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For this week for social studies we have been learning about different places in New Zealand. Our task for this week were very simple, the first thing that we needed to do was to create a map from “Google My Maps.” Right after that, we had to locate 14 places around New Zealand and write at least 2 facts about each of the places. And the last step that we needed to do was to make a layer of the 3 main wars that happened here in New Zealand. Here is the final results. I hope you like it!

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For social studies this week we have been learning about the Wairua Incident. Our task for this week were very simple. The first step that we had to do was to read and watch the whole story. Next was when where we had to create a story board of the 8 main important parts about the war. It was alot to do and I really enjoyed watching and reading about the story. At the end, I really enjoyed it and it was very interesting about the story. Anyways, Here is my work. I really hope you enjoy reading it!.

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For the past 7 weeks in English we have been reading this book called “The Outsiders.” This story had many different characters. The main character of this story is this person called “Ponyboy.” The story is about different sides. One side is rich while the other is poor. In this book the poor people are called greasers because they have greasy hair and don’t shower. For the rich they are called “Socs” because they are in the rich class. Sometimes they like to beat up greasers if they are alone. For today’s task. Our task is to develop  a response to the questions of the book.

Here are the questions and my response to each of one of them.

Questions:

Question 1: What circumstances “did Ponyboy’s teacher refer to? What circumstances does Ponyboy think his teacher is referring to?

Answer: On the last chapter of the book, Ponyboy talks to his teacher about his school work. But Ponyboy was shocked to hear about his grades for English. Usually in English classes he would get normal good grades. He was struggling in his school work because of his previous time that both of his brothers that have died. His task was to write a story. But he asked his teacher Mr. Syme how long does the pages have to be. The teacher thinks and says that it can be no less than 5 pages. Then Ponyboy asked the teacher if he could do 5 pages. The teacher was surprised and nicely told Ponyboy that would be great. Ponyboy was allowed to rewrite his story because the teacher had felt bad for him. He wants Ponyboy to create a good theme for his story.

I think this means that the teacher is saying that Ponyboy is really creative with his ideas and that Mr. Syme knows that he can develop to improve more into his themes. Because before that, Ponyboy had written a bad theme told by Mr. Syme. At the end, I think that the teacher decided to give Ponyboy another chance after what he has been through and the hard situation  he has been through.

Question 2: Why doesn’t Ponyboy feel scared when the Socs approach him and he threatens them with a broken bottle? How is this dramatic change from the Ponyboy we have seen up until this point? Was there any anything odd about Pony’s behaviour?

Answer: I think the reason behind this was that after the hard times that Ponyboy has been through. I think he was just a little bit devastated after the pain he’s been feeling. The first pain he had was when Darry slapped him on his face. And the second time where he had felt pain was when Johnny had killed one of the Socs (Bob) and was afraid that he’s life was doomed. The third time he had felt pain was when they saved the church and how Johnny almost died from the fire. Lastly, the last time where he had felt pain was when Johnny and Dally were killed to death on the same today.

He did this because Greasers act tough and strong and pick up fights. But for Ponyboy, he wasn’t like the rest of the greasers. Ponyboy doesn’t really like to pick up fights and really scared of them. But after all his pain he decides to change because that’s what Greasers are. They are brave and pick up fights. Something odd was that when the socs decided to smash the bottles I don’t think that he really cared because of these reasons.

Question 3: What does Darry mean he says “you don’t just stop living because you lose someone?.”

Answer: I think that this quote Darry is trying to say is that life is hard. Sometimes life goes the opposite way then that the way you expected to be. This means that even thought one or two friends of yours died. You don’t give up life and to continue on with the pain. The reason why Darry told Ponyboy this was because so that he can understand how life really is. Life isn’t suppose to be easy. Sometimes, there are some hard times that you will have to stop. But instead of stopping we go on because life is difficult and is challenging.

Question 4: What does Ponyboy end up doing for his English assignment? Why the title of the book? Who is the biggest Outsider of them all and why? 

Answer: At the end, Ponyboy decided to name his story the “Outsider” because of his times with the greasers and battle between both sides. The biggest outsider in Ponyboy’s opinion was Dally. I think that the reason why he choose Dally was because Dally has been there for him in his lowest point of his life. Dally tries to comfort Ponyboy that everything is going to be ok. At the end of the movie, Ponyboy was free and lived on with all his brothers and greasers happily living in peace.

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For this week for social studies we have been learning about New Zealand. The one that my class and I learnt was the Battle of Gate Pa. For today our task was very simple. Firstly, we had to learn more about different New Zealand wars today we had learnt about how the Pa was built and how it had a big advantage towards the British troops. This activity was very fun to do and I really liked how it was challenging for me which was really good too. At the end, I tried my hardest for this work.

Here is my work for today.

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Today for social studies we have been learning more about the Waikato campaign. Our task for today was to learn and understand the different consequences of the Waikato Campaign (positive or negative consequences). Here is what I have for today. I was really happy for today’s task because I had a lot of fun learning something new and I was glad that I had done this task.

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This week was athletics Day in the school. Athletics was a great time for me because I had a lot of fun trying my best at every sport which I think was the most important thing. At the start of the day we had to go into our kahui. I was in Riroriro and different kahui had different chants. Finally we come over to the field and finally started the athletics.

