Book Reviews - Heroes Of The Holocaust

Hello Bloggers, This weeks task for Inquiry is to complete two different Task of our choice. The first Task I chose is to complete a Book or Film Review that we have watched or read recently. We have to list why we like it, what it is about, why others would like it, and an overall conclusion/Rating of what we thought about it. Heroes Of The Holocaust (Which is the novel I chose) is about a young girl, Maria Andzelm who was a Catholic Teenager growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland. Her Jewish friends and neighbours have hauled away one by one to undisclosed locations, never to be heard or seen from again. Later on in the novel, Maria's Family took in two Jewish men. However, they knew that if they had been caught they would either be put to immediate execution or sent to a concentration camp. They hid these men underneath the floor of their barn. Every day, Maria brought them food to satisfy their stomachs and books to feed their minds. She did this every day for two years and paid a terrible price.

Why I liked it? - I like the Heroes Of The Haulocast because it is captivating and it is a Biography, it talks about the War and how these Teenagers put their lives at risk in order to save the Jewish. The overall rating that I would conclude for this is 4 Stars out of 5.

The Technological Enhances Of The Hungi

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Task We Are Continuing On With Out Inquiry And Our Hungi Poster/Presentation. While we have students in our class Sailing today, we were put to the task of learning more about New Zealand's Culture, Traditions, and Heritage. Over the past week, I have finished that task and created Diagrams of each individual. Once I had finished that, I moved onto something creative which was a poster. One of my questions was - How has the Hangi changed overtime? The new and improved Hangi has changed drastically over time. There are multiple new technological enhances and negative effects on this. The new Hangi is upheld by 3 crates that are laid out with hot stones that you can also lay your vegetables on top, with an oven underneath. To keep your vegetables nice and fresh, you have to wrap tinfoil around the outside until it reaches the bottom of the dials. The new Hangi is easily accessible and will only take between 3-4 hours to cook, rather than having to deal with the whole process of setting up the pit, heating the stones, preparing the food, and then placing the food into the pit to cook. - Why is the Traditional Hangi, Better than the improved? The Hangi holds values and it was a tradition passed down from generations by ancestors. You also get to contribute to making the Hangi yourself (The freshness and flavour are more alive), Think about the Time Management, When preparing for the Hangi it takes a long day check if the food has texture. Have you and your family had a Hangi before and shared with your Family and Friends?

Leaders Trip

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Friday Task Is To Blog Something From The Start Of This Term. On the first two days of the Term (Monday and Tuesday), all of the Leaders were able to participate in going to Papanui Youth Development Trust, where we learnt about the Seven Habits, how to improve our Leadership Skills, Motivational Speeches, Self-development, Team development, Strategic thinking, Ethical practice and civic-mindedness and Innovation as well as many other activities. Papanui Youth Development Trust was very educational, and I took so much knowledge and gained information. The Seven Habits Tree are - One is "Proactive", Proactive behaviour involves acting in advance of a future situation, rather than just reacting. It means taking control and making things happen rather than just adjusting to a situation or waiting for something to happen. Two - "Begin With The End In Mind", Planning for a Goal or Dream that you wish to succeed (Painting the bigger picture) 

Three - "Put First Things First", Start by putting the things that are more important, for example, School rather than playing with friends. Four - "Think Win-Win", Everyone has a fair chance. Five - "Seek First To Understand Than To Be Understood", people form opinions based on their own experiences, you filter everything you hear through your life experiences, your frame of reference. Six - "Synergize", To put it simply, synergy means "two heads are better than one." Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems. Lastly, number 7 which we haven't discussed yet is "Sharpen the Saw", Balance feels best. On the last day of our leaders trip, we had to write a speech for an overall conclusion and experience. What activity have you been able to participate in while being a Leader?

