ESOL - End of Term reflection

 Good morning/evening everyone, today in ESOL class we started with a listening test. This is kinda bit fun since we don't have to do much work for this hour, and for my result, I was quite happy with how it comes out. For my end-of-term reflection in ESOL, well we did tons of reading and writing tasks. But for the past few weeks, we have been silently reading this book called "WONDER" since we didn't get to read it whole we are on lockdown. We are doing, what we missed out in lockdown so we continued it. For me since, I'm almost finished with the book. So I think that it was a great book since it has some lessons in life. Such as no matter what you look like, just be yourself and be confident.      

We are also doing some tasks around this book, and I find it fun to do it on my own time. But also in school when I'm doing work I like to talk with other people and discuss things with them. Even though some of the tasks take so long, I don't really mind as long as I finished them on time. The good thing about doing this stuff is that we have to critically think, be creative, and just have fun. Like when you're reading a novel, it will improve your vocabulary and it will feed your brain with words which is a very great thing. The best lesson I have had is that when the teacher is reading to us, I really enjoy it since all we have to do is to listen really carefully and remember the most important part of the plot. I also find it very relaxing, and very peaceful but sometimes I quite find it a bit boring. I also enjoyed doing, group activities, and also watching a movie.  I like doing group activities since I have the chance to communicate with other people and talk to them, even though we're really not that close to each other. Communicating with others is a good thing, I get to find new friends and also boost up my confidence. Talking to others takes a lot of courage, since the one you are scared of the consequences, two you are afraid they might make fun of you. I would probably try to be more confident when I'm presenting in front of the whole class, and I will also try to improve my listening skills and stay awake. Because sometimes I feel really tired and don't have the energy to do work and it wouldn't help me to stay focus and finish up my work. To also pay attention to the whole class, and especially to the teacher. I enjoy doing ESOL this term, and I can't wait to do it again next term.

Science ( Electricity and Electroplating with copper )

Good morning/evening everyone, today for the end of our topic for science. Since it's the end of term 3, and probably we will be moving on to something new and different topics. Our science teacher gave us some different topics, we can choose from but it needs to be related to electricity because that was our focus topic only this term. I can't choose a topic between what's the difference between parallel and a series circuit, and how does lightning work. So I made up my mind, and look about how does lightning work. Also, this is related to static electricity. 

At this point in the hour, for our last session in Science, we did an experiment that is called electroplating with copper. Well, it basically means a type of process of plating a layer of copper electrolytically on any type of surface in an item. The process is that the copper will physically flow through the item, and that is reduced to the metallic state by gaining the electrons. 

Experiments steps: 

 - In a group of 3 to 4, then if you found a team. Gather together a Power Supply, 2 wires with clips, Copper Sulfate solution, Copper, Beaker, and safety glasses. Or any item you wanted to plate. 

- Secondly, put your clips onto the positive and negative terminals of your power supply. Attach the copper to the positive wire and the metal you want to plate to the negative wire.

- Put the copper sulfate solution in a tall beaker and put the copper and item in the solution. Avoid the clips entering the solution.  

- The last step, is that set your power supply to  6 Volts and remember to turn it on! And level it for several minutes. 

Result/Discussion:

The result is actually very interesting, from what I can see is that after leaving it for several minutes. You can see that it will form a thin layer, solid, metallic copper that is spreading all around the surface of the item. Copper in the Blue solution was Cu 2+, with an electrical current turned into Cu ( which is the orange metal ) on the negative electrode. 

Electrons can be managed to knock off the atoms of one object and stick to the atoms of the other when two materials rub against each other. Objects that lose electrons become positively charged, while objects that gain electrons become negatively charged. If somehow the charge difference, known as the voltage, is big enough, electrons are attracted from one object to the other in order to cancel it out. All through thunderstorms, ice crystals in the clouds rub together, leading to a positive charge at the top of the cloud and a negative charge at the bottom. Whenever the charge difference will become very large, the electrons moving at the bottom of the cloud move through into the air to the positively charged ground immediately below it, resulting in the spectacular bolt of lightning. It is worth noting that one bolt of lightning contains enough energy to power a tiny insignificant town for an entire year.

Then I also looked at maglev trains:

To move, the world's fastest train employs electromagnetism. Maglev trains use powerful electromagnets to suspend themselves a few millimeters above the track. In addition, maglev trains do not have engines. Instead of engines, they are propelled along the tracks by the changing magnetic field. A maglev train through Japan has reached a maximum speed of 581 km/h, but if those run into tunnels with no air to slow them down, they could one day reach speeds of over 6,000 km/h.

A connection between both electricity and magnetism, including when an electric current or an alternating electrical field generates a magnetic field, and whenever a changing magnetic field tends to produce an electric field. Electromagnetism has been the science of control and the forces and fields that accompany it. Electromagnetism includes both electricity and magnetism. Electric charges, whether at rest or in motion, generate electric forces.

I got all of my information from a book, that my Science teacher let us have read it. I have enjoyed looking at these different terms.

