Year: 2024

Science – Recap

Kamusta readers! Today my blog post will be about recaps about what we have been doing/ talking about in Science this week and last week. Our topic for Science these past few weeks is about Forensics Science.

Here are some examples of different types of Forensic to help you widen your knowledge about Forensic Science a bit.

Toxicologist – Toxicologist research about or study the effects of the chemicals may have on humans or animals.

Serologist – Serologist they research about fluids found in the human body, such as blood or saliva.

Entomologists – They study the insects and their relationship with other organisms and the environment.

These are just some examples of what different types of Forensics Science and what they do. You can research more about them to help you understand what they actually do or to find out different types of Forensics Science.

If you’re wondering what a Forensic Scientist is, a Forensic Scientist is they examine and analyze evidence from a crime scene (might be a crime since about animals) and elsewhere to develop objective findings. Which means they work with policies to eliminate or investigate crime scenes.

Another thing that you might be wondering about is who is the first ever Forensic Scientist? The first ever Forensic Scientist is Archimedes of Syracuse. He is famous for his inventions and scientific discoveries.

Here is what he looks like:

What is DNA?

DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. But why does it help Scientists to “catch” people or prove their innocence? I think that it helps Scientists catch people to prove their innocence because when you went to a place (e.g beach, or forest) they can see the sand on your shoes or maybe leafs or mud on your shoes so that will help them know where you might went to during the weekends or the other days. Or maybe another way that it could help Scientists about crime scenes, is with handwriting, finger prints, or foot prints

               

That’s all for my blog post today! Thank you for reading, Ka kite!

Health – What we’ve learned in Health for week 5 & 6

Kamusta bloggers! Today my blog post will be about sharing with you all what we have been learning and what we’ve  covered in Health for week 5 and week 6.

Our topic for Health in week 5 & 6 is behaving appropriately. There are four different types of how you can show that you are behaving appropriately. (especially if it’s in a Health class/ during class time) Here are the contents of how to behave appropriately: Consent, Touch, Interaction (face to face), and Interaction (online).

Consent

Consent is asking for someone’s permission before doing something that affects them. Here are some examples to enlighten you more: Asking someone to hug them, asking someone to touch their hair, asking someone to go to their house. 

 

Touch 

Touch is touching someone appropriately and also touching them with their consent. For example: A high five, a fist bump, and a pat on the head.

 

Interaction (face to face)

Interaction in face to face is being respectful to someone. That someone can be a stranger or teacher and adults. Some examples are: Not doing things that they don’t like and asking for consent. 

 

Interaction (online)

And lastly, Interaction online is also being respectful. Especially that I don’t mostly know people online. An example of being respectful online is: not bullying, not being racist, acting mature, and acting appropriately. 

That’s all for my blog post! Thank you for reading my blog post! Ka kite!

Music – Learning about Ukulele

Kamusta bloggers! Today my blog post I’ll be sharing with you all about what we’ve learned in Music for this period, What we’ve learned for Music today is learning about how to play a Ukulele. The chords that we learned today were C and Ami. We only learned two chords because it’s our first time learning and we’re just starting with the basics.

I find learning about how to play Ukulele really fun because we get to learn and try out a new instrument. Another reason why I like  learning about Ukuleles is because they’re really cool and I also get to have fun while learning a new instrument to play.

That’s all for my blog post, thank you for reading it! Ka kite!

Music – Bucket Drumming

Kamusta bloggers! Today for my blog post, my task is to share with you all my answers to the question about Bucket Drumming for Music today.

Question:

  • What did you enjoy about Bucket Drumming?

What I enjoyed about Bucket Drumming is that it isn’t boring and isn’t just helping you learn new things/ helping you with your education, it is also letting you have fun while learning.

  • What is something new you learned?

Something new that I learned was hitting the rim, differences between hitting the bucket in the center and the bucket while it’s tilted a bit, and lastly hitting the rim along with hitting the center.

  • Do you think you would enjoy drumming?

I think that I would enjoy Bucket Drumming because it’s really fun and also challenging.

Social Studies – Maori Research

Kamusta bloggers! Today my topic for my blog post is to share with you all what we’ve been doing in Social Studies this week. Our topic for Social Studies this week is researching about a successful, and famous Maori individual from the past. This task also includes three different difficulties which are: Ace, Pro, and Legend (Ace if the easiest, Pro comes second as the easiest and Legend is the hardest), I choose to work on Legend to give some challenges.

Here is the slideshow where it shows my work!

That’s all, thank you for reading my blog post! Ka kite!

Science — Peripheral Vision

Kamusta everyone! Today in Science my task is to share with you all using a blog post what we’ve been learning about in Science this week and also last week. (Our focus this and last week in Science is learning about Peripheral Vision)

What are we trying to find out? (whether different shapes or colours are easier or harder to see with peripheral vision)

What did we do to answer this question?

Here is the list of things that we used :

A printed protractor (cut out the sides and make sure to leave the printed protractor) 

5 pieces of popsicle sticks  

5 cut out tiny little triangle 

5 different colours (the colours that we used were: blue, red, pink, green, and yellow) 

A pin  

A glue stick 

(If you are interested, here is what a protractorl ooks like) 

How did we do it?

So what we first did was glue the five triangles with different colours to the 5 pieces of popsicle sticks that we have. We then grab the cutted out protractor and put the pin in the middle. (60) After that we then choose one of our teammates to be tested first. What we then did was put the protractor in front of us (what it will look like is that the protractor is in your nose and was facing you). Our next step is that we grabbed one popsicle stick, and then put it on the protractor, and slowly moved it. (to have a accurate result, you have to directly looking at the pin and only when you can clearly see the colour that’s when you say “stop” so that you teammates know that you’ve finally seen the colour) 

To show our result, here is a picture of our graph!

