HAUORA!

I am learning to write about what we did on the word "Hauora"

'Hauora' sounds like a really hard word but once you get into the habit of learning about it, you might think you've learned it since you were 5 years of age. On Wednesday our class talked about Hauora and people gave some ideas on what they thought it meant to them. I already knew what Hauora meant and I didn't want to spoil it for those who didn't know, I wanted them to learn it for themselves. 

There are four different types of walls in the "Te Whare Tapa Wha"  Mental Health, Spiritual Health, Emotional Health and Physical Health. Our teacher wrote each of these on a different paper and everyone had to contribute what it meant to them. There were loads of ideas and I was proud of my class for achieving this. Our school also made a movie about Hauora and what it means, this made it easier for me to understand the meaning of Hauora and now I look back and think to myself ' What if I didn't watch that movie?" 

You must always watch out for your body health's and know what can affect them, 

our task for this activity is to create a poem or rap about Hauora I think this is a really hard task because I might get stuck on some words. But I will never give up until the task is done.

I hope that I can complete the rap and soon publish it on my blog for the world to see.

 

IALT: Write about what we did on the word "Hauora"

Here is my reflection about Hauora. 

It may seem like a really hard word but it isn't. I have learnt what the word Hauora means from when I was 8 years old. I enjoyed saying some answers for my class to learn because I think it can help them and give them a better understanding of what Hauora means. Something that I find challenging is having to create a rap about Hauora. 

I hope I can finish the task and share it you you guys!

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Different Music Session

I am learning to write about our different Music session.

Today for Music it was completely different, and by different I mean way different. Well first off all we missed out 10 minutes of Music time because we were running in the hall ways and my teacher is strict about that because we might accidentally hit someone and injure them. So she caught us panting heavily and she told us not to run again and in the end she ended up walking us down to Music.

 Instead of going down to Music as a class we went in different groups depending on what we chose to do for Music. There were 5 groups and I chose to do 'Digital'. Caleb, our music teacher told my whole class that the category Digital is doing simple DJ and matching beating. I was interested in this and I soon signed up for it. Today was our first practise and we talked about how Music was shared, way back in 10,000 BC (According to Caleb) Music was shared in a different way. 

"You guy's picked the hardest group, if it's hard it's going to be more fun" said Caleb. I didn't have second thought because I had already committed to staying in this group. 

Caleb also talked about how Thomas Edison created a disk that could hold songs. I was fascinated by this fact because I thought Thomas Edison was only the inventor of the light bulb, but I guess I was wrong. We talked about different websites that could be used to create Music, I was familiar with some of them like Garage Band and Sound Trap. I didn't know what we were going to do until Caleb told us to open our netbooks and log onto Sound Trap. I already had an account of course, and soon he told us how to match beat in a loop. 

Everyone didn't know what he was talking about at first, but when he showed us I jumped straight into it! There were different beats and I didn't know which one to pick, but as I scanned through the available options Caleb said we almost had a few minutes left. I was eager to find a beat so I just skimmed and scanned until I found the perfect beat. As I went to click it time was up, I knew I didn't click it but I didn't mind because I could still work on it when I got back up to class.

For Music next week I hope that I can follow the rules and be able to walk down to Music myself without anyone telling me off. 

IALT: Write a reflection about my Music experience.

'Today for Music it was completely different, and by different I mean way different'

Something I enjoyed about Music this week was being able to learn about how Music was shared around the world back in the olden days. Something I found challenging was being able to manage myself while coming back upto class. I hope next week I don't get called back and get taken down to Music by our teacher.

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Weekend Reflection

IALT: Reflect on what I did during the long weekends.

After school on Friday I went home and got ready to go to my grandads home. It didn’t take me that long to get home but I was relieved when I finally opened the door of my house. I ran up the stairs had a shower and then packed my clothes, my brother was coming with me too. It didn’t take us long to get ready but soon we were on our way, when we reached grandad’s I sat down and watched T.V while my brother went up to the front house.

Some of the films that were on were mostly about crime and war, for me I think those kind of genre’s are very interesting. Meanwhile, my brother and cousins were playing outside, I couldn’t stay inside no more so I went outside and started playing with them, the sad thing was that it was getting dark and we would have to go sleep. And then there I was tucked in bed watching T.V again, at most times I go to sleep at 11:00pm but I fell asleep with the T.V still on.

The next morning I woke up and went up to the front house, my aunt was getting ready for a wedding one of her cousins was getting married. I was about to go with her but she said she was going with my uncle, I didn’t care too much because the wedding started at 11:00am and would finish at 5:00pm. The time was ticking fast, my aunt was getting ready and some of my cousins were still sleeping. So I went down to the backhouse and turned the T.V on again. It wasn’t long until my aunt left, that meant that all the kids were home alone with grandad.

After my aunt left it was boring so all the kids decided to go outside and play. I didn’t know what to play so I just shot some hoops, I’m pretty good but sometimes I shoot off target. I looked at the time 11:30am, I was still a long time until the wedding finished so I continued shooting hoops… 30 minutes had passed and then I heard the phone ring, it was my uncle he told us all to get ready to go somewhere. I told everyone and we all got ready just before my uncle arrived.

He arrived and we got into the car and drove off, we stopped at the Botanic Gardens in Manurewa. I already knew what it was, we just watched some dinosaurs, fake dinosaurs of course. The show wasn’t too long but it was humid. So my uncle decided that we would go to Mission Bay to have lunch there. When we got there we unpacked and I went straight to the flying fox, when you look at it, it looks scary but when you actually ride it, it’s not too bad. But then we has to go home, I agreed with my uncle because I was getting tired. So we drove off back to grandads house, I didn’t bother to unpack so I fell into a deep sleep.

