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Let me tell you about my favourite celebration... my birthday, January 15, 2008. One of my favourite things on my birthday is waking up to my mum making pancakes, sausages, eggs and toast for my breakfast. Usually after breakfast, I head straight to my room to put on my birthday girl outfit . On the day of my birthday, we wait until the sun comes out more which is around 10 o’clock. Finally, the sun spread around Brisbane, Australia. For most of my birthdays we enjoy going to the lagoon near Springfield shopping centre. I enjoy playing with my family in the water and I mostly like blowing out my candles and eating cake. As the morning is kind of boring, we find ways to make it more interesting, like playing on our consoles and beating each other at the games. Usually while we’re playing games, my parents get our things ready for the lagoon. Once the time to leave came around, we got ready to leave and meet our other family. The whole car ride there was a carpool karaoke. The most played songs were Tupac, BTS, Blackpink, Got7, Ikon and many other artists. I’m not going to lie but my family is pretty good at singing, but when it comes to dancing, you don’t want to see how we ‘bust down’. When we got to the lagoon we all met at the BBQ and started making some food. All the kids and most parents headed down to the water park. We played for hours and hours until it was time to head back to the BBQ. My absolute favourite thing to do on my birthday is eat, dance, sing and have fun. My family is really good at making food, I would say my most favourite dish to eat is koko lica. (Koko lica is a Samoan dish that is made in most households and basically is cocoa rice). The best part about my birthday is passing down so many memories with my family. 

Today for writing we had a challenge to write what our favourite celebration was. Our challenge revolved around comma as it is our task for a couple of weeks. My favourite celebration is my birthday since the day revolves around me and my family. In my writing I talked about what I do on my birthday and everything that happens. We had 5 minutes to write, then 7 minutes to check with a partner and then another 10 minutes writing.

International News: Mapping

This week Joel and I started to make our current events, but this time we are mapping the events that take place worldwide or international news. We used the same twelve current event sequences to help us make decisions about the international stories that are published worldwide. One of the stories that we have chosen to include in our map was about a- Teen mum who murdered her 4 month old baby. The court is making hard decisions whether they should charge her or she shouldn't go into custody for the wrong reasons. The examples that we used as a showcase of information were Kiwi Kids News, Radio New Zealand and New Zealand Herald. This map is an example of what our task was. We plotted the everyday continuing stories that happened internationally. In these 12 countries and cities.   

National Current Events

Every day, news editors make decisions every day about which current event stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. Joel, Fui, Sakina and I researched about what national news there were in New Zealand and found different articles that we had never heard of before. On our map we found news in Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and we were surprised that we didn't know about.

Provocation and Opinion

A provocation is an action or speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. Recently a major supermarket chain announced it will no longer sell energy drinks to people under 16. My opinion is recorded in my DLO that shows both perspectives. What is your opinion and why?

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Fakalofa lahi atu, my name is Haylee and in my point of view, we should ban plastic straws because they are harmful to our environment and to our marine life. Did you know that 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die each year because of our plastic waste? Plastic straws turns into micro plastic which means that marine life will mistake the micro plastic for food. Plastic straws have harmful chemicals in them and if an animal digests micro plastic they will die. Think about it, there are millions of animals dying every year because we aren’t doing our part for the world. These animals have a purpose in life and they shouldn’t be dying because of our mistakes that we have made, they should be able to live a happy and healthy life. There are more animals dying this year than the past years and means we’ll have less food stock and less wild life. What happens if we don’t have anymore fish to eat? What happens if we can’t see animals living there happiest life? Now tell me, what happens when we have no more food to provide for our families? 

Pollution. Ever heard of the word? Pollution is harming our world and is the cause of why animals are dying. Majority of the percentage of the pollution contains plastic products and most of them being plastic straws. 175 million plastic straws get thrown out each day, most of them being from fast food restaurants and stores. Plastic straws take an average of 500 years to decompose which seems impossible to me. Imagine having to go swimming in an ocean of plastic and all you could see is plastic on top of plastic. In the future there will be tonnes of plastic piling up until you can only see nothing but rubbish. Would you like swimming in an ocean full of rubbish? I wouldn’t like to and I’m sure you wouldn’t either. Every single day sea animals have to swim in a dreadful environment, because all they can see is rubbish and I wonder what the cause is?. Have you ever thought of how harmful, poisonous, and toxic plastic straws could be?

This is the reason why animals are dying and this is heartbreaking for most. This is why I choose to not use a plastic straw. We should all help do our part in this world because we only have 1 world and we should treat it right.

Thank you letter to Mrs. Anderson | CARE Awards

For my first activity of respect for CARE awards, I have written a thank you letter to a teacher or staff member. CARE stands for Confidence, Attitude, Respect, Excellence and Innovation. I decided to write my letter to Mrs. Anderson because she was my first teacher that has welcomed me to the school. Something I wrote in my thank you letter is how she has welcomed me to the school as I was a new student and how she has made me feel welcomed. 

Tech at Tamaki College

This week was the last week of graphics with Miss Ferguson. For our last lesson of graphics with Miss Ferguson, we painted our games or got them cut out on the laser cutter. For the whole session working on our game and creating a scary character on tinkercad. We went on tinkercad and created a scary character based on Halloween. I really enjoyed making 3D objects since it was a first for me and I enjoyed making a game not having any knowledge of how to create a 3D object or game. I was really fascinated at how I could make things on tinkercad and enjoyed using the website. I'm looking forward to my next rotation and I'd like to thank Miss Ferguson for making my first rotation wonderful and interesting.