Matariki

 LI: To strengthen our connections to Matariki.

Matariki is the Maori new year celebration. It takes places each year when the cluster of stars known as Matariki are seen in our skies. The new year is a time for new beginnings and is a time to embrace tradition.

To strengthen our connections to Matariki we had a choice of research activities.

I found out that you can see matariki on the north east of the sky.

I enjoyed finding more about matariki because i can know more about it in the future.

Summarising

LI: to learn more about Matariki

This week for Inquiry we learnt about Matariki. In our DLO we summarised the general idea of Matariki and its story. We picked out twenty important words related to Matariki, then from those twenty words, we picked the six of the most important words. Using those six words we summarised the general idea of Matariki using only a few short sentences to make it simple.

Matariki/What are the star names?

L.I: To create a image of the Matariki cluster.

For the new Te reo challenge we had to created our own original drawing of the matariki stars.then we had to put  all of them in the right places as if there where already in the sky. 

Venn Diagram

LI: to create a DLO of tool for harvesting.

This Venn Diagram it shows how people used to celebrate matariki, how people celebrate matariki now and how do now and then do the same thing. I worked with Makaili RJ Leroy and Akuhata as a group and we found information about what people do on matariki now days. As we created this I learned some new interesting facts about matariki such as maori people make things out of flax like kites.

What is Matariki

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find information that tells others what Matariki is.