Current Events

LI: To explore the international current events. 



This week, we explored the international currents events and some of the different types of current events. Newspaper editors make choices everyday, about what to share with the world. On a google maps, Sakina, Haylee and I worked collaboratively to plot locations about these current event stories. We really enjoyed finding out about these stories, which was very interesting.

Te Tiriti O Waitangi

LI: To identify key words in a text and use these words to collaboratively summarise the events in the text.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a very important time in New Zealand history. In 1860, representatives from the British Crown and Maori Chiefs signed a treaty of agreement, to let the Maori have ownership over their land and property. Partnership, Participation, and Protection were the underlining principles under the treaty. They got the treaty to be signed by over 500 Maori chiefs.

Created by
Haylee, Sakina, Victoria, Florence, Miiana, Ellenora

This week we looked at Te Tiriti O Waitangi, We did this to look at the history of the treaty of waitangi. We created a small summary of the text that we read.  We used words from the key words that we chose from the text to create the summary. 

Kiwi Can Reflection

Today was our first session of Kiwi Can. To start of Kiwi Can we talked about what fairness and fair play. We then got on with our energiser, the energiser was called change places.
This is how to play it:
Every gets in a circle, then there is one person that says something like "Who likes Ice Cream" then whoever likes ice cream would change places with someone else in the circle. Then continue until there is a winner. After we played the energiser we talked about Empathy. We talked more about what it means, how you can have empathy for someone and what situations you would be in to show empathy. After talking about Empathy we did our activity, our activity was a roleplay of Negative and Positive. My group was roleplaying negative, In my group was Victoria, Lily, Liletina, Diana and Afatia. Our role play was about all of us playing tag and then someone falls over, The rest of the group would laugh and not care. Kiwi Can was great today and I enjoyed.

Explanation: Plastic Pollution

Why is plastic pollution a problem for our coastlines?

Did you know that over 1,000,000 sea animals lose their lives each year due to the huge amounts of plastic waste in our oceans and coastlines?! Mistaking it for food, the animals will eat the plastic...but as it takes years to break down, it stays trapped in their body and they will eventually die. From our actions, they are forced to suffer and we create a bigger problem for ourselves in the future...How would you feel to be swimming in plastic?

Plastic makes up 90% of the pollution on the ocean’s surface; a large majority of that ends up inside our sea animals or wrapped around their neck, and intoxicating the waters. The plastic we leave lying on pathways and throwing on the street ends up in drains and leads to the sea. About 97 percent of New Zealanders have admission to plastic facilities, but why aren’t we doing anything about it?

Plastic is biodegradable but it takes around 1,000 years to break down based on the type of plastic it is. Plastic NZ says that every New Zealander takes in about 31kgs of plastic packaging a year, but only around 5.8kgs get recycled. “Love Your Coast” is one of the many projects that is taking action by bringing together groups of people to help clean the shores of New Zealand. This project decides to clean the shores of New Zealand as they want the next generation to be cleaner.

We should take action now for a better and healthier future!

Blurb

This week for writing we have been looking at explanations. We created an explanation in groups of 4. Victoria, Sakina and Haylee were in my group. The explanation was about Plastic pollution and the organisation called Love your coast. Love your coast is an organization that helps pick up rubbish around New Zealand. They have loads of people helping with this action, because they want he next generation to b cleaner.

Exploring our national current events

This week for reading we’ve been looking at national news for current events.
We have been looking at news articles to put under reading topics such as Timeliness,
Continuity, Oddity, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, . The news we
needed to find had to be national which meant in the country, We have worked in
groups and in our group was Victoria, Ellenora, Diana, Chris,Ong,  and myself.