Adrenalin Forest

 What we did at The Adrenalin Forest:

Today, we were able to complete our first EOTC Week activity which was The Adrenalin Forest. Before we were able to go out in the forest and have fun, we were given instructions and examples to use when out in the forest. Some of the  instructions we were given were... 

1. Every time, make sure your hooks are always hooked/clicked on to a rope so that if you fall or trip over, you will not injure yourself, because you would be just hanging in the air, and well your hanging in the air, you would have to climb yourself back up.
2. When on the flying fox, do not put your hands in front of the wheel on the zip line, for your hand will get badly injured and jammed from the wheel.
3. When taking off, make sure both your hooks are hooked onto the white line that is above your head.
4. Make sure to wear good and strong gloves, but not use your bear hands, for you can get painful grazes and scars on your hands, especially when going down the flying fox.
5. Make sure your outfit that you are wearing, is nice and loose, so that it doesn't fall off when in the air.

Some examples we were given... 

1. How to use the attach the hooks on to the rope.
2. How to attach wheel on the zip line.
3. How to unclip the hooks and wheel off the zip line and rope, after completing an obstacle.
4. How to climb back up after falling.
5. How to keep moving forward when stuck in the middle of the flying fox.

After we were given our instructions and examples on what to do and how to do them, we were also told the levels of how high the obstacles are.

In my opinion, Level 1 wasn't to high, Level 2 also wasn't to high, Level three and four were half of a huge tree, but both levels were kind of the same height, just level four was a bit higher than level three, and level 5 and 6 were the maximum height you were allowed to go, also known as the highest levels at Adrenalin Forest.

Me and 3 of my good friends of mine, decided to go and give level 3 ago. It was difficult getting through these scary obstacles, but we still were committed into it. 

What I was challenged:

My 3 friends challenged me to go with them on level three, to conqueror my fears and see how strong I am with facing my fears.

What I was proud about myself:

One thing I was proud about myself today, was being strong and facing one of my deepest fears, which is heights. Before, I really did not like heights, I was always scared and worried about heights, but now that I have noticed that isn't to bad, I have now conquered my fears, which really did me and my friends proud today.

EOTC Week Activity board

 

Chelsea Bremner - Wananga Task

Chelsea Bremner -

 Chelsea Bremner is teaching intermediate students at Hornby High School in Western Christchurch, but her school's rugby team joined with two others - Hamilton and Riccarton - to make up the Southern Side. Shes coaching alongside her Canterbury Teammate Cassie Siataga. 

Main Points about Chelsea Bremner - From the Article:

• Chelsea Bremner is a Teacher at High School.
• Before Chelsea Bremner became a superstar at Rugby, she first used to play netball.
• Four years ago when she began to play Rugby, she first played for Lincoln University.  
• Last year she won the Fiao'o Fa'amausili Medal for FPC player of the year and was rewarded with a Black Ferns contract.
• Chelsea Bremner also coached School teams around Christchurch.
• She really enjoys and loves being outside on the Rugby field.

Chelsea Bremner is......

1. Brave
2. Strong
3. Happy person
4. Caring person
5. Kind
6. Respectful
7. Helpful
8. A Good Teacher and Coach

How she is a good role model in any way:

Chelsea Bremner is a good role model for the country, and that is because she represents the Country/New Zealand and always commits to her Rugby.

Also she is a good role model for the Intermediate school she teaches at, which is Hornby High School. In my opinion, I think that she is a good role model for our school because she always show's leadership, by always helping kids about Rugby and teaching them special techniques players use in Rugby, also she is always committed into all the sports we do at school. Another reason she is a good role model at Hornby High, is because she is always active at all times, even when she is busy, she still is committed into anything, and that shows the school/community/Country/World that she is a good role model.

My own Question for Chelsea Bremner:

How do you feel about making these big teams, and being apart of the teams to represent who you are and where you come from???

Answer:)

Condensation

 Condensation:

Filtration - Solid + Liquid

Evaporation - Liquid (Solid dissolved in liquid) - Solid..

Distraction - Liquid (Solid dissolved in liquid) = Gas - liquid 

                                                                                      - Solid

What is:

1. Evaporation - heating a liquid, turns to a gas.
2. Condensation - cooling down a gas, turns into a liquid.

Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation. 

