This is my Matariki art and I got help from Mrs Tupou-Fonua and my classmate Maisey. This art took about 2 weeks and a couple days. On the right eye there is a sharing an, and on the left is naruto’s sage mode eye. This style of art my teacher chose and wanted us to do was Contemporary Abstract Art with a choice to either use pastels or zentangle patterns to colour in.
Here is my final product.
For this weeks Cybersmart task, we had a mini game of tic tac toe that we had to play in pairs and also made a little paragraph of a fictional story time that we plan to do one time. This was a fun and also an enjoyable and simple Cybersmart task, so it was easily done.
This Morning it was Team Tui’s assembly. This week was Cook Island language week so our Assembly was based off Cook Island language week and Matariki. I was able to read a line in assembly and I was reading the Whakatauki or the theme for the year. Connect me to the traditions and culture of my homeland. Which means to me that we should all embrace our culture and be proud of who we are. We also did a dance. There were 7 girls performing a Cook Island dance with some Cook Island music. I found this really fun because I got to learn some new moves.
For our Team Tui number talks today, we learnt what the x-y axis were on a cartesian plane. We learnt how to put points on the graph using co-ordinates. We also looked at what ‘Reflection’ meant. Reflection was covered in Term 1 but we had a refresher moment to understand that reflection refers to an object thats flipped to create a mirror or congruent image. We finished off the session by reflecting points on the y-axis.
This week for Matariki Team – Tui have creating writing poems about Matariki and our five sense! We connect our senses to the stars and what the stars mean.
For example I used Tupu – A – Nuku for one of the stanzas because it represents ground grown crops and connected it to taste!
This task was slightly challenging but I really enjoyed it!
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Matariki : Writing Poem
That Was Matariki
Have you ever tasted Matariki ?
Sure You Have!
Remember the fresh, ground grown crops?
The delicious sensation of healthiness and satisfying taste of hard – work, effort and achievement, put in the food you ate.
That Was Tupu – A – Nuku .
Have you ever felt Matariki ?
Sure You Have!
Remember that time the cold wind brushed against you?
The refreshing breeze pushed against your body? The fast and raging air moving around
You?
That Was Uru – Rangi
Have you ever tasted Matariki?
Sure you have!
Remember that time, when the whanau went fishing and diving and they brought back some delicious kina, shellfish and mussels? Remember the flavourful kaimoana the family enjoyed for dinner?
That was Waiti.
This term for Matariki, I am learning about Matariki Kites. Matariki Kite’s are mostly known as Manu Tukutuku which is most likely to be formed as a birdman. There is a meaning behind Manu TukuTuku, Manu stands for the bird and TukuTuku stands for the kite to climb through the wind.
I am hoping to make a Manu Tukutuku after I do some good learning about the history of Maori Kites and why they are significant to Matariki.
On Thursday 15 of June Team Tui went on a trip to do some Waka Ama. We went to Ian Shaw park in Mt Wellington which is the central location for Waka Ama teams in East Auckland. We were on a waka learning how to paddle and some of us learning how to steer the waka. It’s important for us to know this because this is how some of our ancestors came to Aotearoa, NZ.
Raft Building was one of my favorite activities because of how focused I was while tying the knots. My team was also focused on our raft because we planned what our raft would look like before we started.
After our hard work we all struggled to lift the raft to take it to sea. Once we put it down gently it smoothly floated in the water and we were all happy that it didn’t break apart. Lastly we chose 4 boys to test our raft and to our surprise, it was a success until the raft broke apart.
Team Tui had the opportunity to have a day out of school and got to the cinemas to watch Red, White and Brass. In my opinion the Movie was really exciting, I was so proud because the movie was based on my culture and what my Country can do. This Tongan movie really made me proud to be a Tongan Girl. I am so grateful my Culture and Country appeared on the big screen.
On the 10th of March, Team Tui were part of Fun Run. We went down to Mission Bay and ran from there with St Heliers with some of the NZ Police. It’s an approximate 2.4kms. The weather was horrible but the kids showed determination and courage.
