Kyara @ Rangikura: 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