Rights and Responsibilities

This week in maths we were learning about business studies. We had to design a business plan and execute it. After we all made robust plans, we had to pitch them to the class and the best one won. I hope you like looking at our plan. If you had a business what would you do?

UV Light and How It Works

Walt: Make a presentation about UV sensors.

Task Description: The above is my a presentation about UV Lights and How It Works. It solves some of the most burning questions about UV and solves some myths about it too. The reason we have to make this presentation is because it is related to making a UV sensor, which is our other project for Term 4 Extension.

Coningsby : A weird adventure

A long time ago there was a place called Coningsby, a place with no rules and a place which looked like a radioactive wasteland. Coningsby was a place made by the government of the country Ambrosia to see how people will behave in a post-apocalyptic situation.

Jordyn was a young man who was talented in parkour and knew the ins and outs of parkour while his friend Marcus knew the basics of survival. Marcus used his survival skills to tell Jordyn what to do and Jordyn used his parkour skills to do it. Together, Jordyn and Marcus worked to get food, water and tools. Months passed and they found other groups who were also like them, finding resources but they just waved and went along their journey.

Jordyn and Marcus were always afraid of the NoJacks, a gang which killed anyone they saw and didn’t care about their own lives. They were reckless and cause chaos wherever they went.

On an unlucky day, Jordyn and Marcus found the NoJacks marching where they were going and tried to hide. They knew that if the NoJacks found them, they wouldn’t escape alive. They hid in a garbage bin, as unhygienic as it was, they knew that the NoJacks wouldn’t suspect anyone hiding in a garbage bin. Unfortunately for them, they made too much noise while hiding and got caught.

They tried to run away but they were no match against the NoJackers, They were killed mercilessly and they woke up. Turns out Coningsby was a test ground to see how people would behave but if someone died they could go back home with their family. Unfortunately for the NoJacks who will never die because of the amount of resources and power they have, they will never be able to return back home.

Behind The Scenes of Springer

Genomics with Dr. Thierry

Today, Dr. Thierry told us about different chromosomes and how different genes affect us. We had to pair different chromosomes with their colour. We also learned that there are 46 Chromosomes ( 23 Pairs ) and that it is 100 Million base pairs long. There are 20,000 Genes.

Team 5 Museum Trip

On 1 November, 2019, Team 5 went for a trip at Auckland Museum. We got divided into groups of 3 and each group had a KPMG helper. There were about 31 KPMG helpers. I had Nytram and Ash in my group

Team 5 Museum Trip

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Team 5 Museum Trip

Term 3 Cell Animation DLO

During Term 3, the students in Team 5 made a Cell Animation which explains different parts of a cell and their functions. This animation took me about 6 weeks to complete and was very hard at the start, but once I started using some techniques I was able to complete the last 80% of it in 1 week.

 I completed the animation and I took screenshots of it and shared it to myself in Google Drive from where I was able to complete the script, record the voiceover and edit the video and audio in 2 hours at home.Now, that I know how to do the work, I think I can do all of it in a few days.

I also had to research a lot for the facts and the components of organelles since I had to find some interesting facts. I would say the easiest part would be the voiceover, which took me about 8 minutes per paragraph because of mistakes but during the end I was able to say everything in one go. For the editing, I just had to extend or reduce the video and cut the mistakes from the voiceover and then export to my drive.

Reflecting on my Maths this year

This year,

Year Reflection Maths Room 4

Learning the D'hammerschmiedsgselln

This week Lennox,me, Hopa and Damien learnt the D'hammerschmiedsgselln. It is a dance that involves some complex combination of hand moves and the dance could be easily ruined if one person messes up. There are 2 pairs in a group and each pair starts on different moves. While learning the dance I found out that while one group has their hands up the other group's will be down and vice versa.

What makes a good sibling?

Do you think you are a good sibling? Well if not, then here are the main qualities of a good sibling that you can look up to. A good sibling is Obedient, Cheerful and shows initiative.

A good sibling is obedient which means that they listen to people around them. They don’t get upset when they have to do more work. For example, an employee working on extra tasks that his boss gave to him.

