Matariki stars

Today, Room T had a very lovely visit from Tracy who told us all a Matariki myth about some brothers who were jealous of their sibling's Matariki star, which he polished and polished until it shone in the sky like a mini sun. One night the other brothers planned to steal Matariki's star. They didn't notice that a piwakawaka (fantail) was hiding in a nearby tree. As soon as the brothers left, the young fantail fluttered off and told Matariki that they were going to steal his precious star.  Matariki ran to hide his star. His brothers became extremely mad so they threw rocks at Matariki's star and it shattered into small pieces. The sky dimmed so the people of the village became more and more worried. Were they ever going to see their favourite star again? What happened to it? The sky cleared and the people became happy again because they could all see the stars. And now Matariki had seven stars to look after and polish. After the story had finished we made our very own stars out of our NZ native flax. We all hope you enjoyed reading this blog post.

by Cassie and Brianna