Lockdown learning - Hatupatu and the bird-woman

 First we read the story - 

These are the connections we made while reading/discussing the story 

Connections we made 

• Ki o rahi legend -https://www.kiorahi.com/story  both have an island in the middle of a lake, rocks and caves, threw teeth/threw rocks

• Maui and his brothers - 

• Maui and the sun - he hides behind a rock

• Matariki stars (7 stars) - Miss Ashley has read the series The Seven Sisters by Lucina Riley which is about the Matariki stars, but in English are called the stars of Pleiades. 

• Rotorua smells like Sulfur 

Things we had to learn about/relearn 

• Dog fur used in korowai

• Red feathers probably came from a kaka bird https://www.google.com/search?q=kaka+bird&rlz=1C5CHFA_enNZ949NZ955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixk4zvvPryAhXazjgGHYYAAloQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1438&bih=796&safe=active&ssui=on

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• 3 different types of cloaks (implies they are used for different purposes, or by different people)

• Remembering what adjectives, nouns, verbs

• woman= 1, women - more than 1

• Stockholm syndrome - beauty and the beast 

• Where is Mokoia Island? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mokoia+Island/@-38.0873125,176.3016971,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x6d6e82d041215f27:0xf00ef62249c7ec0!8m2!3d-38.0812563!4d176.284413

Maori words we used/learnt

• Taiaha

• Korowai 

• Raw food (uncooked)