Summer Learning Journey Day 2

Summer Learning Journey #2

What is your favourite television show at the moment? On your blog tell us about your favourite television show. What is it about? Who are the main characters? What channel is it on?
My favourite Tv show at the moment is Good Witch which stars Bailey Madison. It's about a woman (Catherine/ Cassie Bell) moves into a supposedly haunted house and changes the lives of the townspeople. The main characters are Grace/ Bailey Madison, Cassie/ Catherine Bell, Sam/James Denton and Nick/Rhys Matthew Bond.  I don't really know whether it's on tv but I watch it on Netflix or on Daily-motion.  

Summer Learning Journey Week 3 Day 1

Summer Learning Journey Day #1

It was common for women in the 1950s to stay home with their children and raise their family. They were called ‘housewives.’ Many housewives followed a simple rule when they prepared the evening meal: the ‘meat and three veg’ rule. This meant that they prepared dinners that included three different vegetables and a type of meat (eg. beef, lamb, or chicken).

On your blog tell us if you think that the ‘meat and three veg’ rule is a good one. Do you like the rule? Would you enjoy eating a typical 1950s dinner? Why or why not?

I would enjoy eating a meal like this because it just doesn't sound very appealing to me. You would only have 3 vegetables and it would be enough to eat with your meat.  Plus three vegetables isn't enough to eat. 


Activity 2 - Read through the lists. Are these popular names in your school? On your blog, tell us which names are currently popular in your school. Please provide, at least, three girls’ names and three boys’ names that are popular.
The school that I go to popular girl names are Angel, Mya/Maia/Maya that's all I think.. Popular boys name at my school is William, Moses and Joshua these are very popular boys name at my school.

Activity 3 -For this activity, imagine that you are living in New Zealand in the 1950s. Use Google Draw* to design the front of a postcard that you could send to a friend. Try to include elements of Kiwiana in your design (e.g. Pohutukawa trees, Hokey Pokey ice cream, etc). Post a copy of your postcard picture to your blog. Be sure to describe what you have drawn on your blog beneath the picture.

I have drawn a postcard on what things New Zealanders enjoy to eat and use. I put our money because we use that everyday. I also put the pohutukawa tree because it's native to New Zealand (which means that it's was in first found in New Zealand. ) I put the Hokey Pokey ice cream because that's our favourite ice cream. There as you can see I also put a flag of New Zealand that is shaped like New Zealand. Last but no least I put our Queen Elizabeth.

Summer Learning Journey Day 5

Summer Learning Journey Day 5

Activity 1 - Ve Day! On your blog, tell us all about your (imaginary) VE party. If it was me, I would invite all of my closest friends and family over to my house for a big barbecue. We would eat hamburgers and play basketball in the driveway. Some of us would probably walk to the local beach to play soccer on the beach and to go for a swim (if the weather was warm enough)!

If I was throwing a Ve day party, I would invite all the people that made it to come and celebrate with all my close friends and family. We would either go to the beach and play volleyball, soccer and swim. Or we would go to a local park and play sports such as tag, touch, Frisbee and Baseball. We would have a picnic and just celebrate and catch up with everyone.

Activity 2 - Compare the pictures of common clothing from the late 1940s to what you wear now (i.e. in 2017). Are they similar or are they quite different? On your blog tell us which of the two styles you prefer and why. The pictures below were taken over 65 years ago! What do you think people will be wearing 65 years from now?

I would prefer to wear either clothes because one they are both clothes and two they have very different styles but they are very nice. The style of clothes have changed over the years and have turned like a good way.  They would be wearing beautiful clothes with a lot of styles. 
  1940 to 2017 
Activity 3 - I usually have a chocolate chip cookie with my tea. I love biscuits! What is your favourite sweet treat or dessert? Use google to find a recipe for it. Type the recipe out on your blog. Make sure you also include a picture.
 My favourite sweet treat is either banoffee pie. I enjoy to eat this because it just melts in your mouth and the first time I tasted it I loved it as soon as it went in my mouth. 

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  For the base:
• 100g butter, melted
• 225g light digestive biscuits, crushed
• For the caramel:
• 75g butter
• 75g dark brown soft sugar
• 397g can Carnation Condensed Milk
• For the top:
• 2 medium bananas
• 150ml carton whipping cream, lightly whipped
• Cocoa powder, to dust

You will also need...