Equipment:

• A solution of salt water
• Conical Flask
• Heat proof mat
• A delivery tube
• Bunsen burner
• Tripod
• Gauze mat
• Retort stand
• Boss head
• Clamp
• Boiling tube

Method:

1. Set up the equipment as shown in the diagram
2. Add approximately 50ml of saltwater to your conical flask
3. Light your Bunsen burner. Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen burner under the tripod.

Hypothesis:  

In my opinion, I think that when we heat the Coke Zero, there will be no solid left after it has been heated, but with the Original Coke, I think that after it has been heated, there will be still sugar left behind.

Notes:

• Somewhere near the beginning of the experiment, I think the first few minutes, our group began to notice that at sometimes, there were small bubbles that would occur a few times.
• After a little while, our group could see that the Coke, began to Evaporate.
• After we experienced the Evaporation, we seen that the Gas started to condensation and it turned into liquid.
• After we had completed the experiment, there was only a thick layer of sugar, coloured black.

Conclusion:

All that was left behind from the Original Coke, was a large amount of dissolved sugar, and in the Coke Zero, there was less amount of dissolved sugar, than the Original Coke, and adaptive.  

Pacific Series 2k20 - Malie's Under 13s

Every year on November, we have Pacific Series, which is a Pacific Nation tournament, where all Pacific Nations play against each other in a game of Rugby League also, this Tournament was a 2 day tournament. All of our Pacific teams that were playing, we all had our own grades, and the grades were from grades ones to Mens grade. I was in Grade 13s and I played for the South Island Malie's team, also known as Samoa. 

As you can tell by the title of 'Pacific Series', there are only Pacific Nation teams who were allowed to play, but this year was different. Teams from different cities in New Zealand, were allowed to enter the competition, mainly teams from the South Island, but only that, but their were also Rugby clubs who entered the competition aswell. 

The usual teams were Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Island and The Kiwi's, and the new teams that joined were Timaru, West Coast, Linwood Bulls, also a team from Auckland well known as the Auckland Warriors. 

The tournament was held at Hoon Hay Park Christchurch, in New Zealand. 

This year, our Malie's 13s team, had trained really hard, and were committed into this interesting tournament. In our 13s grade, we faced 3 challenging teams, which were Timaru, West Coast Legends, and The Auckland Warriors. We played the 3 teams on Friday, and played all three of them again on Saturday, so in total, there were basically 6 games, and out of those 6 games, we managed to win 4 games, and lose 2 against the West Coast team. 

Our Siva Tau was lead by a young leader Gafatasi, a good mate of mine.

Separating a Mixture using Evaporation

 Aim: to separate a solution in to a solvent and solute using evaporation.

Equipment:

1. Copper Sulphate solution
2. 250ml Beaker
3. Heat proof mat
4. Evaporating basin
5. Element

Method: 

• Set up element 
• Add 100ml of hot water to the beaker and place on the element.
• Add copper sulphate to the Evaporating basin until it is a quarter full.
• Carefully, place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker. 
• Turn on the element to 3.
• Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated and crystals of solute are forming.
• Turn off the element, be careful not to touch, as it will be hot for a long time.

Observations:

Well the water is boiling, I can see the steam exiting out of the Beaker, also, I can see the thick bubbles, boiling inside the Beaker, and the condensation dripping one by one from the roof of the Beaker.

Discussion: 

The water that was boiling inside the Beaker, turned into crystal, because the liquid had solid in it, and then the liquid evaporated, which leaves behind crystals.

Evaluation:

I enjoyed doing this experiment with my group. What I enjoyed about this experiment, was watching the water boiling, and the condensation dripping from the top of the Beaker. Next time, I will not face my back against the Beaker, for safety, and also not putting my hand inside the Beaker.

Metaphor, Simile, Personification....

Metaphor, Simile, Personification

Simile:

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things in an interesting way.

Metaphor:

A metaphor is also a figure of speech that directly compares to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity to identify hidden sameness between two ideas. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, and such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile.

Personification:

Personification is giving a  non-human object human characteristics.

