Summer learning journey Day 2 activity 1- similie

Summer learning journey activity 3 - BFG

BFG has little girl named sophie she lived at an orphanage. She kept seeing someone on the street a shadow. then a really big giant put his hand through the window and took sophie he ran really fast back to his house which was a cave in the giant land. and he put sophie into a snozcumber which is like a cucumber but gross amd the bad giant tried to eat it but sophie escaped.

The BFG is 24 feet high and he has really big ears he's old he's skinny he has big hands and he is friendly. the Bfg's name is Runt. Runt lived on his own in a little cave he is the friendliest giant in the world.

Summer learning journey activity 2

Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, director, actor and comedian. He has produced and/or directed a number 

of popular films including “Boy,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok.” As a child, Taika Waititi lived in Raukokore

 (a small town on the East Coast of 

New Zealand). When he graduated from secondary school Taika moved to Wellington to study drama at Victoria University. 

Despite moving away from home, he has 

never forgotten his family or his roots (where he comes from).

Speaking of roots, Taika comes from a culturally diverse family. 

His dad is Māori (Te Whānau-a-Apanui) and his mother is Russian-Jewish. I, on the other hand, am Pākeha (New Zealand European). 

Most of my ancestors come from England. When I talk about who I am, and introduce myself to others, I sometimes use a pepeha.

Image Attribution: Taika Waititi, Gage Skidmore, cc-by-sa-3.0

Summer learning journey activity 1

Image Attribution: Universal Studios, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Court_(song)

DAY 1: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

‘Lorde’ is a New Zealand singer who rose to fame in 2013 with the release of her song Royals.
She currently has over 6 million followers on both Instagram and Facebook and close to
8 million followers on Twitter.
 Lorde has won many awards and influenced many people with her music and her original
dance moves.

Lorde’s real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor and she was born in Auckland, New Zealand in
1996. Her mother,
Sonja Yelich, is Croatian and her father, Vic O’Connor, is Irish. Lorde’s parents encouraged her to read
a lot as a child.
 They also encouraged her to follow her passion. Lorde started performing covers
 (other people’s songs) when she was at intermediate school and started writing her own original
music as a young teen.

Reading - pandemic flu

Maths - treasure map

Today I worked out a math problem about a treasure chest that is lost and these pirates trying to find it. This is the map of where the chest is. I put three trees on the bottom and granite boulders on the side and the chest right in the middle.

genomic show - Point england

Last week and the year 8 walked to Point England to show what we have learnt about genomics. We entered there hall and we saw Whaea Jannie and Thierry. When we got there we sat next to there yr 7 and 8's, after we were waiting for glen innes to come. When they go there all of point England did a prayer and waiata which is a song. Then there principal Mr Burt came to welcome the schools and talk to us. After that glen innes and us split into one of the classes in point England to talk to us about what we learnt and what we learnt. Me and my friend Viliami tupou wen to room 4 , first we introduced ourselves to them  and say what we like and what culture we were, we started off by  saying what are favourite part of genomics and then we went to showing our presentations. First it was point presenting , glen innes then me and Viliami. I talked about a plant cell and how a plant cell works and Viliami talked about a semi permeable membrane. Next everyone had to do a quiz in there own class and whoever had the most points wins prizes, are team name was eatters. We got ten points and the first place team which was the hp girls had twelve or thirteen points. After they announced the best presentations of a cell. Maya and Candice got a prize for baking a cell cake. Finally we were getting ready to go back to school we got our bags  and walked back to school.