Maui and the Sun 2.0

The purpose of this project was: 

To innovate and retell the well-known māori myth: Māui and the Sun. 

To develop our understanding of local awa and make connections to our Inquiry learning about the wetlands environment. 

As part of our Storytelling programme we learnt the story “Māui and the Sun”. This māori myth explains how Māui slowed down the sun to allow longer day time for his people to fish and provide for their iwi.  Alongside this we were focusing on the wetlands environment during Inquiry and learning about different waterways in Waitaha. 

When we got to the Innovation stage of storytelling we decided to add aspects of the water atua in māoridim and focused on Tangaroa and how he could help Māui slow down the sun. 

Throughout literacy times we re-wrote our story map and had many opportunities to re-tell our new myth: Māui and the Sun 2.0 

Throughout these times we made puppets of the main characters and used these as a prompt to help our tamariki develop their oral language skills and re-tell the story. 

This prompted our creativity even furthering was a perfect transition into using Puppet Pals tp help visually re-tell our myth. 

This prompted our creativity even further and was a perfect transition into using Puppet Pals to help visually re-tell our myth. 

We wrote a script for our story in small groups during literacy time, and we learnt a lot about Puppet Pals and how we needed to work together to ensure our puppets moved at the correct timings for out voice-overs and retellings of our new myth. 

The students provided a lot of feedback throughout the re-telling process and felt that the clips were too quiet. We decided to start learning more about Garage Band and played around with creating our own loops and added these into our myth as background and transitional sound scapes. 

With the help of a laptop and their teacher, the children stitched together their move to make their own new myth: Māui and the Sun 2.0 

We had lots of frustrations along the way, with learning lines, new kupu in te reo māori and developing group roles throughout the process. But we were super proud of the hardwork we put in over the term and our end result. 

The Final Outcome!