Orana Wildlife Park Field Trip!

Annyeonghaseyo! (Hello in Korean) On Monday, we went on a field trip to Orana Wildlife Park. We went there to learn a little bit more about the different types of animals. For me, It was a pretty exciting fun trip and I really enjoyed going there. Miss Bethany was our instructor and she taught us about the animals. The animals that probably stood out for me is the Kea. Kea is one of the native birds in New Zealand and it is very intelligent. 

Giraffe feeding was one of the unforgettable one. I was scared at first because I was terrified that the giraffe might bite my hands when I point the food to it. But luckily, Miss K helped me to feed the giraffe. There's even a video, where I filmed myself feeding the giraffe. The giraffe's tongue was a bit too strong so I let go of the food and Miss K feed it instead. 

Here's a video of us feeding the giraffe:

Here are some pictures during the field trip:

Thank you for reading my post and have an awesome day!

Speed Date An Author!

Namaste! Today I'll be blogging about my awesome experience on Speed Date An Author event earlier. They were 8 lucky students from each class and I was chosen in Tz. I was with Bailey, Nici, Jackson, Talia, Lyan, Emily, Bailey and Mr Scott. There we're 4 sessions and morning tea in between. The amazing authors/illustrators in there are Donovan Bixley, Elissa Weissman, Bill Nagelkerke and Daisy Lavea Timo.

They were all pretty interesting and entertaining. One of them taught us about how you could come up with a great character for your story. First off, you just basically draw doodles or shape for a start and let your mind draw. Don't think about making it perfect because no one is perfect.

Their lessons taught me how to...

• Come up with better ideas for characters
• Learn different types of author voices
• Interesting words that I didn't know before like 'Triskaidekaphobia'. It basically means fear of number Thirteen. Pretty weird right? I didn't people would be scared of number 13.

Reflection: That was an amazing experience going to Speed Date An Author event but at the same time very scary. Because in one of the workshops no one volunteered to share their story they've written and the teacher started picking students and I have an anxiety attack that she might choose me. But luckily, she didn't.

Anyways thanks for reading my post and have a lucky year!

Scratch VS Sphero

Annyeong! Today I'll be doing a reflection about two apps we explored on Tuesday this week which is Scratch and Sphero. 

1) What is Scratch?
Scratch is one of the apps we can use to make our game. Scratch does a lot of thrilling things like you can add your own sound effects or you could voice over your character. Using the great app, you could make a stopmotion or an animation. 

2) What is Sphero?

Sphero is an app where you can control a small sphere robot. In that app, you can tell what the robot to do. To control the sphero you need to connect it with an Apple iPad and connect it with a robot. When one of the Sphero lights up, that means that's the robot you just connected. You could also make it say something and change the light colour.

3) What do these tools have in common?

The things that Sphero and scratch have in common is that you could both control and edit whatever you want it to do. I also notice they both start at letter S.

4) Which one do you prefer and why?

For me, I think I'd prefer to use Scratch because you can edit it using your Chromebook. If you use sphero you have to connect the iPad to the robot and you'll have trouble controlling it especially you don't use a common iPad in the school It's one of the kinds of iPad. Plus, you can use scratch at home if you have your own Chromebook.

5) How could you use one of these to address your issues?

I could use the Scratch app and make a specific character that travelled somewhere and fix the deforestation problems with her magic. I know magic doesn't exist in real life but It's fine. 

Anyway, Bye and have a great day everyone!

PE Hurumanu (Bench ball game and Maths)

Kia Ora! Today I'll be blogging about what we have done for the past few weeks in PE Hurumanu. First of all, a group called 'french fries' taught us a very enjoyable game called 'Bench Ball'. It wasn't really a sport but we enjoyed it though. The warm-ups they prepared were 40-star jumps, 20 High knees, 10 runs back and forth and the drills were Sneak up granny. 

After we've done the warm-ups and drills, we finally moved on to the real game. First off, we were separated into our year groups which are year 7 and year 8's. I'm a year 8 student so I went to the year 8 sections. We versed the Year 8 BH and the Year 7 TZ also verse the Year 7 BH. We all did two rounds and sadly, Year 8TZ lose both rounds while Year 7TZ won just one game because we didn't have enough time.

