Research about the Buddist Temple

Matariki Returns - Main Idea

Name: Sharhera

Date: Tuesday 05 May 2018

Title: Matariki Returns - Main Idea

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Success Criteria -

I can locate and use information in the text to extend ideas about our general
solar system and the effects this has on our word - to even our cultures and celebrations.

I know the purpose of Matariki and can relate it to other special holidays.

What are the tales about the stars and the representation of them for the year to come?
That it celebrates the maori New year and the seven stars

Maori used to ‘preserve birds hinu’. What does the word ‘preserved’ mean?

Hinu is fat and Preserved is when you keep something

Can you give me an example of how people often preserve various items to date?

It is like a record.

Matariki is the time for what? (refer to the text)

It is when the maori New year starts or when the 7
stars come out

Tell me about a Matariki legend?

I think that he created the maori new year

What is Matariki in a physical sense?

Matariki is the cluster of seven stars

What is the special sight you may witness towards the end of May?

The stars will sink below the hurisine.

What are people looking out for to know that the new year is beginning?

When a moon that looks like a banana rises then you will know that the maori
new year is starting.

Tell me 6 things you know about Matariki?

1. It is the Maori New year

2.Matariki Celebrates the 7 stars

3.When the moon comes out

4.And the seven stars are in a group

5.The seven stars are ay cluster

6. Everyone celebrates matariki

WEDNESDAY 6/06/2018

How has Matariki risen again?

It rises by the new moon.

If something is ‘faint’ can you describe what it might look like?

It kind of looks like something faiding or fulling.

Why did New Zealanders initially not know much about Matariki?

Because some people have been forgetting about the maori new year.

What are some activities people might do to celebrate Matariki?
People could make stars and do the macarena.

Some Iwi celebrate Matariki differently, find some examples of
they celebrations different?
They do different things.

Name three other days of the year that are celebrated:
Christmas Birthdays and Easter.

Think about Christmas and how it is a public holiday, do you
think Matariki should also be a  public holiday? Yes.

Yes/no? What is your reasoning for this?
I think that we should have a public holiday
because it is a new year.

THURSDAY  07/06/2018

Refer to the part in the text ‘Matariki Returns’:  
That every time Matariki only returns on Maori New Year.
 Matariki was a time to remember

What is a constellation? When a group of stars a noticed.

What is a cluster of stars? A cluster of stars is like a
tight group of stars in one spot.

How are our seasons caused? It could be caused by the earth

What do various cultures use patterns in the sky for?   
They make patterns that a formed by the stars.                                                                     

What are some objects that relate to objects and patterns in the sky?
So that they can get to the other side.

How do you think Matariki should be celebrated?
By making things that the maori people make and they
can have a hangi.