My Kahui: Riroriro

My Age Groups: U15

My Events: Long Jump, Javelin, 100m sprints.

My results: Long Jump: My best was 4m for long jump. Javelin: 2m. And lastly, for 100m my time was 17.34 seconds.

One experience during the day that I enjoyed was playing and giving it my best. I had a lot of trying to be do my very best and I was glad that I gave it my all. Overall, it was a very fun time to try harder than before.

One thing I would do differently next time was to train before athletics. The reason why I am saying this was because during the sports I felt that it would’ve been best to train before. If I had had to do something before the day of athletics Day I think I should’ve have train and did a warm before the sports even started.

-Physical Well-being : I think after the 100m race I had felt a really bad pain in my knees but a few minutes after it was gone because during the 100m race I was really giving it my all for the race.

-Emotional Well-being: During each events I have felt very nervous because it was my 2nd time doing the athletics since I joined Hornby High School.

-Social Well-being: During athletics I had some of my friends also giving it a go. And I was talking to them about how they have felt during it. It was nice time having a conversation with them.

-Spiritual Well-being: Before I went to the 100m race I was practising my breathing because I knew that was the best choice to have energy until the race was over.

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For this week in social studies we have been learning about the Waikato Campaign and to research on it. Our first task was to watch this video about the history of the Waikato Campaign. These were New Zealand wars. For my task today, I have decided to research Pa. Pa was a base which the Maori’s have made. These were very special because they had a better advantage compared to the British troops. I had a lot of fun researching and finding some interesting facts about the Pa because it was my first time learning about them.

Here is my work for today: Link

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In health we have been learning about key concepts about how we can understand them and using them into our sentences. For today in health, we played a game called Ping-Pong game. The rules of the game were very simple. Firstly, we needed to be in groups of 2 or 3 max. Secondly, we needed to have 6 cups and filled each of them up with water until half way. After that we played the game with a different teams. For the other team, it was my 3 other friends. Then the games began. The first shot was the opposite team’s ball first. They missed on the first throw and nearly made it inside the cups. After that it was my team’s ball. Our team missed the chance to throw it inside the cups. We played over and over again until one team had won. The team who lost was actually my team. It was a really close match.

When I participated in the Ping-Pong game my hauora was affected positively. My Taha Hinengaro (Mental & Emotional Well-being) and my Taha Whanau (Social Well-being) were impacted positively because I had a lot of time enjoying the game with my friends. For the other team, it was actually my other friends that decided to play with us. The key concept I would use in this scenario would be interpersonal because I was playing and having a fun time with my friends. I think that between my friends and I is a long term thing because I knew all of them and the connection between my friends I was the most important part about this game that we played.

The social justice value of fairness was shown because during the game, I could see everyone had a great time connecting with each other and having a fun time with one another. I think that this value was shown because of these reasons. The next social justice that was shown was inclusiveness because everyone had a turn throwing the ball and it was really good that everyone was letting others throw the ball which was really awesome to see. Lastly, the value of non-discrimination was shown because everyone started to talk to other people and had a great time playing the games.

The key concepts are interrelated by everyone in our class that participated in the games. No one was left out playing the games but rather I saw other people meeting new students and just connecting with them and them not being left out.

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For health, we have been learning about our key concepts and how it is important for us to know about them and to understand them. So today for health we did something quite different. Today we played this playdough game where we had to create stuff on the topic that has been said to our health teacher. The way we play the game is very simple. For ours, our teacher had to tell us a topic for our teams (2-3) people and had to create something related to the topic that the teacher told us to create.  Each round our teacher checks our team and we must describe the things we made related to the topic. 1 Point if we did alright, 2 points if we did good, and lastly 3 points if we did the best.

The areas of Hauora that were affected by participating in the playdough game were Taha Hinenegaro (Mental & emotional well-being) and Taha  Whanau (Social Well-being. The reason why I think this is because during playing the game my friends and I had a lot of connection with each other and when making something each of us had to communicate with each other so we know who’s building who. And I think that this game really improved the connections between my friends and me. Each of us knew that the only way to make something great is that all of us need to talk to each other and who’s doing something. It really boosted my social well-being (Taha Whanau) because it was a time when everyone had the chance to communicate with each other I think that is why this game was very important because it was a way to express our emotions and our well-being together with my friends and I. I think this game was to build interpersonal connections and try to get out of our bubble zone.

The social justice value of fairness was shown because everyone had different things to make which made it hard for our teacher to decide who the winner was. The game was very fair to start with, and it was a lot of fun to connect with my friends or with someone new I hadn’t talked to before. I participated in today’s activity because it was a lot of fun to play and it was a time where people could connect with other people which was the most important part of this game.

Here are the words that I have learned.

Personal Only involves one person.

Interpersonal Involes with friends or a small group.

Societal larger groups, worldwide, countries, schools etc.

Social justice equality, fairness, and non-discrimination.

Short Term Less than 3 months.

Long Term More than 3 months or forever.

Consequence The result of you doing something at the end. (Can be good or bad.)

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