In Room 5 we are learning different languages.
I am learning Mandarin from China, so I have created a thinglink about Chinese culture. Doing this thinglink I learnt how to embed videos to show what I have learnt. Next time I want to include more facts by added more websites.
I chose mandarin because i am Chinese and I speak cantonese but the main language in China is mandarin. Fun fact Cantonese is spoken by 55 million people in the world but mandarin is spoken by 6 billion people in the world.
Tuesday 28 June 2016
Sunday 26 June 2016
Saturday 25 June 2016
Friday 24 June 2016
Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard
What: Kate Sheppard is a women's right activist and protests for women's right to vote. You can find her on the ten dollar note.
Who: Originally her name was Catherine Wilson Malcolm. She is also known as Katherine Wilson Malcolm, Katherine Malcolm, Catherine Malcolm.
When Where: Kate Sheppard was born in liverpool England on March 10th, 1847. She moved to New Zealand in the late 1860s. She died on July 13th 1934 in Christchurch, New Zealand
What: In 1885, she co-founded the Women's Christian temperance union. Two years later in 1887, she became a leader of its suffrage campaign.
By Mikayla
Thursday 23 June 2016
A Bush Walk Gone Wrong!
A BUSH WALK GONE WRONG!
A bush walk gone wrong! It was a Sunny Tuesday morning, when my mum and I went on a bush walk in theTararua forest. Mum and I couldn’t be more excited to be in New Zealand doing a famous bush trail. It was nothing like back home in America. I can just feel the sun shining on my skin. I can see the river glistening in the sun, the pohutukawa trees swaying to and fro, in the light breezy wind. I can hear the tui and the fantail birds singing a lovely tune.
It was now the afternoon. The golden sun has set and the cold, dark, musty, blue moon risen, it’s time to go home. We fell down, a big steep bank, into a abandoned shallow stream. I was in shock. Mum and I didn’t know what to do. I can hear my heart thumping inside my chest. Mum and I felt depressed in this dark, dense forest. We cling to each other to keep our warmth.
Dawn cracked through the musty night sky.The cold wintery night came to an end, and the raise of the sun groped their way through the tall palm trees. Mum had collected rocks from the stream to write help. A few Minutes later I woke to a loud chopping sound of a helicopter. It was a rescue helicopter coming to save us. I quickly jumped up in excitement and gathered my bag. We jumped into the helicopter and took a 30 minute fly to the nearest hospital, where we got something to eat. Now we can go to sleep knowing we will be safe.
Based on a true story
References
By Mikayla
Tuesday 21 June 2016
A tour like no other
A tour like no other
Who are the Springboks?
The springboks are the South African rugby team
Why was the Springbok tour like no other? It was a tour like no other because there was many protest against the apartheid law in South Africa. This created cause.
What side would you have taken and why? I would have taken to stay at home because there is a chance you could end up in jail for along time. And I did not care about rugby.
What was the purpose of apartheid? The purpose of the apartheid it was to keep people from different races apart
Do you think sport should be influenced by politics? why/why not? I think sport should be influenced by policies. Such as the president the nation chose them to be advocate of the nation.
What did the protesters do? The protesters fought for the apartheid to stop.
What were the protesters outside the Hamilton Rugby park advised to do? Why? They were advertised to remove anti tour badges because John Minto wanted the tour to be scrapped.
What did the tour make clear to New Zealanders? It made clear that nothing but trouble would come of the tour.
What is race relations? Race relations are relations between different cultures.
Do you think we have positive race relations now? Why? Yes, we should have positive race relations because everyone is different a we should we should accept them.
References
http://www.listener.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/017a-lis-9-july.jpg?8e9240
References
http://www.listener.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/017a-lis-9-july.jpg?8e9240
By Mikayla
Monday 20 June 2016
Archibald Baxter
Archibald Baxter
What was the war that he refused to fight in? (include dates and places) He refused to fight in the first World war in 1914 in England Europe.
What did people think of the men who refused to fight? People thought that the men who refused to fight were cowards. 
Find a map of Saddle Hill Dunedin, Brighton Otago, and a map of the places mentioned later in article in Europe.
How many children were in his family? He was the second oldest out of 8 children.
