Bellwork

Today for bell work I watched Jake Paul and he went on a military training and went on a massive hike and nealy cryed. Then he was should how to get out of duct tape.

       Māui and the giant fish

Māui dreamed of the day that he could go fishing with his older brothers. Each time his brothers returned from a fishing trip Māui would ask, "Next time, can I come fishing with you?"

But Māui's brothers would always make an excuse. "No you're much too young to come fishing with us. We need all the room in our waka for the many fish that we catch."

"I'll only take up a little bit of room, and I'll stay out of trouble, I promise," Māui would argue.

The eldest brother would reply, "You're so skinny we might mistake you for some bait and throw you overboard for the fish to eat."

Māui would get angry. "I'll teach them, he'd say to himself, "I'll prove how good I am!"

Secretly Māui hatched a plan to prove he was a great fisherman. One night when Māui was alone he began weaving a strong fishing line from flax. As he wove he recited an old karakia to give his fishing line strength.

When he was finished, Māui took a jawbone which his ancestor Muri Ranga Whenua had given him, and bound it securely to the line. Early the next morning, Māui took his fishing line and secreted himself in the hull of his brothers' canoe.

When Māui's brothers pulled the canoe into the sea they noticed something a little different.

"The canoe is much heavier this morning, are you sure you're helping?" said one.

"I think you've been eating too much kumara!" said another.

"Stop your bickering and get on with it!" said the eldest brother.

None of the brothers noticed Māui hiding in the hull. When Māui heard his brothers drop the anchor, he knew they were too far from land to return. Māui revealed himself to his brothers' surprise.

"What!"

"What are you doing here?"

"You tricked us!"

"No wonder we have not caught one single fish!"

The brothers were angry with Māui, but Māui spoke up.

"I have come to fish because Muri Ranga Whenua said I would be a great fisherman. Let your lines down as I say my karakia and you'll catch more fish than you ever have." Māui began his karakia.

The brothers threw their lines into the water and instantly began catching fish. One after another they pulled their fish into the waka. In no time the waka was full and the brothers were delighted with their catch.

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"We're the best fishermen ever!" the brothers congratulated each other.

"Now it is my turn to fish," said Māui.

The brothers laughed when Māui pulled his fishing line from his bag.

"Huh, you'll be lucky to catch a piece of seaweed with that!"

"Or maybe a piece of driftwood to float home on!"

The brothers couldn't contain their laughter. Māui didn't listen, instead he recited his karakia and readied his line. "Can you give me some bait for my hook?" Māui asked his brothers.

But the brothers only laughed harder so Māui clenched his fist and hit himself hard on the nose. His nose bled and Māui covered his hook with his own blood. Māui then stood at the front of the canoe and whirled his line above his head as he recited his karakia. He spun his line out to sea, the line sunk deep to the ocean floor, down into the depths of the domain of Tangaroa, and instantly the hook was taken.

Māui's line went suddenly taut. The brothers stopped their laughing and held tightly to the side of the waka as they began to speed across the ocean.

"Cut the line!" a brother called, clearly quaking in his seat.

"We'll all be drowned," said another. "Please Māui cut the line!"

But Māui held tight to his line, and slowly a giant fish was pulled to the surface. The brothers huddled in the waka shivering with fright. The giant fish towered over their small canoe.

"This is the fish that our grandmother, Muri Ranga Whenua, said would be gifted to us," Māui said. "Guard our fish, and I'll soon return with our people."

The brothers agreed to stay, and Māui headed back to Hawaiki. However as soon as Māui had gone, the brothers began chopping greedily at the huge fish, claiming huge pieces of it as their own.

When Māui returned, his people were amazed to see the giant fish.

"Māui is the best fisherman ever," they marvelled.

As they neared the brothers were seen still chopping and arguing over which part of the fish was theirs. The people saw them for the greedy brothers that they were. They were so greedy that they had chopped huge gullies and mountains from the fish's flesh.

Over many hundreds and thousands of years, these gullies and mountains became part of the landscape of Aotearoa as we know it today. Birds, plants, animals and the people of Hawaiki populated the giant fish of Māui. And in time Māui's giant fish became known as the North Island of Aotearoa, and Māui's canoe the South island.

This is the story of Māui and the giant fish.

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Dakota Schuetz                                        Jake Angeles

What kind of leader is Maui

• Great
• Selfish
• Only thought of himself
• brave
• Smart
• Fearless
• Good communicator
• Devoted to his tribe
• Arrogant with big aspirations
• He is vain
• Strong leader

Maui and the sun

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PUTTING OUT A FIRE ON HOLIDAY

On Friday morning on Easter weekend my family drove to Picton to go to our batch and we left midday
 [7 hours later] we got there about 7 0,clock we got picked up by the owner of the batch. The scary thing was that we where driving at night and it was really hard to see the land. We finally got there at about 8:30 and unpacked our bags and then went to play on my phone. The next morning we got up to someone yelling fire so I got out of bed and went inside and ask my auntie what was happening and she said that the batch that was behind ours was on fire and if I would go help put it out so I went outside to wake up My cousin at first he didn't believe me at first until I said that I will give him everything that I own so that was when he started believe me and he got dressed and came outside. He went to get shoes on and then we where running around trying to find as many bucket and went to fill them up. We started to run them up the hill so they could start to put it out but then my little sister and little cousin wanted to come out so we went up onto the balcony and was watching the fire being slowly put out but then we saw my auntie fall over in the slippery mud it was the best thing to happen so far this day. Finally they started to put it out and then we saw that there was a big hole occurring in the roof so I went down to tell them that the fire must be in the roof so they went to check. The found out that it had spreed to the roof. It didn't  take them very long to put that out. We went down to help clean that up and then we helped the fire men to take all there stuff down to there boat. Went to have breakfast. In the end we all found out that they had put out old embers from the fire and it caught on fire. No body was hurt in the end.