Flora and Fauna

Hello everyone, on hurumanu 1, we are learning about flora and fauna. Flora is basically the native flowers of New Zealand, and fauna is about the native animals. 

Our task was to read an article that is somewhat related to flora and fauna. It also gives some interesting facts. We had to make a D.L.O about the facts that were written on the article. The site that I used to create my D.L.O is Prezi.

Here is the link for my D.L.O.

Thank you for reading this post about flora and fauna. Bye.

Writing & Grammar

 Hello everyone, today for hurumanu 1 we learned about verbs & adverbs.

Verbs is a doing thing, like running or talking. Adverbs are words that describes a verb, for example: I ran quickly to school.

I used google doc to write my work on, here is my work:

Thank you for reading my post, bye.

How To Be Normal

みなさん、こんにちわ 
Minasan, kon'nichiwa (Hello everyone). 

Hurumanu 1 is Outstander. We were put into groups that matches our level. Our task was to read the article that the teacher assigned us to do. The name of the article is 'How To Be Normal'.

How to be Normal

Did I understand?

1) Who did Charley bang into?

Charley accidentally banged into Michaela when she was walking to her desk.

2) ‘Charley’s at…..more relaxed.” What's the main message/purpose of this paragraph? How does the author create this mood? What does it teach us about Charley?

The paragraph shows that she prefers to go to the library because it is peaceful and quiet there.

3) What impression does the author want to give you of Charley? How do you know?

After reading this article, I realised that Charley is an introvert. She is lonely, no one really hangs out with

her.

4) Why is Charley angry with Amy? Do you think that she is right to be angry? Why/why not?

In my opinion, Charley didn’t have the right to be angry with Amy, Amy was just trying to stick up for

Charley. But Charley didn’t want Amy to stick up for her.

5) Find a range of words and phrases to show how Charley is feeling throughout the story.

• Friendless - Someone who has no friend.

• Isolated - Far away from other people.

• Downcast - A person who always looks down to the ground.

Exploring Language!

What do these words mean? Find a definition for each one and use it in a sentence.

• Screeches - Screeches is a type of high pitched screaming noise.

• Apologise - Apologise means saying sorry for what they have done wrong.

• Intently - Someone who is eager for attention.

Write 3 sentences about the story using ‘they’re’, ‘there’ and ‘their’.

There was a girl that was eager to be normal. She wasn't like other girls, instead she was an introvert.

Her name was Charley, she didn't have any friends, she was lonely in fact. No one stood up for her.

When Charley was walking to her class, some people were throwing their paper around the class.

Suddenly, she accidentally hit someone’s desk. The desk that she accidentally hit was Michaela’s,

Michaela’s friends were also there. They're the people who pick on Charley. Her feet got rammed.

All In Order!

Select at least 10 of your adjectives and put them in alphabetical order.

Best

Better

Chewed-up

Closed

Long

Old

Quiet

Relaxed

Weird

Worst

Why do you think we gave you this article to read as part of our Outstanders hurumanu? Write a

paragraph explaining your ideas and giving evidence from the story.

This hurumanu is called outstander, so it might relate to being an outstander or a bystander. The story talks about a girl who is an introvert, she was getting bullied, so she wanted to be normal. 

さようなら
Sayonara (Good-bye).

Kate Sheppard Reading Activities

 Hello everyone, in hurumanu 1 which is outstanding. We are currently learning about Kate Sheppard.

Kate Sheppard is the women who is in the $10 note, here is a picture of the $10 note:

 

Kate Sheppard is in the $10 note because of her brave actions, New Zealand was the first country to let women's vote. Women's are allowed to vote now days because of Kate Sheppard.

Kate Sheppard wasn't born in New Zealand, she was born in Liverpool (England).

One of the activities for the Kate Sheppard work was to design an advertisement to encourage people to sign the Kate Sheppard petition. I created a poster, here is my work:

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learn't something about Kate Sheppard

Typhoon Vamco

 Hello everyone, this post is about Typhoon Vamco. Typhoon Vamco is a typhoon that went across Philippines to Vietnam.

In hurumanu 1, which is social science and reading. We have to finish the Christchurch Earthquake task, which I have already finished. If we have already finished the Christchurch Earthquake task, we have to make a D.L.O about a disaster that happened anywhere in the world. The disaster that I chose to make a D.L.O about is Typhoon Vamco as you can see in the title.

Basically, Typhoon Vamco is a very dangerous typhoon that struck Philippines and Vietnam. Everyone who lives in Philippines and Vietnam have to immediately evacuate. There was many deaths and injured and some people were missing. The typhoon started at the Northwest of Palau, and went came across Philippines and landed in Vietnam. Both countries were damaged, Luzon was the most damaged place in Philippines.

Even if the flood was weakened, there's still a chance that it might reach other islands.

For my D.L.O, I created a slideshow. Here is a link for the slideshow that I created about Typhoon Vamco: Link

Question: If you have a chance of helping people that was affected in the Typhoon, what would you do?

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learn't something about Typhoon Vamco. Bye!

Protest / Mr John Minto

Hello.

In hurumanu 1, we worked on protests that happened in New Zealand. Protest is someone who says a statement about their objections, one of the biggest protest that happened was the Parihaka and also the Women's Suffrage. We had to read an article about all of the main protests that happened in NZ, here is the link to that article if you want to read what it says there. In the article, it shows many different protest that happened the Great Strike was also involved in there. 

Here is the slide show that I worked on about the protest:

Link

Mr John Minto:

John Minto had an important role in the Springbok Tour Protest. South African's didn't let South Africans join the All Blacks team, and the All Blacks didn't let black Maori join the South African's team.

Mr John Minto protested with other 300 people, he was wearing a blue helmet. While in the protest, angry rugby supporters started attack John Minto, which is was bad. He's helmet was damaged, because some people was hitting him.

Which protest is are you interested in?

Thank you for reading this post, bye.