How old was he when he left school? 12 years old
What did he do for work? He was a farmer that thinned turnips, milked cows, herd sheeps, build fences and stott rabbits. He later on ran a small farm located in South Brighton, owned by his mother’s family.
What influenced him to believe that war was wrong? The lawyer Alfred Barclay spoke against the law.
Who was called for military conscription and why? Eligible bodied men between the ages 20 and 45.
What does “appeal on grounds of conscience” mean?(p26) Knowing what's right from wrong
How long did he spend on prison? 84 days
Where was he sent? - list
- Trentham military camp
- Wellington Wharf
- Sling Army Camo in England
- NZ army base camp in France.
Name the punishments he faced? -
- list court martialled
- solitary confinement
- bread and water diet
- 84 days in prison
What did the medical board diagnose him as? (p30) He was diagnosed with shell shock, symptoms include mental weakness and confusional insanity.
What does this mean? It meant that he had a weak mind and is confused how to socially interact or behave.
Who did he marry? He married Millicent Brown. How many children did he have? He had two sons, named James and Terence. James became a famous poet and Terence, like his father, became a conscientious objector during the second World War.
A Pair of Sandals
A pair of sandals, old black pants
And leather coat — I must go, my friends,
Into the dark, the cold, the first beginning
Where the ribs of the ancestor are the rafters
Of a meeting house — windows broken
And the floor white with bird dung — in there
The ghosts gather who will instruct me
And when the river fog rises
Te ra rite tonu te Atua —
The sun who is like the Lord
Will warm my bones, and his arrows
Will pierce to the centre of the shapeless clay of the mind. Hemi.
References
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/hero_archibald-baxter.jpg
By Mikayla
Friday 17 June 2016
Solar System Thinglink
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| As part of our learn create share learning with Mrs Ashe we have been learning to use Thinglink. I have created a presentation which has a LOT of information on the Solar System. This learning is rewindable because you can watch it over and over again. I hope you enjoy it. Please leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment. Thanks for viewing my blog. |
Thursday 16 June 2016
Report on Oscar Romero
Report Oscar Romero
Oscar Romero was born on August the 15th 1917 in Ciudad Barrios which is located in EL Salvador. He was a significant figure in El Salvador history. Oscar is and was looked up to for what he did for the country especially for the poor. He started to develop a passion for helping the poor when his friend Rutilio Grande was assassinated by the government while driving to a chapel for standing up for poor.
Oscar helped the poor by broadcasting his speeches against poverty, torture, social injustice and repression of the poor. The radio station later got blown up by the government. The government was incensed that Oscar was spreading the Christian message of peace.
On the afternoon of March 24th 1980, Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was brutally assassinated by a marksman when he was presenting mass. The community was in tears and started greving. The poor didn’t have someone to stand up for them. One of Oscar Romero’s quotes is, “A church that doesn’t provoke any cries, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a world of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the society in which is being proclaimed - what gospel is that.”
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By Mikayla
Monday 13 June 2016
About Me
We have been learning how to use a thing link to create a profile about me, Please leave a positive comment below!
Saturday 11 June 2016
Term 1 Week 4
Term 1 Week 4
Problem 1 : On the first day of school for 2016, Miss Goodier gave out 32 pencils, Mr Hadnett gave out 35 pencils, and Miss Ashe gave out 28 pencils. At the end of the first week of school, Mr Tyrell checked everyone still had a pencil and discovered that 60 had gone missing! How many pencils are there still?
Solution :
32 + 35 + 28 = 95
95 - 60 = 35
Answer 35 pencils
Problem 2 : At the supermarket, there are 84 oranges in one carton and 58 apples in the carton next to it. How many oranges and apples are there altogether?
Solution : 84 + 58 = 142
Answer 142
Problem 3 : I have measured a wall of my bedroom and it is 4.1 metres long. I want to buy two pieces of furniture but I want to fit them along this particular wall. The table is 1.8m long. The bed is 2.4m long. What is the length of the table and bed combined? 1.8m + 2.4m = 4.2m is the total length of the table and bed combined.
Will this fit along the wall of my bedroom? No because if you takeway 4.1 by 4.2 it will equal -0.1
By Mikayla
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