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 Pleiades 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 to 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.

My kite has Tawhirimatea and the wind represented with the clouds. I then colored it in as a rainbow.

**DLO**

What stories have you heard about Matariki?

Gorilla information report

Hey, bloggers today I have a post about gorillas. threw the past 2 weeks we have been learning about animals. So in week 6, we went to Orana wildlife park and we learnt about some endangered animals there. and we got to pick between a certain amount of animals they were gorillas, Giraffes, rhinos, and tigers. And I picked gorillas so that's what I have been researching about and so I have gathered some information. What do you know about gorillas? if you do know some stuff tell me, and tell me if I have made any mistakes. Bye bloggers see you soon.