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.

Blog you later!

P.S. Here are some photos!