How The South Island Was Made

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Today in reading we have been looking at legends right now we are  looking at the legends of how the South island was made. Mrs Jones (my reading teacher) has read to us about how the island was made then we went off and made a copy of the template that Mrs Jones had made, then we started writing but not copying the real story! It ha took me a few weeks to finish. After we had finish our writing we had to self check, buddy check and also teacher check just to make sure we didn't have any mistakes then we had to put it on our blog (which i'm doing right now!) I hope that will help you know i'm blogging about! here is my writing. ♡

   The Story Of How The South Island Was Made

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Once upon a time there was a Man called Rangi he was the sky father, he married a lady called Pokohauro-te-Po and they had four kids that were boys, the eldest son was called Aoraki and his other brothers names were Raikroa, Raikrua and Rarakiroa.

One day Pokohauro-te-Po was upset because Rangi the sky father loved another woman named Papatuanuku the earth mother. Aoraki and his brothers were wanting to see why there dad loved someone else so they went down from the heaven onto the land/sea  to see why there dad loves another woman. 

There was lots of sea than land so they brang a waka down too. After they have taken a look of Papatuanuku and did not think much of her they  decided to explore and find more land so they sailed on there waka.

 A big storm came and since there dad is  the sky father they thought that there dad was telling them to go home so they said a karakia to bring the waka up but Aoraki that was in charge of the karakia but accidentally said it wrong which  made the waka down and onto an angle. 

The storm started getting worse and worst so the brothers had to go onto the top of the waka and hugged each other and it was so cold that there hair turn white and finally into stone. Now the brother are called the Southern Alps.  Aoraki/ Mt Cook,  Raikroa/ Mt Dampier, Rakiura/Teichelmann last but not least Rarakioa/ Mt Silberhorn and thats how the south island was made!