Flax Weaving

The Year 3 students helped to teach the Year 5 and 6 students how to make Matariki stars out of harakeke (flax).

The Year 6 girls were shown how to cut the flax, ensuring they followed all the Maori protocols for cutting harakeke.

We are learning how to strip the harakeke to prepare it for weaving.

Mrs King showed the Year 6 girls how to begin the star.  It was very tricky, but some of us persevered and succeeded. 

This is all of us completing the star with our Year 3 buddies helping.

We all managed to complete a star of some sorts!!

After we had finished weaving any pieces of harakeke we did not use had to be given back to 

Papatuanuku (our Earth Mother).

We also learnt we are to never step on or over the harakeke.

Flat Stanley

We had a visitor in our class he was all the way from Doha.  His name was Flat Stanley.  We were given the task to have some adventures with Flat Stanley.

This is Flat Stanley.

 

We decided we would teach Flat Stanley how to make Matariki stars out of harakeke (flax) and tell him the story of Matariki.

We took Flat Stanley out to help us cut harakeke.  Flat Stanley helped us strip the flax and weave the stars.

The photos below show us with Flat Stanley weaving our stars.