!  The children enjoyed having the opportunity to dress up and act out a role.  Check out the smiles, the great costumes and actors!  You are such natural performers Room 3!