Category: Ako | Learn

Charge Of The Light Brigade

 

For this reading task we’ve made a DLO to show our understanding of this topic “the charge of the light brigade”.
Something I enjoyed about this activity was that I could show my understanding and show I learnt many things about this topic “the light brigade”.

Shearer’s strike

For this task our main focus this week was learning and exploring about the shearers strike. Our group looked at the two perspectives of the shearers strike. When we read both of them we formed an opinion of which we thought was a better argument than the other. our main focus this week was learning and exploring about the shearers strike.

What I found interesting about this activity was learning how they persuade to stand up for themselves and persuade people to use their own voice and rights.

Malala Yousafzai

For this task me and my group created a poster about Malala Yousafzai, and how she stood up for womens rights to learn and be educated.
She wanted Women to have equal rights to go to school but as she was on the bus the talibman shot her on the left side of her forehead and had to undergo a lot of surgery and plastic surgery to make her more confident in herself. Time passed and she got back and started making a speech about why women’s should have their rights. She stood tall with pride and justice and people all over the world acknowledge her from this day forward for having bravery and even though that she got shot she still wanted to raise her voice so that other can hear her. I enjoyed this task because I look up to Malala Yousafzai by having the confidence to stand up their in front of the world governments of the United Natioan at 16 years old saying her speech so I really look up to her. Something I found Interesting was that after getting shot she didn’t get silenced by the bullet but spoke with pride. “Empower others with the Weapon of Knowlege” That was her sentence that I acknowledge.

Tragedy At Tangiwai

For reading we have been reading a book called tragedy at tangiwai, this book tells a lot of details of the events that took place in tangiwai, this book was enjoyable to read because I could find out more information of the things happening in my country. At 10:21 pm on Christmas Eve 1953 the Wellington Auckland night express plunged into the flooded Whangaehu River at Tangiwai, 10km west of Waiōuru in the central North Island. We have made a google video to tell you some facts about the Tragedy At Tangiwai.

Diary WW1 I Writers War

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there

For the past 2 weeks we have been learning about WW1 history and how it happened. During the time we’ve been learning about it I’ve learnt how that it was about trenche wars and I have been looking at the events that took place at ANZAC during WW1. Many of our NZ soldiers were wounded or killed in action. I looked at videos of life in the trenches,  and read about Hami Graces diary. I used Google ids to record my diary entries. I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to voice over diarys. Something I found interesting about this was that 8,700  Australian and 2,779 New Zealand soldiers were killed at Gallipoli during the First World War.

 

Something I found interesting about this task was using Google video’s and understanding how to use it.

Time Traveller’s Podcast ft Samuel Marsden

For Literacy we have been using our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden had we had the chance to meet him and talk to him. This was a fun activity because we took on the roles of Samuel Marsden and the Time Traveller’s Podcast team. It was like we experienced actually meeting him.

We learned that when you are recording a podcast expression is everything! It makes what we have to say more engaging.