2019 School Wrap Up! (Term 1)

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I would like to acknowledge all the activities, teachers and events that happened this year at our school. This year has been like a roller coaster, there has been some ups and downs. But those times are what makes this year one of the best. At school, many fun and exciting events and activities happened. Soo... What do you say? Shall we get started?

(I also decided to cut these into 4 halves as I think one post with all this information in it would be too long.)

Term 1: Hurumanu, Technology & Japanese 

In term 1, personally, it was one of the hardest terms because there were many tests. But we got through it and me happy because we did a lot of cool things that term. 

In that term we were also introduced to 'Hurumanu' in Hurumanu we did all sorts of activities, like learning about sports and how to code. My favourite out of the two was learning about sports and that hurumanu was called 'Fast and Furtherest'. I really liked what they called it because it was so catchy and it really brought us it.

In that hururmanu, we learned about softball, continuous cricket and how to improve our skill in athletics. While that was running we also did another hurumanu and that was Digital Change. In that, we used our coding skill to make a change/inform about the climate and some global issues. We had a choice to create an app or a game. For that a chose to make an app, I also made a post about it. Post

In that term, we also got to experience learning about some Japanese. I really liked learning about the Japanese because I got to learn about a new culture and it was really fun. Here are some posts of what we learned.

We also did a really cool technology subject and that was soft fabrics where we got to create things out of fabric. It was really fun and in the end, I made a funny-looking stuffed toy.

In that time we also had a student-teacher Mr Dale, he was a really cool teacher and he had a lot of skill. We also did a different CIP in the first terms, because we were working with 4 different classes and in the CIP we tried to clean the gardens at the back of our school. For the next 2-3 terms, a different class did them and I think they did a great job.

Spring Learning Journey: Food l Activity Six

Hi everyone welcome to another blog-post today I will be doing another activity to count for the spring learning journey. For this activity I had to create a google drawing of a food I haven't tried but would like to try and we have to explain why we want to eat that kind of food.

Japanese: Introduction

Hey everyone! Welcome to another post so today I will be revising some work from term 1. In term 1 we did some Japanese and I had forgotten to post some of the things I have learned. So if you want to learn some introductions and greetings. Please enjoy and learn something!

English	Japanese/Romaji
Good morning	Ohayougozaimasu おはようございます (o-ha-yo-go-zai-ma-s-u)  (Almost sound like se)
Good afternoon/Hello	Konnichiwa  こんにちは (Kon-ni-chi-wa0
Goodnight	Oyasumi nasai  おやすみなさい (o-ya-su-mi-na-sai)
Goodbye	Sayounara さようなら (sa-yo-na-ra_
See you tomorrow	Mata Ashita  またあした (Ma-ta-ash-ta)

Te Paint

Hello people! Today I am writing about what we did at Japanese last week, I know I should have done it last week. Anyways we did some calligraphy. What is calligraphy you may ask? Well here is what Google says:

'Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a broad tip instrument, brush or other writing instruments. A contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skilful manner"

Meaning writing letters in a fancy way. But for Japanese, we did Japanese calligraphy where you have to write a Japanese character in a fancy/artistic way. Anyways, here are some pictures of what I have drawn.

The paint we used for this was Indian paint, it is the paint that is used for calligraphy in modern days. In the old day's ink was in blocks, so to use the ink, you have to use water. So what they would do is put a little bit of water on a stone then rub the block on the stone to make the ink. Anyways that is all for now, Bye!

 

Meaning: Gold

 Meaning:Tree 

 Meaning: Soil, Earth 

Meaning (Left): Mother 

Meaning (Right): Water 

Karate CHOP!!

Hello people! In Japanese, we were given a task to research one of these cultural events in Japan (Children's Day, New Years Celebrations, Manami/Flower Viewing and The History of Karate). As you can see I have chosen The History of Karate, this interested me since I didn't know anything about Karate and where it originated from.

Anyways, pack your clothes and an extra pair of clean underwear, we are going on a trip back in time!

Karate a martial art developed in Okinawa/Ryukyu Kingdom, as a system of self-defence. It developed from the domestic Ryukyuan martial arts called Te 手 and Ti in Okinawan. It is certain that the Okinawan martial art was influenced by Chinese Kenpo/Kempo, the reason they were sure was that Okinawa had frequent contact and exchange with China. I as said it was certain that is because there were no formal contemporary written records, it is not certain when the art called Karate first emerged in Okinawa.

From the Aikido Center of Los Angeles Daily Message, is licensed under
cc-by-sa 4.0 

Though it is believed that it was developed roughly 500 years ago when the dynastic ruler king Shoha unified the region after decades of warfare.

Fast forward to 1868, a young boy was born his name was Gichin Funakoshi or Funakoshi Gichin, he is the main founder/inventor (as told) of Karate. He dedicated his whole life promoting the values of art and established the way of karate-jutsu to Japan, where it spread across the country. By 1949, his colleagues/followers had organised an association for the promotion of Karate, they called it Nihon Karate Kyokai or Japan Karate Association, JKA for short. But that was only the beginning.

MY BABY FROG!!!!

Hello wonderful people, yesterday we did Japanese and it was so fun we made origami and we learnt how to ask people where they lived in Japanese. These are some words we learnt:

The highlighted parts are the meaning of the Hiragana/Katakana. Can you see the pattern?

どこ に すんでいます か

Doko ni sunde imasu ka? 

Where do you live? 

クライストチャーチにすんでいます。

Kuraisochaachi ni sunde imasu.

I live in Christchurch.

とうきょう に すんでいます。

Toukyou ni sunde imasu.

I live in Tokyo 

オーストラリア に すんでいます。

Oosutoraria ni sunde imasu.

I live in Australia. 

日本

Nihon

Japan

ニュージーランド

Nyuujirando 

New Zealand

The two one of the left is actually a swan but I messed up so I turned it on its side. But both of the swan's paper's are from Japan.