Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival

In Week 6, we went to the Turanganui Kapa Haka festival! 

The boys wore their black shorts and no top and the girls wore their special kapa haka dresses or black t-shirts and shorts.

The boys did the haka.  The haka they performed was Ka mate! 

Everyone sung a waiata - which is a song.  We sung hallelujah which is spelled Hareruia in te reo Maori.

Some of us got nervous performing in front of so many people!  We saw our parents there.

We had ta moko on too. The girls had ta moko on their chins and their lips and the boys just had it on their cheeks. The lipstick was put on with eyeliner and the ta moko on our chins or cheeks was put on with special ink.  The ink was put on using a special stamp by rolling the print onto glass, pressed it down and then pressed it on our faces.

The girls had red feathers in their hair and our hair in a high ponytail.  Some of us had our taonga on too, which are special necklaces made out of greenstone which is called pounamu.