November student reflection

Today we have been doing our November Reflection to reflect on our learning from this month. I found it easy and enjoyed doing the November selfie and explain what we did at camp. I found it challenging to find a math problem. My digital learning object shows that I can reflect on my learning. Here is my reflection.

Summer learning journey - Art Colouring book #2

 Here is the second one I have done. I enjoyed this one more because it is more intrecide. I found it challenging to fill in all the tiny spaces because there was so many of them and it was very tiring and a lot of clicking! Next time I would try and copy the original art piece. The original piece is by Vincent Van Gogh. Here is how mine turned out and what the original one looks like.

The original

 

 

My one

Reading - How to light a fire without matches

 This week for reading our group has been reading a book called "Camping in the bush"  Its about a family going camping and they forget a lot of important thing so they have to make them out of stuff around them.

Our task was to I explain how to make something in steps. Anieke and I explained how to make a fire. It had the instructions in the book which was easy and clear to follow on how to make a solar barbecue which helped us with the layout. I enjoyed and found it easy to explain what you need. I found it challenging to think of what I was going to explain. Here is the GIF Anieke and I made.

Parihaka

There was once a village in Taranaki called Parihaka. Parihaka was a special place because many different Māori tribes lived there and raised there family. Parihaka was also very special because it was a land of peace. There were two chiefs in the village called Te Whiti and Tohu.

 "We have heard that the soldiers are coming tomorrow to try to make us leave our land. The women will bake bread for them and the children will sing and dance for them."

The women baked 500 loaves of bread to share with everyone. On the 5th November 1881, When the soldiers arrived with their guns they saw the children of Parihaka singing and dancing in the road with white feathers in their hair. 

The children couldn’t stop the soldiers from entering the village and taking the people to prison, but they made the soldiers feel guilty. Te Whiti and Tohu got put in prisoned for 16 months without trial. All the houses of Parihaka were burned down and all the crops got destroyed and new pakeha people started to move in. The pakeha put down pegs were they would live but the māori did not understand and pulled the pegs out because that was their land! but the pakeha didn't understand so they shot the Maori.

For our task we had to think, did fifteen hundred pakeha soldiers want to walk past the children singing and dancing and the women greeting them? How do we think they felt? Guy Fawkes is also on today but it happened in England. Parihaka is today but it happened in New Zealand. I think we should celebrate Parihaka instead of Guy Fawkes because Parihaka happened in New Zealand. What do you think?

I enjoyed and found it easy to create my feather. I found it challenging to know what I was going to write for my explanation of parihaka.

Here is how I thought they felt.