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Weekly Reflection – T2 W2

Hello everyone, I’ll be talking about my weekly reflection for this week.

Reflecting On The Week

  • What went well this week?

What went well was that I found the X in maths.

  • What challenged me this week and why?

What challenged me this week was when my class and I did dance. It was painful but fun to dance around the auditorium and have fun.

Was this something I can control? Explain

I don’t know how to explain why it was painful and fun but the reason why I can control my painful and joyful dancing is because I want to make my friends laugh.

  1. One thing I learned this week

I learned to find the X and subtract it with the Perimeter in maths.

  1. My goal for next week

I want to learn Pie in maths.

Reflecting On The Week – W1 T2

Hello Everyone,

Today Mrs Cornish gave us work so every Friday in every week, we have to reflect on what we did for the week. Here’s mine.

Reflecting On The Week

  • What went well this week?

Nothing much, but we did get new subjects which I’m really happy about except dance, because we keep re-learning the same moves everytime.

  •  What challenged me this week and why?

Focusing on my work because I want my future to be good. Why? I don’t want my future to go downhill that’s why.

Was this something I can control? Explain

I can control this yes. However I talk too much, I can’t explain much but sometimes I just focus on my work because I’m bored and have nothing to talk about to my friends.

  1. One new thing I learned this week

Measurements like cm, m, t, l, ml, k, kg, mm etc.

  1. My goal for next week

Learning new things like fractions (Not the basic fractions)

 😊

 

 

How has music evolved over the years? – W11 T1

Hello, I’ll be talking about how music has evolved over the years and the impact on society.

Music form definition if simply how various parts of a song or piece are organized into pieces like Chorus, Verse 1, Verse 2 and bridge. In classical music it can be broken down into a very similar way but a bit different. Music has no vocals unless you use your voice to sing, it’s like a piano, violin, guitar, harmonium and drums etc. It’s kind of like a poem where you rhyme words but in a very familiar way.

For here, the original form of music is Oral Singing. It is likely the earliest for of music, followed by organized sounds like clapping, stomping etc. Various musical instruments could have been developed at an early stage, for example, the bow is regarded as one of the early musical instruments.

The civil rights movement back in 1960s sparked soul music and hip-hop. Thus, musical evolution is the result of selection at multiple levels: within individuals (producers), among individuals (consumers), and among groups (social networks of consumers).

Humans used different noises to express fear or joy. These sounds, along with some of the sounds they heard from animals, such as birds’ chirping, might have led them to make music. When people began to use tools, for instance to pound grains, they may have done so in a rhythm, or a regular pattern. So music has made a very big impact on society over the years and people enjoy listening to music. I also enjoy listening to music on Spotify.

Waka – T1 W10

Introduction

Hello everyone, my class, AKA JRD, watched a movie called “Moana”. We didn’t watch it just for fun, we watched it because we needed to make wakas of our own. Week 9 at Wednesday, we made wakas, my group, Widad, Bettina and me, built a waka that looked a bit similar to Moana’s big boat. I’ll be showing you a photo of the waka my group and I made.

As you can see, it has railings and a little shelter along with a pointed-deck at the end. This project only took less than a day to finish, because my team and I worked together as a pro. We handled this very easily and not difficult at all, the materials were great, and the whole boat itself.

The rails were the hardest thing to work and build on for the fact Widad and Bettina had a hard time measuring the toothpicks for it to be equal and to cut. The hot-glue was very messy and hard to put on the end of the toothpicks because the toothpicks are very thin.

What it is/Why we did it/What did you learn

Star: Hōkūpa’a – The North Star The suns position moves to east and west. They used star compass. They memorized the rising and setting points of the constellations.
Waves: This is what they also use, the waves. They use the waves to identify the direction by the rocking motion of the canoes, the ocean swells fill in to be a rough guide direction.
Wind Direction: Wind Direction, their doubled hulled canoes depended on Sails, and giant Oars. You can turn and let the wind carry you everywhere you go if you reach the correct latitude.

They use the navigations to reach their destination if they want to move to other islands or find other resources in those other islands.

I learned that the navigations were really different than our modern time, we use maps, our phone and vehicles to travel. It’s the same but different times and different ways to reach out destination for where we are supposed to be. We created the boats to connect the theme of wayfinding. It was fun to make but also hard for planning the base, the sails and other stuff that connects to the boats we made.

