Blog Entry Forensic

 One peice of work that I am particularly proud of this week  is my visual presentation of what I think the barrel in the woods looked like. Here it is.

Learning Portfolio

 Today we had to write about something we have done this week (in one of our other classes). I have chosen to submit a piece of work from my class MKDF (Making a Difference). This particular piece of work was an eight hundred word essay about cultural diversity/racism. Its aim is to give us an idea of what year 11 will be like and hopefully earn us a few extra credits along the way. Here is the link.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cMioiuAhroTdWANmDEXI05Iq4sVuYTYuNoPQavJUseQ/edit#heading=h.s742djgz3k4

3 Character traits

3 Character Traits

I had to choose 3 different traits that I think are most relative to me.

We had to choose from the website (listed below).

https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths

My three are...

• Perseverance - Courage
• Curiosity - Wisdom
• Leadership - Justice

I chose perseverance because I never give up and push through when times are tough. A time when I have used perseverance is when I have lots and lots of homework but keep going and complete it all.

I chose Curiosity because whenever I find something out but never know the full story I can't rest until I figure it out. An example when I've used curiosity was when I really wanted to find out the population of the world and so I figured it out by browsing the web.

Lastly I chose Leadership because although I don't work that well in a group I am quite good at leading as I like to make the decisions and decide on things. An example when I've used leadership was when we were going kayaking in our groups (for one of my classes) and it was kind of chaos but I organised my group and assigned people different jobs.

2021 - Term 1 Module Reflection

2021 - Term 1 Module Reflection

So far my year has been going pretty well. I have gotten all my work done on time and without many interruptions. So far I do not regret picking any of my chosen modules.

In Literacy we have been looking at persuasive writing and discovering our identity. We have also looked at Joe Biden's Inauguration poem, written by Amanda Gorman and wrote a response to text. At the moment we are working in some booklets to discover the meaning of our name, our family crest, pepeha, etc.

In Numeracy we have been looking at 2 step algebra equations and simplifying. I am finding this a bit too easy and kind of boring as I started looking at this sort of thing in primary school. I also don't like the format for this class as we are not separated by ability but are separated alphabetically. I don't see the sense in this as the work will never be "just right for everybody and will always be way too easy or way too hard.

Another one of my classes is Game Maker. I quite like this class as the teachers are pushing us to our full potential. I am also starting to do NCEA and earn credits.

For Adrenaline we are looking at the different body systems and adventure racing. This is another good class because the teachers are actually going the extra mile to do class trips and take in our opinions. So far we have been surfing and have a trip arranged to the new national science lab. We plan to go bridge jumping and mountain biking in the near future too.

My last class is MaD (Making a Difference) in which we are learning about New Zealander's who have made a difference in society and influencers in the bible. We rotate to a different teacher each week where we learn about a different person or persons who have dedicated their lives to helping the poor, vulnerable or society as a whole.

Reflection 8

Today we poker burned and sanded all our crosses. We also drilled holes into them and threaded some string through it to be hung on a Christmas tree or your wall. Finally, we polished off our advertisement posters and printed off a prototype to see what it would look like in real life. Dan was a big help too and fixed one of the ones I had accidentally stuffed up. The only really bad thing that happened today was that one of our gold painted pinecones broke and we weren't able to fix it. Overall I think we had quite a good day and are ready to set up and start selling on market way.

Advertising Poster

Reflection 7

 Today I made really good progress and made another 4 crosses and we've nearly finished all of the pine cones and tree decorations. We finished our sign for Christmas tree ornaments and I used the poker burner to engrave some words into the crosses that I made. The sander I use to round the edges of my crosses burned out though so I then had to find an alternative which was to put a hand sander into a vice and use that. I also found the perfect stain for our crosses and it finishes them off beautifully.