Matariki celebration

Yesterday afternoon we had a big celebration for matariki. The kapa haka and the pacifica group preformed. We were at the junior park having this big celebration. In the kapa haka group they did there poi and the boys did the haka. In the pacifica group the girls have so swing there hips and the boys have to swing there legs. The leader for the girls was raera. Her aunty and cousin teached the pacifica how to move there hips side to side. After or off that we had the drumming people. The people that was drumming was Andrew, Junior, Mataio and Jona. The boy that teaches them was Mrs Matt. He touht them how to drum. At the end when they were drumming they all said Matariki. After when the drumming finished the luca lady group came up and started to singing the song lean on me. Even Whaea Odie joined in with them. Whaea odie was the one who teaches the kapa haka group. After when everyone finished we then had to line up and have our sausage sizzles. The juniors have to line up on the left and the seniors have to line up on the right side. When we had sausage sizzles we had to each and then the people that preformed could get another sausage. Some of the people had to share out some if they were full of sausages. After that we then had our lunch time and then we went back to class.