Passion Projects: Wananga

Passion Projects

Hi there,

 For the past few weeks in Wananga, we started on Passion Projects. My idea for my project is scrapbooking, focusing on Visual Arts. I am working on this project with my friend Dominique. Our purpose in scrapbooking is to show our creativity and interests. We are making our theme K-pop, this includes the groups we favour like BTS, Stray Kids, Enhypen etc. 

Here are some examples of what our scrapbooking might look like.

  

Reflection summary

Today I will be writing a Critical Literacy text for Wananga about a movie trailer called A Quiet Place.  We will be doing this every Friday. I hope you enjoy. 

Question: What do the images suggest?

Title: A Quiet Place

Type: Movie Trailer

Creator/Director: John Krasinski

Purpose: To captivate the viewers heed.

Date: April 2018 

The images in the A Quiet Place Trailer, directed by John Krasinski, suggest tense, fear and scary, which shows and tells us what the whole film will be like. For instance, we see the actors facial expressions, emotions and movement, the lighting, the dark colours and background music/sound effects. I believe the reason for this is to help show the audience what intentions the movie has.         

2020 Year Reflection

 Today I will be writing about what we did this period in Wananga. We had to write a Year Reflection about how this year is going for us and have we enjoyed or dislike anything this year. This includes events and highlights like the Market day, lockdown, sports, subjects and etc. I chose two highlights which was Music and Market Day, something I didn't enjoy which was the lockdown, and wrote about them. I have displayed this in a slideshow and I hope you like it.

Margaret Mahy

 Today I will be writing about what I have been doing in Wananga. I had to choose another activity from the EOTC slideshow and I worked on researching about Margaret Mahy and what she was famous for. I made this on a slideshow and I hope you enjoy. 

Tips on Water Safety - Wananga

Today I will be blogging about what we did during Wananga. Everyone had to choose an activity to work on for the whole period and I chose water safety tips. I created a poster on Piktochart and researched some tips. Here is my poster and I hope you like it. 

Yr 9 Leadership Workshop - What makes a good leader?

 Today I will be writing about the Yr 9 Leadership Workshop during Wananga on Wednesdays. We have started doing this for 2 weeks and the first thing we talked about was what makes a good leader. We all had a slideshow sent to us to write what qualities leaders have and took a video of ourselves explaining our own opinions on what a good leader looks like and an example of one. 

I hope you enjoy this blog post and learn something about a good leader.

Here are some qualities of a good leader:

      

Wonderings - Wananga

Wonderings

What is the meaning of life? 

The meaning of life is to fulfill your purpose in life and accomplish your goals. The meaning of this is, everyone has a purpose, of why they are living. 

Why is water clear?

Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Both elements are gases in nature and are invisible. This gives the water a cloudy appearance commonly called turbidity.  

 

My Character Strengths

What are your top 5 strengths?

1. Honesty - Because I am always honest and truthful.
2. Forgiveness - Because I am a forgiving person who always give second chances.
3. Social Intelligence - Because I learn from success and failure and can understand my emotions.
4. Teamwork - Because I am fair and never leave anyone out in a group.
5. Love (Aroha) - Because I am a caring person who always appreciates everything.

Did you expect these?

1. Honesty - I excepted this because I always tell the truth and be honest when I know I didnt do anything wrong.

2. Forgiveness - I expected this because I am a kind person who always forgives one another.

3. Social Intelligence - I expected this because I can acknowledge peoples feelings and have the ability to make them feel better and happy.

4. Teamwork - I expected this because I like to work with others and share each other knowledge. If anyone needs help I will try to help them as much as a can.

5. Love (Aroha) - I expected this because I have always been a caring person to others, acknowledging their feelings and always being there for one another.

Why are these important to have?  

1. Honestly is important to have because its about being real with yourself and others about who you are and is the key in life to always tell the truth and be honest with yourself. 

