Conservation Week 2016

Since it was Conservation Week, we did a padlet based on what we already knew. Then we learnt what it meant so we were told to get into groups and then create a presentation. I was working with Mikayla and Maranita. After we did a new padlet of what we have learnt. We all enjoyed making this and hope you enjoy. 

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Kate Sheppard writing

I have been writing a story about Kate Sheppard about protest to enter an Elsie Locke writing competition
writing this story was hard and fun work. I enjoyed writing this piece of writing so I hope you enjoyed reading this. I think my next goal should be making it a bit more descriptive. 

I’ve tasted awful defeat maybe a thousand times for what I am doing now which makes my mind burst. I’m still collecting signatures. As of now I see people staring at me and I can’t find out if it’s in a good way or a bad way. I still don’t want to give up! I want to fight for women’s rights!  I sighed as I walked back home, my face down, wondering if this will be enough.  I thought for a moment. No, my goal is to reach higher than ever before!

Once home I started thinking of what I could do which made my mind break into pieces. I need to gather more people I thought. I will try next thing in the morning, but for now I’m going to start writing a speech. I mean people say I’m a good speaker, but I’m not so sure. That’s when my sister Isabella May came in.

The morning sun rose as I woke and went to get ready to start a new day. I put on my favourite white lacy dress. As I saw Isabella I shouted her name. I explained to her that we will both start collecting signatures in different areas from each other. It was great that we had Sir John Hall a leading member of Parliament to support us. As I was collecting signatures I practiced the speech again and again in my head, checking over and over  to make sure there were no mistakes and trying to improve it. As the sun slowly and gently went down behind the horizon our day had came to an end. I settled in my bed hoping this time we will have success. The next day we started counting how many signatures we had because we only had until the scheduled date tomorrow to present our petition to parliament to approve women’s rights . When we counted them all we nearly had 32,000 signatures! I couldn’t believe it. Too good to be true I thought.  I had Isabella help me with my speech as I was almost finished.

As dawn hit I was scared to face the day.

“C'mon let's go there’s no need to wait or we will be late”, Isabella said with a smile on her face.

“You're right”, I answered.

When we got to Parliament it seemed like I was glued to the spot. Isabella snapped me out of it making me walk on my own.

When we had got inside there was a chair waiting for me to sit on it. It was time to present my speech for women’s rights. I stood up and started talking. When I finished I stated that we had nearly 32,000 signatures. They had to say yes they had no choice. When I realized that I was so happy. All those mistakes and we finally achieved our goal. Now women can vote in New Zealand.

World Refugee Day 2016 Presentation

Oscar Romero

Oscar Romero was the fourth archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. His place of birth is Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador and he was born on August 15, 1917. His parents were Guadalupe de Jésus Galdámez, Santos Romero. Oscar Romero and his family were Roman Catholic. In 1930 a mass opened his mind and he was talking about being a priest at the age of 13. On the next part of his training he was sent to Rome and returned in 1943 as a priest at the age of 26 years old. His passion for speaking up for the poor was formed when his friend, Rutilio Grande, was murdered. Oscar Romero helped the poor by speaking and fighting for them and those who died and he did as much as could until he died. Romero knew that he was going to die, but he did it for the people. He made the government angry with him as he tried to speak out for those people by putting his voice on the radio and sending the Christian message of peace. Oscar Romero was assassinated during mass on March 24th 1980. He was assassinated because the government wanted him to stop sending the message of peace. It is believed that those who organised the assassination were Salvador death squads. 35 years after Oscar Romero was assassinated he was beatified by Pope Francis. By Mila References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero http://oscarromero.weebly.com/his-career-as-a-priest.html

Learning languages Japan

As part of our Learning Languages study with Mrs Ashe we needed to

create a presentation to share our learning 

about the country where the language is spoken.

I have made mine using Google Slides.

Please leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment

 to help me with my future learning.

Thank you.