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Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Early Maori Enterprise


This week for inquiry my group and I needed to write down some notes on early Maori enterprise, after doing so we then summarised those into 5 sentences with 10 syllables per sentence. The last thing we did was stand up in front of the class and read out the sentences syllable by syllable.

This is our summary:
Maori enterprise started with trading. They traded items like food and clothing. Soon British travellers came wanting food. The British also wanted to buy land. Then Maori sold too much, they lost their land.

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

Exploring Our National Current Events



News editors make decisions every day about which current event stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. For example; we needed to find a story about an oddity, and that was wellington's new sculpture.