Why The Kiwi Cannot Fly, by Te Ao

Once there was a God called Tanemahuta. He had seen that his children were being eaten by insects, so he gathered all the birds together. He asked pukeko to go down and stop the insects from eating the trees. But then pukeko said that he didn't want to get his feet dirty. Tane replied " you won't be able to keep your feet clean for long then!"

So Tanemahuta asked tui to go down and get the insects to stop eating the trees. But tui replied, " I can't I am scared of the dark". Tanemahuta told tui that when he was finished with him, he would no longer be scared of the dark again.

Tane asked kiwi if he could go and look after his children the trees. Kiwi agreed to, even though he was told that would mean he would never be able to fly again. This was because he would from then on be stuck on the ground saving the trees from insects. That is how the kiwi lost his wings.

Because the tui and pukeko refused to help Tane, they were punished. The tui was not able to go out at night anymore, and the pukeko was made to run on the ground.

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How The Draught Was Broken, by Chandler.

Once upon a time there was a place where it was extremely sunny, called Yanille. It had been like that for four years. Many villagers were very sick and tired of the sun, so they eventually started to pray for rain. Many, many nights they would pray for rain to the Gods. This plan of theirs did not work, so they had to come up with a better solution.

Their next plan was to make a bull with a mouth you could use to sacrifice virgins to make it rain. They built this amazing invention, and tested it out. They would line up all the ladies who were virgins and pick one of them to sacrifice. The bull was full of flames, and they would throw the virgin inside the bull's mouth. They waited and waited for it to rain, but still nothing came. The ritual continued for many days. The princess of Yanille began to search for the chosen one, who was the only person who could plead with the Gods in the holy of holies.

The princess saw a man who would never bow down to her, and thought to herself that he must be the chosen one. She told him to walk into the holy of holies and pray to the Gods for rain. The chosen one finished praying, and what do you know? It finally started to rain. The draught was finally broken.

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How The Flowers Were Formed, by Shinal

Once there was a rude, mean lady who only thought about herself. She was hated by all. She hated everything and anything around her. Once there was no rain for days, and all her plantations and crops were ruined. She didn't have any food to eat nor water to live. She went to the village to ask for some food, but everyone rejected her. So she cursed the villagers that they would suffer. Days went by and she sat on the mountain side and cried. By the end of the year, the whole village was flooded with her tears As days went by, the water dried and some coloured things began to reach out of the ground. It was flowers, and soon that land became a field of flowers. The flowers were the villagers who died.

The lady lived alone her whole life, and died a horrible death.

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Why The Tide Follows The Moon, by D.D.Ax

A long time ago there was a place where everyone loved to surf. They loved to ride into the ginormous waves. Every time the moon would come in, the tide would follow. The village people wanted to know why the tide follows the moon. There was a man there called Tomani, he knew the moon spirit. Tomani went and had a long travel to the sacred hill of Heronze. That's where the closest contact to the moon is. There, Tomani went to talk to the moon spirit. 

 He asked the moon spirit, "why does the tide follow you?"

 "I have got the job from God," he replied. "I would have to drag the tide to make order and peace so everyone can canoe, surf, swim and explore."

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Why We Have Eyebrows, by Jenevieve

Some thousands of years ago, people who lived in Africa had flat faces with no eyebrows. People had suffered a lot from skin cancer, normally around the eyes. People in Africa had always said " the sun won't burn where there is hair." A handful of them had skin cancer around the eyes so seriously they became blind.They did not get cancer as much on their arms, legs and head because there was hair there.

Dr Phyl was an African doctor who earned little money for all the work he was doing. After one long day he returned home late at night. He didn't feel like sleeping, he was sick of seeing people filled with pain and sorrow, so he wanted to invent something. What he wanted to invent was something that would make hair appear over the eyes. He mixed all he could find that would make what he wanted, then tested it on his younger brother, Zookou. He injected his invention into his brother, and waited. Zookou woke up and Dr Phyl was astonished to see little hairs poking out just above the eyes. He decided to call his invention "eyebrows". 

The news had already spread throughout the country the next day. Dr Phyl made a lot of eyebrow injections. A few months later, everyone had eyebrows. Less people suffered from skin cancer around the eyed and everyone was happy. Women became pregnant, and even their children had eyebrows.

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The Punished Man, by Frank.

Once there was a tribe called the Moe. Everyone was peaceful but one man, a very big man. He was greedy and liked to take heaps of food, water and other things. 

One day the tribe was short on food and water so people became greedy. The big man hatched a plan to steal all the remaining resources. At night when everyone was asleep, he made a big bag and sachet to hold the resources in. But, he didn't know that a kid was still awake, and saw what he was doing. The man ran away happily. 

The kid told the tribesmen what he saw and they decided to hunt him He was walking gracefully until he heard noises and then ran. He tripped up and was caught by the tribesmen. Then came a lion who saw the captured man. The tribesman decided to leave him there fir his punishment, and hoped that by sacrificing him they would be rewarded with food.

One day later, food and water appeared at the site where the man was sacrificed. The man's spirit remains there and the story is told to young children to remind them to never steal because you always get caught.

You can run but you can't hide.

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Rainforest Medicine Products

In the last few weeks of term, 9T worked on creating a medicinal product using medicine found in the rainforest. They were to give it a name, think about its target audience, and create labels and logos for the product. Finally, they created advertisments to showcase the product they had produced. Below are the ads, which feature the various products that were made.