An admirable sibling is cheerful. They enjoy their time and don’t get upset about little things. They smile all the time and make people around them happy. For example, a boy not sad about raining on a rugby game.

A great sibling shows initiative which means they do work even when not told to. They complete their tasks on time. For example, A person doing chores without being told by their parents.

So in conclusion, to be a good sibling you have to listen to your parents, you have to be joyful and you should complete work without being told to.

What makes a good leader?

Do you think you have got what it takes to be an effective leader? Well if not, then here is how to be an effective leader. An effective leader is cooperative,is honest and is also courageous.

Firstly, an effective leader is cooperative which means they work well with their group and don’t exclude anyone. For example, a boss would tell ALL of his employees about an upcoming project and work with his employees to distribute their work.

Secondly, a leader is honest with his team members. They give their honest opinion about someone’s work and gives them constructive criticism. For example, a boss could tell his employee if his work is not as good as he envisioned and suggest him where to improve.

Lastly, a leader is courageous. They are willing to take risks knowing that they can fail. For example, A phone company could launch another type of product like a laptop that the customers may not be used to, knowing that the product has a very high chance of failure.

So in conclusion, to be an effective leader you have to be a good team worker, truthful and you have to be brave.

What makes an effective leader?

WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE LEADER

Do you think you have got what it takes to be an effective leader? Well if not, then here is how to be an effective leader. An effective leader is cooperative,is honest and is also courageous.

Firstly, an effective leader is cooperative which means they work well with their group and don’t exclude anyone. For example, a boss would tell ALL of his employees about an upcoming project and work with his employees to distribute their work.

Secondly, a leader is honest with his team members. They give their honest opinion about someone’s work and gives them constructive criticism. For example, a boss could tell his employee if his work is not as good as he envisioned and suggest him where to improve.

Lastly, a leader is courageous. They are willing to take risks knowing that they can fail. For example, A phone company could launch another type of product like a laptop that the customers may not be used to, knowing that the product has a very high chance of failure.

So in conclusion, to be an effective leader you have to bea a good team worker, truthful and you have to be brave.

Onion Cell Drawing

The 

Cheek Cells

Onion Cells Drawing

The above is a drawing of an onion cell taken from the internet. I drew it as practise for my cheek cell that I am gonna draw.

Attitude Talk

2 days ago, Team 5 had an attitude talk in which tony from Attitude talked about how to Tackle Technology. He told us about how kids are willing to talk to people online more than willing to talk to people in real life. He told us that people can act like a 12 year old even though they could be 20 years old and there could be no way of knowing. People could also be mean to you and there could be no way of knowing.

Algebra + BEDMAS

The above presentation is about recognising algebra patterns, plotting them into a graph and also completing mathematic equations in the right order using BEDMAS.

Should uniforms be necessary?

Can you believe people think students should not wear school uniform? Students should wear school uniforms because students won’t get judged by other people for wearing bad clothes, student attendance is better and It is easier to find a trespasser.

Firstly, People won’t get judged/bullied by other people for having a different clothing style which they don’t like. For example, if someone doesn’t jeans with holes in them and you wear them to school they will probably judge you but if your school has a mandatory uniform code everybody will look the same.

Secondly, The student attendance is better in schools with uniform policies.
According to Natalie Regoli from Vittana.org ”When there is a mandatory school uniform code in place, statistics show that student attendance rises.” Students can focus more on their work since they are not shy of getting judged by other people at school because everyone has the same clothes.

Finally, It is easier to find a person who does not belong to the school. If there is someone trying to hide amongst school students it would be easy to find them since they will stick out like a sore thumb.

Schools should have mandatory school uniforms because it would be fair for everyone, students can focus more on their studies and students would be safer.
Do YOU think students should have to wear school uniforms?

Pause Point 8 - Explaining the origin of life

The above presentation explains my thoughts/opinion on the insides of a cell.It also has some information about how every living thing is made up of cells.

Should Zoos be banned?