Flyer - Wananga (Mental Health Week)

 Kia Ora everyone, today we are looking at Mental Health Week. Yes, we needed to focus on checking how we feel about today and what are the things I can do to myself just to stay positive. Yesterday, we started doing one activity which is writing about how we feel, what my hopes are for the week a who would I love to take time to korero with. 

  So today is Tuesday, and I'm really excited to share with you what are the activities around it. There are 6 different activities we can do. Either it can be outside or indoor. I have chosen the activity of creating a flyer that advertises some local activities that can be done in the Canterbury Area. Also to make things easier for us they gave us some websites to assists us. I have chosen to make a camp flyer since I also love going to camp with my family and friends and enjoy the nature outside. For my location, I picked to go to Sumner Christchurch. Because one they have beautiful scenery, and they also have a great place to camp.  To make this we can either do it on paper or on our Chromebook. Since we only have 1 hr of wananga time today I choose to make it on a Canva. I have enjoyed creating this, one I get to think critically of what are some activities that will catch the audience's eyes. And also how I can present it to them, formally. 

My flyer: LINK 

Badminton

 Kia Ora everyone, today we have a task to do for P.E. For the past few days, we have been playing badminton and since at this point we are supposed to do another sport but because of lockdown, it got extended. We will be playing badminton for weeks, and learn new skills. I was really excited and happy about it since badminton is one of my favorite hobbies to do every day in my life. In this blog, we will be talking about and are to every one of you how to score a game of badminton. Badminton is very easy to understand since all you have to do is to receive the shuttlecock and it has to be in and not to be out in the outside line. 

When you are playing badminton, scoring is sometimes can be a little bit tricky since there is a specific out line when you are playing doubles or singles. Also, one main thing is when your team is the first one serving, it always starts on the right side. It goes like this odd numbers, you have to serve on the left side then if it's even then you have to be on the right side. You are not allowed to serve straight, but diagonal. Also, one rule that some players get confused too, is when you serve and the shuttlecock touches the line, then the point will still belong to the player who played that shot. Just then when the shuttlecock falls, and the of it touches the ground first, and it touches the line then it will be considered inside.  When you are umpiring, you need to remember that a point is scored on every serve and awarded to whichever wins the rally. There are usually 3 games played, so might win 3-0,2-1 or even 2-0. It depends on the player's scores, also the winning side will still be the first to serve on the next round. If the is 20-20, a side must win by two clear points to win the match. Then also you needed to remember when it reaches 29-29, the first to get 30th point win the game. 

That's the easier way to remember of how to score in a badminton game.

Message in a bottle

 Kia Ora readers, today for wananga work we started doing some creative writing about a message in the bottle. Since our teacher is not feeling so today we have to write a story about the bottle, or you could write the letter, or maybe you can write about the person who wrote the letter or maybe the person who found it. e have tons of choices to pick from, and I thought of writing about me writing the letter for my future self. I got the idea from the teacher, so I thought why not write about it. My story starts with my main character Amelia cleaning her room because they need to move house in about a week. When she was cleaning her room, she slipped because she accidentally stepped on the dusty old bottle she found on her cabinet. When were writing the story, we have to include where the bottle been found, who found it, who wrote the letter, when was it written and what does the letter says?

I was really proud of my story even though it's just a short one, I was happy that I get to include all of the things I needed to. What I like about creative writing, is that no one is wrong.

                                           

Day 4/5 - Tongan Language Week

Hello everybody, this will be the last task around the Tongan Language week. This is probably one of my favorite activities since I get to draw some patterns for our day 4 activity. Tonga kupesi ( kupesi means the name given to design a tapa cloth), we need to search the pattern in google and have a go at drawing it I was so excited to do it. And I'm satisfied with the outcome of my art, and I have enjoyed doing this. Furthermore, let's move on to our last activity for day 5 for this one.  I have learned another thing about Tonga, and that is everyone is allowed to work or go out every Sunday. They only do three things and that is, they go to church, eat and sleep. So for the task, we have to write persuasive writing, to convince the government why they should remove this type of law and what are my argument be?

Drawing:

Speech:

                                                 

Day 2/3 of Tongan Language Week

 Hello everyone, this will be my day2/3 activities around Tongan language week. This two activity is quite an interesting one since I learned that there are only 17 letters in Tongan alphabet, while in another hand in Maori there is only 15 letter in the alphabet. For day 2, I was actually asked to make a video of me singing the alphabet since I was too shy to do it and some of their words were too difficult to pronounce. So what I did was to sing the whole song by myself even though I had a had time doing it. Instead of making a video, I made something that will still relate to it, like researching about the alphabet and what's the difference between the Maori and Tonga. While on day 3 I learned more about their traditional dances, like example the most famous traditional dance is called the Lakalaka it expresses the history and the legends of Tonga. 

Day 2: 

The Māori alphabet

The Maori alphabet consists of 15 letters:

• eight consonants: h, k, m, n, p, r, t, w
• two digraphs, representing single sounds: ng, wh
• five vowels: a, e, i, o, u

The vows may be brief or long. Contemporary conventions are the macron: ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, lengthy vow. Long vowels have historically not been noted or signified by two vowels, aa, ee, ii, oo, uu, a system currently used in the 2000s by the Waikatans.

