Fonofale Health Model

This health model is the Fonofale. The culture is represents is the Samoan culture. The key features are it's four dimensions which are Spiritual, Physical, Mental and other. The foundation of the fale represents family.

I will apply the Fonofale model to my well-being with my presentation of my health model this morning. Whilst standing in front of the classroom, I was able to share what I'd learnt about this health model with the rest of the classroom, therefore my social well-being was positively impacted because I was around other people sharing my knowledge. After presenting my health model I was proud of myself for being able to stand up on my own without my partner which impacted positively on my spiritual well-being because of I had a sense of achievement.

Government Decision - My Opinion

I agree and disagree with the fact that foreign landowners should not be allowed to sell Nz bottled water overseas.

My reason for disagreeing with the green party’s decision is because, I think that when someone purchases something, they should have full control over it once they own the item. Whatever they want to do, they shouldn’t have others persecute their decisions.

But then again, New Zealand has every right to be upset that these customers are extracting Nz natural resources and making a profit out of it overseas.

Companies like the Chinese bottler Nongfu Spring Co Ltd. should at least include something like New Zealand Natural Stream Water to show gratitude towards the Tangata Whenua in Aotearoa for their service in allowing them to sell bottled water.

Current Events

Walt: read and write about a current event

Title of Story : Nico Porteous and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
react to their bronze medal wins Date of Article : 22/02/18   

Link to NZ herald (choose a current events story from the NZHerald link -

answer the questions below)

* MAKE A COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT   **  CHOOSE A CURRENT EVENT NEWS STORY  ***   COMPLETE THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES.

Do Now : Term that you don’t understand (choose 4)

Term	Definition
Sentiment	A view or opinion that is held or expressed
Surreal	Having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre
Rapt	Completely fascinated or absorbed by what one is seeing or hearing

STUDENT ACTIVITY

Read the story and answer the questions below

Topic / Subject of the Story ;	New Zealand skier’s Nico and Zoi getting bronze medals
Where is this story based ?	(local, regional, national, international ) The story is about two 16 year-old New Zealanders getting bronze medals for skiing. The event is based on the Olympics.
Why is this story in the news?	Eg is it a story of conflict ? Natural disaster ? Interesting or Unusual ? Shocking ? Tragedy ? Controversy ? Humour ? Overcoming ? Victory ? etc    (Give a reason why ) The news is about their victory in the olympics and their big achievements at a young age.
Who are the individuals or groups involved in the story ?	.
Write down 4 facts from the story	Nico Porteous vomited multiple times before his run at skiing. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott & Nico were the youngest medal receivers. Both of these athletes represent New Zealand in the Olympics Nico and Zoi’s scores were around the same digit’s with Nico at 94.8 and Zoi’s at 92
Give two points of views mentioned in the story ?	For Nico’s run he was really shocked at his score and he described his experience as “insane” and “crazy”. Zoi’s coach said that it was an exceptional day for New Zealand and was really rapt with how everything went.

Future Me

In careers we've been learning about ourselves and what our interests, abilities and skills are. After we learnt about ourselves and what we wanted to do for our future, we had to create this 'vision board'. As you can probably see, a vision board shows what your good at, what your ethnic background is, where you see yourself in the future & basically your vision for your future. Can you figure or learn something about me by looking at my vision board?

Orchestra... music to my ears

As part of our amazing topic for this term; room three have been learning about an Orchestra and all the different instruments in an Orchestra. First we had to get into groups of two or three. In these groups we had to create our own digital learning object using a presentation showing our learning and research about an Orchestra. If you would like to visit partners blogs than click on either of the hyperlinks on the presentation and it will take you there.

Problem Solving

Walt: solve math problems



This week in numeracy we have been learning how to solve math problems. During the process of this task it came to some equations where we had to solve the math problem in the order of BEDMAS. BEDMAS stands for brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. Please feel free to leave feedback for me if you learnt something from this post, and keep checking in for any updates on this presentation.

Number Knowledge

Number knowledge, how much do you know about numbers? Well this week I have been learning how to add & subtract negative numbers. While I was completing this google presentation I learnt that when you add a positive to a negative it makes more of a positive. And when you takeaway a big number from a smaller number than it goes into negatives. For example; 12 - 34 = -22 Now you have a go!

GEGNZ Student Summit

Have you ever heard of GEGNZ? Well our Yr 7 & 8 extension group got the opportunity to attend this Google Education Group New Zealand Student Summit. This took place at Ormiston Junior College and Primary on Friday the 11th of August and we were accompanied by many other schools around New Zealand. There about four hundred other students there for this event.



At the beginning of the Summit we all met in the college hall/theatre. The opening speech was from the Young Ocean Explorers. They spoke to us about their underwater adventures and what they had experienced. The explorers were a farther and a daughter. They shared with us their scariest experience and their best experience and it influenced me to be brave around the ocean.

The schools that attended this event got to either explore workshops or host a workshop showing what they had created using technology or coding. There were a lot of fun and creative entertaining workshops we got to choose from on that day. We had three sessions, in our first selection of workshops we were taught how to use all these different entertaining technology, they were, makey makey, Ozmo, Mbot, and many more. In our second session it was our turn to host a workshop, we had at least three people acting as game guiders and the rest of us presented at our stand.