Can you believe that zoos aren’t already banned? Zoos are struggling financially, the lives of animals are dependent on the treatments of humans and breeding programs are not a guarantee for species’ survival.

Many zoos are struggling financially and can no longer care for their animals properly.

Even Big zoos like The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle had $2 million more expenses than their revenue. Lots of zoos also have to euthanize animals and lots of time animals are killed just because they are not popular and they require a lot of money to grow.

Breeding programs are not a guarantee for species survival.\

Some animals like The Giant Panda is a prime example of how difficult breeding programs in captivity can be. Up through the 1990s, about 30% of Giant Pandas in captivity could reproduce. When the cubs were born, most of them would die while still in infancy. Survival Percentages have risen up to 70% since then.

The lives of animals are secondary to the lives of people.

Crystal Ayres from vittana.org said ”If visitors intrude into the animal enclosure, it is usually the life of the animal that is put at risk. An example of this occurred in 2016 when a 3-year old boy was left unsupervised long enough to crawl into a gorilla enclosure. To save the boy, the zoo killed the male gorilla named Harambe.”

In conclusion, zoos should be banned and other alternatives like sanctuaries or an Eco-vacation may be way better environmentally and way more enjoyable.

Pause Point 7 - Nerve Cells

The above presentation shows my knowledge about nerve cells.It tells about the different components of a cell that make a nerve cell.

It is way better being the youngest kid

It is way better being the youngest kid

It is way better to be the youngest kid because you never get the blame, you have more freedom and you know all the cool stuff before your friends.

Firstly, Your older sibling always gets the blame. Your older sibling always gets the blame because they're meant to be older and wise.For Example, Whenever I break something my brother gets the blame since he is supposed to “look after me”.

Secondly, You get all the freedom.Your older sibling is the more important kid since he is older and has more responsibility like buying a car, choosing a university etc. so your parents focus on the other kid so they let you do anything.For example, My brother wasn’t able to go out of house on his own until he was 13 but I was allowed to go out of house on my own when I was 10 since my parents were focusing on my brother.

Finally, You get to know all the stuff before your friends.Your older sibling tells you his school stories and you know everything before your friends.For example, my brother told me about his high school and then know I know lots about high school before my friend.

So, now you know that being the youngest sibling is the best.

Malaga Careeer Speakers

Yesterday, we had 3 speakers who gave us advice about us and our career. All of them were family to Team 5 Leader, MS. Tele'a. At first, Jason Young came here and told us how when he grew up in PES everything was different and how we nowadays have chromebooks and other stuff to help our learning. He also told us that if we get injured we just need to be strong for a few days and then you will start to feel better. He was a builder and gave us life tips.

After that we had Fiona Bakulich, Mrs. Tele'a's sister came. She is a Funeral Director. She is very caring for dead people and helps their family on tough situations.She also worked in a show called THE CASKETEERS and she was famous.

Finally, there was

Pause Point 6 - blood

The above presentation shows my knowledge of blood.It tells about the components of a blood and what makes human blood red.

Pause Point 5 - Octopuses and Cephalopods

The above presentation explains my thoughts/opinion on Octopuses and Cephalopods.It tells about the different organs present in an octopus to make it a camouflage master.

Mince Gravy with Potato Salad

STEPS

STEP 1 - Boil the potato until it is cooked.

STEP 2 - Fry the mince with onion add 1 cup of Bisto and flour.

STEP 3 - Serve with potato salad.

Pause Point 4 - Zebrafish

The above presentation explains my thoughts/opinion on zebrafish.It shows how even though the zebrafish looks very different than humans its DNA is very similar to Human DNA.

My trip to KPMG

Today the year 7 & 8 extension group along with others went to KPMG. We learnt lots about marine biology and we even had a fun activity at the end in which we were given some every-day objects and we had to make a robot using it. The robot just had to be decorated and not functional as we had to think of a use for the robot. The food was also very good like always and I had lots of fun. And thanks to KPMG for letting us have lots of fun and also being one of the main manaiakalani sponsors.

