Hauhake Harakeke

Hauhake Harakeke SJ 2.3.05

WALT: Use clues in text  to help find the answers (comprehension).

1. What does hauhake Harakeke mean?

Harvesting flax

2. How did the harakeke move to make the children feel welcome?

Because it look like it was waving at the kids

3. When was the harakeke planted? 1987

4. How does the harakeke standing tall make the children feel?

It makes they feel pound

5. Why is any left over harakeke returned to the bushes?

So other people  can use it

6. Name 4 items you can make from harakeke (pages 9 and 10).

Potaka,Tipare,Kete and putiputi

7. Choose one of the items made from flax in the story and look at some google images of it.

Early finishers draw the item in detail in sumo paint or ABC paint.  Write the name of the item beneath your picture. Publish this on your blog with this heading and sentence:

Blog title: Hauhake Harakeke

Sentence to copy on with your picture: We have been reading about a Hauhake Harakeke ceremony. This is one thing that the children in the story made from the flax blades.