- LI: Explain how the rising of Matariki signaled a time of celebration, reflection, and preparation.
- LI: Create a piece of work that expresses their understanding of the significance of the Matariki stars.
For reading we had been assorted the activity to create a presentation about the meaning of matariki and also been given some activities to the Matariki Presentation that we had to presentate to the classroom. I also learnt that there were loads of birds that had been associated with the rising of Matariki with one of the birds being a kereru, having its own constellation just above the famous orion’s belt, this kereru in the stars does symbolises bringing new begginings, and that Maori people always used to hunt this specific species of bird because it had always been drunk from eating to much food ! I loved learning about the maori celebration because we had been embracing New Zealands indiginous culture which not many people in the world know about !
I have just seen and read your blog post! I loved how you worked with your group and created a Google Slide talking about Matariki. As I was reading your blog blurb that you have wrote, I was wondering who’s idea was it to create this amazing piece of work!
Kind Regards, Hasna.