The 1891 Shearers Strike

For this assesment we learned about the 1891 shearers strike, A shearers strike is when people who cut wool from sheep. They stoped working because they want better pay or  good working conditions. They don’t do their job until their bosses listen and agrees to their wishes

reading

For reading this week we needed to create a Google vid that show casess one of Hone Tuwhare Poems, the one we have chosen was “Rain”.  First we needed to create images using volcabulary to illustrate more images using prompts to connect to the poem.

Then we needed to record ourselves reading the poem, alternating through each stanza.  Something I found interesting about Hone Tuwhare was that, New Zealanders choose their best-loved poem, placed Tuwhare’s poem Rain at number one.

inquiry

Our challenge was to be palaeontologists which are people who study ancient life by examining fossils.  We then used Adobe express to add and reimage in order to make it more realistic to what a real egg might look like. After that we add things that related to our dinosaur like the habitats to create our image.  My partner and I found the skeleton of a Brachiosaurus, the name Brachiosaurus means “arm Lizard” in Greek.

This Task was fun because we got to use AI to make our own images.

 

 

museum DLO

This week Panmure Bridge School took a trip to the Auckland War Memorial Museum to finish off our learning about volcanoes. We visited the WW1 section, the hall of memories, and lastly we visited the dinosaurs.

First, I arrived with my class to the side entrance of the museum, it had a big circular mat for our school to sit in. We sat down and one of the guides spoke to the class below us about the class (will be talking about that later on). But as the guide stopped talking we walked to the hall of memories, it was a big cream colored hall that consists of all the names of the fallen ANZAC soilders that didn’t return. But the most intresting thing to me was a big book I closed in a big glass case, It was a big book of names which from distance looks about 16 cm thick. Someone also changes the page every day.

 

Next, we sat back down for morning tea. After that, we walked to the WW1 section, It had guns and artifacts from the war. Our teacher, Miss Andersons husband actually used one of the guns that were showcased in the section. Known as the 25-Pounder. After that I wrote in a book that wach group was given at the start of the trip. My task was to draw an image of a intresting artifact. Then we arrived back to the mat to eat lunch.

 

For the last part of our trip, I explored the dinosaur and a class about volcano.  First came the dinosaurs, me and my group had a task to draw a dinosaur and its habitat. I also explored a bit with my friend, we saw the extinct bird the Moa, and even massive eggs. We went back to be guided to the class. It had a red light and a hyper-realistic mini volcano. They showed us rocks and we were even given a challenge to pick out of a couple items if a eruption was to happen.