Making A Brand

Yesterday in hurumanu/maths I finished my work and started doing work we are meant to do the next day. We finished the work today. The work we did is create our own brand. You could do it by yourself or with a partner. I choose to do it with a partner. My partner is my friend Alexia. We have to make a copy of a drawing and put stuff on it. The stuff we put on it is a colour plate, inspiration, other ideas, what our text will look like. We choose to make our brand plush key chains. We also made a logo. We have to say what aspect of Te Whare Tapa Wha it is in. I think it would mostly fit in Taha Hinengaro. The reason why I think it would fit in there is because it would help with stress. Here is our work. 

Persuasive Writing review

 Today in wananga we are doing a review on persuasive writing. The reason why is because we have a test later on in the term. We have to write about the importance of business and enterprise in school. Year 7s have to write 2 paragraphs. Year 8-9s have to do 4-5 paragraphs. Here is what I wrote.



I think that it is important to learn about business and enterprise in school. It is important to learn business and enterprise because if you don't know about it you won't know what to do in the future. If you don't know what business and enterprise are you won't know how to do a proper budget, be smart with money and more. Business and enterprise in school are learning what to do with money and what it is like to make a small business.

If you do business and enterprise in school you could do a market day. Market day is where you spend around 7-8 weeks on making a small business. In your small business, you are making products for you to sell. You are making a logo/sign to put in front of your table. When it is market day you will have a table for you to put your products on it. You will put your logo/sign on the front of the table.

If you don't do business and enterprise in school and you want to start a business you won't know how to. You won't know how to make a budget, how to make a plan, how to start it or maybe even what to do.  Them are some reason why it is important to do business and enterprise in school. Another reason why it is important to learn about business and enterprise in school is if you don't know how to promote your business if you are making one.

 These were the reasons why I think it is important to do business and enterprise in school. You need to learn about business and enterprise because in the future you will know what to do.

B & E - Vocab

 This term in wānanga, we are doing business and enterprise. We haven't started it this week but in wga we are doing stuff about it. The reason we are doing stuff about it is so we know what to do what it happens. Yesterday we started doing some vocab words about it.  The words I choose to do were budget, savings, profit, spending and goals. We also have to give an example of what will happen in the real world. I choose to do it on canvas. I did a presentation. Here is the presentation. 

 

Blind Taste-Test

Today in science we are doing the blind taste test. We get into pairs and one person will be tasting and the other will be writing down.

 Aim: To taste foods that are sweet, bitter. sour, salty.

Equipment:
1. samples 1-9
2. blindfold glasses
3. recording chart
4. ice cream stick taster.

Method:
1. get safety glasses and make a blindfold
2.set up your chart and make sure that the person you are working with knows where to record your responses.
3.Using an ice cream stick you will dip it into the sample. Once the sample is on the stick you will taste it and tell your partner your response.
4. There will be 2 answers.
5. At taste test one you need to hold your nose.
Answer 1. is it sweet, sour, salty, bitter. record it.
Answer 2. what do you think it is. record it.
6. Repeat this for the next samples but you will only need to use your ice cream stick taster for sample 1 - 4.

Blind taste testing results

Sample number	Sweet, sour, bitter, salty	I think it is…….
Sample 1	Sweet	sugar
Sample 2	salty	salt
Sample 3	Bitter	baking powder, soda
Sample 4	sour	tannic acid
Sample 5	bitter	potato
Sample 6	Sweet, and a bit bitter	gummies
Sample 7	sour and a bit sweet	gummies
Sample 8	sour but it also isn't	onion
Sample 9	sweet and bitter	apple

100 Word challenge

 Today in wānanga I did the 100-word challenge. As you know I always go over the 100 words. I did 103 words. Since it is term 3 we have our stuff in a different place. We got 2 choices. I choose the frog because it's an animal and I didn't know what to do for the other one. Here is a photo of the choices and my 100-word challenge.

You know how the story starts. It was a lovely day everyone was out on walks. I decided to go to the gardens. I have never explored that whole garden before. I only have ever been to the garden part but not all of it. The is a big museum next to the gardens. It’s about 4 floors high. That is not what we are talking about. We are talking about the gardens.

I was walking around with my mint milkshake and I saw a weird frog statute. I have never seen it before.

The frog was making a heart with its fingers. 

