Tane Mahuta - CIP

This week in Tane Mahuta, CIP, I have done some planting Spinach, Celery and Coriander seeds next to where we planted the beetroot and the other vegetables we've planted in week 5. We have been clearing some weeds in the greenhouse and also found some stone tiles that we needed to stack to the side, and also for us to get prepared to do some new planting in there.

There were others that were separating scrap metal to sell to earn some money. There were not as many people doing some gardening because they were at there passions and some were at Kiwi Kaha, so there were enough work for me to do.
Overall I enjoyed carrying on doing some more planting this week and the whole three periods from period two has been successful for me.

Hurumanu Art

In Hurumanu Art we have been focusing on planning about our stop motion and doing some storyboards. I am in a group with Keyana, Kineka and Chloe and it has been success through week 5 and this week. We had to discuss with our group who is going to be doing which role and Keyana and I are the directer, Kineka is the drawer and Chloe is the camera person.

My story is about a girl named Trinity who has just started High School and on her first day she gets teased about her clothes/style by two girls named Victoria and Jasmine. Later on in the story, another girl named Natalia becomes friends with Trinity and starts dressing up like her to make her feel better about her style. So basically in my story its showing Kindness from Manakitanga.



     

Splitting Strategy - Maths

Today in Maths Interchange we have been focusing and learning how to do our new strategy. The Splitting Strategy. We had to answer some questions from the group slide from Miss Birtch's site and then had to create a DLO showing how to do the strategy. I have made my DLO on a google drawing and I hope you have learned and enjoy what I was trying to show and tell you.

  

Tane Mahuta - CIP

This week in CIP Tane Mahuta, we got back into our groups and started planting and cleaning up the classroom. I started planting beetroot with Addyson and Keyana and the others were planting Lettuce, Cauliflower and Cabbage. Once we finished planting, we layed a thin sheet over the plants and jammed thick sticks as pegs so the sheet won't fly away. We left the ends open so that the plants can get air and not die.

After all of the planting, we had nothing else to do so we got straight into helping to clean the classroom. I helped a group clear out all of the wood and logs that were broken apart from the old furniture and then started filling up some buckets of rubbish that were lying around everywhere. The period was a success for me and I really enjoyed doing Tane Mahuta and I'm glad that I chose Tane Mahuta but we will be back into it next Wednesday. 

   

Reflection on Te reo Maori

In Te reo Maori, we have been focusing on how to make a Hangi, learning what Tapu and Noa means and talking about Matariki. We first watched two videos about how to make a Hangi and what the steps are and what the materials we needed to make a Hangi. We also had to create a google drawing showing how to make a Hangi.  We talked about, if we step over the Hangi while it is cooking it will get spoiled and ineatable because Tapu and Noa doesn't go together. The meaning of Tapu is Sacred and Noa means Normal. I learned that it takes 3 hours for a Hangi to cook. (Depends how much food you have)

These are the videos we watched about how to make a Hangi:
Hangi video
Hangi video

Learning Conference Slide

Last week on Thursday, everyone was setting up for there Learning Conference. The year 7s and 8s had to create a slide talking about what we have been doing in school and then had to present it to our parents and our teacher. In my slide, I was talking about a Blog post that I have posted recently, our learning stories, CIP, Latest maths Strategy, our Reading Plus Results and Screenshots of our spelling.

Before the interview, my whole body was shaking and I started feeling butterflies in my stomach. I was very nervous. But then when I went in for my interview, I started feeling a little bit confident because I was just talking about my Hurumanu's and also my mum was there with me as well. At the end, I felt pride in myself because the teacher said I did really good and that she was proud of me for what I have done.

P.E reflection questions

Title:
P.E reflection questions

1. What did you find challenging?
I found the questions that we had to solve challenging because it was all about measurements and I also didn't understand what were we trying to work out.

2. A question we had to solve
What the measurements, length, widths, meters of the field is.

3. Some you would like to learn/know
I would like to learn more about measurements because I think they are important when I get up to a higher year level and I've never learned how to measure before.

4. Did you enjoy it?  why/why not
I kind of enjoyed it because, I was working with others such as my friends and I wanted to try something for a change.

