Poi rakau

 This week is Maori language so we're getting intronuced to more maori food and games, Today we played a game called 'Poi rakau' this game is when each person playing has a wooden stick and stand in a circle.

'Whaka te Maui' is Left
'Whaka te Matou' is Right

How the game goes is you all stand in a circle and one or two person stand aside and yell out either Whaka te Maui or Whaka te Matou, Slowly people start to get out as you start to go faster. It leaves you with two people. the person/people that stood aside is now going to stand in the middle of the two people and yell Whaka te Maui or Whaka te Matou, if they both drop the stick then you have to keeping going until one person gets out.

The Legend of New Zealand

New Zealand aka Aotearoa known as a green land 

But how was it made?

Māori mythology say that Maui a powerful demigod fished NZ out of the sea. Legend say  that Māui created a magical fish hook from the jawbone of his grandmother and that one day he took his hook and boarded a boat and rode out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.New zealand: