Wharenui diagram

Wharenui

A wharenui is a meeting house where you can go and learn. It
represents an important ancestor that belonged to that tribe. The
tahuhu or spine runs along the top of the wharenui. In the centre is
the poutokomanawa or heart of the ancestor.  The head is called
koruru, the arms are called maihi and at the end of the maihi are
\ raparapara, or hands. The amo or legs are below the maihi. Inside
\ the wharenui if you look up you will see the heke, rafters or ribs
which are carved with stories of maori history.

A wharenui can open its doors in a natural disaster if some people's
house are damaged and they give them food and a nice place to stay.
They can stay there as long as they want until there house is fixed.
In Auckland they open their doors for the homeless because there
was so many of the homeless people on the streets in winter.

Wharenui can be used for celebrations like weddings and birthdays.
They can be used for meetings. You can also have a funeral there.

 

The class beach cleanup

We are learning to add descriptive words in our writing and use words that make the reader feel a certain way.The air was as cold as stone as the class walked down to the Karoro Beach to pick up litter dropped by people or washed up by tides. The class was divided into groups that parents volunteered to chaperone, luckily I was in the same groups as Breanna my BFF and Amanda, Hannah's mother was our chaperone. The group members were myself, Breanna, Hannah, Hamish and Issac.
The beach looked clean at first glance but it was when we looked under the driftwood when I felt a tsunami of anger rush over my head. I never expected a rubber jandal or a cap to show up and pipes that were old and had some brown stuff on the end but we also found some other weird things like, a syringe that might have had contained some medicine against a cow disease and a vial filled with a yellow unidentified liquid that might be illegal drugs or something else yucky. On the cycle trail in the penguin zone I was shocked to see rubbish in between the trees forming a cave like shape. As my group went in the first thing we saw was plastic but the big thing that was in there was a massive piece of metal.
Although the beach was a tiny bit cleaner we, and I mean all of humankind, need to decide if we want beaches covered in litter or beaches litter free and healthy. In half an hour our entire class found 498 pieces of plastic and that’s not cool. It’s your choice to look after the environment.

KAWA OF CARE