It is important that Year 7-8 do Friday Sport

 Today in Te Ao Whanui we are doing a small task to start us off for the period. There is a statement on the TV saying "It is important that year 7-8 do Friday sport" Now you have to rite if you agree or not. Here is what I did for the writing and I hope you enjoy it.


Every day on Friday for 2 hours you go off and do a sports option. This is important to do, here is why.

Most of the time people in school are mostly focusing on school work and making their brain work. Though if there isn't sport getting into any time at school, the kids at the school won't be fit, they would get exercise every week which is important to keep fit and healthy. Doing it on Fridays is a nice break for kids at school because they don't have to do work all day which they have done over the full week. There is also a good variety of sports to choose from to do on Fridays, which I think is good because if you don't like one sport you can choose from the other ones. Doing Friday sports can also have people realise that they like a sport and they can go on to different teams outside of school. Friday sports is two hours which is a good enough time to do sports for and to get the right amount of exercise for the week. Instead of just 7-8's doing Friday sports it would be good for others years to do it as well so they can get exercise during the week as well, the only other sports they would do during the week would be PE, which year 10 and higher have a choice to do it or not which means if they don't choose to do it they won't stay fit unless they do sport outside of school or during breaks.
That is why I think that it is important to do Friday sports.

Music - Orchestras

Hi, guys today in music we were looking at Orchestras. There we some questions you had to research and give a good answer, you could do it on slides, docs, or straight onto your blog. Here is what I did for it and I hope you enjoy it.

They seat the instruments mainly strings in the front woodwinds further back, then brass at the back, and sometimes the higher-pitched instruments are on the left and lower-pitched instruments are on the right. There are quite a lot of the families in orchestras, the string family, Woodwind family, Brass family, and keyboards and harps. The conductor is the most important in an orchestra because they lead the whole thing, they keep people who are playing instruments on task. The biggest family in an orchestra is the string family. There are orchestras in New Zealand, there is one in Wellington named New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the abbreviation for it is NZSO. People get into an orchestra that you nearly have to attend a great music school, and at least at a master degree level. They also have to have been working with a teacher who had played in an orchestra 

Student Summit

 Hi, guys today I went over to Hornby Primary School to present and do some workshops for the student summit. For the student summit, I presented with Carla on the website Canva. I was kind of nervous presenting because I don't really like to talk in front of others. Though it went pretty well with basically everyone sharing their posters and stuff they made to Miss Tozer. My favourite part of this would probably be watching people do the stop motion. The student summit was kind of boring since all of the workshops I did I quickly realized that I have done them before. The first one I did I didn't do though. While presenting it went surprisingly well and had more people in the classroom than I thought there would be.
If you don't know what the Student Summit is, it's when different schools from the same cluster come together in one place and share what they have been working on during the time. People get to choose what they want to present and then share it with other kids from different classes. Before you present it you have to make a slide or something else that explains what the website or tool you are sharing is, how to use it, give some examples of what to do and then the next day you o to a different school or stay at your own and present it. The two workshops that I did today was Coggle and Wedio. Wedio was we video, which I have used before so I didn't really learn much. Coggle was something that I haven't done before, Coggle was kind of weird but it was really simple to use.

Persuasive Writing - Clothes

 Hi, guys today in Te Ao Whanui we are doing persuasive writing. For this period we looked at doing the OREO plan. Using the OREO plan is figuring out what you're going to talk about which is an opinion, then giving a reason that backs up your opinion, an example for your reasoning, and your opinion once again at the end of your writing. Here is what I did for this and I hope you enjoy it.


Let's talk about clothes. Clothes were created around 114,000 or 30,000 years ago. The first article of clothing would most likely just be made out of fur, leather, leaves, or grass which would've to be draped or wrapped around the body. Think of how life would be without clothes? It would feel weird right? This is why I think you need clothes to survive.

 I think you should need clothes to survive because in freezing cold weather you could get hypothermia and possibly die. When it's raining hard you get saturated, clothes can prevent those two reasons I just gave you. When it's freezing cold you wear long-sleeved tops, cardigans, puffer jackets and more. When it is pouring down rain you wear a rain jacket which is waterproof. Even if the weather wasn't a problem going around not wearing clothes is illegal and you can get arrested. Also, you could get skin problems from not wearing clothes which is unhealthy.

Examples of why it is bad to walk around wearing no clothes are that you can get sunburnt from not wearing anything, you could also possibly get skin cancer, avoiding getting sunburnt is that you could just wear some clothes that don't show as much skin or put on sunscreen. When you are hot, you could just wear tank tops and shorts which prevent you from just walking around places naked. Cold? Just wear a jacket, pants, sweaters. As you can see from the few reasons I have given you and what I said in my introduction that you clearly can't live without clothes without getting skin problems, or even dying of different types of weathers.

Persuasive writing

 Hi, guys today in Te Ao Wahnui we are looking at persuasive writing. We were given a statement which is cats are better pets than dogs. Now you have to write why you disagree or agree with it or not. Here is what I wrote and I hope you enjoy it.

I disagree with the statement cats are better pets than dogs. I disagree because dogs do way more than cats do. Cats usually just lay around and sleep all day and then go out at night time, then they expect you to feed them when they want food. Though you do end up feeding them anyways. Dog's you can do way more with, you can go out for a walk with them, you can play games outside and inside with them, you can also lay down and chill with them on the couch. You can also do this with cats but cats usually do that anyway, or they will just move away from you. That's why I think dogs are better than cats.

Needs vs Wants

 Hi guys last week in Te Ao Whanui we looked at Needs vs Wants. We were told to make a DLO explaining what a need and a want are and providing why something is a need or a want. Here is the DLO I did for the work and I hope you enjoy it.

Expected behaviors - Highlight

 Hi, guys today in wananga we looked at something called Expected Behavior. We were given a sheet that had a list of expected behavior. We got a highlighter or a marker and then we started highlighting the things we know we already do. Once we were done doing that we had to write about something which is on the sheet that you have highlighted and say why you know you do it well. After you've done that you now choose two things that you haven't highlighted and then write about why you don't do it and how you are going to fix it. Here is what I did for the activity and I hope you enjoy it.

Something I know I do well is Being ready for learning. I know that I do this well because I'm always ready at the door, I haven't been late this year at all and I have all of the correct gear for the day. I can keep spaces tidy and not run around and making a mess because instead of just going around making a mess I am doing m work instead. I move on the first bell before the second bell rings because once I hear the bell I get my bag and go to my class. I can mindful of others and know what I say can hurt them or make them feel some type of way. I always bring my device charged and if it's not charged I always bring a charger or go to Barry in the morning and borrow one.
For something that I don't do well is ask questions and ask for help. I know I don't do this well because I normally ask someone else to as for help as well as I don't ask a lot of questions because I don't have the confidence to speak up. For the other thing, I don't really know how to do is encourage and include all my classmates, I don't do this well because I don't really like talking to others which I don't know and trying to encourage them and include this they are kind of difficult.