Waitangi Celebrations

We learnt a little bit about why we had a holiday yesterday.  We enjoyed learning a new song called Te Wairua o Waitangi, looking at a talking stick, working collaboratively to paddle in our waka, make our own waka and then float them to see if we would make it all the way to New Zealand.  We think the Maori people must have been very fit to sail a long distance.  We also think it would have taken a lot of work to be able to paddle at the same time as each other.  It would have taken a lot of team work.