Showing posts with label poi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poi. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Class 15 and their Kahurangi Dance Group experience!





We enjoyed watching the Kahurangi dance group this Rāhina. They told us how to make a poi and their Māori skirts. Taiaha are the war sticks and tititorea are the mā and whero sticks they danced with. Some of the hine liked the handsome warriors. Our favourite parts of the show were the amazing dancing and fantastic waiata.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Poi making with Whaea Denise

This morning we were blessed to have Whaea Denise come in and teach some of our senior kapa haka girls how to make poi.
These girls will become the experts and teach the rest of their kapa haka sisters how to make poi at our noho marae next week.
The girls learned how to cut their string to the correct length, how to cut their foam squares into the poi heads, how to do four plait, how to sew their string onto their poi head and how to cover and tie on their two layers of plastic.
The girls loved their session with Whaea Denise and will be spending the next few lunchtimes finishing their practice poi ready to teach the others next week.
He mihi aroha, he mihi nunui ki a koe Whaea Denise... Thank you for sharing your taonga with us x