Inquiry: Current Events | Pou Whenua Poles, The 1975 Maori Land March, and The Bastion Point Occupation

This week, we have been learning about New Zealand current events. These are events such as the Maori land march, and the Bastion Point Occupation. But our main focus was on Pou Whenua poles. If you don't know what they are, they are sort of like totem poles, although there are quite a few differences between the two. Pou Whenua poles are carved wooden pillars, that tell stories, and are used by Maori culture to mark territorial boundaries. There were two specific activities to do with this information, although for now I can only show one of the two. One activity that we had done with Pou Whenua Poles was to create a Venn Diagram comparing them to Totem Poles. All of these activities had to be done with a partner. So without any hesitation, Sanujan and I quickly made a pair. In the end, Sanujan and I finished these activities just in time before the deadline.

Inquiry: Career Questionnaire

Today, each and every one of us in LS2 took a quick questionnaire to see what career we could possibly do in our future. We used a website named Career Quest, to take the test. In this test, you will have answered 78 questions asking how interested you would be in doing a certain topic as a job. The test takes around 15 - 20 minutes, and gives you a series of careers depending on your answers. Next we would chose one of the careers that we liked, and share your thoughts with someone with the same results. There were quite a few careers that did interest me, but one that I am still passionate about doing is an Animator/Digital Artist. Sanujan and I ended up with the same results, so we looked around the website for some facts about the job, and how well the payroll is. Finally, we would share to the class the career we chose, and the pay it goes for a year. This was an interesting task for us, although we will be revisiting this task at the end of today.

HIIT: Week 1 | Session 2

Today, we had our second session of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) for the first week of term 3. You may remember that we did this last term, and now it has come across to the following term. To start this term off, we began by going over our original rotation. But now we have gotten creative. Today we all chose a series of activities to put into the rotation. In the end we settled with star jumps, tap step, and high knee sprint. Next, each and everyone of us would get into lines of five where we would attempt to be in sync with everyone in front of us. For this, we would do an exercise for 30 seconds, and have a 30 second break. This would continue in the rotation that we chose for ourselves. This went on for roughly 15 minutes. Breaks included. We also had Mataio and Tiava the amazing people that they are, demonstrate the rotation, and a few warm ups. This session of HIIT was a lot of fun. The reason being that it was better to have a variety of different exercises for different muscles rather than just working on our legs, or arms. Hopefully the next session will have even more exercises, and even more challenges.

My Term Two Holidays: Recap

For the last two weeks, our school has been having our term 2 winter holiday. Whilst we did needed to have a holiday away from school, we were also given a small challenge. That being two post 3 blogposts about our holidays at any point being, as long as we completed it during the holidays. There will be a link to those two other posts if you would like to check them.

Week 1:
During this week I mainly stayed around home for the whole of the week. There were times were we would do something a family, but most of our plans were set for week 2.

Week 2: During this week, me and other family members visited the amazing Rotorua. We were there for 3 days, and had a lot of fun. Day one was placing everything into the hotel. Day 2 was visiting Skyline to do the Luge, and the Zipline. Finally on day 3, we stayed around the hotel for a bit, and left.

Week 1 Post:
Here

Week 1 Post:
Here

My Term Two Holidays: Week 2

For the last two weeks, our school has been having our term 2 winter holiday. Whilst we did needed to have a holiday away from school, we were also given a small challenge. That being two post 3 blogposts about our holidays at any point being, as long as we completed it during the holidays.

Week 2:
This week has definitely been a lot better. As of Tuesday me and some other family members took a trip to Rotorua. We visited there for 3 days, from Tuesday to Thursday. The biggest highlight of the trip had to be visiting SkyLine, and doing the Luge, and the Zipline. We spent the whole of Wednesday there, going through each attraction together. We were there for the whole day, and only made it back home at around 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Then came the final day, we left to go home at 12.00 (The time where we needed to check out), and made it home at about 8 o'clock at night! That day, we didn't do anything exciting, as we rather just chilled out for the last few hours at the hotel. I had a really fun time at Rotorua, I wonder when we will be able to revisit the amazing things that we did there.

My Term Two Holidays: Week 1

For the last two weeks, our school has been having our term 2 winter holiday. Whilst we did needed to have a holiday away from school, we were also given a small challenge. That being two post 3 blogposts about our holidays at any point being, as long as we completed it during the holidays.

Week 1:
My first week of the holidays was an extra long weekend for me. Pretty much I would stay around the house, and chill out. I would occasionally do something out of the house, but we had already set all of our plans for the following week. This isn't the most interesting post, as there wasn't anything interesting that happened during the first week of the holidays. Although this was a boring post, the following post for the next week will be a better post with a more interesting topic.

Maths: M&M's Presentation

Last week, we were given a small challenge. Our challenge was to collaboratively work with a group to produce a presentation about the chocolate lollies M&M's. We were assorted into groups for this task, so I was put with Mele, Fraidon, Junior, and Jaydon. To start this all off, we had to do some statistical work. First each and every one of us would make a prediction how many M&M's we thought were inside of a 45g packet. Next we would vote on which M&M colour was our favourite. This could be because it looked appealing to the eye, or maybe you have only tasted one colour. Whatever the reason, we all made our votes. Next we would go onto finding our results. As a group, we would open and sort out a packet of M&M's, and place each colour in a vertical line to make a bar graph with only M&M's. Although what would we do with the M&M's later? There is only one way, eat them. Now with our chocolate filled mouths we would begin bringing this all together. Using this data that we had collected, we would all create a pie chart, and a bar graph showing what we found. We would then place the two onto the google presentation. Next we had to go surfing through the internet to make a brief history on M&M's. This would then be prepared onto the presentation in bullet points. If you thought that was it, then you'd be wrong, as now we were asked to find a lists of interesting facts based on M&M's.Many people found many different facts. So many, that we eventually had the same ones. Finally, we ended it all off by comparing our data to what the MARS company (The founders of M&M's) had to say about how many of each colour they put into a packet. What we needed to do was use our findings of data to compare what they say about their packets, to what we got.