Wananga Reading Reflection

This week we have been continuing reading "Skink Gully" in ESOL. This week, we've read the chapter 4 and 5. We also answered the worksheet for chapter 2 and did a test about chapter 5.

Chapter 4

For this chapter, they are trying to take some photos of the skink. While taking the photo suddenly a black cat suddenly bites the head of the skink and ran. Tamsin the daughter of the manager of the farm got really shocked by what happened and the dog chased the cat. 

Chapter 5 

Continuing in chapter 5, the dog leads them into a place like a cave but without any roof. Out of curiosity, they dig and make a hole in the ground. After digging for a few minutes, they saw a lot of bones and they got really shocked. Also in chapter 5, they take a photo of the nest of the falcon. But after a few moments, the bird started to circle around them making them scared. 

There are just a few things that happened in the book that we're reading. There a lot more things happened and I can't wait to finish the book. 

EOTC Week - 8 Water Ways Safety

Hi everyone, since next week we are gonna do our EOTC week for this year. Our teacher decided to give different tasks about it. I decided to do  a task about '8 water ways safety' today. I choose this because it is easy to finish. We used canva for our posters and upload it in our blog.

What makes a good leader? Year 9 Leadership

 Hi everyone, today I will be talking about what makes a good leader. Last week we have been learning about the characteristics of a good leader. We also made a video of us talking more about our topic. For most of us including me, this task is really hard because we are not comfortable filming ourselves. But since as a student this is normal and we just need to be brave and confident I did it anyways. This blog post will be showing the characteristics of a good leader and I will also put the video that I made. 

Being a good leader needed to have a lot of efforts and hard works. They have a lot of characteristics and most of this are positive, because a word leader is a big word and it all about the whole group's sake.This qualities can make them a chance to be more powerful than others but we need to remember that we need to use this in positive way and not just to tell your group what do to so you don't have to do anything. We also have a lot of example of a good leader in our life.

First I will be talking about the things that a great leader have. This is just some of the qualities that they have but there's a lot more. 

• Confident
• Respectful
• Achievement
• Ready to stand for the whole group
• Brave
• Confident
• Respectful
• Commitment
• Listen to others opinion 
• Empathy
• Responsible
• Including everyone. 

This is the video of myself that I made. If your watching the video you will hear that I am talking about what makes a good leader which I already said in this blogpost. I hope you will enjoy watching my video and give me some feedback about it so I can do better next time.

There is a one goof leader that I really like and I really admire. This person is a great leader for me because she can manage a whole country and try her best to make our country good. This person is Jacinde Adern. Ever since I start to know her I saw the changes that she make in our country and her sacrifices. I also admire her because I didn't expect her to be this good since she's a girl and I don't know any girl prime minister aside from her. What about you? Are you a good leader or do you know someone who is a great leader?

Wananga

 Today did a activity that trying to test our trust to each other other. We have to get into pairs so we can do this successfully, me and my friend decided to be in a partner. For this challenge we decided in our pair who is the person A and person B, but it doesn't really matter because we are both doing something.This challenge is really interesting because we have different instruction that we need to do, we also don't know our partner's instruction. We just have to trust them and complete the challenge. 

I am the person A and my instruction is I will not let my partner to open my fist until she ask me to open it politely and with assertiveness. It didn't take longer that I expected because she figure out what does she need to do. Also I don't have any doubt about her because we have been friends for quite a long time now, so I trust her. Trusting your partner is the important thing that you need to do for this challenge.

I know that all of us have made an argument with someone, it can be our family our friends. In our pair we also shared the moments that we did somethings in aggressive way but after we are gonna think that we should have been more assertive that aggressive. The experience that I told to my partner is every time that my sister asking a favor to me, and instead of following her I getting annoyed and sometimes being aggressive towards her. 

As a class we also talked about the things that we can do when someone is being aggressive towards us or someone says somethings that make us upset. Smiling, Ignoring, and take a deep breaths are just some of those things that we can do in this situation. It is important that we know how to manage this kind of things. 

Compliments - Wananga

Giving compliments to others is really important and helpful, you can give them a compliments about their looks and about their personalities, but deep compliments is the most important and good compliment. This week we have been learning about this topic.While giving compliments make sure that it is helpful and you will make the person feel really happy and good. We did an activity that can help us to learn how to give a deep compliments to each other.

For this activity the first thing that we did is we make our own piece of art that representing ourselves. Most of us just wrote their name and put some designs on it, some of us draw the things that they love to do and draw themselves. After we finished our design we start to go around into different tables to give a compliments to each other, I manage to give a compliments to all of my classmates and I felt really good after I've done that. While giving a compliments to others I feel really thankful and touched because even though we're not close like my friends they still doing some things that I appreciated.