Butter Chicken

INGREDIENTS

1/2 Onion

Chicken

Butter Chicken sauce

Spices

Cream

Rice

STEPS

Step 1 - Dice the onion,Chicken.

Step 2 - Fry until it is cooked.

Step 3 - Add butter chicken sauce, spices, cream.

Step 4 - Stir for 10 mins and serve with rice.

Pause Point 3 - The fragile web of life

The above presentation explains my thoughts/opinion on the fragile web of life.It shows the importance of bees and how everything is inter-connected to each other.

Mince Wrap

INGREDIENTS

1 Onion
Mince
Flour
Hot Water
Pastry

STEPS

STEP 1 - Dice the onion and fry it with mince until it is cooked.

STEP 2 - Add 2 tbsp of flour and 1/2 cup of hot water stir for 5 minutes and take it off the heat.

STEP 3 - Cut the pastry into 4 equal pieces.

STEP 4 - Fill up the bottom sheet with mince.

STEP 5 - Close up with the top sheet and seal all the edges with fork.

STEP 6 - Bake for 20 minutes.

Life Processes

This week I learnt how to check if something is alive by using the seven life processes.

Pause Point 2 - Explaining the origin of life

The above presentation explains my thoughts/opinion on the origin of life.It also has some information about me.

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Chicken Wrapper

INGREDIENTS

1 Tomato

Some Lettuce

Chicken

Mayo

Cheese

Flour Tortilla

STEPS

Step 1 - Dice lettuce and tomato.

Step 2 - Fill all your ingredients in one side of the wrap.

Step 3 - Wrap the tortilla.

Step 4 - Enjoy!

Royale Family Dance Crew Junior

Today, the Royal Family Dance Crew Junior came to our school to fundraise for their trip to America for the Hip Hop International 2019 and also to have more stage time in front of an audience. They did an amazing dance presentation in the hall and they split the performance into two halves. The first one was actually my favourite one because I didn't know what to expect and after the first half there was a Q&A and then the second half took place after which 4 kids did a dance competition with the winner being the one with the most cheers and they all got prizes for participating.

Sup Quiches

Step 1 - Whisk 4 eggs with 1 cup of milk.
Step 2 - Dice the Ham
Step 3 - Add Cheese
           - Line up the pastry into the muffin tray
Step 4 - Tin and bake  180C for 200 mins

Plastic Pollution Poem

You should use bags you can reuse,

You can help the Earth if you choose.

Throw away plastic, glass and cans,

Reduce the rubbish in our lands.

Point in the right direction

Today in Extension, Mr. Jacobson came and did a mini presentation in which we learnt how to use compass. After that we did a mini course in which we had lots of markers and we used a compass to figure out the directions.

What if the world was 30 people?

The above is the % of Wealth and % of Population of the World if the world was 30 people and the world had 100 cookies as all of its money. The information was given by the 2000 consensus

Making Pasta

Today we made Spaghetti and had lots of fun with it. It was tricky at first but then King and Justice helped me a lot and then we were finished

Silver Corn Beef with Vegetables

For Tech we made Silver Corn Beef with Vegetables. We used a variety vegetables like Onion,beef,cabbage and many more.

Chocolate Muffin

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cup of SR Flour
1/2 cup of Sugar
1/4 cup of Cocoa
50g of Chocolate Chips
1/2 cup of Oil
1/2 cup of Milk
1 Egg
2 Tbs of Yoghurt
1 Tsp of Vanilla Essence

STEPS
Turn on an oven at 160 degrees.
Get all the ingredients and mix all of them in one bowl.
Get a muffin tray and put your muffin wrappers in them.
Get a dessert spoon and put 1 Tbsp of the mixture in the muffin tray.
After you are done, you put your muffin tray in an oven at 160 degrees.

After 20 minutes, take the muffins out the oven and Enjoy!.

Kumara Frittata

How to make Kumara Frittata. 
INGREDIENTS
1 Kumara
3 Eggs
Cheese
1 cup of Milk
1 Egg


STEPS
STEP 1:
Peel the Kumara and grate in chesse grater

STEP 2:Whisk 3 eggs with 1 cup of milk

STEP 3:
Mix with Kumara and pour into the baking tin

STEP 4: Bake 180 degrees celcius

STEP 5:
Enjoy!

