Physical Education

In P.E we have been doing some athletic activities such as sprinting, shot put, discus, long jump, triple jump, etc.

What have I improved on in athletics?
In P.E I think I have improved on doing shot put, because, before I wasn't good at it but this time, by trying harder I was able to improve how I 'throw' the shot put, now I can do the footwork to improve my 'throw' distance.

I also have improved my sprinting, before I was slow, I'm always last on sprinting, but now I can go even faster, I even came 4th to last.

Have you enjoyed athletics?
In my previous experience in athletics I didn't really like it, In fact, I hate it, but now I kinda like it a little bit

Music Appreciation

Music Appreciation

28/02/2019

1. Name the song and the performer.

The name of the song is 'Despacito' and his name is Peter Bence

2. What instruments are being used?

The instruments used are piano and maraca

3. What is something you find interesting about this piece?

Something that I found interesting is when he presses the pedal at the bottom, it records the keys you play and when you press it again it repeats it and plays the song beautifully

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01/03/2019



1. Name the song and performer.
The name of the song is 'Havana' and the performers are Jimmy Fallon, Camila Cabello and The Roots.

2. What instruments are being used?
The instruments that are used are classroom instruments, eg. plastic kazoos, ukulele, toy xylophone and a small drum

3. What did you find interesting about this piece?
What I found interesting is how they used 'toy' instruments to produce a beautiful version of 'Havana'.


Part 2.

1. The song that I like at the moment is This is living now by Hillsong. I like this song because of how it makes me happy

Slave Trade Triangle

What is the Slave Trade Triangle?

LO: Learn how people's freedoms are taken away.


Slave Trade Triangle is a system that was used from the late 16th to early 19th century to trade slaves with something, for example, cotton, sugar, etc.

What is the First Passage?
The First Passage is about Ships and Guns were purchased and taken to Europe. And African slaves were kidnapped.

What is the Middle Passage?
The Middle Passage, guns and materials traded for humans. They were put on slaves ships and sent to America.

What is the Third Passage?
It is about materials like tobacco that slaves picked were sent to Europe and sold.

Slave Trade Triangle

Creative Writing Reflection

In English, we have been learning about different ways to write. We were given five different writing activities, we choose different tasks to do depending on what we want to do first. I chose to do slam poetry first, then metaphors and similes, then language features, and lastly I did Haiku.

What things have I learnt?
I have learnt that a haiku is a Japanese short poetry and that the syllable should be 5,7,5.
I also learnt that sensory language includes all of your senses when you write.

How have I learned them?
I learned all these ways of writing by watching/reading things that are included in the slide and also by searching things up.

What activities, in particular, did you find interesting, enjoyable?
The activity that I found enjoyable was writing a haiku it was kind of hard at first but as I read through the examples and search some more online I found it quite easy.

Haiku

What is Haiku?

Personification

'What is Personification?'

Heart attack

HEART ATTACK

What is Heart Attack?

A heart attack happens when blood which is pumped gets clogged with deposits of cholesterol, also known. 

Cause of heart attack

The most common cause of heart attack is Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is a condition in which the main blood vessels that supply the heart get clogged up with cholesterol.

How to prevent a heart attack?

There are many ways to prevent a heart attack such as

• Stop smoking and avoid second-hand smoke.
• Control high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol level.
• Get a regular medical check-up and take prescribed medication
• Exercise regularly, especially heart-healthy exercises.
• Maintain a healthy weight.
• Eat a healthy-heart diet.
• Control of diabetes.
• Avoid being stressed.
• Avoid drinking alcohol.

Heart attack treatment.

A heart attack treatment depends on the severity and amount of damage to the heart, but here are some of the treatments to a heart attack.

• Thrombolytic (a clot-busting drug), such as alteplase, dissolves the clot that is blocking the blood flow to the heart.
• Aspirin or other blood-thinning medicines help prevent new blood clots.
• Pain relievers such as morphine reduce discomfort.
• Nitroglycerine treats chest pain by temporarily opening arterial blood vessels and increasing blood flow to the heart.
• Cholesterol-lowering drugs called stains lower levels of unwanted cholesterol.

