Friday, June 25, 2021

Waka Description

Kia Ora bloggers,

For the last two weeks Paterson class has been learning about wayfinding navigation and waka. 

Yesterday we made our waka hourua on tinkercad. Here is what mine looks like.

 My waka hourua has 2 strong hulls, 2 sails made out of strong flax and 1 hut that can fit all of us. My waka is very strong too, it can hold all 31 of us!


My job on this waka is to be a cook. As the cook I need to make food for the crew and captain. The fisherman brings me the raw fish and I make lots of yummy food for everyone. Sometimes when we have left over food (that rarely happens because everyone is so hungry!) I have to put it in the storage and sometimes it rots (that is not good). 


If you ever make a waka please comment and tell me how it went!


Friday, June 18, 2021

Way finding Navigation

 Kia Ora bloggers! 

Today I will be talking about what way finding navigation. What is way finding navigation? It is what our ancestors used to find New Zealand! They used stars, planets, floating debris, moon, sun, birds and waves. Here is some writing I did about our navigators.

The navigators were really impressive because they could use the stars at night to find their way home. They also found ways to navigate in the day and in the night when it was cloudy.

Navigators also followed the birds and waves to find land. 

Did you know that Captain Cook wasn't the founder of New Zealand. Did you know that Captain Cook did not discover New Zealand first? And he didn't do it by himself. A man named Tupaia helped him with the navigation and that's how he got there.

You know, you could be a navigator too. You can find Matariki all through out the year except for June and July, you can't see Matariki in June or July because it is under the horizon( the line where the sky meets the earth). You can find Matariki if you look in the night sky and look to the west you might see it. You can also very easily find it at about 6:50 am in the morning. When the sun is about to rise you will see it near the sun. And you know you've found it when you see this.



In this activity I found that remembering all the useful information was a bit hard. I enjoyed it though, it was a very fun experience.