Naomi@South Hornby Primary

Monday, March 22, 2021

Rangi-sky father

This is what i did for writing it explains how the south islands were creatied. And it also tells you about Rangi-sky father and more.

Once upon a time there was a sky father named Rangi he had a wife named Pokoharua he also had four children their names were Aoraki which was the oldest and there was also Rakiroa, Rakirua and Rarakiroa. Then their father-Rangi had then fallen in love with Papatuanuku. So the four boys went to go check her out. They were very fascinated about looking for more land but didnt know why their father had fallen in love with Papatuanuku. They searched and searched for more land. Then they heard a storm forming they thought it was their father telling them to come back home so they did a karakia to rise the waka up to the sky but Aoraki preformed the karakia rong the waka started sinking and they climbed on to the top and then there hair turned white and then they huddled up then they turned into turned in to stone. That is how they made the south islands.

Pouāki the glutton

This is the work i did for writing. It's a piece of writing telling you about Pouāki the glutton who was a ginormous bird that ate a lot of food.

Once there was a bird named Pouāki. The huge bird lived on Mt Torlesse so pouāki could see all the toitoi,flax and raupo down by the plains. Pouāki would watch over the men as Pouāki loved the taste of man flesh, Pouāki could never satisfy its hunger.

So one day the people in the village noticed that men were disappearing so then a man named Ruru came up with a plan. Ruru found fourty of the strongest hunters/men to go out with Ruru.

They built a cage for Pouāki to get trapped. Then Pouāki came swooping down to grab Ruru then Ruru ran into the cage and Pouāki was furious that he couldn’t fit. Pouāki got stuck, then Ruru and his men chopped off the legs from Pouāki and once that happened Pouāki could not pick up the men, so then chopped Pouāki’s wings off so he could no longer fly and then they killed Pouāki.

They then went back to see if he had any little ones so the men and Ruru decided to climb the to the top of Mt Torlesse and there on the top of Mt Torlesse was a huge nest with baby birds in it screeching for Pouāki, so the men killed then baby bird then they could fish and get resources in piece and go back to there normal thing they would usually do.