Matariki Celebration

Manu Tukutuku

(Kite making)

The Matariki celebration is for the Maori new year and we are also doing it for two lovely people who teach us Kapa Haka and Te reo. I didn't go to the Matariki celebration it was at school but i wish I had been there.  The reason why we were making Manu Tukutuku was for the Matariki celebration.  

This whole week me and my friend Matatia were  manu tukutuku (kite making).  On Monday we went out of school and we did a karakia before we cut raupō and toetoe.  The reason why we had to say a karakia because to show tikanga and  respect to the plants that are growing.  When we all got our ruapō we went back to our classroom and we got started to make our manu tukutuku everybody used the same materials so we used Raupo, wool and harakeke

The person on the left of me is Matatia he is the one who helped me weave the wool,  draw the picture and help me with the hot glue.

The easiest bit for me was breaking strips off the flax. all you have to do is get thumb your and stick it through the flax.  The hardest bit was measuring the toe toe because when our teacher Miss Hills

she explained that we were 1 mm off but that won't make a big difference.  

When me and Matatia were done with our kite we were both proud and we wouldn't have done it without Eraia, Mya and Miss Hills.  Miss Hills helped us with our maths and our question.  Mya and Eraia helped us with our talking about our questions.