Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 1

Ki Ora Everyone for the next few week I will be posting blog post continuously for something that is called the Summer Learning Journey. Today I am doing Week 1 Day 1. I will always put the links under this blurb so that you can go to the sites I had.

Links:Nainoa Thompson,Hokule’a,Hikianalia, crew stopped off in Aotearoa, New Zealand,short video, Kupe,Hawaiki,The Netherlands,Abel tasman,Oceania,Sir Edmund Hillary,Mt Everest, Himalayan Trust,Nepal

Activity 1. Setting Sail
People from Pacific nations have always been expert explorers and navigators. In the past, they used the stars, sun and ocean swells to find their way (navigate) around the Pacific Ocean. Master navigator, Nainoa Thompson, has used the ancient Polynesian wayfinding skills to navigate around the world. In 2013, Nainoa led a crew across the Pacific Ocean on two large canoes (Hokule’a and Hikianalia). The crew stopped off in Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2015 on their journey and visited the Manaiakalani Schools in Auckland.Here is a short video about Polynesian navigation. It describes the different ways ancient Polynesian navigators used the natural world to find their way around vast oceans. Incredible!I think that it would be difficult to be ‘at sea’ for weeks at a time. I would miss my family but I would also enjoy the adventure. Let’s imagine that you were invited to join Nainoa for three weeks at sea. As part of the journey, you have to pack your own food.

1. Pasta: Because it can't dry out on you 
2. Caned vegetables: Because it can keep you healthy 
3. Caned Fruit: because the can't go off 
4.Bread: because it is dry and it was wash down all the liquid in your body 
5.Meat: Because it is a good thing for you to eat only if you cook it or have anyway to cook it 
6.Cheese: Because you could put it over you pasta or just eat it how ever you want 
7.Milk because it is one of the best things you can drink 
8. Rice because it is a food you could eat raw or cooked 
9.Eggs because you could eat them raw but it tastes really weird 
10.Sauce: because you can put it over most of your food

Activity.2:Discovering Aotearoa

Many people believe that Kupe was the first explorer to discover Aotearoa, New Zealand in about 1300. He navigated his way by waka to Aotearoa from Hawaiki using traditional Polynesian navigation techniques - just like Nainoa Thompson (from Activity 1) did much later on. Legend says that he followed a great octopus all the way to Aotearoa/New Zealand and finally destroyed it in Cook Strait (the water between the North and South Islands).Many years later, a Dutch explorer from The Netherlands, Abel Tasman, was exploring the Pacific Ocean when he came across New Zealand. He thought that he was the first person to ‘discover’ the country (despite the fact that Māori already lived in New Zealand!) and made the claim in 1642 that he had ‘discovered’ a new land. His exploration of New Zealand inspired many other European explorers to follow his lead and travel to the Oceania. Kupe and Abel Tasman were two different men from two very different backgrounds (cultures) who shared a common interest - exploration.

Well my Dad's side Ornateness from Germany but we are not to sure about my mum's side so we are just saying her family is from new Zealand no where else. 

About Germany: It has many places there like Berlin, Hamburg and more. 

( Found at Wikipedia)

About New Zealand:It is where i have lived for 12 years and i have never wanted to leave

Bonus Activity:Scaling New Heights
Sir Edmund Hillary and his sherpa (guide), Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to reach the summit of Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the world in 1953. At the time, Edmund Hillary was an apiarist (beekeeper) from Auckland, New Zealand. During the summer he worked as a beekeeper, and during the winter, he climbed mountains. Becoming the first person to summit Everest was not easy. In fact, Edmund Hillary attempted (tried) to climb to the top of Mt Everest three times before he succeeded. He was determined to reach the top!While this famous explorer and climber is mostly remembered for being the first person to reach the summit of Mt Everest, he has also made a huge impact on the world through his charity work. In 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary set up the Himalayan Trust to bring education, healthcare and safe drinking water to the people of Nepal - the country where Mt Everest is located.

SPCA: Rescues Animals from all sorts of situations. They take care of the animals they give them health care they feed them. Then when the animals are healthy the re-home them.

One of my dogs Mercedes was a SPCA dog we went in and brag her home she was my best friend and she always was helpful but she sadly passed away.

Here Is a photo of her.

(Found by my mum)