Malala Yousafazi

LI: To analyse how Malala uses her personal story and persuasive language to achieve her purpose.

 This week for reading LS2 has been learning about Malala Yousafzai who is a Pakistani education activist and when she only 16 when she gave her powerful speech to the UN(United Nations). She fought for education and equality rights for everyone but mostly girls, when she went on the bus to school she got shot by the Taliban in the left side of her face thinking it would silence her. But she only came back stronger and because that happened, that’s when she realized that girls and many other people have the problem of not being able to go to school, so she fought. She fought for everyone to have the luxury of going to school and learn many things. Her story is very important and she should be more well known. So my reading group and I created a poster that shows people one of her famous quotes, the quote we chose was “One child, one Teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” because we all thought it was a very powerful quote in our opinions. Something I found fun and interesting was that how I learnt about Malala and how she was very inspiring.

Dilophosaurus Research

LI: to research questions about your dinosaur including their habitat, diet, predators, and protection.

Our challenge was to create a google slides that tells others about the dinosaur we found when we excavated our dinosaur eggs. My partner and I found the skeleton of a Dilophosaurus, what I’d found out is that a Dilophosaurus was one of the largest carnivores of its time. Something I found interesting was that a Dilophosaurus could reach lengths of about 20 feet and weigh around 900 to 1,000 pounds.

Tongan Language Week – maths

This week for math’s, my group and I structured word problems that has a connection with the Tongan Language Week. There are 7 slides and 10 questions in total to answer, and we make sure the questions are Tongan Language Week related. The following questions followed includes subtracting, addition, division and multiplications. Something I found interesting about this task is how we decided to make up the questions using our knowledge.

RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation.

We read the text RISE Up. The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers and created a DLO that explains both sides of perspectives and historical events. Something I found interesting about this text was how we mentioned about past, present and future.

 

Once a Panther

LI: To identify the key historical context and events related to the Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids as depicted in the graphic novel.

This week our group read the text Once a Panther and asked to create a comic strip that represents a sce ne thats related  prejudice and justice. For this comic strip, my group suggested an idea that goes to be an older man and another member from the Polynesian Panthers having a conversation between justice and prejudice. Sharing our thinking is very important, and that is how this comic strip ended up this way, alongside the chatting bubbles and the people. Something I found interesting about this challenge was how we could make our own graphic novels, that was fun to do.

Trip to Auckland War Memorial Museum

For our school trip one of the activities we had was about volcanoes, in one of the rooms we went in it had a cool volcano effect. The room had a cool little volcano, and it had different types of volcanic rocks that came out of the volcano once it erupted. Our group had to make wise choices so they could stay safe in the event they were evacuated. We had 30 seconds to decide what to pack if there was a volcanic eruption near us. Something I found interesting was that in the Museum, there was a section in the Musuem called The Halls of Memories, and it was dedicated to the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I.

Our backpack choices were:

  • backpack
  • toys
  • can of food
  • hole punch
  • torch
  • can opener
  • pan
  • gloves
  • cat
  • muesli bar
  • cat food
  • goggles
  • bottle of water
  • tea towel
  • first aid kit
  • mask

AI Movie

LI: To use our knowledge about dinosaurs in creative ways

We were given 2 create challenges to help us show our learning in creative and fun ways.

Create Challenge 1: Use ADOBE Express to generate an image about each dinosaur on your completed sheet. You can not use their name – only the facts you have gathered.

Create Challenge 2: Use https://hailuoai.video to create AI films showing 3 of your dinosaurs in their natural habitat.

I enjoyed these challenges because I got to learn fun new facts about the parasaurolophus and got to collaborate with my classmates .

Trip to Auckland War Memorial Museum

For our school trip one of the activities we had was about volcanoes, in one of the rooms we went in it had a cool volcano effect. The room had a cool little volcano, and it had different types of volcanic rocks that came out of the volcano once it erupted. Our group had to make wise choices so they could stay safe in the event they were evacuated. We had 30 seconds to decide what to pack if there was a volcanic eruption near us. Something I found interesting was that in the Museum, there was a section in the Musuem called The Halls of Memories, and it was dedicated to the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I.

Our backpack choices were:

  • backpack
  • toys
  • can of food
  • hole punch
  • torch
  • can opener
  • pan
  • gloves
  • cat
  • muesli bar
  • cat food
  • goggles
  • bottle of water
  • tea towel
  • first aid kit
  • mask

Dilophosaurus Research

LI: to research questions about your dinosaur including their habitat, diet, predators, and protection.

 

Our challenge was to create a DLO that tells others about the dinosaur we found when we excavated our dinosaur eggs. My partner and I found the skeleton of a Dilophosaurus, what I’d found out is that a Dilophosaurus was one of the largest carnivores of its time. Something I found interesting was that a Dilophosaurus could reach lengths of about 20 feet and weigh around 900 to 1,000 pounds.

Shameful stain on NZ history’: Polynesian Panthers push for dawn raids apology

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation

For Reading, we read a text called ‘Shameful stain on NZ history’: Polynesian Panthers push for dawn raids apology and we were challenged to create a DLO about a provocation about “Should the Goverment of today (2021) have apologised for the dawn raids of yesterday (970s)? Me and Cattaleya was using our smart searching about the Polynesian Panthers and dawn raids and used our own opinions about why they should apologies and why not. I enjoyed doing this acitivty because we get to learn about what happened in the past and what happened in New Zealand.