Activity 3: Choose your own

Today i did activity 3 week 2 for the Summer Learning Journey program. For this activity i was to talk about someone who interest me, there is no right or wrong answer for this last activity. The reason l chose to pick stan walker is because i love his music and admire him a lot sense he is from New Zealand as well as l am too. 

Activity 2: Leading by Example

Today i did activity 2 week 2 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this i was to describe your a random act of kindness that i did. What did you do? How did the person react? How did it make you feel? I talked about how l helped  homeless people in Auckland City. I think this is massive problem in New Zealand because when l went i saw a lot of people that were sleeping outside of shops and there blankets to keep them warm were usually cardboard or a lot of blankets.    

Activity 1: Everyday Heroes

Today i was doing activity 1 day 5, week 2 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this i was too brainstorm at least five ways we could support the people who are affected by the fires in New South Wales, Australia. I enjoyed doing this because it must be really bad time for them and i could find some ways to support them and also i enjoyed reading about the fire that is going on in Australia. 

Blog commenting / Week 2

Today l did blog commenting on Victoria’s blog who is also doing the Summer Learning Journey program our the summer break. I did 5 comments today and l will hope to do more this week. I always enjoy reading her blog post on her blog because i get different ideas when l look at other peoples ideas like Victoria. 

Activity 3: Wise Words

Today i did activity 3 day 4 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this l was too identify someone in my life who is a role model to me and ask them to share one piece of wisdom or advice with you and your blog readers should hear. I feel like she gave me a really good piece of advice and wisdom because it kinda talks about if want the Nintendo switch or something change, wish and you will get it. 

Activity 2: Celebrating Diversity

Today l was doing activity day 4 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this i was to become more familiar with some of these amazing indigenous communities. How i did this was picking out of the 5 different links they gave learn about the 5 different groups, countries and ancestors so that i could learn about them before i even made a DLO. After i finished reading these i was to tell you the names of the two groups that you have chose and then tell you at least two interesting facts about each group that i found out. I decided to do the Mayan people because l have never heard of them and they really looked interesting to learn about. Also l chose the Ainu People because they also looked very interesting to learn about cause i hardly know that much about them. I enjoyed this activity because l could found about new countries and place i have never heard of before. 

Activity 1: Guiding Principles

Today i did activity 1 day 4 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this i was to read through the seven whakataukī that they gave us to read. Then i had to go onto a document that had different kinds whakataukī’s then l was to pick a whakataukī that had a meaning to. l was to create a poster that had the whakataukī that i picked and be sure to include at least one image on the poster that represents the whakataukī that you chose. I have chosen this whakataukī because it talked about not only i have to go thru things by myself but i can bring my strengths and talents of my family tribe and ancestors. I really enjoyed learning and reading about different whakataukī’s and even better picking one that i felt a connection towards. 

Activity 3: Belle of the Ball

Today i did Activity 3 day 3 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this we were too choose a book that we like and write a short review of it. In the review we were to  tell you what the book is about and what we like about it and also add a photo of the book. I enjoyed doing this activity because i could tell you about my favorite. The reason this is my favorite book is because i like how the story goes and also a fact about me is that i enjoy reading graphic novels/comics because they are all so interesting to me. 

Activity 2: The Right to an Education

Today l did activity 2 day 3 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this we were too write a short story. The story could be about anything that we wished to write about but to receive full points our story had to be at least 10 sentences long. I decided to write about a  place i love to go to which is in New Zealand Auckland Rainbows End. Because it is my favourite place and also because l love going on roller coasters. My story is really long but i just had to add a lot of detail. I enjoyed doing this because i could age images that i took when we went to Rainbows End and also because i could talk about my experience and the fun i had when i went to Rainbows End. 

Activity 1: The Right to Vote

Today I did Activity 1 day 3 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this i was too imagine that the government decided to create a new $10 note and replace Kate with a picture of a different woman. Then i was to tell you’s who you think the government should put on the new $10 note and provide you with a picture of this amazing woman and a short explanation of why you have selected her as Kate Sheppard’s replacement. I enjoyed getting to pick a woman who i think should go as a replacement of Kate Sheppard on the 10$ note which i

Activity 3: I Have a Dream

Today l did Activity 3 day 2 which is all about how in America there would laws against white and black people. For this activity we were to consider the problem that black men and women faced in America at this time and describe the problem that was happening. What did Rosa Parks do about the problem? How did other people react? I have talked about Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and the problem of black and white people. I really enjoyed learning about this problem that today we don’t have because they changed all of that by simple act of kindness. 

