Summer Learning Journey

Week One- Day Three | Team players

Activity 1

For this activity, let’s imagine that you could be a superhero for a day. What three superpowers would you most like to have?

On your blog, please list the three superpowers, tell us why you have chosen each one, and tell us what you are going to do with them.

There are many superpowers I can choose to do like, being able to fly, etc. Looking at what I am set to do on this task has really made me think about this topic, but if there were three superpowers I could choose from they would definitely be time travel, teleportation and invisibility.

If I could have the superpower of time travel there would be many reasons why I would want to choose it. What is time travel? Time travel is a superpower where you can travel/ go back to the past or to the future. I would want to have the superpower of time travel because if something bad is going to happen or has happened, I would be able to fix it. 

Being able to have the superpower of teleportation would be amazing and something I would definitely want to do. I would want to have this superpower because being able to teleport or get somewhere faster would be very helpful. Like running a race, travelling, and always being on the scene when something happens.

Having the ability to be invisible would be so funny and a great superpower to have.  I definitely would want to have this superpower because you could listen to what people were talking about, mess around with people and scare them, and find out what might be going on ahead of time.

Week One- Day Three | Defying the odds

For this activity, we would like you to imagine that you had the chance to interview LeBron James, Steven Adams or another basketball player of your choice.

On your blog, tell us who you would interview and then provide a list of five questions that you would like to ask your chosen player.

If I had the opportunity of interviewing a certain basketball player, anywhere in the world I would choose to interview Kevin Durant. Kevin durant is well known for being a professional basketball player with an amazing talent with great skills. If I could ask him five questions in the interview I would ask him….

How did you get into the love of basketball?

Who helped you get to where you are now?

What has been the hardest thing involving your basketball career?

What did you do before becoming a professional basketball player?

What makes or helps you carry on playing?

Week One- Day Three | Achieving our Dreams
Activity 3

For this activity, choose a friend or family member and ask them what their dream job would be. Please then brainstorm six ways in which you could support them in achieving their dream job.

On your blog, present your ideas as a poster or infographic.

For this task I will be asking my Mum about her dream job.

When my mother was my age she has wanted to be an air hostess/ Flight attendant and still wanting to be.  I began to wonder why she might what this job, so I asked her. She replied with, “ Well, being a flight attendant would include me being  around new people and getting to know them, handing out ordered food and lollies, being able to care for someone and also to see new parts of the world.”

My mother doing this job she would need some support in some way, so here is the link to a poster with my ideas on how I can support my mother with her dream job.

Six Ways I Can Support My Mum With Her Dream Job

Week One- Day Four|Making a racket|
Activity 1

By watching this video of Serena and Venus Williams I have learned many things and still have questions to ask. Serena and Venus are two sisters who both have the love of playing tennis.

 When I watched this video I learned that Serena is ranked #1 for the most paid woman tennis player and Venus is ranked #5.  

Next I learned that Serena and Venus have been wanting equal pay for a long time but just can’t seem to get it. Serena is the most paid women tennis player but within the highest paid athletes she is ranked #51. This shows that men get a better pay than women in tennis so they want equality.

Lastly, I learned that Serena and Venus got into the career leading up to tennis by their devoted father who made sure they succeed with everything they choose to do.

If I had to ask Serena and Venus a question about themselves I would ask, at what age did you start to recognise that you wanted this as a career?

Week One- Day Four | What’s in a name?
Activity 2

For this activity, imagine that you were allowed to change your name to anything that you wanted.

On your blog, tell us what you would change your name to and why you would choose that name.

Looking at this task has made me wonder, If I was allowed, would I change my name? The name I was given at birth was ‘Jennae’. If I had to change my name I would want the name that my mum originally wanted me to have because her mother’s mother which is my great grandmother had it and it's very special to her and myself. The name is Amelia.

Giving this more thought If I was able to change it or had to I wouldn’t. The name anyone is given at birth is so special because your parents gave it to you and should hold onto it forever. Not only is it special but the name will have come from somewhere meaning something else too.

Week One- Day Four| Worth her weight in gold
Activity 3

For this activity, imagine that you were asked to create a travel brochure for Tonga (or a country that is important to you). On the brochure, include lots of great tips about what to see and do in the country.

On your blog, post your finished copy of your brochure.

Below is the link to the brochure I made about a special place to me called New Zealand.

New Zealand Brochure

Week One- Day Five | National treasure

Activity 1

For this activity, we would like to learn more about the things that are important to you.

On your blog, please share three things that you treasure and say why they are treasures to you.

Since I was born and up to now  and have treasured many different types of gifts, objects and items.

The first thing I treasure the most is my education because i’ m aware that some people don’t get those types of opportunities. When being in a classroom, surrounded by teachers and my classmates  I sit there thinking to myself, how do we all have a great chance of education. Being able to learn new things is an amazing privilege and having the chance to learn from mistakes and to never give up is incredible. Thinking about it now, teachers do their job because this is what they want to do with their lives and also giving up their time making sure that most students have a wonderful education  better than the ones the teachers may have been provided.

