Friday, May 1 2026
This week I have been learning about Anzac Day, I got to watch a movie about the battle against the Ottoman army and had to also answer some questions at the same time.
Anzac Day honours the courage of those who served, and the film 25 April brings their brave, personal stories to life.
Thanks for reading this short recap. 🙂
Thursday August 28th
Hello Everyone!
For the past few days we have been creating a poster or a comic strip about the Dawn Raids. The Dawn Raid is a New Zealand activist group formed in 1971 by young Pacific Islanders and Maori to fight systemic racism, police harassment, and discrimination in areas like housing, employment, and education, particularly during the ear of the infamous “Dawn Raids’. Inspired by the American Black Panthers, they provide community services such as homework centres and food banks, advocated for tenant rights, and published a legal aid handbook to educate the Pasifika community on theirs rights. The PPP’s efforts helped raise the profile of Pacific communities, challenged racial inequalities, and advocated for the self-determination of Pasifika people.
I decided to do mine on a comic strip, but on paper.
Hello everyone! I am blogging about the Matariki Kite that I creates with Danielle, we did this task in Social Studies.
In the past, Maori used kites, know as manu tikutuku, for a variety of purposes beyond recreation. They were employed for communication, divination, and even spiritual connections, acting ad a link between the physical and spiritual realms.
Matariki, Also known as the Maori New Year, is a time of reflection, celebration, and planing the futren, marked by the appearance of the Matariki star sluter in the winter sky.
Matariki is a star cluster in Maori tradition that is often associated with the Moari New Year. While commonly referred to as the “seven sisters”, Matariki atually comprises nine stars.
I made kite a stingray-like shape with straws, wooden sticks and feathers. I stick all together with a hot glue gun.
The best part of this experiment was having fun and understanding why Maori used these in the past.
Photo:
Thank you for taking your time to read this.
For social studies we have been creating a boat.
The first step we started to learn about the past was what the did to learn the currents of the waves, stars, sun and moon, clouds, wind directions, birds.
So we started with finding information like this:
They used the southern cross by drawing a line from a start to another and extended it to 4.5 times.
A star path is a series of stars that either rise or set at the same point on the horizon.
The sun indicated East and west
Navigators use the oceans ocean swell patterns to guide them in the correct duration even the cant see them.
They can feel the motion in the swells underneath
The clouds indicated
Landmasses and some clouds can show a reflection
Of a island.
Navigators can see this type of movement as they scan the horizon
For a successful sailing voyage the navigators need very good knowledge of wind patterns and ocean current.
Very strong currents can be a friend or a foe, helping to carry you where you want to go or rapidly carrying you off course
Some land-based birds fly out to sea to fish in the morning, and return at dusk. Seeing them at these times tells navigators where land is.
Birds can easily lead navigators to an island because they could be flying around for a place to land so they can
Then we planed
We included Popsicle sticks, hot glue gun, paper , pencil, flax, round sticks.
Here is a picture:
me and they’ll have done experience before it was really fun also when we we keep losing the glue a lot and we keep so then we keep running out and we used a lot of good and then that’s the problem parts let me take care because we had more.
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