In New Zealand, most people celebrate Matariki. Matariki is the Maori new year.
Some thing's you can do to celebrate Matariki are:
Learn to weave and flax
Make and fly kites
Share family stories
Learn about the land
Gather fish and kai moana
Matariki is a group of seven, Called a constellation. You can see them thirty minutes before dawn.
Matariki has three names. They are seven sisters, Subaru and Pleiades but it might have more, we don't know.
Matariki is a group of seven it is made up of 500 but we can only see six or seven. That is because sometimes the 7th one goes behind another one.
It starts late May or early June and it ends late April.
Next week our school's kapa haka group is going to the Matariki festival. I am one of the people who are going to Matariki.
One year my grandma and I went out looking for the seven sisters
at dawn. We couldn't find them because they were out the north side of the house. When we looked out the south, west and east side
of the house.
Do you know any other constellations in England?
By Emily
To Emily
ReplyDeleteMatariki is a good celebration. They are some good ways to celebrate Matariki. Lepus the hare,Canis major the big dog,Taurus the bull,Canis minor the little dog and Orion the hunter these are some of are constellations.
Kane.H and Alex.T : )
Weston Park Primary School
Hi Kane and Alex
DeleteThanks for the wonderful comment.
What is your favourite constellation?
From Emily
To Emily
DeleteOur favorite constellation is Orion The Hunter. Normally you can see the Orion The Hunters belt it is 3 stars in a row.
Kane.H and Alex.T : )
WOW! What a nice explanation of Mataraki
ReplyDeleteBy Kris
From London
To Kris
DeleteThanks for the WOW! comment.
To Emily,
ReplyDeleteWe learnt loads of things from you and we would one day like to come and visit and celebrate Matariki. Also it sounds fun and we hope you had a good time celebrating it. Constellations in England are Aries, Leo and Taurus. It would be great if you said more about why you celebrate Matariki.
From: Sophiha and Amber
Hi Emily I have learnt a lot from your blog post. We have a few constellation, here is few, cancer, Ara, Coluumba.
ReplyDeleteBy Caroline and Lesley
4:1
West Thornton Primary Acadeny
Dear Emily,
ReplyDeleteWe have learnt about the festival, Matariki. We would like to hear more about what things you do in celebration. We would to celebrate Matariki and we it is enjoyable, also a constellation is Aries.
From: Celesty and Abbas
West Thornton Primary Academy,
4.1
to Emily
ReplyDeleteI love Matariki. I think the red and
the blue stand out
From your BFF AIMEE!
dear emily,
ReplyDeletevery good on your puncuation. i like how you actually told me about the whole festival what you do there. great explanation i have never been to a Matariki i have a question for you
is fun at a Matariki? from elizabeth in 5z