Hey readers,
this week for reading i have been doing task about the Maori new year.
i have not finished this because threw this week i have been practicing my student summit, you can cheek out my student summit blog post.
Te Papa Website: Matariki is not a constellation, it is indeed a star cluster in the sky. You can see Matariki for yourself from early June, before sunrise. Matariki is the closest star cluster to earth, but it is still 440 light years away. If you drive 100 kilometers an hour, the cluster gets million light years further. Matariki was used by one of the crews of voyaging waka to guide them across the pacific
Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui: In many parts of Aotearoa, people celebrate the Maori new year when Matariki [a group of stars] appears. However, if you live in taranaki, Matariki is very hard to see because it is very low in the eastern sky. Instead the people of Taranaki look for Puanga [also called Rigel]. Puanga is a very bright star that can be seen above three stars named Tautoru [the Orin’s belt].
Video #2: Matariki is The seven sisters stars. Matariki is also the oldest sister star's name, also used for the maori new year name! You can see the matariki stars for most of the year, but they disappear from the sky in Aotearoa by late april.The stars will appear again in winter or late may or early june. It is the beginning of the year, and there is not much to celebrate. The Matariki group has other names also, Waiti waita waipuna-a-rangi Tupou-nuku Tupu-Rangi
Ururangi. And the seventh sister, Matariki.
Matariki is the eldest sister, and she guides her younger sisters to their places in the sky.
The Matariki is a family of stars. They symbolize the maori New Year, it's a cultural tradition. Ranginui and papa- Enugu. The seven sisters love to roam around and play with the other stars.They are very entertaining, they had to find a way to stop them from being so annoying. The blue and the red star was going to get the oldest sister to try and settle them down, so she did. The seventh sister shouted, gather and gather! They came in and settled.
My favorite part was learning about the 7 Star sisters, and the other star Puanga.
Bye for now.
Hey Mya!
ReplyDeleteI like how you described about video 2 and matariki. I really like the facts about Matariki. Next time you can maybe post your create tasks so I know what the create tasks are and what you did for them.
Hey Mya ! I think your create task is great , even though you didn't finish it. I think it is good that you write why you could not finish it so I would know . But maybe next time in the time you had you could make the caption more detailed of what you had to do and the create tasks you did .
ReplyDelete-Hannaneh