Every year in the late May or the early June there is a Māori celebration called Matariki, it is where all the māori people come together and spend time together and do all sorts of stuff like kite making, fishing, kapa haka and all sorts of activities, it is also the māori new year.
Me and my buddy Darnell have been working on our Manu Tukutuku (kite making) for our Matariki celebration at school we made our Manu with some Māori materials, the materials we used were Raupō (it’s a type of flax), wool and Toetoe.
Across our school our class went to a Toetoe bush, Our class had to say our kadakia to show our tikanga to the Toetoe, (tikanga means why we do for what we do).
The easiest part was cutting the Raupō and putting it on top of the Toetoe, the hardest part was that we had to measure the Toetoe and then we had to figure out how to split it into three pieces.
Room 9 was also doing Manu Tukutuku, they were making it like they were in the olden days, we were just making creative ones.
