Mystical Matariki Kites

 Happy Matariki everyone! 

On the 2 July, we celebrated the Māori New Year, a time to consider the year ahead. The days are starting to lengthen and spring will soon be here, we just need to get through this cold winter first! 

Matariki and the star cluster, have got many stories attached to them. We looked at two. one about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts up into the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow-colored. We have mixed these two stories to create the design of our kites.

This is what my kite turned out to be.

What stories have you heard about Matariki?

Silverback Gorillas

 

Kia ora this week we have been doing information reports, I chose to do mine on Silverback Gorillas.

This is the finished product of my information report. The first thing we had to do was write down all of the facts that we knew onto a slide. Then we copied and pasted it onto a doc, but then we had to change the writing and make it sound better and it needed more describing words in it. After that, we pasted it on adobe spark. Here is my work that is now finally finished. Have you ever done an information report?