Pania of the Reef

This week we read the legend of Pania of the Reef, retold by Annie Rae Te Ake Ake. This story tells about how Pania fell in love with Karitoke and left her home beneath the sea to marry him. Then was tricked into returning to the ocean where she was trapped and could never make her way back to her husband.

We were learning about visualising. We used descriptive detail from the story, and our own ideas to create an image in our head of the people of the sea and their underwater home.

Each of us got to turn our visualisations into an artwork.

We created our illustrations by using jovis and crayons to make wonderful illsutrations about Pania of the Reef.

We are proud of our illustrations because there were no white spaces, and our work was colourful, amazing, and bold.

We hope you like them! 

What is your favourite legend?

The legend of the creation

This week we read the legend of the creation, retold by Annie Rae Te Ake Ake. This story tells about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were first created. We found out about their children: Tane Mahuta (God of the forest), Tangaroa (God of the sea) and Tawhirimatea (God of the wind). 

We were learning about asking questions as we read. We used clues from the story to help us answer the questions that we had been wondering about. We wondered what would be created out of the darkness, and we have created koru art to show what we  found out as we read the story.

Each of us got to create our own koru art. 

We created these by drawing our koru with pencil, and then we coloured them in with jovis and crayons.

We are proud of our koru art because we have our own ideas and and we tried our best and used a lot of effort, and we made it all by ourselves :)

We hope you like them! 

What is your favourite legend?

Rata and the Tōtara Tree

This week we read the legend of Rata and the Tōtara Tree, retold by Annie Rae Te Ake Ake. This story tells about how Rata cut down a tōtara tree without permission, and the creatures of the ngahere kept putting it back together until he said a karakia to Tane Mahuta to ask for permission to take the tree so that he could carve a great waka. 

We were learning about identifying the main idea of a text. We used clues from the story to help us work out what the main idea was. We used callouts to create speech bubbles for our creatures of the ngahere to share the main idea in our own words.

Each of us got to create our own creature of the ngahere. 

We created these by drawing them on paper and colouring them in with Jovis, pens and coloured pencils.

We are proud of our creatures because we put a lot of effort in and created them from the heart, and we created them from our own ideas.

We hope you like them! 

What is your favourite legend?

The legend of Maui and the Sun

This week we read the legend of Maui and the Sun, retold by Annie Rae Te Ake Ake. This story tells about how Maui slowed down the sun.

We were learning about predicting. We used information from the title, pictures and our knowledge of Maori legends to make think about what the story could be about. As we read the story, we thought about the new information and made changes to our predictions.

Each of us got to re-design the cover for this story. 

We created our illustrations by colouring in our pictures using jovis and crayons.

We are proud of our illustrations because we filled in all the white spaces, we drew them NICE and BIG, and we think they look pretty cool.

We hope you like them! 

What is your favourite legend?