In New Zealand, there are three main dialects; East North Island, West North Island, and South Māori Island. Māori South Island possibly comes from Māori Island in the East of the North. Moriori from the Chatham Islands spoken by Moriori may, in turn, originate from the Māori South Island. 

In many places, different pronunciations are found. The 'ng' is pronounced by Ngāi Túhoe as 'n' whereas the 'ng' is substituted by the 'k.' The 'wh' is pronounced as 'w' and is a glowing stop in the Whanganui and Taranaki tribes. The 'wh' in 'whaka' is pronounced in certain parts of the northern country as 'h' so that 'whakahaere' is like 'hakahaere.'

Motuʼaleá Faka-Tonga

• 17 letters in the Tongan alphabet.
• 5 vowels; a-e-i-o-u
• 12 consonants; f-h-k-l-m-n-ng-p-s-t-v- ‘
• pronouncing the consonants you add ʻaʼ to the end – Fa-Ha-Ka-La-Ma-Na-NGa-Pa-Sa-Ta-Va
• Fakaʻua (glottal stop) is considered a consonant and the last letter in the Tongan alphabet

In the early 19th century, Tongan was written by the missionaries using several alphabetic systems. The first book in Tongan was William Mariner's 1817 grammar and dictionary of the Tongan language. In 1943 the Privy Council of Tonga adopted the current system. A variety of weekly and monthly periodicals are available in Tongan and certain religious works books and translations, such as The Bible.

Day 3:

The Me'etu'upaki is an old group Tongan dance, already reported by early navigators like Captain Cook. The Tongan dance is a dance by an ancient group. The dance standing with paddles. This dance has typically been meant for guys, even if women do not have enough men. The (me'etu'upaki) looks like a battle dance but is done in contrast with arms with small symbolic paddles. Most actions have paddles on his hands, but a good and bad performance depends on the small and delicate movements in his head and legs. The paddles do not serve as gestures, but they are turned, moved on and down, or to the left. The dancers start in one row, perhaps in two, when there are many, and occasionally the positions are separated into chaotic movements, but they return to perfect unity at the finish.

The otuhaka (first of all: row-of-dancing) is a traditional Tongan-based group dance with a notable Sâmoan influence, in which dancers sit down and perform their gestures with their arms exclusively. 

In the beginning, the song was performed by the older women, mainly women, who should be too old to stand. They were mainly ladies. Very commonly, a Úla, performed by her (standing) daughters and some young girls, mainly ladies, was followed by a Úla. In another method, the Otuhaka was said to occur serenely and delicately early in the morning to awaken the King. Traditionally, music consists of batting the tafua bamboos, rolling in a mat, only to preserve the beat.

The Ma'ulu'ulu is a traditional Tongan dance performed by a seated group of men and women; the dance style is the straight follow-up of the Tongan Ancient the Tongan which was synthesized in the 19th century with the Samoan maulu'ulu. The Maulu'ulu was one of the various dance forms (e.g. Taualuga) and choral song styles (e.g. 'otuhaka), introduced by cultural spread to the Kingdom of Tonga in the late 19th century. The Samoan maulu'ulu currently differs from the Tongan Ma'ulu'ulu considerably from their technical and choreographical differences, yet the similar origins remain celebrated.

The maulu'ulu was one of several dance forms (such as Taualuga) and choral singing styles (such as 'otuhaka) that were introduced into the Kingdom of Tonga in the late nineteenth century through cultural diffusion. Although their common roots are still acknowledged, there is currently a significant technique and choreography between the Samoan and Tongan maulu'ulu.

The tau'olunga is a dance for unmarried young women, particularly to perform on their wedding day. A married couple or an older woman performing a tau'olunga is unusual, but not impossible. It is also uncommon to see a man perform the dance, but he can increase the dancing girl's movements to highlight her beauty. Regardless of these exceptions, the tau'olunga can be performed at any special event. It is usually performed by a small group of girls, up to ten or more, although it can also be done solo. Older women's involvement is typically limited to handclaps to the beat of the song. The tu'ulafale is the name given to this position.

The Sipi Tau, the pre-game challenge of the Tonga rugby union national team, was written by King Tama Tu'i Tupou IV in 1994, but its origins may be traced back much further. There were no problems in Tonga before the 1800s. In fact, chatting was regarded as a sign of weakness in warfare. However, in the nineteenth century, a war dance from the neighboring Wallis and Futuna Islands was introduced, and Tonga rapidly seized it. The Tongan rugby squad has used numerous different Sipi Tau over the years, however, it is unknown when they were initially used in rugby. The most recent was written to commemorate a brief but successful trip to New Zealand in 1994. The existing expressions were first utilized.

Soke or eke is a Tongan group dance in which the performers bash sticks against each other to the beat of a drum. It shares some aspects with the English Morris dance, but it is a completely separate development. The entire performance, as with other Tongan dances, is designed to enchant the audience and delight the chiefs. There is actually no hidden agenda.