20cm loose-bottomed cake tin, greased

1. Put the biscuit crumbs in your bowl, then tip in the melted butter and mix it all together. Spoon this into the base and press against the bottom and sides – this is the base of the banoffee pie recipe. Chill it for ten minutes.2. Place 75g butter and sugar into a non-stick saucepan over a low heat, stirring all the time until the sugar has dissolved. Add the condensed milk and bring to a rapid boil for about a minute, stirring all the time for a thick golden caramel. Spread the caramel over the base, cool and then chill for about 1 hour, until firm or until ready to serve.3. Carefully lift the pie from the tin and place on a serving plate. Slice the bananas; fold half of them into the softly whipped cream and spoon over the base. Decorate with the remaining bananas and finish with a grating of chocolate.To get the most out of our banoffee pie recipe, make sure that you really boil the filling for at least 1 minute to be sure it sets to a fantastically tasty squidgy caramel. 

Summer Learning Journey Day 4

Summer Learning Journey Day #4

Activity 1 - Choose two key events and find out some more information about what happened on those days. On your blog, write a short summary of two events, including the names of people involved and where the event happened.
-10 September: Canada declares war on Germany 
- 9 April RAF and Royal Navy involved in campaign in Norway, including New Zealanders

Activity 2 - Click on this link to find a list of VC winners. Choose one from the Second World War, and read about him. On your blog tell us about him. Who was he? What did he do to earn a Victoria Cross medal?

Keith Elliott
He was one of the people that took part in the War World 2. He was awarded a VC because of his effort of at the Ruweisat Ridge.  He then single-handedly captured another machine-gun position. 



Actvitiy 3 - One day you are walking along the deck of the ship when you hear a loud bang. You start to run as you see smoke coming from the far end of the ship. You run towards the room where your patients are waiting to receive treatment from the doctor. Just as you arrive at the door to their room you hear another loud bang and you....
I look around at all the people that are going to die as a tear just drops from my eye. When bang, bang after another. I try to get everyone to try and calm down when a little girl runs towards me and says " Am I going to die. " " No, don't say that, you are going to live and see your kids and grand kids. " The little girl looked petrified as I say to her " Hey, it's okay to be afraid but you need to stay strong. " When bang, it tears a whole into the ship making us start to sink. " Hey everyone, listen up, if we all work together we can make it out of here alive. " I could see old people slowly dying and I felt guilty because I couldn't do anything.   

Complete the story provided above. To earn full points you must write, at least, 8-10 sentences. What happens next?

Summer Learning Journey Day 2

Activity 1 - On your blog, please tell us what you do when you want to relax or de-stress. Do you read a favourite book, watch a favourite television show or talk to someone special?  What are your tips for dealing with stress?
I do many thing to relax or calm down which is to either listen to my favourite songs or to just use my angry to exercise... Theses things help me to calm down because when I exercise I use all my anger towards my exercise... Music also helps me because then when I start to sing then I forget why I'm angry..

Activity 2 -Imagine that you were alive in the 1930s. What could you have done to help these families? On your blog, list three different ways that you could raise funds for families to help them buy food and clothing. Be as creative as you can with your fundraising ideas!

I would use the seasons to my advantage by mowing the lawns in summer. 

I would sell all my old things and sell them 2x more than I paid for.

Sell food/ cold drinks because you could be hungry or even thirsty.

Activity 3 - Imagine that you were able to travel back in time to visit a family in the 1930s. What special gifts or treats would you like to bring with you? I would likely bring blocks of Whittaker’s chocolate, bags of Jet Planes and Pineapple Lumps, healthy food snacks, clothing, and games for the children. What about you?
I would love to take with me the food that we have now and take it to them to taste... I would also take all the devices so that can see how technology has changed over the years.. I would visit my great grandparents because I would tell them that they had done well to there children and they grew up to be wonder successful children..

Summer Learning Journey - Week 2 Day 2

Activity 1 - Watch the trailer for Gold Rush. On your blog, tell us what you think the movie is about. There are no words spoken movie so you will need to pay careful attention to what the actors are doing! Do you think you would enjoy watching a silent film? Why/Why not?
Opinion - I would watch a silent film like this because it just looks like a Mr Bean movie to me... I would also enjoy it because I have very noisy siblings and a film like that just looks like I would have to tell them to be quite. Overall, it just like a movie were you can read the pictures and actions they are doing.... 
 
