Business Enterprise/Market Day

Kia Ora everyone,

Welcome back to my blog. For today's blog I will be talking about Business Enterprise.

For the past few weeks, every Tuesday, Wednesday and I think Thursday, we have been doing business enterprise. A business enterprise is when we make something and sell it. There should be about 3 or 4 students in one group, we should also come with an idea of a name of our group that relates to what we are making which is also called a product. 

Each group should have a product to make, on the first day of business enterprise, we have to search some things that we could make to get some ideas and to search how to make them. Our products should be Ethical, Environmentally, Sustainable and Profitable. We had this slideshow where we put all of the information about our products. We took a lot of times thinking about how much our products will costs, we make sure that our product costs fairly so it won't be too expensive. There were a lot of docs/slides that we have to fill in, just like how much our products will cost, the things that we need to buy to make our products and more. We also have to write a letter for an approval of our products. 

I am in a group of Lhysette, Jaren and Cate. Each of us has a different position. Lhysette is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). She's the one who has to write a letter for the approval of our products. She basically leads the group. Cate is the Production Manager. She's the one who has to check our products and make sure it's all organise, and the packaging. Jaren is the Sales/Finance Manager. She has to add the cost and the profits of our products. I'm the Marketing Manager. I make the poster, the promoting for our products and helps to sell our products. 

The name of our group is called "Eudaimonia". Lhysette is the one who came up with the group name. Eudaimonia is a Greek word, it means happiness, welfare and blessedness. Our products are Scrunchies, Slime and Bracelets. It's mostly a girls stuff. We didn't really have that much time to make our products, so on last week Saturday, Lhysette and Jaren came to my house to finish our products. We had a little problem while making the scrunchies, but we managed to finish them anyway. The bracelets are just a homemade ones, and the slime as well. We have most of the things that we need which means we don't need to buy that much stuff for our products. 

We made 6 scrunchies, 9 bracelets, 6 slime, when they buy our product we include to give them a free mask and a free thank you card. Each scrunchies cost $2.00, the bracelets cost $2.00 and the slime cost $2.00 as well. 

I think that the scrunchies are the most hard one to make, just because we have to hand-stitch them, we didn't get to use the machine since many students have been using those. The bracelets are the easiest one to make because you just need to braid them. The longest product that took us so long to make is the slime, because sometimes it's sticky and sometimes it's not stretchy but we already handle that problem. We also have to make a poster, the poster should include the name of our group, the cost of our product and we can also draw a picture of our product. 

Yesterday we were already finish making our product so then we moved the table that we need to so we could put our products. We settle down, and put all of our products in the table so they could see it, everyone was doing the same. There were songs that we could listen. After everything is settle, we started to sell. Lhysette and Jaren looked after our product and waited for them to buy while me and Cate went around and buy some things and foods. Then after we bought this, we changed position which means me and Cate has to look after our products. There were some good foods and drinks, and I like the way people's products are creative. 

Hornby Primary school also came to buy stuff. At the end, it turns out really good, we sell all of our products. When everything was finish, we had to put back all of the tables to where they belong, then picked up some rubbishes that are laying on the ground. Then we went back to our classes and continue the day. 

Maybe next time I would change our product because our product are just a little bit hard to make. I think we made $22 on market day. I honestly didn't expect that we can sell all of them, I thought there would be some left over products.

We actually made a good teamwork. At first it was hard but at the same time it was fun and worth it. 

That's all for today, I hope you enjoy. You can give me some helpful, thoughtful and some positive feedback. And I'll see you all next time, bye.

Wellbeing

Kia Ora everybody,

Welcome back to my blog. During hurumanu 1, we we're talking about the things we do that makes us happy. 

We have to write down the things that makes us happy but with a topic, just like spiritual, Mental & Emotional, Physical, Land/Roots, family & social. Here are the things that I did:

Te Taha Wairua (Spiritual): Go to church, pray everyday, meditate

Te Taha Hinengar (Mental & Emotional): Write down my feelings, listen to songs, sleep, eat food, spending time with myself, reading books, 

Te Taha Tinana (Physical): Yoga, exercise, dance, riding a bike.

Whenua (Land/Roots): Culture, family, friends.

Te Taha Whanau (Family & Social): Have a movie night, cook together, hanging out with my friends, meeting new people. 

Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you enjoy, you can give me a thoughtful, helpful and a positive feedback. See you all next time, bai.

Mars

Kia ora everyone,

Welcome back to my blog. Today, I am going to share about what we did during Science.

Last term the topic we were focusing was about Mars. Now, we will be continuing what we did last term. Today we have to read an article about Mars and there will be some questions that we have to answer.

1. When can a mission to Mars (or from Mars) happen? Why?

Martians has to go and explore the Mars every 26 months.

2. What are two geological features of Mars?

Mars is also known/called as a "Red Planet, It's because the colour of the planet (It's caused by the large amount of Iron Oxide). The other features includes polar Ice caps, Olympus Mons (It's the largest volcano in the Solar System) and Valley Marineris (It's one of the largest canyons in the solar system). 

