Wananga: Interpersonal Skills

Greetings. Today in Wananga, we are learning about the 8 fundamentals of communication skills and how it is beneficial in a job of your choice. I'm going to pick the job of a teacher to discuss my answers. It is important to have empathy being a teacher so you could teach better by understanding your student's perspective. And just like empathy, that goes without saying having good conversation skills is also important as a teacher. Because, how would you be able to teach students effectively if you yourself don't have good communication skills? Without it, you can't express your ideas to the students properly which will lead to having a poor understanding of the lesson discussed. It is also important to have a respectful vocabulary to set up a good role model for the students and it is just professionalism in general.

Wananga: Pyramid Scheme

Hi, Today in Wananga we are creating a poster informing others on the dangers of the Pyramid scheme. Here's the poster I created in Canva:

Science: Mutations

This week in Science Biology, we are learning about mutations. Mutations are basically permanent changes in the base sequence of DNA that produces a different outcome on the organism.

The human species first appeared in what is now called Africa. They were dark-skinned, dark-haired and dark coloured eyes. But in the present times, we now have a range of different colours of skin, hair and eyes. Therefore, Blue eyes are basically a new allele = mutation. Blue eyes first appear in humans about 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

It is a beneficial mutation because blue-eyed humans get the advantage of coping better with seasonal affective disorder. A disorder that occurs when there is less sunlight at certain times of the year.

It also has the advantage of seeing unmoving objects better than moving things. Blue-eyed humans can also see better in the dark because lighter pigment makes the iris more translucent meaning it lets get more light into the eye.

Bonus:
Blue eyes may have more advantages because based on societies' beauty standards blue eyes may appear more appealing and look attractive and fascinating than the common eye colours in the world today which is dark-brown.

English: Yellow Brick Road (Post-Reading Questions)

Greetings! After finishing reading the Yellow Brick Road novel in English we were tasked to make a blog answering in a full sentence the post-reading questions in our blog about the story.

Here's a link to the Yellow Brick Road story so that this post makes sense to you

1.) The narrator of the story believes that they are moving to Wellington was because to have a better life by getting jobs that would lift his family out of poverty. Evidence on the story:
"We'll make lots of money and be rich as anything because Wellington is where the money is. And you have to go where the money is, ay Dad. No use staying in Waituhi and being poor all the time, ay”

2.) On Page 1, the big difference between Waituhi (narrator's hometown) and Wellington that was mentioned by the narrator himself was that Wellington is where the "money" is and the bigger population of Pakehas than their own hometown.

3.) On Page 3, the narrator's dad explained to his uncle Sam that they were moving to Wellington because there were no more jobs at home and they had enough of plenty of seasonal work such as shearing, fruit-picking etc. Moreover, there is apparently plenty of work in Wellington; plenty of factories. And he wants his kids to have a better life than he had.

4.) The narrator's attitude towards moving to Wellington changes as he encounters a lot of signs when they got nearer to the city which overwhelmed him and made him feel anxious. Moreover, the people they also encounter on the road the way to Wellington was not so friendly.

5.) Emerald City, Yellow Brick Road, Flying Monkeys, scarecrow, tinman and cowardly lion, are all allusions (references) to a famous book "The Wizard of Oz". I think the author made this comparison because it has the same story theme which is where the protagonist starts a journey into a destination that will solve all of their problems and which turned out to be fake. Meaning, the destination of their journey isn't going to solve their problems. 

Social Studies: Estimation Deaths (Bar Graph)

Greetings! In Social Studies in my previous blog, we had to create a map of where the locations of these death camps. Now we have to make a bar graph showing the estimation of deaths in those locations.

Here's my bar graph:

English: Yellow Brick Road (Pre-Reading Questions)

Greetings! Today in English we are starting a new set of work about the 'Yellow Brick Road' story. This post is answering the pre-reading questions regarding the story.

1.) Witi Ihimaera is a New Zealand Author born in Gisborne, NZ in 1944. One of his famous works that were adapted to films is The Whale Rider (1987).

2.) I have never come across an expression called "Yellow Brick Road" before in my life. I am assuming it means something metaphorical like having an existential crisis and that yellow brick road represents that 'road'.

3.) Based on the title, I predict that this story is going to be about a protagonist who goes on a life-changing adventure, either for worse or better.

Science: Dominant and Recessive Allele

Hi, This week in Science Biology we are learning about the Dominant and Recessive Allele on humans and animals. 

Science Lockdown Weekly Question: 

We have some sheep here at home who have just had lambs. The mums have white wool, the dad also has white wool. But we have two mums who have had twins - one of the twins has white wool and one has black wool. Using terms like allele and dominant and recessive try and explain how this can happen - use a Punnett square too if you want. 

My Answer:

White wool is the dominant allele The black wool is the recessive allele.

This means there was a high chance of having a white wool lamb considering both parents were white wool genes.

Now, in this case, this has happened because...
It is due to both of the parent sheep is a (Ww - white wool but non-purebred sheep)
With the recessive allele in it (w), there is a chance of getting a black wool lamb due to both parents being non-purebred white wool sheep.

Punnet square explanation: 

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