Looking back this term. (Term 1- Esol)

Hello everyone, looking back to this term 1 in Esol, it has been a bit unorganized. There is a lot of changes in the activities and the work we are supposed to do. But some of the activities are still fun and all of us can still enjoy. Some of the students in Esol is a bit disrespectful so some of the activities can be unfun. I think the students should respect the teacher more and do actual work. I think the worksheet that we get is better 'cause some people actually do the work and be quiet. I think some students should be organised too so they would always be ready in class times. Next term I wish that people could be organised, do their work and also have a good time in Esol. 

Live Aid - Social Studies

 Hello everyone, in social studies we are looking at the live aid. Live aid is a big concert, it is held in Wembley Stadium in London and in JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. 

Bob Geldof is one of the main organisers in the live aid. He is famous for their song 'I don't like Mondays' the song was about the school shooting in San Diego. Bob Geldolf is also famous for being a musician and being in 'Boomtown Rat'.

Midge Ure is known for being a musician. He is also one of the organisers of Live aid. He is famous for being a musician. He created the song 'Do they know it's Christmas' and he made it with Bob Geldof and other more artist. 

Lyrics:

It's Christmas time, there's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade

And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time

But say a prayer, Pray for the other ones
At Christmas time it's hard, but when you're having fun

There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear

Where the only water flowing

Is the bitter sting of tears

And the Christmas bells that ring
There are the clanging chimes of doom

Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you

And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life

Where nothing ever grows
No rain nor rivers flow

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Here's to you
Raise a glass for everyone

Spare a thought this yuletide for the deprived
If the table was turned would you survive

Here's to them
Underneath that burning sun

You ain't gotta feel guilt just selfless
Give a little help to the helpless

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Feed the world

Feed the world

Feed the world

Feed the world

Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again

Feed the world

Feed the world
Feed the world
Feed the world
Feed the world

Feed the world
(Feed the world)
Feed the world
Feed the world

What is it about?

The song 'Do they know it's Christmas' is about the people in Africa who is suffering extreme hunger in October 1984. They made this song to let everyone know that Africa doesn't have time celebrating Christmas because of their hunger. It gives us idea that we should pay attention to them and let them experience christmas. The money that the song made was donated to famine relief.  

   

Neutralisation - Science

Hello everyone, in science we are looking at Neutralisation. 

Aim: Our aim is to find out what kind of acid or base it is or we have to find out the difference between the pH scales and if they are acidic or a base. 

Method:

1. Put some universal indicator on each test tube.
2. By using Hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide to create different pH scales.
3. Then observe the results.

Result:

- When the colours/pH scales are in order, we observe them properly to know if they are in the right order. 

Discussion:

- The experiment was fun because we could see the different colours and the arrange spectrum of pH scales. It was nice seeing different colour happening when pouring the acid and the base together in the test tube. The thing that we struggle with was where we have to make it around the pH of 7 to 14 because it's hard to make them without adding way too much base or acid. The acid and the base we used was quite strong so it was hard to make it in the right order but apparently, my partner and I succeed at doing that.  

Conclusion:

- The result we ended up with was the arrange spectrum of pH scales.  

Beatlemania - Social studies

 Hello everyone, in social studies we are learning about The Beatles. We are looking through their songs and what is the difference between the 1940s to The Beatles era. 

Song title: I want to hold your hand

By: The Beatles 

The song/lyrics are about holding a person's hand or someone with who you want to share a short moment and simply hold their hands. The Beatles explained that a small moment (like 'holding your hands') can turn into something big or simply end the moment by letting go of their hands. holding someone's hand it's no need to feel that you need to really get to know the person before you do but close enough that you share a real moment with a complete stranger.

 

Lyrics:

Oh yeah, I'll tell you somethin'
I think you'll understand
When I say that somethin'
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand

Oh please, say to me
You'll let me be your man
And please, say to me
You'll let me hold your hand
Now, let me hold your hand
I want to hold your hand

And when I touch you
I feel happy inside
It's such a feelin' that my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide

Yeah, you got that somethin'
I think you'll understand
When I say that somethin'
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand

And when I touch you
I feel happy inside
It's such a feelin' that my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide

Yeah, you got that somethin'
I think you'll understand
When I feel that somethin'
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand

What's the difference between the 1940s songs?

The 1940's songs are more into Jazz. Jazz is listened to the most in 1940s because of the wars that happened and that cause gloominess around the world. When music like The Beatles come out, most people were in shock and very surprising.  

Anti - Vietnam song

Hello everyone, in social studies, we are learning about the Vietnam war and most of the Americans didn't join the war and just want peace. We have to pick a song and we have to know the meaning behind the song. 

Most of the people in America was against the war. They invited people who are against the war and gather to have 3-days of peace where they make music and just have fun without war and people dying. 

Here is the song I picked: 

Title: Give peace a chance

By: John Lenon

The song/lyrics are about the anti-war movement. This song is basically telling that they just want peace and fighting or joining the war is useless. They put a lot of effort to promote 'World peace' and they got the media attention which was a successful promotion of the cause.

