Day 2 Activity 1 It's all in a days work. 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?
I read about the wharepuni and here are some interesting facts I learnt.
Two similarities between a wharepuni and my house :
- We both have doors in the front.
- We both have windows around the house.
Two differences between a wharepuni and my house :
- A wharepuni is made out of ferns and bark but my house is made out of wood.
- A wharepuni has special maori god carvings around it but my house has flat walls outside.
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ReplyDeleteKia Ora Jahrey
ReplyDeleteMy name is Jolie and I go to Glen innes School. I am also doing the Summer Learning Journey which means that I can see your awesome work. It looks like that you have put alot of effort and hard work in to this. Keep it up :)
Hola Jahrey,
ReplyDeleteI like that you have provided a picture of your house to make it easier for the reader to point out the similarities and differences that you’ve written about.
Have you thought about any other similarities or differences other than what you shared?
When I think about my own house, one similarity it’d share with a traditional Wharepuni is the fact that they both have a triangular shaped roof. One difference would be that my house has a tiled roof rather than a thatched roof.
In the activity you compared your own house to a traditional Wharepuni. If you compare your house with the picture of the modern Wharepuni you posted, have the similarities and differences you posted earlier now changed? Perhaps you could post me a reply.
I look forward to reading more of your posts, ka pai Jahrey.
Toe feiloa’i fo’i,
Cia.
Hi There, its Toe'umu.I like your similarities and differences.For the wharepuni Do you know what kind of carving it is? Your post reminds me when i did the same activity. If you want to check out my blog http://wpstoeumut.blogspot.co.nz/?m=1
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