P.E questions:

1. Physical skills:
-Strength
-Speed
-Balance

2. Interpersonal skills:
-Communicate
-Team work
-Leadership

3.
What you want to learn more/about and why
I want to learn how to improve in my aiming and learn more about what Tapu Ae on how you can get better at playing it. Why? Because I might want to teach my family how to play when it is our family reunion day and try it out with them.

4. Less of and why?
I would like to learn less of Dodgeball because I've already played it to many times when I did P.E as my hurumanu in Term 1, but I enjoyed playing with different rules in this Dodgeball.

What I want to learn more of is Tapu Ae because I haven't heard of that game before and I want to get better at aiming at knocking the tennis balls off the cones. I also want to learn how to stick on my player at all times just like when I play netball. 

Question:
What kind of games do you play in your P.E?

Digital Tech Reflection

Throughout the past weeks in Digital Tech we have been focusing on our Game, App or Narrative Story. We did some researching about an issue around the world that we wanted to do and were finding information about the issue. I chose littering as my issue because I see rubbish lying around the ground in public areas which make the community untidy and ugly and I really want to stop that.

 I have been creating a game about my issue which is littering and I was making my game on this site called Gamefroot. Gamefroot is a game site for you to create a cool game and is also a site to use in your learning. My game is about littering and the aim of the game is to clean up the public areas such as streets and parks and just making the community clean and neat. My game is influencing people to make our community neat and tidy and also to prevent littering.

DLO:
Research Template 

 







Reflection:
In Digital Tech, I think I did well following the rules that the teacher told us to do and completed all the work that I needed to do when I was away in Samoa. I enjoyed doing the researching about my issue and creating a game off Gamefroot to make people prevent littering. I struggled a little bit at the start of my game because there were so many things on Gamefroot that I didn't know what to do with and also struggled not knowing how to attract people to play my game.
My favourite thing about Digital tech is having the opportunity to work with Mr Carter and also learning about Digital sites that we could use in our learning. 

Sources: (Websites)
Litter site
Litter site
Youtube video

Question:
What would you do to make people to prevent littering?

CIP - Tana Mahuta

Throughout this term in CIP, I have chosen Tana Mahuta. We did some gardening in week 3 and week 4. We had a choice if we wanted to design the outdoor classroom or do some dirty work, I chose gardening.

In week 3 we started moving the tyres that had dirt in them and carried them at the far back of the field. We moved some wood and logs that were hidden under the dirt and also carried them at the back too. Once we've done that, we started digging all the dirt from the tyres into piles and then removed the tarpaulins and fold them up.

This week, we were turning and loosing the soil to make it healthy and soft, the more we loosen, the faster we get into planting. After loosing the soil, we added fresh soil on top and mixed it in with the original soil to make it better for the plants. While we were mixing the soil in, we saw some worms. This is because the worms help increase the amount of air and water that gets into the soil and they also can't survive in the sun other wise they would dry up and die.

         

Design process on how I am going to present my issue

Last term in Digital tech we had to make a blog post of our plan about how we are going to make our game and how we are going to show people our issue.

Reflection on Fitness test

In week 2 in P.E, we started our fitness test. There were 4 courses for us to do and they were the Vertical Jump, Flexibility Sit and Reach, Muscular Endurance/Sit ups and Grip Strength. This was our second time doing the test. The reason why we did the test again was that to see if we've improved our fitness and compare it with our old scores from last time.

When I did the fitness test the first time, I did pretty well but I was thought that I could improve a little bit next time. In my own opinion, I think I've improved in my fitness in the second test because in my sit ups I beat my old score by one and in my vertical jump I got 2.4 instead of 2.3.

We got into 4 groups of 12 and each group had a score keeper/ the person who writes the scores. We first went and did the sit and reach test and I got 29cm. We had to sit on the floor with our legs straight and our feet touching the box and then we had to stretch our body to push this little block on the box just with our fingers to see how flexible we are.

Next we did the Grip test and my score was 24. The aim of the grip test was to see how many squeezes we could do with our hand and to see how strong our hand was. After the Grip Test, we did the Vertical Jump and I got 2.4. I've improved on my second score just by one because in my last test I got 2.3. We had to put our foot against the wall and put our arm up on the wall, but relaxing your arm, and then jump three times to see if you can beat your old score.

Finally all we had to do was the sit ups. I did 15 of them. We were not allowed to have someone stand on our feet to keep our feet steady on the ground, while we were doing the sit ups and we had to keep doing that to also see how strong we were and how many we could do.