Health-Resilience

Resilience

I learnt that resilience means to, be able to recover from step backs, never to give up, and to keep trying no matter how difficult or tough your situation might be. Resilience is important in many different ways because resilience helps you to maintain balance during difficult times in your life. It also is important because it can prevent you from developing any mental health difficulties and harming you well being.  

Relaxing

I learnt that relaxing is important, not only for you but your body and mental health. Relaxing is important because it can help you calm down any stress or anxiety you may have, clearing your mind of any negative thoughts, and also help with relieving any mental health thoughts you may be thinking of. Ways of relaxing are, lying down with no noise in silence just focusing on your breathing and surroundings. I can use this method of relaxing in life by, doing these steps before an exam and also by if I am stress out or angry. 

Empathy

I learnt that empathy is to have an understanding of what one may be feeling. Empathy means to know what another is feeling and going through in life or in present moment. Empathy has many benefits and is important in a number of ways. Being empathic can help you reduce stress, trust, healing, personal growth and have a nourishing bond with others. Being emphatic can help me if life by know ones felling when they are in a stressful situation. You know how that other is feeling, therefore, you can help them cope with what they are dealing with. 

Mindfulness

I learnt that mindfulness means to pay attention, taking the time to notice the things around you, and being mindful of your language. Mindfulness is important because it can maintain the quality between you and another i.e. with friends. Mindfulness is also important because it can improve your thought process, feelings and concerns not just for others but yourself. I think mindfulness would be a really good skill to have later in life as I grown up. It could help me think positive, to forgive and to connect with another.

Body clues 

I learnt that body clues is where your body responds to a certain emotion you may be feeling. Body clues pay a big part in one's daily life. Body clues are important because it can show how you are feeling and how other think your feeling. Your facial expressions play a big role in this because it can show other if you happy, sad, angry etc. In life, I can use body clues to show others how I am feeling. I also need to make sure to not use verbal language or have an attitude towards people who may want to know how I'm feeling. 

My presentation

There are many strange things that happen on earth every day but, I would have to say the stages thing I have ever seen in the whole entire universe is a floating house. I stumbled across this stage floating house when I took my dog for a walk. Words can't explain how shocked I was, I was really weird out by this. My jaw dropped, eyes went wide open, right hand pointing to the house, hands starting to become sweaty as I hold my dog's leashes, mind feeling confused. My dog barked very boisterously, he was as shocked as me. It was like the house was being controlled by someone with magic powers. The floating house was spread by birds of all different types, the weather was sunny with a few clouds. The house looked as tho someone or something was living in it because steam was coming out of the chimney. The smoke was black and was rising higher and higher as time went by. The house was high in the sky, two-story, creepy looking, it had four windows in the front, a wooden door, and a doorbell which was unexpected as no one could be able to ring it. Only people with wings or some sort of magical powers could be able to ring it. A few minutes went by and started to think someone must be in their, maybe someone with black hair at shoulder length, old clothes, short in height, skinny, and emotional hurt and lonely.

Drama

What is Matariki?

Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades. It rises in mid-winter and for many Māori, it heralds the start of a new year. Matariki literally means the 'eyes of God' (Mata Ariki) or 'little eyes' (Mata Riki).

Stan Walker Aotearoa  

What style of music is this? 

The style of music is Pop/Maori

Who performs it 

Stan Walker, Ria Hall, Troy Kingi, Maisey Rika

What inspires them to write it? 

I think there inspiration wh that is was Maori language week. So they wanted to make a piece of a performance to contribute to the Maori language week. 

What did I like about the music? 

I like that they incorporated Maori into it and I also like the music video. 

What did I like about the video? 

What I like about the video was, how everyone contributed to make the word Aotearoa. 

Wairua

What style of music is this? 

The style of music is Pop/Maori

Who performs it?

Maimoa

What inspired them to write it? 

Maimoa Music is a collective of 12 young emerging Māori artists with an aspiration to inspire future generations.

What I liked about the music?

I liked the melody of it was really catchy to dance to.

What did I like about the video?

I liked the whole vibe they had and their dance moves

Matariki [Ngā Mata o te Ariki, o Tāwhirimātea: The eyes of the god, Tāwhirimātea]


What type of story is this?
This story is a history story. It tells how the earth was made in a Maori story.

Who was it written for? It was written for people who want to learn how Maori see the way that eath was made.

What is the main idea?
To educate people on how Papatuanuke and Rangnui got separated.

