Art

 Kia Ora everyone, today is our last week of term 3, and also doing Arts. I really enjoyed since this semester we are looking at photography, and the very first week of art we look at Hannah Hoch she is a dad artist. She was born on 1 November 1889, and she lives in Gotha Germany. But then afterward this dad artist die on May 31, 1978, but the location was a bit different she died in Berlin Germany. Her story goes like this...

In 1936, she bought a house near Berlin and lived throughout the Second World War. She was also praying that all of her neighbors would note her identity and give her away. Then a man named Kurt Matthies was a businessman and a pianist in 1938. Hoch’s darkly playful Dada dolls stand apart from the work of the other artists in the Berlin Dada group with whom she was related. Given that the Berlin chapter of the Dadaists was only founded in 1917, these small-scale sculptural works indicate her awareness of Dada ideas in general since its inception in Zurich in 1916. Hugo Ball, a writer, was most likely an influence on her.  The ball rose to prominence for his performance of sound poetry there, which he delivered while dressed in a mechanical-looking outfit made up of geometric shapes. The costume can be interpreted as a commentary on the contradictory feelings people have about developing technology. At the time, technology was both appreciate and feared as it was both social and economic progress while also posing a threat to humanity.  

Her accomplishments: Hoch was a pivotal figure in the self-conscious practice of assembling disparate photographic elements from various sources to create art. This strategy of combining previously unrelated images to make sometimes startling, sometimes insightful connections was adopted by many Dada and Surrealist artists of her era, as well as later generations of post-modern conceptual artists in the 1970s and 1980s.

In art are making photomontage, if you are not familiar with this word. This is a type of process and the end result of making a photograph by using these materials such as gluing, cutting, rearranging, and overlapping two or at least more photographs into a new image. The good thing about this is that you need to use your imagination and be more unique and creative. Also using the images wisely. There is also another similar word for this, and that is collage. Collage is a composition of materials and objects that are pasted over a surface, but photomontage is a single composition series of pieces of paper, photo, or any other media artistic image. For my work, we are asked to make three different collages using the categories of Haute Couture, or maybe we can do anything we want and go crazy with the images. To make this easier for us, she gave us a site that can easily take off the background. This is called remove. bg, this will change everything when you are editing. 

My work:

               

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.

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.

                                           

The Trolley

 Last week in ESOL, we focused on reading. We have read the story about " The Trolley. It was about a family who's not rich but can afford small things. We were asked to create a blog post, and reflect on what I have learned from the story.  I have learned that we should all be grateful for everything, even though it's small or big, it doesn't matter. As long as it is from someone who truly appreciates you, and gives you the best life. Also, the other thing I have learned from the story, I know that we all feel happy when we receive hundreds of money because we can buy anything we want. But that doesn't mean you can buy happiness from it. You can only become happy when you feel loved or special. In the story, their mom couldn't buy an expensive thing because she doesn't have enough money. What she did was very inspirational, she stayed up all night making the gift even though her friends invite her to have a party. She chooses her kids as her priority. She feels anxious that they might not like it because it was just a simple gift. But she was wrong, her kids liked it even the others They played with it happily.  Homemade gifts are better to let the receiver feel the extra love. In addition, a homemade gift lets someone feel extra special rather than giving a store-bought present. I have learned a lot of things from the story, and I was also asked to write a diary but from the point of view of one of the kids. 

Dear Diary, 

My name is Miria and I have one brother called Hoani, it’s almost Christmas Eve and I'm kinda feeling down. I heard that everyone in my class will be receiving nice gifts, and I’m getting jealous but I’m keeping my hopes up because I believe that my mum will buy me the most precious thing in the whole entire world. Now that I remember in school we learned a definition of some words, and I still don’t get it even though I keep asking myself what it actually does mean. Almost Christmas Eve and I can’t wait, me and Hoani asked permission if we can stay all night since it was almost Christmas. Unfortunately, she didn’t let us, I find her suspicious about her actions. She is probably hiding something from us. She’s not like that, we all promise each other that we should not keep secrets. I and my brother and I woke up on the happiest day, which is celebrating Christmas! I’m so excited about what we are about to receive this year. I hope it is something we can use every day together. We run outside as fast as we can, even though we're still in our pajamas. Then we stopped, we didn't say a single word when we saw the gift. Hoani and I ran outside, while we were holding the gift she gave us. It was a cute little trolley. I might not be pretty like those skateboards, and it might not be an expensive gift. For us it is already the best gift ever, now I understand the purpose of life and the definition of gratefulness.  It is all about receiving something with all my heart, and Hoani and I may not be rich but we have the best bonding. We both receive the best mum in the entire world, and it also is not about having tons of money. Christmas is all about bonding with each other and thanking each other…