Photosynthesis - Work from Mr. Victor

 Photosynthesis

In this task we were set to write about what we know about photosynthesis. I researched about what it may be and it explains that it is a process of how plants or other living organisms live. This is my work !

LCS - Personal Timeline

 For LCS our task for that is the list down our Personal Timeline. Using google drawing I've listed 15 personal highlights that have happened in my life. 

I've listed the events and the dates but ones that I could remember and feel okay with other people knowing about my past experiences. The 15 pieces of information are ones that were memorable and meant a lot to me. 

Enjoy!

Teeth - Short Film (Writing Task)

WALT: use carefully selected words and phrases for the topic of the writing (adj, nouns, verbs)

Nouns	Adjectives	Verbs
Teeth Fish Boat Men Lake Fishing Rod	Black and White Ridiculous  Irish Humorous  Fishing Old	Enjoyable Doubt Karma Valuable Balance Sneeze

1. (Pretending I’m one of the old men in the video) When I was out fishing with my old colleague, we were silently waiting for a catch but my nose had a little itch, a big sneeze came out, and out came my dentures. My friend laughed at the scene. I lean over to where my teeth laid, and oops. My teeth fall into the deep and cold lake. I hear the most enjoyable laugh next to me while I look up at him and give him a stare. Moments later, I feel him bump against me. I realized he caught a fish. He pats my shoulder, I turn to find my dentures in the fishes mouth, I quickly take the teeth out of its mouth and into mine...It doesn’t fit? I chuck it back into the lake because I knew it wasn’t mine. 

2. (Slight Change - Different Ending) When I was out fishing with my old colleague, we were silently waiting for a catch but my nose had a little itch, a big sneeze came out, and out came my dentures. My friend laughed at the scene. I lean over to where my teeth laid, and oops, my teeth fell into the deep and cold lake. I widened my eyes and looked up at my friend who was laughing hysterically on the other side of the boat. I quickly took my hat and shoes off and then I took a deep breath and dived into the lake, searching for my dentures. THERE it is! I found my teeth at the bottom of the lake. I swam back to the surface, I see my worried friend who helped me onto the boat and tells me how crazy and insane I am. I explained to him that without my teeth, I won’t be able to eat properly. He agreed and we continued fishing. 

3. (Writing a pretend script of what they are saying) 

Old man 1: Ha! Ha! Ha Choo!

Old man 2: (Laughing then Points to the side of the boat)

Old man 1: (Feels his mouth, then looks where his friend is pointing) - (He reaches for the dentures quietly then it falls into the lake)

Old man 2: (Still laughing)

Old man 1: Oh please I’m been through worse.

Moments Later…

Old man 2: Ooo lookie here I’ve caught myself a fish! 

Old man 1: (Rolls eyes)

Old man 2: (Pulls the fish out and smiles) *Thinking: What if I…(Puts his own dentures into the fishes mouth to make it look like it was Old man 1’s teeth. He shows the fish to Old man 1)

Old man 1: Oh gosh you’ve found my dentures well not just you along with this fish. (He puts the dentures into his mouth...he realizes it doesn’t fit. He chucks it back into the lake)

Old man 2: Hold up that’s my- (The dentures have already disappeared into the lake)

 

Daily 5 - Work On Writing

 Free Writing - A Short Narrative

Once upon a time, there lived the tiniest Mouse. The Mouse loved to eat cheese and run around the ginormous house it sneaked into. Wondering about, it sniffs the most mouth-watering scent. It doesn't smell like cheese but it wouldn't hurt to try. It hurried, following the scrumptious aroma. 'WACK!' 'WACK!' The noises follow behind the mouse. Is this the end of my adventure already? Why must a trap be set here in this large house? How did they know I was here? The Mouse turned around to see a wooden plank with a small hardened sliver line. I've seen those traps before but this time it didn't have cheese on it? Something seems fishy but wait...I see it! I see the food! It looks as good as it does in real life! I've never seen anything like this before! When the Mouse was above the finger-licking meal, 'WACK!' A Mousetrap was placed right there. The food splattered everywhere along with a lifeless Mouse. 

