Ski Response

On the 14/8/16 the year 7’s and 8’s went skiing. We all arrived at
school at 6:45am. Ms Kemp called the roll and we were then handed
our orange arm band and we headed off. We all got into our car groups
and headed out to Porters Heights ski field. In my car group there was me,
Poppy and Cullam and our car driver was Scott who is Poppy’s dad.

We arrived there around 9:30 am. We put on  our ski pants, beanies,
gloves and sunglasses we needed and got out all the cars and headed
outside of the café. When we had all got there a man called Jason called
out our last names in alphabetical order. We all one at a time walked up
to Miss Martin, got our numbers and walked into the gear hire room. In
the room there was a station for ski boots, ski helmets and goggles. I had
hired ski boots, a helmet and goggles. I then put on everything and went
outside and got my skis.

Once everyone had their gear we had all started at the beginners slope.
At the beginners slope we had learned how to do the Pizza which is how
you stop. Some people moved up from that to the intermediate slope and
some people stayed. Milan and I were some of the ones that stayed. We
had stayed for a ski lesson on how to turn and jump around cones. Milan
and I were practising so much to try show Ms Kemp that we could move
up from beginners.

Soon we had to leave the ski field and eat our play lunch. I had sandwiches
and a banana. After interval everyone got back into their skis and went back
to skiing. It turned out me and Milan practising worked and we both moved up
to the intermediate slope. I went up with Hannah and her dad. The first time I
went up I fell off the poma and I skied down because I was half way up. As
soon as I got down I had to go back to the beginner slope and practise how
to get up if you fall off, and my turns. I finally got it and went back up with
Sasha’s mum, Erin. She helped me a lot!  We only went to halfway and she
showed me how to turn and so did Rebekah’s dad, Rowan.

For the rest of the day I did the intermediate slope. I skied down with my
friends a lot. I just loved skiing at Porters and since it was my first time it was
a bit of a challenge but I got it in the end. My favourite part was definitely the
intermediate slope.

Once everyone got off the ski field at 3:30pm we took all our gear off and
handed it in. My legs and toes were so sore from being used to the heavy
boots and from skiing all day.

Geometry DLO

Te Uru Game

WALT participate in the learning of others.

Success Criteria: Be active, participate in a new cultural game,
use our listening skills, watch, ask questions and practise.

On Tuesday a class called 10CH from Greymouth High School
came to Karoro School and they had taught Room 1 a game called Te Uru.
We are doing this because it builds on our transition to high school.

There were three groups that Room 1 were split up in. In my group

there was me, Grace, Caitlyn, Lincon, Zoe, Caleb and Joshua.

The class from the high school split up as well in 3 groups to show

us different skills and drills for the game.

The first drill my group got taught was defending and getting the ball off
the opposition we also passed the ball around. The second one we went
to was learning how to catch the ball with one flat hand and learn how to
jump on a cone. The last one was just saying someone’s name before you
threw it to them. My favourite drill was the one that was like
“Piggy in the Middle” and you tried to get out of the middle by
intercepting the ball.

I would suggest that they have two games playing at once and four even
teams because we would all get even amount of turns.

Designing A Logo

Today in Ms Chowfin's class we were learning to create our own google logo. We got to change the colors of the letters and change the background to a theme and even put a background sound in. We watched a video to help us on how we start this and what we do.

Algebra D.L.O

Guided Text

We will have met the success criteria when we...

• Can work out the meaning of new vocabulary.

• Locate information within a text.
• Make connections between ideas

• Synthesize and summarize key ideas
• Make links between our own lives and the lives of others

We will meet the learning intention when we….

WALT make connections across texts, locating (finding) , retrieving (getting and using),
synthesizing (putting it all together and sifting) and summarising

(identifying the important or key points) information.

Guided Text: “The Nowhere Land Where Children On The Move Are Someone Else’s Problem”
by Sarah Crowe - UNICEF

Pre-read discussion

What is a Peugeot 404?

What is the difference between a migrant, a refugee and an asylum seeker?

An asylum seeker is a child or a adult  who has left there home country as a refugee and is seeking asylum
in another country.  They have applied for asylum in another country but their application has not been
concluded.

A migrant is a person who is moving or moved across an international border.

A Refugee is someone who leaves their country/home as their country is in a harmful situation or the person
is in a harmful situation.

Where is Niger?  Where is the Sahara? How big is the Sahara compared to New Zealand?

Sahara is 9.2 million k㎡ and New Zealand is 268 021 thousand k㎡. Sahara is 8 931 979 million k㎡
bigger than New Zealand.

Sahara is found  in West Africa and has eight states inside of it including Algeria , Libya, Egypt, Sudan,
Chad, Niger, Mali and Mauritania

Niger is a landlocked country  in Western Africa.

Niger is also named as The Republic Of  The Niger.

Read the text to yourself and make notes/highlight/bullet point as you read. You are looking for the main
idea in this article. Be ready to discuss your notes.

Agadez was once the migration capital of Africa, a crossroads for people on the move,

a bustling business hug for smugglers, roadside shops selling masks,

and sunglasses for the daunting journey, traffickers awaiting their human trade.

Now, as Europe and North Africa tighten their borders and closed their port creating drama on the high seas.
Since November last year, more than 8000 West Africans, including 2000 children,

have been turned to Niger from Algeria with another 900 refugees and asylum seekers from East Africa
transferred from Libya.Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world yet is bearing the brunt of the
‘out-of-sight, out-of-mind’ policies by richer countries.

Turkey, Libya, France, Niger and Algeria are making migration someone else’s problem, pushing migrants
from pillar to post, farther south.

When the migrants are brought to Agadez onto a bone-dry open plain with the a few threadbare tents,
local children circled around with plastic begging bowls-begging from the return beggars.

In April alone there was a 14 per cent increase over the previous month in people transiting through Niger
and,
a third of them are children.“We are seeing a huge spike in unaccompanied children,

and those involved are using routes where they cannot be tracked and it's far more dangerous.

120 children drowned at sea between January and May. At least there are coastguards at sea.

No one patrols the vast and deadly sea of sand. It doesn't stop them trying.Hidden in the ghettos,
scattered on the outskirts of this ancient turmeric-coloured city, and milling about in centers are hundreds
of migrants, stranded, with dashed hopes and unfulfilled dreams.

Some have an eye on the ultimate prize of making a cross of the burning sand of the Sahara and onto
what is fast  becoming exclusive eldorado(europe).

For most the true paradise lost is being uprooted from their home and your loved ones-especially children.

The purpose of this text is to tell us about how hard it is for children refugees or migrants to
survive. Children refugees are trying to make it across the bar

ren Sahara desert to make it to the mediterranean sea border to pay to get across to Europe.
The author is biased because she has used clines to make it sound horrible and to make their
journey sound daunting.  

Italy: Rescue at Sea

This story is about how many people risk their life everyday trying to survive and can die doing it.

The Italians navy and coast guards come in helicopters and boats  to help the refugees.

The issues of this text is that many of the refugees arrived sick and needed medical help such like children,
adults and babies. The solution for the refugees is the refugees and others are taken to an accommodation
center where they can rest and recover from their dangerous journey.

This story is a true story about how refugees are risking their life trying to escape war by paying $1000 per
person to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe to survive.

This text made me feel like there is people out there in the world risking their lives to survive

Measurement Scavenger Hunt