Being able to be confident when public speaking is an important life skill ~ DO NOW

Being able to be confident when you are public speaking is very important. How are you supposed to speak publicly while not being confident? Being confident in speaking is a very useful skill to have in your lifetime. If you have to speak in front of many people or even just a few, people will be able to tell that you are not confident in yourself or what you are speaking about and sometimes the more confident you are in your speech the more you sound right. Confidence is key. Confidence in public speaking will only become useful if you need to use it in your life. Sometimes it can be hard for some people to get up and speak clearly in front of everyone. That is why I think being able to be confident in public speaking is important. 

Should Matariki be a public holiday?

Should Matariki be a public holiday? I think Matariki should be a holiday. New Zealand should have it as a holiday because it is a very important part/day for Maori. It includes their culture and they should get to celebrate the story behind it. Everyone should get to celebrate their own traditions equally. That is why I think it is fair that Matariki should be a public holiday in New Zealand. 

Is English the most important subject to learn in school

 Is English the most important subject in school? Learning English is important but not the most important subject to learn, we all should learn it still though. I do not think English is the most important because you need to learn more about resourceful things  eg. taxes and do the option subjects too. Learning more about careers and and useful things you might use in your day to day life is probably more efficient than English. But if you weren't to be taught English you wouldn't be able to read and write properly. Therefore that is why I think English is not the most important subject in school. 

Distillation

Separating a solution/mixture using evaporation + condensation.

Distillation: The scientific experiment used to show the processes of evaporation and condensation.  

Condensation: when you turn something back to a  "solid"

Evaporation: when a substance gets heated up and it turns from liquid to gas. 

Experiment/Aim: Separating coke and sugar free coke to see how much sugar is present.

We evaporated the liquid away and the sugar was left, the original coke had more sugar left behind 

than the coke zero, it had a little bit of added flavourings left behind. We thought that coke zero 

would have litter left and we were correct. The coke bubbled because it was being heated we

saw it condensing and forming droplets in the inside of the straw. We ended up with condensed

liquid because we heated it up.

When we transferred the liquid it travelled across the straw and we ended up with the water into the

test tube it was in the form of gas (it turned into a liquid because of the ice in the mini test tube 

inside of the beaker) The coke got cold from the ice and then condensed. 

Definitions of...

We have been learning about debates for a bit now. We are learning about debates because we have chosen a few statements that we agree with and are going to try and get people to vote for your  "team". These are some words that could be helpful in debating and the definitions of them. 

- Debating: A formal argument between people.

- Pro: You agree with the argument. 

- Con: You do not agree with the argument.

- Proposition: Meaning of pro

- Opposition: Meaning of con.

- Order of debate: >>

 

Behaviour reflection

At any school some students strive to achieve to reach the expectations that the school gives them. These are some of the expectations I do/don't.

Be focused on my task: I am focused on whatever we have to do that day I know I do this because I always get my work done and finished properly without any distractions. 

Be mindful of others: I am mindful of others during classes + break times I know I am mindful of others because I make everyone feel included.

Ask questions/ask for help: I always ask many questions and ask for help when I need help, I know I do this because I always understand the work properly and how the teacher wants me to do the work. 

Be an active listener: I know I do active listening because I am most always focused and listening properly- also according to my other blog posts about active listening. 

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Two example expectations that I don't do: 

I do not work well with everyone: I don't work well with everyone I know I don't do this expectation because everyone is different and some people don't always work well together including some people from my class are disrespectful to me.

Report online issues: I do not report all online problems because sometimes there is not a right time to say what happened and sometimes the behaviour unnecessary also it is just petty behaviour from other people. 

Chromatography

Chroma=colour graphy=writing or a science 

What are pigments?

-Pigments are molecules that absorb, reflect or transmit the light. 

Today we will be doing another small experiment. Using chromatography to investigate the pigments that make up different colours.

Hypothesis: I think the colours will separate based on the different pigments. 

                   What happened?

-The colours separated into a few different colours and climbed up the paper.

What pigments were in the felt?

-In the colour purple there was pink and blue. 

Do now week 7 | your name is an important part of you

Your name is an important part of who you are. I think your name is an important for you. Everyone's name is different and unique, it is how people identify as it shows your individuality from everyone else. For example if you didn't have a name no one would know how to identify you or who you are.  Because of this,  I think your name is an important part of you. 

How did playing board games show CARR Values + IP skills?

 How did playing board games show CARR Values + IP skills? 

