Summer Learning Journey 23/12/18

Michelle

Date: Sunday 23 December 2018

Title: Summer Learning Journey

Day 1

Post a picture of yourself doing one of your favourite summer activities

Activity 1:

My favourite activity is rugby, because my family and I play games that include rugby, we play passes, touch rugby and tackling rugby.

It is my favourite because I like to play rough and tackling rugby is the one.

List the three people you would like to have on your Lake Taupo Cycle Race Support Crew.

Activity 2:

For my support crew I choose:

• Older Brother ( Matthew)
• Older Sister ( Ana)
• Younger brother ( Tuipulotu)

I choose Matthew because he is very energised and he can do a wheelie when he had a bike.

I choose Ana because she is very powerful, energetic and would have loads of fun.

I choose Tuipulotu because he is very strong and he is the only one who could ride a bike other than my little sister.

Write the word true if it is a true fact or false if it is not true

Activity 3:  

Fish Fact #1: The oldest known fish in the world is a 65 year old Australian lungfish. True

Fish Fact #2: Sharks are the only fish that have eyelids. True

Fish Fact #3: Starfish are a type of fish. False

Fish Fact #4: Fish communicate with each other by making low-pitched sounds (moans, hisses, etc) True

Fish Fact #5: Fish usually swim together in groups called ‘classes.’ False

Summer Learning Journey 20/12/18

Michelle

Date: Thursday 20 December 2018

Title: Summer Learning

Day 5

Tell us whether you think logging should be allowed in New Zealand

Activity 1:

People collect wood to build houses and make paper, but I think cutting down trees every day could be a problem.

I think cutting down trees a little a time could work out.

• If people still continues to be logging, we would be suffering because the trees provide us fresh air.

• If there is less trees, than animals who live in the trees, under and beneath are forced to move and find a home.

Write a letter to your best friend or a family member telling them about your trip to the tundra

Activity 2:

A greeting in Tonga

Malo e lelei mum, I had a trip to tundra land it is snow-covered for much of the year, until summer brings a burst of wildflowers. I investigated some amazing animals that live there such as mountain goats, sheep and marmots. My experience adventuring the place was an amazing and a phenomenal moment. I really hope I get to visit it again, and find other things that we missed out last time.

Post a description of life in New Zealand in 2018

Activity 3:

Life in Aotearoa ( Aotearoa is a maori word for New Zealand )  is fascinating, New Zealand is a maori place that many cultures live, did you know New Zealand has the tallest tower which basically if you were up there you would see the most beautiful view ever. New Zealand has amazing wine, sheep and Rugby players.

Did you know two islands make up New zealand but it is still a small island, many flowers, fruits, animals, plants and trees are native to New Zealand such as Ferns, kiwi fruit, Kiwi, manuka honey and moa.

Summer Learning Journey 19/12/18

Michelle

Date: Wednesday 19 December 2018

Title: Summer Learning Journey

Day 4

Five questions that you would like to ask Sir Edmund Hillary about his life

Activity 1:

1. How did you feel after you achieved your goal climbing the highest mountain in New Zealand?

2. Why did you want to climb the tallest mountain in New Zealand.

3. Did you come over tough moments while climbing the tallest mountain.

4. Did you have enough food to enjoy while you were on the mountain?

5. Did you have rock climbing techniques?

You are asked to choose one of your favourite foods

Activity 2:

Chop suey is a mouth watering dish that pacific families eat.

Ingredients for chop suey:

250 g	Vermicelli
5 cloves	Crushed garlic
1	Large onion, diced
3 cm	Fresh ginger, grated
500 g	Blade steaks, or chuck steak, trimmed and cut into thin strips
⅔ cup	Soy sauce
2 Tbsp	Oyster sauce
2 cups	Mixed vegetables, fresh (we used ribbons of carrot and yellow courgette for colour)

Method for chop suey:

1. Cover vermicelli in boiling water and soak until softened.
2. Heat a little oil in a deep-sided frying pan, add onion, garlic and ginger and cook until soft.
3. Turn up the heat, add the meat and fry until well coloured, then add the soy sauce and simmer for 3 minutes.
4. Drain the vermicelli and chop it roughly with kitchen scissors.
5. Add to the pan along with the oyster sauce and vegetables.
6. Simmer for 5 minutes until the vermicelli has taken on a brown colour.

