Poland Research

We read a book called "The Refugee Polish Children". And because the main country they come from is Poland we did a research of Poland and research about their flag, currency, population etc. I didn't know a lot of Poland so it was interesting to learn about there culture. When we do a country research I especially enjoy learning about there wildlife. I would like to try Pierogi which are Polish dumplings and I've tried Goulash before and it's really nice. I would like to visit Poland one day.

Close To The Edge

WALT: Visualise and summarise the text in our own words

Close to the edge is a short novel by Cecile Krueger. A teenage girl called Opal and her mother are refugees, and are trying to find a new home. They have been walking for days and all they can taste is dust. Opal and most likely all the refugees are tired and thirsty. Opal puts her hand up to the rock while she was walking her hand slipped over a crack in the rock. It seemed big enough for her to climb through. One of the refugees we're too close to the edge, dropping small bits of rocks and sand. Which made everyone but her distracted. She climbed through, She was in a dim-lighted cave. She felt something wet and she then knew what it was.

My Name is Rez Summarise

WALT: Visualise and summarise the text in our own words.

“My name is Rez” Is a graphic novel told by Toby Morris. Rez and her family live in a camp in Iran. It was crowded with refugees who seeked shelter. There were many diseases which made children sick. Rez’s parents told them they were being resettled in New Zealand. A couple of months later they moved to Auckland. Rez didn’t speak or understand English but in camp she learnt one sentence which was “My name is Rez”. Children made fun of her for sounding like a robot. But now that she’s an adult she now fully understands and speaks English. She is a lawyer and a Youth Adviser for the Red Cross.

Refugee Acrostic Poem

Acrostic Poem

Running 

Entering a world of unknown

Forever travelling

Under the scorching heat

Germany, Syria, Cuba
Earths, sea’s, air

Escaping the war

By Arie, Eva and Kylah

We had to do a poem that is based on the topic of refugee. Eva, Kylah and myself worked on this together I used the book for ideas and I'm pretty proud of how the end product turned out. I liked making the poem with my friends.

Spanish Translations

Isabel speaks Spanish since her home town is Cuba. We had to do some Spanish translations like senor, abuelita and son cubano. I had to do a bit of research for most of the words mostly manana and son cubano. I didn't really know much of Spanish.

Do you know that much Spanish?

Syrian Pound To New Zealand Dollars

We had to make a poster or slide which shows Syrian Pounds being converted to New Zealand Dollars. I had to do a bit of researching to find out what the amount of money is in Syrian currency. I decided to use google slides as I though it would be more easier to use instead of using google docs or google drawing or even canva.

What do you think would be cheaper New Zealand Currency or Syrian Pounds?

Boat Design

We had to make a boat design that would make it from Cuba to America like the Cuban rafts and use recyclable materials. Most of the rafts used oil drums and bamboo poles and anything else they could find so they could escape Cuba. I decided to use:

• Bamboo Poles
• Large Oil Drums
•  2 Wooden Planks
• Rope

I would use the bamboo poles for support for the wooden planks. The large oil drums to float. The wooden planks, 1 for shelter from rain and the other to sit on and the rope to hold everything together.