Reading Explorers of the sunrise

Through the last three weeks my reading group the Slayers have been reading a story in a school journal about Explorers of the sunrise. This article is about how our ancestors from New Zealand sailed to Rapanui (Easter Island) and sailed back to New Zealand using the swells of the sea in the day and the stars through the night also the book is about the details waka they used. The first island they had sailed to was Tubuai then the next island that they sailed to was Mangarewa then the sailed to Rapanui. From Rapanui our ancestors sailed to Moorea, then Raro Tonga after they sailed the Raro Tonga they sailed back to New Zealand but then the place they stopped was at Doubtless bay.

What we have been researching is what the vocabulary is for ancestors, archeology, voyage, navigator and horizon. Then we had to write about what the article was about after that we had to find a map online and use, a document called google draw and draw the journey they went on. After we had done all that work we had to draw the waka they went on for the journey and label the parts of the waka for example the one I have above. The thing we had to write about was what technology we use now since our ancestors have used the swells and the stars.