SLJ Week Two Day Four

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DAY 4: INDIGENOUS RIGHTS


Activity 1: Guiding Principles

For this activity, I will share you a poster of my whakataukī

Activity 2: Celebrating Diversity

For this activity, I will do research on two different groups and tell you two facts each.
Maya people was the first one that I chose because of the name it sounded like something cool to do

fact one they speak over 30 Maya languages.
fact two The Mayan people way back kept track of the sun

My next group are called AINU I chose this one because I wanted to know what AINU standard for.
fact one most for the AINU still live in their home country North island if japan
Fact two assimilations policies implemented by the government in the 19th century caused the Ainu to be considered a dying ethic group.

Bye   

SLJ Week Two Day Ono

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DAY 1: TAKING THE LEAD

Activity 1: Playing Favourites

For this activity, I will list my top five favourite things to do and why I like doing them?

1. I like to sleep this is because I get to have my own time when asleep
2. I like to jump on the tramp why? Well because I like to do a fun exercise 
3. I sometimes like playing with my sisters because they come up with fun and new games 
4. Relax and watch a movie or some tv this because it is actually good for you to relax sometimes if you don't believe me here is what I found 
5. The last would have to be making things as in cooking, papercraft etc This is because I like to use my hands for things

Activity 2

For this activity, I do some math from when someone was born to when that person got an award.
  

BYE

SLJ Week one Day 5

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DAY 5: AGAINST THE ODDS

Activity 1: National Treasure

For this Activity, I have to share three things I treasure and why.

1. I treasure my old awards Why? I treasure them because When I'm older I personly would like to see my achievements in the past years.

2. I also treasure my baby photos for the same reason but to see me as I  grow up through the years and the years to come.

3. The last one would have to be my books I love a good read.

Activity 2: Swimming to Safety

for this activity, I have to listen to a podcast or read a web site on Yusra Mardini and retell it to you.

I decided to listen to the podcast about her.

Before I show you I just want you to know that took me about half an hour to do

Here it is 

There was a little girl called Her name was Yusra Mardini. She was born in Damascus. She did not like water. She would stand and stare at the water and she would never see the bottom. Every time she thought of jumping in head first her heart would beat a tiny bit faster.  The pool wasn't just scary to her it also exciting her too. So very slowly she started to dip her toes in the water once she got into the water she plunged her head under. Without even knowing she was swimming not just normal swimming she was swimming in competitions. Her father and her older sister helped train her. After all her training she was winning competitions left and right. She couldn't even remember what it felt like being afraid of the water.  Now swimming was her favourite hobby and once she dived in all the noise she could hear before she could not hear now. 

 When she was swimming and pushing her self to go faster all she could hear was her heartbeat. When she was swimming all of her problems would disappear.  When she was thirteen swimming couldn't solve everything because her country was at war. There were huge protests people gathered in the street and Spock their minds but the government wasn't liking what they were saying so they shot the people that were speaking their minds.  Brave people protested more but the violence was worse.  When she was thirteen the protesters and the government went into a full-blown war.  Yusra's family hear more bad news every day. People were dying not just the soldiers but regular people.  But for the first year, they were safe in the capital in the city but after a while,  the fighting reached the outskirts of the city. Yusra and her family could hear guns etc from there home. After just a few months the war had reached just middle of the city. Yusra and her father walked to the gym so she could work on her swimming but once they got there they could see the roof had huge holes in its ash and dusted had fallen in her pool.  Yusra's training centre had been boomed and she had no place to swim anymore. And some there was no more same places to stay.    Bullets were flying through the town all hours of the day military tanks were rolling through. 

