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Tuesday 11 July 2017

Day #4 - Swimming With The Sharks - Winter Learning Journey

Activity 1:What did the people of Farewell Spit do to help the whales?

They tried their very best to help them by running to the ocean and back to pour water on the whales. They tried to keep the whales wet but many of the whales did not survive.

Overall even though not many survived it still turned out to be that some of them were lucky to have survived.

Activity 2: Whale rider.

In the tradition, it was only boys that were allowed to become chief. They were expecting to have a baby that would then carry on as chief but he unfortunately died at birth. However his twin sister survived. While she was growing up she wanted to learn all of things required to be a chief  but there was one thing standing in her way. Unfortunately based on her grandfather's beliefs, he only saw males as chiefs

Activity 3: I believe we should stop fishing at Farewell Spit because…

The hector dolphins numbers are decreasing (There are only around 7,000 living)

Undersized fish are being illegally caught in the close abouts

Farewell spit is a Maori place that means a bunch to the people of it. It is not only wrong fishing there, it is disgusting and should be respected like anywhere else in the world.



4 comments:

jolie said...

Kia Ora Alicia

Impressive work! I totally agree with you people should stop fishing at Farewell spit. Keep up the amazing work my friend :)

Unknown said...

Hey Alicia!

Great work on these 3 tasks! You've done a good summary of the whale rider and I like how you've put it into your own words. What would you rate the movie out of 5? And would yo watch it?

Nicky :)

Unknown said...

Hi Alicia,

That is so amazing to know that we had lots of people in NZ that help so many whales, I agree with your decision and we should stop fishing in farewell spit. Keep up the great work

daniel said...

Hello Alicia
Good job on completing day four. I decided to give the movie Whale Rider a three out of five. Keep up the amazing work.
Daniel

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