Kia Ora Readers
Welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we had been doing last week at hurumanu 1 which is making DLO about what we picked on the book pages 4-7. For me I decided to pick the Paikea because of the facts I saw on the book about it, and they also looked interesting to research about.
Here are some facts that I have found out.
According to a legend the Paikea is originally from New Zealand from the Pacific Islands, Paikea are also humpback whales which can live for 50years or more. They travel about 7,000 kilometers each year.
Pakia is the youngest and also the favourite son of the chief Uenuku that was from the Islands of Mangai in the present day Cook islands. Since Paikea was the favourite it made his elder brother jealous and tried to plan on killing him and tell Uenuku that he drowned. But the plan didn’t work because Paikea overheard them, and the plan failed.
The Paikea is important to the Maori people because it’s the key link to the ancient Hawaiki homeland. It’s also known as the biggest/large whale in New Zealand/ Aotearoa.
Humpback whales weigh about 80,000 pound and are 6 feet long, and in the southern hemisphere there are about six humpback whales.
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