Matariki Reflection

Matariki Reflection

Matariki is a time for reflecting.  Yesterday with whaea Toni we took the time to reflect on our year and set a new goal. Here is the goal I set below.  

We made a Matariki star.  We used our algerbraic. We had a pattern to follow and this is how it went: 

 1,2 and down

1 and up.

We repeated this pattern until we got a star like the one's below.

MATARIKI!

Manu Tukutuku

MATARIKI!

Every year the māori people like me celebrated matariki. Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades.   It rises in mid-winter – late May or early June.  There are 7 stars a.k.a 7 sisters the names are Wāiti,  Wāita, Wāipuna-arāngi, Tupu-a-nuku, Tupu-a-rangi, Uru-a-rangi and the one and only Mātariki.  Matariki is celebrated with a feast,  pukanga  challenge, they also play knucklebones, they tell stories from the past, they use to make kites like ours but without the black paper and the wool maori people used strong harakeke also known as Roupo.

ROOM 10 KITES

Room 10 made kite’s with our teacher Miss Hills. Miss Hills (room 10’s teacher) helped us with our kite’s.  For our kite’s we needed wool, rōupo, toetoe.   For the maths bit my measurement for the toetoe was 124cm long and we had to cut 40.3, but Miss Hills had to cut it with a sharp knife because  Miss Hills wanted us to be safe.

The easiest part of making our manu’s was weaving the wool on to the our manu it goes on the side like the picture.  The hardest  part was when we had to tighten it on the top of the kite. Me and my buddy needs to get along

WHAT WE DID FIRST!

First Miss Hills had to put us in buddies and my buddy was Manusina,  Manusina was my buddy because she was Samoan and I am Maori and because (this is what Miss Hills thought) I’m patient, I’m kind most of the time.  Then we went across the road to Idaho place (across from our school). Before we did anything we had to say our school karakia (payer).

OUR MATERIAIS WE HAD TO USE WERE

1. Toetoe
2. Strong harakeke/ Rōupo  
3. Wool
4. Sharp knife
5. Black paper
6. Buddy
7. Hot glue gun
8. Scissor
9. Pencil or pen
10. Ruler
11. Topic Te Reo to write our mathematical problems

EXTRA FACTS ABOUT MATARIKI!

• They are the 7 sisters also known as 7 stars.
• Matariki is a star cluster, not a constellation
• You can see matariki yourself
• Matariki has many different names all around the world like makali’i

 

HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE 7 SISTERS!

TIKANGA!

Tikanga means means why we do what we do and respect it.

ON THURSDAY NIGHT!