Matariki celebration

On Friday the 24th of July we had a Matariki celebration at our school. When - Week of Term 3 our school celebrated Matariki. Where - We celebrated Matariki at Glen Innes Primary School.

Who - Everyone in our school celebrated Matariki. How - We put the Matariki art stuff outside of our classroom by stapling the Matariki stuff on the wall.

How - We put the Matariki art stuff outside of our classroom by stapling the Matariki stuff on the wall. Which - The classroom that we did the Matariki art stuff in was Room 8, our normal classroom.

Why - We celebrated Matariki because we didn’t celebrate Matariki a couple of days ago. Hangi - We had a hangi on the day we celebrated Matariki. There was chicken, peas, carrot, kumara, potato, pumpkin and broccoli.

Playtime - Then after the hangi had finished we went for a play. Then the bell rang and we went to line up. Maori dance - We walked to the hall and we did our assembly but first there were maori children doing the Matariki celebration dance on the stage. Then the principal got some senior children to let us learn about Matariki and stuff like that.

Then it was home time and we lined up in the hall like all of the other children at our school. So we walked to our classroom and the teacher told us to pack up, get our bags and to lock all the doors. Then the teacher told us to pick up all of the big pieces of rubbish on the ground too. 

Lastly - The bell rang and the teacher was asking us questions and if we answered the questions then we would get to go home so when we finished asking the questions we walked out of the classroom and we went home.

I felt happy because I was watching the maori children doing the Matariki celebration maori dance and because we had an assembly too.