Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 Day Activity 2: Fabulous Ferns

Activity 2: Fabulous Ferns [4 points]

One of the most common plants found in New Zealand forests is the fern. It is a special, iconic symbol of New Zealand. You will find pictures of ferns on the jerseys of many famous sporting teams in New Zealand, including the New Zealand All Blacks.

Did you know that many of these teams also have the word ‘fern’ in their name? Use your best researching skills to find three New Zealand sporting teams who use the word ‘fern’ in their title.

list three sports teams that have the word ‘fern’ in their title. Beside each team’s name, post a picture of their uniform. Then, at the bottom of your blog post tell us which of the three uniforms you like best and why.

1. Silver Ferns

2.White Ferns

3. Black Ferns

Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 Activity 3: Ice, Ice baby

Activity 3: Ice, Ice Baby [10 points]

Antarctica is the world’s coldest continent. Even though it is made up of ice, it is also the driest continent in the world. In fact, it hasn’t rained there for nearly 2 million years! It is home to many animals such as whales, seals, birds, and fish. There are no permanent human residents (people who live there all the time) in Antarctica, however scientists do visit and stay in Antarctica for a while to study it.

This year the airline, Air New Zealand, filmed their safety video in Antarctica. They used some fabulous actors from Hornby Primary School in Christchurch. Just like on aeroplanes, we also need to keep safe and be smart online. We need to think about the type of information we are sharing online, who we are sharing information with, and how to have a positive digital footprint.

inside the footprint, explain how you create a positive, digital footprint. What do you do to stay smart online?.

Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 Activity 2: North And South

Activity 2: North and South [4 points]

The country of New Zealand is made up of two main islands – the North Island and the South Island. Approximately 77% of the New Zealand population live in the North Island. Many of these people (including our Summer Learning Journey design team) live in Auckland city. Auckland is a great place to live with lots of amazing parks, beautiful waterways and stunning scenery to enjoy. It is also a busy, vibrant city with many cafes, museums, galleries, and theatres to visit. I feel lucky to call Auckland my ‘hometown.’

What is special about where you live?

 Where I live is where there are a lot of parks that friends and family really enjoy especially when we are all spending time together. Here in Auckland New Zealand new houses are now being built and everyone is excited for the new houses to be built around the area. 

Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 Activity 1: The legend of New Zealand

Activity 1: The legend of New Zealand [4 points]

Welcome to the first week of the summer Learning Journey. For our first week, we are going to be learning all about the land habitats here in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is going to be a great adventure!

Day 1: In The Begining...

According to Maori mythology, much of Aotearoa New Zealand was formed when Māui, a powerful demigod, fished it out of the sea. Legend has it that Māui created a magical fish hook from the jawbone of his grandmother and that one day he took his hook, boarded a boat, and rode out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Once at sea, he threw his magical hook into the water and caught a fish. This ‘fish’ was actually the North Island of New Zealand! In honour of this legend, the North Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Ika a Māui or ‘Māui’s fish’ and the South Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Waka a Māui or ‘Māui’s canoe’.

‘Top 3 Fun Facts’ about NZ in your own words

1. 'Kiwi" is also used as a nickname for a New Zealander.

2. In New Zealand, they always drive on the left side of the road. 

3. The Maori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa.

Today's Digital Immersion Lesson

Today's Digital Immersion Lesson

Today we had a learning session with Gary. Last week Gary taught us a new language, a language that only robots and computers all over the world can understand. This language is called Binary Language. We also learnt how to program a robot to move to one place to another.

This week we programed the robots to go to someone else's group and send them a message. The messages we had to use had to be appropriate. After a while of programing the robots we then used a different app to control the robot in order to do what you want it to do. The only boring part of it was not being able to make it send messages to other people. What we could do was make it spin in circles, moving it around and turning the flashlight off and on.

Last Week Of Ruapotaka

From this week it'll be my last week of Ruapotaka. Just before the holidays I will be moving to a new house which means that I am able to move schools, but luckily I will be moving schools after the school holidays.

It's really sad that I have to leave but I am truly thankful to all those who have respected me. I knew that I would never be able to succeed without all the teachers support and help.

But being without my friends honestly hurts. I have true friends that remind me that they will always be there for me no matter what, but I wouldn't be so useless if it weren't for every single one of them.

Thanks to everyone that helped me throughout the past few years when I was struggling.  

Matarki

For our inquiry topic we are writing about Matariki. I was working with Izabella and Vika. We worked on this together, we talked to each other about what our WALT was relating to. I studied a big quantity amount about Matariki. I was really interested while writing this slide show.