Technology

 Today in hard material I am currently working on a pendant by pewter casting. There are so many steps but I am sandpapering the sides to make them so smooth. I have been enjoying my experience and hope to do more activities like this in the future. I am making a controller pendant for my friend Charis because he said he didn't get any present, for his birthday since we were in lockdown No.2

Best Learning This Year: Genomics Riddle

My Best learning this year was when I got the chance to learn about Genomics, the tree of life, genomes, and learning the scientific language. It was thanks to Dr. Theary for willing to come every Thursday to teach us more and more about genomics. 

 You are to create a riddle of a creature from our tree of life.  I want to describe the creature using the correct language/scientific language.

Comment What Species I am?

Maori Language Week

 This afternoon we had split up into groups to practise something for Maori language week. There was a dancing group, a singing group, a pepeha group and a weaving group. We are going to rotate on each subject every afternoon as a showcase for Friday. 

We started with the dancing group, we practised the E Papa Wairi with rolls of newspaper. We had got the whole dance but some kids kept forgetting the moves. Hopefully next time we could learn the dance with the song because that was the part that was missed out. When I saw the people who went to weave I got really excited for when we get to try it.

Here is the video we used  -  LINK

Here is my Pepeha - 

Book Review

 

Writing

My education has changed significantly. Due to COVID - 19, I have been learning virtually. This is learning from home via the internet. This is the second time around.

Learning virtually is very different from having to be physically inside the classroom. There were several things I could do at school that I couldn’t do at home. Like talking to my friends physically, but at home, I had to talk to them virtually every day.

At school, we had a rigid timetable but at home, I was able to do my work at the cost of my own time. The video calls sometimes had technical difficulties like lagging and people's sound not working. We also had many students missing due to their lack of motivation for learning.

Book Review

  Book Review

Title : Guts Author: Raina Telgemeier                          Date: 4 September

What was the book about? A girl who had stomach problems, while struggling to tell her friends. She also was bullied a lot. Raina Started going to therapy to help her with her problem. She finds out she's not sick, she just has I.B.S and doesn’t want to tell her friends. Raina becomes friends with her bully and finds out about her problem.

What 3 things did you like about the book? Explain why I liked the creativity the author had and wrote in this book. I know the feeling when you want to puke. I love that raina became friends with her bully.	What 3 things didn’t you like about the book? Explain why. I liked everything about the book.
What is your favourite part? When raina showed her breathing steps, I also tried it myself and it felt calming.	Who would you recommend the book to and why? I would recommend this book to year 7 & 8 students. It is a funny book but also something that you could probably relate to.

Religous Education

 I had to make a DLO choosing 3 sentences from a prayer understand it and find examples in the world.