Materials

  • Toothpicks
  • Popsicle sticks (Big ones for the base)
  • Popsicle sticks (Normal sized)
  • Popsicle sticks (Smaller than average)
  • Paper (There was no fabric)
  • Straws
  • Thin cardboard
  • Hot glue gun

Conclusion

Although it’s finished, it’s very empty in the middle, it was fun to make though! We would’ve done better if we gotten enough time depending on the events that happened on Wednesday.

I am writing this on Sunday, 31st of March. Sorry for late posts, I have been doing a lot of work around the house and going to training and somewhere like that. This is the end of my boat making post, I might update it if I get told (Probably when I’m 50 something years old) Anyways bye!

Catch It – Blessy Pardilla

Hey writers! Today I’ll be showing you my Catch It story we have been writing and working on since week 6, it is currently week 9. We needed to get into buddies to check our writing mistakes and etc, my buddy is Widad. Here is my Catch It story

Catch It

The dimly lit; dark gloomy hollow den, I finally woke up. I extended my limbs slowly and carefully so I would not wake up my fellow breeds, but I fell down on the mount of meerkats, I climbed back out; I soon peeped my chubby head out of the hole, to see a perfect polished pomegranate.

I told my group of people about the pomegranate. I was desperate like I could eat a million mangoes, we soon headed out and climbed onto the rough; bumpy tree, getting a turn to touch and worship the pomegranate, we climbed back down and moved our heads around, seeing the sun hit the perfect spot to shine (It looked amazing) our bodies flowing.

While we were worshipping our glorious fruit, we heard something that made us run, an evil vulture coming to get our pomegranate away from us. The vulture noticed, so it grabbed the pomegranate away from us, we got angry and we ran after it for our lives, it was quite the run because we’re fast meerkats living in the oasis. We ran and ran fast, we kept running until one of the meerkats jumped on the vulture’s feet to get the pomegranate away. The meerkat fell as the evil vulture wiggled its feet, we jumped on one by one on the vulture’s feet. We tried to stop it.

As we grabbed on the vulture’s feet and we grabbed onto each other’s legs to stop it from flying away, the vulture was too strong so it flew higher and we flew into the sky, we were so high up that the vulture made us fall along with the pomegranate, one of the meerkats grabbed it.

But the vulture swooped down to tackle the meerkat who had gotten the pomegranate, so the meerkat passed it on to me; we later passed it every time to one another as if we’re doing rugby, the vulture had caught us but we landed on its back like a pro. We fell and the vulture had laughed at us, but the vulture had something bad going to happen.

The vulture, who was laughing, hit his whole body against the rock hill, it had made a dent and the pomegranate fell, we laughed at the poor vulture who had his body glued onto the rock wall. We later stopped laughing and noticed the pomegranate on the floor.

We got the pomegranate and passed it on like rugby as we did the same when we were in the sky, our leader, he got the pomegranate and ran, he dropped the pomegranate and kicked it like a football, it was soaring and flying through the sky, it was about to hit the goal…

Then SPLAT! The pomegranate splattered on the ground, the look on our faces were disappointed and jaw dropping, the vulture finally got out of its body on the rock wall and flew, it started laughing again as its feathers were falling and crumbling out of its body. We had lost our pomegranate.

Music This Term – 2024

Kia Ora fellow musicians!

I will be telling you everything I have learned in music class this term. We have an amazing dark-humored funny teacher, Mr Rea! He taught us how to play Seven Nation Army, Ode to joy, Lean on Me and Can’t help falling in love with you, it was amazing how we got to hear the most beautiful harmonies and melodies. We also got to learn what E is on the guitar, I’m hoping to learn how to play the electric guitar. The things I have seen and learned was beautiful, our teacher helped us go through the music we have never learned before, he is also the best teacher, my #1 teacher. I love music class so much I would take it as a year 9 when I get to pick. Today we learned how to play drums on a bucket, it’s kind of interesting that buckets sounds similar to real drums.

 

Things we’ve done

The things my class and I have done this past term in music class was drawing a musician and giving 5 facts about them, we’ve also done quests in class craft which was fun but hard at the same time because I thought we were doing it on our Chromebooks not on the piano and guitar. we’ve also played Blooket and Kahoot, I love music class, our teacher is so funny, so kind and interesting for a fact that he made fun of his dead grandma… But it’s okay because I love his humor so much!

