Matariki

We are celebrating Matariki. It is the Māori New Year. Matariki is a group of seven stars, you can see the stars for most of the year but they dissappear from the sky in late April. They appear again in winter. When the stars appear again, the new moon has risen, it is the beginning of the Māori New Year.

We talked about how we would celebrate Matariki in our class. We made headbands with stars. We made poi and we learned some new actions for our songs.

Tomorrow we are going to bring a vegetable from home to put in a soup. We will share our soup for lunch. We brainstormed different vegetables that we could bring.