Day 1 bonus activity SLJ

Bonus Activity: In Flanders Fields

As the new century dawned, New Zealanders settled into a period of relative calm. The calm lasted for about 15 years but came to a sudden end in 1914 when World War I erupted in Europe. The war lasted for almost five years and claimed the lives of 18,000 New Zealanders.

It also claimed the lives of thousands of men and women from countries around the world. Every year, we remember these brave men and women on ANZAC Day (25 April). Many people go to a special Anzac Day ceremony where they read a special poem that was written for the fallen soldiers. The poem is called ‘In Flanders Fields’ by John McCrae.

Read the poem. On your blog, tell us what you think of the poem. Do you like it? How does it make you feel?

It makes me feel very lucky to live in a beautiful, safe country like New Zealand. It also makes me feel sad for those who died in the war and for their families. I think that we are very lucky that they went to war and fought for our freedom. What do you think?

BONUS POINTS: 10

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I think that the poem was good and meaningful it makes me feel very lucky that we have people brave enough to risk their lives for us. but also it makes me feel sad because of all the people risking their lives for us and I think their family's would have been sad that their loved one has pasted but have pasted for a good reason.

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Task description: This is my bonus task and it is about anzac and about this poem. The poem is about the people who risked their lives for us and I have all the information in the paragraph that I just wrote.

day 1 activity2 WK 2 SLJ

Activity 2: The Right to Vote

At the turn of the century, New Zealand elected its first ever government. Richard John Seddon served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1893-1906. Prior to 1893, only men were legally allowed to vote. This all changed in the late 1800s when a woman named Kate Sheppard lead a suffragist movement in New Zealand calling for a change in law. Her hard work finally paid off when the Electoral Act was passed into law on 19 September 1893, giving women the right to vote. New Zealand was the first country to give all women the right to vote. There were still countries in the world (e.g. Saudi Arabia) who, until recently, did not allow women to vote.

On your blog tell us what you think about the fact that women were not allowed to vote in Saudi Arabia until 2015. Is it fair? Why or why not?

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I think that women should have the same rights as men. I think that it is really unfair to women if they couldn't vote because their rights matter as well as men. I think that saudi arabia should have let women vote ever since because everybody has an opinion and everyones opinions matter.

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task description: this task is about women not being allowed to vote and I have a whole paragraph showing why they should and how I am disagreeing with women not being allowed to be voting until 2015.

Day 1 SLJ WK 2

Day 1: The Early Years (Late 1800s – 1919)

Activity 1: St Joseph’s Cathedral

At the turn of the century, there was a great deal of construction happening in New Zealand. Many of the new British settlers wanted to build homes and community meeting places, such as churches. One of the largest buildings to be constructed during this period was St Joseph’s Cathedral in Dunedin.

St Joseph’s Cathedral is just one of hundreds of beautiful cathedrals around the world.

Use your search engine to find a picture of another famous cathedral. Post a picture of the cathedral on your blog. Underneath the picture tell us: the name of the cathedral, where the cathedral is located, when it was built, and how long it took to build:

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this is the notre Dame cathedral and was built in 1163 I don't know when it was done but it was open in 1345. it is 69 metres (226 ft) tall It is in paris, france. It is frances most famous landmarks and many people visit it each year.

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Task description: This task is all about cathedrals and I picked Notre dame de paris. just above you can see all the information I put on their about the cathedral. I said how tall it is when people started building it and when those people finished and opened the cathedral. 

SLJ WK 1 activity's 1,2 and bonus

Week One: In the Beginning (1800-1870)
Cool Kiwi Fact #1: Did you know that the Māori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa? Loosely translated this means ‘land of the long white cloud.’
Day 1: Arriving in New Zealand…
Activity 1: The First Settlers
It is widely believed that the first people to arrive in New Zealand came from Polynesia. Most historians believe that they landed in New Zealand over 700 years ago. Although they were originally from many different countries, these settlers learned to live together and, eventually, formed their own distinct culture known as ‘Māori.’  Māori have their own language, traditions, and culture.
Follow this link to read a short story about a famous man in Māori mythology – Maui. On your blog, post three facts that you learned about this interesting man. What other stories have you heard about Maui?

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3 facts about maui: 1 Maui is a culture hero, Not just from new zealand and the maori culture but a lot like hawaii and more. 2 I think he was originally from New Zealand and then the myth spread. 3maui always believed in his own chocies and never gave up that is why he is a hero and made New Zealand( aotearoa) with his fish.
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Activity 2: Setting Sail

The first settlers to come to New Zealand must have been really brave! They had to leave their original homes and sail thousands of miles across the ocean on a special boat called a ‘waka’ to reach New Zealand.