Today during class we played I whole different bunch of games with a few people. We needed to use our CARR values and show interpersonal skills while doing the games. I showed respect by respecting my group members trust and not to cheat. I showed resilience by trying to achieve the winning score. I showed all of the IP skills and I did compliment people/my other teammate and Using all of the IP skills helped me to be more engaged with the game and understand the game properly. Vanshika was in my team and we did work well together. An example of when we worked together was good sportsmanship and being honest. I think we were working at a high-ish level we worked at 3/4 because we demonstrated fair play, we worked well in our group, we encouraged each other and wouldn't need to work with teacher supervision

Verbal communication by communicating to the other person.
 I used all of the interpersonal skills including: 

Non verbal communication by pointing and using facial expressions and body language during the games.

We used active listening for the guessing game to make sure we get it right. 

I used manaakitanga / including people when we were doing the games

Negotiation / compromising for taking turns who goes first/last. 

5 Facts about working in the government

For the past tern we have been learning about governments and leaders, there are many rules to be considered to be in the government here are 5 facts about working in the government. 

1. Work as a local government before country government

2. The chances of getting a government job are poor because of high competition

3. You do not need any specific qualifications

4. Members of parliament can earn $160K-$300K per year

5. Be at least 18 years old

Mother Teresa

1. When she was born, what name was she given?  August 26 1910 and her birth name was Agnes. 

2. At what age did she join the Sisters of Loreto? She joined the Sisters of Loreto at age eighteen. 

3. Explain her calling from God.  She was on a train journey home one day during that train ride she said she was called by god to go and work with the poor and help people. 

4. a. Having won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, why did Mother Teresa turn down the prize winner’s banquet? Because she wanted to give the money to the poor and use it for a helpful reason. 

b. What does this say about her as a person? That she is a kind, genuine person who cared for everyone's needs. 

5. Write down two adjectives to describe Mother Teresa. Selfless and helpful. 

6. Explain the Missionaries of Charity?  She went on a mission to spread the word about her religion and worked at a school to help some of the poor people

7. When did she die?  She died September 5 1977. 

8. How do you think she will be remembered? As a kind, caring and passionate person. 

9. What do you believe was Mother Teresa’s purpose in life? To help everyone mentally and physically and make the world a slightly better caring place where everyone can be cared for. 

What I have learnt: I have learnt everything in the questions because I did not know much about her before this.

Policies | what I would keep + change

For social studies we have been looking at some policies. We chose some things we want to change and some we would keep. These are policies that I found interesting and some that I would use. 

What would I like to change?

1. The amount of money people would get while working

2. No tax on food + medicine

3. Bad built houses +earthquake damage

4. Increase money supply

5. Support the tourism sector to become more sustainable

6. Ban genetically modified engineering 

7. Stop oil and gas extraction before/ 2030

8. Review banking fees

9. No free trading for any countries

What should I keep?

1.The school healthy lunches

2. Continue the tree planting policy

The principal is the most important person in the school

The principal is the most important person in the school. I disagree with this statement. I think students are the most important people in the school. The students make the school, there wouldn't be a school if there wasn't any students. I think students are the most important people because we are the ones needing to learn things for the future. The government makes schools for a reason (to have students educated not for the principals ) Therefore students make the school not the principal. That is why I think students are the most important people in the school.

Chemistry | Concentration and Dilution

Today we are learning about Concentration and Dilution. Concentration has more particles and dilution has less particles.  

Concentration is a measure of how much solute had been dissolved in to the solvent/how much it has been dissolved into a liquid. 

We can measure in two ways: 

1. How dilute something is (how weak it is)

2. How concentrated something is (how strong it is)

Dilution is when we make something less concentrated. We make things weaker by diluting it. 

Our experiment is making a Dilution Series. 5ml water into 5 of the test tubes and 10ml into one of the test tubes. A dilution series is when we move one of the liquids from one into the other tubes. We will be putting a piece of crystal potassium into one of the test tubes. 

The purple crystal we used was called potassium Permanganate which was the solute. The Solvent was Water. 

What happened:

While we transferred 5ml of the last liquid into the next test tubes, the solution went from concentrated to very diluted. The colour got less and less because it was more dilute. Our solution was the mixture of the crystal and water. The more we took out the liquid from the other test tube it was more dilute because of the more liquid that was in the next test tube. The start of the test tube was concentrated and the end went more dilute. 

Examples of interpersonal skills we have been using

In the activities we have been doing we have been using interpersonal skills to accomplish the game and make the game. Some of the skills we have been using are: 

1.  verbal communication when we were doing the games

2. non-verbal communication when we were doing the hula-hoop game

3. active listening when we were learning the rules and listening to each other

4. being inclusive when we were doing the hula-hoop game to include everyone to get to the other end of the court

5. we negotiated and compromised to get the right way and plan during both games.