Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 1

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?

Fact 1: Maui was the youngest out of his four older brothers named Maui-taha, Maui-roto, Maui-pae and Maui-waho. 


Fact 2:  Maui is Aoetearoa's (New Zealand) greatest warrior. He never gave up even when times were hard.


Fact 3:  Maui protects his people and looks after them just like he protects himself with the danger ahead of him.


I have storys about Maui like how he pulled down the sun, pulled up and discovered islands and many more storys im sure you have heard of.

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…

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

I dont want to be in the waka ama race, due to me having no experience in rowing. Plus I might get scared that I will fall into the water and float away from the waka!

Hanging out with my family!

Today was so cool. I got to spend the day with my family! We went swimming in the pool, jumped on the trampoline and took heaps of funny photos check it out.

                                 
                                      

Last Day!!!

Throw away your uniform!! Celebrate!! Its the last day of school people!!! Well as you can tell its of course the last day of school. Yah! Well I will be missing school anyways but there are many things to do while its the summer break. Like catching up with your friends, Doing activities outside, and many more! Anyways make sure to have a lovely year! Oh also I will be doing the summer learning journey so stay tuned!

Times Tables Song

Chance & Rosie & Levonah & Marika    

Verse 1: Up in my school don’t know what to do.
Gotta learn my times tables. I have it in my
head I’m
just not thinking right.

Chorus.

IF you like learning at school here’s a song
cause x2. 8 times 1 is 8 now answer the next
question. 8 x 2 is 16 you know that that is right.

Song: Single Ladies


This is our plan for our times tables song.

Cybersmart Song

Smart and legal: use of image; use of
music (what does school do so we can
use music).

            Tatia

            Eden

            Chance

            Kevin

            Jahzara

           LYRICS:

Images: Things we use everyday.
We need them for our work.

This is our plan for our Cybersmart song.

Ambassador Application

Task Description: Hey guys! So today I made a video for my ambassador application. I worked very hard to make it my best so remember to always comment! I put a little bit about myself and what I like to do. Hope you enjoy!

OMG Tech Hour Of Code

Today we were lucky enough to have some awesome people come in to teach us about Hour Of Code. Hour Of Code is all about you coding for one hour either making games for other people to play or just coding. I made my own Google icon. It was so fun to do. If you would like to play Hour Of Code click this link