  
Activity 2 -On your blog, give the painting a rating out of 5 stars (1 star = terrible painting, 2 stars = pretty bad painting, 3 stars = okay painting, 4 stars = good painting and 5 stars = amazing painting). After you’ve rated the painting out of 5, tell us why you gave it that rating.
I rate this painting a 4.5 because it looks very pretty and detailed but it's just it looks like if there were more places or things then I would rate it a 5/5.




 Activity 3 - Imagine that you were a member of the flight crew. Write a poem that describes how you would have felt when you landed safely in Christchurch after such a long trip. Remember, there are lots of different types of poems, and they don’t all have to rhyme.

Going over the sea and water made me a bit sick
As I'm hoping we get back quick
We just saw Kentucky
I feel so lucky
To be on the ground
I had a frown
But now I am blessed
Instead of being stressed

Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 Day 1 - Activity 2/3

Activity 2 - On your blog tell us what you think about the fact that women were not allowed to vote in Saudi Arabia until 2015. Is it fair? Why or why not?

Opinion

I in my opinion I thought that it's not fair that us women were not allowed to vote because we are equally the same and for them to treat us women different is not fair.. Even though we are different to men we should be having the same opportunity like men.. I think that they should of changed that law many years ago.

Activity 3 - On your blog, tell us what you think of the poem. Do you like it? How does it make you feel?

This poem is very touchy and emotional to me because we have brave people who had fought for us. It is very emotional because they had to give their lives and family up for our country.. I am very proud of them..

Summer Learning Journey - Week 2 Day 1

Summer Learning Journey - Week 2 Day 1

Activity 1 - The Early Year - 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.

  I decided to chose this cathedral called St Patrick's Cathedral. This cathedral is located in Auckland, Panmure. It was built in about in the 1800's. It took about a year to build.

Summer Learning Journey - Day 5

Summer Learning Journey  - Day 5 

Activity 1 - Translating Phrase - Use Google Translate to translate the following five phrases from English to Te Reo Māori or from Te Reo Māori to English. Post the translations on your blog. Be sure to include the phrase in both the English and Māori to earn full points.

1. Nau mai ki Aotearoa - Welcome to New Zealand

2. Ko Vedel toku ingoa - My name is Vedel

3. He aha to ingoa? - What is your name?

4. E pai ana ahau ki te takaro i te whutupaoro - I like to play rugby

5. No hea koe? - Where do you come from?

Activity 2 - The treaty of Waitangi - On your blog, tell us three fun things that you can do as a visitor in Waitangi. Which one would you like to do the most?

1. If i was a visitor the first place I would go was to The Waitangi Treaty Grounds Hangi and Concert because it sounds like a very fun and I get to spend time with the fam.

2. I would also go to Taiamai Tours Heritage Journeys because then I can just explore Waitangi.

3. Finally I would visit Waitangi Mountain Bike Park because then I can just ride around on the tracks on my bike.

I would most likely be visiting the Taiamai Tours Heritage Journeys because you can ride around on a waka and see different places. 

Activity 3 - #Earn the Fern - On your blog, write down four questions you would ask Bill Kini.

Question 1 - Who inspired you to be a boxer?

Question 2 - Did you enjoy playing Rugby or being a Boxer?? 

Question 3 -  Did you ever see yourself  being a boxer??

Question 4 - Do you have any advice to children that wants to be boxers??

Thank you for your time Bill Kini.. 

Summer Learning Journey - Day 4

Summer Learning Journey - Day 4 

Day 4 -  Hitting the high note

Activity 1 - Use Google to research traditional Māori Waiata. Listen to a number of Waiata and read the lyrics. On your blog tell us which one of the waiata you found you like the most. Why do you like it?

The songs I liked

Poi E

He Honore

Ka Pioioi

Pai mai

I enjoy listening to these songs because we sing them at school and they are very catchy to me. Theses songs just sometimes calm me down and when I listen to songs in a different language I feel like I'm learning a new language.

Activity 2 -Choose one game, and on your blog, tell us the (i) name of the game, (ii) the goal or purpose of the game, and (iii) two rules.

Matimati - Taonga Tākaro 

The goal or main purpose of this game is to Read opponents movements and learn to evade in disguise attacking movements. Two rules that I learned in this game was that you have to have your two feet remain grounded. Another rule that I learnt was that when the striker, strikes that they must have an open palm. 

Activity 3 - On your blog, rank the performances from your favourite (#1) to least favourite (#3) and tell us why you gave them the ranking that you did.

Te puku o Te ika - 9/10 - I thought that this was my favorite out of all of them because was it was dedicated to someone and they sang from the heart for that person. 

Tamatea Arikinui - 8/10 -  I put as second because it was very close to number 1 but I decided to put this as second because they had a lot of dancing more than the first video. The girls and the boys also took turns to sing.

Te iti kahurangi - 8/10 -  This was my put as third because I couldn't have two seconds and if I did then this would also be second. This song was just so touching to me and made he start to just tear up. This song is more second than it is third. 

Summer Learning Journey -Day 3 - Bonus Activity

Summer Learning Journey -Day 3 - Bonus Activity 

Everyone’s family is unique. What makes your family special? Choose three people close to you and ask them what their two favourite things to do in summer are. On your blog, write two fun facts about each person.

Older Brother - My older brother likes to do a lot of things because he is sporty. He says that he likes to play a lot of sport like Swimming and play Basketball.

Younger Brother - My younger brother says that he enjoys to run around in the long green grass and to play Basketball with our older brother.

Younger Sister - She likes to do many fun things but she says two that stand out is doing family activities and to run around until she is tired which takes quiet a long time.

Two facts about them:
Older Brother - Funny, Sporty
Younger Brother - Sporty, Creative
Younger Sister - Girly, Sporty

Summer Learning Journey - Day #3

Summer Learning Journey - Day 3 

Activity 1 - It's All in the family -  
Activity - Imagine that you were a child in the 1800s and you had nine siblings. On your blog, please tell us how you would feel. Would you enjoy being a member of such a large family? Why or why not?

Well, I am in a very big family and if I had to change anything I wouldn't change a single thing because you can get things done 10 times faster. You can also have each other to keep us company and you can also laugh 24/7 with them. I am so blessed to be in such a big family and I wouldn't change a single thing.


Activity 2 - Acknowledging Ancestry - There are many different versions of pepeha but most provide people with information about who you are and where you come from Use the template provided below to prepare your own unique pepeha.

My Pepeha
Ko Auckland, New Zealand ahau
Ko Waikato te awa
Ko Vedel toku ingoa
Ko Glen Innes toku kura
Ka tata ahau ki te tau 8
Ko ahau no Cook Island
Ko Eloida rāua
Ko toku ingoa whakamutunga ko Mair-Malama

Summer Learning Journey - Day 2

Summer Learning Journey 

Activity 1 - A house or a home -  Compare the Wharepuni to your own home. What are two similarities and two difference between a wharepuni and your home!!

Here is my poster between the difference and similarities of a wharepuni and my house.









Activity 2 - The rules of engagement - Draw a picture of yourself doing your dream job.

Here is my dream job. In the near future I hope to be one of the best lawyers out there.

Activity 3 - Favourite Meal - On your blog, post a picture of your favourite meal. Be sure to tell us what it is and why it is your favourite. You could also include the recipe if you have it so that we can all try it!

My favourite meal is steak with rice and mushroom sauce. This is my favourite meal because it was one of my first meals ever that I have ever eaten.

The ingredients are salt, pepper, beef steak, olive oil, chopped onions, rice, mushroom, cream and garlic.....

Directions

1. Cut cube steaks into serving size portions.
2. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
3. Lightly coat steaks with flour.
4. Prepare brown gravy in small saucepan according to package directions.
5. Reserve.
6. Heat oil in large heavy skillet.
7. Add onions and saute about 1 min.
8. Add steak and brown on both sides.
9. Add mushroom soup.
10. Add water to soup can (about 1/2 can) and swish to remove soup.
11. Add to skillet with meat mixture.
12. Add brown gravy mixture and stir to blend.
13. Bring to boil, cover, lower heat and simmer about 45 mins or until meat is tender and you can cut it with edge of fork.
14. Add mushrooms, stir to heat and serve over rice.
15. TO PREPARE RICE: Rinse rice in strainer.
16. Place rice in saucepan, add broth.
17. Liquid should reach first knuckle on your finger.
18. Bring to boil, stir, cover, lower heat to simmer and cook about 15 mins.
19. Fluff with fork. 
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