What we found out: After looking at our graph, we figured out that red is the easiest colour to see with a peripheral vision, and blue is the hardest. I think that the red is the easiest colour to see with a peripheral vision probably because it’s darker among all of the colour that we tested our peripheral vision at. (darker colours can attract eyes better than a lighter colour does)

That’s all! Thank you for reading my blog post! Ka kite!

Social Science – What we did in Social Studies this week

Kamusta bloggers! today my blog post is about sharing with you all that we’ve been learning/ talking about in Social Science. Our topic for Social Science this week and the previous week(week 1) is the Olympics/ event in Olympics.

This week we did a task for this focus. There are four difficulties for this task which you’ll have to choose. The difficulties are Ace, Pro, Legend, and Titan (Ace is the easiest, Pro comes second as the easiest, Legend comes second as the hardest, and Titan is the hardest.) This task includes mapping (finding out about what event is happening in that place) and finding information about the event you’ve chosen (e.g finding out what are the rules for the event you’ve chosen.)

The event that I chose was Archery.

(If you’re interested, here are the rules in Archery)

  • Always keep your arrows pointed down or towards the target.
  • Always walk in the archery range.
  • If you drop an arrow, leave it on the ground until you are told to get your arrows.
  • Know and obey all range commands.

Here is the link to the task that I did!

Olympics Task 

That’s all! Thank you for reading my blog post! Ka kite!

Social Studies – What we learned in Social Studies this week

Kamusta bloggers! Today what I’m going to talk about is what we’ve been talking about and what we’ve been learning in Social Studies. This week our focus in Social Studies is the Olympics. To prove that we’ve learned something, we need to complete a task. In that task, you can choose the difficulty of the work that you want to do. There are four different types of difficulty. There are Ace, Pro, Legend, and Titan. I did Titan to challenge my learning.

In Titan, you have to pick an event that you want to do and research about it (e.g found out about the rules in that event). For this task I chose to do Archery.

Here is the link to the task that I did:

Olympics task – Titan 

That’s all! Thank you for reading my blog post! Ka kite!

 

Drama – Things about Diwali

Kamusta actors! Today for the Drama class, my task is to share facts or stuff about the Diwali festival.

If you are curious what Diwali Festival is, it is a Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions. It symbolises the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.”

Why is it celebrated?

Diwali is celebrated because of the victory of Lord Kishna’s destruction of the demon Naraka who is said to have imprisoned women and tormented his subjects. 

What kind of music is performed at this festival?

Often “an aart” is sung, which praises the Hindu Gods and asks for strength to those singing and listening. 

What kind of dance is performed at this festival? 

Oddisi, is one of the eight Indian Classical Dance forms (Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Manipuri, and Mohiniyattam.)

Can you find any Indian instruments, what do they look like? 

Here is the list of Indian instruments that I found in the internet! 

This is called a Bansuri 

And this one is called a Dholak 

And this last instrument that I’m going to be showing you guys is called a Sarangi.

If you’re wondering what a Diwali festival looks like, here are some images of the Diwali festival that I found online! 


That’s all for my blog post today! Thank you for reading my blog post! Ka kite!

What we learned in Drama this term

Kamusta actors! Today for the Drama class, my task is to share with you readers what we’ve been studying / learning in Drama for term 2.

For the first week – second week of term two is figure out what the drama is and play some games. The games that we played include: slow motion, freeze, fast forward, and rewind.

And for week three – week four what we did is watch and listen to a story titled “The Three Billy Goats”. For this topic we drew the scenes that we need to act in a piece of paper. (It’s a group activity by the way) After we drew the scenes that we needed to act, we then rehearsed it the following day and acted it out in front of the class.

For week five – week six we also did kind of the same thing as what we did with “The Three Billy Goats”. But instead we did an interview and did not act it out. We also learned other things like what emotions Benny showed during the story. As far as I could remember the emotions were: anger, sadness, joy. We also drew the body of Benny and put the words that we think describes him the best inside the body.

For week seven – week eight our focus is learning miming. Miming is like acting something out but you can’t talk. So basically miming is like telling a story but using your body and not your mouth. The story that we did was called “Wild West”. (It’s also a group activity) The people that I worked with in this are Kirby, Josh, Kirsten, Me, and Sam.

(If your interested, here is the list of what our characters are in this activity)

Kirby – The gold miner

Josh – Bartender

Kirsten – The bad guy

Me/Xyryll – The pianist

Sam – The sheriff

And finally for week nine to week ten we acted out a story about Matariki (Maori New Year). The story that we chose to act out is called “The Moon Goddess”. My group members in this activity were Kirby, Josh, Hunter, David, Mary, Kirsten, Me, and Sam.

(Here is the list of  the character that we are in this activity)

Kirby – Sun God

Josh – Vulture King

Hunter – The jealous brother the Sun God (Kirby)

David – The big bird/soldier #1

Mary – The storyteller

Kirsten – The mood goddess

Me/Xyryll – The big bird/ soldier #2

Sam – Old person/ soldier #3

We also learned about FARTTSS which stands for focus, action, role, time, tension, space, and lastly symbols.

(Here is the link to the Moon Goddess story)

Moon Goddess 

And that’s all for my blog post today! Thank you for reading my blog post and I hope that you guys enjoy reading and learning more about what we’ve learned this term for Drama! Ka kite!