Imagine that you were on board one of the wakas. On your blog, write a short letter to a friend telling them about your voyage to New Zealand. In the letter be sure to tell them how you feel about moving to a new country. If it was me, I would have felt really nervous…

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Bonus Activity: Waka Ama

To this day, the people of New Zealand still use waka. Instead of using their waka to transport them from one place to another, they sometimes use waka in special events and in sporting competitions such as Waka Ama. Both boys and girls compete in Waka Ama boat races.

Watch this short video of a Waka Ama race. On your blog tell us whether you would like to be in a Waka Ama race one day. Why or why not?

BONUS POINTS: 10

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I would want to be in waka ama because I want to know how it feels when the settlers came to New Zealand. I also want to do waka ama because I want to see how far we could make it and fast fast we are. I was actually invited to do waka ama but my other sports were clashing.

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Task description: This task is for the summer learning journey and I just finished week one so I can just enjoy the rest of my week. the 1st activity is about the first settlers that came to New Zealand and I had to give 3 facts about Maui. the 2nd activity is about writing a letter to a friend and I wrote it to my whole family I had to write about how I would feel if I was on a voyage to New Zealand or going to a new country. the 3rd activity is about waka ama and I had to write a short paragraph of if i wanted to be in waka ama or not and I said yes.

Final post for 2017 ( from school)

Today is the last we get to have our chrome-books at school for 2017. I have enjoyed my experience through out year 6  I really enjoyed Mr Goodwin as my literacy and maths teacher for 2 years. My favorite part of this year is probably year 6 camp (Kawau island). I also enjoyed the cricket experience because it was really funny and I used all of my descriptive words into my writing. Next year it is going to be exciting and scary because we are meeting a new teacher and we learn more and more hard work.  Here is a picture of year 6:

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Task description: This task is all about this year and what I enjoyed and what I am looking forward to. This picture is of us at camp ( year 6 camp).

Hour of code

Today we got to hangout with OMG tech they talked to us about coding and how we do it. they also said that in the future there is going to be a lot more technology in the future because we know how to code and we might make some new tech. I just finished playing Minecraft Hour of code. if you want to play it here is the link: click me. special thanks to Zoey and the OMG tech crew.  as you can see here I have a photo of my certificate and if you finish this task you get a certificate.

Camp bentzon

Have you been to Kawau island before? Well all the year 6’s went on a exciting  trip to Kawau island. Everybody excited and some people missing their family, leaving to catch the bus people were so excited.

We catched the bus and it was soo boring, after we went on an exciting ferry trip. We finally got to our destination and we had to get all the suitcases and  bags I’ve got to say THAT WAS SO TIRING! Once we got there  we had to go up KILLER HILL!

Day 2! That was the most fun day we had our first activity! It was the Confidence course, and all we had to do was climb and hug ya mamma.  Then we had orienteering, it was kind of fun but not when we had to go up the hill because my dad thought there was something up there and the worst thing is… There was nothing there! The activities we did was … concourse, orienteering, abseiling and much more.

The next day we had a lot more activities and we had all the wet stuff like… kayaking, sailing, raft building and bivouac. It was so fun! I wish i could stay there forever!

I would like to thank my mum (Shirley penu) and my dad ( Lee penu) because they both took their time out for me and my cousin and volunteered to help out. I would also like to thank peter and erin because without them we wouldn’t be able to go to kawau island and they were paying for most of our fees because if we payed the whole payment that would cost $390 dollars but we only paid $95.

I enjoyed abseiling because I overcame my fears and I thought I wasn’t scared of heights but when I looked down I was scared! I learnt how to sail and I thought it was pretty easy but some people said it was hard.

Task description: this is my camp bentzon recount.

EXT how drums make sound

how drums work by naomi from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

task description: this is my EXT ( extension) work and this animation is all about drums and how they work. well what i mean is how they make sound. we had to finish this in 5 weeks! and it was hard, I even made my own garage band sound track.

Athletics day

Athletics day is a day full of activities and in those activities you get placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd of how far you throw or how fast you are. Athletics is a fun day and we have a variety of games to play and after lunch the fast people from each house color races in a relay. House colors are colors that you are put into and race or get points for that team.

If you want to read more click this link: Here

Task description: This task is an athletics thank you writing and if you click on the link you can see that the introduction has a thank you for all the supporters and helpers. My teacher decided to do this because he thought it would be a good idea to appreciate the people who volunteered to help us. also this writing has some paragraphs about athletics and what it is about.