Lyrics:

Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes
And bye bye, bye byes

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, evolution, masturbation
Flagellation, regulation, integrations
Meditations, United Nations
Congratulations

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer
Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare, Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Parihaka - Music through time

 Hello everyone, In social studies, we are learning about Parihaka and about their peace and passive resistance. We also look at other leaders who had done the same thing as Parihaka, they use peace, not violence. We look at how the native people in parihaka impacted and how songs are used during the event.  

Small information about Parihaka: 

Parihaka is a small village between the tasman sea. After signing the treaty of waitngi, the government starts to take lands from Moāri. People lost their homes and they don't have anywhere to go to. Parihaka was a small village who helped many natives who don't have anywhere to goor lost their homes that time.

Lyrics: 

We have to understand the meaning behind the song and answer the questions about the music.

Song: Parihaka 

Artist: Tim Finn & Herbs

My friend, My friend, I hate to see you suffer,

Events conspire to bring us to our knees,

My friend, my friend, you've taken this the wrong way,

Rise up, defend yourself, never give in,

Look to the sky, the spirit of Te Whiti,

The endless tide is murmuring his name.

I know Te Whiti will never be defeated,

And even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain.

I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka.

Te Whiti he used the language of the spirit,

Then stood accused, the madman and his dream,

He saw the train go roaring through the tunnel,

He heard the voice travel on the magic wire,

But he loved the silence of the river,

He watched the dog piss on the cannon's wheel.

I know Te Whiti will never be defeated,

And even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain.

I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka.

One day you'll know the truth,

They can't pull out the roots,

Come and take me home,

To weep for my lost brother.

They gather still, the clouds of Taranaki,

His children's children wearing the white plume,

So take me for the sins of these sad islands,

The wave still breaks on the rock of Rouhotu.

And when you taste the salt that's on your pudding,

And when you taste the sugar in your soup,

Think of Te Whiti, he'll never be defeated,

Even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain,

I'll sing for you the song of Parihaka,

Come to Parihaka,

Weep for my lost brother,

The spirit of nonviolence,

Has come to fill the silence, Come to Parihaka.

Question and answers

What is the main message of this song?

- The main message is about the suffering they had experienced and they still stay strong. The song mentioned information of how Parihaka have suffered a lot.

What line explain their passive resistance method?

- ' My friend, My friend, I hate to see you suffer,

Events conspire to bring us to our knees,

My friend, my friend, you've taken this the wrong way,

Rise up, defend yourself, never give in,

Look to the sky, the spirit of Te Whiti,

The endless tide is murmuring his name.'

What does 'you can't pull out the roots' refer to?

- It is referring that ' whenever you do to  my culture and the heritage of our land it will always be the same and always be still the same. no one can take it out from me.  '

Give evidence of their determination?

- ' I know Te Whiti will never be defeated,

And even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain.

I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka. '

How does this song show the significance of Parihaka?

- Is shows that Parihaka is significant because of the way they think positively even though they are suffering. This song gives awareness and justice for the people who had lost their love one in that event.      

How many people are affected?

- 1600 or more, people have been affected of the rights in the land/ of their land. They imprisoned people who are homeless and people who wants to stop them from claiming Parihaka. 

Critical literacy

 Hello everyone, In Wananga we have been working in critical literacy. In critical literacy, we have to write a sum up (summarise) an activity that we have done in class, like 'we have read a book, the author is______this book is about____and I believe this is very interesting because it _____'. 

What is the locator flag:

The activity that I'm gonna talk about is the locator flag we made. The locator flag is where a teacher gives you a paper and you have to draw something that represents you. When you are finished with it you have to locate where you are born and put a pin and a string, I can't really explain it properly so I searched for an image that kinda represents what we are doing. 

Title: Locator flag

We made this so people could get to know our class and also to know more about our classmates. 

Text type: Art for the world flag 

Creator: Alliah (me)

Who benefits from this?

This benefits anyone because it's about getting to know our class more/ students in our class. This also helps the teacher to know us more and this also helps people who are interested in you. 

Heating Zinc Oxide

Hello everyone, today in science we are experimenting on Zinc Oxide. We have to heat up Zinc Oxide and observe what happened next. 

Aim: What change happens when we heat Zinc Oxide? 

Equipment: Bunsen burner, Heat mat, Tripod, Safety glasses, Crucible Holder and Zinc Oxide  

 Results: When it was heating up it was turning yellow and when we turn it off it turns back to white. 

Discussion: When heated, the electrons in Zinc move to other levels, making it change colours.  

Name Acronym - 10 ESOL

 Hello everyone, in ESOL we are doing a acronym with our names. We did this activity so we can get to know each other more and also give our classroom with colours. Here is the acronym that I made with my name. 

I put these words in my names because it’s how they describe me.

I have to pick 2 letters that describe me. I pick artistic and imaginative.

Imaginative - I pick this because I love to imagine things so I can get out of the real world. This also helps me to do some work.

Artistic - I pick this because I like to do art and be creative with art. This helps me visual stuff and that’s why I like it.

