What's So Important About Migration?

To begin with what is migration? Well to my understanding migration is when people of a different country, culture or race moves to a destination for positive reasons which are pull reasons. Another reason for wanting to move to a certain country can be for negative reasons which are called push factors.

For example a country that I have been researching is China which is an interesting country that has made me want to research more about. One of the pull reasons for Chinese immigrants wanting to move to NZ can be for reasons such as raising and educating children in order for them to have a better future. One push factor about the Chinese people moving here was the language barrier between the two languages which were English and Chinese.

People are all different which means they all won't go in just on direction. Some people move to another country to have a better future while others move back to their home land because of family, friends and other reasons. Those two ways of moving are counter stream and mainstream. Counter stream is when you move back to where you came from and mainstream is when you migrate to another country for more opportunities.

Along the way everyone comes across an intervening obstacle which can be things like not being able to understand or speak English. But even though there is difficulty understanding each other they are still able to show empathy and express their emotions and feelings in other ways where everyone can understand e.g their dances, or cultural songs and other tradition.

In conclusion I hope this has given you a better understanding and insight into what migration is about.

Wood Work

Step 1: Measuring Finger Joints and Cutouts for Base

Step 2: Cutting the Finger Joints

Step 3: Gluing Together the Box

Step 4: Creating the Box's Lid

Last Day Of Tech😭

On Wednesday it was our last day of Technicraft for 2018. I was so glad that I completed my pendant, it was a long process making it and now I can wear it. For the past few weeks at tech I've been making a cross pendant for my necklace. I'm satisfied with the final product and all that hard work paid off.

Christmas Crossover!🎄

Yesterday we are began Christmas Crossover and I was so excited. The whole school was divided into equal groups of nine, well most of the groups were even. The years seven and eight students in the groups were responsible for looking after the younger students. In my group we had no students from room 1 or 5. Which made it a bit easier as we didn't have to help anyone.

We made Christmas decorations in Room 1 with Mrs Hoeberigs. I can't wait to do more activities today.

Let's Litter Less!

For the past few weeks we've been working very hard in our groups to finish our presentation. My group is small but we have good ideas. Each person had to talk about an important part of littering. My slide is the second one. We each had to think of a question that is relevant to our inquiry topic. This slide presentation was made by Liza,Robati,Henry and myself.

Cultural Groups!

Since the start of term 4 the years 7 and 8 students have been working hard practicing their cultural dances.

 I'm so glad that the Tongan group started in term 3 because we would've been freaking out trying to learn a dance.

The other groups have been hardworking and giving it their all during practice. I hope we do good in our dance on prize giving and cultural groups day. Until then we will be busy practicing and perfecting our performance.

I Declare A Ceasefire!

This week my group and I have been studying information about Armistice Day.  My slide is number 4 which is mostly about the agreement. In my group there is Malia, Izabella, Ana and myself. Armistice day is a day that should be recognized and celebrated more in NZ because it was to mark the end of WW1 or the great war. From what we've been researching Armistice Day should be one of the important days.