Week 2 | Day 1 | Activity 2

Working Out Since Jessa was born in 1985 and received her award in 2010, we first work out how many we have to add to 1985 to get to 2010, so 1985 + 5 = 1990. After we add 1990 + 10 = 2000. Finally 2000+ 10 = 2010, which means Jessa was 25 years when she got her award. 

Now we have to solve the months. Since she was born on April and got her award on July we work how many we get from April to July. So May, June and July, which is 3. This means Jessa was 3 months when she got her award. 

Finally we figure out the days. So Jessa was born on the 7th and received her award on the 9th. So we add up until we get from 7 to 9. 7 + 2 = 9, which means Jessa got her award when she was 2 days. Then the answer i got was 25 years, 3 months and 2 days since Jessa got her award.

Today I did for day 1 activity 2 of week 2 for the SLJ. For this we had to use our maths to solve a question. For this activity we were to calculate how old in years, months and days Dr Jessa Rogers was when she won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award. Dr. When l working this out my answer for this question was 25 years, 3 months and 2 days since Jessa got her award. This was fun to do because i could work on my maths to slove this question. 

Activity 2: School Strike for Climate

Today l did Activity 2 for day 2 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this activity we were to explore the  
School Strike for Climate Australia website then on our blog list three facts that we have learned from the website

and also add a photograph of something we are doing to save the planet. I added a photo of myself picking up
rubbish because i think that is a way l can help our environment. I really enjoyed doing this activity because i
could learn more about what is happening around the planet, climate change and the 16 year old girl who is from
Sweden called Greta Thunberg. She believed that governments and powerful people weren't taking climate change
seriously as they should have been. So in 2018 she began protesting outside the Swedish government buildings
every Friday instead of going to school.I think this a great idea that she is worried and is focused on climate change. 

Activity 1: A Long Walk to Freedom

Today l did activity 1 day 2 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this we were to imagine that we were Mr Mandela and we were living at the Robben Island Prison and that we have been given a journal and each night he writes in it. I have wrote mine and think i have done a great job of saying how he feels and what he does each day and trying to add a lot of detail. I enjoyed doing this because i could imagine that l was Mr Mandela himself and writing in a journey about him and being him. This activity was kinda hard because i didn't really know that much about so l had to go and search and learn about him first before i wrote this.   

Blog Comments/ Summer Learning Journey

Today l did blog commenting on other peoples blogs who are also doing the Summer Learning Journey program. I did 5 comments today and will hope to do more this weekend. I always enjoy reading other people's blog post on the different activity because that gives me an idea if l am doing that activity. 

Activity 3: ‘Dear Jacinda

Today l was doing activity 3 week 2 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this activity we were to write a letter that includes the issue you have chosen, why you have chosen it, and what you would like our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to do about it. The issue l have chosen was about poor people the reason l have chosen this as a issue it is because l have aways felt sad for people who become poor and aways want to help. I would like Jacinda to give poor people christmas with food and presents. I really enjoyed this activity because i got to pretend like l was writing a letter to Jacinda about a issue that l think she should do. 

Activity 1: Playing Favourites

Today l did activity 1 week 2 for the Summer Learning Journey. For this activity we had to create a list of our top 5 favorite things we like to do and add photos as well of our self doing it. I have done that and these are the things that l like to do that are my favorite. I really enjoyed doing this activity because l could tell others what l like to do and also add photos of me doing it.  

Activity 3: Own Choice

Today l did the activity 3 for week 1. For this activity we could choose any community or person who we thought is changing the world there was no wrong or right choices.  I chose to talk about the Summer Learning Journey program and team because they have changed many children in learning and they fit perfectly. We were to provide the name of your chosen subject and add a description of what they do/have done. I enjoyed doing this and explaining about the Summer Learning Journey that l going to be doing these holidays. 

Activity 2: Swimming to Safety

Yusra Mardini

Yusra Mardini is a Syrian swimmer currently living in Berlin Germany
did you know that she was a member of the Refugee Olympic Athletes
Team? She  competed under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer
Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Let’s start with the story well Tusra and
her elder sister fled Syrian war and set off on a perilous journey to find
safety in Europe they then in summer traveled thru lebanon to Turkey
before going to greece. Not long into the sea the boat’s engine failed
and Yusra as professional swimmer she was determined to not let any
of her 20 passengers drown. So her sister and two others jumped into the
waves and swim for three and a half hours around in the open waters dinghy
capsizing, saving the lives of 20 people. A year later Yusra’s swimming got
recognized by the Olympic Committee and became a member of the first
ever Refugee Olympic Team she has came a really far way and is doing
great now. 

