Matariki Brainstorm

For the past week we have been doing a Matariki study and my group is doing weather or not Matariki should be a public holiday or not, I personally think that it should be a public holiday and things like that because we have a lot of english and posh holidays and things like that but we only have one Maori/New Zealand holiday which is Waitangi day and that and Matariki and Waitangi both have the same importance.

In the drawing is our different opinions and things like that. 

Matariki reflection

As some of you might already know Matariki have already started, if you don't know what and why we have Matariki let me tell you.

Matariki is a Maori new year and its a time to spend time with family and close friends its also a time to grow any winter crops and to start harvesting food.

This time instead of focusing on what Matariki is and why we have me and 2 others (Monita and Lizzy) have chosen to do the subject of what different types of Matariki art there is, ranging from performing arts to actually making art, art is something that we get all around the world and no doubt we have it here in New Zealand ranging from many cultures and celebrations.

Matariki is again a time to spend with family you can either stay at home and make some art and perform with your family, go out with your family and watch some different Matariki performing art and things like that and you also might be doing some Matariki researching or art at school.

I think for the past few days we will be studying about what different things we can do at Matariki, why we have it, whats important about, Matariki art and so much more, some of the question me and my group have come up with are.

These are just some simple questions we came up with.

What type of Matariki art is there?

How long as Matariki art been around for?

Has art always been involved in Matariki?

Do you celebrate Matariki with your family?

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Mary Jane - The 7 stars of Matariki T2W9

Today room 10 did another Matariki goal setting but it was much more different because it involed the different Matariki stars if you dont know the stars you will find out in this slide and it will also show how I will embody this goal and this star, I thought that this task was really fun because you can change your goals and it doesnt really about learninh and it can really mean about what you want to work on.

 When I first saw this task I thought that this is a normal goal setting but again I was surprised to see how much different it was to a normal goal setting slide because your goals could be related to almost anything which is amazing for me, When my friend saw this she thought the same so we talked about kind of what we would do with this slide and we found a way to make it work we made sure that it was involed with school and outside of school.

Hope you enjoy my slide show and also my blog post.

Mary Jane - Matariki Celebrations T2W8

Yesterday room 10 did a slide about the different things you can do for Matariki and the different things tamaki primary and my class can celebrate Matariki,

I thought that this task was fun because we got to find the task and the teacher gave us a site to see the different things that we could go to and that we could go to as a school or even just with your family which is really cool and the amazing thing about the site is that it tells you the cost where it is and when it is which most sites dont do if you want to learn more about the things you can do at Matariki than have a look in the slides and if you want the link it will be down at the body of the post.

LINK TO MATARIKI CELEBRATIONS!!

Hope you enjoy my blog post!!

Mary Jane - Taku rakau whainga / My goal setting tree T2W8

Yesterday my class room 10 started on a slide where we have to set goals for after the maori new year,

I thought that this was a fun task because we got to learn more about the different goals that we actually wanted to do I didnt relize that the slide would be like this I thought it was the normal goal setting slide but it wasnt it was a lot more funner and a lot more personal for the students and I think that this is a lot better than the old ones.

If you want to see my personal goals then have look and if you also want to see my school goals then flick through the slides to see what they are and there is a slide asking about the year and if you want to see what happened then have a look at the slide.

I hope you enjoyed my blog post!! 

Mary Jane - Planting day relefection, Ra whakato rakua

Yesterday Tamaki primary and some other schools went on a small little trip to plant some native trees, I thought that this was a really fun walk at the start but half way there my legs started to hurt and I hated it and so were my friends also because one of my friends wanted to hold my bag and it was really heavy because it had the teacher aids lunch and also my friends lunch in it so it was really heavy, I thought that this would be fun but we ended up going to the wrong places and I got so annoyed and wanted to stop,

Keep reading to see more about the tree planting trip,

Hope you enjoy my blog post!!

Matariki stars for maths - Mary Jane

Today room10 my class got to do some maths about matariki we got taught the shape of matarki and how if never changes the only thing is that it rotates this is my photos of a hook showing even if it is rotated it still is the same thing,

The first one which is the left one if a 360 degree angle of the matariki and the second one is a 90 degree angle but if you didnt know the thrid is 180 degrees and the last one is 270 and than it goes back to 360 degrees again,

I learnt a lot about matariki and degrees not only that I also learnt that they dont flip and they only rotate.

Hope you enjoy my small little blog post!!

KWL Chart for Matariki - Mary Jane

Today my class ( Room 10 ) Did a fun chart called the KWL if you dont know what that means it means when you share what you know than you write questions about want you want to know and lastly you research question.

Here is my small google drawing that is showing my learning it took me 2 days to finish it because I writ a lot of questions that I really wanted to know, read and learn more about what my understanding is for Matariki and the anwers to my questions, 

Hope you enjoy my google drawing.