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Man made disasters


Candle near a curtain
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Survey

                                           

Today we went to the Pakuranga mall to do a survey. We asked only one question which was do you know what Matariki is? Out of 20 people 14 did not know what Matariki was and 6 knew about it we asked people from different cultures but all people lived in New Zealand. Some Maori people did not know about their new year too.

It shows us that many people don’t know about Matariki even though they live in New Zealand. We should celebrate Matariki more by putting Matariki on the calendar, putting up posters, decorate malls and put it on the radio. We should also celebrate it in the city so that people know about an important festival of New Zealand.

Big book

Matariki big book introduction

We in Aotearoa are busy preparing for
the Maori new year. It is Known as Matariki.
Matariki is an important Maori festival that
falls in the end of May or Early June.

Matariki is something to do with the cluster
of seven stars in the sky. It is commonly
known as Pleiades.

It is celebrated over 15 days. Matariki is
the time when families get together to wish
good fortune.

Matariki

The Matariki stars

Matariki tells us when a Maori new year is
beginning. It is a time for whanau to harvest
abundant crops and grow abundant plants,
then they store it in the storehouses.
Matariki marks the appearance of the
seven stars commonly known as the pleiades and
it rises in mid-winter. People celebrate
Matariki by fishing, weaving, harvesting
crops, flying kites and narrating legends
about Maori new year. People celebrate
Matariki to remember their ancestors and
the people who died.

About the Sun

 About the Sun

At the centre of the solar system there is a
burning ball gas known as the Sun.
It is made out of mainly 2 gases
called hydrogen and helium.
Helium atoms attract together
to produce heat, light and radiation.
The Sun has a tremendous gravitational
pull holding all the planets instead of
drifting into space. Actually the Sun is
a star just very very closer to the planets
in the solar system. The heat and light
produced from the helium atoms is important
for life to live on earth. Without the Sun there
would be no heat, no light and no plants will
grow.

Maths problem

There is an event at Auckland Zoo. There were 92 visitors.
Out of these visitors, 20 were women and 22 were children.
How many were men?

92-20=

92-20=72

72-0=72

72-22=

72-20=52

52-2=50                            answer 50

Kiri has 87 apples. She gives away 38 apples to her friend
Daena. How many apples has she got left with her now?

87-38=

87-30=57

57-8=50         answer  50

Space

   Space

Space is everywhere and space is
pitch black which means there is darkness.
We do not know where space ends which
means space is infinite also space consists
of meteors, asteroids and shooting stars.
There is a possibility that there are many
more suns and solar systems in space.
For example there might be aliens in other
solar systems. Light can travel in space but
not sounds and the earth has light because
of the sun’s light can reach through space.
In space you cannot breathe in space and
that is why astronauts wear gas masks to
protect themselves from freezing.