2020 Reflection

 Hello everyone, I will be talking about the school reflection. Reflection is basically what you think, and what happened. We can add main events that happened at school, or for example the subjects that you did. We have to write about our reflection on Hornby High School. Many things happened this year, like the COVID-19 lock down and we have to do classes in online.

Here is my reflection:

How me and my friends met:

This year I made new friends, me and Jhrnylle met Cate, Shontai, Jaren, Eunize, Lucy, Linny. Me, Jhrnylle, Cate and Shontai we're classmates. Me and Jhrnylle already know each other, both of us met Cate and Shontai at the field. Me and Jhrnylle were dancing a song called 'What is love' by twice, and it's a K-POP song. I was teaching Jhrnylle the dance moves. Suddenly Cate and Shontai went up to us and Cate said that she know the song that me and Jhrnylle were dancing in to. We started hanging out because we were also classmates.

Me, Jhrnylle, Cate and Shontai met Jaren at hurumanu 4, AL, BN and SK is joined together for hurumanu subjects and tech. While at hurumanu 4, Lhysette introduced Jaren to us. When we first met, Jaren was a type of shy person. 

Subjects:

Hurumanu 1 (Reading / Social Sciences):

I learned many things about History, Hurumanu 1 was a very interesting hurumanu because we get to learn more things about the history. I learned about different Protests, and also the WW1 and WW2. One of the most important Protests that happened in New Zealand is the Parihaka. We also have to create some D.L.O's, like for example a slideshow. Most of our tasks were to answer the questions about the topic that we have and create a D.L.O about it. I mostly did slideshows, but before we start answer the questions. We have to explore the links that they told us to explore. I have learned many things about history in hurumanu 1.

Hurumanu 2 (Reading / Drama):

Hurumanu 2 was a fun hurumanu, because we get to do a play in drama class. Me, Jhrnylle, Cate and Shontai did a play about 'Bullies'. We need to form 4 people in each groups, and we have to act out the character that we have. There is 4 characters that needed to be acted out, the characters of the play was Grynd, Stryk, Kuff and Boot. I was Grynd and Jhrnylle was Stryk, Cate was Kuff and Shontai was Boot.

Hurumanu 3 (Writing / Science):

We did a lot of fun experiments on hurumanu 3 like for example, the dry ice experiments. While that experiment, I learned that the dry ice isn't made by water. That's why it's called dry ice. We also did the egg drop challenged, basically. We have to build a lego rover, a lego rover that will protect the egg. We have to pretend that the egg is us, so when it cracks that means you are dead. It was fun constructing the lego rover.

We also did lots of writing in hurumanu 3, because hurumanu 3 is a mix of writing and science. We did some reading activity, and we also answered the questions that they have for us to answer and make a D.L.O about it. One of the tasks that I did was about mars rovers.

Hurumanu 4 (Write / Visual Arts):

I think I enjoyed hurumanu 4, because one of my hobbies are arts. Like painting, or drawing. In hurumanu 4, we focused on poetry and the colours. We get to paint the primary colours and the complementary colours. We did a little bit of painting, but I learned many different poetry. One of the poetry is called Haiku poem.

Hurumanu 5 (Maths / PE):

I learned a lot of maths in hurumanu 5, because Hurumanu 5 is a mix of Maths and P.E. We mostly did maths, and less P.E. At least I have learned a lot about Geometry and Probability. In my opinion, I liked learning geometry, because I think it's simple and easy to learn. My favourite thing in all maths stuffs is probably g

Hurumanu 6 (Maths / Health):

In hurumanu 6, I liked learning about health. We get to research about a health condition that some people has, it can be deadly. Our task was to create a D.L.O about the health condition that we chose to research about, the health condition that I researched about was very interesting. The health condition that I chose was: Depression, Lung Cancer and Flu. Not all people have these health condition, but unfortunately. Depression is also a health condition, because some people have depression for some reason.

B&E - Business Enterprise

This year, I experience running a business with a group of people. My teammates were Elisha Mae, Losalini and Stephanie. Our business were basically like a gift bag, a cultural gift bag. We made more than 1 gift bags. We had about 2 bags, that is themed in different countries. We did Philippines, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Fiji. Each bag contained 1 scented candle, 1 pencil, 1 loom band braclet, 3 stickers, 1 note facts about the culture and candies.

