Day 5 | Activity 2: Swimming To Safety

Yursa Mardini was 18 years when she helped save 20 passengers sea-crossing on a boat. Something caused an engine failure in the boat full of people. On her journey to a safe country, the engine broke/failed. Brave Yursa took responsibility to save those people and risked her own life for those other innocent people for 3 and a half hours.


 This week for day 5, activity 2 of week 1 for SLJ, we wrote about Yursa Mardini. we read her story about how she saved/rescued 20 passengers from a boat. Yursa is part of the Refugee Olympics team. There is also about what she did above.

Day 2 | Activity 3: Miracle on the Hudson

This week for day 2, activity 3 of week 1 for SLJ, Someone who was brave: My friend Victoria did something brave at camp. She did High beam, climbing on a wood plank high in the air. She  thought is was brave because she was scared of heights.

For this Activity we got to choose someone or our self to write what the they did brave. Before this we read about Mr  Chesley Sullenberger or Sully. She was a pilot captain who saved 155 people from a plane crash.

Day 2 | Activity 2: One Small Step For Man

This week for day 2, activity 2 of week 1 for SLJ, We created a poem about what it might fell like to be Neil Armstrong walking on the moon and what is might have been lke.

Day 2 | Activity 1:Flying Solo

This week for day 2, activity 1 of week 1 for SLJ, we created a Venn diagram between Jean Batten and Amelia Earhart. Both of then were both solo pilots and wanted to travel. SO for this task i took what i know and wrote down the what they had in common and different.

Day 1 | Activity 2: Discovering Aotearoa

This week for day 1, activity 2 of SLJ, we created a DLO about our cultural background. Before we made our DLO, we learnt about Kupe and Abel Tasman. After we watched and learnt about Kupe and Abel Tasman, we created the DLO about our background. My cultural background is Germany. At the end I put 4 interesting facts about my cultural backround,

Day 1 | Activity 3:Scaling New Heights

What is the SPCA:  which is a society/charity for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Thay saves all types of animals and helps them find a new home. The SPCA Help more than 40,000 animals who were abandoned /given up, sick or hurt.

This week for day 1, activity 3 for week 1 of SLJ, on our blog we chose any charity and wrote about what it does to help the environment and what they do. There were 4 different choices but I decided t do the SPCA because it is a charity that helps animals and saves then from bad times.

Activity 3: Choose your own

This week for day 5, activity 3, for teaser week of SLJ, we created a DLO about an inventor, technologist or a scientist. Sakina and I decided to create a DLO about Keith Alexander. Keith Alexander is a mechanical engineer and invented the spring free trampolines. In our DLO, we included the name of the person, a description of the work he did and an explanation of how his work has an impact on others. This was our last week of the teaser week for SLJ. Next week we will start the SLJ activities worth of points. 

Activity 2: Impossible Burgers

This week for day 5 activity 2 for the teaser week Sakina and I  made a DLO about The original impossible burger and the new imposable burger. We put facts about the calories and fat differences between the new and original imposable burger.Pat brown was the founder of these impossible burgers. The impossible burgers are vegetarian burgers that are plant based which taste, feel and look like meat.

Activity 1: The Social Network

This week for day 5, activity 1 of teaser week for SLJ, we created a DLO based on 5 cyber smart rule while on social media. Sakina and I worked together to create this DLO. One of the important rules of being cybersmart on social media is to not share any personal information or photos to strangers. These rules are very important while on social media, which is why we should be cyber smart. 

Activity 3: The Columbian Exchange

My positive impact on someone who is my auntie. My auntie Chrystal is most understanding and helps with math and different subjects. She has been there to support me an help when needed. I hope to be like her confident hand help others and be there for family. She has also encourage me to do things and say i should always follow my dreams. she is there to motivate me and someone to talk to.

This week for day 3, activity 3 of SLJ teaser week, we wrote why we have a positive impact on someone in our life. My positive impact is my auntie. A reason why she is a positive impact on me is because she is always there to support me and encourage me.

Activity 2: When the Rubber Hits the Road

This week for day 3, activity 2 for teaser week of SLJ, we interviewed three of out  friends about what they are proud of or there family achievement. I decided to do Nidhi, Sakina and Miiana and they put down one of their proudest achievement. My proudest acheivement was when I had tho confifdence to present my speech in front of 2 judjes and other students

The water project

This week for Activity 3 activity 1 for the teaser week of SLJ we made a DLO about the water project. before we made this DLO we watched a video clip of how it was like insubterranean Africa. And how they lived the best part was when i saw then drink that healthy water from the underground tap. we put there goal were the water works and what the water project has achieved. I found interesting was that 300 million people didn't have clean water. The Water Project is a company who supplies water to countries/communities who don't have access to water

Activity 3: The Greatest of All Time

For this activity 3 day 2 we did pros and cons towards us being a GOAT with  is a professional chess player these are my thoughts of cons and pros around this topic.

Activity 2:Equal Pay for Equal Work?

This week for day 2, activity 2 for teaser week of SLJ, we looked  gender pay gap with the silver ferns. I don't think its fair to pay the men more when it should be an equal amount to the girls team rather than only one one team i think they should be paid of a fair amount of money also its not fair to pay women less. And women and men are both equal so they should get paid the same amount of money to be fair.

Activity 1:Faster than a speeding bullet

For activity 1 day 2 we did similarities on Shelly-Ann Fraser witch is a famous athlete/runner. I did four that i thought relate to her well and for the quality's she has. She has the record of 100m sprints also she won the Jamacian championship when she was only the age of 16.

Activity 3: Big Friendly Giants

This week for day 1, activity 3 for the teaser week of SLJ. We had a challenge to make a BFG. We made a small description of him and his personality. Before we listened to David Williams reading a page of the BFG. So we created a BFG character.

Activity 2: Exploring our Roots

This week for the second activity for day 1 of the teaser week of SLJ, we created a pepeha which mine shows how Taika Waititi wrote it to introduce himself to other people.Mine shows differents photos and information about me. we all used pepeha to create our DLO of our self. To make it more simple i put photos next to my words.

Activity one New Zealand

This week is the Manaiakalani SLJ Teaser week. This poster included different facts about Lorde. Today Sakina and Tuku and I were making a profile poster about the NZ singer Lorde. This was our first day/activity of the summer learning journey. I was surprised to hear the Taylor swift is very close to Lorde like a best Friend and that she was only 13 when she made her 1st record.