I like your latitude

The above is my scratch animation. This term we learnt about different continents.
This term I learned how to export Hyper Studio files as PNG files and import them in scratch.

Climate Change Poster

The above image is a Climate Change poster I made in 3 minutes. It sums up how Climate Change happens and how to prevent it.

Climate Change: Our Biggest Challenge

In the above presentation I discuss about my opinion on Climate Change.

Number between 1/15 and 1/16

The question - What is the number between 1/15 and 1/16.

Solution - 1/15 is the same as 2/30 and 1/16 is the same as 2/32 So the number between 2/30 and 2/32 is 2/31.

Chocolate Bar Share

We have three share of chocolates - 1/3, 2/5 and 3/7. We have to figure out which one of them is the biggest. By using the prime factorisation method we can see that their LCM is 105. So the equivalent fraction of 1/3 with the denominator being 105 is 35/105. The equivalent fraction of 2/5 with the denominator being 105 is 42/105 and the equivalent fraction of 3/7 with the denominator being 105 is 45/105. 35/105 < 42/105 < 45/105. The biggest fraction out of these is 45/105 or 3/7.

Making Muffins

Today we made Muffins at Tech and had lots of fun. It was my first time cooking or in this case Baking. The ingredients were simple and easy to mix. 

INGREDIENTS

1 and 1/2 Cups of S.R. Flour.
1/2 Cup of Cocoa.
1/2 Cup of Sugar.
1/2 Cup of Milk.
1 Egg.
1/2 Cup of Oil.
2 Table Spoon of yoghurt.

STEPS
Step 1 - Get 1 Cup of S.R. Flour and put it in a big bowl.
Step 2 - Add another 1/2 Cup of S.R. Flour to the bowl.
Step 3 - Add 1/2 Cup of cocoa to the mix.
Step 4 - And carefully add 1/2 Cup of Sugar because if it spills then ants may come to your kitchen.
Step 5 - Add 1/2 Cup of Milk to a container for wet ingredients, add the egg to the bowl.
Step 6 - Add 1/2 cup of Oil to the bowl.
Step 7 -  Add 2 Tbsp of yoghurt and you are done with your ingredients.
Step 8-Mix everything in the bowl until you can only see the brown part and not any eggs or flour.
-Put Muffin linings on a tray.
- Carefully pour your brown paste into muffin linings.
Step 9 - Put the tray in an oven at 180° for 20min.
Step 10 - Carefully take your muffins out and Enjoy!!.


Special Thanks to Ms.Pulotu for teaching us how to make muffins and also teaching us how to use diffeent kitchenware.

Transformation

In this week's maths we learnt the different types of transformation. There are 4 basic types of transfromation which are ; Rotation ,Reflection , Translation and Enlargement. After we learnt about those types of transformation we tried to make a scratch version of a sprite performing all of those transformation in a griid.

My Experiences at Leadership Camp

On Wednesday, The 15th of May all of the Year 8s went to the Leadership Camp at Kauaeranga Valley Christian Camp, Thames. We spent 2 days and 1 morning together and had lots of fun.

MAY 15 , WEDNESDAY

On Wednesday we reached the Camp and were given our cabins and our team adult. After the introduction with Phil ( The Camp Manager ) and Shelly ( Phil's Wife ) my group did a gameshow kind of thing to entertain everyone for about 30 seconds. Every group also did 1 activity that day. My team, Coromandel B, did archery. Kurtas was the best in archery. We had 3 shots each and had about 4 turns so we got 12 shots altogether. 3 of my arrows got to the target. After the activities all of us had afternoon tea and we went into our cabins to put everything into place in our cabins. After that we had Dinner and Dessert. The meal was delicious. We then went to sleep. We tried to tell each other in our cabin scary stories but everybody was tired but none of us could go to sleep because of King. King was talking loudly and was flashing a bright flashlight into everyones eyes and I thought I was blind for about a minute. At about 12 am I went to sleep but woke again at about 6 am and decided to stay awake.

