Personalized Passion Project

 Yesterday we presented our personalized passion project in our wananga class, we also bring it to the library for the other student to see. As you may know, we started doing out personalized passion project last term and spend most of our wananga class finishing it. While doing the human sized sculpture we experience some problems but got a solution eventually. Since we are making our sculpture using cardboard it's hard for them to balance and they're not standing. After lot's of tries my group finally made it and finish the project. We made a presentation about our project.

Music Reflection

Last term, we did a short performance on the last day of term in music. As group with 3 members two of us sang while I'm playing the piano. The song the performed is "Can't Help Falling In Love" by Elvis Presley. We spend some of our music lesson practicing our performance. Our performance has been recorded by our music teacher, she did this because it was unexpected and we don't have much time if we are gonna do it in front of the class. During and after this performance I noticed that my skill in piano improved a lot and my self confidence when I'm performing. Next year, I don't have any plans to take music because I think I already had a lot of time learning something about it and had fun. Also, next year I would like to focus more on my academic. 

This is our performance: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GmNIR10Rj8blWBThEM90XHpBVxYpkCeS/view?ts=6152390d

ESOL Term 3 Reflection

This term in our ESOL class, we did a lot of different activities. We did some grammar practice, reading, online tests, different types of worksheets, and writing a formal essay. We spend almost half of this term in lockdown so we didn't do much for the whole term. However, there are still some things that I enjoyed for this term in ESOL, I enjoyed doing grammar practices, reading lots of different stories and answering the question about it. I enjoyed all of this because I think it's really helpful to improve my knowledge and my ability to understand the story that I'm reading. But the thing that I enjoyed the most is writing the formal essay as an assessment, I like this because I saw how I get better at my writing and brainstorming. We did a lot of preparation for this essay and I like how my essay turned out. Also, writing this essay makes me proud of myself because I saw that I improved my ways of writing an essay and submitting it in time. Next term, I would like to learn and do something new in this class. However, I still want to do some of these things, it might be boring for some of us but I think it's really helpful. There are some things that I would like to do better next term such as blogging, getting a better score in online tests, and put more effort into my works to get an excellent result. I hope next term will be fun for all of us since it's our last term for this year. 

How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped

 Fashion from the 1850-1920 in New Zealand

Women used to wore long dresses, corset and hats. This fashions where based in London and Paris fashion. From 1850's sewing machine and paper dress making were quite popular and the most common way of making clothes. In the late 19th century they promoted practical clothes like Knickerbocker or baggy knee length trousers for women. 

For children, both boys and girls babies used to wear robes. After a couple of years, boys wore Knickerbocker suits, while the girls wore dresses. 

How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped

Who is the main characters?

-  Pearl Button - She's a little girl with blonde hair and really white teeth. She is wearing lots of layer of clothes.

-  Two Maori women - They have a dark skin, fat and dark hair. Their clothes were really different compare to Pearl's fashion. They don't wear any stockings, no footwear and completely opposite to Pearl.

What happened to Pearl?

1 - Pearl is in her front yard playing.

2 - She saw two large women walking down the street carrying a big flaw of basket of ferns. 

3 - They have a simple conversation trying to get to know each other. 

4 - They asked Pearl Button if she's going with them without knowing them. After that, they started walking with Pearl Button and went to their place. They treated Pearl with weird treatment, kissing her hair, her hands or neck. 

5 - After that, they bring Pearl to another place and went to the beach. Pearl had fun spending her time at the beach.