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Thursday 3 January 2019

Summer Learning Journey - Activity 2 - Day 4 - Week 3

This year Panmure Bridge School is lucky enough to participate in the Summer Learning Journey from 2018-2019. This is an opportunity for the Manaiakalani cluster school to join. For the Summer Learning Journey we are given tasks to finish. The people who place 1st, 2nd, and 3rd from each school wins exclusive prizes. The prizes this year is amazing. I have completed most of the week 1 challenges and the week 2 challenges. I am apparently on week 3 now. The week 3 challenges is based called Up, Up and Away. This task was based on Matariki. First I was to listen to the story about Matariki that was read by a lady. Then we were to write about it.

This story is about the 7 stars. There were 7 sisters included in this story. In the begging the brothers went on their boat and sailed along as they arrived near a hill to beautiful ladies with great sinning and hair. Mitai's brothers fell in loves with the 7 sisters. They then took the wives back to their place. The mens would always cook food for their wives, but not them. By that time they got skinnier and skinnier. The sisters never wanted to go out. They just sung and sung every second. Meanwhile when the men had come back they noticed that their wives had gone missing. Mitai decided to go and sneak behind the whare when he saw the 7 wives gathering together and talking. Mitai had heard that they had a terrible plan that was coming their way, so he returned back and told his brothers. By then the brothers all got prepared with nets in their hands. The wives were all birds as the brothers catched each of them in the net. Afterwards Mitai turned into a albatross and took them to the God of Stars ( Uru-te-ngangara). She then flew them to somewhere away from the earth. Every time their shine like bright stars.

3 comments:

  1. Hello Mele,
    Wow your story is just like story in the book. I am glad to see you posting on your blog. Keep it up!

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  2. Hi Mele,
    Great job on completing this activity, I liked how in your story you described lots of details. Another thing that I liked was how you said that the God of stars flew the 7 women somewhere far away from earth. Where do you think the God took them?

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  3. Hi Mele!


    This is a great summary of the 'Seven Stars of Matariki'.
    I like that you have managed to do it so concisely, great work!


    Did you enjoy this story?
    I thought Miti was a pretty cool character - I have read a few different Matariki books but I think this one and the 7 kites of Matariki are pretty awesome! Have you read the 7 Kites of Matariki?

    Have you learnt much about Matariki in school?
    I know that when I was in school there was only 7 stars of Matariki but I heard recently that it is now counted as 9...
    I found this article here that talks a little bit about it:
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/nine-stars-not-seven-academic-says-many-getting-matariki-wrong?variant=tb_v_1

    Great work with this activity Mele, ka pai!

    Nga mihi,
    Ellee :)

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