English Hunt for the wilderpeople

26/10/18, Friday

In English, We are learning to think critically to identify and describe the key aspects of a visual text.

I made a slideshow about film techniques used in the film, here are some of the film techniques.

High angle- A high-angle shot is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle.

Close up- A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object.

Longshot- In the film, a view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes.

9Tech Mu torere

19/10/18, October

Mū tōrere is played on papa takaro, or game boards, or can be inscribed into clay or sand. The board is in the form of an eight-pointed star with endpoints, called kewai, connected to the centre point, or pūtahi. The lines connecting the kewai to the pūtahi are oriented at 45 degrees.

Each player controls four counters, or perepere, which are initially placed on the board at the kewai. At the beginning of the game, the pūtahi is empty.

Players move one of their counters per turn to an empty point. Players can move only to an adjacent kewai and can move to the pūtahi only when the moved counter is adjacent to an opponent's counter. The player who blocks all the opponent's counters from moving is the winner.

9Sp music reflection

21/08/18, Friday

- I learned about making a jingle, making beats for the jingle. We took the lyrics and changed it a little bit to fit the beat of the song more after that we sang it all over again until we perfect all of the lyrics and beats.

- The challenges we faced are the beats of the music being too late and the song being too slow for teh words we overcome the challenge by working together and making the beat faster so teh video can last only 30 seconds, when we can't speed up the beat anymore we decided to just edit the song and make it faster.

- What we will do differently next time is work faster and work out the songs faster, because we can't make a beat with only half of the lyrics and the people who were making the lyrics are working too slow so maybe we can work with them and help them out more.

- The highlight of the process for me is shooting the videos for the ad because it's so fun and we can go around places and we can have some fun while shooting the videos.  It's really fun and we can really bring out our ideas while doing the shooting.

- I was hoping we will learn about instruments and how to read the music sheets in music next because it will be really interesting and we can learn more about instruments and it will be really great if I can learn an instrument. I also want to learn the music sheets because I can play the instrument without having trouble on finding tutorials.

Growing Seeds

17/09/18, Monday

Aim: To look at the different growing conditions and how these affect the growth of seeds.

Method:

We worked in groups of 3-4 students.
Potting mix was put into the cups.
The cups were plated with Beans seeds.
Each cup had a different growing condition:

Cup 1- Normal
Cup 2- Red Cellophane
Cup 3 - Over watered
Cup 4 - Blue Cellophane
Cup 5- Clear Cellophane


The plant grew in their cups for 10 days before they were measured.

Findings:

Plant growing Condition	Height after 10 days (10mm)
Normal	76 mm
Clear cellophane	59 mm
Red cellophane	80 mm
Overwater	38 mm
Blue Cellophane	24 mm

The normal seedling was planted in the normal potting mix and grew to a height of 76 mm.

The green cellophane seedling was planted in the normal potting mix, covered in green cellophane and watered. It grew to a height of 24 mm. The red cellophane seedling was planted in the normal potting mix to a height of 80 mm. The overwatered seedling was planted in the normal potting mix, the water could not drain out the bottom of the pot and it grew to a height of 38 mm.

Conclusion:

From the pictures and evidence, we can conclude that:

The seedling height was:

1.76 mm

2.80 mm

3.38 mm

4.24 mm

The best growing conditions were:

1.80 mm

2.76 mm

3.59 mm

4.38 mm

therefore the seedling with The best conditions grew to a height of 80 mm.

Photos:

9HEE learning reflection

13/09/18, Thursday

Whare Tapa Wha is about the four cornerstones of well being and it helps us cope with depression and live a happy life with no complaints. This is useful to understand because it helps us with what to cope with and it also helps us with what to take care of using the four walls.

I participated okay. I contributed by doing the taha whanau definition and writing examples for it. Next time I will participate more and help with building the house.


It was challenging when I need to find examples for the social well being and trying to find definitions for it. I coped with the challenge by working hard to find it and using my own examples of what social well being is. I worked well with others because I like working with others and we respect each other opinions. Next time I will say my opinion more and give more ideas to my group.

English traditional tales

05/09/18, Wednesday

  In English, we made things like presentations, static images, Quizzes. We made this to tell the stories we picked using a matrix.

One of the stories I picked is about Alibaba and the forty-thieves I made a Quiz on Kahoot using the story of Alibaba, I made them based on the happenings of the story. I got the Alibaba and the forty-thieves from the Arabian Nights, Arabian Nights is about a girl who constantly tells stories every night she continues the pattern for 1001. Arabian Nights are also called 1001 nights since the girl tells stories for 1001 nights.

 The second one I made is about The boy who cried wolf I made a static image of it and I wrote all the things I used such as the colours included and what the story is about. The boy who cried wolf is a fable and it's written by Aesop and fables are mostly about animals that can act and talk like a human. The boy who cried wolf is about a shepherd boy who lies by shouting wolf and the people rushing towards him to help him get the wolf away but one day a real wolf came and the shepherd shouted again but no one came, an old man went to him and said that "no one will believe a liar even if he's telling the truth".

9HEE Blogging

LO: Communicate what you have learnt and how you will apply what you know to the year 9 Business Kete...


What did you learn about?
 I learnt about problem-solving strategies, one of them is Joint problem-solving (JPS)- "Taking small steps together" and we also learned positive thoughts, thought challengers and negative thoughts when you have negative thoughts you need to think of thought challengers and that will give you positive thoughts.

When discussing "Thought Challenges" what did you notice about yourself?
When I think I often react Positively or Negatively
However, I can use thought challengers, for example when I have a problem like when someone is ignoring me or is talking bad about me I can always think about positive thoughts where maybe they have a problem and they just can't talk about it to others

What solutions can you try when you face a challenge during the Business & Enterprise kete? Give an example

During the business and enterprise kete, I will be able to overcome challenges by using resilience for example when no one is buying in our stall we can always try new ideas and not give up until we get buyers.

Can you redesign the coping