Convection: Stop Motion

 Hi everyone! Welcome to another post today for science we learned about Convection and Conduction. Convections happens when the heat is transferred by the movement of liquid or gas and Conduction happens when heat passes through a material. After learning about there purposes we then had to create a stop motion about convection or conduction. For this activity, we were allowed to work in pair so my friend and I chose to do convection. We used google slides to create stop motion, so you will need to go through the slides at a fast pace. Enjoy watching our stop motion!

            

Business and Enterprise

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. For the past 4 weeks, we have been learning about business and enterprise and working towards making a profit on market day. We had a total of 4 weeks to prepare and learn about how to handle a business, make a profit and create sales. On Wednesday the 23rd of September, we had our official market day, where people from the community and other schools bought goods and services from our business. The next day, 24th September, we were given a task where we had to create a blog post about business, enterprise, and market day. For market day my group created Filipino delicacies, Coffee Jelly and Leche Flan. 

Business and Enterprise

Week 1: During the first week of Business and Enterprise, we were introduced to the topic and guest speakers told us about their business, how they work and how they managed to to get to where they are now. During our Wananga class, we learned more about the topic and got to create our groups. We only were allowed to have 4 people in our group and they each had a role. The CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Marketing Manager, Production Manager and Sales/Finance Manager. 

Week 2: During the second week we started on our business plans, and another round of guest speakers were introduced to us. Our group was split up and we were allocated a place where a guest speaker would talk about our role in the business. I was CEO so I had to be in a group with all the CEOs. We also started our Financial Report. We also did our letter of application to give to our teacher so that they can accept our company. 

Week 3: We started our poster for the front of our stall, we then started or marketing, like creating our logos, a slide presentation to be shown to the school and the community and lastly a poster for our stall. We did that for the rest of the week since our topic was food and our production starts on the fourth week. 

Week 4: Week 4 was the week of the market day, so we only had 2 days to fully create both of our products. On Monday we created our Jelly for our Coffee Jelly and on Tuesday we completed making the Leche Flan and Coffee Jelly. Then on Wednesday 23rd September, we had our Market day. 

Market Day

On the morning of the market day we all were busy trying to create our foods and set up our stalls outside this was between 8:40 to 9:30. At 10 we took out our products and displayed them on our table. Market Day officially started at 10:30 am, our stall had many people that bought coffee jelly and we had sold out of it really early, and near the middle of the market day we sold out our flans and people bought 2 flans with meringue for $2.00, which I thought was a very good deal. We also had a dj during market day, which I thought was very convenient. 

Instrument Evaluation

1. What have you studied in Music this term?
I have studied piano, guitar and ukulele. For the piano, we learned some beginner and advanced songs, which I enjoyed a lot. In guitar, we also had to learn a song and it was very enjoyable for me. For ukulele, we studied an easy song that I liked very much.

2. Which instrument have you enjoyed and why?
I enjoyed learning all of the instruments, but the instrument I liked learning the ost would be the piano. Because I have learned piano before and it was easy for me to learn the chords and how both hand flow together.

3. Which instrument did you find the most challenging and why?
I found the guitar the hardest because my hands couldn't reach the corrects chords properly.

4. Which instrument are you going to focus on for the rest of the term and why? What would you like to achieve?
I am going to do the piano for the rest of the term because I enjoy playing the piano. I would like to finish learning a classical piece.

Ukulele Reflections

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today we have completed learning a song for the ukulele and after that, we then are starting to learn the guitar. But before that, we had to answer some questions about the ukulele and our experience with it.

1. Describe your study of ukulele, have you enjoyed it? Found it hard/easy?

It was very fun to learn about the ukulele, especially because I knew how to play some chords on it. I found it easy to learn because I already knew how to play the ukulele before.

2. Where is the ukulele from? Where was It formed? by who?

The ukulele is from Hawaii, but it first originated in Europe and then it was introduced to Hawaii. It was believed that Manuel Nunes was one of the creators of the Hawaiin ukulele.

3. Add a labelled picture of the ukulele:

4. Which song have you been learning?

Bruno Mars - Just the Way you are

Photmontage

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today we have completed learning about photomontage and its history. Our learning objective for this topic of photography is to understand more about photomontage and use it to create some art.

From Hannah Hӧch work, I learned that photomontage doesn't have to be clean, precise or neat, it's just as if a bunch of photos overlapped and attached together to create a piece of artwork. Which I found very enjoyable because you take any photo or words to create some artwork. 

When we're creating our photomontages, it was very challenging for me because it didn't know where to put my selected images in and whether I have layered too many photos into one image. I learned a lot from this and after many days of practice, I created my final 3 pieces that I am very proud of.

This picture represents disaster and what humans do to make Earth more inhabitable. Starting from the bottom we can see lava and an umbrella,  I used these two images to create a link. because lava is hot, an umbrella is made either out of plastic or nylon. If these two were to mix it would create a fire. Moving up there is an owl, I used an owl to show how animals are getting caught up in our activities and how we are harming them.

