Camp Blog - Task 1: CAMP COLOUR: Colour The Camp Environment - Huriata Reflection

This has specific colour codes labeled with numbers all across the picture. I think it looks pretty good!

Camp Blog - Task 1: SIX HATS: Six Thinking Hats 'Camp Raglan' - Huriata Reflection

 Greetings ! For Task 1 I had to think critically about 'Camp Raglan' from my point of view!

Camp Blog - Task 3: A-Z CAMP VOCABULARY: Vocab for Camp Raglan - Huriata Reflection

Hello again! This is another task from my camp booklet - Task three to be exact. For this I had to place a word (26 +more) that relates to 'Camp Raglan'. 

Here's the list!

A- Apple Crumble

B- Bush Walk

C- Cutlery
D- Dancing
E- Egg Salad
F- Fire
G- Gravy

H- Humour
I- Ice Cream

J- Jacket
K- Kind People
L- Lake
M- Mutton

N- Night
O- Oranges
P- Participants
Q- Queen Dancer Award
R- Rock climbing
S- Sand Sculpture
T- Table Tennis
U- Ukulele
V- Volunteers (Parents/ Teachers)
W- Water
X- Xenodochial
Y- Younkers
Z- Zooming

Camp Blog - Task 4:HIGH ROPES DESIGN: Wet Ropes - Huriata Reflection

This is a design I did if I were to create another high ropes course. 

Camp Blog - Task 0:CAMP REFLECTION: Cabin Night - Huriata Reflection

My Highlights! Cabin Night

It was during fiafia night that I had had a good night, I did not really have a good night, no, not at fiafia night. It was actually after the ceremony when we went back to our cabins to rest. If you'd would've known or been there 'Faith' a friend of mine that was in our cabin had performed more than two times that night. It was whilst being there that Faith had wanted to perform a song called 'One step at a time' though she wanted to do a duet, with me. I didn't feel like it, well, that and if I didn't want to do it I would've ruined her performance. So no! She did sing the song but  when back in the cabins she felt so down... really down. She had wanted nobody to sing or say sing (Which, ah... NO! Because that was her own fault for making herself feel like that)  She had eventually given up and our cabin were annoyed at her. We helped her out and sang with her. It was a magical, musical night as we sang songs and the whole cabin had a good night after learning about each other and being able to create a stronger bond(Other than the cabin next to us).

That was my highlight. I learnt that I am very supportive, forgiving and loud, I like making new friends but I also like making the right friends. The thing that I was surprised about me was how comfortable I was being with the girls in my cabin. We showed team at camp by being somewhat/ being involved. Well, we showed 'participating and contributing' by being involved in the activities we did. And for 'Relating to others' it was obvious everyone was very independent but tried to work together in there own way. Some skills I think I need to improve on is being more involved and share idea's, the relating to others is probably being able to coop and decide my own (something) that everyone agrees on!

Huriata

Camp Blog - Task 7: CAMP SHIELD: Team - Huriata Reflection

This drawing represents how everyone works in a team. The hand meaning achievement and more, the designs on the rope/ material meaning 'holding everyone together' and the T.P.S sun and pattern meaning being a family (Tamaki).

Me and Lj.

Camp Blog - Task 5: NAV VAN: Diamond Poem - Huriata Reflection

NAV ~ VAN ~ ACTIVITES

Bike

Gravely , Dusty

Rolling, Ramping, Walking

Trails, Bumps

Track

LIVING CABINS

Beds

Lively, Talkative

Shouting, Laughing, Singing

Smelly, Toejams

Bags

FIAFIA NIGHT

Stage

Humorous, Talented

Singing, Dancing, Acting

Loud, Fun

Skit

Camp Blog - Task 8: VENN DIAGRAM... Before and After - Huriata Reflection

28/11/16


Well, for starters I am more daring to try something new and give it a go. On the first day of activities whilst at camp the confidence course and low ropes course really stood out as "Aw, that will be hard! I won't be able to do it" or "I can't do that! i'll let my team down..." to me.

I have more friends (The girls that were in my cabin) and know some more (Knowledge) about them, creating somewhat of a deeper bond and closer relationship. It was interesting, my journey with them has been bumpy and it really surprised me to know how we could make this bond stronger.

