Disconnected Activities - Te Whare Tapawha

Disconnected Activities - Te Whare Tapawha - Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

One of the disconnected tasks this week was to make a Whare Tapawha using sticks. Here is the first submission that was created in record time. I was very surprised at how fast this was completed. Until I opened it. Tau ke!

Here is a quote of the text accompanying the Whare Tapawha creation.

"I got lucky and found these sticks"

This was a big improvement from the whare tapatoru previously submitted

Quote: "I got lucky and found these sticks" If you look closely you can see 4 sticks. One for each side of the house. This is a huge inprovemnet on the whare tapatoru that was submitted before this one.

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