After I've give a compliments to my classmates I started to read the compliment that they gave to me. Some of them is really good and it makes me feel super proud to myself. I really like all of them because each comments is giving me a happiness some of them makes me surprise because I didn't expect that they appreciate even the small things that I did for them. We also made one for our wananga teacher and I really enjoyed that because that one way so I can say thank to her for being a nice and lovely teacher.

If we are giving compliments to others it is better if we gave them a deep compliments because we can make them fee happy and they will be thankful to us because we appreciated their small help to us. Be thankful that and appreciate the compliments that they give to you and use it to be a better person.

Decade Research

For our literacy work we have been doing a decade research. This work needed to have some important events that happened for each decade. We started our work on 1900's to 2020. Me and my friends Skyler and Lhysette decided to be in a group for this task because this is to much work if we do it by ourselves.

We did our presentation research on google slides. While doing this task we are having our own slides to work on and once we finished it we will do other slides, so we know that years that we did.

How to write an email?

Today our teacher told us the proper way how to write an email. She came up with this idea because she notice some email that sent to her during the lockdown. First she told us the different part of the email and some example of it. I think this is really helpful because sometimes I am making a mistakes about writing an email. We need to write an email to our parent and our form teacher

First thing, an email need to start by a greeting, there is a lot of greetings that you can use base on who is the person you are sending an email. Hello and hi is the most common greeting that we are using. Check in, this part is all about asking the person, you can ask how are they feeling, just to check them. And the most important one is the body on this part this is where you are saying the purpose of your email and why did you write it. The last thing that you need to put on you email is the salutation. This is the last part that you need to put on your email.

Wordart - Lockdown

Today we have been doing a word art, we are doing this using the words that can make us remember the things that we did during lockdown. We need at least 10 words or more that the things that we did to our lockdown experience. I decided to choose the heart shape because I really love these things and I think my work is pretty good because I like all the words that I put it on my word art, also all of the words that I choose is the things that I enjoyed during the lockdown.

Hello, Goodbye Poem

Yesterday we write a poem called "Hello, Goodbye" poem, this poem that we need to write is all about our time during the lock down. For this poem we need to say hello to the things that we can be able to do after the lock down and say goodbye to those things that we used to do while we are in quarantine. I hope you like my work.

                                  Hello And Goodbye

                                          Sheila Yap

Hello to the smell of  fresh air that I have missed for a long time and to the sounds of the birds that are singing every morning.

Goodbye to those times that I spend inside the house watching movies without any chance to go for a walk. 

Hello classmates/friends that I didn’t see for a month and spending time with them online.

Goodbye to the boring times that I spend cleaning the house everyday and to those times that I spend all day just laying on my bed.

Hello school that makes me  wake up early every day and do my routines in the early morning.

Goodbye to my gadgets that I am using and makes me sleep really late at night.

Hello malls and beaches that I can’t visit during the lockdown.

Goodbye to our backyard that helps me to feel even a little bit of fresh air.

Hello to our normal life and freedom.

Goodbye lockdown.

Mindfulness Well being

Every day before we start our class we are spending 10 minutes to do the mindfulness time. Mindfulness time is a time that we can choose some activity t do for 10 minutes, we have a lot of choices to do and we are changing our choices every week. Mindfulness is helping the us to relax, calm and be ready to learn to the whole day. Listening to music, coloring, silent reading are some of the choices that you can do for your mindfulness time.


Doing mindfulness time every start of the day is helping me a lot. Even though we just spent 10 minutes every day for this is alright and helpful. Mindfulness time is helping to be ready to learn and helping me to set and think the goals that I want to achieve for that day.



While doing mindfulness you can feel a lot of emotions this emotions can calm, happy, sleepy and relaxed, you can feel this emotions by doing the mindfulness. Also all of us has different ways that we think can make us calm and relaxed. Some of us can feel relaxed while listening to music, painting, watching videos and                                                        reading we have a lot of choices and ways to do this.

My Year 9 Goal Setting

On week 2 we started to do our goal setting for this year. For this blog we will share our goal and the achievements that we want to achieve this year. I have a lot of goal and achievements that I want to get for this year. I wanted to get a award in academic and non-academic award. I will do my best to achieve my goal and to get the awards that I want to get for this school year, and I will try my best to improve some of my learning that I learned last year.

 

    

I want to achieve academics award or non- academic award. I like to achieve a awards like First in Science, Best In Health because I really love those subjects. I want to be able to play in badminton competition this year and to win it . Also I want to improve some of my knowledge this year because I know that it can help me a l lot specially there few more years before I went in senor high school. I want to work on my confidence so I can present in front of the whole class and to have a confidence to do more work. Also I am willing to help my classmates and other student if they need help and be kind. I also want to participate in Badminton Competition this year to improve my skills and also I wanted to do badminton not just this year but the whole year that I'm spending here in Hornby High. I have a lot of goal for this year and I will try my best to reach them and I will try my best to achieve the awards that I want to get for this year.