Reflection during 2020

Kia ora everyone,

I will be talking about my reflection during 2020 at school. 

There were many things/events that happened in our school. This year is my first year in high school,

many experiences I have been through and things I treasure just like memories with me and my

friends/teachers. I’ve learned a lot which I was expecting. The first day of school 2020, that day when I

was extremely nervous, I didn’t know anyone here, except for my brother and my friend, Rheanne.

Luckily, we have the same class. I was struggling on finding where my class is, but to be honest the

school is really big, but I managed to find my class. I get to know more about my fellow classmates.

There are many subjects that I never expected to be that much, in primary school there are only math,

reading and writing. Science is the subject where I was really interested, the subject I really enjoy was

art. I met many friends and they are Cate, Jaren, Shontai and Linny. We met for an unexpected moment,

me and Rheanne on the first day of school was dancing while waiting for the teacher outside the

classroom, then suddenly Cate came up to us and said that she knows the song of the dance, that time

we started talking. I met Shontai from Cate, they met each other from a game on the first day of school,

and Jaren from my other classmate, and met Linny from Jaren. During that time, everything was going

well, I was enjoying my high school life, not until the lockdown. I felt kinda disappointed because it’s my

first high school year but then there’s a covid that’s going on. But even though we are in a lockdown,

we still communicate with our teachers and classmates by zoom call, where we discuss our work, but

I never expected that lockdown can be fun. I get to hang out with my family, wake up late/sleep late,

do my hobbies and finish my homework. That was totally a fun experience which is new for me. 

For a month, we’re finally out of lockdown. I felt enthusiastic about it, I got to see my friends at school.

First day of school after lockdown was all fun, I tried to join activities in this school, but I wasn’t really

confident. I made more friends, being in high school is extremely tough, especially homeworks that you

must finish on time, and waking up early in the morning is tiring, but all of them are worth it when you

learn something new at school. During term 2, there was an upcoming sports event. We got to choose

what sports we wanted to do, I had an experience of playing hockey, on primary I really had fun so then

I chose hockey as my sports for the rest of the term.

Hurumanu’s: 

Each term, we have different hurumanu. It’s basically a subject in school. 

Hurumanu 1 (Reading/Social sciences):

• During the term, we watched videos about the history of the Aotearoa New Zealand war. Every

• 2 days we watch different videos. While the video is playing, we have to write all the things that

• happened in the video. We have to explain what the videos are about, what is happening in the

• story. In another word, summarising everything about the story, not necessarily everything, but

• only those things that we learnt in the video. 

• In reading, we’re all in a group. We have to read a story either in a book or in the chromebook.

• After reading the story, the teacher gave us some questions and tasks about the story. We have

• to answer the question and do the tasks that are given to us in order to complete our work.

Hurumanu 2 (Reading/Drama): 

• Monologues

• Novel Study reading - We are split into groups. Each group has to read a book and they must finish it.

• Doing different activities on novel study - After reading a book, we should finish those activities that

• are related to the book, for example summarising the story in the book. 

• Debate language (debates) - We should find a topic to have a debate on, there are 2 groups that have

• 3 or 4 teammates. 

• Speeches 

• Reading books - During wananga, we have a silent reading time.

• Research history/events. 

• Acting some roles (Drama, Monologues)

• Games

Hurumanu 3 (Writing/Science):

•  We watched the movie called “Martian”. The story is about a man left behind on mars when a big

• tragedy happened, he needs to plan on how to get out of mars. Part of the movie is about how to

• survive. In our science, we made biltong, if you don’t know, biltong is dried meat. Before making

• biltong, we had to practice telling instructions. What we did is we got into a partner, we made an

• instructional dance, and it must be step by step and really detailed so that the readers can understand.

• After making biltong. We have to put the instructions on how we made them, and we have to write

• the results. We also have to describe what we can see, hear, smell, feel and taste. 

• Another of our experiments is about the squeaky pop test. We made water out of acid. 

• Then we did the instructional again about the squeaky pop test. 

• We’ve been learning about “Life on Mars”. Every week there’s a question that we have to research,

• the questions are about Mars. After life on mars, we were also learning about life on earth and did

• the same thing. 

• Egg drop is an experiment we recently did. We have to build a car using a lego and put an egg in the

• middle of it, but the challenge is that egg shouldn’t crack. I was in a group with Rheanne, We also

• have to make a parachute. After making the car, we have to drop it and see if the egg breaks. 

