Kupe

For the the past few weeks, since term 2 started, we have been learning about Kupe, Nukutawhiti, James Cook and Abel Tasman. Our main WALT was to understand how and why people like Kupe, Captain James Cook, Nukutawhiti & Abel Tasman came to Aotearoa and the significance of these journeys. The first thing we had to do was collect some information about them and their journey to Aotearoa. Then with our groups we had to pick one person out of those four, and create a presentation about them. My group and I decided to write about Kupe. We found some interesting facts like Tauramoko (father of Rahiri, founding ancestor of ngapuhi) was a descendant of two captains - Kupe of Matawhaorua canoe and Nukutawhiti of Ngatokimatawhaorua canoe. The thing I really enjoyed was finding out information about Kupe because he is part of Ngapuhi like me. But next time I think my group and I need to work on finishing our presentation more faster.