
Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui – School Journal Level 2 November 2017
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. In other parts of Aotearoa, people watch for Matariki, but that constellation is hard to see in the Taranaki region.
- stars
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- Puanga
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- astronomy
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- Pleiades
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- telescopes
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- astronomer
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- time capsule
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- celebrations
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- night sky
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- constellations
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- report
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- Māori New Year
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- Matariki
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- Rigel
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- Orion’s Belt
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- Taranaki
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- Tautoru