Hurumanu 4 (Writing/Visual arts):

• Perspective drawing - We have to make a perspective drawing about what our character looks like

• for the Heroes and Villains story. Setting drawing - We had to copy a step by step perspective

• drawing.

• Making stories (Heroes and Villains) - We had to make a story that includes a Hero and a Villian,

• and it has to have a problem in the story. Heroes and Villains slide - We had to write more information

• about the story that we are making (Heros and Villians. We must include the characters personality,

• appearance and etc. We started writing our draft story.

• Blog - We had to share (post on blog) the work that we have been doing during hurumanu 4.

• Ancient Greece - We watched a video about Ancient Greece, while watching the video we have

• to describe what we can see and write it on a google doc. 

• Show not tell - We were separated in different groups, each group gets to do show not tell with a

• teacher. We sit as a group together and discuss the show, not tell. 

Hurumanu 5 (Maths/PE):

• Probability - We had to solve a puzzle, and it’s called “Murder Mystery”. There are some questions

• that we have to answer, it’s like we are the investigator. We also did team work during probability,

• we have to answer the question about probability and whenever it's correct, we get to have another

• question. We also did the ice cream probability, and went to the court, we had each turns to shoot a

• basketball into the hoop, then add up how many scores we managed to shoot, and then we went to

• the field and did the same thing but instead of a basketball, we used soccer ball and add up all of our

• scores. 

•  Multisports - Whenever we finish our work during hurumanu 5, we get to have multisports. What we

• usually do during multisport is we play different games. Such 

• Measuring: Area, Volume, Diameter, circumference, radius - During hurumanu 5, we have done a lot

• of measuring. We measure to find the area, volume, diameter, circumference and radius. We also

• measured a random object to find the area and record them in our math book. 

• Math games: Mangahigh, Mathletics - Mathletics is a math game where you have to answer math

• questions. Mangahigh is also a math game, It’s like Matheltics but Mangahigh is a competitive math

• game, it shows your record and then there’s a leaderboard where you can see who is in the top. 

• We learnt about geometry.

Hurumanu 6 (Maths/Health): 

•  In the past few weeks, we have been in different groups in maths. Every day, we have a new task

• that is written in a book in our chromebook. There are some different and interesting questions about

• math. The math groups depend on what level we can do. The teachers call 1 or 2 groups during math.

• They will have a discussion with the teachers about math stuff, and learn new things and some tricks. 

• In a healthy lifestyle, what we have to do is to write and describe what we do everyday. In the morning,

• before school, after school and what we do in our free time. 

• We learned about roman numerals. We learnt which signs belong to what number. 

• We also learned about health. We talked about all of the diseases that happened to some people,

• and picked at least 3 diseases and wrote information about it. There should be about 7-8 paragraphs

• included. (I chose depression, Anxiety and Suicide). 

HR (Homeroom): 

• Every week, we research different countries in the world and write some facts about that country. 

• We learned about daylight saving in New Zealand. 

Cooking class:

• We cooked many different foods, one of my favourite was the Cookie. 

Wood tech:

• We made a Whistle and propeller using wood but we haven’t finished it yet. 

Japanese:

• We were learning Hiragana, and made some Origami. We also learn basic common words that

• are used in Japanese like greetings, and the numbers as well. 

Maori: 

• We learnt about Matariki, and some Maori language. 

ESOL: 

• We did read theory and learned about prepositions, spelling, part of speech, and many other things. 

Market day:

There were many events during this year, on term 3, we had a market day. A market day is when we have

to be creative and make something that we can sell. We were meant to be in a group of 4, I remember

I was in a group with Lhysette, Cate and Jaren. It was definitely hard to think what to make, we have to

think of something unique to make. But most of our ideas have been taken by the others, so we came

up with homemade scrunchies, homemade bracelets and a homemade slime. We had about 3-4 weeks

to make our products and organise everything. The day came up when we had to sell, most people

bought the slime, then the scrunchies.

Dance after school: 

There were also athletics events but unfortunately I wasn’t part of it. Term 4 was the term when I had

the guts to join one activity, I picked dancing, I love dancing even in my free time. Every Tuesday after

school, I went to dance class with my friend, which is Rheanne. We made a geography, we mixed the

songs together and practiced dancing it. There were videos taken by our dance teacher of us dancing.

We practiced the dance for 6 week every Tuesday. 