Today  i did activity 2 for day 5 for the Summer Learning Journey.
For this I had to listen to the podcast of Yusra Mardini and tell the amazing
young woman from Syria story. I really enjoyed this activity because
l could retell her amazing story. 

Activity 1: National Treasure

Today l did activity 1 for day 5 which was all about National Treasure. For this activity we had to make a poster and tell others 3 things that are important to us like something we treasure. I really enjoyed making this activity because l got to share 3 things that l treasure and are important to me.  

Activity 3: Worth her Weight in Gold

Today l was doing Activity 3 day four which was all about Worth her Weight in Gold which is where we had to create a travel brochure for  any country or a important country that we are close to. I chose to do Cook Island sense l come from there and know a lot about it. l added a image of a map which showed all of Rartonga islands l picked to talk about aitutaki because it a very nice place to visit if you wanna come to the cook islands. Then on the other side of the page l added images and a little bit of information about the hotel that l have requested anyone to go to. 

Blog Comments - Summer Learning Journey

Today l deiced to do more blog comments on people from my class so that l could get more points and blog more on my blog. The people l commented on were Karlos,Giovannid, Matthew, Florence and Ellenora they all had really good blog post.

Activity 3: Achieving our Dreams

This week l did Activity 3 for day 3. This was for the Summer Learning Journey for this activity l was too choose a friend or family member and ask them what their dream job would want to be then l was to brainstorm six ways in which l could support her in achieving her dream job. I chose to do my best friend Angela. This was a fun activity because l could think of somethings l want to help Angela with getting her dream job in the future. 

Activity 2: What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name? 

Changing my name would be awesome but I don't know what I would want
it to be though. I think the name Mia would be great i don’t it just sounds and
i think is a beautiful name.. The reason I chose this name is because i think
it is unique and nice. 

Today i did Activity 2 for day 4 this was for the Summer Learning Journey for this activity

I had to imagine that l was allowed to change my name to anything

I wanted to and to tell you why I chose that name. I think this activity was fun to do

because l could imagine that l could change my name to anything I wanted to. 

Activity 1: Making a Racket

Today l did Activity 1 Day 4 for the Summer Learning
Journey. For this activity l was to tell you three facts l
found from the two videos and something that l would
want to still know. Something that l would want to still know
is why would they want to both as sisters play tennis.
This activity was really fun to do cause l could found out
more about both of the William sisters. 

Activity 2: Defying the Odds

 Defying the Odds

LeBron James

I have chosen to interview Lebron James. 

Questions : 

Why did you want to become a Basketball player. 

What age did you really start wanting to play BasketBall. 

Would you ever go back and change your mind about
becoming a FAMous basketball player.

Who do you look up to when you are playing BasketBall. 

Do you always think it is about winning. 

Steven Adams

I have chosen to interview Steven Adams. 

Questions : 

How do you feel when you are on the courts. 

Why did you want to play Basketball. 

Why do you think basketball is a good sport to play. 

If you had to play another sport besides basketball
what would it be. 

Have you ever thought about cutting your hair of and
changing the style up. 

Today i did Activity 2 which was all about Defying the Odds l was doing this
for the Summer Learning Journey. For this we had to imagine we had the chance
to interview a famous basketball player and think of 5 questions we would like
to ask them in an interview. I have chosen to talk about Steven Adams and
Lerbron James because I think they are well known basketball players and that
they are both really good at basketball. 

Activity 1: Rugby Superstars

Rugby Superstars 
1.Super speed/ The reason i would like to have super speed is
because l could be the fastest and l would use it for someone
who is hurt or something i could go really fast and safe them. 

2. Super sense/ I would like to have super sense as a power

because I can sense anything that is going on around me.

What l would use it for is if something bad is happening I

can sense it. 

3. Flying/ I would like Flying as one of my powers because

it would be really cool to fly. What l would use it for is to

travel around the world and flying to different places to help

others. 

Today i did Activity 1 for the Summer Learning Journey day 3 which is all about Rugby

Superstars. For this activity we had to list three superpowers we would like to have in

order to be a superhero, we also tell others why you have chosen each one, and tell us

what you are going to do with them. I have picked my three superpowers and have said

why i would choose it and what I would do with it. This was really fun to create because l

could think about who my superhero is and what l three powers l would like to have. 

