The Tumu Performance

Hi and welcome back to my blog.This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about cultural stories and the big question was:

What is the significance in the 21st Century of our Cultural stories?

First we brainstormed what culture is and came up with lots of ideas. Culture is like where you are from or Traditional foods, dances or sports or clothes  . 

Then we thought about our own culture and talked to our parents about our traditions and heritage. I wrote a post about my family and things we like to do.

In Literacy we read and discussed myths and legends from around the world then we concentrated on Maori legends. I read Hatupatu and the bird women and Maui and the sun  I retold the legend of Maui and the sun in my own words.

We made a performance about the story Battle of the Mountains. Some students wrote the script, some students took on the job of making all the artwork, some worked hard on organising the music and others took on the role of bringing the story alive with dance and drama.

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Reflection: 

For our production I contributed by helping with dance’s and doing 2 dance’s  

What I learned about working with others was that you should never give up even if you can’t do the thing that others can do.

Have you ever done something like this before?

HI and welcome back to my blog. In my reading group we had to make a flying machine that can fly. We did a myth called Hatupatu and the bird women. I did in a group of 5 and the people I worked with were Caitlin, Olivia, Ruby, Maia and me. 

In reading I have been wondering….

How can I deepen my understanding of what I have read through applying my own ideas to the story.

I read the story….. Hatupatu and the bird women.

It was about….. A bird women. Hatupatu is the man who got stuck in a cave.

We then had to create…. A poster and we had to make a flying thingy.

This was my idea…. Wings.

I choose to do this because….He had all of the materials in the cave.