Year: 2022

                                                            WALT:  Understand Indian migration into Aotearoa.           

 

  The first time Indians came to New Zealand was after captain Cook, a few months after.They actually came to Australia first before coming to New Zealand. The first Indians to come to New Zealand were Musilm Lascars named Saint Jean Babtiste, Jean François Maria de Surville. It was said that they sailed from Pondicherry, a town in India to New Zealand.Understand Indian migration into Aotearoa.      

 

Even though they were the first Indians to New Zealand they are not the first. The first Indian to come to New Zealand jumped off a boat to escape from what was happening. He survived and made it to New Zealand.Years later after jumping off that boat he got married to a māori lady. 

After the second world war there was a big labour shortage in Aotearoa. Due to this, Indians and polynesians began this word called “Brown movement”. Indians were useful because Indians were Doctors,Dentists and Engineers.

 

Things weren’t great between the Kiwis and Indians. Kiwis found that insulating so then started a racial slurs. Racism still exists in New Zealand.Today about 240,000 Indians live in New Zealand with only 6,000 Indian people living in christchurch.       

The midnight gang

 

The book the midnight gang is made by David Walliams in 3 of November in 2016

 

I think you should read The midnight gang, this book is about these kids that have the biggest fear of this lady who takes care of them. This book has a bit humor also deals with friendship and loneliness. What is your favorite book?

WALT: Understand Pasifika migration into Aotearoa

 

Pasifika people arrived in New Zealand in the 1950s following labour shortage after World war 2 had just ended in 1945. Most people settled in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) because they had family living there that they  could stay with, and there was strong christan community there and was important to them.

 

Many families lived together initially, and lived in a poor home in Ponsonby. Some of these houses had rotten floors and no insulation. As Pasifika people worked hard and earned money, many people were able to buy their own house. Houses were about 500 pounds back then.

 

One job that lots of  Pasifika people did was working in a factory and would often work 6 days a week. The women stayed home and raised the children.

 

In the early 1970s, there was a recession in New Zealand,which resulted in a job shortage. Suddenly, the government wanted Pasifika people out of their jobs, and Pakeha people to take their jobs. They push through the law that meant Pasifika people could be arrested or deported if they didn’t have a current work visa, or if they couldn’t show that visa on the spot when asked. They also ordered the police to carry out dawn raids on pasifika households. These involved dogs and happened at night, terrifying the Pasifika communities.

 

The Polynesain Panthers were a group of youths aged 17-19 who were fed up with this racism and mistreatment of Pasifika people. Intelligently, they used the law to help Pasifika people know their rights and be treated better when confronted with this bias. In August 2021, Prime Minister Jacinda Adern apologized to Pasifika people for the dawn raids and the injustice suffered by many.

 

Today, 381,642  Pasifika Islanders live in New Zealand. 300,000 of these lives in Tāmaki Makaurau. Currently Efeso Collins is a candidate for mayor of Auckland. I think it would be perfect because he had grown up in Auckland since he was 2 years old, and would represent this huge community.    
      

WALT: Write a biography about a famous New Zealander.

Nancy Wake was born on August 30th,1912 in New Zealand,Wellington. When Nancy was only two years old she went to Australia but as she got to sixteen she ran away to Europe during world war 2. Years before Nancy was  journalist travel all around Europe, in Austria, Nancy had seen nazi soldiers whipping and abusing jewish people. So when nazi invade France in 1940. Nancy was willing to help the French people fight back. By helping Nancy bought truck and use it as ambulance,Which she would use to carry injured soldiers back from the battelfiled.A lso Nancy and her husband named Henri use their money to fund the groups.