Yura and her family have been living in fear.  At fourteen she only saw one way out they had to leave their homeland it was not safe but so was staying there plus what kinda life did they have there? Yusra pegged her parent for the trip to Europe but her parents said no because it wasn't safe for all five of them to leave with her baby sister they are gonna have to wait.  Then the boomings reached her house and their house was destroyed. No one was home when it happened so everyone was safe but they lost everything.  Yusra's mother came up with a plan. Tears rolled down the mothers eye. Her two cousins were going to take the daring ride to Europe and they were willing to take Yusra and her older sister with them.  It was unclear when she and the rest of the family would join them. But for now, the girls would get out. The journey was dangerous but staying in the city was more dangerous. The plan was to get to Arlen Germany where many other people went to. Maybe they could find a welcoming Comunity their and Yusra hope that she could swim again she also heard they had good swimmers in Germany.  The day she left she hugged her parents and younger sister goodbye. Holding back tears.   She left the city with mostly nothing except her cellphone some clothes and cash that she would pay for people to help her and her sister sneak across borders.  They set off with her cousins and a few other people. They flew to many different places before they got to where they wanted to get to. Every step on the way they were terrified of being court by the police.  They were just about to start the most dangerous part of their journey.   Yusra and her sister hide with the group in the forest by the beach they were waiting for the signal form they people that where helping smuggle them into the country to move they need calm waters and to avoid the turkey coast guard. finally, it was time the smugglers boarded them on to a small boat with a tiny engine.

But as almost soon as they started they were spotted by turkey cost guards. who forced them back to shore Yusra had a feeling in her stomach like butterflies but not the good kind because it was going to be harder then they thought. They decided to try again once the sun had gone down. Now with the cover of darkness, they just might have a shot. The sound of the engine silenced them all and slowly the cost behind them started to shrink. The tree they have been hidden in for days got shorter and shorter as they got away out into the sea.  After twenty minutes the engine shifted a bit higher for working too hard and then it started going slower and slower until it stopped. The motor was broken They tried to fix it but water started to leak in.  You see the boat was only meant to carry six people but the smugglers fit in twenty.

The water was starting to get to their ankles and she knew she had to do something. They thought to their self it wasn't worth drowning here and she was a very good swimmer.  She looked at her sister and they both knew what they had todo. They jumped into the cold water with two other people out of the twenty into the boat.  Only four could swim Yusra went in front of the boat so she could pull it with a rope. she used her other hand and her feet to swim. five minutes passed then twenty.  Yusra's eyes Bernd from the salty water. The boat was heavy with sixteen people on board and only four of then swimming and pulling they have been swimming for a full hour. Getting closer to land.  They were going so slow that they couldn't tell if they were getting any closer.  Yusra's leg grows tied but she knew she couldn't stop her flip flops feel off her feet and floated away. All her belongings had floated away. Her sole focus was to get everyone to shore. She raped her hand around the rope harder and kept swimming. They pushed and pulled and pulled and pushed Yusra was so tired she didn't know if she could keep going. Would they die here would they ever see their parents and little sister again.  Yusra wanted to cry but she couldn't because when she looked up she could see one of the little boy watching her swim he was just six years old not much older the Yusras little sister. So Yusra forced a smile and tried to make him laugh she didn't want him to think they would die here even if they might.  Now her hand was raw from holding the rope and her feet were numb from the cooled water and her eyes still burnt and her lips were chapped from the salty water.  But she kept swimming. Yusra was sure she was imagining this time because the shore was getting closer they were going to make it.  Yusra and the other three swimmers dragged the boat onto the shore. And canapes on to the ground. They swam for three and a half hours. They saved themselves and sixteen other people. They made it. Now they had just to get to Perlin. They travelled north from country to country crossing borders however they could. After tracking through some countries they stopped and a cornfield for the right moment to sneck across. Finally, at night, the made a run for it. Not long after they crossed the border the police took them to a camp on the way Yusra and her sister looked at each other and started laughing.  When the police demanded to know what's so funny the girls just laugh harder.  Yusra just thought to her self that they were just going to die in the sea and you think we should be afraid of you. Of course, when they got to the camp they ran away the first chance they got. These girls where not to be stoped. They haven't yet got to where they wanted to go.  After a month-long trip across nine countries, Yusra was in purlin. Things where far from perfect she slept on the floor at a camp and she heard of a swimming club. The club she heard about was one of the best places to practise at in purlin. Yusra tried to get in but it had been two years since she had trained so she was out of shape but the coach could tell she was good. She had great technic but more than that they could tell she loved to swim. Yusra throws her self into training.  Woke up at six in the morning so she could swim before school and went straight for the pool once she was let out.  Her time were improving fast and people were starting to notice. Her coach said she could compete in the Olympics in 2020 but she would become an olympian faster than that. In 2016 they started refuge team and they asked Yusra to be a member. She saws one of ten athletes that would compete around the world.  After all the time she sent getting here from all those countries she still was conceded a refuge. Now she is a proud olympian. 