Fun run:

 Currently, there was a fun run that happened 2 weeks ago. I think it was the most enjoyable moment

during term 4. We have to run around the field, and have to wear a white t-shirt if we wanna get thrown

paint all over our body while running. Running around the field for 2 times and doing some sort of

obstacle course at the end. 

Last week, we had EOTC week. EOTC stands for “Education Outside The Classroom. It was on

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday, we went to Jellie park, on Thursday we went to

Adrenalin forest and on Friday we went to the City. 

Jellie Park:

We had to be at school early because the bus leaves at 8:25 am. I was early, I waited in the playground

for my friends for about 10 minutes. I saw my friends as I walked towards them. Minutes later it rang.

We went to our classes then in our Kahui (Riroriro). We talked about some of the rules in Jelly Park,

then we went to the bus that is waiting for us outside the school. I was sitting with Jaren on the bus.

About 15 minutes later we arrived in Jellie park. The first thing we did is that we talked about the rules

again, and then headed towards the changing room. After changing, we jumped into the pool. The water

is pretty warm to be honest. I also went to the hydroslide, I was definitely nervous because I have never

been in the hydroslide but I overcame my fear, I went to the hydroslide with Shontai. We spent about 4

hours on Jelly Park. After spending many hours under the water, I then changed and had a bit of rest

(Eating and sitting). An hour later, we went back to our school. 

Adrenalin forest:

We were meant to be at school early, but even more earlier. By 8:00am the bus leaves. It’s the usual

routine in the morning. We were in the bus for a minute. We left early from school because Adrenaline

forest is a bit far from our school. When we arrived, we were split into 2 groups, the first group had to

know and learn what to do. While the second group had free time, I was in the second group, me and

my friends were just playing and eating our food. One staff member came to us and said that the second

group has to go and do what the first group did. While we were being taught, group one has already

started and they are up above the trees. Then we started the first level which is level 1. I then managed

to finish level 1 and moved into level 2. But unfortunately level 2 seems hard for me, so then I quit. I

watched those other students who climb up extremely high. Heights are one of my fears and I am proud

that I have overcome 1 level at least. We finished for an hour, and we walked to a playground near the

adrenalin forest. There were little kids playing in there. Minutes later the bus arrived and we had to go

back to school. 

City: 

As usual, we were riding in a bus. We stopped at Margaret Mahy playground. We had some time to play

around. Then we walked towards the library. We were able to look at their amazing books. Then we

walked towards the Museum. I had fun there even though I’ve been there many times. But it feels good

being in there remembering your memories when you were there the last time. We definitely spent many

hours in the museum. And then we wander around, looking for new things. Then we went back to school. 

My high school life is a great experience :’>

Thank you for reading my blog, bye.

Typhoon Vamco

Kia Ora,

Today I will be sharing one of my works. What we have to do is that when we finish our works, we were supposed to research events/disasters that happened in this world. I get to pick any events/disasters.

I chooses the Typhoon Vamco that recently happened in the Philippines and in Vietnam. 

A typhoon Vamco recently happened in the Philippines, there were many people died and suffered from it. Their routine has changed because of this typhoon. Many of them lost their houses, lost their jobs/works, and loved ones. 

Click this link to take you to a slideshow that I made about Typhoon Vamco: Link

Thank  you for reading, I hope you learn something new, pray for those people who lost their houses. Have a great day, bye.

Margaret Mahy Information

 Kia Ora everyone,

I have been researching about Margaret Mahy, this post is related to my latest post about Water Safety for EOTC week. Here are the information I found during my research:

1. Margaret Mahy is a famous New Zealander book author for children and adult. Most of her book has been translated into 15 different language. 

2. She started writing book's when she was seven years old. 

3. She and her four younger siblings was raised in Whakatane, New Zealand. 

4. She admitted that one of her favourite author was Russell Hoban because she likes her adult and children's stories. 

5. She writes stories everyday, since she doesn't take holidays very often. 

6. She has published over hundred books that she made, but she said that many of those books are short.

7. But unfurtunately, the sad thing is that she died at the age of 76 years old because of Cancer. 

8. Margaret Mahy Playground is named after Margaret Mahy. 

Thank you for reading, I hope you learn something new about her, bye. 

Gravity

Hey, today I will be answering some questions that are given, I'll be sharing what I have been learning These questions is about Gravity. I had to do alot of research to support my answer.

Is gravity the same on all planets?