Thank you for reading this post about my reflection of this year. Bye.

Typhoon Vamco

 Hello everyone, this post is about Typhoon Vamco. Typhoon Vamco is a typhoon that went across Philippines to Vietnam.

In hurumanu 1, which is social science and reading. We have to finish the Christchurch Earthquake task, which I have already finished. If we have already finished the Christchurch Earthquake task, we have to make a D.L.O about a disaster that happened anywhere in the world. The disaster that I chose to make a D.L.O about is Typhoon Vamco as you can see in the title.

Basically, Typhoon Vamco is a very dangerous typhoon that struck Philippines and Vietnam. Everyone who lives in Philippines and Vietnam have to immediately evacuate. There was many deaths and injured and some people were missing. The typhoon started at the Northwest of Palau, and went came across Philippines and landed in Vietnam. Both countries were damaged, Luzon was the most damaged place in Philippines.

Even if the flood was weakened, there's still a chance that it might reach other islands.

For my D.L.O, I created a slideshow. Here is a link for the slideshow that I created about Typhoon Vamco: Link

Question: If you have a chance of helping people that was affected in the Typhoon, what would you do?

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learn't something about Typhoon Vamco. Bye!

Margaret Mahy

 Hello everyone, in Wanagna we had a new task to do. It's a EOTC Week task board, if you haven't heard. Our EOTC starts next week. We will be going in 3 places, which is Jelly Park, Margaret Mahy and Christchurch City Centre. So we had to choose a task board and make a D.L.O about it, and after we have finished it we have to blog it so that people can see our work. 

The task board that I chose is about Margaret Mahy, they prepared a task for us to do and make a D.L.O about it. I made a slideshow about Margaret Mahy. Margaret Mahy is a very famous New Zealander author, she has made lots of awesome children books and also young adult.

Here is a screenshot of one of the slides I worked on: Link

Question: Have you ever read one of Margaret Mahy's book? Which book?

Thank you for reading this post about Margaret Mahy, bye.

Protest / Mr John Minto

Hello.

In hurumanu 1, we worked on protests that happened in New Zealand. Protest is someone who says a statement about their objections, one of the biggest protest that happened was the Parihaka and also the Women's Suffrage. We had to read an article about all of the main protests that happened in NZ, here is the link to that article if you want to read what it says there. In the article, it shows many different protest that happened the Great Strike was also involved in there. 

Here is the slide show that I worked on about the protest:

Link

Mr John Minto:

John Minto had an important role in the Springbok Tour Protest. South African's didn't let South Africans join the All Blacks team, and the All Blacks didn't let black Maori join the South African's team.

Mr John Minto protested with other 300 people, he was wearing a blue helmet. While in the protest, angry rugby supporters started attack John Minto, which is was bad. He's helmet was damaged, because some people was hitting him.

Which protest is are you interested in?

Thank you for reading this post, bye.

Japan Slideshow

Hello everyone,

In Homeroom (HR for short), we studied about Japan. So we have to study about Japan and make a D.L.O about it. I already know a little bit of things about Japan I guess. We can research about the Japan's history, tradition or something popular in Japan. 

I used slideshow to make a D.L.O about Japan, I researched about the capital city of Japan (which is Tokyo) and some more popular things in Japan.

Here is the D.L.O I made about Japan:

Japan Slideshow

What I think of Japan:

I think Japan is a very unique country, because there are many crazy inventions that they made. It's shocking that there is about 300 kit-kat flavours in Japan. 

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learn't something new about Japan.

Bye.

Navigation In Space

 Hello everyone, this blog post is about navigation in space. We have a new challenge for us to do tomorrow in Science. The new challenge is called 'Bucket Head Challenge'. 

Aim: Can I navigate in a straight line without my senses.

We also need equipment, the equipment that we need is:

- Bucket
- Cotton wool
- Blindfold
- Safety partner (A safety partner that you can trust).

Instruction:
1- Put the cotton wool in your ears and nose.
2- Put on the blindfold.
3- Put a bucket our your head.
4- Get your safety person to spin you 3 times and line you u with the flag.

5- Begin to walk in a straight line.

6- Write down how you did, and how you felt.

We have to get all of those equipment ready, and put it on. Our goal was to try to walk in a straight line with the blindfold, cotton wool and the bucket.

Questions:

1- What are your five senses?
The five senses are hear, see, touch, feel, smell. We use these senses to detect the environment.