Ah.... Yes, I have gained knowledge about things i've never known! The first is that, I didn't know you had to cut off a sheep's tail! To know that I was like "Oh my god! Why would do that?!" and then I learnt 'Flystrike'. It was strange finding these bits of fluffy sticks known as sheep tails around the camp grounds.

Reflection - Camp Organizing (Cabins/dorms and teams)

11/11/16

This morning room nine and ten collaborated in miss Aireens class to decide on our cabin names and team names for the upcoming trip to Raglan in week seven. My cabin is 'Spiod' which stands for 'Spire People In Other Dorms', and the girls I'll be staying with are Paris, Rosemary, Khalicia , Helen, Lovey and Alone. I made the name in reference to the theme 'Relating to Others'  in which everybody agreed on. For the teams I'm in Unstoppable, which is cliche seeing as another team is called the Unbreakables though I agreed and am quite pleased with the decision that we've made. Then after we were to do a brainstorm of what Participating, contributing and Relating to Others means to us.

By Huriata

Kiwi Sports - Basketball Reflection

Kiwi Sports - Basketball Reflection

It was around 10-11 that we headed down to the courts to do 'Kiwi Sports'
We meet our coaches and they explained how there was Basketball clubs around panmure/Tamaki district.
After that we just got right into it, Split ourselves into 5 teams , did relays, stepping, dribbling and under leg dribbling. It was really, no kidding (For me) difficult. Since I'm not one for sports I struggled to maintain the ball or control it. I got tired really quick and I decided that I would have a break and continue.

We were done. For the next activity we picked a partner (Mine was Lovey) and practiced passing in different ways. We stood afar from each other and waited for the whistle to blow. It started off with chest passes, where we would step forward to put more power into the through. Then we added another ball. This time one person threw overhead while the other did bounce passes, we did it in unison, keeping in time till the ball flew off or we forgot what we were doing.

Finally, the coach stopped us from our continuous passing game and we were split from boys to girls teams. Hoop shooting... *sigh* I walked towards the place I was supposed to stop and bent my knees, just. My arm was bent till it released it and threw the ball into the air. It missed, countless times.

I liked it though and I feel very tired.
         

#KARMA - Figurative Language

#KARMA

Karma llama goes in my room and makes some drama

Eating my pencils and ripping my papers, 

NO! Karma why would you do that

Blu-blak-bln-nng no karma don’t understand that

Look what you did, my room went through a hurricane

And you know I just cleaned this yesterday, oh wait, you went down to the R.S.A

Karma spit that out, Blahg, Ew what the hell, how do you even seem to- KARMA!! Hurry up and Get down!

Stop throwing your toys around, the kitchen ain’t a playground now, so move over there, and here, Phew~ Got a happy Karma ta-da.

Woow, What’s on your face, looks like a llama ate a whole chocolate cake, that's just amazing

Making a mess all over what i just cleaned? Ha! No i’m not happy, go over to Tawhiri

Clash! Cling! Crack! That’s all I ever hear when you open those cupboards, making me all flustered, I’m frustrated, mostly everything is busted, can you not touch that, karma listen

woah , karma slow down, ‘bout to trip and hit your face in the ground now, better not go and run up the driveway, Darn it, why did I even mention it anyways, running around is not a normal sport for me

 

 

  

Persuasive Writing - It is Wrong to Fight

WALT Write a Persuasive Writing

I agree that It is wrong to fight and it is a negative way to solve things

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My most important reason is that it is a very negative solution to most problems. Physical contact or words could harm people mentally and physically causing the insult to expand or be isolated within the victim’s mind. Media is a commonly used thing today as well as phones, so an example could be cyberbullying which could be sent all around the world, that’s how it expands to being a viral situation. Now the world knows something new and bad things start to happen, police would be defensive and try to protect you but does that always work? That’s why it’s wrong to fight.     

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I think that there are people who fight back and get injured even more, same with the words because they could be sent verbally or in person. And some people just don’t want to talk about it. For example, fighting would be a way to relieve stress or to show off as an intimidating person, which is a bad reputation to present yourself.

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Relationship with people would be low and people would become more anti social towards each other. We have suspicion about the people we see/meet and there are times when people could be pulled into things such as fighting. You may be arguing for someone else or fighting in there place to protect them, but now the problem is bigger. The person you just protected would either fight with you or run away, if he fought the man would be beat and left alone or  sent to the police, that or they might beat you both. If he/her ran, the innocent person who protected him/her may be beaten up, killed, hurt badly or sent running away. That’s not what we want the world where everyone's afraid of everyone because our earth wouldn’t be called home sweet home anymore.