Rocket Inquiry Video

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Task Is To Continue On With Our Final Rocket Inquiry Video. Since we last launched our Rocket we have been creating a video from all of the events that have occurred this Term and presented it visually in a way that our Families and Friends can see. Before we started filming, we had to come up with an enticing Script which we will read aloud. For our Film, we used IMovie and added interesting effects such as Rockets Departing as a sound effect, Different Filters, and a VoiceOver. There was a certain rubric that we had to follow of all of the things we had to include, for example, Talking about our Wonder Project Ambassador, their job and how it relates to working with and certain functions and mechanisms of a Rocket, Finding our Centre of Mass and a Swing Test, Our Prototype for our Rocket, Aerodynamics and Stability, Newtons Laws Of Motion, and lastly, what we would do to change or modify and improve our Rocket. On Wednesday, we will have our Celebration Assembly and our Families can participate in what we have been learning this Term, while also having a friendly but competitive competition to see whose D.I.Y Rocket can fly the furthest by using different items, for example, Hex - Nuts can be used for the drag of your Nose Cone which acts as a Parachute. The Measurements will be recorded from the Distance, The Time of Flight that it was in the air for, and the distance of your Rocket calculated from Kilometers. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, I am unable to post my video. What is your Inquiry This Term Were you working integrated or individually?

New Zealand Sign Language Week

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Wednesday Task Is Learning More In-Depth About One Of Our Three National Languages Which Is Sign Language. Todays Task was to challenge ourselves by learning and playing a game which our Teacher found called "Sign Ninja Game" It has a variety of different challenges, for example, the colours, numbers, names of members from a family tree, Puzzles etc you can also earn different awards and Belts. This game does progress into a more complex version. Before our lesson did start, however, we watched a couple of videos to give us a brief explanation of why Sign Language is so important to our country and the alphabet. We would then practise aloud Signing our name and other key attributes. Sign language is a brilliant tool that will help bridge that communication gap that might exist when there is a hearing impairment and even in situations where there is no hearing impairment present. Since communication is so important, that makes learning sign language invaluable for communication. Sign Language is taught at all Schools and can be very efficient. (Reasoning - Said Above) Once we had finished learning about these Signs, we had to create a video of ourselves saying "My name is" by using the letters of our name. My video is not uploading, however, I will try and get it to work. Can you Sign your name, including colours, Numbers and other things too? 

Final Rocket Launch

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Inquiry Task We Had To Video Our Final Outcome/Video Of Our Rocket Launch. In the previous Post with our Rocket Slide Show Presentation, we had all of the given information about our Rockets and our Rocket that had our "Three Rocket Launchers" Logo on it and it was a clear 1.5-litre bottle. However, we have now modified this and we painted our Rocket Pink including the Fins and the Nose Cone. Once we went up to launch as we were pressurising the water to 60Psi, the paint on our Rocket made our bottles dried paint crack into minuscule pieces and one of our fins flew off. Next, as we were giving our final countdown to launch our Rocket, it flew on an average 20 meters and flew for 3.75 seconds. Next time I think that we should have kept our Rocket how it was before because the paint put a major effect on this process. From the following weeks, we have been creating an Imovie about this Term during our Wonder Project and all of the events that have occurred including our Swing Test, Centre of Mass and our final rocket launch. What is your project from this Term?

Rocket Test Flight

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Task For Inquiry Is Reporting Back On Our Rocket Test Flight. On Thursday, we had to create a Presentation that deflected on The Fins, Nose Cone, Weight, Water, Psi (Per Square Inch) And Our Overall Flight Success. Next, we had to present our reflection of our Rocket in front of the class, so if anyone had to change anything or make something different to improve their design, they could report back or take notes. For my group, we used four fins placed around the 1.5-litre bottle evenly. To get the rectangular shape we had to trace it using cut out card. For our Nose Cone and Weight, we used three Hex-Nuts that were placed around the outside edge with Sticky Tape around it to keep it secure. 

When we went outside to Test our Rocket we used 280ml of Water and turned the dial on the Pressure Gage to 60Psi. When we Tested our Rocket it glided to the other side of the field while rotating on a 360 Degree Angle, once it landed other than one fin falling off we glued it back on and our Nose Cone, as it acted as a Parachute was needed to sellotaped while being attached to the bottle. Each Inquiry Session, our Group takes Notes and has created a Slide Show to represent all of the work we have completed, and for the parents or caregivers to see on the Launch Day. Have you launched your own Water Rocket Before, and what was your final outcome of the process?

