Day 4: Hitting a High Note

Activity 1: The Waiata - A Song in Your Heart
In the olden days moari would use waiata to give information or share emotion. Waiata can be used now for greeting. Also now we sing waiata just for fun. Here is my favourite waiata if you want to listen to it use this link.

I Like Toro Mai because in our school we do kapa haka and we always sing this song.

Toro mai tō ringa
Kia harirūtia
Tō ringa i awhi pono
I awhi taku tinana

Aue, aue, te aroha
Ki a rātou mā
Aue, aue, te aroha
Ngau whakaroto nei

Hikitia e ngā iwi
Kia rewa ki runga
Ngā taonga a ngā matua
Kua ngaro ki te pō

Activity 2: Playing Games

Today I read an article about poi raku, Kaiho rangi, Koruru Taonga and poi taua. I have done three of these activitys I have done poi raku, Koruru Taonga and poi taua. I am going to describe one of these activitys.

poi raku is a moari game, It helps with hand and eye cordonation. This game was originally for training worriers. The rules you call out matou witch is right and maui is left. You can't dig your stick in the ground and you have to run to the left stick if they call maui and the right stick if the call matou.

Bonus Activity: Musical Festivals – Matatini

In New Zealand every two years there is a kapa haka festival. The festival is called Te Matatini, were people can go in groups to preform and get judged. The group that won last year was Te Kapa Haka o Whāngārā Mai Tawhiti.

Now out of these three videos I will judge them and say who came first second and third and why I did that.

I think that Te Puku O Te Ika came 1st because there vocals and actions were outstanding and I thought it was fantastic beause it was like a memoral for the man on the photo. The 2 place tied was Tamatea Arikinui and Te Iti Kahurangi because Tamatea Arikinui was good on the vocals but had no actions and Te Iti Kahurang came second because there actions were great but there vocals weren't as good as the others.

Tamatea Arikinui

Te Iti Kahurangi

Te Puku o Te Ika