Saturday, August 13, 2011

hooking in day

We had such a great day on Wednesday the junior syndicate got 'hooked - in' to our new topic.  Each teacher chose a story from Maori myth & legend.  Mrs Moses read the story of how the kiwi lost it's wings, Mrs Brown read the story of how Maui slowed the sun, Miss Rhodes read the Battle of the Mountains and Mrs Mudge read the story of Maui and the finger of fire.

Making our waka paddles last week

All the children split into four groups and then visited each class in our Wakas! (We made waka paddles last week)  We collected things along the way to remind us of each story that we heard. At the end of the morning, we reflected up all that we had heard and tried to think about why the stories exist.
Our paddles at the end of the morning

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