Summer Learning Journey Task 2

Arriving In New Zealand, Setting Sail

Task - Imagine you were travelling to New Zealand from your home country on a Waka, write a short letter to a friend about your voyage. 

Dear Friend, 

I write this letter to you as something to remember me by. I wan't you to know that not a day goes past when I don't miss home, but now that I have settled here in New Zealand with my family I don't regret my choice. 

The trip here was long and boring, there were beautiful days and there were stormy days, there were fun days when we laughed and sang songs, excited about our new life, there were days when we sat gloomy watching the horizon waiting for the first spec of land to loom out of the sea.

There are funny stories about my brother falling out out of the Waka and once we almost got lost but we are here now.  

On the day we first set foot on the land it was sunny and beautiful as I felt the golden sand under my feet I knew I had made the right decision to come to this new land.
I send my best wishes for your new school next year, give your family a big hug from me.

Lots of Love, Your Best Friend

Summer Learning Journey Task 1

Arriving in New Zealand, The First Settlers

Task - Read this short story about a famous man in Maori Mythology and write three interesting facts you learn't about Maui. What other stories do you know about Maui?

Facts:
1. Maui was no ordinary man, he was gifted and Maori Mythology states that he pulled New Zealand up from the depths of the ocean.
2. Stories about Maui are told in nearly every Polynesian land.
3. Maui appears as a demigod and a primary character in the 2016 Disney film Moana.

Other stories about Maui:

• How Maui Slowed the Sun 
• How Maui Found his Mother