Cyber safety

In this ICT we are learning about cyber safety. we played some games about it and these games us about keeping us safe from the internet. 

Cybersafety tells us to be careful in the virtual world and never share any private pieces of information about your life.

Examples of dangerous things on the internet are

• Cyberbullying
• hackers
• kidnappers 
• pedophiles 
• theft of identity/catfishing 
• scammers 
• offensive images
• invasion of  privacy

How will you know you're secure? You can make a more secure password like, make uppercase letters, put numbers in it, and put 8 special characters. 

 

 

321 RIQ - 10 ESOL

 Hello everyone, today in ESOL we are learning about 321 RIQ. First I have to explain the meaning behind about 321 RIQ. 321 RIQ meaning is 3 Recalls, 2 Insight, 1 Question. The 321 RIQ helps our learning by remembering 3 things about the lessons that the teacher have taught, learning 2 new things that we haven't learned, and 1 question that we haven't ask the teacher. The strategy is that we will have much better literacy and we can always ask the teacher if we are to shy to ask in front of the class. This also can help our teacher to understand what we are up to, or what type of learner we are.

 321 RIQ reflection:

In ESOL, the 3 things that I remember about our lessons is introducing ourselves, we also learned more about our teacher and classmates, and also we learned the 321 RIQ. 2 things that I learnt about it is that I know my classmates more and also get to know my teacher Mrs Truter. I also learned more about the 321 RIQ, about the meaning behind it and how this will help our learning. 1 question I want or I want to know more about is, our teacher Mrs Truter, I want to learn more about her since she's still new in Hornby High school, and I want to get to know her more. 

In conclusion is that 321 RIQ will help our studies more because we can improve our writing and also our literature. This can also help our classmates to understand the lessons we had and this can also give information about what level of learning we are in.

Tane Mahuta

This Wednesday for Tane Mahuta, We are planning what should we plant in autumn and winter, here is some research about we can plant in autumn.

1. potatoes,  

2. Broccoli

3. cabbage,

4.spinach, 

5.eggplant,

6.radish

After that, we go to the orchid and pick the rotten apples it was disgusting, but this will be helpful for the compost so I just take the challenge, it was not bad but it's hot so I have to go under the apple tree, after that we started doing our blog and write all the stuff we did this morning.    

Tane Mahuta

This morning, the teachers told us that we are going to the back garden/compost. We have to get a plastic bag and gloves this helps us to not get dirty while cleaning up, while we are cleaning up some students find worms and spiders its pretty disgusting so....let them be. As soon as we have finished we have to wash our hands, period 3 we have to now go clean at the sides at backfield and when we're cleaning at the backfield next to the road I clean a bush and.......found a 5 dollars, I rush to the teacher and give it, but the teacher didn't keep so she just gave it to me I was full of happiness. Some of the people saw me holding the 5 dollars they all asking me "omg can I have it" and I told them "uhhhh Nah" and they are pretty sad. here is some of the picture that they took by the teachers.

 













                                         

         

Tom Trueheart

Tom Trueheart

Once upon a time I was in a  creepy dark forest. I got my special sword to save my six brothers and the princess bride. There’s nobody in the forest. I’m trying to find my six brothers and the princess bride.

It was snowy that day and it’s freezing that day. It was a long story about my six brothers and the princess bride lost. But I got a problem, I’m just a size of a thumb and I don’t know what to do. Even I’m just a size of a thumb, I need to save my brothers and the princess bride.

Then I see a cave that looks so spooky. I feel nervous walking on the cave because if something in there like bear snake or something else

Then after I got to the cave. I came to the snowy hill but I can’t go up because I slipped and slipped on the snowy hill so I got a long branch to get up the hills.

Then I see a house. I came in the house,  it’s so warm in there. Then I see a bed so I just go a little nap on the bed.

Then after I finish a nap I stand up and clean the  house and I get out the house.

Then after I go out to the house I need to walk a long time and finding my six brother and the princess bride.

I was walking and Then I saw a tall castle and I looked at the window then I saw the princess and my six brothers is in the castle. I saw a guard outside in the castle with crocodile and some dragons so I walk slowly and turn around in the castle and get up at the castle.

I got a rope out of my bag and I turned the rope around and flicked it to the top of the castle. Then I climb up to the top of the castle until I’m at the window and I saw my six brothers and the princess bride and I snuck out of the window and I cut the rope from their hands. Then we snuck out to the castle and get out there.

Then after we get out of the castle we walk a long time to go on the snowy hills and the creepy cave and the princess bride is so scared in the cave , I said that you'll be all right and we walk again to go home.

The End

Thanks for reading it, hope you like it ❤❤

My Learning Goals 2017

This is are my learning goal 2017, I shared this with my mum and dad and I feel nervous. My parents felt good about it.
I hope you like it bye! ❤

My Learning in our school

Last week Mr. Maddren talked to use about be in the right place in the right time. this is being Cyber Smart. We then had to create a DLO to show our new learning It can also teach other how to be safe online .

It's important to make good decisions when working online making sure your on the correct website, so you can be safe.