2- How do people get lost in the jungle?
People might get lost in the jungle because it's either because they wanders too much, or it's because it might be their first time going to the jungle and they don't recognise the environment.

3- Do you have anything special about your legs?
I'm actually not sure if there is something special about my legs, but our Science teacher said that everyone's leg isn't even. One is longer than the other one.

Hypothesis:
I think that I will walk in a zigzag because I might be not sure where to go, like I might get lost.

Thank you for reading this post, bye.

Navigation In Space - Science [Hurumanu 3]

Hello! In Science, we were tasked to answer the questions that they prepared for us and answer it on our blog or in a google doc. The questions are space related such as the solar system. Like for example, the Mars is part of our solar system

What is a Solar System?

Solar system involves the sun, stars and the planets. The planets are in a specific order. The order is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. We are the third planet in the solar system which is the earth. The solar system is full of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. There are also many milky ways and galaxies.

What is the Milky Way an example of?

The milky way is an example of a galaxy, and our solar system is part of the milky way.

What is a star?

A star is a glowing ball of gas. It is made from mostly hydrogen and helium. Which are bound together by its own gravity. It is supported by Nuclear fusion reaction against gravity. Producing photons, heat and small particles of denser elements.

Describe a nebula

Nebula is a big cloud of dust and gas, the cause of nebula is the dying star’s explosion. So when the star explodes, it creates a big cloud of dust and gas which is called ‘Nebula’.

How do stars die?

Stars die because they run out of hydrogen, if they run out of hydrogen the star dies and explodes which creates nebulae.

Is there an up and down in space?

There up and down in space. Down is a way of gravity pulling you down. Up is the opposite way.

How can stars be used to navigate?

They can use stars to navigate by finding the 3 separate stars. For example, one of the stars is called the Northern Star. It’s also known as the Polaris star.

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learn't something new about navigation in space.

Bye.

P.E / Maths Discus

Kamusta Readers,

Welcome back to my blog!

Today I will show you my work from P.E / Maths. This post is about discus. This post is late.

My teamates were Lhysette, Jhrnylle, Jaren and Kate. We throw our discus and recorded our score. First we did a practice. After the practice it was the real one and we have to record our score. We have to do discus on knee, discus standing. When it was my turn, I messed up because discus on knees were a little hard for me. We have to record our score on a data and transform it into a graph.

Here is the data for the discus:


Here's the graph of the discus on knees and standing:

Question: Have you ever did discus?
That's all and thank you for reading this post! You can comment if you want! Bye!

Reading/Drama Bath (Hur2)

Ohayou Gazaimaz/ Konnichi Wa!

(Good morning)     (Good afternoon)

Welcome to my blog post! Today I'm going to show you what we have been doing in Hurumanu 2. 

Hurumanu 2 is Reading and drama. The teacher put a link to a site called "The Prediction Collection", and in that site we have to choose a picture of a scene and there's some questions bellow that we have to answer by just looking what the picture looks like and you have to put the reason why you think it is. Here is the site so that you can also use it!

Here is my work that I did:

Baths

Credit: Pascal Campion

What is happening in this picture? Describe it to someone who can’t see it.

• What is the boy doing? Why?

It looks like the boy is playing in the tub with its cardboard sword. The the dad was trying to clean the boy.

• What is he imagining? Why is he imagining this while he’s in the bathroom? Where did the sword come from?

Maybe the boy was imagining that he's the tarzan because the boy is hanging in the bathroom curtains. The boy’s dad might have given the toy sword to him 

• How is the man feeling?

Maybe annoyed because he’s trying to clean him and also shocked because the boy hanged in the bathroom curtains

• Do you think their bath times are usually like this?

I think this always happens because most of the kids have imagination about fun stuff like this.

• Add speech bubbles to the image.

“I’M TARZAN, I’M TARZAN” The boy said and climbed on the curtains.

“Please keep it down son, you might wake up the neighbors, their sleeping.”Dad said

“Awww…”The boy said disappointedly and climbed down the curtains.

“Good boy” Dad said proudly

• What do you think will happen next?

The boy yelled and woke up the neighbors, and the next day they went to every house in their neighborhood to say sorry.

Thank you for reading this post and also my work! You can comment if you want to. Have a great day.

Sayounara! (Goodbye!)