Parihaka Puzzle - Reading.

 For the past few days our class has been going around the classroom because our teacher has put up 8 cards that are full of information about Parihaka and we did sort of like a scavenger hunt because we all got 8 pieces of paper shaped in puzzle pieces. The cards had some questions and the answers were in the 8 different cards that were around the classroom. 

The story of Parihaka: The government people said to the Maori people that they could keep their land but actually confiscated it and took their land and gave it to someone else, then they go back to their land and find someone has claimed it and put their pegs. They got frustrated seeing that someone has intruded their land so they decide to pull out all the pegs and replace them with their pegs. The government was not happy about this so later on all the Maori villagers got imprisoned.. they were imprisoned for 16 months, all the girls would get abused like not given a lot of food and the prisoners got really sick. 2 men called Te Whiti -o- Rongomai & Tohu Kakahi were people who wanted peace for their village and villagers. They wanted to embrace the Pakeha world which they practised even when protesting against injustice. There is also a thing that all the kids wore on their heads, a white Albatross feather.

Here is the feather me and my buddy Alison have created:

Penguins - Fact File.

Since yesterday we were reading about penguins, we had to write a fact file and identify the main ideas in the texts.

I decided to just go with regular penguins and basically put all the species in one fact file.

I enjoyed reading the book with my group and discussing what we thought was wrong.

I found nothing hard because we had the book at all times and had people in our groups to work with.

Next time I would do it on one specific penguin so people can learn something new about penguins.