 

Soon, Nancy became a courier and was smuggling food,messages and radio parts to members of the Resistance. Without radio the Resistance groups could not communicate with each other. Before long, Nancy was part of the Resistance network. They helped British pilot across the mountain border from France to Spain. It was dangerous she had avoid being seen. So she worked undercover  and keep changing her passport. Then she was given the white mouse. But one time she was stopped by German soldier which led running off. She never stop for hours she found a group called SOE which was the French Resistance,and was taught how fight, hunt and learn codes because she did not life on line because she keep going undercover but she felt she needed to do it to help her country. As Nancy wake was fighting off the German soldiers they surrendered because they were losing the war. After France and the rest of world winning the war Nancy Wake found out her husband Henri was killed by the nazi soldiers because he would not tell where Nancy Wake was. Years later she won five medals from different countries for her bravery and died in 2011 her ashes were spread around where the war ended.       

We are learning about parts of solar system

World Vision 40 Hour Famine Blog Post  W.A.L.T understand how world vison help people in need

 

The World Vision 40 Hour Famine is New Zealand’s largest youth fundraising campaign. Every year since 1975, tens of thousands of young Kiwis have taken a stand through a 40 Hour Challenge to raise money and bring hope to thousands of children living in poverty in more than 40 countries.

 

Traditionally, the 40 Hour Challenge meant going without food for 40 hours. However, over the years, people have become creative, finding fun new challenges such as giving up screens, furniture or technology for 40 hours. Or how about living out of a backpack, doing 40 good deeds, or taking a 40-hour vow of silence – whatever your idea is, just go for it! 

 

So far, more than 3 million New Zealanders have participated and over $80 million has been raised – helping to transform thousands of lives both here in New Zealand, and around the world. 

 

4 ways that World Vision help are:

 

• Food – provide emergency food after a natural disaster help communities plant

Crops and grow their food 

• Education- give them a school to go to. Teach, reading, writing, math skill

Teaching skills such as gardening and sowing

• Child Protection – stop abuse, help families to stop child labor
• Medical supplies – give them medicine, vaccinations, malnutrition 

 

4 countries that World Vision support are:

 

• Uganda – no raining can’t grow any food don’t have any clean water to drink and get sick
• India – less half the people have a job of limb of two dollars a day 
• Syria – they been at war for 11 years no growing veggies
• Vanuatu – they had a cyclone and it destroyed lots of their island 

 

Have you ever participated in the 40 hour famine? No

Do you think that you could participate in the 40 hour famine? No

What else could you do to support World Vision? Mufti day

WALT: Build knowledge of stories about Aotearoa history.

WALT: Explain how mahinga kai is about the value of natural resources that sustain life, including the life of people.

Watercolor dictionary

 

Have you ever wondered what a watercolor is well…

Facts.

 

• A water color is practically just a normal color with a different shade almost like blue and dark blue but water colors are a little bit more complicated than that

• There are two main watercolor companies called Winsor and Newton

• there are original colors like brown, blue and more

• You need to add water to the paint to make it a watercolor, if you don’t the color will just dry out.

Definition /Dictionary

 

Dilute-adding water to paint in order of lightening the color of the paint 

 

Intensity-A color’s brightness or strength

 

Glazing-Adding a thin layers of one color over another color

 

Layering-Adding color that have been mixed over another color to change its value or intensity

 

 Value or Tone-The different  from light to dark of a color to find out shadows and highlights of an object

 

Tint- creating color by adding more water then usually to the original to created a weaker color

Movement- the effect that you get when you let water move around the page

 

Water into color- where you use water to mix the paint on a pallet onto the paper

 

Color into water- where you paint the page with water first then add color into it 

 

Dry brush-a dry brush with little paint and liquid over the paper for texture

 

Landscape-A large area with little scenery,like a desert landscape

 

Cool colors-colors that make you think of coldness

 

Warm colors- colors that make you think of warm places

 

Atmospheric perspective-Creating the illusion of distance by fading colors and taking away detail.  

 

Dilute  

Intensity

 

Glazing watercolor

 

Layering

 

Value or tone

 

 

 

Tint.

 

Movement.

 

Water into color

 

Color into water

 

Dry brush

 

Landscape.

 

Cool colors

 

       Warm color

 

Atmospheric perspective