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

Maori instrument/ Purerehua

Narrative Writing

Subarus

9000 million miles away from Earth is a planet called Subarus.

On a fine summer’s day a young girl named Alpha walked along the lime green grass,
her long black braided hair dangling over her shoulders.

Alpha could hear the sound of a Macaw chirping and the rustling

of the trees as they waved side to side, dancing to a chorus of unheard music.

Her pale blue eyes, pasty in the summer light looking out into the horizon.

Her pale skin and black clothes standing out with the white of her shoes.

Alpha stopped walking because she heard a distant rumble.

The rumbling then stopped and she couldn’t hear anything.

Everything was dead silence. So she kept walking, keeping alert

of what's happening around her.

She thought the rumbling stopped, until it started up again a few minutes after.

She looked all around herself to try find what was going on.

Again it stopped, she began to be worried and scared because although

she could hear rumbling she couldn’t see anything.

She started to look around again,

she could hear the whistling of an object falling from the bright blue clear sky.

As Alpha turned her head she could see a big, bold, jagged object with red,

orange and yellow flames heading for Subarus.

Before she knew it a meteorite hit with a loud BANG!

The ground shook like there was something moving beneath it.

Alpha had no idea what to do so she started to find somewhere to hide.

She came across this empty old wooden brown house.

Alpha quickly ran inside the old shack and looked out the clear glass

windows to see what was going on.

Everything was quiet and still.

Alpha now decided to go outside.

She then swung open the door and walked outside

as she then shut the door behind her.

She started to head for Carton Lake.

She took a narrow path down to the lake with lots of purple

osteospermum flowers around her almost like the flowers has been

stroked with paint fading from Dark purple to light purple.

Alpha came across this girl that was standing on the water's edge skimming rocks.
She had long, bright, smooth turquoise hair streaked with purple braided and

neatly into two french braids on each side of her head.

“Hi I’m Alpha, who are you?” asked Alpha.

“Hello I’m Diana,” replied Diana.

“You’re very good at skimming rocks when did you learn how to do that?” asked

Alpha. “It was a skill I learned growing up,” said Diana.

Diana and Alpha were walking together along

the lake until they both heard the sound of a rumble coming

from above Alpha and Diana.

“COME ON LET'S GO,” yelled Diana.

Alpha started to run when the meteor had hit already,

Diana and Alpha were terrified.

They thought it was all over but about another 50 more

came crashing down one after another.

By now the meteors hit everywhere, the forest was destroyed.

The meteors were scattered everywhere leaving nowhere to go.

Diana and Alpha where now running as the were dodging all

the meteorites.

Alpha had now lost Diana because of how far ahead Diana was

in front of Alpha.

Diana suddenly stopped and checked if Alpha was still running

behind her Diana  now realized she left Alpha behind her.

Diana was starting to get

worried on where Alpha would be.

Diana was running back trying to remember what way she ran to get where she was.
While Diana was trying to find Alpha,

Alpha started to run back to where they started to run hoping that  Diana will remember
the way. As Diana was running back she was remembering

parts of where she ran.

She remembers running past a big mud hole in the ground.

So she knows she’s going the right way.

Alpha was worried that she started to run without thinking of where she was. Suddenly Diana and Alpha ran into each other.

Diana and Alpha were relieved.

“Where did you go?” asked Diana.

“You ran to fast in front of me,” replied Alpha.

“Sorry,” said Diana.

“As long as we have found each other,” said Alpha.

“ It was nice meeting you,” said Alpha.

“It was nice meeting you too,” replied Diana.

Alpha and Diana  said there last goodbyes to each other and set

off in their separate ways.

The End