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?
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