SLJ Day 4 Like A Sence Out Of A Movie Week 3

Activity 1 The Southern Lights

Lime green streaks litter the sky

Icey blue clouds drift by slowly

Great crowds gather under the bright lights

Hundreds of tiny specks dance the sky

Tomorrow the wonderful lights vanish

Activity 2 The Seven Sisters

Long ago there was man named Mītai, Mītai had seven older
 brothers, they all loved themselves so much that they could not
marry anyone less beautiful than them.

One day Mītai and his brothers went hunting when they heard
beautiful singing. They followed the music and they found the
most beautiful women they had ever seen.
All the women had long golden hair, and when they looked
at each brother they all fell in love. Mītai warned his brothers
that these women would bring harm but they did not listen.
So all seven brothers took the women back to their village where
they made them their wives.

Mītais brothers did not go hunting, instead they went to catch
kaimoana (seafood) for their wives which was all they ate.
Since the brothers had to look after their wives they did not
have time to look after themselves, so they got really skinny.

Mītai noticed that the wahine (women) never left their houses, but
one day when Mītai’s brothers were hunting they came back and their
wives were missing. Mītai koraua told him that he must watch the
women because the are the fairy women and have been looking
for ways to
come back.

Mītai hid behind a tree and waited for the women to come out, but he
noticed that there was six fantails sitting in a tree, and then he saw
one more fly out of one of the houses and land with the others.
Mītai turned himself into a kereru so that he could watch the fantails.

Mītai overheard what the women were saying and they
said that they had a plan to starve his brothers to death.
So mītiai flew back to the village and warned his brothers, they did
not believe him but then they look at themselves and agreed
to come up with a plan to get rid of the women.

So one day they got magic nets and waited outside the houses
for the women to fly out, and when they flew out the men caught
the fantails and they turned back into women and begged their
husbands to set them free. Then Mītai took the nets and turned
into an albatross and flew the nets up to the God of the stars.
He asked him to put the women far far away.
So God of the stars did and once a year the beauty
of the women can be seen and they are now known as the
Seven Sisters.

Activity 3 Crazy, Cool Clouds   

I choose photo one. To me it looks like a stuffed rabbit sitting like
a human. I also see a funny looking cartoon moose.
If you turn it upside down it sort of look like a dog crossed with a
human.

Photo found on the Summer Learning Journey Website