Matariki

This week we have been Celebrating Matariki. Matariki is the sign for the Moari New Year. This week we have been doing many fun things to celebrate. We have done some weaving with flax to make a flower.
We have also been making Maori Bread which is also know as fry bread. To make fry bread it was really simple, the only ingredients we needed were flour and water. We put some flour into a bowl and shaked it so the flower would be a smooth surface, next we made a well in the flour and poured in some water.
After that we kneaded the dough with one hand. After we kneaded the dough we cut the dough into square pieces. When that was done the square dough was put into a heated pan with lots and lots and lots of oil. We were careful not to drop the sough into the pan because then we would get burnt. We waited for the dough to turn into a golden colour then we flipped it. When the dough was golden on both sides, we put them onto plates to cool down we waited for our buddy class to come.

When our buddy class did come, there was plenty of Maori bread for everyone. We were really full when we had finished the bread and there was still two full plates of fry bread left.
Here are some pictures of our Matariki week:

Mala weaving a flower

Phillip nearly finishing his flower

Matthew concentrating really hard

Me and Solomone flatting out the dough

Dough cut into squares

Maori bread cooking in the pan

Marley and Oli 

Photo of room 10 and 25

Room 10 and 25

If you would like to make Maori bread then you can follow my steps in the post and make sure you don't drop the dough into the pan. Put it in carefully.

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