Hyperbole:

Hyperbole is an exaggerated claim that emphasises that point.

M&Ms

Q1. 

• The M&Ms are not peoples but they are made to look like humans. They look like humans because they have been edited with eyes, eyebrows, legs, mouths, and hands. Also they are edited to look like humans, so that people will think they are real humans, and which will also draw their attention to buy their product.

• M&M in advertisements, are made to make us feel sorry about them.

• In an M&M advertisement, the ads are also made to look like a movie and an action film.

Q2.

All forms of personification draw on anthropomorphism, the propensity to attribute human characteristics to objects. Such personification, when embedded in an ad, appears to lead to more positive emotions, more positive attributions of brand personality, and greater brand liking.

• Personification Paragraphs -

Personification is giving a  non-human object human characteristics. (Examples of an ad that uses similes)

• Lightning danced across the sky. 

• The wind howled in the night.

• The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

• Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

In real life, the m&ms do not have any personal/human features, but in the ads, they are given, Arms, Eyes - Eyebrows, a mouth, and legs. The reason why the advertisers used personification is because they express their emotions, but we understand their emotions because they are humans in the ad, and we all have the same emotions.

Similes

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using words such as like, as, or than, while metaphors create an understood contrast. You'll even find that similes have been used in popular ads and company slogans over the years, such as Chevrolet Built Like A Rock. Doritos Tastes Like Awesome Feels. State Farm Like A Good Neighbour. In the advertising world, a simile is an excellent way to communicate symbolic ideas. The advertising taglines witness a comparison between two clearly different things by the usage of such words as, like, as - so, as, if, etc.

Logos slogans -

Logos and slogans are another technique that is often used in advertising. Logos are symbols that represent the product of the company. Also Logos for advertising, is the effective technique that aims to convince an audience. For an example of a logo, when you drive into KFC, you can see a huge sign of a man painted red, black and white, which represents the company. They use these colours for reasons. They used the red colour to make people feel positive. Also, they used the colour black in the sign, for power and strength. Thirdly, they used the colour white for pureness, for the food they sell. 

Advertising slogans are short phrases used in advertising campaigns to generate advertising and unite a company’s marketing strategy. Also, these phrases are mainly used to attract the viewers attention. 

Slogans are catchy phrases that used to attract people, and remind  them of the product. (For an example) The Nike slogan is “Just do it” and when it is seen on an ad, people would already know that the product they see is presented by the Nike Company, because they have memorised the company's slogan.

Dilution Series experiment

 Aim - To make a dilution series to investigate concentration 

Equipment:

• A potassium permanganate crystal
• Six large test tubes 
• Tweezers
• A plastic transfer pipette 
• A test tube rack
• A 10ml measuring cylinder

Hypothesis: That test tube 6 will be the most dilution and the 1st test tube will be the most concentration.

Method - What to do for the experiment

1. Place the six tubes in a test tube rack. Label the rack with numbers 1 - 6.
2. Using the measuring cylinder, fill the first tube with 10 ml of water, secondly, with the rest of the other tubes, pour in 5 ml of water in each of the remaining tubes.
3.  Using your tweezers, add a single crystal of potassium permanganate to test tube 1.
4. Gently shake the test tube until the crystal has dissolved.
5. Using the transfer pipette, carefully remove exactly 5 ml from test tube 1 and pour it into test tube 2.
6. Rinse the transfer pipette thoroughly to ensure that no purple solution remains.
7. Gently shake test tube 2 and repeat the transfer process, transferring exactly 5 ml of the solution from test tube 2 to test tube 3. 
8. Rinse the pipette again and repeat the transfer process for test tubes 4, 5 and six.

P.E Volleyball

 Today we managed to try out Volleyball in the gym, with two classes. We were given a choice, to pick as many players as we wanted in our teams. 

Today I focused on learning more techniques on how to serve the ball from the correct position, and how to hit over properly. Also, I managed to learn how to time my spikes in the game. Thirdly, I practices on my settings and managed to set quite a few plays in the game.

Filtration experience

Today in chemistry, we did an experiment on Filtration. Filtration is - Separating different sized particles out of mixture. 

 Aim - Our aim for today's experiment is to make a mixture, and then separate the two chemicals, through filtration. 

