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As part of our "Lights, Camera, Action" Unit, we are going to create a movie to re-tell the story "How Maui Slowed the Sun".

We began by creating a Wordle to list all of the movies we know:

Then we read the story "How Maui Slowed the Sun" together. We completed some thinkers hats thoughts about this story : Yellow Hat - Good Points:

They got plenty of light They found the sun They let the sun go The sun was hot They made the sun go slowly They pulled the string hard They got to go fishing and hunting

Black Hat - Bad Points:

The sun went too fast The sun nearly died They pulled the sun too hard They didn't have enough time to fish <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">They were hurting the sun <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">They were eating in the dark <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">They can't see the fish <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui and his brothers were bullying the sun

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Red Hat- Feelings: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui felt angry because the sun was going too fast. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui felt very cross with the sun because he didn't have time to hunt, fish or eat his dinner. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The sun felt sad because Maui and his brothers were beating it. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The sun felt frightened because Maui was hurting him. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui felt unhappy because he didn't have the sun to shine on him. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The sun felt unhappy because he nearly died. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui was jealous that he didn't get time to hunt, fish or eat his dinner.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">White Hat - Information: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The sun went fast across the sky. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui and his brothers threw the string on the sun and pulled it hard. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The sun went too fast so the people didn't have enough time to do anything. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui and his brothers weren't happy with the sun so they decided to slow it down. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui and his brothers threw ropes over the sun. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Maui shouted "Now!" to his brothers. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">They pulled and pulled the flax string. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The sun said "Stop! You are going to kill me. I am nearly going to die!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui and his brothers were pulling the string too hard. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui was beating the sun and hurting it. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Maui and his brothers let the string go. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The sun moved slowly across the sky.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">We looked at koru and koru art to help us draw parts of the story:


<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> = = = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%;">Our Recount Movie:  =

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