How SPCA'S Help The World

Here is my third Summer Learning Journey post for Day 1 Week 1 Activity 3 year 6-8. What I found challenging while making this post was to pick a good charity cause they were all so awesome! But I loved the SPCA one best! Here is my post about How SPCA'S Help The World.

My Culture

Here I am again for another Summer Learning Journey blog post. This time I have finished the Day 1 Week 1 Activity 2 for year 6-8 students. The thing I found hard while doing this blog post was finding out what my culture is because because I am part British, Irish, Scottish, Australian, NZ and English. But I loved finding out where my ancestors where from! Here is my Summer Learning Journey blog post about my culture!

10 Foods To Bring On A Sea Voyage

The summer holidays have already started at Awahono School. So I though I might start getting into the routine of doing a Summer Learning Journey post everyday. I have completed the Day 1 Week 1 Activity 1 for year 6-8. The thing I found hard while doing this post was trying to find food that lasts long because if you picked the wrong one you could starve. But I loved how we got to pick what foods WE wanted to eat. I love the topic of the Summer Learning Journey because I love learning about the history of the world and the people on it. Here is my blog post on 10 Foods To Bring On A Sea Voyage.

My Respect Reminder

Sometimes in class I am not always an A+ student... so here are some reminders for me that I wrote for myself and it might help you too!

Wooden Christmas Trees

In class we have been getting into the Christmas mood by making Wooden Christmas Trees. First we had to find a big or little piece of wood that was a triangle shape for our tree. Then we had to start planing out what patterns we wanted on it. Now for the painting part, most of us are at this stage right now but some have already finished. Tahlia and I are in the middle of painting our big tree. Here is our Christmas tree that is not quiet finished. I am excited to show you the finish product so stay tuned. 

My War Speech

In Room Six we have been learning how to write speeches. We had to chose a specific topic, mine was World War 1. What I found really hard was when we had to pronounce all the words right and actually saying the speech in front of people. Some people who were confident in talking in front of people were able to put there names up for Speech Board. Speech Board is an event where you share your speech with slideshows and props in front of real judges! I was one of the people who did it. After we did the speech they rated us on ow we presented it. The different awards were a disqalification, pass, commended, highly commended and distinction. One of our students at Awahono school was rated a  distinction which is the highest rating and most of the others where rated highly commended or commended. here is my World War 1 speech!  

I hear people say… If we didn’t have this war we wouldn’t have any of the things we have now. but I just don’t understand, Why have all this technology when you could have saved the lives of thousands. even if some did survive the horror they remember from war would be with them until the end.

 This is how it all started out. It was the one time that THE GREAT WAR could've been stopped. So, there was this guy who was named Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and he was the next in line for the Austo-Hungarin throne, but I think there was some people like Gavrilo Princip who were really really jealous, like deadly jealous. So, on 28 of June 1914 when that guy and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were riding in one of those convertible carriages with no roof, There was an assassination. And sadly The Duchess of Hohenberg and Archduke Franz Ferdinand died, when they were shot to death by.. Yep, you guessed! Gavrilo Princip the really jealous guy. So. after that he was in prison for twenty long years which he obviously deserved and basically everything went downhill from that. And that was how a Deadly Deadly war started.

 If you were a soldier that guilty feeling would not go away, knowing you killed and slaughtered so many people.. So many innocent people. You would never forgive yourself. A warrior you were but now just a body in the field once brave and bold but now broken. When you signed up you thought it would be fun, no life or death situations, you thought it would just be a game but no, no war is much different from that. Sometimes, a soldier might just knock on your door saying that you must die, and you can’t hide because there is nowhere to go, you just have to accept your fate. You know your innocent but they don’t know that and I don’t think they will believe you because they just want to get it over and done with, maybe there's somewhere else they need to be, for example: on the battlefield shooting bullets through the enemies heads. Yep, they’ve got to do that. For some reason!

 The harsh reality they had to live in back then would have been gruesome and deadly. And I know I wouldn’t like to be in that situation. But I am going to make sure that there is not any more wars like that in the future.

Murchison White Water Rafting

Room 6 has had the chance to go on an amazing camp to Murchison! We did lots of cool activities like, White Water Rafting, Comet line, Jet boating and the Natural Flames Walk. My favourite thing to do was the White Water Rafting because it was really heart pumping! We had to make a google drawing to advertise our favourite thing on camp. Here is mine!