MAY 16 , THURSDAY

Thursday was a very busy day. My team did 5 activities. Our first one was air rifle. We went with Mrs. Flevelle and had a fun time. Some of us were scared to hold an actual gun but got over it after a few shots. All of us got 3 shots and 2 turns. I had all of my bullets in the target but none of them in the Bullseye. The best in air rifle from our team were Kurtas and Josloe.

Our second activity was Flying Fox with Mr. Jacobson who was Coromandel's team adult. We had lots of fun but Petesa and Pelinilose didn't want to go to the flying fox so they just talked to each other.

Our third activity was Games at the gym. At the gym Our team played lots of fun games like Captain's Coming and Multi Sports. Leonardy was the winner of Captain's Coming and just behind him was Nytram. 

Our fourth activity was Paintball. It was Thames vs Coromandel. Paintball was a lot of fun but the paintballs also hurt a lot in close range. Because I just ran for the flag and didn't have a plan I got shot a lot. I got hit in the shoulders once and according to the rules you aren't allowed to get hit so the person who shot should have gotten out but I was in a lot of pain so I just said I got shot on my hand and waited for 30 seconds. Our team won 5 : 1.

Our last activity which was definitely the most fun was Go Karts. At first, I was afraid that I may hit an obstacle so I just put my foot over the accelerator pedal and retracted becuase I was afraid I may hit something. But because there were three laps on the second lap I just put my foot down as hard as I can to accelerate as fast as I can. I almost ran into a tyre but I turned at the last second. The Go Kart was loads of fun and even watching other people was fun because it meant your turn is getting closer.

After that we had a good dinner and dessert and all of us presented our items, had a very fun disco and went to our cabins. We all had a very good sleep.

MAY 17 , FRIDAY   

We all had a way better sleep. And all of us overslept. We heard a buzzer and all of us got awake at the same time. We started to look at each other. We realised we woke at the same time and we had about 20 minutes to get ready which included brushing your teeth, changing and washing our mouth. Me and Lepa who were on the top bed of the bunk bed actually jumped from the top and opened our suitcases. I almost fell over justice who was below me.

All of us got changed as fast as we could and ate breakfast. Friday was a hectic day and everyone had work to do. Me, Justice and Hopa saw that our team was low in points so we cleaned the boys toilet and cleaned the floor. We got a 130 points and won by 2 points but nobody added the points so nobody knew we got 130 points so we know in our minds that we won.

After that we went to a garden and the garden had lots of valuable collectibles like having every soda pop, soft drink, bottle caps and even some ancient maori tools.

Concrete Coordinates

In the above presentation, I do some map and coordinates problems and try to solve them.

AFRICA : Wildlife At Risk

In the above presentation, I researched about an endangered animal, The Fisher's Lovebirds. They are a species of parrot that look very good and are common pets. But they are one of the most common traded bird. They are great for someone's first pet birds and are also very friendly. To know more about the bird you can see the above presentation.

My Journey DLO

The above is my DLO for the second half of Term 1. In it I told about my Journey from India to New Zealand. My family also applied to go to other countries like Australia and the US and then finally
New Zealand. I hope you like my animation.

I like your Latitude - Team 5

Today we learnt about how to track your location without the use of google maps.
We also learnt what a latitude is and what a longitude is. Latitudes are imaginary lines that start from 0
to 90°. It goes from 90° N to 90° S. 0° being the Prime Meridian Equator. You can see your latitude by looking at the sun and at the stars. There are 360 latitude. Another set of imaginary lines is longitudes. Longitudes help you how far you are from the equator in terms of left and right. So the maximum can be 180.

With the help of both latitudes and longitudes we can decipher coordinates and we can figure out where we are.I picked up a random coordinate from https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/ . The coordinates are Latitude: 9.29765° N, Longitude: 59.11700°E which is in the middle of South Africa.The longitudes go from 180° W to 180° E with the Prime Meridian being the 0°.

