Music Evaluation

For music we had to create a final summary about how we felt about music.

What has been your favourite thing about music this year? My favourite thing about music was being able to build confidence by doing a solo performance.

What have you found challenging this year?
Building confidence to sing in front of people was the hardest bit for me as I am pretty shy.

Are you taking music next year? If no which passions are you following next year? If yes, What would you like to learn next year?
Yes I am taking music next year as it is very fun and I think I could develop a better confidence and mindset for my other passions

 

Christmas Music

For music we had to work on a blog post about Christmas music. This post is all about Christmas carols and what their purpose is.

What is the purpose of Christmas music?
Christmas music is used to bring everyone together and spread a feeling of joy and happiness. 

What is my favourite Christmas carol and why?
My favourite Christmas carol is Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. I like this Christmas carol as it sends a message that tells you that the special day/Christmas is coming and that you should be cheerful for the holiday.

Link to the song

Are there any NZ Christmas Carols?
There is a huge range of Christmas carols from Te Harinui and A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree.

Site with NZ Christmas Carols

Colourful lights
Harmony throughout the world
Reindeer decorations
Incredible family time
Snowmen all around
Trees get decorated
Mistletoe
Astonishing food
Special presents

Absurd Warnings

For English we have been working on a writing matrix ,the matrix has multiple activities to choose from. I have chosen this activity that has you create and absurd warning to an object.

Absurd Warnings

Society is becoming panicked about a lot of everyday objects. cell phones, microwaves, facebook, social media, takeaways, animals etc.

Select 5-10 objects.

For each object, write an absurd warning label that could be placed on the object when it is sold.

Example:

Sunglasses- Warning.Use of this object can result in a reduction in social status due to irregular tan lines across the eyes and face. User discretion is advised.

My Warnings

Hair Clippers- Warning improper use of this item and no experience cutting hair could lead to hair loss, embarrassment,and worst case scenario bald head for along time.

Watch - Warning improper setting of time could lead to lateness and you will be viewed as clumsy for being too late all the time. 

Chair - Caution watch out for evil beings that will pull your chair so you fall over. 

Book - Warning do not read if you are uninterested in reading and visualising the story and problem, failing to listen to this warning will lead to boredom

Window - Warning this is a window you can’t walk through even though you can see through the window doesn’t mean you’ll be able to phase through. 

Can You Hear It.

For English we have been doing a creative writing matrix. I have chosen this activity.

Can You Hear It?

Write a descriptive paragraph or poem about a setting.

The sounds and scenery can tell where a story is, how the characters are feeling.

Background sounds can be used to show where the character is.  eg. If she is at home in the summertime: the sound of a lawnmower

eg. The trees swayed softly in the breeze

 is very different to  “The branches scratched viciously against the window’

My Paragraph

The tree gently, swindles, and turns leaves rippling in a pattern. The tree lightly whiplashes through the air.

Weather with you.

For English we have been doing a creative writing matrix. I have chosen this activity.

Weather with You

Write a descriptive paragraph or poem about a character.

The weather shows how your character is feeling e.g If she is sad, the weather will be grey and cloudy, maybe with some rain.

Show, don’t tell

My paragraph

Weather With You.

Every time he’s mad, it’s like a furious typhoon raging through the northern hemisphere, always leaving an aftermath of disaster.

Six Sentence Story

For English we have been introduced to a creative writing matrix, we get to choose the story and work we want to do. For today I chose to do The Six Sentence Story.

Once upon a time, there was an enormous black dog. The big black dog lived in a little shed watching people walk past. The big black dog was a very strong dog that could break fences triple the size of him. However everyday people would judge and laugh at the big black dog as we the big black dog was never allowed outside of the shed. The big black dog felt angry and sad because they never understood how he felt. But one day the big black dog had enough of the people making a mockery of him, and he ran into the gate and crashed through it chasing the people that mocked him.

