Matariki Breakie!

~Matariki Breakie~

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Now that the end of Matariki is coming along with the end of the term; my class/school has been doing fun activities to celebrate both events!

On Tuesday we had Pajama Day and a big class Matariki breakfast!  Everyone came to school wearing their pj's and my class spent time together eating a big breakie because that's what Matariki is all about. Spending time together!

During this time we also shared our goals for the Maori New Year that are written on my slide.

On Wednesday we planted little herbs/crops into pot plants to take home!

This was also to celebrate Matariki and it was really fun. With this task we were put into groups to plant with and to create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about the two Maori Gods related to agriculture!  All the information about them were put onto this shared slide, along with photo's of our end result with our plants!

I enjoyed this week very much and I hope that we can do more fun activities like these!

Mountains of Food!

Mountains of Food!

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Here in New Zealand we are still in the season of Matariki!
To celebrate this my class will be having a big Matariki Breakfast next week, otherwise we are learning about the Maori kupu for different kinds of foods like fruits, vegetables or meat!

Our task was to make a copy of this slide and fill in the Maori words using a Maori Dictionary Book (NOT ONLINE) because it can give you other words that we don't use here in the Far North.

After you have done that you would add in images of all the foods and record yourself pronouncing how to say each word.

My chromebook would not allow me to play sound on the slide, which was very disappointing!

But I managed to complete the entire slide deck!

I enjoyed this task because some of these words I didn't know, and now I can share this information  with others!

Try saying some of these words too!

Marvellous Matariki

Marvellous Matariki

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Since Matariki is coming up my class and I have been watching videos, doing research and have created our very own animations retelling one of the many versions out there.

I chose to retell this story by using scratch; and this story was one I am unfamiliar of.

This animation took me 2 weeks to make because I am not the best at coding (although scratch makes it easy) and because I had painted my own characters online instead of reusing other people's.

I enjoyed learning about Matariki and all the other versions I have never heard about.

Here is a link to my scratch animation for you to see!

Tiana's Matariki Animation

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I am very pleased with the end results and I hope you liked it as much as I did! Although next time I want to finish it faster and get more creative with the characters if I try to paint them again! 

Did you learn anything about Matariki from my animation?

Do you have a different version of this same story?