Matariki Celebration

On Friday 24th of July Glen innes School celebrated Matariki. All of the students in school made things for Matariki. My classroom made a star with paper inside of it and we made a wishing star and inside the star we had to write our wish. 

Next we had to display our art for matariki. Our Teacher said we had to get in a group and take a black paper and write facts about matariki on a white paper and draw the seven sisters and a moon. My class  sang a song about matariki. The song we sang is all the seven sisters' names. It goes from youngest to the oldest and room 4 sang that song too.

Then all the classes had to go to the other classes but they didn’t go to the classRooms in order they mixed the classRooms names and the people who come to the class see there art work they made for matariki but some of the students put their artwork inside the hallway and some of the students didn’t put the artwork in the hallway they put in inside of there class and the students that has there artwork outside had to explain what the did to make there artwork.

After that all the classes had to go to the hall because we had to go for the hangi to eat the food that the cook islands made for everyone and their parents came too. 

Finally everyone had to play on the playground when they finished their food. When we had to line up we went to our classes and do our work that our teacher told us to do after that everyone had to go to the hall to see what the cupahaka group was dancing and singing and there were boys that were in the cupahaka group too. 

When school finished I felt happy because one of the cupahaka students was in my classRoom and I felt sad too because my parents didn’t come to the hangi and to see the cupahaka groups dance and sing.