Retelling a Story: The Seven Sisters of Matariki

Hey bloggers,

I am back!

This week Te Waka Ako have been retelling the story of Matariki.

First, we had to read the book, The Seven Sisters of Matariki.

Then, we did a storyboard of the events that had happened in the story.

After that, we retold the story of Matariki in our own words. Here is my retelling of the story:

The Seven Sisters of Matariki

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q8d6bp8PG2aShLV9Ofxmia4vBEO98etWAFQjlPjLTD0/edit

I really enjoyed this task and got it finished pretty quickly. If you are free, please take the time to read my story. Have you ever done a writing task where you had to retell a story?

Thank you for reading my story and my blog post. Please feel free to leave a comment. Until next time...

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Matariki Celebration

Hey bloggers,

Yesterday, Te Waka Ako did a Matariki Celebration. We went around to each activity in classes.

These were the activities:

 - Kite Making with Mrs Law

 - Making Stop Motion Movies with Miss Daly

 - Making Fried Bread with Mrs Jones

The first activity that my class (Manukau) did was making fried bread. We had to go to the bathrooms and wash our hands, first. Then, when we came back, we had to get in groups of 6. These are the people that were in my group.

 - Santanna

 - Nirvana-Jayde

 - Martin

 - Genevieve

 - Masi

 - Me!

Then, we got given a bowl, a stirring spoon and a chopping board. First, we had to put 3 1/2 cups of Self-Raising flour into the bowl. Then, we added small amounts of water and stirred until it was the right consistency. After that, we kneaded the dough and rolled it flat. Then, I cut it into 6 pieces and we carved our initials into the dough. After that, we fried the dough in oil. After flipping the pieces over a couple of times, the bread was ready to eat. We chose to either have butter, golden syrup or nutella on the fried bread. I chose nutella.

It was delicious!

The second activity we did was making stop motion movies. We could make a stop motion movie about Matariki or another Maori legend. I was in a group with Martin, Genevieve and Aysha. We chose to do a movie on the legend, How Maui Slowed the Sun. 

We could choose to make the characters out of either playdough or paper. We didn't have enough time to add audio, but that was fine. If you were wondering, Stop Motion is when you take photos of different things and moving them slightly in-between. When you play it, it will look like the characters are moving.

The third and final activity was Kite Making with Mrs Law. The kites we were making were decorative kites, not ones to fly. We had to draw patterns and colour it in on a strip of paper. 2 people got chosen to make the frame of a mini kite and 4 people got chosen to hot glue the strips of paper onto the big kite frame. Those 4 people were me, Genevieve, Martin and Demetrius. It was great fun doing it! One funny thing that happened was that Martin put a bit of hot glue on the back of one of the strips and Genevieve started rubbing her finger around in it. Then, 2 seconds later, the glue set so Genevieve started waving her hand about to try and get the paper off her finger. In the end, she had to the scissors and cut it off!

I hope you enjoyed reading my blog post. If you have any free time, please leave a comment.

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P.S. Here are some photos!

Cross Country 2020

Hey everyone,

Yesterday, our school did our annual Cross Country. All of the Year 6's got put at a station to help with an activity while a year group was doing the run. I got put at the warm-up station. We did some exercises, played Duck-Duck-Goose, and watched and cheered on the runners. In my run, I came 2nd place. Angelina came 1st and Rael came 3rd. I will be going to zones, because I was in the top 5. Yay! 

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