Speeches !

How many of you have done a speech ? This is my first speech and the topic is 'Changemaker' so it could be about a person, object or activity. I am doing my speech about Kate Sheppard, in case you don't know Kate Sheppard was a leading suffragette. 

Here is my speech. 

The two major parties, Labour and National are currently led by women and some  local candidates are also women. Now imagine that you are in 1890 and my mother and your mother can’t vote but my father and your father can vote  ( point to some women in audience and say you can’t vote now point to some men in the audience and say you can vote )  and half the population are not allowed to vote, why because they are women, Kate Sheppard changes all of this by starting petitions to prove that women should vote and that people want women to be able to vote 

 

Hi, my name is Klara and I am going to share with you how Kate Sheppard was a real change maker.

One way that Kate Shepard campaigned was starting 2 petitions to prove that people did want women to be able to vote.  When Kate unrolled her 2nd  petition it was, drum roll please, 270 meters long!!  The first year she started a petition, it was signed by 9,000 women - the second year she did another petition, it was signed by 19,000 people, Proving that more and more people wanted women to be able to vote. Kate also had the support of the Prime Minister - who was a man -  and the Governor GenKate Sheppard completely changed the amount of women  in politics. There are now 120 members of parliament  in New Zealand  and nearly 48% of those are women - the highest number of women in positions of power in New Zealand since 1919.eral, who was also a man. 

Why was women having the vote so important?  Well first of all voting needs an array of opinions because if the only people who vote all have the same opinion the other side doesn't have a chance, but if people who all have a different opinion and the majority vote for one side it proves that the winning side is the best for the people.

Thanks to Kate Shepard and  other women and men like her, New Zealand was the first country to let women vote, proving that women and men are both just as equal as each other. Kate is also on the 10 dollar note putting her in the ranks of Edmond Hillary who climbed Mount Everest with Tenzing Norway and Lord Rutherford who split the atom. 

“Do not think that your single vote does not  count, the rain that soaks the parched ground is made of single drops” Kate Shepard said.

Do you like it ? I think that I did well.

Term Rap Up

This term was completely out of control so I will only choose one topic to talk about... umm umm I don't know what to talk about! I know Kapa Haka! 

In case you do not know Kapa Haka is a form of Maori dancing which includes poi.  

This is a Poi.

This year Moana syndicate is doing a few Haka's ( war dances ), a few songs and a poi song. My favorite is the poi song because I enjoy learning the steps to the poi. The name of the poi song is Aue Rona E. 

Farm Trip

    On Monday the 15 of September Room 4 and The Shade House crew - a gardening group at Wainui Beach School - went to Mangaone, the Lands farm. We went there to plant up the wetlands with the trees that The  Shade House had grown in the Shade House we also were tidying up the trees that had been planted last year. 

Also on Tuesday Wainui Beach school went to Pihitia station to learn about where your food comes from. There was multiple little workshops like butchering the meat, technology on a farm, dairy, shearing, dogs and sheep, conservation  things like that. 

PBL

PBL stands for play based learning. PBL is a group of students who will chose a project to help students and the community it could be a fundraiser, art or something else.  

More Maths :-)

 This week  MLH has decided to start Maths-Whizz, anyone know it ? Well it's like a math thing where you do a game version of a math skill and then you do the same skill with different equations  but with just a blue background. I like the blue background better than the game one because then there is nothing to distract you while you are doing maths (that may have something to do with my Irlen Syndrome). 

When you are doing the maths, if you get the questions right, you earn credits (money) and buy things like pets, pet food, clothes and furniture. Also, if you don't feed your pet, they get rehomed !

When you go past a certain amount of skills you get parts of a gem and after you get a certain amount of gems you go up levels. Rookie, Pro, Master and Superstar . You also get to design a character to go as you in your home ( I chose Jungle for my theme. The other theme you can choose is Space )

This is my home 🠉

🠝This it were you can buy things like pets ( the paw print button ) , Pet food ( the dog bone button ) , Plants   (the leaf button ) you get the picture. 

I learnt in Maths Whizz a new times table skill like this 6x70= 6x10x7 =420 and I also practise old skills which helps a lot because then I don't forget the old skills.  

Maths

This week in group maths Level 3 maths has been working on maps. Everyone divided into pairs and each pair had a map of Wainui Beach school BUT without the labels so we added the labels. 

Quick write

Quick write this week was about a healthy lifestyle. There was 4 questions you had to answer, the questions were: 1 What makes a healthy lifestyle ?, 2 What are the benefits of a healthy lifestyle ?, 3 What are your favorite healthy foods and why ?, 4 What are your favorite forms of exercising and why ?   In the next paragraph, I will write one of my answers. 

1. A healthy lifestyle is made by having a healthy diet and active lifestyle. A healthy diet is when you swap out unhealthy things like biscuits and chocolate for salad and fruit. Fruit and vegetables also have more vitamins and dietary fiber. Dietary fiber keeps you fuller so you can work mare at school and have fun doing sports !