Gymnastics

For gymnastics I chose to do the horizontal bar


Gymnastics 
What I could improve on?
Doing Hip circles backwards and dismounting

What I did well?
Trying hard and wanting to complete it.

W.T.E Sentences

W.A.L.T: Write W.T.E Sentences to improve our writing.

The Simple Sentence begins with the subject of the sentence.

• (E.g) The United Nations was founded in 1945.
• (E.g)The Hobbit is one of the best-selling children's books of all the time.
• Basketball is a sport.
• The main objective in basketball is to score and defend.

Very Short Sentence is one of the most powerful sentence styles ever developed.It Immediately grabs your attention. The Rule is 5 words or fewer.

• (E.g)War was imminent.
• (E.g)Perseverance was his only choice.
• Basketball is fun.
• Basketball has multiple players.

The Power Sentence

• (E.g)Nelson Mandela's legacy is something that will not be forgotten.
• (E.g)Quality Coaching is a fundamental for sporting success.
• Basketball is one of the most known sports around the world.
• Basketball players must know how to shoot.

Red, White and Blue sentence style is when you have several ideas to convey about a topic.

• (E.g)The Earth's Keys resources are clean, air and fresh water.
• (E.g) Tourism, facilities, and infrastructure all influenced how the city developed
• Basketball involves running, shooting and defending.
• Basketball is a sport with determination, focus and teamwork.

The Adverb Start.

Start a sentence with an adverb: it adds interest and intrigue.Remember the rule:When you start your sentence with an adverb place a comma after the adverb then write the rest of the sentence.

• (E.g) Curiously, the film was not shown to the public until 2010.
• (E.g)Interestingly, many migrants settled in Christchurch instead.
• Surprisingly, Basketball is easy if you have good hand eye coordination.

Begin with Preposition
Try starting your sentence with a preposition. Prepositions are little words indicating movement or position.

• (E.g)In 1989, the Exon Vale oil tanker ran aground off the coast of Alaska.
• "I shot the basketball over the basketball hoop."

The -Ing start.

Try starting a sentence with the -ing form of a verb. The rule:when you have finished your -ing phrase, place a comma, then write the rest of the sentence.

• (E.g) Wanting to see peace restored, the UN sent troops to West Africa.
• Dribbling around the court, I felt like my skill was increasing.

The -Ed start.

Try starting a sentence with the  -ed form of the verb. It makes for a punchy opening sentence.

• (E.g)Committed to improving her routine, the dancers trained up to 10 hours each day.
• Intrigued by the sport, he started playing and practising.

The Semi colon.

When you have two independent clauses(two mini sentences) joined by a conjunction(e.g and, but), you can remove the conjunction and replace it with a semi colon.

• (E.g)Her entry was a dramatic start to the play; her exit came far too soon.
• He was a great player, finishing at the rim was his speciality.

The -Em dash

The -em dash in English is the long dash. Use the long dash to drop a phrase in a sentence that is at complete odds with the flow of the sentence-way out there- but which adds colour and interest.

• (E.g)Playing polo-nice for some-is a favourite pastime upper Bulgaria.
• Walking at night-enjoyable sometimes-brought joy to me.

The W-start sentence

Try beginning a sentence with a W-word.

10 x 10 Grid Problem

For maths my group has revisited past problems.Our task has been to answer 2 questions provided.

1. What were the main mathematical conepts/ideas  that you have learned or that we discussed? The main mathematical concept I learned was that problems like this are patterned out.
2. describe a mistake or misconception that you had/what did you learn from this mistake? I learned not to over count as when I was doing the pattern I kept recounting the whole pattern.

Home Economics

For this semesters Home economics we have learning about cooking healthy and balanced meals with a good amount of nutrition and vitamins. 

What we have made so far?