Moving up I have a placed a lighthouse and cut it in half and put a smoke between it. I did this to show what we do and how it damages man-made structures. 

- This relates to me because I care about our environment and I do not want to destroy it, I want our environment to be healthy so that we could keep on living and prevent endangering animals. 

This montage I made was created with pure randomness, I didn't really know what to do so I decided to design a person. This entire picture represents modern life and it shows how a person might dress themselves up. 

- This doesn't relate to me in any way, but I thought it would be really fun to design a person that portrays some traits of the modern society. 

This montage represents noble society and how tough it is to live like a noble. At the back is a cropped picture of a map, that represents the land and citizens. Onto the main objective is a statue of a man. The body face and neck of the man is arranged so it shows how someone of noble background can be so different. The head and mouth represent something different, for example, perhaps a person might be complimenting someone but in their head, they might be insulting them. Moving on to the tray with the fan and eye, it represents the people that work for them and society. The tray with the fan shows that a servants job is to serve their master. Lastly, the eye on the fan represents the watchful eyes of society and how a scandal can mess up your reputation. 

- This doesn't relate to me in any way, I was just very inspired by a book that had a theme of noble society and tragedy. 

Reflection: In my opinion, I think I did a decent job creating a photomontage especially because I struggled a lot in the begin and I didn't know where to put images and how to arrange them to make them more meaningful. But for the past few weeks, I practised and experimented with different images and arrangements, which all helped toward creating these 3 photomontages. 

Sources: 

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Question: If you were able to create a photomontage what meaning would it have behind it? And how does it connect to you or your culture?

Particle Theory and Diffusion

Hi, everyone! Welcome to another post. Today for science we have begun learning about particle theory and diffusion. We first learned about what matter is and how both of these topics relate to matter. After that, we learned what particle theory and diffusion is.

Particles 

Particle Theory: Particle Theory is a theory which explains the changes of properties in different states of matter.

• All matter is made up of particles.
• All particles in a pure substance are the same.
• There is space between all particles.
• Particles are always moving.
• There are attractive forces between particles.
• Temperature affects the speed at which particles move. 

Diffusion: Diffusions is when particles move from an area that has high concentrations to an area of  low concentration 

Today we are going to do an experiment on diffusion. 

Our Aim: To investigate the effect of temperature on the rate of diffusion. 

Hypothesis: I think that hot water will diffuse faster than cold water because I think that hot water particles are more likely to spread out rapidly. 

Method:

1. Put warm water and cold water into a cylinder cup with a wide base of the same size. The containers have to be the same size.
2. Get some KMn04 ( Potassium Permanganate) 
3. Put the KMn04 in both the warm water and cold water. - They have to be the same amount. 

Conclusion: 

In the end, warm water had made the KMn04 spread out faster than the cold water. The warm water was faster than the cold water because the warm water has more energy. This is also because the particles are moving fast to spread the liquid. 

Week 6 Reflection

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post! Today is Friday, so we have to do our weekly reflections. This week I decided to do a post about "This week I felt a sense of belonging when:".

• During hurumanu 1 people who were finished with their work were given free time and we played games and it made me feel very warm. 
• At music, we were learning how to play a song on the ukulele together with the whole class and it was very enjoyable. 
• During P.E we were playing korfball we were trying to shoot the ball but we couldn't so we just kept playing and it was very funny and delightful at the same time. 

30sec Self Directed Film - Film Study

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. Recently for film study, we were, appointed with a task where we had to create a film. There were some requirements for making this film. The final product should be no longer than 35 secs, no shorter than 30 secs, any music used has to be free, the film has to include multiple camera shots/angles and the finished product should have an understandable plot.

Process:
We first had to choose what our film is going to be about. We chose to do a horror film where a group member would retrieve a kicked ball from a bush. After choosing our topic, we then had to create a storyboard showing our plan for our film. After that, we then recorded our film and afterwards, we then finished filming and started editing our video.

Reflection Questions

1. What was your film about?

Our film was about someone retrieving a ball in a bush. 

2. Something I enjoyed in making my film...?

I enjoyed filming in the bushes and creating a creepy atmosphere in the film.

3. Something I learned when making my film...?

I learned how to put multiple videos down together and put music together to create a film.

4. Some film techniques I included were...?

Close up, Low Angle, Point of View, Medium Long shot and Over the Shoulder.

5. Something I found challenging was...?

I found it challenging to edit the video because it was hard to time the video. 

6. What I would differently next time:

Next time I would include more interesting music and show more of the theme in the film.

Sustainability Project

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post today,  my group and I have completed our last assignment for our Sustainability assignment. This last project was more enjoyable rather than the two other tasks because in this task we had the choice to either create a game (digital or physical), write a story and many other things that can show a topic of sustainability. My group and I decided to create a game, we were inspired by the game cops and robbers. After writing all our rules out we also had to keep a log of our progress.

