Preparing and sharing Kai is a way of celebrating Matariki. Today at Uxbridge we had our own Hakari, a feast of lovingly homemade vegetable soup and kumara bread! Our feast was perfect timing for the harvesting of our garden too and so we dug out some of our carrots and took cuttings of silverbeet to use as ingredients in the soup. Everyone brought in a vegetable to contribute to our soup, we had a lot of variety, carrots, kumara, potato, celery, tomato, onion, courgette, parsnip, pumpkin, even a tokonashi that we had never seen before (thanks Renee). All the children contributed in some way whether it was in the preparation of the food, making the table decorations, setting the table or in of course, eating the food!! We sung our Karakia and then there was silence at the lunch table as everyone dug into their kai. You all really enjoyed sharing a meal together. What a great team effort for a special occassion, well done Uxbridge children xx. Here are some photo's to share of the big event............
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