• Pita Pockets Ingredients: 1 Pita Casing, Lettuce, Cheese, Tomato, Grated Cheese, 1/4 onions, 1t oil, Sauces - Tomato, BBQ, Mayo, Hummus and Chilli and 70g of Chicken

• Vegetable Nachos Ingredients: I sadly do no have this recipe
  

• Chicken Stir Fry - Ingredients: 70g Chicken, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 3-4 pieces of broccoli, 1 zucchini, 2T sesame oil, 1 pkt 2min noodles.

All of these meals have a very good nutritional balance I recommend trying all of them.

My favorite meal we have made was the vegetable nachos as it had good taste and was very enjoyable, the other meals we had made were also enjoyable but they didnt satisfy me.

Bacon and Corn Fritters.
Last Friday we created healthy bacon and corn fritters with a good nutritional balance.

Ingredients:

• Eggs
• Flour 
• Baking Powder
• Milk
• Corn
• Bacon
• Salt
• Pepper

Apple crumble.
For this weeks cooking we made apple crumble as it had a good healthy fibre amount.

Ingredients 

• 40g butter.
• 1/2 c oats.
• 1/2 c flour
• 1 T desiccated coconut
• 1/4 t mixed spice or cinnamon
• 2-3 granny smith.

Skellig CL

1. Using an example from the film, describe and explain what you thought of the acting? (E.G when skellig was eating the insects on himself towards the start of meeting them) I thought that part was good acting as the scene was used to entice the audience.

2. Why did they have Michael’s dad burn down the garage compared to it being pulled down? Too build more suspense for the film and make the audience worry.

3. Why do you think they had it that Grace died? To give Michael a special moment and remember the saying grace said.

4. What’s the significance of Michael’s hand getting better after their first ‘flight’? It was used too show that Skellig has special powers about him and it gives purpose for what comes.

5. Why do you think they had the conflict between Leaky and Michael more than in the book? To build a worry like when Leakey followed Michael into their secret area it helped to create an unsafe atmosphere and shake the audience.

Japanese Jjikoshokai

For Japanese we had to create a jikoshokai/ self introduction including where we are from, who we are, and how old we are.
This is mine

What were doing in English?

In English we are making a 5 paragraph essay about the film we have studied which is called Hunt for the Wilder-people. 

I have never did something like this before so it is quite uncomfortable but I think the Paragraph/Essay experience will be good in the coming future. Creating the paragraph is also quite boring. 

In our other teachers English class we are reading a book called the Cay and analysing the details that make it a good book.

Pie and Area

Pie and Area Conclusion

1. What were the main mathematical concepts and ideas that you learned or discussed in class?

We learned how to find circumference, radius, diameter, perimeter and how to find area.

2. Describe a mistake or misconception that you and or your classmate. How did you learn this mistake?

I struggled with finding the radius but soon found out that radius is half of a diameter.

3.What new vocabulary did you learn?

Circumference: Circumference to diameter. You probably noticed that since diameter is twice the radius, the proportion between circumference and diameter is equal to π: C/D = 2πR / 2R = π This proportion (circumferenceto diameter) is the definition of the constant pi. It is used in many areas, including physics and mathematics.

Social Studies Seel Paragraph

Democracy
S. Democracy involves votes from a huge manner of people.
E. A democracy is a huge voting process used to elect a representative or eligible member for an important group and or team.
E. A democracy is held every 4 years to elect the new president of the United States of America.
L. They hold an annual vote all over America to decide the new president.

For social studies we had to choose one of 3 topics which were, Democracy, Government and Human Rights.

Art Description

What we've been doing in Art.
We have been creating artwork that involves cultural aspects (e.g Manga and Pacifica Art)
Everyones artwork must involve at-least 2 culture clashs.

Question 1s Answer.
Concepts and developments are the things that increase the work basically small things that increase the artworks ability to stand out.

Question 2s Answer.
Colour Theory is the basis of all colours and its shows the each colour blends, develops and changes.

Question 3s Answer.
Painting is all about making the colour right and making things pop out and look good there are lots of techniques that can help you and your painting.

Math Blog

For maths we are blogging about one of the past problems and how we learnt it.

