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.

Matariki

Today I have been collaborating with LS1 to find information about Matariki. In my group I had Fau, Kaitlyn and Mele. We have been sharing ideads against each other to find some facts. We talked about What Matariki was, Who the sisters are and how they celebrate Matarki. Using our smart searching skills we found out a lot of great information Matariki.