Health: Term One 2019

In health this term we have done some interesting stuff.

So far we are learning about hauora, wellbeing and how to keep your wellbeing intact.

Spiritual wellbeing is what we are focusing at the moment. The Maori name for this is Taha Wairua and it is about your beliefs. In this topic, we are trying to discover our identity and what shapes it.

One of the tasks was to create a sort of mindmap and put labels on it about what we think makes us who we are, here it is

Another task was to choose 2 values you have and explain why you have

1. Friendship and wisdom

2. Friendship is important to me because it makes me feel a sense of self-worth and it also allows me to help others naturally without them really asking. Wisdom is important to me because it makes me feel smart and important
and I like that

3. A moment in my life when I really lived one of these values is when I got 90% on my science test as
it made me feel really proud of myself

4. If people aren’t respecting my friendship I would probably feel really sad and like my friends don’t like
me

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Child Slavery - Social Studies

This term in social studies we have been learning about slavery and child slavery. We were asked to make a presentation about either Child Trafficking, Child Soldiers or Child Slavery

Here is mine (and Nathans):




My research was about the use of children as slaves in African Nations.

Something new that I learnt is that 72.1 Million Children are used in child slavery

My most useful resource was the International Labour Organization website. It has lots of information about the situation and what they are doing to stop it.

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Sharing messages with children

• Children stories: Wilbee the Bumblebee, Walter the Farting Dog
• Philosophy for children: helping others, being happy, rhymes
• Anthropomorphism
• Political Satire - Tom Lehre, Tim Minchin
• Dr Suess - The Lorax
• Traditional Fairytales, Fables.

Conventions: songs, stories, alliteration, rhyme, repetition, Roles - empathy, Humor

WTF?????!!!!!!! MY COMPUTER JUST DID THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!

In DTE we have been doing various things. We started the term by creating a site for our DTE work. It contains most of what we have done over the course of the term. It is created by google sites and is kinda average

Next, we created an infographic about Ergonomics. Ergonomics is a study of workplace efficiency and how it can be more efficient. I used Venngage to create my ergonomic. I had a lot of fun creating it and it was the first time I had used Venngage to create something so I was glad that it was very easy to use

In our third lesson, we played a game called Interland. It was a game that teaches people about cyber-bullying. It is quite a fun game and carries a good message. Interland is about internet safety and not getting trapped by bullies. There are different levels, and these are a couple of them
Reality River: Teaches you some of the signs of a possible scam, such as receiving an e-mail from some you never heard of or a relative you didn't know had a computer.
Mindful Mountain: Teaches you what people you should send different kinds of messages to, such as video you and your friends made, it should be sent to those friends.
Interland is an overall pretty good game. It helps send important messages in a way people will understand.

Our fourth lesson brought me back to Venngage to make another infographic about cyber-safety and a website that focuses on how to be cyber smart. The site is called Uru Manuka. It is a cool site and if you want to be more cyber smart the check it out:https://sites.google.com/a/manaiakalani.org/cybersmart/home

And last so far for the term we have been doing a project on a site called Digital Bytes, Here is what I wrote:

News Literacy

Main Video

What part of this video struck you the most: The part of the video that struck me the most would be the
part where it was talking about how a lot of online news sources were changing to personalise who gets
what news. I think all news sources should just show people the really important stuff otherwise people
will misleading news

News Literacy Video B
1. The purpose of journalism is to inform people of what is happening so they can have an understanding
of what to do
2. A couple of years ago my mum read somewhere (not sure where) that Indycar driver Scott Dixon had
retired from racing. The way she recovered the truth is when the first race was on and Scott Dixon was
racing. He later won the championship for the 5th time
3. You can tell if a news story is true if any other news sites have covered it. Some stories will seem like
they should be headlines around the world but they are only covered by one site
4. The repercussion for someone who provides fake news is an interesting scenario. My friends and I
were talking about it the other day and a couple of times one said the death sentence. I think the penalty
should be a fine of anywhere from 20 to 60% of that person's income and suspension of around 2 - 3 years
5. I haven’t heard this quote through the news but my very smart friend Nathan says it sometimes
6. Fake news sites are annoying, however, the onion admits that it is built solely for satirical purposes

I had a lot of fun this term with DTE and I look forward to next term with Mr Carter

Supergirl - English

I English we have been watching Supergirl and trying to understand how it correlates to the real world. In Supergirl, there are aliens and those aliens are treated like immigrants (which is weird because sometimes immigrants are referred to as aliens). We were asked to write a paragraph and here it is

Supergirl, Welcome to Earth carries many messages about Racism, Sexism and many other isms. Although fictitious it suggests a lot about the current world and how every corner you turn they WILL a person who has different views and they will most likely be extreme.

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How Animals Move - Drama

It's nearly show time and here are some of the moves that animals make

Walking



Jumping



Running



Eating



Meowing