Treaty of Waitangi Game Design Process

In the above presentation, Me and Justice made 5 possible game ideas that are related to the Treaty Of Waitangi. We are supposed to think of a game which could be played in most schools to tell people about the Treaty that keeps all cultures together in New Zealand. Our first idea was to make a Super Mario World Rom hack where you play as Mario who is a maori. You need to save the 'princess' who is the Treaty and bowser is the pakeha people.

As for our second idea, we have City Skylines which is a city building game on Steam ( The most well known platform to buy games ) and in the original game you can build any type of city so we will use that idea in our game. The player can make a city with industrial, commercial and residential areas for the maori people and after their city reaches the population of 10,000 people they would need to make the Treaty which will make everyone unite and also it will show to origins of the treaty.

Then for the Third Idea, we thought of Civilization in which you start your own " Civilization " and meet everybody. In our version of the game we have a maori civilization who will do all the things that happened in 1830s and 1840s So the player can experience everything that happened during those days.

For our Fourth Idea, We are thinking of making a version of Super Smash Bros. Especially when its new sequel has sold 12.08 million copies in 24 days.  The 30 games have sold more than 15 million copies and Smash Ultimate sold 12.08 million copies just in 24 days. We thought to make Maori people as the good people and pakeha people as the bad people.

For our final idea, we are making Diablo, which is an open world RPG game in which you learn things yourself. You earn money by killing enemies to get better armour so you get more money and the cycle repeats and it doesn't get boring. We thought to make the main character maori and Diablo as pakeha.

Attitude Talk - Blog Post

Today, Year 7s and 8s had an Attitude Talk with Jannah. Jannah worked for an organization called Attitude which teaches young kids about health and relationships. Jannah told lots of funny jokes and told us  about friendship relationship and Do's and Don't Do's. She first introduced herself to us and told us about the 3 Friendship Factors which are Girl - Girl, Guy - Guy, Girl - Guy. We also got to know some facts like Girls talk 12,000 words per day and Boys talk half of that which is 6,000 words per day. Another fact was that boys don't take friendships too seriously. One thing boys can learn from girls is to talk more and One thing girls can learn from boys is to not friendships too seriously. We also got to know 5 Thing's NOT to do in a friendship like:
1. Don't have Mean Humour.
2. Don't Backstab.
3. Don't be a Smotherer.
4. Don't Show Off.
5. Don't be a bully.

6 Thing's to do in a friendship are:
1. Be Friendly.
2. Remember Names.
3. Learn to Listen.
4. Be Positive.
5. Remember Special Times.
6. Be Yourself

Different Cultures in Room 4 Maths

The following is a bar graph and a pie chart of different cultures in Room 4 Maths

The "Key Words"- Reflection

The term "Key Word" means the important(Key) words we use to research or use to know more about a thing. For example: if you want to search about a ferrari but you don't know its name you could just search up important words to describe that car like "Red" + " Car" + " Nice Looking " + "Fast" you get about 4 million and out of that 400,000 are of Ferrari so that is a 10% chance only on easy adjectives that you will get your item. I got the 400,000 number by adding the name Ferrari so I could see how many websites have the term Red,Car,Nice Looking, Fast and Ferrari. You could get way more specific and get your desired item.

To test this theory, I asked my friend Lepa to describe me Key Words of an item and then after looking for it in the net I got the right item that he described about.

I then tested the theory again with different items and then got the right thing.

In the Web Res File I searched up 23 different keywords searches and got a lot of good hits like the one with the football in which I got the photo I liked a lot and used for my careers slide.

Another important thing to acknowledge are the quotations marks and they affect the searches a lot. Most of the times they help lower the search but sometimes they increase the number of hits.

You can group the words too without the plus and the Quotation marks. Another Very important part is that you can add more key words to the search to be more specific but we should not add random words or we may not get what we wanted.

We also learnt a lot of skills like how to make slides, Add text to slides, how to search for items and images we want, How to copy and paste images and text. 

The above slides includes all of those skills to make a good presentation.

