PBS Blogging Joruney

For this PBS Blogging Journey activity, the task was to: Use your smart searching skills to find out which event is on at the museum these holidays Create your own 5 photo exhibition. Remember to be creative with your DLO. For the first part of the activity, the event is called Time To Serve: Soldier Or Stretcher Bearer. It is on from the 9th to the 15th of October (10am - 2pm). For the second half of the activity, I created a 5 photo exhibition with a Lego man. 

PBS Blogging Journey

For this PBS Blogging Journey activity, the task is to: Find out about a parade that is held outside the Auckland Museum once a year (When it is held and why it is held). Record your answer on Vocaroo and post it on your blog.

Here is the link to my recording: https://vocaroo.com/i/s0WV00Eg55rI

PBS Blogging Journey

For this PBS Blogging Journey activity, the task is to: Visit the museum website and find out about life as an ANZAC soldier. Find three interesting facts and say why you found them interesting.

Fact 1: Archduke Franz Ferdinand's death started WW1. I found this interesting because if he hadn't have been assassinated, the war would never have started.

Fact 2: WW1 ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. I found that interesting because a very bloody war ended on a very weird date.  

Fact 3: In WW1, when the ANZAC's left, they had to put sandbags on their shoes so that the enemy wouldn't hear them. I found this interesting because it was a very smart idea that might have saved lives.

Winter Learning Journey

Hector’s dolphins are only found in New Zealand waters. Sadly, many of them are getting killed each year because they are getting killed accidentally by fishers). I have to form an opinion on where I think fishing should be banned in Farewell spit (Where hector’s dolphins are found). I think it should be banned because people could fish in other places where the dolphins aren’t found. The dolphins could become extinct if people keep killing them.

Winter Learning Journey

For this winter learning journey task, I have to watch two trailers of a movie called Whale Rider. I then have to write a summary of the movie and rate it out of five. The movie is about a girl whose twin brother was supposed to be the next chief in their tribe. However, the boy dies when he is born and his sister survives. Only males are allowed to become a chief so the custom is changed when the brother dies, and the sister survives. I give this movie a 3 out of 5 because it doesn’t really seem like a movie i’d want to watch

Winter Learning Journey

For this activity, I had to read about a place called Farewell Spit. It was in the news recently where some whales accidentally swam into the spit and got stuck on the beach. They couldn’t swim back out to the sea because the water they were in was to shallow. The local people tried to save them, but sadly many of them died. I have to describe what the local people did to try and save the whales. The locals did these things:

• Pour buckets of water on the whales
• Put wet towels/cloths on the whales
• They also filled bowls, chilly bins, water bottles, pots with water and poured the water over the beached whales

Summer Learning Journey

For this summer learning journey activity, I created a word cloud on the things I am going to take with me on the plane. I was supposed to use this site called wordle but it is not working so I used Tagul.

Summer Learning Journey

For this activity, I have to make a list of all of the things I will need to bring with me when I go to my chosen country. I put a star (*) next to the five items that I think are most important.

I think a jumper and a warm hat would be useful because Canada sounds like a very cold country and I might need them. I also might need a phone to call my parents if something happens.

Jumper *

Warm hat *

Shoes and Socks *

Phone *

Pants

Shirt

Camera *

Summer Learning Journey

For this summer learning journey activity, I have to look at the weather forecast at the country I decided to visit. I decided to visit Canada so here is the weather forecast for the next five days:

December 18: Morning snow

December 19: Partly sunny and very cold

December 20: Partly sunny but not as cold

December 21: A bit of ice in the afternoon

December 22: Snow of varying intensity

Winter Learning Journey

For this winter learning journey activity I had to watch a video called be the inspiration. It was made by the New Zealand Olympic team. After watching the video I had to rate it and say what I liked and didn't like. I liked how it showed different athletes from New Zealand instead of just one or two. I didn't like those colored lines that went across the screen (I didn't know what they were for). I give this video a four star (****) rating. If you want to watch the video for yourself here is the link to the website: http://betheinspiration.nz/

Winter Learning Journey

For this winter learning journey I had to imagine I was going to meet one of these three athletes: Lauren Boyle, Stuart Farquhar or Andrea Kilday. I would choose to meet Stuart because he does javelin throwing and he biggest throw was 86.31 meters. That is very impressive because I doubt that I could throw that far. It must have taken a lot of training and hours practicing.  

Winter Learning Journey

For the next winter learning journey activity I had to pick one of the 76 New Zealand people going to the Rio De Janerio Olympic games and write their name, the sport they play and three interesting facts about them.

Name: Valerie Adams

Sport she plays: Shot put

Fact 1: She was born in Rotorua

Fact 2: She has won 2 gold medals in the Olympics and another 3 in the Commonwealth

Fact 3: She has won 14 New Zealand shot put titles