Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui
This article describes how one Taranaki school celebrates the appearance of the star Puanga in the eastern sky – the signal for the start of the Māori New Year.
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Series: School Journal Level 2 November 2017
Reading year level: 4
Category: Non-fiction
Topics: astronomer, astronomy, celebrations, constellations, Māori New Year, Matariki, night sky, Orion’s Belt, Pleiades, Puanga, Puanga Kai Rau, Ramanui School, Rigel, school, stars, Taranaki, Tautoru, telescopes, time capsule
Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui
Words by Maakere Edwards and Kiwa Hammond
In other parts of Aotearoa, people watch for Matariki, but that constellation is hard to see in the Taranaki region.
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School Journal Level 2 November 2017
Inside this School Journal are two stories (Finders, Keepers and The Show Went On) and two articles (Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui and New Zealand Dinosaurs).
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3 of 4Finders Keepers
Joe found the dinosaur egg in the washing basket in the laundry. He knew straightaway that the egg belonged to a dinosaur. It was too big to belong to a chicken and not round enough for a soccer ball.
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