Making harmonica

Task description: this is my harmonica writing. It is all about us making harmonicas and maybe next week we might make another instrument. it has information of what a harmonica is and how to make your own harmonica.

EXT Animation ( Planet Magaculas)

My Movie 6 from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task description: this is a redo of my ither animation because I decided to put more information to get a higher score on my rubric. at the end I have how the people on magaculas adapt.

Time table test

immersion assembly

Walt :use adjectives to improve our descriptive writing.

What is Musical madness? Well, if that’s what you're wondering,  that’s what I’m going to explain to you. Musical madness is our music term theme for this  term ( the last term of the year).  I think it’s going to be fun!

his term our theme is Musical madness is all about music...of course! But in the immersion assembly  other teams were performing and showing movies, those movies show what they are going to do this term. I bet they're having fun already. From hearing the school theme I knew it was all about music and believe it or not I love music!

If you want to read my whole story click this link right here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hY0Wun-_CrfIAdCAhzb05tgs8k7OSnF1ILOn5_oEEOk/edit

Stick figures

So today I am doing the holiday blogging and today it is all about stick figures. what we are trying to do is draw some stick figures doing a variety of things like running, swimming and all kinds of thing. I thought I might draw a stick figure that is running because I like running. Here is a photo:

Task description: as you can tell the first paragraph very much covers what the task is. But as I said before we are doing stick figures because it is for the holiday blogging comp.

EXT Paideia seminar

On Tuesday the year 5&6 Extension group had a paideia seminar, It was our 3rd one this year! The topic we had to talk about was "Is being civilise such a good thing". Our Paideia seminar began and Amira was first to speak. I think that I could do better on the next seminar because this seminar was kind of hard because I didn't know when to talk and the topic was kind of hard to me. I only spoke 5 or 6 times but I think that is a good thing some people only talked once or twice. I was really nervous because i thought My answer was going to be wrong but then I remembered that there are no right or wrong answers in the paideia seminar. Luckily I was prepared with a paragraph that I wrote about what civilisation means to me. overall I think that i did good and I think I did better than term one and maybe Just the same as term 2's Paideia seminar.

Task description: This is my reflection of my term 3 Extension Paideia seminar. It has my feelings and has what I did and what I could do better. I think I did really good and I hope I do better next time. 

Alien description

 Task description: This is My alien description presentation and it is all about me describing what the alien looks like. it is also trying to help me use descriptive writing.

Star dome

Have you been to stardome? Well Me and my classmates went to stardome and it was really cheap! We went there because our theme this term is all about space and star dome gave us more information about space. It is a small gallery and has a lot of things that are kid friendly.

But before all of that happened we went onto the park well at least the small park. It was cool because we also got to go on the flying fox. So then after 10 mins on the park we then lined up in our groups and My parent helper was my friend’s mum, her name was Lose. So we went in and it was a cool and small planetarium.

We had 15 mins of exploring the planetarium and it was cool because it had buttons that activated the machines. We were looking everywhere and heaps of the stuff were cool and have had a lot of information. Then after that 15 minutes we went into the space room and then we learned more about space and planets. Then we got handed an iPad and had to answer the questions and try and look for the answer in the planetarium.

So then after our scavenger hunt we had to line up again and then the fun bit happened. We went into the movie room and I got to say it was very cool. While we watched the movie in the dome it was kind of giving me a headache and not just me Mrs Stickland got movie sick.

I learnt that if you try and search for another planet it is gonna be worthless so the best option is just to stay with earth and just clean it up. I also learnt that a dirty snowball is also another name for comet.  It was pretty fun and cheap but the thing I love most was playing on the flying fox and learning with our teacher.

Task description: This is my recount about star dome and This is a late post and it and we actually went to stardome on Thursday last week.\

Problem solving Wk 8 term 3

Task description: this is My problem solving for wk 8 and I know I haven't been posting that much of My work. well this presentation is My work and we are learning to solve decimal problems.

cyber smart Mondays/ Attribute photos

Image attribution : https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2948/15175503519_3146fec7a6_b.jpg

Task description:This is a picture of huaraches and the reason why I put them on here is that we are learning to Attribute photos so that we can be cyber smart. we are also learning to use free to use pictures and attribute them so we don't get FINED! so if you were wondering this picture is just for this cyber smart lesson and I am not just doing this for fun.

Star dome PMI

Walt:To share about our trip to stardome. Task description: this presentation is all about my positive, minus and interesting moments at star dome. so this task is all about my trip to star dome. If you want to go to star dome here is there address: 670 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland 1345 and the entry fee is amazing it is $1 for a child and $2 for an adult.
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