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Kupe

Kupe: History tells us that Kupe was a brave, clever and furious person. Kupe came from Hawakii and travelled on a canoe also known as a waka. Suddenly a giant octopus crashed into their waka. Kupe had no choice except to attack the giant octopus. Kupe struck from the sky and hit the giant octopus so hard with his bare hands that the octopus died.

The people in Kupe's family were his two daughters Matui , Matui name meaning was some islands and the second daughter Makora and the meaning of Makora is War Islands he had to wives and killed his cousin by drowning him for his wife Kuramārōtini 

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Howick Historical Village

On Thursday the 5th of march Room 8 went to Howick Historical  Village, it was really fun and we learned about people in the 1850s  to the 1860s. We played some olden days game that are still invited and that you can find in some of the toy shops. The toys were used to be played on a boat when they were travelling. All the toys were made out of wood because in the olden days they didn't use plastic so they used wood to make toys. In the olden days, the children had to make the toys because there was no toy shop back then. We went to school it was really fun and we learned more about the school back in the 1850s. If you were naughty at school you would have gotten a smack with the stick or a ruler. We used chalkboards instead of whiteboards. We also did how to communicate in the olden days. here are some photos that we did at the Howick Historical Village.