I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 8 and in 2021 I will be a year 9. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
Kumusta everyone, today I have chosen another task around our wananga activities. In this blog, I will be combining two of my work, around writing. The first task was to write only a 100-word challenge using the prompt lock-down 2.0, and then the other task was creative writing we have to write a short story based on one of the given pictures. In the first task, it was not that difficult to do because I only have to write 100 words, the only thing is that I keep forgetting about the limit so I have to re-read everything. And always keep an eye on how many words I have written, so when I go overboard I will have to remove another word and try to re-write the sentence to make it clear and understandable.
For my second task, I used the second picture. Because for me it gives me the vibe of one of the anime movies. I have watched it, and it was actually my favorite one so I used it as my inspiration. It took me a long time to think of a different name and shorten the movie out. It took me a long time to do it, and this time I actually find it quite difficult but I have finished it. Writing is actually quite fun, it helps me build another imagination and put me in a different world...
Kia Ora, I have another task around the wananga work that was set for us. This task is all about our well-being, it has 5 questions and we have to write about what we do with that situation. I used google docs, and play around with it I also remember when one of my yr 9 teachers taught us how to present google docs in a different way. So I looked back on one of our lessons that has the instruction and steps. I used her ways of using the doc, instead of just presenting it plain.
Our well-being is really important because it helps us to be healthier, and achieve what we want for life. For me, it is defined as being comfortable, happy, and productive and it also means we can avoid discomfort and stress. It is one of the good things for our growth.
In this task, we have to look around the music of the Pacific. This includes Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, New Caledonia, and lastly Tahiti. We are given 4 different questions so basically, we have to do another research, and I have chosen to present them in a slide show. Since it was easier, to edit, and it didn't take me a long time to research it. I have learned a lot of things that I actually didn't know about them, especially when it comes to their flag. I was shocked at some of them since I haven't seen them, but I love the fact every flag was so colorful. I also love the fact that each of this country, their place was clean and full of friendly people and also beautiful nature. I've enjoyed doing this since some of my friends come from one of these places. I have a hard time looking for some answers since sometimes some random things pop out and it will give me a different answer.
Hola everyone, today I will be sharing with you what I have done around task 3 which is about listening to new music. The slideshow shows 15 different famous musicians that paved the way in their genres, our task was to listen to one song from each of them, and it also asks if there were any of them I would listen to more. I also need to find one of my favorite songs from each artist. When I was listening to these songs, I actually regret not listening to them. I remember one time when my mum is listening to the Beatles, I asked her to stop listening to those types of music it was because I know nothing about them. But now I'm starting to like this type of music. After listening to a few of the songs, when I came across this American cellist. Named Yo-yo Ma, and when I listened to one of his songs I actually liked it out of all the other songs. Why? Because I'm actually a type of person who likes calm music, and every time I'm listening to it and I'm doing my work. I will be more focused and I would finish my work in no time. For now, I would love to listen to him playing his cello while doing chores or maybe doing my work...
Magandang gabi/umaga everyone, I'm super excited to share with u guys what's the purpose of this blog post. Well, I will be sharing with you what I did for this task, we have to watch a youtube clip and carefully teach me how to create a piece of origami. I have searched tons and tons of ideas of how to create one, but none of them seems easy. To be honest, I'm not good at creating this type of thing, because I'm not really a crafty person. But I still tried making one, and I think Kinda did a good job at following the instructions. I have thought of why not make a flower base, I wanted to create something cute and also useful. I choose to make a flower base, just to put in my room but there's a twist instead of putting flowers I wanted to put all of my pencils, markers, and stuff in it since they're all over on my study table.
I had tons of fun creating this, even though I did struggle a lot so what I did was I changed the speed of the video, to 0.75 (slow) so that I can understand it more easily. But I have to redo it over again, but I'm still proud that I did it by myself by just watching a youtube clip. I'm happy with how it turns out because now my table is not that messy anymore.
Garden sculpture, for this task we have to make our own garden sculpture by finding any object outside the house. I tried searching for some ideas, and it took me a long time and brainstorm how to create my own one. Then I realized that I can recycle stuff, such as the cap of the bottle, and some old wood. My idea was to cut out some piece of wood, into any shape like a bird, flower, boat, etc. Then just put the bottle cap all over it, and I'm thinking of using a metal nail instead of super glue. In my opinion, I think it wouldn't stick that long if I use glue, and sometimes it dries really slow.
I actually had fun doing this task, because I tried drawing what I wanted it to look like when I make this sculpture. I feel like drawing is the easiest way to explain something, so I tried my best to make it look similar to the one in my head.