3. What is one possible solution from the story about oxygen on Mars?

There is a machine called MOXIE which is an electricity and it splits the carbon dioxide into carbon minoxide (CO) and oxygen (O). NASA send this machine in Mars in 2020. 

4. If it doesn't rain on Mars, where does the water come from?

- There are no rivers or lakes in Mars, but they found a waters as a ice in the polar ice caps, but It's covered in a thick layer of a frozen carbon dioxide. 

5. How will people get food on Mars? What is a possible solution?

if they bought their own foods to Mars it would at least last for 26 months until the next supplies of rockets arrives. Each of their supplies should weigh around 5 tonnes. But you could also grow foods in Mars but it would be hard,you'll have to save foods which means you'll eat a bit of foods during breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

If you want more facts about Mars, click this link: LINK

Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you learn something new. Please give me some helpful, thoughtful and positive feedback, bye!

Reading Novel Study

 Good morning/Good afternoon everyone,

For today's blog, I'm going to tell you about what we have been doing during Hurumanu 2. 

Hurumanu 2 is our reading time, during reading time, we have a group that reads a different book that are given to us. The book that I was reading is called "Rainfall" by Ella West. I've been reading this for the past few weeks or months.

It took me a long time before I could even finish the book, there are 25 chapters and I'm pretty sure there is 218 pages including the authors note. I had to bring the book in my house, and I read it when I get to have free time, or usually I read it before I go to sleep. 

If we finish reading the book, we have some task to do that are related to the book that we were reading. Some of the tasks is to answer some questions about the book, or to do creative things such as drawing. We have to choose at least 3 tasks to do. I managed to finish reading the book. I just finished it last 3 weeks ago, and then I get to finish the tasks last week. 

I'm now going to summarise about what happened in the book: There is a girl name Annie, she is 15, one morning she was riding a bike to head down to her school for her basketball match, but there is a Detective who said not to get out of the house because it's dangerous. Someone shoot the window in the police station and they found out that the person who did that live in their neighbourhood. 

There are more interesting things that happened in the story as you continue reading it.

Here's the link of the tasks I've finished: Link

I liked how the author used unique words rather than putting a simple word. I learnt words that I don't really know and I haven't heard some of them, I searched up those words that I don't know and knew the meaning of it.

Thanks for taking your time reading my blog. I hope you learn something new, and that's all for today, bye.

Hero and Villain Writing

Kia Ora everyone,

Today I will be sharing about what we have been doing during writing. It's the last week of this hurumanu, so we have to rush and finish our writing. 

In the past few weeks, we have been focusing on making a story. A story that has a hero and villain, we can also include a protagonist.  

My story is about a normal girl who has a guy-friend that isn't normal. He has a power, they went into a school trip in the forest. But a girl seems to ruin their friendship. We must write the full story. I mean, writing a full story is hard, specially when you don't have that much time left to finish your story, but in the end it's worth it tho. You get to read your story, what you have done. It took a long time to finish my story, I always had to re-read it back from the top to make sure my writing make sense, it has the punctuation that I need, and to make sure that I use describing words.

Anyway, after writing a story, we have to drawing a setting. A setting in our story is a place. A place for our character, just like in a movie, usually in movies, their settings are in the forest if it's creepy, cities if it's action, and more. Then we have to draw their appearance, appearance for our character. The shape of their faces, their eyes, their eyebrows, their mouths, their hairs and more. We watched a video to get more ideas about our characters. 

My story isn't perfect but I still managed to finish it. But anyway, here is my story: Link

Here are my drawings for the setting and the characters appearance:

Setting:

Characters:

Writing this story was fun because I wrote it on my own, it's from Imagination, and it makes the story more interesting. I also enjoyed drawing this settings and characters because I get to learn more things about drawing, just like a perspective drawings. 

Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you enjoy, that's all for today, bai.

Role Play

Malo e lelei everyone,

Welcome to my blog. Last week during our drama class, we were practising to act. 

We are given role and a script. There should be 4 people in a group. There are 4 characters, Stryk, Boot, Cuff and Grynd. In this scene, this four students is a bully they are waiting for a bus to arrive. 

My role is Stryk, Cate's role is Cuff, Rheanne's role is Grynd and Shontai's role is Boot.

Our task for today is to tell more facts about our character. I will put some facts about Stryk.

• Stryk is a bully in school with his friends, Cuff, Boot and Grynd.
• He is 14 years old
• He has a blue eyed
• He's tall and attractive-
• He's been always mean towards to other students, but not when he's with his friends.
• Stryk wasn't like this, he used to be a quiet boy. But his parents changed him. His parents keeps on going to work and has no time for him. So he becomes lonely, not until he meets his friends. A friends that he always wanted, someone who cares for him. He couldn't feel the love of his parents for him, so he always hang out with his friends. He suddenly becomes so mean towards people. His friends influenced him.But his friends did made him feel special.

Thank you for reading my blog. This is all for today, happy Tongan language week. Have a great day, bai