Tuesday 28 July 2015

Matariki 2015



On Matariki day you have go to sleep early and
wake up early and get in the car to go to the  
      beach and light the fire to welcome the 7
stars. Some people think Matariki is  the home
for 7 gods in the sky. Maori people have a
bonfire because it is cold and dark in the
morning. They sing sad songs. They look in the
bonfire. At Matariki you can go to the house
and you have to pray to god and prayers go up
and the wishes come down.

By Keio Finau
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Maori people celebrate Matariki and they make a bonfire because it was cold and they cooked food for them It was dark. In the morning they sang sad song. People celebrate Matariki once a year in the month of June in winter.

Maori people celebrate at the beach. Some celebrate outside of their house or a relatives house. It is a celebration of the Maori New Year.

Matariki is something special for maori people because they think of their loved ones that have passed on.

By Ngakiri Amosa
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Matariki is a celebration of the Maori New Year. Maori people celebrate Matariki. They sometimes celebrate at the beach. Maori people go to sleep so they can get up early to see the Matariki stars. Maori people sing sad songs for the people that have died. Some people believe that the 7 stars are seven houses of the gods and when people die their spirits go there.
Some believe Tane broke the star because he was jealous and the star broke into 7 pieces. Maori people make bonfires and cook food for the celebration in the middle of June.
Maori people celebrate Matariki at relatives houses. Some maori people believe that a man was crying and he chucked his 7 tears into the sky then the stars become stars. They called the stars Matariki

By L.J. Sua
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Matariki is celebrated by the maori people in
June. It is their Maori New Year. The Matariki
group of stars has other names as well one of
it’s names is The 7 Sisters in the sky. Matariki
is the name of the biggest star. Matariki is
celebrated at the end of June. The maoris celebrate Matariki.The old stories also tell us 
that when the stars shine brightly the year will bwe warm and good for growing crops. There
will be plenty of seafood to gather. Plants will
grow tall and strong.

 By Mokoare Takimoana
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Matariki is a celebration for the Maori New
Year. They sing sad songs because the people
 they loved their relatives that have died.
Some people celebrate Matariki at the beach.

Tane was jealous because the people like the star so he broke the star into seven pieces. Maori people make bonfires with wood. Maori people can cook in the bonfire.
They also celebrate Matariki at there house or relatives house. They use torches. They celebrate Matariki in the middle of June. They lie on the ground and watch the 7 stars.
                                                                                                          By Kue’a Maasi. 
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Matariki is a celebration of Maori New Year.
People celebrate in the middle of June early in
the morning and you can make a bonfire
because it is extremely cold outside. Maori
people sing sad songs because of the people that
 have died like auntys and uncles and family.

Some people believe that Tane was jealous of
the star and he smashed it. The maoris cook
food in the bonfire. The Matariki stars appear
in the middle of  June. Some people believe that
a man was crying then he threw his tears into
the sky. They say that those 7 stars became the
Matariki stars.

By Lewis Wilson.
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Every year maori people celebrate Matariki in

June. They have fireworks, they do weaving

and share stories. They sing songs and play

games. Some families go to the mountains and

beach to celebrate Matariki.

By Kestrel Munu.
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Matariki is a maori celebrations for maoris.
The maori people have to go to sleep early because they are going to see the 7 stars really early in the morning when it is still dark.

The Matariki stars disappear in the middle of May and appear in the middle of June. The maori people can only see the 7 stars early in the morning. Some people believe Tane broke the star because he was very jealous. It broke into 7 pieces and it was still shining in his eyes.

Another name for the 7 stars are the 7 sisters. Maori people celebrate Matariki because it is a happy and is their New Year.

By Mele Fa’avae 
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Maori people sing sad songs for the people that have died and it is really sad. The Maoris celebrate the Maori New Year. It is really special. People believe there is a waka in the sky and Tane got the star and broke it into 7 pieces.