LCS - All about you!

Using Google Drawing we had 8 sections that said: What do you like to do in your spare time? Do you play any sports? Do you have any hobbies? What music do you like best? Do you play any musical instruments? Do you have creative interests? Have you ever been pleased with something you’ve done well? What are your favorite foods? Those were the questions we answered in the shown image. The pictures aside from the sections are pictures that match some of the description written in the boxes. Enjoy!

Cook Island language week 2020

  

Yesterday Room 11 created a google drawing declaring facts about the Cook Islands since it is Cook Island Language Week. We gave ourselves questions to answer for starters and researched the information we didn't know about. It gave a lot of information which I agreed because I never knew some of it myself. I named down The types of foods, famous people, traditional places, flag explanation & famous landmarks. They all seemed very interesting and for sure mesmerizing. This is the work I've produced which includes the lists of Cook Island questions I've created. Here is my Cook Island Fact Sheet!

Senior Friendship Book

Senior Friendship Book

Last week my class Rm11 made a copy of a doc that had questions that we had to answer. We were informed that the questions were there for us to answer and for our classmates, teachers, and others to get to know us better. It makes it clearer for people to get a better understanding of our background and where we came from. Miss Tupou our teacher, wanted to create a Senior Friendship Book that had the same information about all our class members. It gave us questions like, What is your favorite ____? or What are your hobbies? or How are you most close within your classroom? and even a photo of yourself. Once we finished answering them we had to send the doc to our teacher then to go over the answers if there were any mistakes just like a writing test.  

Top 3

Task Description: This was a task set for us from Mr. Victor he told us to chose 3 images from a site that showed us pictures that were taken in Auckland. I've chosen my 3 and placed them in this slideshow along with a description of why I have chosen the 3 pictures.

Matariki Star Cluster - Daughter's

1. Pohutukawa - She is the oldest and she is the star that leads and connects the dead to us every year. 

2. ) Tipuanuku - The star that is joined to the food that grows underground. “Tupu” word meaning “to grow” then “Nuku” which stands for a shortened version of  “Papatuanuku” also proposing as “earth” in English.  

5.) Tipuarangi - The star that is connected to the sky, Meaning what lives, grows and starts in the sky, such as birds meaning not to eat them.

6.) Waiti - Is a star that means water, or such as clearing and clearance. Also to everything that comes out of the lakes and or rivers.

7.) Waita - “Ta” is the meaning of salt. Meaning the animals and creatures that live under the sea.

8.) Waipunarangi - Definition of water coming out of the sky, Rain. This star will predict the weather and timing of when it will start.

9.) Ururangi - “Uru” meaning is wind. The star will tell you how windy it would be and how demanding it will be.

10.) Hiwaiterangi - The star is known as a wishing star of the year, sending wishes and hoping yours will come true.

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Task Description: In this task, we were told to answer who Matariki's daughters were and what each star represents. I have answered down what each and every one of them do including what they do for the earth.

Connection's Task - Historical Aoteraroa / Treaty of Waitangi

 The treaty of Waitangi was an agreement between the Britsh and the Maori for the land Aotearoa. The Maori were the first to discover Aotearoa until the British people came over. The Britsh told the Maori that they will still own the land and an offering of learning subjects and supplies which drew the Maori in. The 500 Maori chiefs came signed the treaty and the Britsh/European came over and started to build and create buildings, Roads,  Houses, pathways and etc.

What we did last week #2

What we did last week, our class watch the third and think the last video that we had to describe. We had to answer questions and answer them on a doc but I'll just show a screenshot of what I did.
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Task 1:

Watching the video: I AM A REFUGEE: Globel Refugees Bust Myths.

List the 4 main myths about refugees that were presented in this video.

-Myth 1: Refugees want to leave their country.

