Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 1 Activity 1: Top 3 Fun Facts

Fact 1: The Maori name of New Zealand is Aotearoa which means the land of the long white cloud.

Fact 2: New Zealand was once governed as part of the territory of New South Wales and later a part of Australia.

Fact 3: New Zealanders are also called kiwis but kiwi is not a fruit. It is New Zealand’s native flightless bird.

This is the task that I needed to do for my first activity on the summer learning journey Today Fun Facts About New Zealand website, and find 3 interesting facts to blog. This challenge was fairly easy, but I found a few things out, while knowing the rest. 

Who Am I

Today we have been working on this who am I and I was working with a kid called Jack we had to find different famous people and we had found out a lot of other people that completed something that they were not really noticed for but were really respected from a lot of people. We had to find out why they were well known and their name were their from and do they have a famous quote. 

Creating A Comic About A New Zealand Inventor

Today, the whole class did a a challenge in teams of 4. What was that challenge you may ask? To find a New Zealand inventor, and create a whole comic strip about that person and their invention. I decided to work with Jack, Ofa, and Joseph for this activity, and we wanted to create a comic about the first successful person to take flight Richard Pearse. We chose to use Google Drawing to create this comic and we had a lot of fun working together, and loving the turnout. After everyone had finished their comics, we had to find a few things out about the person and their invention. In the end, we found out that it was the 31st of March 1903 when Richard Pearse made his first attempt to fly. Although we did not find any information giving the date he succeeded.

Sports Leader

Hi my name is Julian and I want to be your sports leader for 2019. I think I am the best candidate for sports leader because I am a very athletic person and I really love playing sports.

I am confident when speaking to an audience and would enjoy the stepping up onto the stage to
share the weekly sports report at assembly. I think I should become sports leader because I try my
hardest to join every single inter school or sports that I can. I joined five of the athletics sports this
year because I pushed myself to try my hardest. I am resilient and never give up until the end.
These are qualities that would make me a great role model for the younger students.

I am really trustworthy and responsible with all the equipment and show respect to the
teachers. I play fairly and don’t cheat in games. I am always prepared to do training and
always take part in things or taking charge and stepping up to the challenge.

I look after the equipment encourage my teammates and have a very good team spirit
and have a very good sense of humour and always try to strengthen my skills. Lastly I
respect the coaches and the teams and always stay humble and always commit to my
training.