Symptoms of heart attack
The symptoms may differentiate depending on the severity. Here are some of the symptoms

• Pain which feels like pressure and chest tightening.
• Nausea and/Vomiting
•  Feeling of fullness, indigestion, heartburn-like pain or abdominal pain.
• Shortness of breath.
• Sweating, or a cold sweat.
• Feeling dizzy or faint.
• Feeling weak and tired.

Sensory Language

The butterflies eat nectar as the bright sun illuminates the field. I inhaled the sweet scent of the flowers as the breeze flows through my body, while the whistling sound of the wind starts to become stronger, the children running around with their parents, dogs jump as they chase the green fluffy ball. I sat down as I concentrate my senses and relax

Performing arts - Dance

Part 1 - Parris Goebel?

1. Who is Parris Goebel? Parris Goebel is a New Zealand-born dancer, choreographer, singer director and actress.
2. Where did she grow up? She was born and raised in Manurewa, Auckland
3. How/when did she study dance? She started hip hop lessons when she was 10
4. Add pictures of Paris

Part 2 - The royal family

1. Who are the Royal Family? They are a hip hop dance group which Parris Goebel is in
2. What competitions have they been involved in/won? World hip hop dance championship
3. Which famous singers have they danced for? Jennifer Lopez, Justin Beiber
4. Add some pictures and some links to their performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6k6Ma0oqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2B6W4SJYA

Part 3 - choreography

1. What does the word choreography mean? The art of how dancers will move in a performance
2. What is a choreographer? A person who composes dance steps, sequence of steps or move in a dance performance.
3. Find two other choreographers ( they don’t have to be from NZ) find three facts on each and get pictures

Beyonce-

1. Her birth name is Beyoncé Giselle Knowles. 
2. She married a rap star Jay-z
3. She started in a popular film dream girls

Shane Sparks-  

1. He won an American Choreography award
2. He worked with rapper and actor Omarion
3. Both his parents are police officers 

Part 4 - types of dance.

1. For each style of dance below find a description of the style and a youtube clip of the dance in action.

a, Hip Hop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj2yjPHGVX0

B, Ballet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1qLYukTH8

C, Jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJTz1UbpSXM

D, Salsa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXOuzMZ8TtU

E, Tap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaWMkrEJrk

F, Contemporary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm98afryPf4

Performing arts

Performing arts comes in many different shapes and sizes and styles and colours!

We often only focus on the obvious.....Singing, dancing, acting.......Performing Arts go way beyond this.

1. what actually is performing arts? It is a type of art (such as music, dance or drama) that are performed for an audience

2.

Mime

Opera

Puppetry

Illusion

Circus acts

Similes and metaphors

What is a metaphor?
A metaphor is a type of analogy word which describes something, someone or yourself being something that can't be true. Metaphors don't use words "like" and "as"
Eg. I am a car


What is a simile?
A simile is also a type of analogy word that compares something, someone, yourself of being 'like' something. A simile uses words "like" and "as".
Eg. I am like a car

Human Rights

In this poster I made, I put the Human rights signed by the United Nations.

Things I have learnt:
Today, I learnt that there are more than 5 Human Rights, in fact, there are 30 Human rights, approved in the United Nations, I also learnt that Human rights are important right individuals could have.

Human bones & Muscles

Slam Poetry

In English I watched some of the slam poetry, I watched the poetry about Matariki and I liked it because the way the speaker expressed the line he made and I like how he put his feelings in creating his own slam poetry. Also, I liked when he talked about modern society, unlike the previous generations when there were no phones, people used to communicate with their neighbours. People nowadays don't even listen to someone speaking at the front, they are just busy clicking and liking something on Facebook, he said "I can't even get a tihei mauri ora, people are too busy tryna click like or snap and clap, what's up with that? "
link to slam poetry

Music Performance

What did you choose to perform? Why?
I chose to perform 'still' by Hillsong because it is the first song I learned to play when we came to New Zealand.

How did you feel about your performance?
I felt scared and really nervous at the beginning, and I accidentally pressed the wrong key and I became more nervous, but as I keep playing the song, the sensation of being nervous started to fade away, at the end, I feel grateful on playing the piano.

What would you change if you could do it again?
I would try and be calm and confident so I wouldn't press the wrong key