Progress with our Waitangi Unit

This week we have completed much of our work on the Treaty of Waitangi and the events that surrounded its existence. We have been busy writing our own recounts on these events and will share some of content with you once our drafts have been published. We thought that you would like to see how our paintings (based on the treaty study) turned out. While they are not all on the blog, you will find our work displayed in the classroom.






We also met with our buddy class Room 23 for the first time this term. They brought poems that they had written about themselves to share with us. The poems were based on the senses (e.g. sight, hearing, touch, smell).
We had a chance to share what we knew about the Treaty, the events that led up to its signing and many of the people responsible for its existence, both Maori and European. We told Room 23 that we might have been speaking French today if New Zealand had not become a British Colony.