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Response To Ski Trip

On Tuesday we drove to the ski field. There wasn’t as much snow as I
thought there would be, but there still lots of people. We all got our skis,
boots, and goggles and helmets for some of us. We got different passes,
I got a all mountain pass and some other people got a beginners pass,
because they had not skied before.

I went down the chair lift twice and skied with my friends. I thought that the
trip was really fun and I really enjoyed it.    

In this photo we are in a lesson and are trying not to slide back into the
fence behind us.

Response On St John

On Monday in the afternoon Catherine from St John’s came to Karoro school.
Room 1 went to the tech centre to do a St Johns course. We learned what
DRSABCD means, the D stands for Danger, the R stands for response, the
S stands for send for help, the A stands for airway, the B stands for breathing,
the C stands for CPR or Commence, the D stands for Defibrillation.

We also learned how to do CPR and Defibrillation on a dummy. We were
put into groups of eight, all the girls were put together and there were two
groups of boys. There were eight dummies at the front of the room. The
first group of boys went to the front and done CPR on the dummies as well
as Defibrillation. Then the our group (girls) went up, and after that the other
boys group.  

I thought that learning to do CPR was good because if something happened
in real life it would be good to know what to do. I thought it was fun and I
enjoyed it.

Te Uru

Walt: participate in the learning of others.

Why: Building on our transition to high school.

Success Criteria: be active participants in a new cultural game.

:use our listening skills, watch, ask questions and practice.

On Tuesday 10CH from Grey High School, walked to our school. They were a
group of year ten students that came to teach us a cultural game called Te Uru.
I had never played Te Uru before but it was fun.

The rules were, you had to catch the ball with a flat palm, and basically netball
rules like no stepping with the ball and no knocking the ball out of other people's
hands. We did drills to practise catching the ball in our flat palm and also practised
intercepting the ball. I found it hard at first to catch the ball with a flat palm but then
I got use to it.

I would suggest for next time that there were more teams so that there was more space
on the field, also that there were two refs and at least one would be watching the game.  

Designing A Logo

Today in Ms Chowfin's class we learn't how to change the google logo. We changed the logo on Scratch. We changed the colors the background and the letters. We are learning design principles. 

Finding Refuge

Children have escaped persecution, but they can’t
outrun the latest threat.

The main idea in this article is about the monsoon season causing flooding
in Bangladesh were the refugees are. The main people that are talked
about in this article are the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees
who have escaped Myanmar from persecution. The refugees are now in
Bangladesh and are now at risk from the raging storms that are hammering
the region.

In the past week a three year old boy has been the first death of
Bangladesh's monsoon season. The three year old boy lived with his family
in there makeshift shelter, by a mud wall. The three year old boy was
crushed in his sleep and his mother was badly injured when the mud wall
collapsed. Since then another two people have been killed.

For many weeks thousands of refugee families have been preparing for
the monsoons. The families only have little shacks that are clinging to hills,
with just blue tarpaulin to keep them safe and dry. The makeshift city goes
on for kilometres. Not even the shelters on higher ground are safe from the
torrential rain. Even the shelters that have been strengthened are unlikely
to survive the outrageous high winds. It is very likely that a tropical cyclone
will strike the region.  

 

The potential for disease outbreak is very high. Already, almost 19,000
refugees are living in high risk areas and have been relocated to safer land,
and another 18,000 to be relocated by the end of the month.

The torrential rain also causes problems for agencies that are trying to
deliver life-saving humanitarian aid. This is one of the solutions that have
been tried.

Out of the one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, around
half of them are children. They have escaped persecution, but the still
remain in desperate   need of protection.

It made me think that lots of children refugees are at risk of dying every day from the
monsoon season. This text made me feel sad because there has already been three deaths.
I also felt lucky because I am not at risk from mud slips and flooding every day.

My life is similar or different to the children in the text in that :

Similarities	Differences
We are both kids We both need food and shelter	I am not a refugee I live in the country I choose to live in.

Some solutions that I have thought about to help the children who are Rohingya refugees
living in Bangladesh are move them to a island that does not have monsoon season.
With better shelters, fresh food and fresh, good water.