100 Word Challenge

 Today in Wānanga I did the 100-word challenge. Here is the writing and the photo.

as you know when you die you go to heaven or hell but before you go you have to walk up some stairs. While you are on the stairs there will be things happening to you and it depends on what you do. When you get up to the top the gate holder will choose if you were good while going up the stairs or if you were bad going up the stairs. If you are bad you go hell and you will do the stairs again but it will be harder. If you have more than 50% bad you go to hell.

Music

For the past week in music at the start of the period, we have been listening to music to see if we know what song it is and who made it. I think that music is something you listen to and makes you feel something. Music is types of beats, harmony, melodies, etc. My favourite song is "Ain't No Crying" by Derivakat. Ain't No Crying is a song about the Dream Smp. Derivakat is a fan of the Dream Smp and she writes songs about the people on it and some about the lore. I learnt some types of beats people use in music. Here are some of the names of beats. Beat names: semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, bass clef and treble clef. 

Slide The Corner - Gregs Diary

 Yesterday since I finished my work I had to do a fast finish task. There were three things I could choose out of. I did one of them last year and the other one was reading it out loud but I don't feel confident so I am not doing that one. The only other one I can do is make Greg a diary. Here is what I wrote in the diary.
Pages 12 - 15 Date 12 - 5 - 2007 Time: 6:30pm It was another day and I had to be late again. The reason I was late was that I was too bothered looking at the cars. One of the cars I really want but I can’t until I get a job. Back to being late again. Let me tell you what happens when I am late home. Most of the time I have to get to bed without dinner and I have to stay in my room sometimes if I ague I don’t get lunch that next day. I think that it is unfair because if Kitty or William are late it doesn’t matter they still get to have dinner. One of the things I liked about today was that I got into the automotive engineering course. That was a part of my day. - Greg

Jet Boats

Today in Te Ao Whanui we got into invention groups and had to research about it. The invention group I am in is jet boat. We had to figure out who created it, what is its purpose when they made it, how did they come up with the idea, how has it helped change the world. We had to put the answers on a piece of paper that has what the invention is on it. Here are the answers to the questions. The answers are not in order.

Jet boats changed the world because tourism went up. Sir William (Bill) Hamilton made jet boats. Hamilton wanted to build the boat because he wanted a boat the could navigate the shallow fast-flowing rivers where he lived. Jet boats were made in the early 1950s. It was found that the water jet was better than propellers and it was easier to go up against waves.

 

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Bill Hamilton's full name is Sir William (Bill) Hamilton.

To do the ton means to reach 100 mph.

some things that Sir William invented were Jet boats, waterwheel and he also was tinkering with a car.

Revolutionise means to change something radically or fundamentally 
I think that Jetboats are a successful invention because people still use them now.
Jetboats are used around the world as a tourism attraction 
Hamilton thought that an ancient Greek named Archimedes made the Jetboat.

Stone Tools - Inventions

 Today in Inventions we have to rank what is most important to us. The words that we could choose out of were a computer, stone tools, photograph, electricity, Bessemer furnace, celluloid, aeroplane, telephone, phonograph, television. Before we choose what is important to us we had to get into groups of 2,3,4. After that task the teacher made one person from the group say what we marked them as from important to least important we had to choose what we think is the most important to us. Here is why I think stone tools is the most important.

 
I think that stone tools are most important because if we don't have them how will we mine. If we don't have stone tools how will we get coal, stone, iron, gold and diamonds. If we never had stone tools we would not have found diamonds or gold. We also would not have the jewellery. 

Math Problem Solving - Tia and Tom

Today in Maths we did a solving question, we had to work with someone else or with two other people.

The question is in the picture above.
We had to work out how long will it be before Tia has more money than a tom, we thought it would be easier if one of us would do tom and the other one would do Tia. I did Tom and Alexia did Tia. 
Since Tom started spending his $20 on Monday but only using $2 a day, While Tia started work on Monday and made $2.50 a day. We started working it out and stopped on Friday. On Friday tom had $10 and Tia had $12.50 So it will take 5 days for Tia to make more money than Tom.

Slide The Corner - Chapter 1 - 2

Yesterday I read chapter 1 - 2 of Slide The Corner. After we finished reading chapter 1 - 2 we have to answer some questions. Here are the answers. Greg's dream is to be a rally car driver. He doesn't tell his parents because he doesn't want to think that he will be a failure to the family because all of his family is smart. Greg's parents punish him by making him redo the NCEA level 1 test and if he is home late he doesn't get food. When Greg comes home late his parents don't let him have dinner that night. If Greg doesn't do what they want he doesn't get food. Greg's parents don't give him anything personal in his room because his parents don't like cars and want him to be successful. Greg just goes to the garden and gets some tomato and some carrots as well. It is important for him to get a job so he can stay in the automotive engineering course and so if he is hungry he can get some food. William is the one who gives him the money before school starts. I agree and don't agree with what Mr Carmody said about Gregs dad because if he stands up for himself his dad might be a grump and if he doesn't stand up for himself he might not get what wants.

