Something I've enjoyed about this year

 On the last week of end of term 3 holidays I got offered a job to sweep a workshop floor and get paid to do so. Because I have now gotten a job I am super happy because now I can get a proper full suspention mountain bike. I am happy at school because I am doing really good in most of my classes. And because of my newly accquired job I have something to look forward to doing after school. To me having work after a bad day at school is a win because at work my mood changes. 

At the start of term 4 we started doing a science project in science and in my group me and my two other mates decided to do our project on dangerous elements with elements including elements such as uranium and iodine. Our project was different to other peoples projects because they did experiments and we just did research. 

Here is a partial image of my project that I and my group completed

Reflection 11/06/2021

This week was a great week because I finished my not a knife in CTG and started welding. In Japanese we did quizes for the whole week because of our Japanese trivia trip at 4 o'clock. We have been listening to the refugee audio book in HMT. I can tollerate the flashing lights in our class but I can't tollerate Dillon. 

Other than Dillon being annoying and Frazer, Reece, and their annoying friends I had an awesome week. 

Maoriland film festival 2021

On the 25th of march the year 7, 8, and 9's of Otaki college left the college at 09:00 and walked down to the library for the Maorifilm Festival. This year the festival wasn't all that good like the Films there were kinda bad, most of them I didn't understand others where you couldn't understand what the people were saying because they were speaking Maori and Indian (I think it was Indian IDK really). The reason it was hard to understand them was because even though I have Maori blood I can't understand it. But it still wasn't as good as the 2019 Maorifilm Festival which by far was the best one I've seen so far. And I'm not saying the people that made the films did a bad job, I'm just saying I didn't really like them personaly and no one should take offence towards my opinion like I'm not saying you can't enjoy them because if you like them then you like them and if you don't well you just don't. So thats my opinion and 3/10 rating.

Reflection 2.0, because the last one wasn't good enough and also it wasn't a reflection

 My brother really annoys me. When I'm playing video games online with people he comes up to me and yells inapropriate stuff into my mic so the people I'm playing with can hear him. And this is when he has just came home from a bike ride with his friend so his friend is there too. So really all my brother is, is a big fat show off, like "look at me I can Yell profanities in to my brothers mic and annoy him because 'he does it to me'". Which I don't well I do but it's only because he does it to me and thats only half of the story there is alot more from where that came from.

Reflection

What am I good at in school? I'm very good at Japanese, Maths, and CTG (Creative Technology).

Why am I good at these subjects? Honestly I have no idea why I'm good at Japanese, Maths, and CTG, like I woke up on dad and said 'Imma be good at Japanese, Maths, and CTG because I feel like it'. It's strange as well because I hate P.E like maybe it's because I have asthma (kinda funny how you spell it like asthma but say asma like imagine saying 'As-Th-Ma' or something like that) or something IDK I just hate P.E like the subject is boring. But yeah also the schools Japanese teacher says that Japanese is really easy too so I wonder why I'm so good at it.

And now that I've said this you would think that I'm a little fat potato (potato more like Pot-Eight-Oh) but "NO" I'm not im a cool kid that can sit on video games all day because I won't get fat, and yes I do go outside as a matter or fact I go for bike rides because they're fun and I ride my bike two times a day at the least about 5 minutes each too. So yeah Kinda went off the rails with this piece of writing but I also bet I got like 200 words maybe. Also I have to make new labels because It's not 2020 anymore.

 

DHT Curious Cove Challenges

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xPRuda4rjw-U404x2dGZiasev-wEPZSZ83z5qt2irF4/view#slide=id.g542bc64f04_1_96 

Curious cove camp

 On Wednesday the fourth of November at Curious cove, I was in a group and we did rotations of three groups and three activities. The three activities were: games in the rec hall, fishing off the wharf, and kayaking. When my group went and did kayaking we did races, I came about second place in all of them.

After a couple of races(like one race) we did a raft up. A raft up is when a group of kayakers or people in boats. They all then line their boats up in the water and swap boats. Me and Isaac swapped kayaks in the water. When we swapped kayaks I ran across the tops of everyone's kayaks to get to Isaac’s kayak. When he went to go to my kayak which was on the other side of the raft, he then attempted to crawl to it and it was funny when he almost fell off the kayaks.

When everyone left the raft up I wanted to change kayaks again because it was fun the first time and Kaylis also wanted to try changing kayaks so we tried to change kayaks without a raft up. Long story short I jumped on to his kayak and mine drifted away in the water and I was left grasping onto Kaylis’s kayak and I almost sunk it. Luckily Tara in my class looked after my kayak while an adult(I think it was Kaylis’s dad) got me in his kayak and took me to mine. 

After that we did some more races and then put the kayaks away. Me and Kaylis were laughing like mad men because of the whole James Bond mixed with Mission Impossible thing I did. So morle of this story don’t try to change kayaks when you aren’t in a raft up.

Liars Dice board game

On the 16th of November our class DHT started making board games, well they actually started off as a normal game then a math game then finally a board game. Yeah it's confusing and it was annoying. So me and my friend Lee decided to make a game from a video game/NIRL that that NIRL game got from IRL so yeah. It is called Liars dice but in NIRL game I recall it being called bluff(I think but it's been ages since I've acctually played it). 

So it the things you need to play it is a bit much because 5 dice per played. So if you can guess we made it a two player game because our teacher wouldn't give us any more than that. I won't get to into detail about the game or the instructions because they are like long and confusing so I'll give you a couple links so you can check the sites out yourselves. 

Lee's Blog: https://ocleep.blogspot.com

Liars Dice instructions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_dice

Accountability and Responsibility Form

 Accountability and Responsibility form

What would I like to see changed on our class Google Form?

1. What is your goal for next week? Homeroom and learning related
2. Explain why you have given yourself these ratings. Can you give any examples to support this?
3. On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you think you have managed your learning time in Homeroom?
4. Have you completed the Friday Blog? (This includes uploading to your blog, adding an explanation, labels and title)

These aren't really needed because you would know if someone hasn't done it. 

Everyone does pretty much the same learning time.

It's kind of explainable below 5 is almost always "I didn't do any work." and above 5 is always a "I've done lots of work." and lastly you have put 'what is your goal for next week? With a What is something you think you may need to improve on next week?' Its like the same.

Weekly blog (Week 7 Term 3)

What was one thing I learnt this week and what was it I learnt? One thing I learnt was numbers, adding, i mua and a muri (which means after and before), also karakia's and lots of waiata's(songs) in Te-Reo Maori (Options class).

What curriculum area? TRE(TeReo Maori).

What will it help me to? count, sing, and understand numbers in Maori.

What can I apply it to? I could put it in the application forms when applying for a job.

 

  

Blog Quiz

 One thing I have learnt in the DARE program: I have learnt that there are three categories of drugs. A, B, and C class drugs A being the most dangerous, B at in the middle, and C slim to non of being really dangerous. 

One thing I have learned about Kaitiakitanga: It means guardianship and protector. Kaitiakitanga of the land.

Have I achieved ROAR in class?: Yes. 

How did I achieve ROAR?: In Art, reading, and maths by listening to the teachers, doing my work and completing it, taking care of school resources such as equipment in the Art room, and bringing all items I need for school and getting to all my classes on time.

Do I enjoy the new reading program? Yes. Why Do I like it? I like it because it's like reading a real book and if the words are too small you can just zoom in or out.   

Peer Comment: Good job on answering all the questions and followed the Topic. Karson

Enviromental Issue

W.A.L.T find an enviromental issue we are passionate about.

For a inqury project, our class (DHT) is writing about an enviromental issue. Read this post to find out what I'm doing for my enviromental issue. 

• What is my enviromental issue? My issue is the eradication of animals and their habitats.

• Why I've chosen this issue? Because it's a problem how people say certain animals like sharks are really dangerous and make them appear to be something from hell and how much people they have killed but we are worse than any living creature.

• Who I am working with and why? For this project Josh is my partner(Link to his blog: https://wsjoshuae.blogspot.com) because he tends to have good ideas and he has been to Australia Zoo and see animals like snakes and other animals like that.
• What is a cause for this enviromental issue? People take land from wildlife and turn it into farmland or house plots.

        

My Goals for term 3

W.A.L.T inform our audience about how I will achieve our class goal for term 3.

• Respect looks like: Not touching other peoples stuff.

• O.C Pride looks like: Wearing correct uniform, not vandalising school property.(Really you shouldn’t be vandalising any type of property)Unless it’s the labour signs j.k j.k nah not sorry

• Active Learner looks like: Not playing games, instead you’re doing your set work.

• Responsibility looks like: Bringing all your resources to all your classes on time.

This is how I’ll achieve it this week. I’ll come to school on time with all my stuff including a charged chrome book, Wearing correct uniform, getting all my work handed to the teacher by the end of the week, and listening to the teacher and not getting any warnings.

Algebra

W.A.L.T use in ALGEBRA the Order Of Operations correctly.

What I have learnt in algebra this week: I have learnt that letters represent numbers. I also learnt why you use letters in algebra instead of blank spots.

Why is it important: The letters are easier to say, type, write, and they are just so much faster.