The gravity in planets were not the equivalent since certain planets are giant and a few planets are little. The huge ones are fundamentally have greater gravity that the little one, and those little planets has less gravity in light of the fact that their planets are little but after all, It depends on the size of the planet. There are various sizes of the planets.

How is gravity related to mass?

The gravity is identified with mass since in such a case that the planet is little then it will have less mass and in the event that a planet is huge, at that point it will have more mass. The items that have more mass have a greater amount of the gravity, and at times the gravity likewise gets more fragile each time with separation. So when one of the item is more like each other, the more grounded the gravitational pulls up.

Calculate your weight on the other planets in our solar system? Which planet would you weigh the most on? The least? 

My weight on the most on will be on the Jupiter and my weight on the least is on the Mercury.

How would your life be different if you lived on a planet with higher gravity? With lower gravity?

My daily routine would be extraordinary on the off chance that I experienced in a higher gravity since when we have a higher gravity we will be slower and exceptional when we walk or run. On the off chance that I lived in a lower gravity quite possibly that it can destroy your body. Now and again you wouldn't have the choice to breath properly.

That's all for today, thank you for reading, bye.

Explanation - Navigation

Kia ora everybody,

Today I will be explaining to you what is a navigation. 

Navigation is also the other definition of GPS because it helps you to find the directions. Beginning with exploring the stars, I am stating that when you are lost you can utilize the stars however interestingly, you should know where the North and the South are. Many people really utilized the stars to navigate, most of these people were the Polynesian when they were traversing the vast sea. Cassiopeia is a gathering of bright different five stars, and when you look up the sky you will consider it to be the state of W. You can likewise utilized to locate the North Star when Ursa major isn't noticeable in the sky. Orion is a three brilliant stars, it was a conspicuous heavenly body of the Northern Hemisphere. The old Polynesian utilized the sun, planets, moons, clouds and stars to direct them and to discover their directions.

at the point when the Earth hub highlights the North Star, and that consistently shows North. This isn't noticeable in the South, so they utilized the Southern Cross. All you have to do is to attract a line to the main top stars and connect it to its contrary side, then you additionally need to extend it 4.5 times and draw a line from that point skyline. And that's basically how they figured out where the South is. 

That's all, sorry if it's short but I hope you learn something new. Have a great day, bye.

Christchurch earthquake

Hello everybody,

Today's topic will be about 'Christchurch earthquake'. This is one of my draft that I have to post. I have been researching information about the Christchurch earthquake 2011. There's a questions that we must answer. 

Here are the questions and my answers:

How have the Christchurch earthquakes had an impact on our city?

There were many damages that have happened during and after the Christchurch earthquakes. The number of people who died were 185 and many people were injured but 164 people were seriously injured. Most of the victims died due to the buildings that collapsed. The water pipes, the roads, bridges, power lines, phones and towers/buildings were broken and damaged. A ton of roads, schools, footpaths and houses were flooded. Many stone and bricks buildings in Christchurch were harmed. Up to 100,000 structures were damaged and around 10,000 should have been obliterated. Christchurch was separated into four zones after the earthquake. The land in the Green Zone was unharmed and could be based on once more, in the Orange Zone more checks were required before the land could be built on. The White Zone was the zone that had not been checked at all yet. The land in certain pieces of the city was entirely unsecured. Expanding on it securely will be troublesome. These zones are known as the Red Zone.

What positives or negatives have come from the quakes?

Negative about the Christchurch earthquake impact is that people think they’ll die, they have no idea what will happen during the earthquake, many lost their houses and some of them died. It has a bunch of impacts, it affects their everyday lives. But the Positive impact about it is that luckily some of them survived. They were badly injured but they immediately got healed, and some of them survived which is a good thing.

What are some changes that citizens have made to prevent damage happening from potential future earthquakes?

We wouldn’t know when it will happen, it can happen anytime. They should always be ready. Being prepared for what can happen will be a great idea, it’s all about being alert and aware. They should also know what to do whenever there is an earthquake, in school, they should have this drill practice. It teaches kids in school about what to do whenever there’s an earthquake. Children will be able to know what to do. This will prevent us from getting in danger and it will save many people’s lives.

What have you learned from the work you have done?

I have learnt that we really can't control when these things will happen, just like an earthquake, it’ll randomly happen without us knowing. So we all have to be always aware of what will happen anytime.

That's all for today, thank you for reading my blog, have a great day, bye.