 Bye

SLJ Week one Day 4

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DAY 4: INDIVIDUAL PURSUITS



Activity 1: Making a Racket

So in this activity, I will watch a video tell you guys three things I learnt and one thing I still want to know and the video is about  Serena and Venus Williams (famous tennis players). 

Activity 2: What’s in a Name? 

For this activity, I can change my name and if I do I have to tell you why I would like to change my name to that name.

Amelia would be my name if I changed it I really don't know why I like this name so much it just stands out to me in away. 

But to be fully honest I wouldn't change my name if I didn't have to. 

Bye

SLJ Week one Day three

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Day three Team players


Activity one: Rugby superstars

For this activity I get to pick three superpowers I would like and write down what I would do with them.

Activity Two: Defying's the odds

For this activity I get to chose a famous basketball player and makeup five questions I would ask them if I was to interview them.
 The basketball I chose was LeBron James

1. What was your inspiration on starting in Basketball?
2. How old were you when you first ever started?
3. How do you see your self in five years time?
4. What do you focus on when you are on the court?  
5. What is your advice for all the little kid that wants to start in basketball?

 Activity Three: Achieving our Dreams

In this activity, I have to ask a friend or family member what their dream job is then come up with six ways I could support them.

One of my friends want to be a makeup artist

Six ways I could help her 
1. I could be her canvas
2. I could get her to make up supply's for her birthday or Christmas 
3.  Just being there to support 
4. Get some more friends so could do makeup on
5. Help her with what she needs doing to get going on her chose of dream/ what she wants to do later in life
6. lastly make sure she had fun doing it and make her day.

Bye

SLJ Week One day two

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Day 2 up in the air 

Activity 1: Flying Solo

In this activity, I will do some research on jean batten and Amelia Earhart. 

Activity 2: One Small Step for Man

In this activity, I have to make a poem on what I would feel like walking on the moon.

I can’t help stop smiling, The cold breeze lightly hitting me. Home being so far from me it is incredible. The galaxy is so big you can’t even imagine how long it would take to travel that long and it takes a day to just get to England from here so how long would it take then?

Bye :)

   

SLJ Week One

SLJ Week one Activity 1,2 and bonus

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Explorers

Activity 1: (Setting Sail)


 My ten food Items I would take to sail the ocean and there is no fridge or freezer.


1. food number one would be is a bunch of apples because it is pretty healthy to eat and much easier to carry around than some other foods you could take.

And all these images you see are from unsplash a web site were you can get free images of any kind.

2. food number two has to be another piece of fruit and that is bananas because you could get them in bunches plus this sailing was mostly sent in the old days and these could be found growing around nearly everywhere.

3. My third food would have to chips because they are in a bag so they won't go bad as fast as the fruit will.

4. My fourth food would be powdered milk because it would be nice to have some milk.

5. My fifth food would have to be boxed water 

to add to my powered milk so it can be milk.

6. My sixth food would have to be tined pineapple because it will always fresh when not opened.

7. My seventh food would have to be almonds because they are the top healthy nuts. 

8. My eighth food would have to be another nut and this nut pistachios it came second in the same thing as the almonds.

9. My ninth food would be a vegetable witch would be peas. peas are a yummy vegetable to eat as a snack to have.

10. then the final food would have to be...

pretzels it is also a good snack to have and it can be a good savoury and sweet to have after all the fruit and veg I have packed as well.

Activity 2 (Discovering Aotearoa)

My cultural background 

Where do I come from?

Where does my family come from?

 Some of my ancestors are from Paris/ France 

I am from New Zealand I have no real idea of where my family comes from.