Slide The Corner

This term we are starting a novel study in Wānanga. The book I am reading is Slide The Corner. The author is Fleur Beale. Before we start reading we have to answer some questions. Here are the answers.

1.I think that the book will be about a rally because there is a car and there are two people in the car and you need two people in the car to do a rally.

2.I think that Slide The Corner means sliding around the corner.

3.I have heard about Fleur Beale. I have read one of her books. The book was Playing To Win. Fleur Beale is a New Zealand fiction writer. She used to be a teacher. The school she used to teach at was Canterbury University. She went to was Victoria University and Christchurch Teachers College to study. 

4.I haven't learnt anything by reading the back of the book all I learnt is that I was right about the car that it is a rally car.

Pink Shirt Day Design

 Today we had to do another Pink Shirt Day activity. The activity was we had to make a shirt design involving pink shirt day. We could do the shirt on paper or on our Chromebook. We had to do a back side and a front side. Our Teacher said we had to say Pink Shirt Day on the shirt. We could put anything on the shirt as long as it involves pink shirt day. I cant show you a photo of my shirt because my camera doesn't work

Digital Black Out Poetry

 Today we tried something new on our Chromebook. Since we have been doing black out poetry art, the teacher is making us use a website she found. The website is called "Blackout Poetry Maker". Here is the link to the website. The website is cool to use and it will allow you to put your own story on there and make a black out poem. The website was easy to use and not very slow at all for me. The website has some stories for you to choose. The stories are Alice In Wonderland, Pride and Prejudice and lastly Heart of Darkness. I made 7 blackout poems on this website so I think you could make a lot as well. I perfer the physical poems but I also like Digital. Here is my poems

Upstander Actions

 Today we started a new task for Pink Shirt Day. The task was to make a DLO about Upstander actions. We could do it with a buddy. I did the DLO with my friend Shanaya. There are 5 Upstanader actions. You will see the 5 Upstander actions on the slide. Here is the DLO. 

Black Out Art

Yesterday we started black out art. Black out art is new to some of us. I haven't don't black out art before but I was willing to give it a go. We had to pick a piece of news paper. We had to watch a video. The video was made by Austin Kleon. We had to use black pen, black felt, glue and scissors. First we talked about what is black out art. Second we had to watch the video. Third we got the newspaper and the supplies we needed and got started. I found it difficult to find words to make a poem/quote.  I found it fun to do something new and different. I cant give you a photo about what I did because my camera doesn't work.

PE Expectations

 Today the teacher is making us write down the expectations of PE. If you don't have your PE gear there will be a concussions. But I don't want excuses of that I don't have it because I cant find it. You mush have your PE gear. You must get changed and come sit down quietly so the teacher can do the role. The teacher don't expect you to come and play with the gear out.Those people without PE gear will not participate. Before coming into the gym you must line up quietly so we can get started. 

The Tea Of Pink Shirt Day

 Yesterday we the start of term 4 and we had wānanga period 2 and 3. Since Pink Shirt Day is on Friday we are doing so activity about it. We had to create a DLO about it and we had to add 5 facts/information about it. We could do a the DLO with a buddy. I did the DLO with my friend Shanaya. We did our DLO on slide. . We had to read a article called Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bulling. Here is our DLO. 

Playing To Win - Chapter 1 - 2

 Today I was the start of term 4 and we had reading period 1. The book I was reading was called "Playing to win". The book was made by Fleur Beale. We had to read chapter 1 - 2. We got a good introductions to the main characters in the story. We have to write a summary which explains what has happened so far in the story.

So far in the story Denny has got into West bridge high and is not liking it so far. I think Dennys personality is a chill and cool type of person and likes sports very much and is very athletic. The characters so far are called Denny, Alice, Todd, Ms Finlayson, Rose, Lucy, Zac, Pete, Clara, Sally. He meet a girl named Alice and a guy named Todd who is inlove with Alice and Todd thinks Denny is going to steal her from him. Denny has a car and little sisters.