Maui and the Sun by Aradia

                        Maui And The Sun

Written By Aradia

Once hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The sun didn’t go slow like it does these days. It went fast. That made the people upset. Maui was furious.

There was no time to go fishing or playing because the sun was going too fast.

Maui did a haka to try to convince the sun to slow down.The sun just ignored him. Maui made a plan.

“I will make a plan to weave with harakeke to make a strong rope. So I can catch the hot sun” Maui thought. He asked himself “Will this be strong enough?” He tested it out, then tied it around a rock. He pulled with all his might!It didn’t break. “Yes!” He said aloud.

Maui hid just by the cave and waited for the right time and… POP! He jumped out and swung the rope like a lasso. He pulled the sun towards him.he had to be careful not to let it burn his flesh.

He slowly and sneakily pulled out his powerful weapon. When the sun wasn’t looking, he beat the sun over and over until it listened to him. “I order you to stop going fast and go slow if you don't I will beat you again” shouted

Maui.

The next day the sun went slow. All of the people were thanking Maui and the sun. The kids were playing all day and the men were hunting and fishing all day.

                       

                              That's  why  the sun  goes slow these days

Matariki with our Tuakana Teina Class

For Matariki we buddied up with the Piki Pod together. We made kites in the middle block then after lunch we helped them fly their kites. Most of us made our own too so we could have fun with our buddies. It was such a pity when it started raining! We had fun while it lasted though. Unfortunately the rain destroyed our paper kites.

We had a lot of fun with our buddies that day and afterwards we listened to a story with them.

Here are some pictures from Friday....

By Bianca & Elise

More on our Dr Evil "Breakout EDU"

WOW Factor (Breakout)

What a stunning start to Term 2! When we arrived at school we wondered about something.There was a big wooden chest with an envelope on it saying "Open at 12.00."

So we did what it said and at 12.00, Alex opened the big envelope. Inside were four clues and a red card that said "Check your email." Soon enough we found out who it was... DR EVIL! Dr Evil had a little video that talked to us about how he is going to release a deadly substance to the world!

Dr Evil challenged us that we had to unlock the 4 padlocks in 45 mins. We all worked together to find the codes to the padlocks, and a hidden key. We had difficult maths questions to solve that helped us to find out the lock combinations.

With 24 minutes left to spare on the breakout timer, we finally opened the last lock and discovered the chest was full of bags of SUGAR!. On the bags of sugar it told us how much sugar was in the little zip lock bags.

We had a table with fizzie, energy drinks, juice and water on it. We had a vote to see how much sugar is in the drinks, we were wrong on most but right on a couple. After lunch we fixed our guesses up.

Good bye Mr Meehan

GOODBYE Mr Meehan from Room 13 but...he will still be at Mahora School...in Room 2 and the other classes. We loved having Mr Meehan in our classroom.  He brought lots of fun and exiting things to the Dream Team and we will definitely miss him.

Mr Meehan helped us get better at Maths and had us working with decimals. He is the best student teacher we've ever had (THANK YOU).

We bet Room 2 and the other classes will love having Mr Meehan in their room.

By Bailey & Blaise

Daily 5 - Self Directed Learning

For the last two weeks, we have been focusing on self-directed learning during Daily 5, and exercising our "independence muscle"!

We have a range of Literacy-related activities that we need to work through and we decide what order we complete these. 

Everyone is getting really good at working independently and they have been completing some wonderful work.  This week Bryan completed a wonderful poem called 'Mice'. Look at his amazing illustrations!

By Bianca and Ezrah

Mystery Skype - Global Connections

What great fun Mystery Skype is! There are so many different jobs. Photographers take photos. Atlas readers read the atlases and come up with questions for the Inquirers to ask. Question Keepers, keep a record of questions we ask and write them on the whiteboard for everyone to see. Inquirers talk to the opposition and answer and ask the questions. They need to remember to speak clearly and be polite. The Clue Keepers cross out countries on the map and come up with our next questions. Logical Reasoners come up with and decide what the final questions should be. They need to check the questions we've already asked and make sure our questions are the best ones we could ask next.  The Google Mappers use Google Earth and other maps to help find the countries.  As for the Runners, they tell the Logical Reasoners the questions given to them from the other groups and then tell the Inquirers what question to ask the opposition.

So far, we have Skyped a school in Vancouver, Canada, a school in Kapiti, New Zealand and another school near Los Angeles, in the United States of America.

It is so much fun and a highlight of our week. It's important to work as a Team, show good Sportsmanship, and represent ourselves, whanau, class and school well.  In other words...we need to show our Mahora Values!

This is what we received today from the teacher of the class we Skyped.

By Bianca and Ezrah