We read the story Monkey and Crocodile. We looked at the characters and wrote some adjectives to describe them.
We looked online to see if there were any YouTube videos about the same story and there is!
Some parts of the story were the same and some parts were different. When different people retell the same story it never stays the same.
Here are some excerpts from our retelling.
Crocodile was annoyed about only eating boring fish. He wanted to eat a monkey! - Lole
Monkey said " You eat me...You miss out the best part" - Cullam
Monkey jumped on crocodiles back.- Tamihana
" I will help you get across the river" said crocodile.- Karenna
We know the story is FICTION but Hakopa and Shaydon wanted to find out some real FACTS. Did you know...
Crocodiles can stay under water for up to 6 hours.
They have the strongest bite in the world.
They have cold blood and are Reptiles.
Questions for you.
Have you heard of the saying 'Crying Crocodile Tears'? 😭
Do you do this? Hahaaa some of us do!
In the story monkey eats mangoes. Do monkeys really eat mangoes?
ingenious fluffy prickly jumpy smart cheeky angry
mean gliding cute snappy disappointed clever bumpy
Which of our words describe monkey or crocodile?
Kia ora Room 10. We just read this story too! We like your adjectives. We thought monkey was very clever - tricking crocodile all the way through the story. We made a play from the story, but we needed more characters, so we added villagers resting under the Mango tree. What kind of (fiction) story is this?
ReplyDeleteKia ora Whaea Amy and Room 4. We also acted out the story. That was a good idea to have villagers resting under the mango tree. We had 2 crocodiles and 2 monkeys and some pupils were the mango trees and some pretended to be rocks in the river.
DeleteKia ora RM10 said Karenna Monkey ingenious fluffy smart cheeky cute.crocodile mean prickly angry disappointed bumpy gliding snappy.
ReplyDeleteKia ora Karenna and Newton. I agree those adjectives DO match the characters - well done!
ReplyDeletekia ora Rm 10 its me shaydons nan shaydon got a new hoody yestoday there are heps of comments i like the video of the monkey and crocodile it was fun for me and shaydon and faith we in joyed it and he shaydon showed me the shadow pupeets like them they where amzing
ReplyDeleteKia ora Shaydon's nan. Thank you for looking at our blog. We are pleased you enjoyed our post about shadow puppets. We are looking forward to seeing Shaydon's new hoody. What is the weather like in Australia? From Room 10
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