The Mid- Autumn Festival is to celebrate the end of summer harvest. The story is about the man - Hou’yi, that saved everyone from ten burning suns.

He shot nine and left one for light. He was going to live forever but then one of the Hou’yi students tried to steal the magic elexa. Chang‘e had to get away to protect it, so she ate and became the God of the moon with the rabbit. Hou’yi was sad and so alone and missed her so much so he made moon cakes to remember her.

Now to remember Chang’e we eat mooncake for desserts and fruit from the harvest.

The moon festival is about being kind and working together. They work together to make the moon cakes. On Friday Tūī Tāhi worked together with Peter and Bozan’s mums, George’s grandma and my mum. We made mooncakes together and had a lot of fun.

Me, Peter, Candice, George, Bozan and Chloe made a slideshow with lots of information about the Mid-Autumn Festival to share with the class.
Here are some of the photos.