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.