Malala Yousafzai: Against The Odds Book Review

 Book Review

Malala Yousafzai Against The Odds

Author: Claire Thorp 

Would you like to hear a thrilling story of a young girl who doesn’t want anything
but education?

This book is set in the present day in the Southern Asia, Pakistan. Pakistan’s
neighbours are China, India, Afghanistan and Iran.

Malala Yousafzai Against The Odds tells the story of how women weren’t allowed
their rights in Pakistan and how Malala stood up for women's rights to have the
freedom that they needed. 

Malala Yousafzai is a girl who was born with talent. Malala and other women in
Pakistan weren’t allowed to have freedom, but Malala stood up for her rights
and kept doing what she loved. Women weren’t allowed to go into town without a
male. Malala thought that was wrong. Women weren’t allowed to go to school.
Malala’s father, (Ziauddin Yousafzai) set up a school for girls, there were
only two rooms in that school. Malala’s Mother (Tor Pekai) couldn’t read or write
because of the way that they were treated. 

Malala has been an inspiration to people all over the world to make peace. Malala
visited Nigeria where over 200 women had been kidnapped and sold for slaves.
She met with the parents of the kidnapped girls and she tried to persuade the
Nigerian President to raise enough money so that the parents can go see their
girls that have escaped. Eventually he decided to do it and they got to go see
their kids. I feel very sad that there are still Nigerian Women being used as slaves.

Personally this book is my favourite one yet. It’s a really good inspiration to
people and I think people all over the world should read it. For me I think the a
ge group for people to read is 10+.

Brother Eagle, Sister Sky

Analogies DLO

- Paua to beach as Fern to forest

- Kiwi is to small as Moa to big

- Swords to British as Pounamu To Maori

- Ruby Tui To Nz as Rebecca Clough Australia

- Nz storms to Australia’s sun

An Analogy is comparing an idea or a thing to another idea
that is quite different from that.
It targets at explaining something
that is familiar.

- Cheetah to fast as snail to slow

- Desert to hot as Antarctic to Cold

- Duckling to duck as Cub to Lion

- Neptune to cold as Venus to hot

Click here to see a video about Analogies

Lake Daniell

Lake Daniell Responses

On Wednesday the 12th of June, Room 8 & 1 went on a

tramp to Lake Daniell. I went with my dad, he came

along as well. In my car group was Summer & Aimee, my

dad stopped at the petrol station and got us some Lollies!

Everyone stopped at Reefton for a toilet stop. Everyone went exploring and there was a BMX track. Ms Kemp called all of

us back in then we started to drive again.

When we got to the Marble Hill car park by Lake Daniell

we had to wait for the other cars to arrive.Before we

started the

walk we did a number off to know that everyone is here.

We started to walk and the nature was really fascinating.

We had a scavenger hunt to do and in my group was Jennae

& Brighid. The scavenger hunt was really hard. There was a

Long Tailed bat on there but they sleep during the day.

There was also a Blue duck, these birds are endangered.

Later on in the tramp we were super close to the hut & the

lake. When we got there Summer put her go-pro in the water

and it was so clear. We ate lunch, and went on the Jeti and

started to walk back.

As we were walking back Dakota showed me the Ice Cream

Plant you can eat. But the thing is that it is

the opposite of Ice Cream, it’s super spicy and burns

your tongue.

It was horopito!

I held back a bit to hang with my dad, we talked a lot,
it was really fun having my dad on the tramp.

When we got back we had to wait 20 minutes for the boys to

get there because they were taking super long but they were

going at their own pace. When we got back to school at 5:30ish,
everyone was super sore and ready for bed.

Umbles

 The Umbles

           The umbles are early signs of Hypothermia

          

1) What is the Grumbles? The grumbles is when someone may complain or become
argumentative. They could talk back and be very negative towards others.

2) What are the Fumbles? The fumbles is when that person is very clumsy.
May drop things, trip over anything and slow reaction to things. This person
May also have bad coordination and Drifted off somewhere else.

3) What are the Mumbles? The Mumbles are is when someone has trouble
with speaking. They might have a lot of confusion and not understand what
you are talking about.

4) What are the Stumbles? The Stumbles are loss of control of your body and
don’t know what they are doing. They may have stiffness in their body
and be slower than others.