-Myth 2: Terrorists are posing as refugees to infiltrate other countries. 

-Myth 3: Refugees are a burden to society.

-Myth 4: Muslim refugees are more of a threat than Christian ones.

After watching this video what are your thoughts on these myths? Do you believe any of
them are true? Explain your answer. 

-From all the videos I’ve seen most of them had refugees claiming that they were terrified from all

the death threats and fears of persecution. And in my mind, I see that they wanted to stay but from all
that going on is what got them thinking that they needed to leave for the better good. 

I never really heard of the second myth which got me thinking if it is true or not, but to be honest I don’t
know what goes on there. But I do not believe this myth, if so and it’s true hopefully it stops.

 I don’t apply to the third myth because I think everybody is equal and we should all treat each other
with respect, and do not think it’s good to say that refugees are a burden to society because, in my
opinion, it’s not as 

 For the last myth, I insist that a lot of people believe this and should be reminded that this is not
what we were brought up to do and to assume that it’s true, and in my opinion, I think it’s true.

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Final Thoughts:

After viewing the video in this lesson, use a separate sheet of paper to thoughtfully answer the
following 2 questions completely.

1. Do you think refugees have the right to be protected when they get to a new country? Do

you think that in most countries they ARE being properly protected? - Yes, I reckon refugees

should have the right to be protected since a lot of aren’t but I’m not the one to chose but I do believe

some countries aren’t properly protected because of ridiculousness like ‘It’s not my fault’ ‘You’re not

even ____’. 

2. Do you think the United States should have its borders open to refugees at all times? Do you think there are issues that would arise for America in doing this? -I don’t think they will have them open at all times since many do enter with a lot of issues they have themselves. But again, I wouldn’t mind this and I think it wouldn’t be such a burden for them to rome around and to live a life.
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And for the last task is for an art project that my other two partners and I thought of creating relating to our cultures which include the islands of Samoa, Cook Island & Niue. Within these slides are what we wish to succeed in making for the project.
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Task 2:

What we did last week?

Last week I didn't post all of my work so right now I'm here to tell you about what we did that I haven't spoken about on my blog! First, you guys know what "Refugee" means? If not I will show you, well we had to do another activity about what refugees mean. I will be showing two tasks, here is the first activity.

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Theses will be the questions I will be answering in my own words and other words my
thoughts about a video called “What does it mean to be a Refugee?”

  

1. Worldwide, approximately how many people have been forced to leave their homes as refugees? - 60 million. 

2. What is the difference between refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP)? -Refugees leave their countries and homeland while IDP has found a safe place within their country.

3. Complete this sentence: According to the international legal definition, a refugee is someone who…- declares themselves as the modern way of saying it “1951’s UN convention”

4. What does the word persecution mean? For what reasons are refugees persecuted? - Being mistreated by an annoyance, because of race, religion, beliefs, nationality, political or membership in a particular social group

5. What percentage of refugees are children? What dangers do they face? - Half of the people that are refugees are roughly children and not only that, some of the kids are without accompanying by an
adult.

6. What is the difference between a migrant or refugee? - If talking about a migrant they have chosen to move out of the country to find a better life, refugees have been forced out of their country/home due to deadly consequences.

7. Think about a family forced to leave their family due to violence. List 6-8 obstacles and challenges they may face along the way. - 1.) Loneliness, 2.) Depression, 3.) Rest, 4.) Shelter, 5.) Communication, 6.) Clothing, 7.) Hygiene items, 8.) Food/Water.

8. What is a refugee camp? -A place that treats people that have left their homeland due to a natural disaster or life-threating attempts.

9. What does it mean for a refugee to seek Asylum? What does the word asylum mean? - The meaning of asylum seeker is a word mentioned for a person who has left their country as a refugee then looking for an asylum seeker in another country. - Asylum is the meaning of a state that gives protection and care to one other that has left there country as one other a “Refugee”.

