Perspective

LI: To evaluate the facts and make an informed opinion.

For this activity we used a provacation to answer a question. This question was Did the punishment fit the crime. This question relates to two men who stole 96 war medals from the National Army Museum in 2007. He is serving 13 year and 3 months imprisonment.  Our perspective A say about why we think the punishment was the easy and our perspective B say about why we think the punishment is to hard.

I found this activity interesting because I looked at two different perspectives for a question.

 

Care Values of Treaty of Waitangi

LI: to understand why is the treaty important today in Aotearoa.

For this task we used our school care values and the Treaty of Waitangi for an opinion on who might have used our care values on the day. Our school care values are Confidence for C, Attitude for A, Respect for R, and Excellence for E. We explained what each of those care values mean. An eg of this is: Attitude means to have good behaviour with ourselves and our actions. We also wrote some opinion seeing who might show our care values during the signing. Another eg is: we think that the Maori Cheif in the picture who was signing the treaty seems confident because he look brave for standing up infront of everyone watching.

I found activity interesting because we used our opinion to see who might have used our care values during the Treaty of Waitangi.

Water Haiku Poem

LI: to identify and understand literary devices used in poetry.

For this activity we wrote a haiku poem about the water. This poem explains how our cool drinks are from the sea that somtimes causes danger and flows from the sea. THis haiku has the correct 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables in order.

I found this task hard because it took a long time to find a sentence with exactly 5 and 7 syllables.

 

Winter Haiku Poem

LI: to identify and understand literary devices used in poetry.

For this haiku task we wrote a haiku poem about winter. This poem uses 3 haikus to describe winter. In the first haiku tells how it changes for the summer season to the winter season. The second haiku explains how the weather is during that season. For the last haiku it explains how people stay warm with their jumpers and jackets and how people enjoy to play in the snow.

I found this activity interesting and joyful because I was trying to find out the correct amount of syllables for each line.

Haiku Poem

LI: to identify and understand literary devices used in poetry.

For this task we learned how to write a haiku poem. A haiku is a short Japanese peom which uses 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the middle line, and 5 syllables in the last line. This haiku is descibing about our whenua which has the tamaki river surrounding our land and it leads to the sea.

I found this task interesting because I tried to solve which syllable or words have the exact syllable.

 

 

Maungarei Moment in time

LI: To write a poem that describes as moment in time.

In this task we wrote a moment in time poem about our hike on Maungarei. This poem is about what we heard, saw, felt, and wondered while we were climbing Maungarei. We wrote the sentences comparing from now to the past. An Example of this is that I heard the crunches of the scoria rock as we walk by wondering if these types of crunches were the sounds to warn our ansestors from the past. For I saw we saw our river circling back and forth thinking if these were the waves that carried the wakas from the  past. For I felt we felt the winds brushing by and though that our ansestors had dealt with more trouble than just the wind. For I wonders we wondered how hard if would be to climb the mountain with any pathway to lead to their village. We used our prio knowledge to wonder how it might be like comparing to the past.

 

I found this activity enjoying because I predict about what might a certain thing we heard, saw, felt, or wondered reflected to the past.

Moment In Time

LI: To write a poem that describes as moment in time.

In this task we wrote a moment in time poem about polar bears. This poem is about a researcher who is trapped in a cube because it was being hunted by the polar bear. The first sentence say about what we heard in the video. We heard the polar bear scratching on the plastic cube where the researchers trapped in. The second sentence explains what we saw in the video. We saw that polar bear staring into the researcher with its black eyes. The third sentence is about how might we felt if we were in that situation. We think that we would have felt petrified and frightened. The last sentence showcases what we might have felt in this situation. We think that we might have wondered if this would be our last breath in this cube.

I found this activity enjoying because I wrote a poem from how I might of felt if I were the researcher.

Treaty of Waitangi

LI: To understand why is the treaty important today in Aotearoa

In this learning we explored the history of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi is about an agreement between the Maori Cheifs and the British Crown. The Treay was an agreement to give each other peace and protection from the Pakeha. Unfortunately the British convinced the Maori Cheifs and the British broke the promise and started war. This is an important part of our New Zealand history because the treaty was the founding document of New Zealand.

I found this activity interesting because I learned more information about the Treaty of Waitangi.

Chinese Lantern Festival

For this task we explore about the Chinese Lantern Festival. We learn about what the Chinese lantern festival is, popular food the eat during the celebration, activity’s they do, and what colours do the lanterns have and what they mean. The Chinese lantern festival is a celebration where it marks the beggining of a new year and the ending of winter season. The event starts in January 21 – February 20. The Festival shows respect to our past ansestors and wards of evil sprits and welcomes good sprits. During the festival they do a populater dance know as the lion or Dragon dance.

I enjoyed this activity because I learned more about the Chinese lantern festival.

Statistical Inquiry

LI: to gather relevant information by asking the right questions.

For this task we made a statistical inquiry to find out how many people travel outside of New Zealand and if they did where did they go. Me and my partner asked students around the class and have came to the conclusion. We figured out that more people travel outside of New Zealand that people staying in New Zealand. We think that more people travel outside of New Zealand because they have relatives to visit in other countries. We also analysed that more people traveled to Australia because it is the nearest country to New Zealand.

I found this activity interesting because I analysed a data for how many people travel outside of New Zealand.