Our Maori Legend Digital Story: Maui and the Sun

We have been retelling stories as part of our writing unit. We learned about some Maori legends including Maui and the Sun.

First we storyboarded all the ideas from the legend out into a 6 box storyboard. Then we wrote a sequenced retelling of the story. Next, with a buddy we each took a part of the legend to draw a picture on Kidpix of and to make a voice recording of.

You can see below the WALT and success criteria that we followed, and see our final product!
We hope you enjoy :)

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Maori Legend retellings

Room 9 have been learning to retell stories in their writing.
We learned about several Maori legends and focused on retelling them in detail and in the correct sequence.

Here are some of Room 9's retellings of Maui and the Sun

Maui slows the Sun
Maui wanted to go fishing but the sun went accross the sky too fast. He couldn't go fishing. Maui's brothers made a net. They caught the sun. The sun said "Let me go!". Maui started to wack the sun with the jaw bone. The sun said "ouchy". The sun promised that he would go slowly in the sky. Now Maui got to go fishing for longer.
By Jazmine

Maui slows the Sun
Once upon a time Maui lived with his brothers. Maui said to his brothers "Let's go fishing!" but it was too dark. So Maui said to his brothers "make ropes and a net". Maui and his brothers went to the hole that the sun came out of. At the hole, they stretched the net over. When the sun came up they caught it and got caught in the net and the ropes. Maui climbed the ropes and hit the sun with the magic jaw bone. "Why are you doing this to me?" the sun cried. "Because you are moving too fast" Maui said. Finally the sun said that he would slow down.
By George B

Kidpix image drawn by Aria and Jessie.

Our Holiday Digi Art

We're now back at school for Term 2!

We had lots of fun in our school holidays. We used crayon, dye and a digital photo to make our very special
"Holiday Digi Art"

First we had to decide what we were going to draw.
Then we needed to think of what we'd be doing in our setting and pose for a photograph
Next we drew our setting and coloured it with crayon.
Finally we printed, cut out and glued on our digital photograph.

Take a look at our Digi Art below and see what you think!!!

Term 1, 2009

We have had such a busy time in Room 9 over the past 10 weeks of term 1.
We have learned about and done so many interesting things.

Today we had to write about one thing we particularly enjoyed, liked or was our favourite. We gathered all our ideas by doing a big class brainstorm.

You can see here in the diagram all of the things we remembered being involved in during Term 1:

We have done so much fantastic learning this term.
Take a look here at our Writing Spot Blog here to see what we have liked the best in Term 1:

http://room9writing2009.blogspot.com/

Thinking Hat Tuesday - If there were no adults

This Tuesday our thinking skills topic for Oral Language was

"If there were no adults".

This was definitely quite an exciting topic!
We used De Bono's Red and Black thinking hats to investigate and discuss how we would feel and why it would be bad if there were no adults around.

You can check out our best ideas by clicking and looking at the photo below.

Walking Wednesdays: Feet First

All of Nelson Central School has been attempting to walk, cycle or scooter to school each Wednesday this term for "Walking Wednesdays"

"Feet First" 2009 encourages primary school students to walk to school with a caregiver, friend, or organised walking group at least once a week, every week, during term time. You can read more about the Feet First project by visiting here: http://www.feetfirst.govt.nz

Room 9 has been keeping a graph every Wednesday to record who walked, cycled or scootered to school each day. It has been great to see the numbers go up each week!

Take a look at our graph and start thinking how we could continue this healthy initiative next term!

Thinking Hat Tuesday - If there were no such things as trees

Our thinking topic this week was

"If there were no such things as trees".

We used the BLACK and the YELLOW thinking hats to examine the negative and positive aspects of this. You can see some of our ideas in the photo below, click on it to be able to see and read it much larger.