10 Fun Facts About Wellington

 Today in Hur 2 our starter task was instructed to reaserch 10 facts about Wellington, here are the facts that I learnt today.

What is Wellingtons population?

Based on the last recorded study (2020) Wellingtons population was around 415,000.

What is Wellingtons Maori name?

Wellingtons Maori name is Te Whanganui a Tara.

Who built the Beehive?

Basil Spencer built the Beehive in 1969.

What is Wellingtons nickname? 

Wellington also known as Windy Wellington was given this nickname because it is suseptable to strong Winds.

What is Wellington most well known for?

Apart from the Beehive Welllington is known for its many bars, cafes and award winning resturants (that is why some call it the culinary cappital of NZ)

What is Wellingtons oldest building?

Wellingtons oldest buiding still standing building is Colonial cottage and it was build 1858.

Number 8 Wire Mentality task

 This week in Wananga (homeroom) we have been working a task called 'Number 8 Wire Mentality'. The number 8 wire mentality is somthing that most kiwis (new zealanders) have, it could also be known as a 'Can do attitude' or resilience. We were told to answer some questions based on resilience, here are my answers.

Zealanders. A can-do attitude is one aspect of (choose the best answer)

1. Commitment

2. Achievement

3. Resilience

4. Respect

Next, rate yourself on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 is best) in terms of several elements of resiliency, including:

Support from other people in your life.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Ability to accept yourself for who you really are.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Your confidence in your ability to cope with adversity.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
How good you are at communicating and interacting with others in times of stress.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
How good you are at facing challenging problems in life and solving them systematically.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Ability to cope with your emotions in the face of adversity.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

Starter task, The bully

For our starter task today we read a short poem and were told to answer two questions about it, the poem was called the bully,

here is the link for the poem along with my answers

https://d3ddkgxe55ca6c.cloudfront.net/assets/t1509542746/a/13/2a/je1007-oem-sip-1-459613.jpg

 What did this poem make you think about this bully

I think that the bully doesn't seem like a very nice person but at the same time they might have been bullied and might be lonely. I can infer this from the last paragraph

What would I do if I saw this bully

If I saw this person bullying other I would first go up to them and say 'Hi would you like to hang out together', if they said no I would tell a teacher what was happening, if they said yes, I would invite them to sit with me and get to know them and try find out the reason  they were bulling people.

We were also asked to define these words

Assertive - Person who states firmly with authority. 

Passive - Not active, not resisting or fighting. 

Aggressive - Resisting or fighting back against someone .

Boundaries - limitations on where you can go or what you can do .

Conflict - It is where you fight, struggle or disagree with something or someone.

Soundtrack of my life

 This week in Hur 1 my class have been working on making a DLO ( digital learning object) to introduce yourself to the class. We had 4 options, a letter of introduction, my life through photographs, sound track of my life and a digital bio tile, I chose the sound tack of my life. Based on the one we picked we were then told what to do. For the soundtrack of our life we had to choose 4-6 songs that reminded us of someone, an event, a tradition or just something important to us. I chose 4 songs and in my slideshow you will see the reason why I choose that song and if you want to listen to the song click on the photo it will send you to the song. Thank you for reading my blog if you have any suggestions for what I could have done different

Art: Lino prints

This term in art we have been working on designing our own personal logo and put it on a lino print. to start designing our logo we had to do some research on logo designs using positive and negative space ( see different post). then we had to come up with a bunch of different designs. after we had done that we redrew our designs on a piece of paper then we flipped it using the photocopier. Once he had done that we coloured in the back of it with a charcoal pencil and traced over the lines onto a lino block. once we had done that we traced the lines with permanent marker and cut out the bits we anted to be white. Then we inked it and pressed it onto a piece of paper. For my logo design we could choose something personal to us, so I choose my favourite animal, a phoenix ( I spelt it wrong on my lino block ). but I didn't know how to draw a phoenix so i just wrote it.

Here is the finished result

Cathy white

 For the past while in Hur 1 we have been working on local hero. for this task we had to pick a local hero from either the 2011 earthquake or the mosque shooting, I choose Cathy White. We had to answer questions based of our research. here is mine

Cathy white

Durn the 2019 Mosque shooting Cathy White was recognised as a hero because of what she did.

What did she do, what qualities did she show?: Cathy White let a few people come inside her house for

safety during the attack, she called 111 and made everyone in her house feel safe. Cathy showed

bravery, leadership and courage.

Where was she, how did she get involved?: Cathy was on her front porch when she saw a few people

standing outside after realising that the noises were gunshots and not fireworks. She made sure to help

and comfort the people who were stuck outside.

Why did she get involved?: Cathy white got involved because she knew that people's life would have

been endangered if she didn't step in.

Did she earn any bravery awards: Cathay did not earn any bravery awards

How has her life been affected: Her life hasn't really changed apart from the pride knowing she saved

people.

Music moods

 Today in Music we were tasked to find songs that bring us 6 different emotions, happy, sad, calm/focused, irritated, energetic and one other emotion of our choice, I chose safe/secure. To figure out how the songs made me feel I listened to them then wrote down the emotions it made me feel, and the reasons. here Is my list with links.

Sad: Hero and Villan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2v5Nwn2qrQ

I feel like I've been through a situation similar to whats going on in the song

Happy: Kiss your dreams goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khU2emzZwBg

Im really not sure why this makes me feel happy

Calm/focused: 4 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqTvENvgi2k

Calm beat, good lyrics, reminds me of sleep

Irritated : Happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs

Repetitive and I've hard it so many times

Energetic: Honey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPiOtS9SZo0

Upbeat and just general a happy song

Safe/Secure: Syndicate 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbqKnuW_Q6E

It makes me feel like I can protect myself, also makes me feel confident