letter week 5.

72 Candlyland Street
Burwood
Christchurch


September 04, 1932
Mr George Forbes
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Parliament Buildings
Wellington
Greetings Prime Minister
We need food. People are looting and breaking my shop windows. My kids have flour bags for clothes and they hate it. Please give us food, clothes and money. Our children are skinny because of you they are sick and hungry. Please I can't see my kids like this anymore because they have gone to a home. We can’t just give are kids bred all the time they are already tired of it. We have to go to soup kitchens for food,  but we only get a little bit of food. I only get to see my kids once a month. I can’t see my kids like this anymore, I have to give them a little bit of food all the time. It just have to stop and you can't treat New Zealand family's  like this.  PLEASE HELP
From Ebony & Jasmine,

Back in time

Back before I was born there were very strict schools. Back then they used the cane and the strap. So if you get one of those don't tell your Mum and Dad. If you do they might try it on you. So never tell your parents! Did you know my dad nearly got the strap? They would be chatty, misbehaving and copying each other. But when my Dad went to school when kids got the cane or the strap they cried. If you cried out loud you got another one. if someone else was getting it and they laughed at you, you would get it eight times harder.

The Museum

We had a field trip on Monday at the Museum in town  and it was  the best!. I've loved learning about history for a very long time. It was way different back in the olden days  compared to now. It wasn't that long ago that there were no living beings and no schools and they made their own medicines  out of  plants which  the elderly who had to try it first. After that we went out side and played in the giant tree in the Botanical Gardens.

Winter sport.

In winter sport I have been doing football for this seson. I do all or the positions. We have won once. it tacks a long time to get a goal. It was annoying on the first day my shinpades falled off. And they where super fast.

I have learnt that I am powerful and that I can kick a ball very far. I can kick a ball super far. I enjoyed my team because they were good at sportsman ship and we all had fun. We laughed a lot because Matias is funny and jokes about.

Next time, I would like to practice more.

What winter sport do you play?

Kailey in Hawaii

My step sister Kaliy got on an airplane to Hawaii. Hawaii is a place with palm trees and beautiful beaches and they also have amazing shows. At night here do you know it is night in Hawaii and it is day time here? When it is night in New Zealand it’s day time there. It’s like you’re in a toaster. They have tropical flowers and they drink from a coconut and do dancing with grass skirts. I have always wanted to go there but it costs a lot of money to go to that place.

Have you ever been to Hawaii? If so, what did you like?

Helping our Environment

This term in reading we have been reading lots of articles about the environment. I have enjoyed learning about the the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, recycling and composting.

Please look at my slide below. I have written some key ideas from some articles that I have read.




What have you learnt about reading my slide?

Kindness Cards

PBL - Term 1

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about kindness and the big question was: How can we build community through our actions?

First, we explored some collaborative activities and discussed how we could include kindness and build a sense of community through our actions at camp. Next, we were organised into groups where we had to unpack the above question. In our groups we considered how we could spread community and kindness through our entire school community. We decided that we would offer something that was free and would make others happy.

We created an action plan and we decided to make kindness cards. We did this as we thought it would make people feel happy.

Reflection:
For our final product our group handed out kindness cards on thursday to hubs and teachers and parents.

How did our action build a sense of community in the school? It did this by us showing kindness and this made others feel happy.

I contributed by halping  coming up with ideas and cuting out paper

I think the PBL might impact on others by making people feel happy.

What I learned about working with others was working with people makes me happy and it is important to encourage each other.