Some believe they are Gods 7 houses when people die they go back to gods 7 houses. People love Matariki and they can celebrate at their homes. Matarik is a really special time and everyone celebrates Matatriki.

The maori people wake up early in the morning and they go to the beach and at the beach they have a bonfire and they have food, drinks and fruit.

By Boyd Ririnui.
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Matariki is a celebration of Maori New Year. They sing sad songs for the people they loved and died. Tane got jealous and he grabbed the star and he broke it into 7 pieces. Maor people set up bonfires, they cook food on the bonfires. They light bonfires because it is cold and dark.

Some celebrate at home outside and at the beach or at relatives houses so they can see the stars. Another reason why they celebrate Matariki is because people believe that there are 7 houses of god and people die their spirits go there. The maori people go to sleep early so they can wake up in the early morning to see the Matariki stars.

By Viliami Maasi
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Matariki is a celebration of a Maori New Year.
The 7 stars are the houses of the gods and when
people die their spirits go there. When people
go there it is sad and on Matariki morning
relatives  sing sad songs and they pray for them.
They do it at the beach or at home. When you
go there it is really sad you can’t talk or move a
muscle. When you go there you think of crying,
praying and missing them.

By Jeziah Burrell.
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Matarik is special for maori people because of
the people that have died. Matariki is a group
of stars in the sky and the 7 stars are called the
7 sisters or the 7 houses of god. My mum said to
sing a song to the people who have died. The 
people like watching the stars and the fireworks
going up in the sky. I like going to my relatives to celebrate Matariki.

By Josephine Rudolph.
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Matariki is a Maori New Year because they
cook kumara and the eat food. At home they
are asleep in the room and in the morning they
wake up early to look at the Matariki stars.

Mum and Nan sing sad songs for the people
who have died. They go to the beach to see the 7
stars of Matariki. They light a bonfire and have
a feed and look at the stars then they go home.

Some  people believe that the 7 stars are the 7 sisters or the 7 houses of god. When someone in the family dies it is believed that their spirits will go to one of the 7 houses.

By Kalo Tukuafu.

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Matariki group of stars has other names as well
and its name is the 7 sisters. In some stories
Matariki is the name of the biggest star, she is
the eldest sister and guides her younger sisters
to their places in the sky. The old stories also
tell us that when the stars shine brightly the
year will be warm and good for growing crops.
 There will be plenty of seafood to gather.
Plants will grow tall strong. This is special to
the maori people.


By Tevita Tamale.

Special Time with my Cousin/s


My Special Time with my Cousin.
By Anastacia Folau.

Me and my cousin Elizabeth likes to play with
each other because she likes to play and have
fun with me and my sister Anita. We always like
 acting.  She is bad and I am good. She likes to
eat with me and sleep with us she also likes to go
 on our bed and talk about stuff. We also like to
go on our bed and bounce on it. She likes our
bed and we also play music at my house and
sometimes she cries because she misses her
mum and dad. Once me and her ate a creamy
thing with ice-cream and some strawberries.

IT WAS YUMMY!!

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 My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Victoria Malele.

Me and my cousins play in my room. They make
me feel very happy. We love playing in my room.
Their names are Victoria F and Salesi. Victoria is
short and Salesi is tall. They told me that they
are going home but the wanted to stay at my
house. When it was Friday they went home
because the mum said they had to go home for
school. They saw me at my school and we played
 tiggy.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Shaniqua Marsters.

My cousins names are Kiki, Lexis and Lewis and
we always play at my auntys house and it is fun.
We play hide and go seek. Clap is a scary game
and it is also a fun game to play because my
cousins like to play that scary game and I was
scared because it was too scary for me. I like to
 play with my 3 cousins because they are nice to
me and they let me come over to their house. It
 looks very pretty and its fun. When I play there
we play hide go seek and go clap and its fun.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By L.J. Sua.

