SLJ Week Two Day Four

Summer Learning Journey  

SLJ Week Two Activity 1, 2 and three  

Hello, Today's blog post will be on the summer learning journey.

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

Summer Learning Journey  

SLJ Week one Activity 1, 2 and three  

Hello, Today's blog post will be on the summer learning journey.\

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

Summer Learning Journey  

SLJ Week one Activity 1,2 and 3  

Hello, Today's blog post will be on the summer learning journey.

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 two

Summer Learning Journey  

SLJ Week one Activity 1 and 2  

Hello, Today's blog post will be on the summer learning journey.

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

Hello, Today's blog post will be on the summer learning journey.

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 😁 

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.

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         

Our trip to Orana Park

Orana Park

God dag Today I will be telling you about the trip to Orana Park wildlife with Bh.


So we went there because we were learning about climate change and we were learning how it will affect the animals and their life. We went on a bus and the bus driver was very slow  We saw Meerkats, Spider monkeys, we went through the farm part just as a short cut that took us to the bird sanctuary, and there we saw keas. The keas scared a few of us when they flew over us and landed on the rooftop. We learned a lot about these animals so far. After that, we went straight to the lions we got told they did something to the males so they did not have a mane. We also visited the Tyger but it was not out yet. We also saw a lot of other animals I will finish this post another day 

Scratch

SCRATCH

Hello, guys today I will be showing you one of my codes on scratch. I have done a simple one today it is about meeting new people and being nice but not only that it is also a bit weird at the end because I didn't want it to be just a convocation but different. here is my scratch:

Here the cat is walking up to someone new and saying hello the penguin is wanting to know his or her name he or she replys with the name Nevaeh and then the cat asks the penguin of his or her name and she or he replys with bob I hope you enjoy my blog post. Bye   

   

Scratch and Sphero

Hello welcome back
Today I will be telling you about Hurumanu tech we got to play with ball robots and we also got to go on scratch. What is scratch? Well it is a website where you get to make all different types of things. There are sounds  and controls. What is sphero? Well it is a robot ball that you can control by making commands for it to follow. What do they have in common well you can control both of them. How could you use one of these to address your issue well first I would use scratch and I would tell them how to be an upsatnder.

Hurumanu P.E teaching the class

P.E Hurumanu

Hello today I will be telling you about Bench ball and teaching it and the maths what we have been doing.

Bench ball what were the warm-ups we did 40-star jumps 20 high knees and jogging the court 10 times why did we do the warm-up we did the warm-up so we don't get hurt ourself when playing the game we did this for five minutes. We also did a drill and the drill was sneak up on granny we did this as our drill because with the ball you can not move so when granny turns around you have to freeze so that is why we did sneak up on granny.  How to play sneak up on granny. Sneak up on granny is a game where someone stands at one end of the gym and everyone else will stand at the other. The one student by their self will turn around at random times when that student turns around all other players must stop moving. The role for students that must stop is to move toward the solo student to touch them. The role of the solo student is to stop the other players from touching them. If the solo student sees the players moving they will say that they did and the spotted student will go back to the start. so we get used to stopping at random times because we can’t run or move with the ball at all or else the ball goes to the other team.


The game and rules we played two games 7 v 7 8 v 8 and our last game was All 7s vs All 8s this game was very hard because I am a year 7 and the year 8's are mostly taller than the year 7s. The year 8's won the game but really liked playing this game.

Maths part

What have I learned? l learned that it is very hard teaching two classes but we did get it done.

How did I feel about how the math went I felt it went okay but next time I think I should be more involved with the math's

How we worked out the questions we got given 10 or fewer questions they were about painting a field and how much it would cost and how big the field was ect we all worked together and answered the questions.

In the Graduate profile I demonstrated working successfully with others I showed this by working with my group.

Wood work tech

Welcome Back today I will be telling you about the tech I have been doing this term. In tech, we have Mr Cain teaching us and when I say us I mean yr 7 TZ and SH. We made cars and hearts on sticks. My favourite was making the heart on a stick. Next time I could work a bit faster 

Arthur comes to school

Hello and Welcome back so today we had an assembly where this Arthur called Ella West she has written 5 books, Ella West is a female book writer. The two books that I know of are called Night Vision and Rainfall.

I learned that you can get an idea from anywhere!! 

 

Green House Outdoor Classroom (Weeding part one)

Hello Welcome back 

Today in C.I.P we have been working on our outdoor classroom in this subject, we were weeding the area we were trying to get rid of Ivy (it is very hard to get rid of with your hands)

We had to get rid of it because it will spread everywhere and it already has gotten everywhere. We also pulled out roots of small trees and rack up the leafs ect.
In the outdoor classroom, spring has sprung there is this cool cherry blossom tree that has started to spring.
 
This is what it looked like a little bit.
Hope you enjoyed my post

Hurumanu - Digital Tech

DIGITAL TECH- STOP BULLYING

HELLO WELCOME BACK TODAY I WILL BE TELLING YOU ABOUT OUR NEW TECH HURUMANU.

So I have been doing some research on bullying and how to be an upstander
We have been work on Socal, Environmental and Ethical.
I choose social there were so many to choose from
but I choose bullying
I will be teaching people how to be an upstander.
  

Here is my information on different types of website on some questions about bullying:

Link to doc 

Another thing that we have been working on is explaining what the three things are
and how are the app or game is going to work?

link to doc

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Maybe next time I could do this blog post a bit faster

Warming up - P.E

Hey guys! Today in P.E we have been working in our teams again for P.E

When have chosen a sport to teach the two classes our game and our game is bench ball. 

The rules to bench ball are:

1 - No running with the ball

2 - No knocking the ball out of other people’s arms

3 - If the person on the bench catches the ball then the person that throws the ball goes on the bench

4 -  one person on the bench to start with 

5 - whoever gets all the players on the bench wins 

6 - if you are the last person you can bounce  the ball once 

Gears:

Two benches and a ball

We have also made a session plan we have to do a body warm-up and two drills are body warm-up is Lunges, Star jumps, Jogging up and down the court were playing on and our two drills/ games are piggy in the middle and sneak up on granny (How to play piggy in the middle  Piggy in the middle is a game where you are in a group of three and someone is in the middle and two people are on the other side. The goal of the person in the middle is to get the ball and when they get it they will swap places with whoever threw the ball. The goal of the people on the sides is to pass the ball.) This will help with passing, throwing and intercepting.  How to play sneak up on granny. sneak up on granny is a game where someone stands at one end of the gym and everyone else will stand at the other. The one student by their self will turn around at random times when that student turns around all other players must stop moving. The role for students that must stop is to move toward the solo student to touch them. The role of the solo student is to stop the other players from touching them. If the solo student sees the players moving they will say that they did and the spotted student will go back to the start. so we get used to stopping at random times because we can’t run or move with the ball at all or else the ball goes to the other team) 

(Japanese Self Introduction)

Hello, Minnasan Konnichiwa this week I have been working in Japanese class we

 have been working on translating English to Japanese.   

Here is my Japanese self-introduction, or jikoshokai tanoshinde! (please enjoy)