Coding A Public Service Announcement

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Wednesday Task Is To Complete Your Very Own Coding To Create A PSA. After our group finished Technology, our Teacher decided to teach us how to Code a PSA (Which is a Public Service Announcement) It is a message intended to the Public, with the objective of raising awareness of a specific issue, and is intended to changing public attitudes and behaviour towards it. (This is Preferably discussed by the Government) My Coding Presentation informed people about Deforestation and how humans are cutting native trees down and clearing these essential habitats of animals on a massive scale and how this needs to be decreased or stopped at once. My Coding has a Person discussing this information, which if you click it my character, it will speak about why it is a major problem. Once it has finished talking press on my monkey that will talk about him wanting to be protected. To learn Coding there are certain elements and conditions that you must follow, to provoke my characters to talk I had to distinguish the certain tools numbers and words. For example, sprite = codesters.Sprite("monkey")sprite.move_down(150) sprite.move_left(120) means I have created a new Sprite which is labelled as a "Monkey" Have you coded something similar before to raise awareness?

Samoan Virtual Class - Room

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Wednesday Learning Task Was To Create Our Very Own Virtual Classroom Using Google Slides. As over the past weeks we have been learning in Depth about the Language of Samoan and the attributes and Traditions. Our Teacher told us that we had to create a Slide Show/Presentation that has to include images from the internet that has a hyperlink and relates to the Presentations we have created that has to do with Samoan. Here are the things we had to include in our Virtual Classroom. - Samoa as a Country link to a Traditional Dance video, Basic Greetings, Alphabet, How to count from 1-10, Information about Siapo or Tapa Designs How it is created and An animation showing a simple Conversation in Samoan. Have you created a Virtual Class Room that has to inform other people about something or a certain Subject?

Rocket Animation

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Task For Continuing On With Our Inquiry Is Creating Our Individual Rocket Animation. As for the past Term we have been learning about the Fundamental Science of a Rocket, using a Pressure Gage to launch our Rockets that has to be filed under 60 PSi and our Rocket Engineers have demonstrated some of these aspects. This Afternoon, our Teacher set us a Task and included in the Animation we had to include a Diagram and the Forces of a Rocket. This Includes the Thrust, Weight, Drag and Lift. We also had to show the developing process of the Rocket launching off into our Solar System. At the end of this Term, we will be using, precisely, one-litre bottles and creating plastic fins attached with other essential items. Have you learnt about the Diagram of the Rocket?

Pukana - Maori Games

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Friday Task Is To Create A Video, Poster, And Qr Code To A Moari Game. Our Teacher Mr Lone put us in a designated group of four and we got given a game to learn which was Pukana. Our First task was to take notes about what the Pukana Game is and how to play it, next we designed a creative Poster to demonstrate and give an introduction into how to play the game with a group of more than five. Lastly, we did a demonstration video with two combined groups together to fully evaluate our final outcome. 

The game starts by getting all the people into a circle. One person will start the chant and everyone else will start slapping their thighs to the rhythm of that person's chant and once the starting chant has ended he will either point both hands to the left or right and yell Pukana. Next, The person who has been pointed at now has the choice to go left or right by yelling Pukana and pointing. The person that they point to will do the same, and so on and so forth. 

There is another option instead of Pukana that is available and that is to slap your hands in motion were the right hand will go forward and slap the left hand and then yell "Aue" and it would be transferred to the person across being pointed at and they would yell “hī” and raise both arms to their head. The people beside the person receiving the “Aue” would have to yell “Tautoku” and point their left hand on an angle to the ground and their right arm bent to make a triangle shape like a salute to their head. If you would like to make the game harder and more challenging if someone breaks the cycle or takes more than a certain amount of time, they are out. 

Samoan Language Animation

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Wednesday Task Is Learning More In-Depth About The Samoan Language. In Term 1, we were focusing on learning basic Samoan Greetings and then from the Start of Term 2 we were focusing on Savings and Money Capabilities. My Animation was of a Teacher informing two students about the Samoan Language, basic Greetings, and learning them in various sentences. The Background of my Presentation using Google Slides was demonstrating a Class Room and specific learning resources other than the Traditional Samoan Beaches and Palm Trees because I was wanting to be more authentic. Have you learnt the Samoan Language Before?

