WK 1: In the Beginning, SLJ!

Wk 1: In the Beginning ( 1800 - 1870:

Day 1: Arriving in Aotearoa

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?

Stories of Maui:)

- Maui and the sun

- Maui and the giant fish

3 interesting facts about Maui!

Fact 1: Maui's brothers did not believe in Maui until he said I'll prove them all how good / awesome I am.

Fact 2: Maui's mother would always get mad at Maui as she never get's time to finish off her work, which is why Maui got hooked by his brother's ( This description was found on this link here!

Fact 3: Maui was such a good boy as well as a caring & kind sun. He loved his family so very much & had finally noticed that he had to slow down as everyone was getting a bit mad at him, but then he turned out to be a good sun.

 

Back to school!!!

This is my final blog post of term 2 holidays. I hope you enjoy the last day of school holidays. It was such an amazing holiday especially doing the Winter Learning Journey programme. I LOVED MY HOLIDAYS!!!

I am missing my friends & my amazing teachers! See you all tomorrow.  

WLJ Last Day Bonus Activity!

Bonus Activity: On your blog, post a video or write a description about your week. What have you learned? What did you like about the trip? What didn’t you like? Was there anything that surprised you? To earn full points for this activity, you must talk about what you learned, what you liked and what you about your great kiwi road trip.

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During the holidays I have been learning so many things about New Zealand. It was an amazing journey with everyone especially Curious Kiwi & Rachel. The activity I enjoyed visiting was going to Rangitoto Island, KareKare beach & Tane Mahuta the god of the forest. It was an amazing adventure as well as going to Dargaville hotel. The activity I didn’t like was Day 4 which was swimming with the sharks, I had disliked this activity because I really hated seeing all the Whales like this and finding out what we are doing to kill our Native animals, I want to find out why us New Zealand fishermen s are killing our Native whales. What I liked & enjoyed about our great kiwi road trip was that we went to all sorts of places in New Zealand & I did actually find out heaps of information about New Zealand sports, Animals & many more cool things. The most coolest thing was that we all stuck together and we all found a way to help each other during the road trip, It was a great journey with Rachel, Curious Kiwi & many more cool people.

I would like to say thank you to Rachel for setting this all up for everyone who wanted to be apart of this awesome programme. It was a great and awesome journey with you guys & my team mates, Thanks to everyone who participated in this programme, Rachel would of been proud of you. Thank you Rachel you are the best by setting this all up for us kids to do during the holidays I really enjoyed it. I will be still blogging in the holidays & probably today I will be posting some more post’s. The WLJ programme was the best, I would love to do the SLJ / Summer Learning Journey with you again.

THANK YOU RACHEL!

WLJ Day 7 Activity 2!

Activity 2: After you have finished up in Taupo, it is time to hop back in the car and head for Rotorua – a town where will have the chance for some much needed rest and relaxation. In fact, you will visit the Tarawera Bush Pool – a geothermal hot pool that is located in the middle of a forest. The warm water in the pool comes from underneath the ground. After a few hours in the pool you feel really relaxed. On your blog, post a picture of yourself doing something relaxing. I find reading really relaxing. Here is a picture of me reading one of my favourite books!

After a long soak in the natural hot pools, it is time to get back home. Your family and friends can’t wait to see you and they can’t wait to hear all about your adventures. Take a moment to think about what you have seen and done over the past week.

I think that reading books & listening to music is something relaxing to do at home during the holidays. 

WLJ Day 7 Activity 1!

Activity 1: While in Taupo, you go for a walk around the lake and you notice pieces of rubbish floating in the water. You also notice that there is rubbish on the footpath. As you know, it is really important to put rubbish in the bin and keep New Zealand clean and beautiful for generations to come. With that in mind, it is time to think about what you can do to keep New Zealand beautiful. Use your imagination and come up with three things that you could do to make your neighbourhood more beautiful. Post your list on your blog ☺

1. What I would do to keep my neighbourhood clean is to pick up every piece of rubbish & throw it in the bin.
2. I think that using useable rubbish would be a great idea to make something really cool & stunning, Just by using rubbish which could actually help your neighbours by making your neighbourhood tidy.
3. My last suggestion of keeping New Zealand beautiful is to reduce all rubbish.  

WLJ day 3 Activity 2...

Activity 2: After your great visit to the Otorohanga bird house it is time to hop back onto the bus and head towards the Hawke’s Bay – your resting place for the evening. Hawke’s Bay is a beautiful region of New Zealand. It is known for its wineries and gorgeous scenery. When you arrive in Napier, the largest city in the region, you go for a walk through Waitangi Regional Park and notice that many of the leaves on the native trees have been damaged. Curious Kiwi tells you that they were damaged by possums, non-native predators, from Australia. People in New Zealand are working hard to trap and kill these predators. Their goal is to remove all of the possums (and other predators) by 2050. Go to the ‘Predator Free 2050 website’ to read more about their work.

http://www.outlawyarn.com/possum.html

On your blog, tell us whether you agree that New Zealand should be predator free. In your opinion, is it right to kill all of the predators (eg. possums) or should we just leave them alone? On your blog tell us what you think and give us, at least, three reasons why you think this way.

1. I think that we should have all animal predators killed because they have been damaging New Zealand.

2. We should let these predators die or just put them back to where they belong in Australia.

3. Australian Possums should have never came to New Zealand they should be dead today or in Australia.

4. We should kill Australian possums because they cause a lot of damage and could be able to kill us humans.

5. All Animal predators should be dead especially Australian Possums.

Solve multiplication problems...

Hinerangi Solve multiplication problems…

18 x 20 = 360

23 x 13 = 299

10 x 33 = 330

9 x 9 =  81

Task Description:

For this task I wanted to create a doc and use this doc for my Maths. I was wanting to do my maths because once I get back to School I would know what to do instead of hesitating. My job was to get my Mum to write some questions for me to do and so I did, Please check out some of my other posts's and leave a positive comment. Thank you heaps! Hinerangi: