How the Kangaroo got its pouch

WALT write a sequenced and detailed retelling of the Aboriginal Dreamtime legend

'How the Kangaroo got its pouch'.

How the Kangaroo got its pouch
Long, long ago there was a kangaroo mother. Her joey always ran away, she didn't like that. One day she was looking for her joey and while she was looking for her joey she met up with a wombat. The wombat was weak and tired and thirsty. The mother kangaroo said "hop on my tail and I will show you to some water" so he came with her. Next she showed the wombat some nice juicy grass and the wombat munched it all. After that mother kangaroo forgot about her joey and ran back to look for her joey. He was fast asleep under a gum tree. So she went back to the wombat. He was not there, he had disappeared. Then she smelt danger and it was a hunter so she bounded off to her joey. She took her joey over to the wombat but he was not there. The mother kangaroo said "well he must have gone home".
Really the wombat was not a wombat. He was a spirit and he was looking for the most gentle creature. He gave the mother kangaroo a pouch. She said "that's not fair" so he gave all kangaroos a pouch.
That is how the kangaroos all got their pouches.
By Eden


How the Kangaroo got its pouch
A long time ago a mother kangaroo was feeding her baby. The mother found a wombat. The wombat said "I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm blind, I'm old!". The mother kangaroo said "I will take you to some water".
By Sheridan


How the Kangaroo got its Pouch
A long, long time ago there was a hungry kangaroo who was eating. A wombat came along, he said I am hungry and thirsty". The kangaroo said "grab onto my tail and I'll take you to the water and food". Then the mother remembered about her joey. She bounded everywhere and then she found her joey under a gum tree asleep. "I'll leave him" kangaroo said and bounded back to where the wombat was. She smelt danger, it was a hunter looking at the wombat. The kangaroo chased the hunter away. Then went back to her joey.
By Jacob


How the Kangaroo got its Pouch
A long, long time ago there was a kangaroo with its joey. The joey kept on running away, the mother kangaroo always had to look for her joey. Life was tiring. One day the mother kangaroo met a wombat. The wombat was very old. The wombat said, "I am blind and I haven't eaten or drunk for days". The mother kangaroo said "I will take you to some water" and then "I will take you to some fresh grass" and she did. Then she remembered about her joey. She bounded across the field and she couldn't find him. At last she found him, he was asleep. Then she bounded back across the field again. She smelt danger, she chased after a hunter. The hunter ran away. She went back to her joey.
By Aulay

If you like you can view the video we watched to learn about this Aboriginal Dreamtime legend below, just press play:



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Our Trip to the recycling centre and landfill

Yesterday we went to the recycling centre and landfill as part of our Inquiry topic "10 ways to save the planet".

We wanted to find out what happened to all of Nelson's rubbish and recycling.

Here you can see a snippet of just some of the things Room 9 learned while on the trip (you'll probably also notice how popular the compactor was with the students too!)

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Hatupatu and the Bird Woman

Have you heard the Maori legend of Hatupatu and the Bird Woman??

Room 9 have had so much fun learning about the legend and retelling it for our writing. Can you believe we even wrote our retelling over THREE days!!

Please feel free to come in and read our Hatupatu stories in our writing books, just make sure that you have enough time to read them... they are sooooooo long and detailed :)

Our Maori Legend Digital Story: Tangaroa's Gift

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!!!