Children's Books - Literacy

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Task In Literacy We Have Been Focusing On Writing And Learning Around The Areas Of Children's Books. Over the past weeks, we have been watching certain people reading Children's Book and recognising the Theme, Moral, Language Features, Message Etc. Children's Books has really enticed me to learn more about Picture Books for Younger Audiences. By the End Of This Term, we will be creating our very own Story with following a certain rubric structure to make our Storys both engaging and interesting. Here Is The Rubric Structure I Created - We will also be Illustrating it and creating a Cover Page for our Novel using Canva. Have You Created Your Own Story Before?

- Simple Moral

- Alliteration

- Description

- Basic Storyline

- Simple Vocabulary 

- Character Development/Traits

- Creative Setting

- Basic Plot - Cohesions (Introduction, Problem, Action, Resolution, Conclusion)

- Grammar

Parachute For Rocket Challenge

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Task For Our Rocket Challenge Inquiry Is To Be Able To Construct And Build Our Own Parachute. Our Initial Design Process was a range of fabrics conjoined together to make a curved shape. We then added Masking Tape to help hold everything together and finally string that attached the two Hex - Nuts. Our second Design Process Involved us using Bubble Rap, Masking Tape to hold the String and finally the Hex - Nuts. By using the String and Inter Twining it together created a curved shape. With all of the Materials we used with our Design, we didn't want to add to many materials or else it would go straight down which had a lighter Material will cause it to go slower. Our Challenge Today, Is The Parachute with the slowest time wins. Our Parachute, However, Didn't go as planned as we only started with a small-time Frame. Our Parachute started with a nice flow then went straight to the ground, our time in Mid - Flight was 1.4 Seconds. Once we had finished creating our Parachute we created a slide that had our Begging, Middle and End Evaluation Plan and Outcome. Have you constructed your own Parachute before and added the certain Steps?

Literacy - Film Noir

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Literacy Task We Have Finished Learning About The Genre Of Film Noir. Today I had to choose two Tasks, my First one was to create three Posters and which has to be a Movie of different Genres and my second task is to research about an Old, Urban Legend, and what it is known for. For my first Poster, I chose the Movie "Hocus Pocus" and added all of the Conventions and Elements that are involved in the Movie. For Conventions Wise, I added the Main Characters in a transparent format and I added Cauldrons on a slight angle, with a dark, Gothic, Forest Background. The Genre that it started was with Horror and I transformed it into a Film Noir. On my Second Poster, I chose to do "Hamilton" The Musical and Transform it into the Fantasy Genre, by doing this I added Microphones, A Formal Script (That people in the 1950s would use to sign certain contracts) Theatre Masks which include Good and Bad, and Unicorns, Clouds, Wands, and a Pastel Background. Lastly, I researched and Old, Urban, Legend which was about "The Hook Man". Have you learnt tasks similar before?

Space Galaxy And Newtons Laws

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Task For School Learning We Are Focusing On Engineering, Space and Galaxy and Newtons Three Laws. For Inquiry This Term, We will be Re-Searching about various aspects of things to do with Rockets, The Gravitation, Engineering, Science Technology, Space and Galaxy and many more. Our Inquiry Is Featuring "The Wonder Project" and will guide us and Teach us about Launching Our Own Water Rocket. This Weeks Task, I have started a Task to give me more insight into what Space and The Galaxy is. My Task Today was to Re-Search the Conditions on Mars and create a list of Ten Items or Materials that I would take and why. I created this Task using an Adobe Spark Web Page, You can use different Sources of Materials such as a Poster (They are all Categorised in Certain Areas) Have you done a similar Task before and had the chance to Launch your very own Water Rocket?

Southern Light Art Work

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Friday Task Is To Create A Southern Light Art Work. An Aurora Australis is a natural phenomenon that usually occurs in the Northan and Southern Hemisphere, Near the Poles of the Arctic in the North and Antarctica in the South. The Colours are very Vibrant although the Most Common Colour is Green, although they can also include Pink, Purple, White, Red. Aurora Lights are associated with the Solar Winds that flow past Earth. These winds then flow out from the Sun and contain Plasma Particles which then gets pulled into the Earths Magnetic Field. 