Equipment's that were included in the experiment:

• Glasses for safety
• 200ml beaker to pour in the copper sulphate
• Stirring rod to stir the two chemicals together
• Funnel to transport the liquid into the beaker
• Conical flusk 
• Filter paper
• Copper sulphate

Method:

1. Pour approximately 50ml of copper sulphate solution into a beaker.
2. Add some volume of sodium carbonate solution. A reaction will happen, you should see a cloudy blue precipitate form. Called copper carbonate.
3. Watch demo, then fold the filter paper inside the funnel.
4. Place the funnel paper inside of it, into the mouth of a conical flask
5. Stir the mixture  in the beaker, then carefully pour it into the funnel. 

Seven most important things/facts we should know about Tokelau

 _ Seven things we should know about Tokelau _

Last week was Tokelau and Niuean Language week, so our teacher decided to create topics for the class to complete, every single topic, was to be about Tokelau and Niue, so we had multiple choices to pick. One of the topics was ‘7 Things we should know about Tokelau’, and I chose that topic to do. I chose this topic because I found it interesting to do and learn about the 7 interesting things we should know about Tokelau. Also, most of my answers were researched, just in case I missed anything.  

1. The first thing anyone should know about Tokelau is that it is made up of four atolls. Atafu, the Northern motu (Atoll), then the beautiful Nukunonu, the historic home of Tui Tokelau on Fakaofa, and never forgetting the ancient communal lands of Olohega in the south.

2. Low coral atolls like those of Tokelau are set up from a coral reef that has grown on top of a drown Volcano. The actual land contains sand and coral that has built up on the surface of the reef. Also, the atolls of Tokelau sit on extinct volcanic peaks.

3. The coral atolls of Tokelau have no surface freshwater. The people had to dig wells to a lens shaped natural reservoir of fresh water trapped beneath the sand.

4. In Tokelau, there are a lot of environmental threats. Threats that include Cyclones, Tsunami’s, and droughts. The rises of the sea level destroys the atolls. A rise of a few metres would make these islands run down. Seawalls and sandbags help keep the ocean back.

5. For food, Tokelauans in earlier times depended on the food pandanus and coconut trees, as well as plants such as Taro’s. Tokelau people have developed a single system of sharing out food among all members of the community. 

6. The only rocks that are in Tokelau are corals, which are set in the ocean, so that the people use shell and bone for tools. From time to time, the Tokelaun’s held stone tools from different other islands around the pacific like Samoa. 

7. In 2011, the population of Tokelau was 1411, but then somewhere around 2006, there were around 6,819 Tokelaun’s that were living in New Zealand.

What Good Leadership is like and what it includes to be a good leadership

What includes Leadership

• Contributing

• Team-work

• It’s better to Communicate

• Creativity

• Better to work as a group

• It’s better to stay as a group

• No man left behind

• Adapting to get through difficult situations

• Collaboration

• Listening

• Knowledge

• Positivity 

Definition of what a good leader is like -

1. A good leader is a person that gives up their time and energy to contribute to their group's task at hand or to thrive to the success of their task. 

2. Or also a leader is an upperclassmen that shows contribution to the group and helps the team be successful, And to help their team to know that their team leader is there to help and contribute their effort go into the task at hand and also to strive to be the best.

3. Also when working if your team starts to be negative and lose hope into their work our leader shows creativity and positivity, to support their team and help show their leadership towards the team

4. Even being the leader they could have more power over the team but the leader could contribute empower towards the group like letting other fellow team members contribute ideas or answers to help the group succeed.

Definitions of these words

 Meaning of these names

Sole trader -

Sole trader is a person who is the exclusion owner of a business, entitled to keep all profits after load has been paid but likely for all losses. 

Shareholder - 

Shareholders are owners of a company, and they provide financial backing in return for over the lifetime of the company.

Being a shareholder gives you equip ownership of a company and with that comes the potential for achievement rewards, as well as rights and risks. When you buy shares in a company you become a shareholder, which means you are able to participate in and benefit from its future growth.

Company - 

Making decisions and investing money.

Partnership -

A partnership is a formal arrangement by two or more parties to manage and operate a business and share its profit. 

