Meet at the Marae...

In Reading this week in tumu we have been dong learning about the Maori culture we had a choice to do... a poster , screencastify's or song.  I did mine with my friend Ethan an we did a poster. The reason we are doing this is because we read an article that said the Maori culture needs promoting. We made this poster so that people will come to the Marae and then they'd tell their friends and family,                                        plus there could be Tourist's for NZ.                                    

The history behind Golliwogs (My Speech.)

This week in Tumu we have been doing speeches. 2 Yr six and 2 Yr five kids who had the best speeches

from tumu go to the rotary speech challenge and compete against other people from diffrent

schools. this is my speech and I did not want to go to the competition, My speech is about Golliwogs.

it is down below

I Would you think that such a little doll could make such a  lot of trouble, Well my name’s Jayden and i’m here to tell all about Golliwogs.

A Golliwog is a Fictional Cartoon character from a book called: The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwog in 1895 by Florence Kate Upton.

The first Golliwog doll was made in America in the 1900’s by James Robertson & Son’s

And on the 100th anniversary They made the first ever girl Golliwog.

Golliwogs were banned by the Nazi’s in 1934 because the thought that  it was an inappropriate doll for young German children to

have, and that the body of the Golliwog made it harder to teach young children to wash

The trendy Golliwog became a very popular Doll in UK and Australian the 1970’s and so were many different varieties of

products including… Golliwog Perfume And even Arnotts chocolate Golliwogs There's even Golliwog butter with the slogan “Golly it’s Good.”  

In 2007 In greater manchester Police took two

Golliwogs from a lady’s window

because People claimed that the dolls were offensive

In 2008 a Lady From Stockport greater manchester, said she was arrested for showcasing a Golliwog on her window.

In 2009 carol thatcher said that a coloured french tennis player looked like a golliwog she was also the daughter of and old british prime minister

Nowadays most Golliwog books were taken away from libraries  and less people started buying Golliwogs and they are a racial

hazard in Germany,

Australia, England, Ireland and Greece. Nowadays “wog” is used as a racist word for colored People. but I think that it all

went wrong when Agatha

Christie made and book with a golliwog being hanged on a noose.

From my point of view I think that Golliwogs are a have childrens toy but when adult’s keep it in the attic and your sleeping there and it’s staring at you… that’s kinda creepy, but when a children that’s like five years old then that’s fine. Thank you and goodbye!

Culture PBL

Our Learning Focus for project based 

learning  this term is about cultural stories.

I am From India and down below are The Detail of my culture

Food: Curry

Clothing: Dhoti or a Sari

Celebration/Tradition's: Diwali , Holy festival of colors ,Ramadan.

Writing in Tumu.

↟The Meerkat's Fruit↟

The Meerkats spied on the delicious fruit and waited for the right moment the Chris the Meerkat Shouted “pounce!!”, Then they pounced and landed gracefully on the fruit tree at that moment the vulture smirked and darted down from the sky and snatched the fruit. The Meerkats were furious they charged at the vulture and jumped into a ladder formation the one by one one of the Meerkats jumped on the heads of the Meerkats. Then he  jumped on last time and landed on the vultures feet. He hugged the fruit with the fruit’s warm fuzzy feeling on his cheek. The other Meerkats pulled onto his legs, “Give us our fruit you ugly bird” the said. Then the vulture dragged them by his feet around Clouds, Mountains and Trees. Finally the Vulture slammed a mountain