Celebrating Matariki

Celebrating Matariki

We did some reading about Matariki and learnt that Matariki is a time for:

• learning from older people
• learning about caring for our land and environment
• planting winter crops eg kumara
• making and flying kites

So we planted some vegetables (potato, kumara, onion and carrot).

We designed and created some colourful kites.


We had a special visit from Reneé's mother who taught us to weave flowers using flax.  It was hard work folding the flax but by working together we managed it, making beautiful flax flowers. 






We even had a go at flying a kite ourselves out on the field - a first for many of us!