History of the Olympics

 

Research Task: Matariki

 

5 Facts: Matariki

 

Response to Text: The Moon

 The Moon

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appropriate answer.

1) What is the size of the Moon compared to?

a. Half the size of Earth b. Half the size of Mars

c. Quarter the size of Earth d. Quarter the size of Mars

2) How is the Moon a natural satellite?

→  It is a celestial body that orbits a planet.

3) True or False: It takes between 29.5 and 37.3 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth.

a. True b. False

4) Why do we think that the Moon changes shapes?

→  The phases  occur because the Sun lights different parts of the Moon as the Moon revolves around the Earth. 

5) Which phase allows us to only see the unlit side of the Moon?

a. New Moon b. First Quarter

c. Waning Gibbous d. Dark Moon

6) True or False: The Gibbous Moon looks like a Full Moon but only three quarters of it?

a. True b. False

7) Describe what an eclipse is?

→ An eclipse occurs when one object in space blocks an observer from seeing another object in space. 

Rona and The Moon

 Retell: Rona and The Moon

Retell the Myth and Legend about Rona and the Moon.

Planning:

Characters	Husband,2 boys, Rona and the moon
Beginning - how does it start?	Rona was a beautiful woman who lived with her husband and her 2 boys.
Middle - what is happening?	Then she snached up the cords and rund down the path to the spring which was sun distant away.
End - how does it end?	It wasn’t until they looked up at the night sky that they realised their angry wife and mother had been rude once too often and there on the face of the moon was Rona with the ngaio tree and her gourds in her hands.

Make sure you use descriptive language to make the story more interesting. Pull the readers in to read YOUR writing, make it fun!

Start your writing here:

→  Rona and the moon,

Rona was a beautiful woman who lived with her husband and their two sons in a cottage beside the sea. Rona’s husband loved her dearly, but sometimes her bad temper and her angry way of growling at him and their boys will upset them all. One day Rona’s husband said to her “that the moon is good for fishing tonight I will take the boys to the island across the bay and there will be many fish to be caught there so we won’t be back until tomorrow so have a meal waiting for us when we return”. They loaded their nets, lines. Hooks and bolt into a canoe and paddle away. The next day, Rona began to prepare a hangi (oven) to cook the meal in, First she cleared out the ashes,embers and cooking stones from the pit dug into the ground that she would prepare the meal in then Rona built a stack of small sticks and dry leaves at the bottom under the pit over these she place a bag of branches and smaller longs next she gently place the koko stones on top of the pile of wood and let the hangi with impers of fire and does times maori people will be very careful not to let there fire to go out. The only way to work a fire was to rub kaiakomaho and nahoe wood together. As it began to grow dark,and the heated cooking stones glowed red Rona could hear her family singing as they returned across the bay in their canoe. She was about to place her food on the hot stones then she discovered that her board was empty. She needed water to throw it on the hot stones to cut the food,and the singing across the bay heard a voice that grew louder and louder then she knew that her family were hungry. Then she snached up the cords and rund down the path to the spring which was sun distant away. It was dark before she got to the end of the path then a full moon was shining and she could clearly see it in a silverlight suddenly the moon went behind the clouds, then it became so dark Rona couldn’t even see then Rona suddenly stamped her toe on a rock nursing her leg, Rona was so much pain and so angry at the moon for hiding his light that she shouted at the moon and said “ POKOKOHUA” which means boil your head. This was a terrible curse and a great insult.  The moon heard her rude words then came down to his places from the sky and he took and hold of Rona and began to left her from the ground Rona grab hold of the upper branch haui tree and held on to it tightly has she could the moon was to strong that the tree rood came out, Rona and the tree came up with the moon to the sky. Rona’s family returned from their fishing trip , there was no sight of Rona, their meal lay uncooked by the flickering flames of their oven. It wasn’t until they looked up at the night sky that they realised their angry wife and mother had been rude once too often and there on the face of the moon was Rona with the ngaio tree and her gourds in her hands.   THE END

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