Activity 2: One Small Step for Man

Today l did Activity 2 for the Summer Learning Journey which was about the one small step for the man. We created a short poem describing how you felt when you first set foot on the moon we had to imagine that we were Neil Armstrong. This is my short poem l created imagining l am Neil Armstrong who just set foot on the moon. I enjoyed writing this poem about Neil Armstrong because l could learn more about writing poems.  

Summer Learning Journey - Comments

Today l did my Summer Learning Comments to other students who are in my class. I did my comments to 5 different boys and girls who are inside of my class. I really enjoyed doing this because l could see what other people in my class posted on there blogs for the Summer Learning Journey. I did Victoria, Matthew, Sakina, Joseph, Marieta,

Activity 1: Flying Solo

Today l was doing day 2 for the Summer Learning Journey activity 1 which is flying Solo. We had to create a compare and contrast between these two aviators Jean Batten and Amelia Earhart. Jean Batten became the best known New Zealander of the 1930s by breaking a number of records and flying solo flights across the world. Amelia Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. It was really interesting to learn about these two aviator who flew all around the world and traveled. 

Activity 3: Scaling New Heights

Today l did Activity 3 for the Summer Learning Journey which was to select a charity that we are interested in and make a little DLO on the charity we chose. The reason l chose the SPCA is because l love animals and fell bad for all the animals that are hurt, sick or people who don't care about them animals. This is my DLO on the SPCA which is a animal and pet company who looks after animals and pets. 

Activity 2: Discovering Aotearoa

Today l did Activity two which is all about discovering and letting others know about where me and my family come from. I first talked about how l am proud about being who l am which is l come from Rarotonga - Tahiti and how l am proud to be who l am. I added photos and a fact about where l come from because l thought it would be interesting. I also talked about the different foods we eat in our culture and how l also talked about the Tiare Festival which is really well known in Tahiti. I really enjoyed making this DLO on where me and my family come from. 

DAY 1: EXPLORERS

This week is the real start of the Summer Learning Journey Week 1. We made a DLO which shows 10 different foods we would take if we were on the Voyage. We made sure that there were foods which are dried and can't be but inside of a fridge because they don't have fridges and stuff that keep food from getting off and wasted on a Voyage. This was a really hard and interesting DLO because we had to try and think of foods that can't be inside of a fridge, that can be made easily and are also nice and yum at the same time. 

Activity 3: Big Friendly Giant

This week is the teaser week for the Summer Learning Journey. For this activity I was to draw a image of the BFG Then l was to write a short explanation about what I think BFG looks like and interesting things about him. This story was written by Ronald Dahl and the story was also made into a movie and animated by Steven Spielberg's he made all the parts of the movie and had to pay Ronald Dahl money. 

Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

This week is the teaser week for the Summer Learning Journey. It is day 1 and I have completed activity 2. For this activity our challenge was to create our own Pepeha. a Pepeha is like a mihi that tells other people more about you. I really enjoyed making this DLO because it talks about me and where l come from it was fun making this because l learnt more about my maori side. 

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

Today l was doing the SLJ Manaiakalani Teaser week challenges.  For the first activity we created a profile pic poster on the famous Lorde New Zealand singer. I first added interesting information about Lorde and a image with her name along the side of it. 3 Interesting facts l found out about her is that her real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich- O'Connor, She first wrote her own song when she was 13 years old in the year 2013 and Her most famous song that was released is called Royal. l really enjoyed making this Lorde profile pic poster because it helped me learn more about how she is a change maker to others.  

Tech

This week was our last week of tech so we all tried to finish all of our work so that we would have something to show our family members. I was making a box which l could hide things inside of it making a box was going to be easy because l knew that l could get it done. I also had to finish my paper work which is wear l had to write the steps that it took to make the box and draw some other examples of what l wanted to make in wood works. My favorite about wood works was that we could make what ever we wanted unless it could me made. I would like to say a big thank you to Mr Grundy who helped us make our designs that we wanted to and also to all the teachers from Tamaki College if you if we came to your class to make something thank you so much. 

Blog Post Analysis

This week we created a Blog post Analysis which is wear we find out the data of how much blog post we have gotten throughout these years we have been blogging at PBS. We did a Before and After to show the difference in each year to see if we had reached our goal that we set from the start of the year. My goal was to get more than 100 blog post which l knew l could reach by the end of this year. As you can see by both Blog post Analysis 2017 is the year l blogged the post how you can tell is because orange is the highest with 2018 coming along. These Blog post Analysis both show that l have worked really hard on my blogging journey. I think l could work harder on finishing my work so that l could have got more blog post.    