Where you would you build your hotel and what you would use to build it

Activity 3:

Summer Learning Journey 18/12/18

Michelle

Date: Tuesday 18 December 2018

Title: Summer Learning Journey

Day 3

Post a description of your beast

Activity 1:

Shanell is my beast she is very sweet in the outside but mischievous in the inside, she smells like red strawberries, she has wolf ears, claws and she wears her hair up in a ponytail, she loves to draw, play netball and play at the park, she sounds like a normal girl.

list three pros (good things) and three cons (bad things) about working as a DOC ranger

Activity 2:

Good things

• The DOC rangers get paid well
• They get to stay with the animals on a island
• They get to stay near a beach so every day they get to play on the beach

Bad Things

• They get injured from the wild animals
• A storm could occur at island
• It could be hard work to look after wild animals and plants if a wind is coming there way.

Activity 3:

1) The name of the animal the WWF is working to save? Seals and Tigers.

2) What the WWF is doing to help the animal? They build a snow bank.

3) What, if any, success they have had protecting the animal? They are really putting sacrifice while helping the endangered species.

Summer learning Journey 17/12/18

Michelle

Date: Monday 17 December 2018

Title: Summer Learning Journey

Day 2

Tell the reasons why you want to visit Tane Mahuta

Activity 1:

• Why I should visit Tane Mahuta is because I haven't really experienced much of New Zealand.

• I want to visit the kauri tree with my family to see the tree so we could learn about if it is dangerous.

• I absolutely love exploring native things I would like to investigate the Kauri tree because it is the tallest tree that ever existed in New Zealand.

list three sports teams that have the word fern

Activity 2:

• Black Ferns
• Silver Ferns
• Kiwi Ferns

Tell us how to solve this maths problem

Activity 3:

1 year = 365

365 x 3 millimeters = 1095 millimeters

Summer Learning Journey 16/12/18

Michelle

Date: Sunday 16 December 2018

Title: Summer Learning Journey

Day 1

Collect 3 facts about New Zealand

Activity 1:

• New Zealanders are also called kiwis but kiwi is not a fruit. It is New Zealand’s native flightless bird.

• The Maori name of New Zealand is Aotearoa which means the land of the long white cloud.

• It was the first major nation to have universal suffrage. In 1893 all male and female citizens are legally allowed to vote.

Think about where you live?

Activity 2:

• Auckland is a phenomenal place, it has the tallest tower in New Zealand.

• New Zealand has a beautiful scenery like KaiKoura and Wanaka.

• New Zealand is best well known as making the best wine, having abundant of sheep and recording lord of the rings movie.

What do you do to stay smart online?

Activity 3:

Pobble 365 5/12/18

Michelle
Date: Wednesday 5 December 2018
Title: Pobble 365
Subtitle: Under the bed
Made up story

Hi my name is Thomas and today I turned 6 it was chaos at my birthday party, I had fizzy drinks, Ice cream, lolly packets, chocolate, pineada, presents and cake. But that night my present included my own room which was my twin older brother's room when they left for college but years ago my older brother died in the room he had a heart attack which caused him to die. 

The room was closed for 3 years until I was born, and the twins had to move into the abandoned room. As dad tucked me into my sheets I was afraid if the spirit turns up so I howled loudly like the boy who cried wolf, mum and dad dashed to my room but as they did the spirit came and captured them I cried my heart out until I woke up on a new day, it was just a dream.

As I walked down stairs I told my parents that my birthday present was a little too much so we took it down and made my own room.

The End