Matariki Fun Day.

Task Description:For this mornings task we are posting a short blog post telling what Matariki is all about and highlights from our Matariki fun day. We as a class are explaining why NZ should celebrate Matariki and why we should we keep celebrating it?.

Matariki 

Maori New Year

Last week on Friday Point England school got mixed up into different classes for Matariki, as we are celebrating a Maori New Year. We went into our classes and I was in cooking, the subjects are cooking, arts&crafts, movie making, and sports. I had lots of fun creating, making, and helping, because all these things is what my class had done together as a team and had a yummy lunch for a treat.

Celebrating what? 

Matariki is the named Maori in the middle of winter for a star constellation, it represents a great moment in the Maori New Year's. 

What do we see on the sky at the time? 

After sun set the constellations are visible in the middle of the night, while the  Matariki Festival is on  you can see seven stars-

1. Matariki

2. Tupu a nuku

3. Tupu a rangi

4. Waipunarangi

5. Waiti

6. Waita

7. Ururangi

Highlights? I was in cooking with Mrs Tele'a

1. My highlight is that me and my team won the competition of who was the best decorated eating table and that we all worked together to make origami stars and the first to do them too.

2. My second highlight is that we all had fun together as a cooking class to help each other out and have a yummy lunch together.

Should NZ celebrate this? Yes  Why?

Because this signals an important time in the  New Zealand calendar,  Matariki is a celebration of culture, culture, language and history. Matariki is part of New Zealand's history and starting a new year for Maori people.