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• Simon says

On a fine Monday, after morning tea we went to the hall to watch something and when we were waiting we heard something. It was a person blowing a horn. It was people from a museum. It was maori people. I did care about it but the thing I cared about was the horn because that is the first thing I heard. I smiled when the man came out with it. They were speaking in maori, we were trying to guess what they were saying.

Then when they introduced themselves they did a performance. They showed us some of the moari things. The first one was the poi. It is a round ball on the end of a string. The second one was the long poi it is the same with the short poi but the string is longer. The third one is the short sticks you can do tricks with and it’s like stretching your arm. The fourth one is the long stick that has a pointy end. They use it to fight and to protect themselves from other

people. And the last one is the horn. You can use it to tell people something.

The last thing we did was each class had to wait outside for one of the women or a man. We had a man so then we played, Simon says but in maori first the man told us the action. When we all got the action we started playing it. Each time a person does the wrong action they are out. I almost won but I forgot one of the action’s so there were only two more kids left so they vs each other and they both lost.

After the game we went back to class and talked about it to our teacher because she was not there. Some of us said that they did performances for us and the kapa haka boys did one too. Some said that we played games so the teacher said “ alright we are going to write about it’’ she said. So we did.