Warm... Cold

Walt: Evaluating - I gather, and synthesize to evaluate information across a range of text


Making clever clothes.. isn't that clever? There are some pretty clever things that we can create but Stewart Collie make clever clothes like, fire and stab resistant gowns for patients in hospitals, built in mp3 in a jacket, electrical socks to warm your feet and more! Also different housing insulation, there are different material to make these insulators.

Environmental Gas

Walt: Evaluating - I gather, and synthesize to evaluate information across a range of text


For this week in literacy we read about environmental gases. We had to read to different text and the two gases they talked about was Biogas made of fresh dung, and methane gas from rubbish dumps. Biogas is formed when fresh dung goes into a Biogas Plant and goes out one side into you kitchen where the stove is. This gas is used for cooking which is really useful. The Methane gas provides electricity and that is also very useful. I really enjoyed learning about these environmental gases and if there was a power outage I would have a solution in mind.

Probability

Walt: Calculate the probability of an event happening


Probability... what is it? Probability is the likeliness of something happening. At the end of this presentation we got to do our own experiment around probability using a coin. With a toss of a coin there are only two chances that the coin will land on heads. I think that I have achieved the WALT because I am very positive that my answers are correct and I understand what probability is now.  What I have learnt from this lesson is how to predict what is going to happen in a probability experiment. For example, if you had 7 marbles in your hand, 5 transparent and 2 red what is the chance of you picking out a red marble? Please leave a comment showing you answer and your strategy.

Space Exploration

NASA stands for:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Link to Space travel site

The exo-brake will be deployed from the International space station through a small spacecraft. An exo-brake is a tension-based, flexible braking device that deploys from the rear of the satellite. It has a cross parachute. Why they deploy it from the rear of the satellite? They deploy it from the rear of the satellite because the cross-like parachute drags in space and so it will give them time to scan around the space station and around the satellite itself.

A Brief History Of Space Exploration
In the 1930s to 1940s Nazi Germany saw the possibility of using long-distance rockets as weapon. In 1961 Alan Shepard became the first American to fly into space.

Fractions, Decimals & Percentages

Walt: Understand the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages.
- Match up the correct fraction, decimal, and percentage.
This week one of our tasks was to complete our group google presentations. In this presentation I had to go onto different sites to play around with fraction, decimals and percentages. Before I started the google presentation I already knew a few thing about this. So what I wanted to find out was how to convert a decimal into a percentage and how to convert a percentage into a fraction. Flick through these slides and have a look at what the Compasses task was in this presentation.
I hope you can learn something from it yourself.

Water Wise

Walt: I make sense of all information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself, text I know and my world.
This week our task was to read a text set before starting this google presentation. In this activity we had to create a poster. In our poster we had to add images and text to explain the importance of water. Go to slide 7 to check out my poster.

FAST RUST

Fast Rust Task

Rust

Walt: synthesise information from multiple sources.

Task

Work on this Doc together with a partner.

What 3 ingredients are needed for rust to occur.

Metal

Oxygen from the air (O)

Water (H2O)

Write a brief paragraph explaining the rusting process (why rusting occurs)

When some metals are exposed with water and oxygen, it forms rust. Rust is a type of corrosion. Rusting occurs when H2O (water) and O (oxygen) is in contact with iron or steel. The rusting process becomes faster when salty water or acid rain is applied.

                                                                                                        

How could you prevent something from rusting?

By preventing metal from rusting you can paint it or put a layer of oil or grease over the metal. It is a good idea to use this as a solution so that the oxygen could bounce off the metal instead of rusting it, depending on what kind of environment  the metal is in.

Write 3 sentences explaining something new you’ve learned from this reading.

We learnt that the term corrosion is used to describe metal breaking down when it is exposed to the environment. We also learnt that rusting can be prevented when you either paint, grease/oil or a process called galvanizing. An example of galvanizing is when you put zinc and iron together, the zinc protects the iron but it sacrifices itself because zinc reacts more than the iron.

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In this task I learnt about rust and how metal can corrode. Rust is a type of corrosion, corrosion happens to metals when they are exposed with water and air for a long time. Rust slowly breaks down metals into other chemicals. Another name for rust is hydrated iron oxide. 

Geometry

This week in maths class our teacher Miss Clark taught us about Geometry.

Thinkboard

For this weeks thinkboard we learnt how to add decimals. I solved the problem using the strategy partitioning.

Be the Inspiration

Here is a presentation that I have completed with two other people in my home class. It includes inspirational quotes.

Olympics Narrative

Writing:

As the crowd chanted in unison, the eight competitors from all around the world had briefly started warming up. When the contestants were signaled to settle into their starting positions, silence filled the stadium. All eight competitors had immediately put on a serious and eager face.  

Bang! The crowd broke out of their silence mode and started roaring with excitement as the official shot the starting pistol and the racers had sprung out of their starting positions. As they rapidly approached the finish line, their eager facials had vanished when the race official had notified that six competitors had false started and only two had made it into the finals.

With disappointed impressions the six participants walked out of the stadium, when suddenly the crowd started chanting with anger. “Retry, retry, retry!” The race official stood there looking speechlessly at the mad audience and not knowing what to do. As the crowd continued shouting loudly for another round, the official had no choice but to restart the race. _________________________________________________________________________________WALT:  This week in literacy most of our focus has been on writing. Our task was to find an image about the modern Olympics and write a narrative about it. There are three types of sentences that we needed to include in our writing; simple, compound and complex.

A Bumpy Road to Rio

In this presentation you'll find that we have been learning about what it takes to get into the Olympics and it's a really hard journey.