 

Favorite song/s

My favorite songs are M. by Anıl Emre Daldal and Good Looking Boy by Suki Waterhouse. These 2 songs are glued to my head, I really love it so much of the nostalgic feeling I have everytime I listen to these two songs. Thanks to Mr Rea for letting us listen to music while doing our work! (It’s music class of course)

 

That’s the end of everything I have enjoyed and listened to so far, huge thanks to Mr Rea for being awesome and kind also funny, thanks for letting us listen to any music we want, thanks for being the best and amazing music teacher I have seen! I hope no one replaces you til the end!

Let’s Bounce! – T1 W5 – W6

Hypothesis

My hypothesis is that the handball will bounce higher than the ping pong ball because it’s hollow and also the handball is made with elastic bands so when you squish it, it goes back to it’s original form. It has a rough and kind of smooth texture on the outside.

Background

The reason rubber balls bounce higher than a ping pong ball is because the molecules will want to go back to its original form. The air is like a spring in the ball, no matter how compressed it gets, it will expand back again. While in the collision, some of it will convert to heat. It’s a rubber band but in ball shape with more elasticity. The one matters most is the elasticity for it to bounce higher, since marble has more resin and least elasticity, it won’t bounce as high, but will roll further with the smooth and glass feeling on the outside and inside. It will keep bouncing even if it goes lower and lower. Here is a link to a more detailed information about elastic balls.

Equipment

  • Ping pong ball
  • Rubber ball
  • Ruler (To measure)

Steps

  1. Grab 2 balls (Different types)
  2. Get a ruler
  3. Stand up the ruler by it leaning against a wall
  4. Drop 2 balls at the same time for it to be fair – Mr Smalley’s favorite word this week

Results

Here are the measurements

Bounce Handball (CM) Ping pong ball (CM)
1 72 48
2 74 48
3 75 49
Average (CM) 74 48
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Bounce (MM) Handball (CM) Ping pong ball (MM)
1 720 480
2 740 480
3 750 490
Average 737 483

 

Conclusion

Well this has been a great experience to measure ping pong ball and a handball. I couldn’t measure the right height of both balls but I sent pictures of what they look like for the measurements, there are 2 rulers stacked on each other that’s why I couldn’t measure as much as I possibly can. The ping pong ball is hard to see but it’s best if I picture it, I can’t really put an arrow for where the ping pong ball is but it’s there somewhere so look closely.

Community – T1 W5

A community is when a small/large group of people that has the same ideas and personality, also what they like.

Qualities in a Community is when people help each other out, correct them of what is right and what is wrong, example, like being a Christian or a Catholic. You sin but people will tell you in your community that sinning is bad, but sometimes it’s not, just because people are catholic or christian doesn’t mean they have to stay good and perfect forever.

They will tell you what being a a part of their community is like, they will be happy that you are part of it. Being in a community is sometimes very very serious, it’s like a job but you don’t have to do work, instead, you have to help people out, change them into a better person.

 

A community, is a group. A group that will help you realize that life can also be fun. But some groups are bad, when your instincts tell you something is wrong with the group you are in, leave! It’s your decision.

 

Ramp it up!

Description

Hey y’all, today, we’re going to roll a ball, one is a marble, one is a ping pong ball. Check out me hypothesis to see which one roll further.

Hypothesis

I think the marble will roll further because it’s small and capable of rolling further.

Equipments

  • Marble
  • Ping Pong ball
  • Egg cartons
  • 2 rulers

Steps (Method)

So, how to roll the ping pong ball and marble.

I put egg cartons on top of each other until I get the height I want, now, I put 2 rulers next to each other, not too far from each other but probably this close –>  ||  <– (PRETEND IT’S THE RULERS) Now just roll it in between.                                                                                                                                         ||

Measurements

Roll Ping Pong Marble
1 1.4 2.4
2 1.2 2.04
3 1.7 2.016
Average 1.4 2.152

The marble rolled further.

Conclusion

The results showed that my hypothesis was correct. The marble went further because it’s small and capable and smooth because it’s filled with resin! Duh!

What I would changed

I maybe would’ve had changed my measurements instead of foot.

Final

We are done, the measurements are good, the steps are good and the other stuff like hypothesis etc. Reine AKA my partner for today’s activity, she has the video, it MAY not be there due to lack of people in the video and not actually the experiment. It was honestly exhausting because many people were around me and Reine’s experiment, we got mad and kept arguing how they were in the way and they didn’t move at all, also Eirmano was making me mess up my measurement when I was measuring the ping pong ball.