I read a sort of summary of a story that talked of the myths surrounding the creation of greenstone. I made it into a bit of a Michaelmas-type story. Super-abbreviated the story is basically about a fish. He finds a magic key to free a castle from the enchantment of a ferocious dragon. He swims against the current to bring the key to a courageous boy. Then he dies & turns into a greenstone, thus still giving us beauty today in the form of jade. I had the students draw the sea first & then draw the fish in yellow. Magic! - Green. It was nice for them to experience mixing colors in this way.
In the version of the story I told my class Rona is a man. I used the book "Maori Myths & Legendary Tales" by A.W. Reed as a source. The only version I could find online speaks of Rona as a woman & of course there are other differences in the story. You can find it here. My students loved it!
I read a sort of summary of a story that talked of the myths surrounding the creation of greenstone. I made it into a bit of a Michaelmas-type story. Super-abbreviated the story is basically about a fish. He finds a magic key to free a castle from the enchantment of a ferocious dragon. He swims against the current to bring the key to a courageous boy. Then he dies & turns into a greenstone, thus still giving us beauty today in the form of jade. I had the students draw the sea first & then draw the fish in yellow. Magic! - Green. It was nice for them to experience mixing colors in this way.