The next thing I treasure the most is my life. I treasure my life because it is an amazing thing that my  parents created for me to have.. Having the chance to explore the world, do what I love and have the best years when being alive is such an honor.

The last thing that I treasure is my family. Looking up, down, left or right, they're always there and without them I probably won’t be here right now.  Just like stars. We have helped each other through so much, although we still have our little fights every now and then, we still love each other. Family is what everyone has, they are going to be the most important people in life who have great care. I am so lucky to have such a kind and loving family that I truly am grateful for.

Week One- Day Five | Swimming to safety
Activity 2

For this activity, listen to the podcast of Yusra Mardini, or read her story on her personal website.

On your blog, retell the story of this amazing young woman from Syria.

During the war, a girl named Yusra and her elder sister, were living in Syria. At this time there was a war taking place so Yusra and her elder sister fled the Syrian war and set off on a dangerous journey. Yusra and her sister needed to find safety well away from the war, so I talked about where they should go and they decided to go to Europe. In Summer 2015, they travelled from Lebanon to Turkey before departing to Greece.To get to Greece Yusra and her sister had to be seated in an overcrowded dingdy.

 Fifteen to twenty minutes into the sea crossing, the engine boat stopped working and failed. Once Yusra had heard what the problem was, she needed to help right away. Yusra being a professional swimmer, she didn’t want any of the other passengers to not make it and possibly drown. Yusra, her sister and two other people onboard jumped out of the dinghy and swam alongside the waves  for three and a half hours to prevent their dinghy from capsizing and her actions helped saved twenty people.

For Yusra and her amazing story she has been recognised and has been given numerous awards for what she had done. Yusra was even invited to the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. Reading Yusra’s story, is there something you could do to help that will have a great impact on others?

Week One- Day Five |Own Choice
Activity 3

For this activity, please choose one person (a changemaker) and read all about them.

On your blog, provide us with:

1. The name of the person
2. A description of the work they do/have done
3. An explanation of how they/their work has had an impact on the lives of others

There are numerous changemakers all throughout the world that have done incredible things that impacts other people greatly.This year I have learned a lot about different changemakers in the world, but in particular Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was an amazing man who changed the lives of many, with his   full name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This man did many things in his work, but he was well known for being an Indian lawyer.

How did Mahatma Gandhi change the world and impact so many people? This man has done so much to help others, not only because he was a lawyer and stood by people but in other reasons too. In those days there was no equality. Everyone had different opportunities given to them and some none at all. Different races of people weren’t allowed on buses, weren’t allowed an education and couldn’t reveal any of their bodies, they had to be fully covered. Mahatma Gandhi wanted the best for everyone, mostly to be happy, so he did. Mahatma Gandhi put messages out into the world, that helped people be noticed and helped others equally. Not only was he a civil rights leader but he also created freedom for so many people.

Many people are now living happily and freely everywhere in the world and I would assume that everyone would be grateful for his actions.

Poem and Connections DLO

Onomatopoeia Poem

Competitive Playing

Bounce! Bounce! Bounce!

I run down the court,

1,2

Swish!

“Quick Get back on defence!”

I turn my head sharply,

Swosh! My hair beats me on the cheek

    I grab that ball off the opposition feeling good

I run down the court once more

1,2

Hitting the backboard, Swish!

“Yeahhh Jennae!”

Unexpected Holiday Narrative

Unexpected Holiday

“Wake Up James , wake up Ben!” yelled Mum. We suddenly jumped  to the sound of our
mother's loud screeching voice. We both sat up looking strangely at her while our short
brunette hair was all messy. “What is it?” asked Ben.  

“Your dad and I have a surprise for you,” suggested  Mum.

“What kind of surprise?” asked James.

Mum didn’t reply, so we both got out of our beds and followed Mum down the stairs into
the kitchen. “You two can have pancakes for breakfast today!”  suggested Mum. They both
kept silent. While she was making breakfast the boys. were trying to figure what the surprise
was. “Is it a puppy, or could it be an early birthday present?” suggested James.

Mum then put their pancakes on a plate in front of  them giving us both a fright. They dug into
the pancakes straight away, I could tell James and I were both hungry. The last pieces of the
pancakes went down our throats. Once we had finished we both looked up at Mum. “Alright
follow me,” asked  Mum.

We followed Mum into the lounge area. There was two cards on the ground. On the cards had
out names on them. We sat down in front of our cards. “ Open them up!” said Mum. We started
to open our cards up. There was a folded piece of paper in both of our cards, we looked at each
other with suspicion. We both opened our pieces of paper they were plane tickets!