What did you like about the story?
I like that tells you how the 2 god go separated and who is what god.

If I were to perform this, I would need other to help me with the roles that are played in the video and, I
would also need props, music and an audience.

What would it look like?
I'm not quite sure how it would look but, If we were to perform it It would be worth a lot of hard work and commitment.

Musical Performance

Drama class 2018

This term my class and I had to perform some sort of musical. The item we performed wat the time warp from the movie rocky horror.  

What have I learnt? 

I have learnt what skills are needed to perform in a musical. I have learnt what a musical is and how they work. Something I have learnt while being with my class is that some of my classmates are a bit shy to perform in front of a crowd of people.  I say this because most of my class did not perform. 

How does this work show my learning? 

The Performace showed my learning by seeing how well I listen and pay attention to the teacher. It showed what I learnt about music and what is need to make a musical suspenseful.

What did I find challenging? 

Something that was challenging for me is that I was a bit nervous to perform. in front of a crowd of people. Although I did it, I do not think I did my best I could have done better. I kinda let my self down, but I now know that I must try harder. 

What would I do differently if i did this again? 

Something I would do differently is, be more involved in what my class is doing. What I mean by this is that I need to listen more to my teacher and my other classmates. 

What did I enjoy? 

I enjoyed having a bit of fun and goofing around with my class. It was fun just to play around.

What am I wondering? 

I am wondering how I could have performed better. How I could have improved and how I should have listened better. 

This is the link to the video.that we copied our dance moves form.  Time warp

What was it like performing on the day? 

For me, it was a bit nerve-racking as I do not enjoy performing in front of a crowd. Just because they judge and could have negative opinions. But the performance, my class did was a bit disappointing as only about 5 others and myself performed because my other classmate was shy and embarrassed.  

Mathematics

Outstanding learning (Maths)  

Introduction: 

Hi, my name is Nia from 9AK. In this blog post, I am going to be telling you what I have been learning in math's class. Paige, Mikayla and I, have made a digital presentation about Percentages, decimals and fractions.

D.L.O.- Digital learning object 

You will find my infographic here-----> My work

Reflection:

For the past few weeks in math class, we have been learning about percentages, decimals and fractions. When we first started to learn about it, I must admit I was a bit confused, as I didn't have much knowledge of what these were. The more and more work and teaching I got, the easier it was for me to understand. Some of the challenges I had were, finding a way to solve the problem of some equations, trying to get a percentage and a decimal out if a fraction and most of all working it out without using a calculator. It took me a few weeks to learn what all three were, but after a bit of hard work, I got the understanding of all three. My group and I worked really hard on our infographic, on this site called venngaeg. I really enjoyed making it with my group. Personally, it was a bit challenging but we were very successful. Venngage help me digitally display what I had been learning.

Source

The source my group am I use was  Venngage I recommend this site if you are looking for a great way to showcase your work. 

My group and I gathered our information from Maths is fun I recommend this site for anyone who is stuck on what something is. It not only tells you what they are, it tells you how to work them out. 

Question

Thanks for reading. Do you think venngaeg was the best way to showcase my learning? 

Strategies for being assertive

Strategies for being assertive

Assertive is being able, to tell the truth. Some examples of an assertive act are suggesting, being direct, and putting forward.

Knowing your priorities- Respecting my self and others. Doing well at school, making sure I complete the work and try my best.

Eye contact- Look at the person you are talking to, look at their forehead or nose if you feel like it is Arcward between you to.

Body language- Having posture, have a straight back, the way you are moving or acting around them. Don't speak like you are in an aggressive mood.

'I' statement- How to think about yourself and either feeling towards each other. Telling the truth.

FIltering muddy water

So in science, we had to get into a group of 6 and work together to filter a dirty cup of muddy water, to clean drinking water.

The equipment we used for this was:
3funnels
A cloth
2 pieces of filter paper
a clamp
a boss
and a cup of dirty water

My group an I had to use all this equipment to try and filter a dirty cup of water. It was a bit of a challenge as our group was not too sure on how to set it up for it to work the best. After a few attempts, we figured out the best method that would work for us to make our experiment successful. It turned out really well, our water becomes cleaner than before. For this to work out we had to have a lot of patients, as the water drip through the filter paper drip by drip. Overall it turned out really well, our team was very successful. Although it was was clean we did not drink it, as we did not know what was in the beaker before we used them.