Franchise - 

A franchise is a type of licences that a party receive to allow them to have access to a businesses proprietary knowledge, and trademarks in order to allow the party to sell a product or provide a service under the businesses name.

Thankyou Letter for my Incredible teacher

Dear Miss Taylor:

We both know I'm not always the most well behaved kid in the class, but I thank you for still being kind and always being there for me. I also thank you, for accepting me as I am, and welcoming me into your class for 2020, I will forever never forget you as my super awesome teacher! Thank you for encouraging me and our class to be kind to each one and another. Even when we are struggling with anything, you are, and always was there to help us, and I am so grateful to have you as my teacher this year, and hopefully you will be my teacher for the rest of my years at Hornby High. I appreciate you for taking your time to teach us kids and making us become young leaders just like you, but not only that, but putting all your effort and commitment into our class. Yes we and the class do have our ups and downs, but overall we are one amazing class and will always be, and I am very happy to be in this class. I enjoy our jokes and laughs with Kelesi and the others. Last but not least, I thank you so much for being an 

 AWESOME  Teacher and I am proud of what you have done for our class this year.

I look forward being your student for the next how many years with you!

Yours Sincerely😄😄

One of the first ever Videos Recorded - Ever - Holiday blog

 Roundhay Garden Scene

The first ever video that was recorded is called the 'Round Garden Scene' which was filmed in1888. The film is two seconds long, and is dead silent. As you can see in the background of the action or film, the film is set at the Whitley Family house in Oakwood Grange Road. The name of this historic scene, is named after the suburb where this video was filmed. This film was recorded by a French inventor Louis Le Prince.    

In my opinion, the lighting in the scene is boring, blury, dark, black and grey. The darkness of this short film, creates creepy atmosphere. Secondly, there is no sound in this film, which can make viewer quite bored. In the background of the film, it seems to be empty, and there is no joyful or happiness in the world, which makes the film seem boring. The lighting in the background makes the scene look creepy. The recording is so short, that it also makes the scene boring.

 

To watch the short scene CLICK HERE!

Group performance

 The name of our song - 

Kahoot

What the song is about -

The song is about a game

Who wrote this song -

Alf Inge Wang

In my group we have, Tristan who is playing bass, Eugen  who is playing the Guitar, and Nehemiah who is playing the piano, and me playing the drums.

How I feel about performing to the class for the first time -

At the moment, I feel excited and nervous at the same time.

Budgeting - DLO - Crossword game

Introduction - 

Today I will be sharing with you a Crossword puzzle that I had created. The words that are placed on the crossword, are very similar words to the word Budgeting. Also I will sharing with you what have learned about Budgeting...

D.L.O -

If you would like to play the Budgeting crossword game CLICK HERE!!

Words in the Crossword game:

Surplus

Budgetin

Fees

Savings

Exchange

Finance

Income

Necessity

The aim of the game - Is to find the words that are written on the side, make sure to highlight the word with the same colour as the word you are trying to find. 

At the end of the game, there will be a test for you, the test is to define all the words that are in the crossword. I have set this task for people who do not know what these words mean, so that they can learn about them easier.

Reflection on what I have learned

I am still not as good at mastering these words yet, but I'm still learning. I'm interested in learning these words. 

We had to create a crossword with the words that are in the game, and we all had to learn those words, so that we understand more things about Budgeting. For me, I am still trying to learn these words.

Question to answer - 

What do you know about Budgeting?

Hurumanu three -

Today in Hurumanu 3, we got to carry on watching this movie called 'The Impossible' and after we had completed watching the movie, we were given a choice to pick a topic we wanted to research about. I chose to research about which country/city/suburb has had the tallest tsunami , and the answer to the question was Alaska. Alaska was the state that had the tallest tsunami, which was 500 meters high.

Here are some of the top tallest tsunamis:

Alaska	500 meters
Empire state building	450 meters
Sky Tower	328 meters
Eiffel Tower	324 meters
Pyramid of Giza	139 meters

What I enjoyed about this Hurumanu -

What I enjoyed, was researching about which state had the tallest tsunami, and finding out how many meters of the height of the tsunami was. Also I enjoyed looking at some images and learning about the tsunami was formed.