Winter sport.

Every Friday unless its raining we have winter sports for kids year five and up.  This year is the first year I did it and I choose to do football. Last week we had our second week for it so at first break I had to go to the hall to get my shirt and get changed. Then at about 11:45 we go back down to the hall and get our socks and shin guards on and get into our groups like capture the flag and hockey. Then we walk down to Rawhiti domain because that's where we play and we get our boots on and wait for our first game. This time we had a bit longer of a wait compared to the first time. The first school we played but I don't remember what team we played against but we lost probably because I was in goal the first half and couldn't find the gloves because Nigel had them in his pocket. They scored about two times in the first half but in the second half I got to play out field and didn't come close to scoring a goal at least I did a cool control where Dylan threw it in and thought it was gonna go out but I taped it with the side of my foot when it was in the air. Tyson scored two that game was boring. Then we had to wait about an hour for our other game to start so we ate lunch and did bicycle kicks over the goal post. Our second game was fun we were vs Banks Ave school who my friend Jed's team had smashed so I was thinking it might be our first win. The game started with them getting down our end most of the time with them having a good throw taker Dylan scored two goals. In the second half it was boring because I was the keeper and every time they got within ten meters of the goal Dylan of Tyson would just come and grab the ball I ended up sitting in the goal and waiting for them to get over our half way line but they didn't I think Tyson and Dylan scored one goal each it the second half. We ended up wining four to one Then we walked back to school for prize giving and Dylan won it for our team.

My facts about WW2.

• For our inquiry about belonging and NZ History I have choose to investigate ww2 here is my research.

• deIt started on 1 September and ended 2 September 1954.

• WW2 began when Germany invaded Poland and Britain and France declared war on them.

• The war between the U.S.S.R started when Germany invaded the soviet union and it began on June 22 1941 with operation Barbraossa.

• USA joined ww2 on December 11th 1941 three days after the bombing of pearl harbour. 

• There were between 50 million and 70 million deaths in ww2. 

• Over 50% of the casualties were civilians with most of them being women and children.

• Hitler was a young soldier in ww2.

• During WW2 kids in Germany were taught about the racial differences.

• There were only two sides in WW2 the allies and the axis power.

• There were 11,928 casualties from NZ in ww2.

• Most people did not want the war to start.

• Most of the people that joined the military are 18 to 19 years old and have never been away from home.

• Some men felt guilty when people that they knew died.

• For some people when they shot somebody it didn’t bother them for a while but then it made them cry.

• For some WW2 veterans today sometimes they wake up at night crying about the people they killed.

• Soldiers would sometimes check dead corpses to make sure they had no maps or anything like that and they found a diary with photos of their wife and a new born baby.World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945.

• World War II began when German troops invaded Poland on 1 September 1939.

• The UK declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939. It was announced by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

• While many countries were involved in the war, they each took sides – either with the Allies, or the Axis.

• The main Axis countries were Germany, Italy and Japan.

• The main Allied countries were Great Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union (Russia).

• British Prime Ministers during World War II were Neville Chamberlain until 1940, then Winston Churchill.

• The Battle of Britain, between the German Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force, was the first ever battle to be fought only in the air. It was made up of lots of air battles that lasted from 10 July to 31 October 1940.

• World War II ended in Europe on 8 May 1945 – this is also known as VE Day (Victory in Europe Day).

• World War II carried on for a few months after it ended in Europe, and officially ended when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies on 2 September 1945 (also called VJ Day)

My inquiry ako plan.

 

The journey

In December 1846, two men called Brunner and Kehu set out on a journey to try to reach Milford sound from Nelson. They did it to find more farm land for the expanding number of European settlers. It took five hundred and fifty day to get to Milford sound and this is the story. 

They set off from Nelson in December of 1846. They had to go down what was known back then has the Kawatiri river what is known today as the Buller river which they had to raft down some parts. They ran out of food so they had to eat Brunner's dog. 

As they got to the coast they where starving they Spent there first night at the coast in a cave where they roasted sea weed and ate it. They thought there was a Maori pa up the coast but when they got there it was abandoned. As they got further down the beach the water got ruff so they went up ladder which was on the cliff the ladder had been made by a Maori group it was made of rock and rope. They had to climb up it. 

On the sixth June they had been travelling for six months, they saw there first other human in six month and he was a local Maori that took them to there pa where they got real food from a family. 

After they ate at the pa Brunner wanted to go but Kehu was telling Brunner not to go because it was winter but Brunner was impatient and went with 4 others three of them where Maori chiefs. He was walking on a cliff and a wave washed him on it he cut himself and sprained his ankle it took three weeks to heal so he had to go back to Nelson. 

After a year of walking he had a stroke, the guides was thinking about leaving him behind but Kehu would not allow it. 

Brunner was probably one of the first Europeans to have learnt the Maori way of life. Brunner died in 1840 and had a large group of Maori come to his funereal including Kehu. Also when Brunner returned to England got a medal from the Queen.