P.E Hurumanu

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for PE hurumanu. We had three things to do today. The first thing we had to do was take our resting heart rate. A resting heart rate is when you take your pulse while sitting down. You cannot take your resting heart rate once you have done exercise.

The second thing we had to do was take the agility test. We were given a picture on how to do the agility test and our teacher told us how to set it up. This is the picture that was given to us...


The third thing we had to do was the 30 metre sprint, we went onto the tennis court and got ready to do the sprint in my group we had Jessica and well me. For this task one of us had to have a stop watch open on our chrome book and the other had to get ready to sprint. The person with the chrome book would go to the opposite end of the court. The person who was running would stay were they were. When the teacher said go the people that were doing the 30 metre sprint would run and the person with the stop watch would start the timer as soon as the sprinter got to were the person with the stopwatch was they would stop it and give the sprinter their time. 

My resting heart rate was 80. The time it took me to complete the agility test was 16.3 seconds. Last of all the 30 metre sprint took me 17 seconds to complete. 

The reason why we are learning this is to see if what they are teaching us is improving what we are doing.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post.

Reading Week 7

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be answering questions based off of the story I have been reading called "Badge Of Honour". 

What is the problem in the story? 
There are four school captains Fai, Isaac,Tomasi and Jess and after school Tomasi fight's people and Isaac doesn't know whether to tell the teacher or be a loyal friend and different people are pressuring him to do different things.

What lesson does this story teach? 
To always do the right thing even if there is a possibility no one will find out. There is also another lesson to do what you think is right not what someone else thinks is right.

What lesson did the character learn?
Fai learnt to always do the right thing were Tomasi might or might not have learnt to do the right thing. Isaac also learnt to do the right thing but since we didn't get to see his answer I have limited things I can say. Jess wasn't a big part of the story she barely was there so I really don't know what Jess learnt.

Do you connect with any of the characters? 
Yes, Because when I was younger I remember being put in a situation like the situation Isaac is in, the two options were to defend my friend and lie and say she didn't do anything or tell the teacher the truth and possibly lose a close friend. In what way ?
As I said in answering the other question I had to choose between my friend or the teacher and I was torn I didn't know what to do.

For the next task I was given an option of what to do I chose to rank the story from 1-5 5 being the story was amazing I would change nothing in it to 1 being it was horrible I hated it.

I gave the story Badge Of Honour a solid three because I hated that it didn't tell you what he did like if he chose his friend or telling the truth and I hated that part because it limited my answers to some of the question for instance the question were it asks what lesson did the character learn.

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Badge Of Hounor

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. Today's blog post is going to be about what we have been doing for reading and doing activities that revolve around the story we read. The task that I will be doing is asking five questions based off of the story to test if the person has actually read the story. Here are the questions.......

What does Tomasi end up doing ?

Did Fai want Isaac to tell the teacher or cover for his friend ?

Is Tomasi the good or bad friend ?

What happened at the end of the story ?

Why did Tomasi leave Isaac ?


Do you think these are good questions ??

Haiku

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post in this blog post I am going to be writing a haiku poem. A haiku poem is a traditional Japanese poem which use to have to be about nature but know it has a variety of topics it can be about.

Here is my haiku poem.....

The water shined gracefully
It looked like it was dancing
It then disappeared.

I hope you enjoyed and liked reading my poem.

Badge Of Honour

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post today's blog post is going to be about the story I have read called "Badge Of Honour". For this task we were asked to answer questions based off of the story we had read.

Describe Isaac's personality.
Isaac is really down to earth and doesn't like lying to people but at the same time he is trying to make sure his friends don't get into trouble, to the point where he might lie to people to protect his friends.

Who are the school captains and how do they feel about the role ?
The female school captains are Fai Tuima and Jess Hutton where as the male school captains are Tomasi Tesi and Isaac Lauofo. I am guessing that they feel very proud of themselves for achieving such things and they are feeling excited for what is to come, at least some of them feel that way other's feel that they are going to be given to many tasks and that they will constantly be buried in responsibilities.

What impression does the author want to give off of Tomasi ?
The author was trying to make Tomasi seem like a bad kid who get's in trouble and also trys to drag his friend/s down with him to support my idea at the end of the story Tomasi asks Isaac to lie for him to get himself out of trouble.

How does Fai feel about Tomasi ?
She doesn't like him because as I said in the last questions answer hes a bad guy and Fai is very good and tries to always do the right thing in the text she basically said that she didn't care about Tomasi when she said something along the lines of "The teacher needs to know I don't care about his consequence".

What impression does the author want to give off Fai ?
The author wants to give off the impression that Fai is a good girl that she never does anything bad and shes very responsible with what she does.

What advice would you give Isaac ? Why ?
I would tell him that he should follow his gut no matter what the teachers want to hear do what is right, and do it because you feel you need to.

Samoa

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's task we were asked to answer questions that were given to us and also make a poster of all the Samoan we know.

Here is my poster....

Why do you think it is important to learn about other cultures in New Zealand ?

I think it is important to learn about other cultures because it shows respect to the people that are from that culture.

Is there something we could do differently to learn more or celebrate other cultures ? give examples.

No, I think we learn about each culture a fair amount and I don't think we need to learn anymore about them that we already do. 

Keeping our stories alive

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's task we were asked to read a story and write a paragraph about what the story was about.

