Summer Learning Journey activity 3

Namaste bloggers,

Today is another Summer Learning Journey adventure come along with me. 

Scaling New Heights  

Who is Sir Edmund Hillary, Nepalese Sherpa and Tensing Norgay? 

Sir Edmund Hillary is a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On the 29th May 1953 Edmund and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tensing Norgay became the first climbers ever confirmed to have been reached Mount Everest. 

Nepalese Sherpa 

Tensing Norgay

Sir Edmund Hillary

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Summer Learning Journey activity 2

Namaste bloggers,

It's time for another Summer Learning Journey activity hope you enjoy.

Discovering Aotearoa 

Who discovered Aotearoa?

Well Captain James Cook sighted New Zealand on 6th October 1769 and landed at Poverty bay two days later. He drew a detailed and accurate maps of the country and wrote about the Moari people. 

However many people believe that Kupe was the first person to step foot in Aotearoa. Some people think that the name of Aotearoa came from Kupe's wife (in some versions, his daughter)  was watching  the horizon and called "He ao! He also navigated from Hawaiki to Aotearoa useing the stars, sun and ocean swells. 

                      

Other people believe that Abel Tasman a person from the Netherlands how is said to sight New Zealand, Tasmania, Tonga and the Fiji Islands. 

My own cultures history

Hello if you don't know me already my name is Miraj and I come from Fiji but I speak Hindi here is a little bit of breef history of my culture. What is important to my family and I is of how we treat other people and  also to pray every single day whether it is just a simple prayer or not we pray every day. 

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Summer Learning Journey activity 1

Namaste bloggers,

This week I am starting Summer Learning Journey for this first time, sorry for how late I was for this blog post. Anyways lets get started with this adventure.

Setting Sail And Exploring The World

How did Polynesian navigators travel the pacific ocean with the stars, sun and ocean swells? 

Traditionally Polynesian navigators used stars to help navigate where they were going. They used a device called a star compass, a star compass is used to help memorize the rising points and setting points of the brightest and most distinctive stars and planets to set direction. The ability to read the sky is a great skill to have especially in the olden days. The pattern's of the stars and rhythms of the ocean guided them by night and the colour of sky and sun, shapes of clouds, and the direction from which the swells were coming guided them by day. 

                           Who was the first person to figure out how to navigate with stars? 

The first person to figure out how to read the stars was Thomas Hubbard Sumner. Thomas discovered  (the later so called) line of position or circle of equal altitude, he (Thomas) named "parallel  of equal altitude" on a voyage form South Carolina to Scotland  in 1837. 

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