Auckland Harbour Bridge

This week fro Inquiry we were making a presentaion about the Auckland Harbour Bridge. I learnt that General Lord Cobham came to perform the ceremony. The Navy was sent to the harbour bridge to provide the guard of honour. The prime minister had given a well paid tribute to the men that had built this. General Lord Cobham pulled the tozel and the harbour bridge was open. Did you know that they wanted a bridge so they asked government if they could build a bridge from Auckland city two the North sore. The government said no because it would take to long and would b e to much money. So they asked one more time and the government said you can make a bridge put you have to pay for all the material so they made a plan and gave it to the government and he said put you still have to pay for all the things and material. It costed 6 million to pay for all the materials like steel and more. The bridge is made out of truss which are triangles and lattice girders these are long tunnels connected together by triangles. They had to pay a toll which was 20c each time you went by.

Market Day

This week for inquiry we focused on Enterprise and Economics. Panmure bridge held a market day which meant each class was able to sell their own items. As a class we all decided to hand make rainbow crayons. Rainbow crayons because not only did the colurs attract our buyers, but we priced it right at $1. Our economic success was great, because we used recycled broken crayons, we were gifted the moulds and there were no labour costs. In total our gross profit was $96.00, but the net profit was $88.00. 

Weekly Grocery Shopping

In Math, we were given a collaborative group challenge to complete for the week. We were to imagine that we had a budget of $200 to spend on weekly shopping for our ‘family’. The amount of people in our family would be the same amount of people in the group. In this case there were 6 for Avalon, Fui, Te Pounamu, Nyjah, Joel, and myself. We had to choose a supermarket site to look for groceries online, and make sure we bought enough proper food fit for 6 people. We chose Pak n Save because we were all familiar with that market. We started off by creating our breakfast, lunch and dinner menu for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It was also decided that every group could have one fast food or takeaway dinner. We chose Burger King which we spent $30 on by getting everyone a stunner meal. After that we started writing down the list of ingredients and items of what we needed to make each meal. With somethings we found it was easier to buy it pre-made like waffles, spring rolls, garlic bread, pizza and etc because if we didn't that would mean more ingredients to buy money and more money would be spent. As we went along writing the prices, we were adding them up. We decided to round the cents because otherwise it would be too hard and take longer to calculate. We were told to buy at least one bathroom or cleaning household item that we might need. For us it was bar of soap and a packet of sponges. Sometimes when we were trying to stay in budget, prices would go over too much and sometimes only by a little bit. After taking out some things we really didn't need, and getting good quality for good price we were sure we had it. As we finally totalled up the prices we found we could get maybe 2 or 3 more items but we decided not to. In the end our total price was $184!

Athletics

                                      

This week we had Athletics day we all dressed in our house color and enjoyed working together in our group. l was in yellow team with Nyjah, Nevaeh, Jonathan, Giovanni and Angela. We all came in our color and tried to work as a team to win first place. The first activity we did was throwing the Frisbee in side of the hop and at the end we had to see how much we had all together. The next activity we did was rob the nest. What we needed to do was get as many balls in the our circle they was also one person that had a pip on that person could tag anyone from other teams. The next activity we played was high jump for this activity we had to go in a line and try and jump the fairest and then cone it. After that activity we did the sponge race for this we had to line up in our groups and try and fill up the bucket with water we had to go under a pole jump over a rope and put our sponge in the water and run back with it. After that we played shot put we had to throw the ball with our shot skills. Then after that we moved onto discus there were 3 different kinds of spots to throw the hop over and they were point 1, 3 and 5 we tried to stick with 1, 3 because it would be easier for use and because at the end of the game we won with 57 points. After that we moved onto the next activity for this we had to line up as a group and lay our chest and stomach on the ground and when the man says go we had to run and jump up and try and grab a ball. After that activity we had a bark under the shad for 20 minutes then we moved on to the egg and spoon game for this we had get into our line and have a spoon and a fake egg on top of the spoon and walk in and out of the cones and walk over the chair and wait until the man says run back and we run back we won that round. After all of those activity we had lunch which was sausages we ate our sausages and our own lunch and went and played when lunch time was finish we sat in our class outside and all the races in each class fasted. l enjoyed Athlectics day because we could have fun and play in the hot weather and work as a team.