2020 Review

 This year has been one of the wildest years I have experienced.  Although there are a lot of things that I could discuss with you I will be narrowing it down to things that happen in my school life.  This includes the events, sports, and what I was up to in lockdown (Covid - 19).  

Let's start off with events that happened this year, so my school held a couple events but I will only talk about two of the Market Day.   Let's start with market day,  what is the market day? Market day is when our school create mini-companies and sell various products.  These small groups can also hold mini carnival games.  The point of this is to have the most amount of money.  My group did some work on cutting glass bottles and selling them as cups.  Something sustainable that can help the community.  Our plan didn't work because we accidentally dropped all of the cups sadly shattering them on the ground.  Although the event itself was fun my favourite part was sports in school...

I am a very sporty person so when it comes to competing in school vs school I am more than happy to compete.  I was in a couple sports events such as Volleyball, Ki O Rahi and lit, just to name a few.  My favourite was volleyball,  this was simply because my team won the whole comp undefeated.  I appreciate a good team and was very grateful to compete with my team taking out all competition.  Now, what I despise about this year... Lockdown.

One word 'Lockdown,' this year was specifically different for me because of Lockdown.  For school, we were assigned a lot of work and were pressured by our parents to get it down which I absolutely hated it because I don't like doing work in my free time because I enjoy relaxing.  Lockdown put down a lot of challenges for me physically and mentally and I have hated it ever since.

Now to end off this reflection I would like to say that this year is the worst year of my life.  Because of all the problems that I faced.  This was simply because I am an extrovert and enjoy playing sports,  these hobbies were destroyed when lockdown came in.  Although that happened there were some amazing things as well,  thank you for reading my reflection have a good day and bye.

Discovery Task

In Health we were set a task that required us to research a topic of our interest but in my case, it was Anabolic Steroids. Our set success criteria were to answer 5 questions and then write down the strategies. The topic that I chose was Anabolic Steroids. Photo of us working:

Firstly we had to find out our 5 big questions. Once we had our 5 BIG questions we gave our paragraph answers. From there we had to create a source that shows off our learning. We chose to make/create a Kahoot we chose to do this because it is easy and it is fun to use. Screenshot of the plan:

It was challenging when we were trying to find out our 5 big question answers. I coped with the challenge by researching harder and trying to simplify it into an easier way to understand it. I worked well with others because we split the workup. Next time I will talk more so we can get the work done even faster. I am really proud of how much work I have done.

Link to Kahoot: Anabolic Steroids

Challenge charts

 So today we have been learning about challenge charts.  We had to write down a challenge that one of the characters had faced.  This meant that we had to explain in detail the challenge and how they reacted to it.  I chose to focus on The 'Other' Mother and Coraline.  This was because they were the easiest to talk about.

The 'Other' Mother

Coraline

Heart Dissection - Hur2

 What are we learning about?

We learnt about the circulatory system.  Basically, everything to do with our heart.  How it cycles and pumps blood into your body.

Why are we dissecting a heart?

We dissected the heart to get a physical view on the valve, verticle, parts of the arteries.  We had to learn what was inside and how it looked.

What are the parts that we saw?

We saw the valve, verticle, parts of the arteries. 

Did you enjoy the dissection?

Yes because I as male enjoy doing a lot practical stuff.

Freytags Pyrimid

 

Daylight Savings - Wanaga

 Research and answer the following questions about Daylight Saving NZ in a blog post

1. When does Daylight Saving happen each year in New Zealand?

Daylight savings start on 27 of September and finishes on April the 4 

2. What year did it start in NZ?

It started in 1972

3. Research and answer the following questions about Daylight Saving NZ in a blog post

4. Why was Daylight Saving started? Write at least 2 sentences to answer this question.

It started to change summer to spring.  This lets the sun out more in the evening than in the morning.

5. Read the following article and write a paragraph (3-8 sentences) on whether or not you think that Daylight Saving should continue in New Zealand.

I reckon daylight savings should continue because it is good for the people to stay up an extra hour.  This is good because people have an extra hour to do what they want to do.  But the bad thing is that it may be hard for you to get into the routine to wake up an hour earlier.  This may also be bad for the creatures/animals, take cows for example, you milk cows every day at the same time then bam you start doing it an hour earlier for daylight savings cows do not like this.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107348361/times-up-should-we-end-daylight-saving-in-new-zealand

6. Write 3 tips to help others adjust to Daylight Saving.

1. Start sleeping a hour earlier so you can adapt earlier

2. Avoid drinking and alcohol 

3. Don’t take long sleeps