Here is my weekend reflection, I know that today is Friday and it's almost the next week but I didn't know I could blog until I actually tried. This task wasn't too hard but when I had to remember what I done on the weekend it was kind of challenging my mind to think harder. Something I found challenging during this task was just stopping to think and something I enjoyed during this task was writing about it because I really did have a great time with my relatives on the weekend.

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First Technology Reflection for 2017!

WALT: Reflect on our first session at Technology.

I am back! Here is my first post for 2017 and it's about Technology. 

I was really pleased to be in Mr Grundy's class because I wanted to find out what we're doing for this term. It turned out to be wood work and creating things out of wood. I'm looking forward to what Mr Grundy has in plan for next week.

But until then please leave a comment and thank you for having the time to read my reflection!

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John Key's Eight Year Comes To An End

I am learning to reflect on Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key resigning! 

Prime Minister of New Zealand and National Party Leader John Key has announced his resignation! His eight-year domination over New Zealand has come to a dramatic ending. Within a weeks time New Zealand will have a new Prime Minister most likely to be Key's deputy, Bill English. English has known since September of Key's stand down, giving him a lot of time to plan on the major job in front of him.

Paula Bennett, Amy Adams and Judith Collins, are all potential contenders for the potential spot as PM. The National Party will meet next Monday to select a replacement as leader. 

Key has resigned because of family reasons, he said he has made 'significant sacrifices' during his time in politics. His children Max and Stephanie are dealing with 'an extraordinary level of intrusion' 

Key states; "For my wife Bronagh, there have been many weekends and nights spent along, many occasions that were important to her that I simply could not attend" Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gushed in his praise of Key saying he would be a great loss to New Zealand and a great loss to the world.

Overall, I didn't like John Key from the start we was PM of New Zealand. My family don't like him so I stick with my family. This is just like the election of the new President of America but different. I think it will be better to see another person take the spot, now that it is on the news I am beginning to go with why he resigned, he resigned because he hasn't been spending enough time with his family, being PM is a really huge job because you have to go here and there. If I were PM I would do the same thing because family is everything.

Bill English looks like a good person to be the new PM, he is the finance minister, but he has some rivals competing for the spot. I will miss John Key a little.... 

Here is my other tasks for this morning. It's said to hear John Key resigning, but also good at the same time because Bill English is the most likely to become the new PM of NZ. 

Bill English should be a great PM, be if he isn't.... I found writing about his situation a pleasure because this is a really big thing! 

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John Key Steps Down As Prime Minister

WALT: Write about John Key stepping down as PM.

Here is one of my Reading tasks for this morning, it's about John Key stepping down as PM of New Zealand, I think this is a really dramatic situation but it will be good to see another PM take the spot as PM. I will be blogging another task very soon, and it states my opinion. I enjoyed researching information about this situation because John Key is stepping down. I found writing 50 words a challenge because I couldn't go over 50 words.

What is your opinion?

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Origins Of Christmas Songs.

This morning my class and I were given a task from our teacher Ms Komor to research 3-5 different CHRISTMAS songs and search where they originate from. The 5 songs that I have chosen is "Jingle Bells" "Feliz Navidad" "All I Want For Christmas Is You" "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" I chose these songs because I know them well and some I know off by heart. My favourite song out of this is probably "Jingle Bells" because I sang this song at a young age. 

I was also given the activity to search 4 countries that celebrate Christmas differently. The countries that I have chosen is Serbia, Spain, Australia and India. Serbia have their own special tradition, they tie up their father and mother and their parents have to give them money to get them freed. Spain celebrate Christmas by getting a cheeky addition in the form of a character called the 'caganer.' Australia's tradition has it that Father Christmas swaps his reindeer for 'six white boomers' or kangaroos. 

India celebrate Christmas by decorating Mango Tree's, they also use Mango leaves and decorate their homes with the leaves. Did you know that.... Each year more than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent in the U.S alone? The Germans made the first artificial Christmas trees out of dyed goose feathers? Christmas trees have been sold in the U.S since 1850? Christmas trees usually grow for about 15 years before they get sold? Oklahoma was the last U.S state to declare Christmas a legal holiday, in 1907? Christmas wasn't declared an official holiday in the United state until June 26, 1870? Alabama was the first state in the United States to officially recognize Christmas in 1836? All these facts are really interesting and some of them I didn't even know about. 

Out of these seven the one I think is the most interesting to me is that Christmas trees grow for about 15 years before they get sold! Many people buy Christmas trees and I think they don't even know how old they are. Overall, I think that this research really got my mind thinking and now I am ready for more research on Christmas. My family celebrate Christmas this year by going to church as Christmas is on a Sunday. Christmas marks the birth of Jesus, our saviour and redeemer. Something that I enjoyed was researching the different Christmas songs and finding out the meaning of the lyrics. 

Something that I found challenging was some of the lyrics of the songs because I used my own brain to figure out the meaning. My next steps in learning is to use my brain more often and search up more sites to find out the answer. I think we have Christmas Songs to feel the spirit and joy of celebrating Christmas, Music is my motivation and without Music I would be stuck. Many Christmas songs were published a long time ago but people today still listen to them. Christmas carols are always something that I look out for! 

Thanks for having the time to read my work for today! Feel free to leave a comment! Many thanks!