Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 5

Friday 20 December 

Week 1

Day 5: Against the Odds 

Activity 1: National Treasure

1. My netbook is important to me because I have already broke my 1st netbook that was given to me by my cousin and when I broke it, I wasn’t thinking properly because I broke it by playing with a little truck toy and my netbook was right beside me and the toy accidentally hit the screen of my old netbook. I told my teacher and then she told me it’s alright and then she gave me a new netbook, which I am using right now.
2. My family is so important to me because they are everything to me and without them I don’t know what I would do, they are also important to me because I love them so much. They mean everything to me and they are there when I need them.
3. My best friends are important to me because they make me smile like mostly everyday and they are like sisters to me and I love them so much, my best friends are Kesa and Sia.

Activity 2: Swimming to Safety

In 2015, Yusra and her elder sister fled and set off a dangerous journey to Europe to find safety, they travelled through Lebanon to Turkey before leaving for Greece in an overcrowded dinghy however 15 minutes into the sea crossing, the boat’s engine failed so Yusra didn’t want to let any of her passengers drown. Yusra is also a professional swimmer, Yusra, her sister and two others swam for three and a half hours in open water to stop their dinghy turn upside down. They saved 20 people. 

Activity 3: Own Choice

1. Tamatea
2. Tamatea sailed all around the North and the South Islands and also explored inland, he was sometimes called Tamatea-pokaiwhenua which means land explorer or Tamatea-pokaimoana which means sea explorer. He was one of New Zealand’s greatest explorers and has been described as the Maori Marco Polo.
3. I think that him travelling to different places definitely inspired people to travel anywhere they want and definitely inspired them that they can get far by just doing what they love.