Dear Diary From My Bubble

In lockdown, we have been working on a pictorial diary on slides. Our Wananga class has been doing this including our teacher Miss Laycock. We had to put in pictures of us doing stuff in lockdown. I did many things in my lockdown like practising Volleyball, cooking with my parents, going for walks and much more. My favourite part of doing this was putting in all the photos of me doing things in lockdown so my friends can see. Something in lockdown I enjoyed the most was spending time with my family and doing arts and crafts. What was/is our favourite thing to do in lockdown.

Here is my slideshow of me doing things in lockdown:

The Empty Pot

Today for Hurumanu we watched a video of a man reading the Empty Pot. After we watched it we had to answer 10 questions about it. After the questions, we had to make our own word find about the story. Some of the questions relate to us because we had to answer if we had been in a contest. The story is about a boy named Ping and loves to garden. An emperor comes to the village in China and hands out seeds all the children in the village is happy. Thier task is to bring the bloomed in a year. Ping came a year later and he hasn't had a flower bloomed. Ping was the only one who won because he was being honest and the other kids cheated because the emperor cooked the seeds. But he still came to the palace and was honest.

Can you find the words:

Paralympics Choice Board Task

Today in lockdown I did a task from the Paralympics choice board. We have different many tasks we can do on there when we have nothing to do. I worked on an art task which was to create an Olympic kit for the NZ Paralympic team. It could be a specific uniform, tracksuit, or formal wear to wear at the opening ceremony, etc. I drew out a team tracksuit because it is simple they can wear it when they are not competing/after they have competed, opening/closing ceremony, or whenever they want. I made one for the Men's and also one for the Women's, I tried to keep them both similar to each other because it will look neater but also keeping it simple and unique. My favourite part about this was designing the tracksuit because I got to be creative and use my imagination. 

Here are my designs:

NZ Paralympians

In Hurumanu we had to do a doc about New Zealand Paralympics. We had a table on the docs with 3 NZ Paralympians and 6 other rows to add other Paralympians. We had to add the information about each Paralympian's sport, gold/silver/bronze medal, and their disability. We got all the information about the Paralympians on this site. My favourite part of this was reading about all the Paralympians on the site because it shows a lot of information about them. 

Sophie Pascoe

For our Hurumanu work in lockdown, we had to create a slideshow about Shopie Pascoe. In our slide, we had specific things we had to include, like how many medals she has won, how many Paralympics she has competed in, and how she is a Paralympian. Sophie Pascoe was in a lawnmower accident at the age of 2 cutting her leg below her knee. My favorite part of this was putting information about her onto the slides. I enjoyed this activity because I got to learn more information about her.

Here are my slides:

My Opinion About Lockdown 2021

For me lockdown has been a bit stressful for me because as a student you have to do online learning and do google meetings with our class, and you can’t go anywhere. It has also been good because I get to spend more time with myself and my dad and I get to help him around the house. I get to do art and crafts, learn how to do different things and go outside and play on my trampoline. I also miss my friends and hanging out with them and playing volleyball. It's boring staying inside the house all day (other than going for walks and bike rides) and I wish I could just go back to school and do P.E. and my sports tournaments.

Lisa Carrington

Last week we had to write a draft blogpost about Lisa Carrington. We had to answer questions on a doc. Lisa Carrington was on the news because she won gold in the 500m Rowing. Lisa Carrington is from New Zealand. Lisa Carrington was born in Tauranga In the North Island. The province city she grew up in is the Bay of Plenty. Lisa Carrington's iwi is Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou. The satellite town she grew up in was Whakatane in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Lisa attended Whakatane High School. She attended Massey University, which is located in Palmerston North. Her Olympic event is Rowing. She has successfully competed in Rio, Japan, London, Beijing, and Hungary. Her partner in Rowing is Cailin Regal. She has achieved 5 gold medals and 1 bronze. Beef and Lamb NZ and Southern Cross Health Society. The Club she attends is the Eastern Bay Canoe Racing Club.