Why Organ Donation should be mandatory

Arguing for - Organ donation should be mandatory

• It is possible to save up to 8 live, save or improve as many as 60 lives and enhance the eyesight of 2.

• You give people a second chance at life.

• There is no age limit to being a donor. Anyone can be a donor, including children. Although there are restrictions are for the age of certain organs and kids below the age of 18 need to have the consent of their parents.

Ivy and Weeds - Tane Mahuta

Salut! Today in Tane Mahuta my friends and I got to get out all the extra ivy and weeds. They were everywhere!

We started with the weeds, we got ready by putting on our gloves and getting all the equipment we need. Shovels and pitchforks were surprisingly all out so we had to use our hands.

Picking out every little bit with gloves was hard and we quickly got tired from all the sitting down we had done. We asked the teacher if we could move onto pulling out the ivy and the teacher said yes!

When we first started Tane Mahuta we would always be busy with the ivy but then we had to focus on our new native tree garden. My friends and I had forgotten how many insects live there, we picked up a log and Nevaeh screamed because she is afraid of spiders.

Every Wednesday is a new adventure in Tane Mahuta. Sometimes it can be gross and you might feel like you just want to be inside of the class, in the warmth. But, seeing the end result would be soo satisfying because you know you've worked hard for it.

What's been happening in "I Am Malala"

Hola! For the past few weeks, my group has been reading the book by Malala Yousafzai called "I Am Malala".  It is a book that explains all the ups and downs of Malala's life. This DLO explains what happens in Part 2 and 3. Enjoy!

Teaching Tchoukball

Bonjour, this term in P.E we were put into groups by the teachers and were told to decide on a sport so that we could learn about it and teach the others.

In my group, there was Dani, Hamid, Tevita, Charlie, Jessica and Levi. We chose on a sport that Miss Simpson suggested, Tchoukball. It is the fastest handball sport in the world today.  Invented in the late 1960s, Tchoukball is a team sport of 7 players. The main aim is to get as many points as possible by passing around the ball to your teammates and hitting the ball onto the rebound.

The lesson my group and I did didn't go too well. Most of either didn't want to talk or participate at all. Sometimes we didn't know what to do as not a lot of people were listening and we didn't know how to catch their attention.

We split everyone into year 7 and 8's. I went with the year 7's to teach and to help them know how to successfully throw a ball at the rebound and catch it. I also gave out the bibs to some of the people and took care of the equipment

Next time, I would try to be more involved as a referee and teach the other people how to not be scared of the ball and catching it. 

2 things I learnt about my sport was that you have to catch the ball from when it hits the rebound in order for it to count as a goal and that you have to pass around the ball at least 3 times.

Worms and Weeds - Tane Mahuta

Hi! Today in Tane Mahuta we worked with weeds that had grown all over our vegetable garden and where we planted some native trees.

We got shovels and started digging carefully around the plants, some people would often step on the tree. I was mostly working around the native trees with my friends. Not all of us were working because some were too fascinated by worms and naming them.

By the end, both areas were free from most of the weed that had been there before. The process was slow and annoying, also because people would try to put worms on your clothes or head. Until next time I blog, bye!

Reading: I Am Malala

Hola! Everyone in Tz got a novel to read and my friends and I got the book "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick. It is a biography of Malala's life growing up in Pakistan. 

On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Malala in the head as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam. Malala spent 2 days in the hospital's critical before being moved onto a ward. People thought she might not survive. But now Malala is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize receiver. Would you like to read "I Am Malala"? Why or why not?

All you need to know about Cheetahs

Hey! In period 2 I decided to make a DLO about an animal who's losing it's home every day. So I wrote some facts about this beautiful mammal, hope you like it!