Cow Yoga!

Have you ever heard of Cow Yoga? Yes, there is such thing! For our literacy bingo this week we had to get onto Kiwi Kids News where we had to find an article that interested us and make a poster about it. I picked the one about cow yoga. Here is my poster!

Catapult

Have you ever wanted to make a catapult all by yourself? This slideshow will give you all the knowledge you need on how to make a catapult. On Friday we were in Room 2 for science and we were learning all about how to make a catapult. We had to write about what you need, how to make it, what you thought would happen, what happened and what you could change next time. 

The Force

How many times have you heard the saying " May The Force Be With You?" In reading at the moment my group are reading a book called The Force in a School Journal series. It is about this boy that is really scared to jump off a bridge and into a river but gets guidance from... You guessed it! Yoda from Star Wars! After reading the story we had to pick one of the quotes that were involved and make a poster about it. Here is my poster!

Dairy Products

 Who doesn't like butter on toast? Did you know that you could make your own homemade butter! At Awahono School we have started doing science rotations on Friday's. This week Room 6 were in Mrs Bailey's classroom and we got to make butter and ice cream! We haven't yet got to try the ice cream because it needs to freeze but the butter tasted pretty good. After we finished making the products we had to pick one to write instructions on. I picked butter! Here is my writing about HOW TO MAKE BUTTER!

Nitro Type

Have you ever played Nitro Type before? If you haven't heard of it, that's ok, because I will give you all the info. Nitro Type is a school friendly game that allows students to practise their typing while having fun and I recommend it! Here is a screenshot of me having a go! My name is Fast Fairy.

Name Plaques

 Do you remember how annoying it was when someone stole your bag spot? Well, as a part of maths Room 6 have started making some name plaques for where our bags go. We have to get the right and certain measurements for our piece of wood and after that we can paint it however we like. Our class have been having heaps of fun making these objects. Here our some photos!

Is Power Good For Humanity

Have any of you competed in the Speech Board Competition? Well, I have and it was a great experience! A judge came down from over the hill in Christchurch to our small school for Speech Board. The children who wanted to do it wrote a speech about things they liked, popular topics and things they were passionate about. I wrote about whether power is good for humanity. At the end a good majority of us got the highest known rank of distinction. Here is my speech.

Is Power Good For Humanity?

Would you rather have someone who is powerful and controlling for the leader of your country or someone who is caring, respectful and humane? My speech will make you question your beliefs. My first example of powerful leaders is Adolf Hitler from Germany.

Adolf Hitler started out as a Chancellor of Germany in 1933 but then quickly rose to Leader of Germany in 1934. His plan was to eliminate all other races and religions in central and eastern Europe. Hitler believed that only blond blue eyed Germans were a superior race. His rank as leader made him very powerful and the German army was under his command which was made up of 13 million young men who were easily led. On September 1 1939 Hitler’s army invaded Poland and that sparked the start of World War 2. Adolf was a cruel ruthless man and from 1941 to 1945 Polish Jews were gassed, shot, worked, starved and tortured to death in the death camps in Poland which resulted in %90 of Poland’s Jewish population executed. Knowing that the Nazis weren’t going to win the war Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945 a few months before the war ended on 2 September 1945. This is an example of how power was used for injustice and because of Adolf Hitler’s actions 85 million people died for no reason whatsoever.

Nelson Mandela is my second example of powerful leaders. It all started with an Apartheid. Apartheid was in South Africa during the 1940s-1990s. This is when people from different races and religions are separated from white privileged people. A South African political party called the African National Congress fought for equal rights for everyone. Nelson Mandela had a big part in this party. He led protests and performed a few speeches that include “I am prepared to die,” and “ A rainbow nation.” But the South African white government was not happy with what was happening and they thought that the ANC was getting too powerful and was going to overthrow them. So in 1964 Nelson Mandela and ten others were sent to jail for life. But in 1989 Mandela got pardoned by the new national president De Klerk. Which resulted in Nelson Mandela winning the election for president of South Africa in 1999 after having lived 27 years in prison and ending apartheid. This is an example of how power was used to bring people together for the greater good.

Now let's stop talking about the past because we can’t change that but let's talk about the present. During this global pandemic a lot of people with power have acted differently with the rising covid cases. I have two examples of how powerful people reacted to this virus.

 If you have been through the New Zealand lockdown you will have seen Jacinda Arden’s face on the Television a lot, talking about the alert levels, how many cases we have and how David Clarke broke the rules. New Zealand started out at alert level 2 but then we began 60-80 coronavirus cases a DAY! Jacinda Arden used her power to make a critical decision of putting us into lockdown.

But on the other side of the world Donald Trump did the exact opposite of that! The President of the USA actually has more power than Jacinda so why is Donald Trump not taking action? America is getting more than 55 thousand covid cases a day and he is just ignoring it! Trump says that the U.S was prepared for coronavirus but why has there been over 150 thousand deaths and still no one taking the lead. 

So who were the powerful people who acted humanely and seriously to the different problems they faced? Was it Adolf Hitler who loved to kill, Nelson Mandela who fought for equal rights, Jacinda Ardern who managed to keep coronavirus at bay or Donald Trump who ignored everything? I’ll ask you once more, Is Power Good For Humanity?