Thursday, 25 June 2020

Matariki

This week for Reading and Writing, we have been reading and learning about Matariki. We've watched videos, read articles and discussed opinions. We compared it to other celebrations we have in New Zealand as well as celebrations around the world. 
Matariki is the Māori New Year and yet it is not a public holiday. We celebrate the European New Year. We thought about why this was so, and then formed our own opinions about this question: Should Matariki be a Public Holiday? Then we used Flipgrid to collate out opinions. We will be sharing our ideas our on our idividual blogs.
Did you know that in Taranaki they don't celebrate Matariki? They celebrate Puanga because they can't see Matariki in their night sky.
Here's Ciara's:



1 comment:

  1. Kia ora Room 1,
    I see Flipgrid mentioned here by Mrs Naden. How did that go? Maybe Mrs Naden could edit this post and embed it under the photo so we can all hear what you had to say.
    Mā te wā
    Mrs Torrie

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