Today we finished looking at our last set of New Zealand postcards from Mrs. Faithful’s students in Room 12.

We found out that they have a lot of different symbols and icons that are important to them. There were a few that we have never even heard of before! We would like to know what a koru, a punamu, and a jandal are.

We couldn’t believe how many celebrations they have! They have a celebration called the Chocolate Festival. We found out that they get to make chocolate sculptures, climb chocolate blocks and race jaffas down the steepest hill in the world. We would like to find out what jaffas are.

They have a lot of celebrations that we don’t, but there are some that we both celebrate like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and Christmas.

Here is a mind map we made showing what we learned from their postcards: