Study Notes for Math

Study notes! 

Multiples, factors and primes.

Waitangi day!!!

 As we all know Waitangi day is coming up and we have a public holiday on Monday. In social studies, due to the pandemic, we decided to retrace back to before quarantine and ended up digging a bit into this public holiday. I have mixed thoughts, why do we celebrate waitangi day? why is it significant? how does it benefit us?

when we learn true Maori histories of waitangi, its important to remember the place of Maori and Pakeha. To acknowledge the bi-cultural partnership as being important to all aspects of New Zealand.

Waitangi is the celebration of the mistranslated treaty of the English men to have power over New Zealand. Waitangi day is where the people of New Zealand have a public holiday to acknowledge a treaty with the British crown and 540 different chiefs. Back in 1840 people didn't have technology so it was quite difficult trying to understand one another if from a different race. The British tried translating as best as they could and 40 out of 540 chiefs signed that treaty. This treaty was created with different objectives. 

There is 3 types of ways to see this holiday. A day to forget, A day to celebrate or a holiday. Personally to me this is a holiday but we will be mainly looking into the other two options.

A day to forget. Looking at these peoples perspectives you realise that they have a good reason to wish to forget it.  We celebrate the wrongly written treaty of the British to the Maori. They possibly feel like is a day of grief and not something that should be supported. A day that shouldn't bring ease to the people when it brought struggle to our ancestors, or a day that people believe doesn't have such an important reason to be a public holiday. Then there's people who think its a day to remember. The day where people could share the same land, where we as New Zealanders could be one and support each other. A day where we can all come together and look back to realise how far we've come as friends, family, or people we haven't met yet.

These two different types are guided by one thing, their values.  If you value the people around you, besides your friends and family but strangers as well or if you value the past, their feelings, how they were treated. There's so many things you could value that could change the way you think about Waitangi day. I personally think its a treaty to celebrate. I like the fact that I bond with family and talk about how we migrated, talk about how New Zealand came as a group, talk about the treaty. I like hearing the different theories and things that could possibly go a different way. What better time to learn about it then on Waitangi day?

 I also think its a good part of history to look into. Knowing your roots could help you grow more connected both emotionally and physically to your land and its people. It could help you understand why things are the way they are and to always look back on the past to realise we still have a bright future. If now is what was a bright future back then, then we still have our future that we can make brighter!

So try acknowledging your neighbour's and ya know connect with one another. Waitangi day, other then a holiday, is a day of gathering around as New Zealand and taking time to acknowledge how far our ancestors carried us. What do you think is the meaning of Waitangi day?

Our Hauora

In our sixth week of school, in health class, us year 9s built structures with four walls which were dedicated to our well being for this term. Our four different dimensioned walls were Taha Hinengaro which means Mental/Emotional, Taha Tinana which represents physical, Taha Whānau which is social and finally Taha Wairua meaning spiritual.

Each dimension has its importance that's why we've shown its form in a house like structure, if one wall were to crumble everything else would fail to stand strong and resilient.

Taha Tinana which is your physical well being, its to do with things like movement and body growth. It focuses on your health and body development. It could easily fall without the others. The way I use Taha Tinana is by walking and breathing every day.  Taha Hinengaro is your mental and emotional well being, so basically your thoughts and feelings. A way I show my Taha Hinengaro well being is smiling or showing expression every now and then. Taha Whānau is your social dimension, it's to do with your connection with others. I wave to a lot of strangers when ever driving in a vehicle, might be bad but it's a fun little habit of mine that has to do with Taha Whānau. Finally Taha Wairua your spiritual wall, its the wall that is to do with your beliefs, personal identity and your purpose in life. I have faith in god so I go to church, not all the time but most times I do.

Each of these four walls play a big role in life, and like the structure of a house, if one wall crumbles, the others will soon fall as well. So best to keep your walls strong and resilient.

Problem....

People who read this,

I wont be posting things as often anymore. My Chromebook was broken and since I took it to our main school technician for it to be checked out it seems to be making my account play up. Meaning I cant go into the Summer learning Journey to see the task without leaving my account and coming back. I also cant go into google drive and some other things relating to things I use in school. The posts are going to slow down and will probably take me longer. Just telling you so people don't think I just don't want to do summer learning journey. I will be posting but ill go slower then normal... Id also like to ask for a favor... Can someone ask Mr ramkolowan if he could get my Chromebook back? My parents have already chosen what they want to do with my Chromebook but I cant contact him because I cant log into gmail. If someone from GI school or people apart of the Manakalani could do this for me that would be amazing! Thank you for reading this post! So all i'm going to do is comment on other peoples blogs. Thank you again for reading and hopefully I can get my Chromebook back. Thank you!

S.L.J (day 2) UP IN THE AIR activity 2: One Small Step for Man

Leaving my family,

space seems clammily.

stepping out with curiosity,

Not much of luminosity.

I see nothing but the universe.

Wishing I could reimburse.

After spending some hours

I wished to return to a bed of flowers.

So I rushed back to my ship.

and get a grip on how much oxygen im using.

I calm myself and take my time

to think about soda lime.

I jump in my way home

and return to my favorite garden gnome

This is my Long poem about me if I was travelling to the moon! Sorry there wont be any photos...I had a really good plan about it too but there's something to do with the Chromebook... Kinda sad about it because I wanted to add a photo for every fourth line and I cant do that without google draw so here is a photo of proof that somethings wrong and of course the moon

Again like I said, sorry for not making the PROPER blog post

S.L.J (day 2) UP IN THE AIR activity 1: Flying solo

Today activity was to do opposites and similarity of two famous female plane pilots. Since im doing check out other peoples blogs now go check out Victoria, shes an amazing individual who wrote facts about Jean batten! check her out like normally her link is at the bottom! Check her out and have a good day!

https://hpsvictoriah.blogspot.com/2019/12/jean-batten-slj.html?showComment=1576479268031#c8870023422462307604

S.L.J (day 1) Explorers Activity 3: Scaling new heights

For this blog post we had to write about a charity group that we support.

I chose to talk about OXFAM. They help support people all around the world who believe that everyone deserves a voice. 

They are a group of trustworthy people who are willing to help with many problems even with climate change. On their website they talk about taking a stand and talking bout inequality. They also provide facts about problems in the world such as livelihoods and emergency response. This team of helpful people have an area that shows you there life changing achievements and warnings. I believe that we should help this organization help others so please help and donate.

Do you like this post?
If you do check out a classmate of mine, his work is amazing and is what helped me with mine so if you have time check him out like the other post the link is at the bottom!

https://gisjosiahm.blogspot.com/2019/12/day-1-explorers-activity-3-scaling-new.html?showComment=1576474875217#c1367238419999911609

S.L.J (day 1) Explorers 2: discovering Aotearoa

This blog post is about my cultural background but since its cyber smart ill try not to get to much into personal details

I am both Samoan and cook island. My mother being full Cook Island came from arorangi and plays netball with her island friends. My dad on the other hand is Samoan and works on computers and other devices.They both were born in New Zealand and taken to various areas in the world. Me being there older child being there child enjoy both sports and experimenting with hardware and sports,and like I said in the beginning I am both Samoan and cook island.

One of the traditional things we do is Christmas. We call it something different but our last name is there so we are gonna call it Christmas. For this we wait on Christmas Eve until Christmas day is here for us to open our presents. We do get a range of food and when we finish we grab all the foods we like such as fish or poke(its technically bananas but pronounced poh-keh). We also have kids sorted into age groups so its easier to buy presents. Though what makes this tradition more important to me than my own birthday is my people. Its the one time we all come together and hang out for a day. Im positive that other people agree that its amazing to be surrounded with family members that dont visit as often as others.

(im stopping there cause I already shared myself and my parents culture)

Yes that is basically me and my parents culture! its kinda awkward sharing to the world my culture because well I dont want to get to much in detail but this is all the things you need to know. Thanks for reading this and finding what I have gained from my parents. Also if you have time check out Rosalili from Panmure bridge school her discovering Aotearoa is amazing so check her blog post in the link below!

http://pbsrosalilip.blogspot.com/2019/12/samoa-background_15.html

S.L.J (day 1) Explorers 1: Setting sail

1. Oranges - they taste good and provide juice 

2. Apples - they are healthy

3.Bread - theirs a lot of it in one packet to last me a few days

4. Jam -  Don't want plain bread everyday

5. Cookies - need to even healthy food and sweet food

6. chocolate - I want sweets when sailing somewhere else

7.A lot of water - im sailing on salty water that I cant drink so I need this

8. tomato - its healthy

9. Can of spaghetti - I can eat it whenever if I bring a can opener 

10. canned pineapples - same reason as number 9 and I just like pineapples 

I chose all these but really it depends on how long you spend on the sea. If your stay on the boat is long then you should buy canned things that you dont mind eating cold because they last longer. If you noticed I actually just did 2 of every food aisle. red is the fruit, orange is the sandwich, green is sweets, blue is liquid or things that produce a lot of juice and purple is canned food. I couldn't pick specifically because of time so I just did this. If  you think differently send me a link to your blog so I can see what you would bring :

S.L.J.T (summer learning journey teaser) #2 day 1

The activity (aka task) today is to create a pepeha an your chosen language.

S.L.J.T (summer learning journey teaser) #1 Day 1

Our activity was to make a digital info graphic that shares information on the famous new Zealander song writer lorde. In the two info graphics you should find photos of her, 4 parts of her past and information about what shes achieved.

Khan academy

Khan academy was the 3rd assignment that I had to do to improve my future :D

It wasn't so hard, miss did not assign me any work to do so I just did courses that khan academy provides for free. It was fun and I finished the unit test YAY.

If you would like to try, your teacher could make accounts for all of you.

Mental math fail ;-;

Awww it seems that mental math activity failed ;-;

hopefully it'll be up for next week.

10 seconds of math (aka mental math)

Today at 9:30 I played a game called 10 seconds of math. It's one of our ways to test our math knowledge. We get ten seconds to answer questions designed from what you choose to do.

Its also a fun way to waste time with math.

If you want to test your brain with this site click all the 6 cubes and move the number limit to 1000. Its sure enough to test everyone's mind.

:)

Khan Academy

Today I did a khan academy. Khan academy is a learning site where your teacher gives you tasks to do. I found it really easy and fast to move from task to task. Sometimes you have to watch videos but other than that the site is really simple.

^w^

Word whiz

Today we where writing about novels that we chose yesterday, Me, mafi, sione V, champion, josiah and poiva as a group red the book thief. We were only allowed to read the first two chapters but it sure made a ton of questions. This activity was for vocabulary and I found it fun and easy.

vocabulary

This is my vocabulary. Most of them are words I already know but they've been put in my vocabulary list because I believe I should start adding them to my writing to improve my writing score. thats all i have to say... ._. bye

Badge of honour

Badge of honour

Today my reading group were giving an assignment to read a story and to answer a few questions. The story was more about a boy betraying honour and did the wrong thing. His friend caught him but did nothing. Now that bad student may lose his badge of honour and his chance of being a leader.

Preventing a Twitter Fail

Today we were working on punctuation. Our task was to prevent a twitter fail! I found the task incredibly easy. I finished the task under 5 minutes and I enjoyed the 5 minutes I had to finish this really simple task!

Map of a traitor

Hello! today me and my friendly detective taty were given the case to find out who stole the american
incredibly detailed map. Me and taty found out the criminal incredibly fast and this was incredibly easy for me and her. It wasn't much of a case but we had fun and enjoyed it. If you wish to do the same activity I made a copy for anyone to make a copy from. thank you for reading and have a good day :D