17/8 - P4&5	20/8 - P3&4	24/8 - P4&5
Goal  Brainstorm, what should we do? Topic?  By the end of the day: We finished planning and discussing the rules of the game.  Topic: Pollution/Sustainability Project: Physical game - Sustainability	Goal Finish Writing our Rules  Finish writing what each role is meant to do. By the end of the Day:, We finished writing the rules and roles of the game.	Goal Finish blog post  By the end of the day: Finished a blog post - Needs to be published -

Topic: Pollution

<<<Title: Seeds, Planters and the Polluters>>> 

There are three teams in this game - The Planters, Seedlings and the Polluters.

3 - 4 Planters

2 - 3 Polluters

The rest of the remaining of the class are seedlings 

Main Objective: Catch all the seedlings and turn them into whatever role has the most seedlings. 

How to start the game

The seedlings are given time to hide at the beginning of the game. After a minute or so
the planters are released, they have to find the seedlings. A few seconds after the planters are
released, the polluters will be released, and they have to find the seedlings. 

- Note: YOU´RE NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO THE OTHER TEAM’S JAIL/GARDEN AND GET THE SEEDLINGS, ONLY THE SEEDLINGS ARE ALLOWED TO GET THEM!)  DON'T PRETEND TO BE ONE OF THE SEEDLINGS. PLEASE DO NOT CHEAT!

Rules:
- The taggers ( planters and polluters ) are not allowed to just barge in a prison and steal the seedlings.
- No Cheating
- The seedlings are the only one allowed to get/tag other seedlings from jail.

~Roles~

• Seedlings: Their main objective is to hide from both the planters and the polluters. If a planter tags them they are then taken to the planters prison where a planter will be stationed too. A seedling can get out of their prison/garden when another seedling has tagged them. The same happens with the polluters. Except when the seedlings are there for more than 3 minutes they become a polluter.

• Planters: Their main objective is to catch as many seedlings as they can. One of them has to guard the jail, and they have to be at least 2 metres away from the prison. The others have to try and tag all of the seedlings and bring them to their garden.

• Polluters: Their main objective is to catch all of the seedlings and turn them into polluters. The polluters also have a prison of their own where a guard will be stationed, and they to be at least 2 metres away from the prison 

<<< Prison/Gardens >>>

The prison for the planters is called a garden because a planter is a positive role so their prison
should be positive too. In their garden, one planter can be stationed in front of the garden but
they have to be at least 2 metres away from the garden. If they tag a seedling and the seedling
is still in their 

The prison for the polluters is called a prison because a polluter is a negative role. When a
seedling is captured and put into the prison there is a high chance that they can turn into a
polluter. If they are still in prison for 3 minutes then they are now polluters and will help them
capture other seedlings. The polluter can also have a guard stand by the prison, but they
have to be at least 2 metres away from it.

When a seedling is captured in any of these prisons, they can get the captured seedling back.
To do that they need to risk their lives and try to get into each tagger's prisons and tag the
seedling so they could get out.

Graphics:

1. Kahui / Plan 1

 

2. Field / Plan 2

Week 5 Reflections

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. It is Friday today, so we have to do our weekly reflections. I wasn't at school for three days last week, because I had injured my foot, so there weren't many things to write on week 4 reflections. So this week I attended all week and tried to walk on my right foot. 

This week I noticed my feelings and emotions was:

• I also felt very lethargic because I couldn't walk well with my right foot and it was hard to walk to classes on time, but luckily I arrived on time. 
• I was very lazy and slow this week. I don't really know why because I slept very early and then I felt very sleepy in the afternoon, which was unusual because by the afternoon I would be very energetic. 

Week 4 Reflections

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. It is Friday today, although I am not at school today I still have to do my reflections.

This week I felt affirmed in my unique identity when:

• A needle went inside my food and I was very scared because it felt very long and I was very scared but I didn't scream or cry, which I am very proud of. 
• I screamed at my sister and she screamed back at me and then we screamed together and then we got ice cream. 

The Piano

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post! For music, we are nearing the end to our piano/keyboard course, so we will be having an assessment. But before we need to answer some questions about the piano.

1: Where was the Piano invented and by who?
The piano was invented in Italy and by Bartolomeo Cristofori.

2: What did the first Piano look like?


3: What is the difference between a Piano and Keyboard?
The piano is an acoustic instrument and the keyboard is a digital instrument that needs energy.

4: What have you enjoyed about learning the piano/keyboard? What have you found challenging?
Learning new music was a very fun thing to do. I found it challenging to sync my right hand with my left hand.

Sustainability Investigation

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I finished another post about the sustainability projects we have been doing for the past few weeks. For this task, we had to do a sustainability inquiry where we search for a topic of sustainability and do a research inquiry about it. My group and I decided to do an inquiry about how many animals have been threatened off existence in the past 2 decades.

We first collected data on animals that have been threatened over the 2 decades and we then used a spreadsheet to create a graph of the data we have collected.

Graphs: