Our class trip to 'Te Oro' to learn about Matariki and celebrate through the arts

What Room 8 students had to say about their trip to 'Te oro' to learn about Matariki through the arts. Paint Kowhaiwhai patterns on wood: First they let us draw our maori symbols (patterns) on a piece of paper, and then we drew it onto hard wood. I found drawing our symbols on wood kind of hard. Next we started painting our maori symbols. I used alot of gold paint because it was shiny. After that we let it dry. At the end we went onto the mat and each group showed others what they did and how they did it. (D.S) We learnt that kowhaiwhai patterns are symbols that are important to Maori people and they tell traditional storis about maoripeople. Paint a taniwha onto stone (stone art): Frist we said a pray and did a song about matariki . Second we got put into three groups. Group one did stone art,group two did weaving, and group three did painting . I was in group one so I did rock arts. After that we showed our art to everyone and how we did it.Then we went back to school. We learnt that the taniwha is the gardian of the sea. Weave a matariki star using harakeke (flax): We enjoyed learning how to weave a star using flax. We had to listen and hear the teacher tll us how to do it . It was hard but we enjoyed it.