The above skills will be used in the future a lot and especially when we are in the time of AI and robotics. If you don't know how to copy and paste images or how to add slides in a presentation you would probably not get jobs that are complexed that pay high like an engineer or a marketing because they require a person who knows knowledge of modern technology. If you know how to type fast you will be known amongst a lot of people and you may also get lots of jobs that require typing a lot of data. If you wanted to search something like research about someone in your history projects you can easily get a lot of research. For Example I searched about George Washington.

I used the keywords: "george washington"+ " research"+"History"+" important facts"and the first thing I got was a lot of important facts about George Washington and also about his history.

  

Twist Story

The following is a twist story that I heard about and I edited some bits to make it seem more interesting.

There were two ill men in an hospital room. A patient named Nicholas whose bed was near the room’s only window and the other patient named Brendan was at the opposite side near a wall. Nicholas who was near the window would tell stories through the window like how there were people eating good food and how there were guards near the road and how a little girl dropped her lollipop. One day Brendan was jealous and thought “I should be the one near the  window because I deserve it. Why does Nicholas get to see through the window”. That night Nicholas was calling for help as he was choking and was calling for help but Brendon didn’t care as he wanted Nicholas to die so he can be near the window and then the next day he shifted himself near the window only to find a brick wall covering the window.

My Job and Career

In the above google slides presentation I discuss about my future job and career and what I think I will do after school to get that job. I researched with my friend Leone who helped me do the whole thing and I got to know more about the people who do that job every day.

Review of Recconecting the Brain

The following is a review of the article Reconnecting the brain

The article Reconnecting the brain by Bronwen Wall is a Fiction article which tells us about the life of Melanie Cheung and tells us the basics of Neurobiology. Melanie Cheung is a Maori neurobiologist that respects brains and also has interest in the brain.She started researching a neurodegenerative disease called Huntington’s disease. She started searching a cure for the disease and also got to know about a famous neuroscientist called Dr. Mike Merzenich. Dr. Mike Merzenich researched on a topic called Neuroplasticity. In his research he found out that the brain is capable of storing a lot of information and is very important to us.

My First Polyfest

On Wednseday the 13th of March, My class went to Polyfest and we enjoyed it.Everybody was happy and was going from stall to stall either going on VR or stress ball or getting lollies.Everbody learnt something new and was telling everyone else from their group to try it. We also learnt a very nice dance and also had a lot of people going to polyfest.I really liked the time I spent there and got a lot of things for free like the VR, Stress Balls,Sparx Game and lots more.I also liked my Parent Helper which was my friend Lenox's brother.I may go to polyfest again and would really like to learn new something. If you haven't been to polyfest then I highly reccomend it to you.

My Dream Job

The above slide shows my dream job and how I think of my future. I also told about my career and what I want to be.

Making Of Raro

Today for maths we made Raro. Raro is a yellow flavoured drink that tastes good when you add water to it.We also learnt that 80g of Raro serves 5 people so 16 g will serve 1 person.We learnt that 1 tsp is 5g so about 3 tsp. So we added 3 tsp and added 200 ml of water and made Raro.

Maanas' Games and Learning

Today I will be telling you about my favourite games, how games can be more interesting and why I enjoy my favourite games.

This is a blogpost about games.

My favourite games (digital and non-digital) are:

*CS GO

*T.A.G

*Soccer
*Super Mario Maker
*Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

The reasons why I enjoy playing these games are:

*I like playing CS GO because it is an online FPS(First Person Shooter) and I really like how there are 2 groups(Casual and Competitive) in the game.

*I like playing TAG because it is fun when you chase your friend and when your friends chase you

*I like playing Soccer because I really like the game and find it fun

* I like playing Super Mario Maker because in it you could build your own Mario levels and also play other people’s levels.

*I like playing Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon because it is a 3d Pokemon game.

Learning could be made much more fun and interesting if it included these elements of a game:

*Entertainment

*Online Multiplayer

*Some Action or Rpg

*It should have different levels of hardness so kids can play it and also understand it.