Kiwikids news

 In todays lesson, our class read an article from Kiwikids news called 'Blood Micromoon coming to New Zealand'. My class did a task were we had to asnwer recall questions, thinking questions and write our rating of the article. If anyone would like to read the  article I will put the link down below, I recommende this article for those who don't know about the Blood Moon.  Here are some photos of my classes thinking and their asnwers  

Blood Moon article  

Visual art

 In last weeks session, we drew canned food or any type of cans. We had to draw the cans from our point of view and sketch it to make it look realistic. we had 15 minutes to sketch and shade before showing our teacher. I had alot of fun drawing cans but the challening part was trying not to give up.

Here are photos of  my drawing 

Happy Diwali!

 Happy Diwali everyone!! in todays lesson I learnt some cool facts about Diwali festival. Did you know Diwali is a light festival celebrated by Hindus, Jains Sikhs, Newar Buddhists, It is associated with the Goddess of prosperity (Lakshmi) it marks the financial year in India. Here are some cool facts I learnt from this lesson. Hope yous learn something new about Diwali. 

Fun fact 1 -  The festival occurs on a no-moon night 

Fun fact 2 - Diwali celebrates the birth of Lakshmi Goddess of wealth 

Fun fact 3 - Diwali is also called Divali, Deepavali, Deepawali and Festival of lights

Fun fact 4 - Diwali takes place annually and lasts for 5 days marking the start of the Hindu new year

Fun fact 5 - Originally Diwali was a harvest Festival 

Fun fact 6 -  Lighting candles, oil lamps, and sparklers are the main customs at this festival

Fun facts about Niue

In this mornings lesson my teacher Mrs Haioti was telling us fun facts about Niue. Here are 6 facts I learnt from that lesson. 

Fun fact 1 - Niue is one of the largest coral islands 

Fun fact 2 - Niue may be the world's smallest independent nation 

Fun fact 3 - The island is commonly referred to as "The Rock" a reference to Niue being one of the biggest raised coral islands in the world. 

 

Fun fact 4 - The capital of Niue is the village of Alofi

Fun fact 5 - Niueans are citizens of New Zealand 

Fun fact 6 - Niue lies 2400km northeast of  New Zealand between Tonga,Samoa and the Cook Islands. 

Dawn raids

The focus of our inquiry topic this term is based around Law and order. For my Law and Order topic I chose Dawn raids. I chose this topic because my grandparents were victims of the Dawn raids and I also want to learn more about the history, who were involed etc etc. Our class is also learning other law and orders like domestic violence, rights being taken away and many more.

Dawn raids began in 1974 and ended 1979, Dawn raids targeted people who overstayed their visas, deporting them back to the islands. This impacted alot of pacific islanders who would be falsely accused of being an overstayer and would lose their jobs due to these false information. Pacific islanders would be traumatized due to the fact that police would buss down doors early in the morning or even late at night just to find overstayers but some of those overstayers would try and find a safe place to stay. After all the trauma the pacific community have been through New Zealands prime minsiter Jacinda Ardern apologised to all of pacific islanders who were effected by the dawn raids. 

Here is a link to a article that I read about which has alot of information about the dawn raids

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Here is a video clip about the untold pacific history 

Olympic presentation

Our Inquiry in term 3 for 3 weeks was Olympics. Throughout the 3 weeks we had to learn about some Olympians who competed in the Olympics and the history of Olympics. Our class did something fun for the Olympic topic, we got split into 3 different countries Argentina(the best), Mexico and Japan.  My Olympian that me and my buddy chose was Tom Walsh( New Zealand Olympian) and Simone Biles (American Olympian).  

New Zealand Olympian- 

My New Zealand Olympian me and my buddy chose was Tom Walsh. Tom Walsh is a 29 year old who is a New Zealand athlete who competes mainly in the shot put. He is the current national record holder both outdoors and indoors for the event. Tom Walsh was one of Sopot 2014's surprise medallists, throwing a final round 21.26m for bronze.

American Olympian- 

My American Olympian me and my buddy chose was Simone Biles. Simone Arianne Biles is a 24 year old who is American artistic gymnast, With a combined totaal of 32 Olympic and world championship medals, Simone is tied with Laris Latynina as the most decorated gymnast of all time. Simone seven Olympic medals also ties Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American female gymnast.

Here is a little video presentation me and my buddy did 

Matariki weaving

 On Friday 2nd of July we had a visitor named Whae Hei who came in to teach us how to weave since it was Matariki week.  Whae Hei decided to teach us how to make a ball out of flax. Whae Hei asked Pila and Tautaina to go outside to collect some more flax so that everyone gets a flax. She then asked us to get two pieces of flax and tie the ends together, we then were told to plait the flax as if we were plaiting hair but instead of plaiting it normal we had to go over with the left flax and then under, over with the right flax. 

At first I was struggling because I didn't get the hang of it but eventually I got the hang of it and finished making a ball out of flax. We then had to fold the ends inside the flax and then cut the left overs off. Overall it was fun making a ball out of flax and experiencing how to make a ball out of flax.