Waitangi Day word search
On the sixth of February 1840 rangatira and the Crown signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the Bay of Islands. Twenty words about the day and the place, from the dawn service to the waka on the water.
- Bay of Islands
- Dawn service
- February
- Flagstaff
- Haka
- Hobson
- Hongi
- Iwi
- Kōrero
- Marae
- Paddlers
- Partnership
- Pōwhiri
- Public holiday
- Rangatira
- Signatures
- Te Tiriti
- Treaty grounds
- Waitangi
- Waka
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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| U | G | H | O | N | G | I | H | O | B | S | O | N | R |
| V | R | L | R | M | A | R | A | E | O | H | A | K | A |
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| T | D | G | U | I | N | I | P | O | W | H | I | R | I |
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- Bay of Islands
- Dawn service
- February
- Flagstaff
- Haka
- Hobson
- Hongi
- Iwi
- Kōrero
- Marae
- Paddlers
- Partnership
- Pōwhiri
- Public holiday
- Rangatira
- Signatures
- Te Tiriti
- Treaty grounds
- Waitangi
- Waka
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About this word search
On 6 February 1840, Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson and more than forty rangatira signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands. Copies then travelled around the country, and in the end more than five hundred rangatira signed. Waitangi Day is a public holiday, marked at the Treaty grounds with a dawn service, a pōwhiri, haka and waka on the water.
Treaty grounds and Public holiday are the longest, with thirteen letters each, and Bay of Islands has twelve. Iwi is the shortest at three letters, and Waka and Haka, with four, differ only in their first letter, so check both. Words go across, down and diagonally in the fourteen by fourteen grid, never backwards. The macrons in Pōwhiri and Kōrero disappear in the grid, so look for POWHIRI and KORERO.
In class, give each group a few words from the sheet to explain to the rest. Partnership and Te Tiriti make a good start for a conversation about what the Treaty promised.
Ways to use this word search
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