Gold Attitude CARE Award Activity: Research a New Zealander who has a positive attitude

To do my CARE award I needed to research a New Zealander with a positive attitude, I chose Steven Adams. He's the first New Zealander to be picked in the first round of the NBA draft, is the highest paid New Zealand athlete of all time and is in the top 100 highest paid athletes in the world. 

Gold Attitude CARE Award Activity: Research the role of the SWIS in our school, and tell others how they help us

For this CARE award activity I needed to research the role of SWiS (Social Workers in Schools), I found out that there are different types of social workers that have different areas of expertise. I also found that social workers are all over the world, helping people with their needs.

Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 3 Activity 3 (Teaser Week)

For this activity, please think of someone who has had a positive impact on your life. Who is this person? What did they do that was positive?

On your blog, please tell us about this person.

Please remember to be Cybersmart and provide their first name only (unless they are a famous person!).

Someone that's had a positive impact on my life is my Mum, she's encouraged me to do my bet in school and out of it. She pushes me to do well and I try not to let her down. 

Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 3 Activity 2 (Teaser Week)

For this activity I needed to ask people that I knew what their proudest achievement to date was, I ask Matthew, Karlos and Victoria. Mathew said that he was proud of getting into a rugby club, Karlos was proud of being confident when speaking to a large crowd and Victoria was proud of her CARE award.

Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 3 Activity 1 (Teaser Week)

For this activity, please watch this short introductory video from The Water Project.

On your blog, share what you have learned about The Water Project with us. What is the goal of the organisation? Where do they work? What have they achieved?

For the first activity of the third day I needed to research and write about the water project which is an African organisation that's trying to give young girls in Africa a proper education. After watching the video on the organisation I found out that millions of people go without clean water every day, and many people die to water borne illnesses.

Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 2 Activity 2 (Teaser Week)

For this activity, please think about this issue of the gender pay gap carefully. It is quite controversial (some people agree with it and some people disagree with it).
On your blog, tell us what you think. Is it fair? Why or why not? Be sure to explain exactly why you feel the way that you do.

I think that the gender wage gap (at least in sports) is false, the amount of money that a sport receives is based on the attention that it gathers. Football is the most watched sport in the world, and therefor, its players will earn more money than players of rugby. You might say that it's sexist for women to be paid less than their male counterparts but I say that it's just the factor of attention. The main reason why females are paid less than men is because they're weaker. Men are genetically stronger than women, and that's why whenever a transgender man joins a female league, they'd dominate the competition. Tell me, when the male and female rugby world cups were on; which match lineups would you pay more attention to? What team would you care more about? The reason for male sports being more popular is due to their strength, in a sport like rugby it's far more entertaining to see huge guys crash into each other, than it is to watch smaller women do the same thing. 

Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 2 Activity 1

For this activity, please create four new similes. You can use the starters below or you can make up your own.

… is as fast as… (eg: The brand new Ferrari is as fast as a lightning bolt)

… is as tall as…

… is as small as…

… is beautiful like...

On your blog, share the similes that you have created with your readers.

For the second activity of the second day I needed to write out some similes and post them onto my blog. 

Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 1 Activity 2 & 3

For the second activity of the first week of the summer learning journey I needed to create my own pepeha. For the third activity I needed to draw and describe the BFG from Roald Dahl's famous book. I tried to make him as goofy as possible.

Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 1 Activity 1

 

Today for the summer learning journey LS2, Room 5 and LS1 are working on the teaser tasks, the first activity is on Lorde. I needed to research Lorde and list at least 5 facts about her. This year's summer learning journey's topic is change makers.

Making Room 2's Banner

For last week's school market day, I was asked to create a banner for Room 2. They were selling pencil cases and succulents (Small plants) so I wanted to include those products in the banner. Another thing I wanted to do was include the price, just so that people interested in the items would know how much they were. Although it's a bit simple, I think I did well considering the small amount of time that I had.

Market Day Evaluation

Last week was Panmure Bridge's market day, every class made 1 or more products that they'd sell on the day. LS2 melted old crayons together to make rainbow crayons, LS1 made photo frames and the junior classes made things like pet rocks and Christmas cards. Before the market day, students had the chance to purchase "tokens" they'd use real money to buy them, but they wouldn't be using real money on the day. Every product was $1, although some stalls offered 2-3 items to make it a better deal. LS2's total profit was $88, because although we'd made $96, we had $8 worth of expenses.