Why do we have Labour day?

Labour day is held on the fourth Monday in October. It dates back to the 1840s when Samuel Parnell refused to work more than eight hours a day. The first Labour Day was celebrated in New Zealand on the 28th of October and others followed along with the idea.  Government employees were given the day off to go to the parades and many businesses closed for at least part of the day. Early Labour Day parades drew huge crowds in places such as Palmerston North and Napier as well as in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. There were colorful banners and highly decorated floats, and the parades were followed by popular picnics and even sports events.

                 

I Drive PMI

Idrive reflection

Today we did the the first iDrive for term four. Me, Georgia and Ayisha did chalk. First we had to think of  a theme, we chose calf club because it is coming up. To begin with we wrote calf club in big block letters that had grass under. On every letter there was some sort of pattern. After that was done we started working on a cow we all worked on that in different ways. The cow had two trophies on each side of it, three ribbons were blue and two ribbons were around it.  The two learning powers we used is problem solving because there was a cow face that was purple so we all had to go over the purple with white.   The second one I think we used was connections because we had to join the designs together.