The story keeping our stories alive is about a young female who loves art but also loves her culture so she started putting two and two together and started drawing Samoan designs then her family encouraged her to start tattooing, she then used her father as her guinea pig and she would start practicing on him. When she got clients she would get them to talk about their past and about what they want there tattoo to represent, she then translates their story and culture into a tattoo.

Have you ever read this story ?

Samoan Umu

Hello fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post today's blog post. For today's task we watched a video on how to create an umu and then we were given questions to answer on a blog post this is that blog post.

What is an Umu? What does it need, what is it for ?
An umu is a traditional Samoan meal that is cooked without oven and cooked without electricity. A Umu can be cooked for a funeral, graduation, wedding or any other celebration. An Umu needs fire and wood.

How are traditional Samoan skills taught ?
The guy in the video said that parents use a saying and then over time you just develop the skills he said around the age of 16 you develop the skills.

Is there something you've experienced similar to an umu? What was it? Where did you experience it ?
No, I have not experienced anything like it but I would like to.

What typed of things are cooked in an umu?
Some of the things that can be cooked in an umu are taro, banana's, fish and there are probably some more things that you are able to cook.

I hope you learnt something from this blog post.

The Creation Of Tuna

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post today's blog post is going to be about the story we read in class called The Creation Of Tuna. For this task we were asked to answer questions based on what the story was about. We also watched a video on the story.

What problem did Tuna o Runga I te Raki have ?
The place he lived in was very dry because the sun was close to it.

What does tipua mean ?
Tipua means supernatural.

What is a hinaki ?
A hinaki is a eel catcher.

What type of animal is a tuna ?
Tuna is an eel.

Compare the art from the book and art from the video clip. What are some differences ?
The art from the video is more detailed and is in black and white where as the art from the book is colourful and less detailed. Also the drawing in the video was more realistic.

Which art style did you prefer and why ? Give details in your answer.
I preferred the video because the detailing was a lot better than the detailing in the book. I also preferred that the video was in black in white it made you focus on the detailing more.

I hope you learnt something from this blog post.

Comic

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post today's blog post is going to be about the art work that we have made which is a comic book. My comic was about this girl of three girls. One of them got jealous and they ended up separating and fighting unfortunately until death.

This is a picture of the comic I made....I apologize but my camera is not working at the moment so there will be no photo.

Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post today's blog post is going to be about a video we watched called Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes. Here is the link to the video if you want to watch it. Link To Video. For a part of this task we were asked to answer some questions.

Who is the girl in the video ?

The girl in the videos name is Sadako.

Where is she? Why do you think she is there ?

She is in heaven and she is there because she died.

How did she get there ?

Unfortunately she died.

How does she feel ?

At first she feels upset because she can't see her family but then she starts to become happy.

What is a paper crane and what does it represent ?

A paper crane is a crane in paper form and it represents success and good fortune.

Then I had to read the story about Sadako and answer questions based off of the story.

4 Facts

Sadako Sasaki got cancer because of the atomic bomb that got set off. 

Sadako folded over 1300 paper cranes.

The wish that Sadako made was to get well again, and to attain peace & healing to the victims of the world.

The paper crane is often given as a wish for peace.

What CARR value do you think Sadako showed while making the paper cranes?

I think she showed commitment because she was committed to making 1000 or more paper cranes to get her wish.

If you could choose a symbol of hope for the world during 2020 what would it be and why ?

I would choose a earth with hands supporting it because we all need to work together to stop the spread of Covid-19. 

I hope you learnt something from this blog post. Have you ever read the story before or watched the video before ?

Art

Kia Ora fellow reader and welcome back to another blog post today's blog post is going to be about what we have been doing for art. We have been designing our own restaurant. I named my restaurant Shelbino The Rhino. My favourite part of this task was getting to choose the font of the name my second favourite was choosing the colour theme for the restaurant. My restaurant applies to all ages but the outside of the restaurant is more family friendly than the inside meaning the inside is fancier than the outside.

This is the slideshow on my restaurant..

I hope you liked my restaurant design.

Movie Trailer

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post as you know me and Felicity made a script. Our next task was to make a trailer for the script, we decided to make two different trailers to show our different creativity sides. I found this task semi fun. If you want to see the other trailer you can go and visit Felicity's blog

here is the link to Felicity's blog...
Felicity's Blog

This is the link to my trailer..
Link To Trailer

I hope you enjoyed watching my trailer.

6-line poems

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to my blog, today we were given the task of putting a poem on our blog. We have been working on these poems for quit a while now. We could either base this poem of a true event or a made up event.

Here is my poem...

Our New Way

Hello fellow readers and welcome to another blog post today's blog post is going to be about our new way at school meaning the new rules that have been put in place to help insure our health. We were asked to make a D.L.O about the new rules that have been put in place. For this task we could work with people I chose to work with my two friends Hayley and Jessica.

Here is our D.L.O

Horror Script

Hello fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post today I will be blogging about a story script I have been writing I have been writing this script with my best friend Felicity. It is very long so I will not be copy and pasting the whole script I have added the link already to the previous blog post I did about the horror script. The link is on slide 13. I will again add the link to this though.

Here is the link..
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1308-izaSaqrH2ZmcfKG5CoiEmBlUQrRul1643VwK5bw/edit

Comment if their are any problems with accessing the google doc.