Bonus Activity. 

(Scaling New Heights)

What I have to do for this activity is to read about a charity of my choice. And tell all of you about the charity I choose and why and some facts on what they do to help those in need of there help.

The charity I choose is The red cross 

I chose this charity because it is very helpful to other people in health and lots of other helpful things.

 Their mission in life helps improve others lives and they're not just doing it for them there doing it for others. Who knows they could help you out in your later life. If you have a spare dollar make sure you donate to the red cross. They even give you courses they have lots of different types of courses like outdoor emergency management, first aid for young children and first aid for childminders etc.

BYE 😁 

Chrismas all around the world

Today we were doing some Christmas stuff we got to choose to do what we do for Christmas or what other people in other countries we had to make a DLO on one of those. I choose the three-country one. This was done by a lot of other people.  Here is my DLO:

The Missing car

The missing car

Today we have been working on writing in four sentences 

With a high peck of a mountain, poking out over the water. And as I move my eyes across the sea all I see is a clear beautiful ocean. As my eyes sweep down I see some boats come closer to me. As I take the whole view into perspective I dream how amazing it would be to live here. 


As I slowly turn around I see my self, Blond hair with a beautiful flowery dress. As I look closely I can see the very shiny ocean in my light blue eyes. I have been watching out the window for about 20 minutes and I like to watch the boats come in from there trips from different places around the world. I think it is also very fun to watch the different sizes of the boat come in and the shipments they come back with time to watch some more boats for about 10 more minutes, then I have to got to get to my new job interview.  


The time went fast within 3 minutes to get dressed and I only had 5 minutes to get the job interview. It was about time to leave I found the car keys but I just remembered to grab my coffee. I started to walk out the door the once again I forgot my house keys so I ran inside to get them. I walked outside with what  I thought was a good day but that all changed when I got to the last place I parked it is turns out it was stolen last night. 


I was freaking out then I pulled my cellphone but before I could do that my car the same licence plate and everything drove past I rang the police and started running after the car.
It took about 2 minutes of the police to come and the car stopped at the lights. Turns out my older sister was getting me my dream car and I was crying in both ways. I got to drive the car and my sister started to cry too. 

Summer Learning Journey 2019 - 2020

Summer learning journey 2019 - 2020

So its that time of year again to sign up for Summer Learning Journey or also known as SLJ. I will be participating this year again I can tell you the prizes are amazing because last year I won a drone and one of my friends Risha won head phones and stationery and other little things. So it is worth participating in SLJ this years theme is changemakers and I find being able to do any day that you want so if you don't want to do day one on the first day very nice. I will definitely be working on the program. Here is the slide on some more info on SLJ.

Shovels and pitchforks 👩🏼‍🌾👨🏼‍🌾

Today in Tane Mahuta My friend and I pulled out some Ivy and a couple dead trees, we needed to take the trees one because they are dead and second they are in the way our on the ground. we have done a lot from when we first started at the start of the term we now have a pathway from the end to the start we still have a lot to do. We also used pitchforks and shovels to do the ivy. I guess we need to get moving if we want to do a lot more. 

Why The one child policy is not very great

Hello, Today I will be talking about the one-child policy that has been recently lifted in China. 
So first of we have been doing persuasive writing and we got to choose a topic out of five different things such as  the one that I am doing the china's former one-child policy should be adopted in all countries, Organ donation should be mandatory, Sport is better than music, NZ spends too much money on promoting Rugby and Children would learn better if lunches were provided.
Witch, I choose The former child policy one an I am against it coming to all other countries.

We have been working on some statements on our Idea on what should happen on our choice of writing. My three statements in order are

• Planning the size of one's family is believed to be a basic human right 
• If you can have twins or triplets why can't you have two or three kids because it's the same thing as having twins or triplets a 
•  that the only child has a lot of responsibly and that is a lot of stress 

Shovels and pitchforks

Shovels and Pitchfork 

Salut, Today In Tane mahuta I and some friends got a weeding job the garden was a very long job.
 And there were already planted some stuff so it was hard to get them all out and not pull out the stuff in the garden. We had to get the little bits and we were starting to hurt in our legs from kneeling down for so long.  There were lots and lots of weeds to get done. Shreya found a baby rotten potato in the ground but we thought it was a grape at the start witch was funny but it was a potato.

But smaller 

I am Malala (Part 2)

Hello, today I will be telling you about I am Malala Part 2 all the info that you need is on this slide show on part two with some cool photos of Malala her self.
This slide show has lots of info on her bravery and her Idea


I find this story very interesting I hope you enjoyed.

My Amazing App

Hi guys, today I will be showing you my app that I have made on App lab.                                                                                               My Issue is bullying and I know that it can affect a lot of people very badly and I don't want people to feel sad and depressed and feel like they have no point in living. I believe that everyone should feel that they are here because they are here to have a point in life and not be left alone and being sad. I strongly disagree with bullying and making people feel bad. I think that people should stand up for what's right and wrong. Fight for what's right. I know a bit about my issue and I know that it can lead to deaths and other things like that (let's not get into that). And it can also lead to big friendships because the person's friend that is getting bullied, you can stand up for them and from there on they can trust that you have their back. Stand strong!! 

Well, there were a few things that went well for me at one point I was feeling like I could get this done and I have almost got it done. I have done a lot of it. I feel I worked better by myself but getting and giving ideas was a good idea. But that was all that went well for me. My strengths were not much because app lab was something new for me and I was am not the best coder. One thing that went well was that app lab easy to work with.                                                                                                                   I would do differently on making my app a bit shorter because it was getting a bit hard the longer it got. If I could start again I would make it a bit easier. 

P.E Hurumanu Teaching Bench ball 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃

Teaching Bench ball  🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃

Bonjour, this term in P.E we all got the chance to teach the class on a sport of our choice. We were put into random groups. My group choose Bench ball it was a good choice because we already knew the rules and how to play and the setup. Our group was successful because we were organised we had what we were doing ready very fast. I had the role to Lead one of our drills. I contributed to my team by helping sort out the teams and doing some of the drills.
What we could do next time well next time we could have less baby game because our game were sneak up on granny and piggy in the middle. I learned that it is very important to talk to your team to get the ball to you and that it is easier to self refer when you are playing the game. My personal opinion on this hurumanu is very good I like this hurumanu.     

Too Many weeds

To many weeds

Hello Today In Tane Mahata we worked on weeding the garden. We used shovels pitchforks and our hands (with gloves on). Not everyone was working because they were fascinated by the insects of the garden (worms etc).  In the end, we did two areas one with native trees and the other with vegetables.

 

NEW BOOK!!!!

A New Book

Hi, guys this week I am reading a new book called I am Malala. I really recommend this book to anyone. In class, we have done this thing called Novel studies we have been doing this about four times a week. Not all the class has this book there are other books. The book is written by Malala Yousafzai. 


This book is how a man that says that girls can’t go to school and go out of their homes and not go shopping, the Taliban took over her region. On the 9th of October 2012, Malala was shot in the head. No one expected her to survive. But after a long time in a hospital, she is now fighting for the right for girls like her. She even won the Nobel Peace Prize. In Malala’s family, her dad and mum ran an only girls school. She has two brothers. Would you like to read I Am Malala why or why not?

Week nine visit to Mega air

Week nine visit to Mega Air

Hello welcome back today I will be telling you about our trip to mega air last term in week nine 

It was a fun experience we also had other activities when we got back from mega air we were split into two groups. One group went first in the morning and the second group went after later in the day. I was in group one so I went first. We were there for about two hours but it felt like 15 minutes. We had to take our shoes and socks off and we watched a short clip on the rules. Then we got to go on the trampolines. There were different areas of different types of styles of bouncing like flips and normal bouncing.  We all bounced a lot it was time to go back to school. It was lunchtime when we got back so we ate then we played the sports that were organised by the older students. We played tug of war, ki-O-Rahi and capture the flag they were fun games to play but before we played them we got but into teams they were different countries, for example, New Zealand and Australia it was a fun time that day.

Bye