Week 1 Day 5 Summer Learning Journey 2019 - 2020

SUMMER LEARNING JOURNEY 2019 - 2020

WEEK 1 : PHYSICAL LIMITS

Sport and Exploration

DAY 5 : AGAINST THE ODDS
Activity 1 & 2 and 3

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Activity 1: National Treasure [4 points]

Sophie Pascoe is a New Zealand para-swimmer. This means she is a competitive swimmer with a physical disability. Very sadly, Sophie was run over by a lawn mower when she was only 2 years old. She had to have the bottom of her left leg amputated. However, despite this terrible accident, she was determined to become a competitive swimmer.

Sophie has won numerous New Zealand and world para-swimming titles, including nine Olympic gold medals. She has also won the Halberg Award for Disabled Sportsperson of the Year three times. Sophie is a great example of a New Zealander who did not let her disability stop her from achieving her dreams. She is truly a ‘National Treasure’. A national treasure is someone or something that is very important to a country. 

For this activity, we would like to learn more about the things that are important to you.

On your blog, please share three things that you treasure and say why they are treasures to you. SLJ - Team - Personally, I treasure an old piano because it has family history for me. My dad bought the piano when he was a teenager and played it a lot as a young man. When I was little I learnt to play on the same piano and now my daughter Laila loves to play it too! It has brought a lot of joy and music to our family.

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Activity 1: National Treasure [4 points]

Task Description : This week I am learning about how to finish a task within a time frame as well as doing the task propley and also to have fun . This task required for me a lot of thinking but I adventurously got there , I founded this task medium in the middle of hard and easy:) But I enjoyed it tho!! Enjoy it :)

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Activity 2: Swimming to Safety [4 points]

Yusra Mardini is a teenage girl who was born in Syria, a war-torn country in the Middle East. She left Syria in 2015 to get away from the constant fighting and became a refugee. During

her journey to reach safety in a new country, the engine on the boat she was travelling in broke down and Yusra, her sister and two others jumped out of the boat and swam to get help. Her heroic actions saved twenty people’s lives.

Yusra now lives in Germany. In 2016 she was named as part of the Refugee Olympic Team and she swam for this team in the last summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is now training for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Image Attribution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusra_Mardini#/media/File:Yusra_Mardini_portrait.png

For this activity, listen to the podcast of Yusra Mardini, or read her story on her personal website.

On your blog, retell the story of this amazing young woman from Syria.

*Remember to attribute any images that you borrow from the internet or from other people.

*Please check out the Eye-Catching Blog Posts page for ideas!

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Activity 2: Swimming to Safety [4 points]

Task Description :  This week I am learning about how to finish a task within a time frame as well as doing the task propley and also to have fun . This task was so amazing because I got to learn about an amazing hero that is a Swimmer which is the beautiful Yursa Mandini , She went though a hard time but now she is a athlete for Swimming and has an very interesting background to her life and I am so bless that I got the Opportunity to learn about her !!
Image Attribution - Click on Image in the Presentation :)

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Activity 3: Own Choice [6 points]

Image Attribution: Question Marks Cartoon #2002177

You have now made it to the end of Week 1 and have the chance to choose your very own sportsperson or explorer who you think has changed the world. There are no right or wrong choices for this activity, so find someone who interests you and tell us about them on your blog. It could be someone from your family, church, community or someone famous who you admire.

Here are some starting points in case you get stuck:

Jessica Watson

Tanielu Tele’a

Sachin Tendulkar

Ann Bancroft

Kelly Slater

Tamatea

Laura Dekker

For this activity, please choose one person (a changemaker) and read all about them.

On your blog, provide us with:

The name of the person

A description of the work they do/have done

An explanation of how they/their work has had an impact on the lives of others

*Remember to attribute any images that you borrow from the internet or from other people.

*Please check out the Eye-Catching Blog Posts page for ideas!

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Activity 3: Own Choice [6 points]

Laura Dekker

What does Laura Decker do?

Laura Dekker is famous for sailing around the world as such a young age !! She first started sailing around the world exploring things at the age of 14 and now she is 24 and she still is sailing around the world , and visiting her family every now and then. Also she has set some records in the books of sailing too. But when she was 14 she unfortunately went missing while sailing the world but lucky she got founded Caribbean island. Till this day she had 500 days and spanning around 27,000 miles while exploring the world! Till this day she still sails!!!

                    Why is Laura Dekker

 a change maker?

In my eyes I think that Laura Dekker is a Change maker! Why do I think this? Because I my head it really doesn't matter what your age is young or old or middle age you can still achieve your goals no matter what. It really all depends on how bad you want your dream and how much determination you put into it. Laura Dekker is a great example for this because she wanted to travel the world and she did at such a young age.

Task Description :  This week I am learning about how to finish a task within a time frame as well as doing the task propley and also to have fun . This task was all based on Change makers I deiced to go with Laura Dekker , I enjoyed  this task because I got to learn about someone that I really didn't know about until now ! 
Image Attributions - Laura Dekker #1
Image Attribution - Sailing Man #1

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Over All Task Description : Today's Summer Learning Journey was definitely a learning journey about people for sure ! I enjoyed learning new things about people I didn't get to know or study about and today I got the prefect opportunity too ! God bless you and your family and friends and don't forget to stay tuned for more blog posts coming!!!

Want to Take Part in the Summer Learning Journey 2019 - 2020 ? Click here - SLJ 2019 - 2020 when you take part of the Summer Learning Journey you get points for completeing the tasks given and commenting on other peoples blogs too . All kids from year 3 - 8 can join . Once the Summer Learning Journey Programme has come to an end they will tally up the points to see who placed #1st #2nd and #3rd and the Spot prizes :) Good Luck Everyone !!!

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Fact of the Day - Did you know that Reindeer's like bananas ?

Question of the day - If you had 10 million dollars what would you do?