Problem 1:

It’s 5km from Jordan’s whare to where his Koro lives. It’s uphill on the way there so he can only cycle at 10kph but he can do 20kph on the way back.

Jordan leaves his whare at 6pm. How long can he stop at his Koro’s whare if he wants to be back home for his favourite TV programme at 7pm?

This was one of the problems that got too me and took some time for me to figure out.

I learnt the technique to this problem.

Problem 3:

Light travels at 3.00 x 108 m per second

The radius of the Earth is 6.37 x 106 m

How many times can light travel around the earth in 1 second? (if it didn’t have to travel in straight lines)

This problem was very difficult for me and it took me a very long time to solve this, I find this problem pretty hard.

This problem was difficult for me and still is.

The Best Digital Recap Ever!!(Not Clickbait)

Dte Intro: For DTE my class had to do these projects, this blog post is gonna share my learning around so you can see what we have been doing in DTE lets get into it!

DTE: Lesson 1 we had to create an ergonomics info-graphic my one was about correct posture and typing. I think the First DTE lesson was fun and it was a good way to show us how working in DTE works.

DTE: Lesson 2 was about the game interland, Interland is a game about staying safe online and being a better person it is probably the most fun learning game out there right now.

DTE: Lesson 3 was a Maniakalani info graphic describing their goals and what they do. If you have time go check out maniakalani they will teach you alot about online safety and how to create better Work.

What I thought about my work? I think I did my info graphic to my best content so I am proud of it



Note: To view my work go on my DTE Site link.

DTE: Lesson 4



For DTE we had to go to digital bytes at commonsense.org we had to choose the type of work we wanted to do. Dylan Austin and I chose to do how tweets can affect the world

This post is about my Digital bytes project its by Me, Dylan and Austin. 

What I thought about the work?
I think the work was very fun as we got to collaborate and share information.

DTE Site Link
Go to my site if you would like to view more of my work.

Reflection
I think that this semesters work was pretty fun and it was easy to understand. It was also much better as we got to work with friends and collaborate.

What do you think about my work?
Leave feedback as it would be appreciated and helpful.

Bellwork Choice

Miss Mclaren had made a decision to make Fridays do bellwork of our own choice but it has to be related to literacy.

I chose to improve my illustrating. I have started by making a little comic. This comic is just a quick one from my mind it is about a battle that was fought for multiple years. They are fighting for freedom. The characters are a demon and a demi-god. 

It is not done yet I hope to improve it and finish it before the term ends. If you have any feedback just comment down below, any feedback would help.

Book Summarising

Aztec Warriors.
The book I read was all about the aztec warriors in the olden days.

Start

• Beginning, The book started with how the aztecs built there area of mexico or as they called it Tenochtitlan.

Middle

• The middle part of the book explained the aztecs armor and weapons, it also showed what types of soldiers were used.

 End

• The Ending was about how the aztecs lost to a Spaniard named Hernande Cortes. He won by overthrowing the villagers to attack the leader.

Stress

What is Stress?
a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.

What Causes Stress?
. Stress describes your physical or emotional response to demands or pressures that they may experience from time to time. Common causes of stress include work, money, relationships and illness. ... Stress management approaches include lifestyle changes, relaxation and counseling.

What stress can do to the body?
 stress symptoms can affect your body, your thoughts and feelings, and your behavior. Being able to recognize common stress symptoms can give you a jump on managing them. Stress that's left unchecked can contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

How stress messes with your wellbeing.
Physical body gets damaged from lack of rest.
Mental you stop doing hobbies and lose interest.
Whanau become socially inactive.
Spiritual lose your mindset and things you like to do.

Crest of Arms

This is my crest of arms and it is about my family.

Meaning:
The top left stands for church as my family is catholic.
My top right part of the crest stands for the Irish because I was born and raised there with my family.
Bottom left. The bottom left stands for basketball as it was my families favorite sport.
Bottom Right. The bottom right stands for the Filipino flag as My family was born and raised there.