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Sunday 30 December 2018

Matariki - Summer Learning Journey

Today I am to write about the Matariki story. Matariki is the cluster of sisters ( The seven stars ). There is a story that was written about this story by Toni Rolleston-Cummins. Here is my 6-8 sentences:


This story is about Matariki. One day in a village called Maketu, Mitai and his brothers went hunting on a hill when all of a sudden they heard the most beautiful singing. They were enhanced and followed the singing all the way to the top of the mountain where they'd found the most beautiful whane. Their hair glowed which made their skin look white. Immediately mitai brothers fell in love. Mitai never fell in love he said they were fairy woman. The men took their wives back to their village. Each day mitai would get suspicious. So one day he decided to spy on his brother's wives. He found out his brother's wives were patupaiarehe ( fairylike women ). The patupaiarehe had a plan to starve their brothers to death so what they did was he caught them with is net and sent them to the heavens uru te ngangana ( god of the stars ), there Mitai asked him to take the wives far away and so he did uru te ngangana turned the wives into stars. THese stars were called Matariki and it meant maori new years.

4 comments:

  1. Hi Marieta,

    Nice retelling the story in your own words. I liked it how you said what happened in logical order. Reading this interest me, because it sounded like you were retelling a video. You nailed it. I loved it when you said These stars were called Matariki and it meant Maori new years.

    Nice!

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  2. Greetings Marieta!
    I have decided to comment on your blog again! You have being working hard with your commenting because you have finished with the activities in the summer learning journey! We read then Matariki story plenty of times. Your retell of the Matariki story is really good and clear.

    Keep it up Marieta!
    By Chavda

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  3. Hi Marieta,
    Well done on completing this Summer Learning Journey activity. You did a great job retelling the story of Matariki. Just remember to add capital letters to the names of your characters. Keep up the excellent work.

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  4. Kia Ora Marieta,

    Great summary of the story! I feel like someone could read that and then know exactly what it was abut, so well done!

    Did you enjoy it? What sort of stuff have you done at School for matariki?

    Great blog Marieta!
    - Lee

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