We both were excited and gave her a hug! “Thank you Mum!” said Ben. “Thank you Mum!”
said James.  We were too excited to even read the ticket so we sat back down and read the
plane tickets. “Were going to Hawaii!” shouted Ben. “

“ Yea, I thought you two needed to get out of here and go somewhere without us,” Mum.  

The plane was  scheduled to leave at 11:00 am  so I would start packing if I was you,” stated
Mum. We both hurried upstairs  got changed and starting packing by throwing everything Ben
and I needed. By now we finished at 10:43am. We hurried down the stairs with our huge
suitcases. We then jumped into the car with Mum and dad to the airport.

 Mum stopped outside of the airport Ben and I jumped out of the car got our suitcases and said
our goodbyes. We now headed for the airport door with our suitcases trailing behind us.

”Hey Ben look there’s a plane,” yelled James.

“That's not a plane, that’s a.. Nothing,” replied Ben  

“HA! tricked you” replied James.

“This was going to be the best holiday ever, especially without our parents,” mentioned Ben.
They sat down at their gate waiting for the time to hit 11:00am. They waited impatiently. BEEP
BEEP! “It’s 11:00 am,” shouted James looking at his watch. They went up to the counter gave
the lady their tickets and went through security and they were all set.

They walked down the hallway into the  plane looking at there tickets saying they were sitting
right next to each other. They walked over to their seats.” I dibs the window seat,” Ben
commented. They both threw themselves on their seats. It’s going to be a 13 hour flight so we
need some sleep, “ said James. So Ben and James fell asleep. James woke up to a rumble and
the plane moving up and down rapidly. He woke up Ben, they both looked scared. Suddenly
the life jackets from the roof fell down and the breathing masks.

The person controlling the plane screamed,  ” HOLD TIGHT.” The plane then dropped
unexpectedly.  The plane fell into the Pacific Ocean, filling up with water. The emergency
exit was cracked open at this moment the plane was ¼ full with water.  “Grab your life jacket
James!” yelled Ben. They both pushed their way through the water to the emergency exit and
pushed it open and swam out. They quickly put their life jackets on and floated to the surface.

“That was close!”  stated Ben.

“What caused that?” asked James.

“I’m not sure, I think the plane ran out of fuel or there was something wrong with the engine
because it fell quite quickly,” mentioned Ben. “ By then there was only a couple of people apart
from us that got out alive. There was one girl about 7 years old and a older teenager with her.

“Omg look!” shouted James.

“What is it?” asked Ben.

“It’s an island!” shouted James.

“Quick lets swim over,” yelled Ben.

The young girl and her older sister must of heard Ben and James and followed them. The four
of them swimmed over to the island. When they all reached the island Ben and James realised
they followed them there. Ben  and James went over to the 2 girls and introduced themselves.

“Hi I’m Ben and this is my brother James  we are both 14 years old,” said Ben.

“Hi my name is  Emily, Im 13 and my little sister here Olivia is 7,” mentioned Emily. “Do you
know if anyone else is on this island?” asked Emily.

“I'm not sure,” replied James.

“Why don’t we all look?”asked Ben.

“Okay!” replied Emily.

Ben, Emily, Olivia and James searched all around the island there was nothing to be seen.
“Were going to be stuck here for a while aren’t we,” Olivia  mentioned unenthusiastically.
“Hold on, is that smoke up there?” asked Emily. Dark grey smoke was rising into the sky.

“There must be a house with a chimney somewhere,”  mentioned James. The four of them
followed to where the smoke was coming from. They walked through bushes and found a
small cabin.

“Do we knock on the door?” asked Ben.

“I guess we should give it a try,” said James.

Olivia, James, Ben and Emily all walked up the ramp to the front door. Emily knocked on the
door. BANG! The door swung open an old frightening man answered the door. “What are you
guys doing here?” questioned the man.

“The four of us had just been in a plane crash in the ocean and we swam over to this island and
found this cabin. Can you help us please?” questioned James.

“Okay quick come on in,” hurried the man.

“What’s your name?” asked Olivia.

“My name is Mark, what’s your names?” replied Mark.

“Im Ben and this is my twin brother James,” muttered Ben.

“Im Emily and this is my younger sister Olivia,” added Emily.

“So what happened out on the plane?” questioned Mark.

“Olivia, Emily , Ben and I were on a plane to  go to Hawaii when unexpectedly the plane driver
yelled HOLD TIGHT! so we did.

We came down from the sky in seconds, the plane started to fill up with water. We were all
scared. Ben and I had saw that the emergency door was cracked open and we swam out along
with Emily and Olivia. We then swam to the surface and spotted an island close by and came
here,”told James.

“I'm so sorry for what happened, was there anyone else that got out alive?” asked Mark.

“Well Olivia and I heard James tell Ben there was an island so we followed them I don’t think
there was anyone one else out there,” told Emily.

