summer learning journey activity 2 rights and wrongs

How many years more until you reach 25? At the moment i am ten years old and Dr Jessa Rodgers was 25 years old when she won the NAIDOC youth of the year award so if I will be the same age as Dr Jessa when she get her award it will be 15 years more to wait.

solution is take away 10 from 25 which equals 15

              25 ( age of Dr Jessa ) 

            - 10 ( my current age )

       =     15 ( years more to wait until i am 25 )

how many more years until your 25 and how would you show the maths solution?

summer learning journey week 2 activity 1 playing favourites

This week I have to share what are my 3 favourite things that I want to do and they are; playing the ukulele because I like music. 2 years ago when I was 8 or 9 I started playing the ukulele at my school ukulele club. I was one of the first members. Then after a year joining the ukulele club we went to join this event called strum,strike and blow and there were over thousand kids performing. The next year my ukulele club joined again that same event and I got an award for participating. My second favourite things s reading books, I have been reading books since I was 2 or 3 years old. My parents always say that I am good in reading and I think I am, but I know I can get better than I am right now. My third favourite thing is riding my bike, I was so happy to receive my new bike as my Christmas present.  I have been riding my bike almost every day, I go to the park and to lots of places near my house. It was so fun riding my new bike.

  how about you, what are your three favourite things and why you love doing them?

summer learning journey activity 2 my culture

My culture is very mixed with other cultures, on my mum side she have Chines,Filipino and Spanish. My mums family are really close knit, even their dead loved ones they still visit them every week at the cemetery and always remember their death anniversary by offering a mass. Every 2 or 3 years We go to the Philippines for a holiday, 3 years ago we went to the Philippines for a Christmas vacation and on Christmas day my mum wake me up at 7:00 AM to give the candy canes and chocolates that we bought from New Zealand to the less fortunate kids that will go to every house in the neighbour hood to ask for money or lollies as their Christmas gift and  my family went to mass on that day. The New Year celebration is so different from New Zealand. People are still awake at midnight to meet the New Year by having lots of yummy food that the family eat together at midnight and we did fire works and party horns to make some noises It was my first Christmas and New Year experience and it was a memorable  moment of my life. There's also a big festival that I witnessed, it was the feast of Santo Nino the patron saint of Cebu City. Thousands of people from all over Philippines and other countries came to join the fiesta especially the sinulog where the people dancing on the street to honour the infant Jesus. I really miss that event of my life because I really enjoyed and had lots of fun. While on my dad side not much to tell except that he has a mixture of Danish and English and sadly my grandparents  were dead and my father only had one bother with no kids. I seldom see my uncle but every now and then we talk on the phone.







what country are you mixed with and what does your family do from were you or your parents are from?

summer learning journey week 1 activity 1

Nainoa Thompson asked me to go on a journey with him for three weeks across the world on a boat. I had to pack ten items to go on the boat without fridge or freezer.


I chose

• noodles
• banana
• caned baked beans
• caned spaghetti
• chocolate
• dried mango
• dehydrated food
• bread
• carrots
• chips

I have packed all my food for the journey across the world with Nainoa Thompson.

If you will be on a boat for three weeks with no freezer or fridge what food would you bring?

Strum,Strike and Blow

On August 29th me and my ukulele club went to Horn Castle Arena to performed with thousand of other kids. When we got there we sat in our sets and waited for the audience to come and sit down and watch us perform. There were over a thousand kids performing that night, the first thing that was being performed was the bicycle band that was my favorite thing. Then the marimbas play there songs then we performed with the other ukuleles my favorite songs were try everything then April sun in Cuba it was really awesome to be part of this big opportunity but that was not my first year to participating in Strum,Strike,Blow my first year was last year 2018. that year we had a lot of people like this year but this year we had 2 or 3 thousand kids performing and I felt like I was dong something good for myself to be in something with so many kids

If you were in Strum,Strike,Blow what instrument would you play?

top team

last Friday we had an opportunity to participate in top team. In this event you are in teams competing against other teams. My favorite challenge was the sling shot, we had to sling shot a bean bag so the people in my team could catch the bean bag and then put it into a bucket. we only got five bean bags into the bucket and the other team got six but I still really enjoyed this challenge. We had seven people in our team they were Max,Me,Grace,Tu,Cooper,Jin Hee and Ebony, we were a really good team we worked really well together and we did our best to have fun. There was also a memory game and games that needed more than 3 people but I liked working with a team because the team I was in did not fight about who would do what and I was really happy about that.






If you were in top team what your favorite challenge be?

Tough kids

On 20 of November I went to an event called Tough kids it is about kids doing course wile doing a run.  There was over 50,000 kids it was crazy my school had lots of fun and i mean it there was lots of water and mud and the news on TV 1 was there we saw the big camera. my favorite obstacle was when you were walking in water and getting splashed by every one and there were lots of schools in cool clothes and had face paint on there faces they were just crazy the best thing was about the day being so perfect for tough kid and the music when we were warming up.

have you ever done tough kids before?