2. Forgiveness is important to have because it gives you happiness and allows you to move on without regretment or anger bothering you everyday.

3. Social intelligence is important to have because it is having the ability to successfully build  relationships and recognize feelings both in yourself and in others.

4. Teamwork is important to have because working with others can get you to build friendships and work together to achieve goals.

5. Love is important to have because you show that you care for others and understand their emotions, and make people feel important with the love that you give them.

Wananga - Decade Research

Today I will be blogging about what I have been upto in my wananga class. We started doing this decade work project, researching about events, famous people, disasters, inventions, fashion and more that has happen in the past. There are different years on each slide and I have completed 6 of them. We have been doing this for two weeks now and it has been enjoyable for me researching things that happened in the past. I hope you enjoy.

Decade slide:

     

Hello, Goodbye

Today in our wananga class, we did some writing on hellos and goodbyes. We have to write upto 4 paragraphs about what the main things we will miss that we did during lockdown. Hope you enjoy them.

 Hello to the company of family and friends with fun times and laughter. Goodbye to my calm days alone with peace and quiet and privacy.

Hello to the loud annoying alarm next to my ears every morning. Goodbye to going on my devices until 2:00 in the morning, my sleep ins and my daily workouts.

Hello to the takeaway foods every Thursday or Friday for dinner. Goodbye to my mum’s cooking that she keeps repeatedly making everyday.

Hello to the school uniforms, school bags, lunches and teachers every morning at 8:30. Goodbye to our mufti clothes and the Xbox playing fortnite and Gta. 

Word Art about Lockdown

Today I am blogging about a word cloud we had to create on this site called Word Art. We had to write about how our lockdown went and what we did during the whole 7 weeks and had to describe it using one word. We were allowed to write down anything we wanted and I hope you like it.

My Workout Routine at Home

From the very start of this isolation I have been exercising and kept motivated with my body. I have downloaded this workout app on my phone called fitness/workout and in my opinion, it is actually working and growing on me. I've been doing this for weeks now every morning at 10:00am and it is making me feel active and fresh.

Sometimes my sister would join me in my workouts and try keep fit and active with me, it makes me happy because I have someone to keep me company and to make it more fun to do having a workout buddy.

On my workout app, it has different choices of which part of your body you want to work on, like your arms, legs, belly etc. There are multiple exercises to do such as, jog in place, jumping jacks, knee ups, squats, Mountain climber pulls, Crutches which is kinda like a sit up but half way and more. It is really enjoyable and I am loving it. 

I hope you enjoy my blog post about my workout at home.   

 

Positive Thoughts and Self-Talk - Health

This week my teacher has set us more wananga work to do and I will be displaying that by posting about my health work. In health we were focusing on Staying Mentally Healthy and had to choose a topic from this Mental health slide for us to do. I chose Positive Thoughts and Self-Talk then researched about them, sharing my findings on a slide and a document. Overall it was fun to learn and work on and is looking forward for more work to come.
Here is my health work:

Positive Thoughts and Self-Talk

Multiplication 12x12 Blank Table - Maths

Today I did some work on maths, I was practicing and memorizing my multiplication from 1 to 12 and did this on a blank table that was off the class site. I did this all by myself with no help and I am proud that I know all of my times tables. This is my last blog post for this weeks wananga work and I can't wait to do more for the following weeks.

Here is the multiplication table from blank to completed:

Blank:

Mine:

   

My Research About Pandas - Blogging Choices

Today I did a research about pandas and then made a DLO about it sharing my findings. I made a little slideshow with 10 different interesting facts about pandas and some pictures you might enjoy. I hope you will learn something about them that you don't already know, from this.

Acrostic name Poem - Wananga

This week my teacher has set us some Wananga work for us to do to keep us more active in learning. We have to complete 3 blog posts by the end of this week and we have our own choice of picking what work to share and learn about. There are some choices of work that are on our class site and I have chosen to make a acrostic name poem about myself. Hope you enjoy.