Marae Visit

               Marae Visit

This week room 1 and 8 went up to the marae for the william pike
challenge. We had lots of fun and this is what I did on our trip.
I hope you enjoy.

 Firstly, When we entered the marae we had to go through
the powhiri process when we arrived at the gate we started
singing our waiata ‘He Honore’ Then someone came and
opened the gate for us. When we finished singing Miss Ireland
  and another lady did the kiranga as we walked slowly towards the
door. At the door we took off our shoes and went inside. It was amazing!
There were LED color panels and lots of poe on the ceiling and walls.

About 2 hours later after morning tea and talking more
about the poe and writing in our booklets, we walked down
to the river where we looked for pounamu.I didn't find any but 4
people did. I also did paper scissors rock and won some pounamu.
Then we walked to the beach where we made sand sculptures of a
story we had listened to, and then we went back to the maraee for some
tea and smores. Then Miss Kemp told us it was lights out, and then we
rushed to bed and tried to sleep.