                         This Image is from Trailmob.com

Next To A Giant

This is me Next to a moa. We did this to see the how big we are next to each other. As you know is that the moa is the biggest bird in NZ, Moa's weigh 230kg and 3.6m in height.

Comic Strip On Scratch

In Room Eight we have to learn how to use scratch. I have used scratch before and I have made several projects but I made one based on the comic strips I have been doing. This is a link to a video I have screen recorded of my scratch work.

This Is Us

Identity, sensitivity, and respect. We are learning to Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.

Number Crusher DLO

The Mana Show Review

The Mana Show Review

On Friday the 10th, Bernard MangakaHia came to karoro school for a dance show and to tell us about his culture
and his history. What he did was showed us some dances around the world. What I think he did the show for is to
show that you can do what you want if you believe in yourself.

What Bernard first did was talk to us about Polynesia. Bernard turned on some music and sang a song about a
Indian chief  telling his son to believe and climb his way up to his goal. As he was singing that song he did the
song in sign language as well. Once he finished he said to us that the culture Indian had a lot of dances and he
showed us the hula hoop one. He said that it  took him 10 years to the dance with seven of the hula hoops. Now
he is up to 20 hoops and some of the American-Indians can do up to 30-40. The things that he made with the
hoops was Butterfly, Eagle, Cactus, Snake and a Flower. Then he asked someone from the audience to come up
and try the hula hoops out.

After that, Bernards Dad is from New Zealand so he showed us the Haka but he sang Humpty Dumpty.
After the haka he said that mostly everyday when he was yougner he watches his mum to the poi and he self
taught himself  to do the poi by watching his mum do the poi. What the maori have on their faces are moko.
Moko are a type of tattoo that tell stories. The woman have tattoos on their bottom lip and their chin.
The male have the tattoos on one side of their head and their chin. Bernard showed us the example of
the tattoos on his face with a pencil.

After all of that, Bernard  told us about his family and history. He told us that his Father is from New Zealand
and his mother is from Africa. Bernard said that he has 3 sons and that they were born in Australia Melbourne.
The oldest is a Ballerina for the Australian Ballet Company. He audition For two Companies but he made it into
both, he chose They Australian Company. The second child is a basketball player and when he was younger he
wished to go to New York and now that he is older, he is now in New York. The third Child was a hip hop person.
Bernard said that he came up to him and said that he wanted to do hip hop down in the streets of Melbourne, that’s
what he did. He went down with his youngest son and he started doing hip hop. By the end of the day he said that
His son made up to 100 dollars that day, then Bernard said that he wanted to do this every Friday and Saturday.
By the end of the year he made up to 7,000 dollars! He did a hip hop dance that his children told him to do and
what he should wear, he wore a funky looking hat, hawaiian T-shirt and baggy shorts. He did hip hop while
telling a story with his actions.

Kea Patrol Persuasive Writing

Kea Patrol

I strongly believe that we should keep road patrol for these reasons. Kea patrol gives older people to be helpful and good role models. Sometimes kids have trouble crossing the road and the State Highway 6  gets really dangerous and busy after school at 3pm.

Firstly, I strongly believe that we should have kea patrol because some kids like the juniors have trouble crossing the road so the need a mature person to help them cross the road.  If the little kids see a older person from this school cross the road by themselves they might follow in your footsteps and might trip and hurt themselves. Something terrible might happen.

Secondly, You all should know that sometimes the Main South Road gets really busy and dangerous. The State Highway 6 is the only way in and out of Greymouth so it’s really busy. We should have Kea patrol so the vehicles know when to stop. If we didn’t children could trip and cars might not of seen them like trucks because they are so high up. There has been a few car accidents on State Highway 6 so people need to be aware.

Finally, I believe that kea patrol gives the older kids to have a chance at being a role model and to  make sure kids cross the State Highway 6 properly and not being silly. If we didn’t have kea patrol the little kids can put themselves in danger. The seniors  are taking up their afternoon time to help people cross the road when they haven’t been asked.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that we should keep road patrol because on the State Highway 6 because the main south road gets really busy and dangerous so we need someone to help. The little kids sometimes need help crossing the road and that older kids have a chance at being helpful and being a good role model. Kea patrol  keeps people secure.