Next, I'll be talking about the Math-related activity we did with Miss Birtch. The purpose of this Hurumanu is that we learn a different subject as well. It's not just all PE we also do other subjects such as Maths, Reading or Writing. We did a math problem relating to painting a pitch lining on the field of football and we need to find out how many It will costs to paint the whole field, how much time It will take and How much Whiteline buckets do we need?

I was grouped with Risha and Kya for this maths problems. At first, we were very confused because we get it all mixed up. We were also split into two groups 3 teams went to Miss Simpson to practice their warm-ups while the other 3 teams are working on math problems with Miss Birtch. In the end, we shared how we did it and what type of strategy we use but we got similar strategies with other groups. We divide it and that's how we got the answer to it.

Reflection: I think French Fries did a really a good job of teaching us a game/sport. Maybe next time add another drill because you guys have only one drill and we were supposed to have 2 drills. Also, make sure the drills are related to the game you are teaching next time but overall you guys did a really good job. Keep it up!

I was an outstander because I pass the ball to people on my team instead of passing it to the same person all the time.
But anyway, thanks for reading my post and have a great day!

CIP - Week 8

Community Impact Projects

Kia Ora, This week in CIP Tane Mahuta In my group, we just pulled out a bunch of weeds in the garden. That's pretty much we've done in the garden. Also If you know, It's Spring season and the garden change because gorgeous flowers grow and It looks pleasing. My favourite flowers If you ask me, maybe Cherry Blossoms or Tulips. 

Bye have a great day!

Reader's Theatre!

Kamusta! Today I'll be blogging about our last Reader's theatre play. I think we've done a pretty good job making the play. The thing that we need to work on is expressing emotions because we look like a total robot. But overall I enjoyed making our play! 

The people I work within this play are Risha, Shreya, Nevaeh and myself.

Have a look at our play:

Thanks for viewing my post and have a great day!

ELLA WEST VISITING HHS!!!

Kia Ora! Today I'll be blogging about the amazing assembly we just had in P1. Today was a special assembly because we have an unexpected guest. This guest is the author of a specific book that the AL class have been reading. The name of this special guest is Ella west. She wrote 2 interesting books called 'Night Vision' and 'Rain Fall'. For me, I found Night Vision interesting because based on the sneak peek of Miss Ella West told us about the book. The main character which is a girl she has this unique allergic which only like a rare of people would have this. She is unbelievably allergic to sunlight.  

This character has been going through a lot in her life, she even witnessed the death of someone by a burning car. The plot of the story is pretty interesting and I'm looking forward to reading this book hopefully If I have time. She also told us how she did research on google of a specific place to use in her book. I like how she actually learned what's the place actually looks like so she could add the details of the place in her book.

That's pretty much about the session today. 

I hope you enjoy my post and have a great day!

Miss Ella West I hope you enjoy visiting us this morning!

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Painting Rocks - CIP

Hello! Today in CIP we did some Art rocks for our Garden. It was really fun and satisfying to make. I wish we could make more of these things in the future.

Here are some compilation of some Art Rocks we had earlier in CIP. 

Bye and have a great!

What is TXT?!

What is TXT?!

Talofa! This week Mr Scott set a DLO challenge for us. This DLO challenge is about researching 5 interesting facts you didn't know on something you're in interested in. For me, I am into KPOP and I choose to research one of the KPOP groups and that is TXT. I collected 5 facts I didn't know about the members of this band. Here is my DLO and I hope you like it! Enjoy!

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What have we been doing in Digitech?

Kamusta! Today I'll be blogging about one of our new hurumanu and that is Digital Tech with Miss Tozer, Mr Carter and Mr Richardson. In this hurumanu, we are focusing on making a game about our Topic. The topics we need to choose from are Social, Ethical and Environment issues. I choose environmental issues and It's about Deforestation. For the past few weeks, we're just doing some researching about the topic we choose. We have this google doc to put our resources there.

After we've done the researching parts, I think we are exploring 2 apps that you could make a game based on your topic. For example, your topic was about rubbish, you could make a game where you put bits of pieces of rubbish to the bin. 

I'd say, this hurumanu is pretty exciting because It involves using exciting apps and gadgets and I've heard we are gonna use some robots. So far I enjoy this new hurumanu and the only thing is bothering me is that we can't access to the Hurumanu site.

Anyways, here is my doc that I've been working on based on my topic.

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