A Local Hero (Naeem Rashid)

Kia Ora Readers!

For the last two weeks in hurumanu 1 (heroes) we having being learning about local heroes. We learnt that no matter where you live there is always a role model or someone who helps your community which can be called a hero. The task Mr Mitchell set us for this week was to find a hero from either a person from the terror attacks or the big earthquake (which are natural disasters that has happened around me) . I choose terror attacks because it relates to my religion and who I am. We then had to find a hero involved in the issue and write a DLO about them which couldn't be on a google slide because Mr Mitchell said its very boring. I firstly researched about the heroes involved in the terror attacks on a website here is the website:Mosque heroes.  

Once I finished researching I decided to make a Biteable which is a video that you can make with all sorts of different clips and designs. At the same as I was creating it I made sure I included what Mr Mitchell told us to include, which was: What did they do? What qualities did they show? Where were they? How did they get involved? Why did they get involved? Did they earn any bravery awards? And how has their life been affected? After I finished creating my video I made sure I included everything, I included some music and then exported it to make sure the video would be published.

Here is my biteable:

A local hero on Biteable.

What is a hero?

A hero is someone who would put others first over themselves.

You can be a role model and show what is right and wrong.

If you are a hero you will never give up and always persist. 

You respect anyone no matter who you are and what you do even  you are different to anyone.

A hero always is helpful, brave, courageous and kind  to everyone.

The last way of telling someone what a hero is, is: "doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do" which is a quote I learnt from Mr Mitchell.

Political Decision-Making

 Hey Readers!

This week in hurumanu 1 we have been learning about Parliament and the steps it takes to the decision making of who the government would become. We watched a video about how it would happen, there are two main votes we do to select a government to be the leader of a party which is : the leader they want and who they want to represent locally. Every three years there is a election to determine who the prime minister of New Zealand would be. 

The steps parliament follows to pass a new law are: a bill ( law draft) is passed to parliament to get a read from the prime minster, next a close party reads the bill and fixes any mistakes, the public also get to read it and change it if needed, after that it gets a second reading, the mps debate the bill and it's the last chance to change the bill, it's read a third time and if it becomes certified by the Clerk of the house it's sent to the governor general for royal signing and to become a New Zealand law. 

In class today we got into groups and had to write down the differences and similarities between the process of the making of New Zealand laws and the treaty. All the groups got a piece of A4 paper to write the similarities and process, my group firstly discussed some ideas then we wrote down our ideas. Once everyone had to finish writing down the information Mr Mitchell asked all the groups about the process of the class treaty we did. There were lots of similarities to the process of New Zealand laws as well. 

The steps we did to make the treaty was... we firstly got into groups  (each table was a group) next all the groups got a piece of paper and had to get a pencil or pen. After that Mr Mitchell told us a Carr value we had to write rules for. The Carr values are: commitment, achievement, resilience and respect. We only needed to write five rules  that related to the Carr value. My group got given the carr value resilience, we all each wrote down at least one or two rules and gave each other ideas. Once all the groups had written down all the rules we passed around each of the groups rules and if needed we changed any words or rules we could. Next Mr Mitchell wrote down all of the rules on a slide show with each slide show being a carr value. The class voted if we approved on the rules. Then Mr Mitchell wrote all the rules on a google doc then printed it out to show a example of what a small version of the treaty would look like. Once Mr Mitchell printed the real version he rubbed tea bags across the paper making it look old as well as ripping some parts of the paper. Then the class all signed the treaty and got a treat which was a chocolate marshmallow egg  because it was almost easter. 

What do you know about Parliament? 

Here is the video we watched:

Writing to My Hero

Kia Ora Readers! 

At the start of this term in hurumanu 1 we have been learning about heroes. We learn't who heroes are and how we can become a hero. One thing that I learnt about during hurumanu 1 was that you don't need a cape to be a hero. Any ways... for our task we had to write a pretend email on a google doc to the hero we wrote a story about.  We had to make sure we included three questions which would be answered in more than one sentence.

 As well as that we needed to included why they became your hero and good ways of explaining. Before I begun writing the pretend email I thought about how I would begin my email  to Mr Beast, (one of my heroes) and how I would explain why he is my hero. Once I finished doing that I started writing the start of the email it was a little bit tricky at first but once I  got more ideas it was easier. 

Writing the email to my hero took me about three days to complete because I kept changing the wording and  fixing the bad punctuation. Have you ever written a pretend email to someone you look up to?

Here is my writing:

My Hero

Hey Readers! 

Throughout three weeks in my hurumanu class we have been learning about heroes and how anyone can be a hero if they try hard. For the first week we got a piece of paper that had some tasks to do. We had to think of some superpowers our hero can do, what they look like, and a name for the hero. I choose to call my hero weather woman she can change the weather, teleport, and becoming anything. The week after that we learn't about traits, traits are what makes someone a hero. A week later we started writing about someone who we look up to as a hero. The first task we did was find four heroes we look up to and write it down on a sticky note and then write about the four heroes we found. After that we had to make a google doc and start writing  about our hero we also got to research about our person. My person was Mr Beast I think he is my hero because he helps people with food and money and posts YouTube videos about it. It took me about a week to finish my writing but I made sure everything made sense. My favourite part about doing this activity was learning about different heroes and what they do. Who is your hero??