Pasifika Migartion

 

Polynesian Panthers

 

Tuhi Atu Comparison

 

Tatau Inforgraphic

 

Caregivers

 

Care for the elderly

This is a poster I made about elderly's. 

 

Flow chart

 

Nelson Mandela

The climb by Miley Cyrus

Who do you think this song was written for? For people who are struggling with their life.    

How much do you know about Miley Cyrus? Do you think this song was about her life? Why? I don’t really know about Miley Cyrus but I think this song is about her life.

What other inspirational songs do you know? List the link on this document ?

What does ‘lost with no directions mean?’ She can’t see 

If you had to write a response song to Miley Cyrus’, what would your lyrics be? I’m not to sure 

‘I can almost see it’. What do you think this line is referring to? She can almost see something.

I can almost see it

That dream I'm dreaming but

There's a voice inside my head saying

You'll never reach it,

Every step I'm taking,

Every move I make feels

Lost with no direction

My faith is shaking but I

Gotta keep trying

Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain

I'm always gonna wanna make it move

Always gonna be an uphill battle

Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there

Ain't about what's waiting on the other side

It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing

The chances I'm taking

Sometimes might knock me down but

No I'm not breaking

I may not know it

But these are the moments that

I'm going to remember most yeah

Just got to keep going

And I

I gotta be strong

Just keep pushing on, 'cause

There's always gonna be another…

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I have dreams

 I have dreams 

by Antonia Lee, Sara Fung, Christy Fung, Rachel Lam

I have no dreams in my life

And I do not concede that

I have talents

I am not a person who contributes

And I refuse to believe that

I will be useful

I tell you this:

In the future

I will not be famous

No longer can it be said that

my friends and parents will support me

It will be evident that

I am apathetic

It is foolish to presume that

I have dreams

Life is like a battlefield

Without dreams

Being a lawyer, will not be my aim

Being an accountant, will not be my goal

Being a doctor, will not be my dream

I would never say that

There is hope in my life

Who do you think this poem is referring to? I think it is referring to the fact that we don’t always have to be perfect.

Why did the authors write this poem?  I think they wrote this poem so it can inspire other people to achieve their dreams.

How effective is the poem read in reverse? When it is read in reverse it sounds positive but when you read it forward it sounds negative.

If you could give this poem another title, what would it be? I have hope 

What does the word concede mean? admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it.

How do you feel when you read the first 4 lines of the poem from the top? I feel like its negative 

How do you feel when you read the first 4 lines of the poem from the end? I feel like everyone has a dream...

‘Life is like a battlefield’ what is this line referring to?’ That our life is hard sometimes. 

Listening to the Land

Listening to the Land

by Laura Goodall

Pauline Harris is a scientist of Rongomaiwahine and Ngāti Kahungunu descent. Like many scientists, she’s been listening to communities from around the world report on the effects of climate change. “Indigenous people who live in really cold places like Alaska have already talked about unusual changes in their environment. Lakes are thawing out earlier than they used to. Mosquitoes are hatching earlier and growing faster.” These reports made Pauline wonder whether Māori communities might be aware of similar changes in Aotearoa. Could climate change be affecting how our wildlife behaves?

To answer this question, Pauline is working with a team of researchers to visit iwi and hapū throughout the country. The mātauranga held by these communities extends back hundreds of years. It could reveal insights into how our plants and animals acted in the past – and how these activities are changing now.

Often when we read, we come across words which we do not understand or have never seen before. With each word in red from the text above. Write down the sentence they were used in and what you understand the meaning to be from the sentence. 

Word	Sentence	What I think it means
climate change	Like many scientists, she’s been listening to communities from around the world report on the effects of climate change.	I think that climate change means things are changing around the world
Indigenous people	“Indigenous people who live in really cold places like Alaska have already talked about unusual changes in their environment.	I think Indigenous people means people that were here first.
hatching	Mosquitoes are hatching earlier and growing faster	I think that hatching means things that hatch in a egg
mātauranga	he mātauranga held by these communities extends back hundreds of years.	I think it means education in Maori.

There are a lot of words in Te Reo Maori in the text. Find the meaning of the Te Reo Maori words in this table.

Here is the link to a Maori dictionary to help you. 

Word	Meaning
Matauranga	education - an extension of the original meaning and commonly used in modern Māori with this meaning.
Maramataka	Maori lunar calendar a planting and fishing monthly almanac
Pipiri	First lunar month of the Maori year
Hongonui	Second lunar month of the Maori  year
Rongomaiwahine	Rongomaiwahine is a Māori iwi traditionally centred in the Mahia Peninsula
Kahungunu	tribal group of the southern North Island east of the ranges from the area of Nūhaka and Wairoa to southern Wairarapa.
Here-turi-koka	August is the eight month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendar.
takurua	Sirius , the dog star.
koanga	Be spring and planting time in spring
raumati	To be summer
ngahuru	Used in a similar way to tekau but less frequently with other words to form the numbers to 11-19.

From our discussions

What do you understand about these words from our discussions?

Word	Meaning
Phenology	Timing of animals and plants
Pollinate	Bees collecting nectar and flying to other flowers and leaving pollinate for the flowers to grow
Gregorian calendar	the calendar introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregor
Ecosystems	a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
Indigenous people	Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures

Question for discussion

Do we really need these academic words? Yes we do cause it can help people with these words. It can also be used in science.

What is your response? People can use these academic words and learn from the past on what the meaning of these words mean.

Reflection About Reading

 Today in reading my group read a book called listening to the land.  We had a discussion about unpacking vocabulary and finding out words we don’t understand. 

One of the words we found was ( Climate change )  it means a change in global or regional climate patterns. We learnt a few more words to link to climate change. 

What I read on kiwi kids news

What I read on kiwikids news

Graduation on jet skis

I read that a high school called Somerset Island Prep in florida had their  2020 Graduation on jet skis due to covid 19. 

Every Student was dressed in graduation caps, gowns and masks. When they got to the main boat their princepal presented them with their high school diplomas. It took them 3 hours of training how to drive a jet ski.

Mānuka/kahikātoa

Financial Literacy

We learnt about how to budget and save money. The other topics we learnt about were insurance,borrowing and lending,identity theft mortgage,trust and saving money.

Our tutors were Ema,Jane and Matt from price waterhouse and cooper accountant.

I enjoyed all the sessions because the activities were very exciting and practical.

Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist. She liked to look after gorillas so people don’t kill them. She protected gorillas for 18 years and  then people killed Dian Fossey because they didn't like her looking after the gorillas. Now the people can kill gorillas because they killed Dian Fossey.

Nana And the flower arranger

CREATE: How did Luke’s feelings change from the beginning to the end of the story?

Beginning of story	End of story
Luke was angry how nana died	Luke wanted to go back to the house
Luke was upset	Luke gave nana flowers
Luke was sad when nana was away	Luke was happy for nana because there was lots of birds
Luke was sad because the weka messed up the flowers	Luke had lots of stories to tell about nana