“You guys must be freezing, do you want me to get you guys some new clothes?” asked Mark.

Mark had left the room to get us some clothes from his bedroom.

“Do you think we should trust him?” whispered Olivia.

“He seems nice and understands us but we need to careful,” replied Ben.

Mark then strolled quickly back into the lounge area. “Here are your clothes quickly put them
on! Yelled Mark.

They all grabbed clothes each and threw their wet clothes onto the fire guard for them to dry.
Olivia then asked “do you have a phone or any service that we can use to call our Mum and
Dad?”

“No I suppose I don’t sorry,” said Mark. James then sighed quietly.

“Do you think we can stay here for a while?” asked Ben.

“Um.. sure!,”Mark said enthusiastically.

“Thank you,” replied Ben.

Two weeks later, James, Olivia, Ben, and Emily  still haven’t found a way to contact their
parents yet. “Omg why haven’t we thought of this yet,” screamed James.

“What! what is it?” asked Emily and Ben at the same time.

“We could write a message on the beach with rocks because I have noticed helicopters flying
past a lot,” explained James.

“You’re right!” yelled Emily.

“How do we know this is going to work,” asked Olivia.

“We won’t know  until we try it!” said Ben.

James told Mark about their idea so they quickly ran down to the beach.

Sarah and Olivia had gathered up reasonable amount of big rocks to use for the message.
“What is the message going to say?” asked Emily.

Ben then replied, “how about rescue us?”

“Thats a good one, we will try that,” said Olivia.

As Emily and Olivia were gathering more rocks and plonking them on the ground, Ben and
James were placing rocks down on the hot orange sand making a message. Emily and Olivia
finished collecting enough rocks and Ben and James were still making the message. Five
minutes later Ben and James had finished with the message saying “rescue us.”  The letters
were huge so anyone could see what we were trying to say.

Later that night Ben heard a helicopter fly past. “James, Emily, Olivia wake up!” whispered Ben.

“Was that a helicopter I could hear?” muttered Emily.

“Yes it is! Wake up! get out of bed,” yelled Ben. Emily, Olivia and James all got out of bed and
walked out the door. They all looked up at the sky to see if the helicopter was landing but it
wasn’t it kept going. The four of them all heard several helicopters fly past but none came
down to rescue them.

Emily sighed, “this isn’t going to work there has to be another way.”

“I’ve got it!” screamed Olivia.

“What's your idea? asked James.

“We could paint the rocks red so its more visible, I saw some red paint under the deck the other
day.” explained Olivia.

“For once you have a good idea!” said Emily.

“Oh shut up! yelled Olivia.

“Okay quick grab the paint, I will find a paint brush,” said James.

The four of them all went down to the beach their message was still there but they need to hurry
and paint it. “Quick lets go before another helicopter flies past,” suggested Emily. James bent
down to the rocks with his paintbrush and lightly stroked red paint like blood on the rocks.

“Okay its all done, let's just wait until a helicopter flies over,” suggested Ben.

Ben, James, Emily and Olivia walked back to the cabin when suddenly they heard a distant
noise of wind bouncing off the helicopters prepalers.

“Was that what I think it is?” asked Olivia.

“Quick run!” yelled Ben.

The four of them sprinted down to the beach shore line and waved their hands to try and
wave the helicopter down.

“Please help us” screamed James.

Mark knew why the helicopter was here so Mark was down at the beach as well.

“It looks like the paint really showed up, because the helicopter looks like  its landing,”
suggested Mark.

“Omg we can get out of here! yelled Emily surprisingly.

“WOO HOO! screamed Ben, at the top of his lungs.

The helicopter landed on the ground. Emily, Olivia, Ben and James all ran over to the pilot.

“Do you guys need help? asked the pilot.

“Yes please! everyone said altogether.

“Okay jump in and find a seat,” said the pilot.

Emily, and Ben jumped into the plane first and took their seats, James and Olivia had followed
them.

“Where are yous from? asked the pilot.

“James and I are from San Andreas,” suggested Ben.

“So are we!, yelled Emily.

“Okay, well that's easy I actually am heading that way,” mentioned the pilot.

“Mark! Are your coming!” asked Emily.

“No, no I will stay here. I live here now,” suggested Mark.

“Thank you for everything you done to help us,” mentioned James.

The helicopter took off in the direction of San Andreas.

Six and a Half hours later…

We arrived in San Andreas and the pilot contacted our parents and told them everything
and are meeting us at the airport.

The pilot slowed down and landed at the airport. We all jumped out of the helicopter and
raced like gazelles into the airport. James and Ben’s Mum and Dad were there and they both
ran up to their parents and gave them a huge hug.

“We are never letting you guys go on your own anywhere again!”cried Mum and Dad.

Emily and Olivia's parents gave them both a huge hug as well.

Their families had both lived happily ever after.

The End