As the Plasma Particles slowly accelerate towards Earth, the Nitrogen and Oxygen in the Atmosphere release into Energy and form into spectacular Aurora Lights. Our Task Is to Create Our Own Light Art Work. Our First Step was to get some White Paper and rip out multiple shapes of Hills/Mountains. Next, We Stuck our Stencil onto the Black Paper and applied Specs of White Paint to symbolise the Stars in the Milky Way. Next, we had to apply Chalk Pastels which are Very Fragile and we used our finger to swipe up the Chalk so it gives a Southern Light Effect. Lastly, We had to use the back of a Paint Brush and choose a Colour (White) and then add Seven Stars making Matariki the biggest and her Six Children together in a Cluster. Have you Created Your Own Aurora Australis Art Work Before using these similar Objects?

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Global Warming (Pollution)

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Task For Inquiry Involves Us Finishing Our Global Issue Artwork. For My Global Issue Art, I completed my Pollution which is Two Worlds. One side of my world demonstrates he beautiful Land and Environmental Spaces we have and the Animals, and on the other side is our World in the future that is burning Fossil Fuels and Gasses and there is Pollution that has dispersed everywhere. With the final outcome of my piece of Art I really like the Colours incorporated to this Design with also many additional features which make it look very intricate. After finishing Painting, I have had to complete my Blurb of what my piece of Art is and why I chose this. For the Final Term Art Production, my Teacher has created a Virtual Gallery which is in various sections of different Global Issues. The Virtual Gallery will be easy to navigate and walk around looking at every Students Art Piece this Term. Usually, we would have an Assembly and Caregivers would come in and look at what we have been focusing on, although as of COVID - 19 we were unable to do so. If you were to choose a Global Issue, what would comprise you Art Work and what would be meaningful about it?

Working Backwards Strategy (MatheMatics)

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Task In Numeracy We Have Been Learning A Working Backwards Strategy. The Strategy of Working Backwards is used to Solve Problems, For Example, to make it easier for you, you should write the Steps down. Start with the end of a problem, and work Step By Step toward the beginning to get a Solution, Write down each step as you get closer to figuring out the Problem, And Finally, The last Step will Verify that the Method Works and then you should get the Answer. Also If we were to Subtract a Number we would add, If I Multiplied a Number we would Divide If I Divided we would Subtract so this is Reversed. 

Todays Task, I Was Informed to Create my own Word Problem Solving Question and then apprise people of how to work it out and the Steps. Here is the Following Word Problem I Created - There was a Dancing Competition, 10 Minutes Later 14 People Left because they found the Following Dances To Complicated, 15 Minutes Later 3 People were eliminated from not following the Steps Correctly, 30 Minutes Later Once the Judges Made Results 7 People were voted off the Competition. And Lastly, the Judges and Group decided to Gain 3 More experienced Dances to Join the Team, How Many People Signed Up For The Competition Firstly? 

Wizard Of Oz Website

Hello Bloggers, A Couple Of Weeks Ago I Finished My "Wonderful Wizard Of Oz" Essay Website. I worked presumably Hard in order to have it Finished and to try and award myself a Great Essay Mark. Throughout My Essay, I included an Introduction and I discussed the Key Themes, Symbols, Character Traits and also for extra, I completed a Sub Genre about the Antagonist and Protagonist also to finish off my Website an Analysis and Summary. Before creating a Website we had many different Work Shops and Creativity Task about the Wizard Of Oz so we have various Notes to take in from our Lessons. From everything I learnt throughout the Term, I gained so much knowledge about it and even the Long Lasting Back Story behind it. 

Our next Task we will be focusing on for Next Term is a Video Essay on a Specific Genre of our choice, my option was Horror. Throughout my Video Essay, I will include the Texas Format (T - Topic Sentence, E - Evidence, X - Example,  A - Analysis, S - Summary) Within this, I will include many quick Videos and explain what Horror is, Examples, Evidence, What makes it a Horror Genre and many more. Please press the Link down Below to read my Wizard Of Oz Essay and take your time when reading. Something to think about when Reading this is gathering different thoughts in your head about the multiple scenarios and events that are happening within the Genre and think about the Elements, Conventions, Quotes, and Cliches. What have you been learning this Term within English (Literacy) Reading and Writing?

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