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What do I think about this piece of persuasive writing?

It’s a stupid thing to do and it’s smart. I really want to persuade the audience into thinking that it is bad/wrong to fight, we want peace.

Cybersmarts - Smart Media

Cybersmart:

Smart Media

• List some digital media equipment that you use every day.

• What do you use these digital media equipment?
• How much time do you spend using these? Record your this in the table below

Digital Media	How long do you spend using these equipment on a daily basis?
Phone	4 hours
Internet	10 hours
Ipad	0
Netbook	9 hours
Playstation	1 hours

Show this information using a bar graph. Click the following link: You may do this with a partner.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

Me and Lj don’t have an Ipad. We both use the internet, We both spend the entire day on our devices. Lj doesn’t have a phone or playstation compared to me. Lj spends 3 more hours on the internet than me.

• Analyse and compare your graph with a partner and discuss the differences between your graphs.

Personal Reflection Question

• What is your viewpoint about the role of digital media and how these digital media plays a big part in your life today? In other words, how will digital media impact (influence) on your life in the future? Will this be positive or negative? Why?

I don’t think the future would be the active type, seeing how we are today anyways/ sort of. Though I can imagine the world being very social online but anti social in person. We would either create a lot of relationships or an online war, it all depends.

WALA Cybersmarts

Identifying Language Features in a text - Author's Purpose

WALT Identifying Language Features in a text - Author's Purpose
Hello and welcome, here is one of my set task on how to respond/evaluate an authors/poet's poem 'The Embarrassment Expert'

Evaluating the Author’s Purpose - The Embarrassment Expert

I am learning to evaluate the author’s purpose

You must learn the ways of being embarrassed and learn the ways of how to overcome that embarrassment, in the end it shall all disappear into yesterday.

Persuasive Writing - It's Okay to be Different

It’s Okay to be Different

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Intro

In my opinion being different is okay and that we should show who we really are

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My most important reason is that people should not be embarrassed about being different, because being different is normal and that you shouldn’t try to be like everybody else. I think that when you are different it shows that you are unique and it makes you an interesting person out of other people.

For example, what if someone wanted to be exactly like you when they can’t, when they try to do what you do, when they try to think, see, feel what you feel, but they can’t. Because they are somebody with their own things, feelings, thoughts that nobody can do but you, because you are the only you.

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It’s the same with twins, they may look the same, and could probably think the same, but what about  the other things. Twins can be the complete opposite of each other that they might not even look same, or  like what the other likes. Because they’re different. Some twins actually hate  each  other for being the same, they try so hard to be different that they might even do something they won’t think the other would imagine. Now, just imagine that but all around the world. You will think, feel, do, change like everybody else, so much that everybody hates each other because if one person is angry, everybody is angry for the same reason.

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If a number, letter, character, species or universe is different, then imagine that you are one of those things. In one of those 5 subjects I gave you, there are countless things that you could’ve possibly been. Like a planet out of a trillion or a number out of various one’s in other cultures. See, you could mean the same thing but be completely different, so different that others would want to learn about you.    

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I strongly believe that when somebody else is different or trying to be like you then they really should just be themselves, because not everyone want’s to be

the boring and most predictable person, that’s just a disappointing way to describe life as being interesting.

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What do I think about this piece of persuasive writing? I like it, it focuses mainly on what I’m trying to debate and it makes the statement, opinions, reasons and examples stand out.

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WALT write a persuasive writing about why it's okay to be different.

Life Education Learning Tasks - Small & Big Stresses

WALT reflect on what stress is from the 'Life Education'

Life Education Learning Tasks - Y-chart

IALT write down my understanding, using keywords about stress

10 Dead With 5 Missing - News Article Summary

IALT summarise a newspaper article
I summarised a news article from online about a ship sinking in south Singapore where 10 people died and 5 missing.

Room 10 Worksheet for Math - evidence

WALT use division and multiplication to solve fractions

For our maths task room 10 did a worksheet relating to fractions. In our maths book or on the paper you have to write out the steps of the strategy you used to solve to question.