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