10. While not all countries agree on guidelines to grant refugee status, they do agree on the basic principle of non-refoulment. What does this mean? - the law that prevents a country from receiving asylum seekers from returning them to a country in which they would be in likely danger of persecution based on "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political belief".

11. What big issues do refugees face? - Wars, Human rights, Food resources, Gender-based violence, political response, Healthcare, Physical abuse, Forced to leave family behind & Forced to leave homeland & state.

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Second activity - The truth about 'Refugees' video #2 recount.

Josef's Suitcase

WALT: listing five items Josef will take by personality

Task Description: Our task was to list and name down 5 objects nor items that Josef in the book "Refugee" will take out in his suitcase. And in this case, I've done exactly that. Listed above will say who and how Josef is like in person.

Refugee - Character description

WALT: describing the characters in the book "Refugee"

Task Description: Defining the 3 main characters in the book "Refugee". Their personality, what they do, their identity and their religion.

New Students at GTS!

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{Me} 

Kia Orana, Fakalofa lahi atu and greetings to all.

I am delighted to present myself to the school that I’ve newly enrolled in. My name is
Hope, I came here from Pt England school. This will be my first and last year here at
Glen Taylor. To all that are new as well, I will like to make a good connection with you
all hopefully getting to know yous too.

I’ve heard there are new students in the school, a whole heap of kids joined the school
with so much to share! I’ve met a new person on my first day of school! She is also new to
the school as well we’ve gotten along with each other so well! I hope to learn differently
and make as many memories as I can! Are you excited for 2020?

"Identity"

Last week as a class Room 11 all wrote what the word "Identity" means to us in one doc. We had our own box to write in and we proceed to explain the word. I wrote down what it means to me,

"Identity? When I think of that word It reminds me of my mum, dad, my siblings and others that I’m related to. Again to me, it’s just a word that people pronounce as your personality, who you are and where you came from, but looking into the word means more than it looks. I find many many more interesting and surprising things that I not only know of but things I wouldn't even think of while mentioning the word. I’ll gladly say that the word means more than what you think it means and don’t get ahead of yourself when thinking the words means nothing when it does." 

That's what I wrote down in the box. It really didn't mean anything to me but now it's different. 

That's all I remembered last week I found it really interesting. How about you? What do you think of the word? Is it positive, negative or neutral? 

Cursive M - Handwriting

Task Description: I had to grab a sheet from a box on the teacher's table and on that a sheet, it had a letter on it but, it was written Cursive. The letter on it was an M. Here were the results of my handwriting.

My Handwriting.

A - Z (Learning about the world)

A - Z (LEARNING ABOUT THE WORLD)

 List down a country name for each letter of the alphabet. Identify a
TRADITIONAL DANCE celebrated/performed or something relating to
ARTS in that country.

Country name	Traditional Dance	Picture or Video link of it
Australia	Aboriginal Dot Art Painting-	Aboriginal Dot Art Painting
Bahamas	Bahamian Quadrille and the Heel and Toe Polka-
Canada	Indigenous Dance-
Dominica	Folk dance ‘Flirtation’	Flirtation
England	morris dancing-	Morris dancing
Fiji	Meke dance
Germany	Zwiefacher
Haiti	Yanvalou
Italy	Tarantella
Japan	Kabuki
Kenya	Kifudu
Libya	Folkloric Dance
Mexico	Folkloric Dance {Mexican style}
New Zealand	Haka
Oman	Al ayalah	Al ayalah
Papua New Guinea	The Baining Fire Dance	The Baining Fire Dance
Qatar	Ardah	Ardah
Russia	Barynya	Barynya
Samoa	Siva Samoa	Siva Samoa
Tonga	Me'etu'upaki	Me'etu'upaki
United States	Hip hop
Vietnam	vũ phiến {Fan Dance}	vũ phiến
Wales	Nantgarw	Nantgarw
None-	None-	None-
Yemen	al-Zaffeen	al-Zaffeen
Zambia	Lusaka	Lusaka