My special time with my cousins is when they

come to my house. My cousins names are Alex

and Roney. I like to play Ninja and hide and go

seek. We play on Sundays. My cousins play at my

house but I only like playing with Roney. We play

on my brothers netbook. I love my cousins. My

cousins like to eat cake and I do too.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Ngakiri Amosa.

My cousins names are Apii, Viti and Anthony.
I always play with them in the holidays. We play
tag and they never get me. We always play funny
games too. I like playing with them because they
do fun things.

 In Australia my cousins and I were
the flower girls for my auntys wedding. I like
going to Australia with my cousins.

My cousins and I always cook too. People always make our food. We cook eggs for breakfast. I like spending time with my cousins because they are always kind to me.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Viliami Maasi.

We had a barbeque at our cousins house and we
played hide and seek. My sister Sia was the
finder then we play on my cousins play station.
We play in the garage Transformers and played
hand ball. For lunch we went inside to eat.
It was someones birthday and we ate cake. We
also laid on the bed. We watched rugby on tv
then we played rugby outside. We also play tag
and my other sister Luisa was the tagger.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Mele Fa’avae.

We like to play hide and seek. We also like to
play tag too. My cousins are 16 and 12 years old.
When we play hide and seek we play at night time.
Sometimes they can not find me when I hide under the tables. We play tag outside on the front lawn. Every time after we play our mum comes out and tells us to have a shower. When we play tag the can’t get me when I run around the trees on the front lawn.

I will tell you how we play tag. The first thing we do is, I meet at night time we close the cutains until  it is dark. After doing that we have to count to 30 before few try to find them.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Shining Makitae.

My cousins name is Tyder and he is 5 years old.
We play tag outside and we always play marbles.

On the road and the next door neighbours. We

have heaps of marbles. I think they have 1,000

marbles at their house. They have colourful

marbles too. His friends give me marbles and he

gives us marbles too. At first I didn’t know he

was my cousins too. My cousins run about now.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Kue’a Maasi.

At my cousins house we played Shrek but it was

blurry. We changed it to the cartoons. We played

cops and robbers. We played hand ball. We ate

 Shrimps and sushi then we watched rugby. We

went back home and went to sleep. We left our

sisters at the airport and they walked home.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Bianca Tua.

Me and my cousins went to Mcdonalds and my 
mum ordered a cheese burger. My cousins
names are Pandora, Issac and Marianda. When
we finished our Mcdonalds we went to the park
and I played on the slide. We went home and my
mum made ice cream because it was hot in my
house.  My cousins looked at our pool. When we
finished in the pool we went and got changed
then we ate pies and they were yummy. We had
to drop my cousins then we played at my cousins
house. Me and mum went home and we had
some cake. My cousins are 7 and 9 years old.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Lewis Wilson.

Me my family and cousin went to Mcdonalds and had pancakes and bacon and egg burgers for breakfast. My cousin is 11 and his name is Max. When we got home me and my cousin woke my brothers dog up. I bought my scooter out too. I was riding my scooter and my dog was running beside me. Later me and my cousin went back to my house and we played call of duty on my brothers playstation4. I went next door and I had dinner with my family and my cousin. We played video games, when my cousin came over to my house, my cousins dad let my cousin sleep over at my house and we watched Rio 2 and Cloudy with Meatballs part 1&2 . We also watched Age of Ultron with my cousin. These are my favourite movies. After my cousin asked if I wanted to play blind mans bluff but I said no and we went to sleep.

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My Special Time with my Cousins.
By Keio Finau.

My cousins name is Jeziah. We like playing rugby

and with a ball. We put on our shoes to kick the

ball. The other people run after the ball. I like to

get the ball and run to the goal to score a try. I

feel happy when I am with my cousin Jezah.

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My Special Time with my Cousin.
By Jeziah Burell.

My cousins name is Max. We always go to the

Skate park. When it rains we stay home and play

on our x box 360. We have all of the good games.

We have Batman game, the Spiderman game

and the Superman game. My cousin is a boy.