MATARIKI
                  Oopsie one we forgot to share with you all.

                   Welcome to our own matariki celebration. As some of you know we
                    walked up the field as the Kapa haka sung the karanga to call us down toward the pou                           which mark the entrance to our Matariki garden.
                    Anyway room 9 had fun buddying up with room 5 who were our buddy class. We                                 worked with them to make Matariki stars.
                 
                    Firstly we dyed some paper and made it our night sky then
                    seven of us made gold stars for the the seven sisters. We drew them, then cut    
                    and painted the gold stars. For the little stars we wrapped  them in                                                         tinfoil and placed them around the seven sisters. Some of you might have seen our
                    artwork in the hall. We enjoyed working with the juniors on this project.

                    In class we have also been doing some art for matarki including matariki lanterns
                    room five (our buddy class) has been doing starbursts as again you might
                    have noticed in the hall.
  
The celebration was awesome.  We hold it at dawn each year.  This year it was the biggest gathering of people and we were pleased to see representatives there from Early years child care, Geoff Shephard principal of Kuranui and some Kuranui College students. The college students called us on toward the Matariki pathway which represents our learning journey and leaving for college. This year our senior leaders also spoke. Afterwards we enjoyed kai together in the hall, a sausage sizzle and hot chocolate! If you haven't yet shared a Matariki dawn celebtation with us you may like to put it onto your calendar for next year. 

by Charlie