C.A.R.R blogpost

Hello fellow people!

Well, you know what I'm going to write, my weekly CARR blog post. Please give me feedback on my work so I can improve on what I'm lacking in.

Commitment - This week I showed commitment by committing to my badminton. I was striving to get the first place so I guess you could say I had my game face on. But I mean my partner and I had a great time, we lost to rounds. But at least we tried and we came second in our court, we came second last week. So that's what made me want to come 1st place this week. So I will commit to my badminton again next week.

Achievement - I achieved making my sister happy I guess because she was sad when she came home. Since she had homework, and it was a bit hard for her so I decided to be a good big sister. By helping her with it, I got a bit carried away so I started to do it. So when I realized I told her to add another paragraph and I would just help her with ideas and grammar. I checked it after she wrote the paragraph. She really liked the paragraph I wrote so she got a lot of ideas to add on. So now even though she has enough she wants to write more with my help. 

Resilience - I kept resilient with my social studies work because we had a lot of research we needed to do. It was about types of governments and other things, I will probably be posting a blog post about that.

Respect - I showed respect to my friend because it was her birthday (which is actually today). So I went to the mall and brought her tons of things she wanted but she didn't get it. I also got her some of her favorite things. I got her a 20$ Apple gift card, packet of ready salted chips, a phone case, scrunchies, a notebook, stickers, candy, and a face mask. She loved them, which really made me happy so that's how I showed respect this week.

Marshmallow catapults

Marshmallow catapults

Hypothesis:

Equipment:

1. 1 clean cup
2. 1 balloon
3. 1 pair of scissors
4. 1 marshmallow

Method:

1. Cut the bottom off the cup with the scissors.
2. Cut the balloon half way along the neck.
3. Stretch the balloon over the bottom of the cup. You may find this a bit tricky to start with, but after making a few it becomes easy.
4. Pop your marshmallow into the cup.
5. Fire the missile by pulling the knotted neck of the balloon back and letting it go. You will be surprised at how far it can travel2
6. The open end will fold together when you stretch the balloon, but this will not stop the missile from firing.

Results (Describe what you saw, take a pic/video):

Discussion (What were the energy changes happening, explain what you saw): This activity includes both Kinetic and Elastic energy. The reason for this is because when you are going to shoot the marshmallow out of the shooter. You need to pull the balloon. This would be the elastic energy and then when you let go the marshmallow will fly out this would be the kinetic energy. This phase is called energy transformation.

Conclusion (Was your hypothesis correct, did the experiment work?): Regarding the marshmallow flying out it worked but it wasn’t as strong. The shooter itself was just a little bit hard to work out but worked. The reason for this is because we didn’t have tape to secure the balloon on the cup. Although we tried to hold on the balloon it kept slipping off. My overall opinion is that it did work which was good but it could have been better if we taped on the balloon.
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Weekly CARR blogpost

Hello, my fellow people!

Finally, we are going back to our daily basis routine, and back to doing our weekly CARR blogposts.

Commitment - This week the way I showed commitment was by, committing my self into the after school "In House Sports Competition". Although I would have done it anyway because there is badminton and I take a passion for that sport. It's the fact that I still do it even when I know I'm not the best at it. I know I have improved a lot because I can "smash" the shuttlecock harder. making it go faster and instead of it making a rainbow sort of shape it goes straight ahead. 

Achievement - When I did social studies I needed to make a graph but I didn't finish it in time so I made it homework. When I did it home I took my time to make it look nice and get numbers, scales, and things like that right I followed the FAULTSPK acronym which meant Frame, Axis, Units, Labels, Title, Scale, Plot, Key. I was pretty proud of myself. That's how I achieved making a nice graph.

Resilience - I kept resilient for my English although I was a bit behind in work because my friends started it in their form class before me. But I was determined to catch up with them although it was a bit difficult. I still kept resilient to catch up on the work.

Respect - I respected my grandma and aunty by babysitting my cousin while they needed to relax because I know they would have struggled a lot. I mean it was fun and easy looking after them because I just needed to play hide and seek to distract them. Then they finally got sleepy and just fell asleep.

Sustained Silent Reading - Power to the People

Solitaire

Alice Oseman

I really like this book because you really relate to it, I am not that far into this book but I am already really interested in it. So far the feelings I have felt are humor, empathy, and boredom. I mean at the start I felt kind of bored, but after reading more I started to feel more and more intrigued, and I really want to reach the end to see what other things I will feel. She is just a girl named Victoria Spring, but she likes to be called Tori she doesn't really have friends. So she is more of a loner but is relatable even if you have lots of friends.

03 - 06- 20
Now Tori has met a boy that she met in the computer room, now she is in her class and is surprised by her self as she is looking for the "hottest" guy in the school. I guess she just wanted to waste time while she was in class. Nothing interesting happened just yet.

08 - 06 - 20
Tori was in her class and her teacher presents a site called "Solitaire.co.uk" I guess this is where things are going to take place. Because of course, the title is "Solitaire" she was in her class, and on this site, there is one post. Of a boy named Kent from their school and they photoshopped his face to like Yoda's. Now she just met her childhood friend.

10 - 06 - 20
Tor had got invited to a lunch with so of her "friends" they also invited her childhood friend. His name is Lucas, they were all having a fun time talking and being social but that's not the case for Tori. The person she just met in the computer room whose name was Micheal. Came into the restaurant they were in, sat with them like he was invited (which he was not). Now Tori is walking home and Micheal tagged along they are about to get into an argument.

15 - 06 - 20
So it turns out they didn't really have an argument which was disappointing but while they were walking home together. Micheal mentioned that they have met before and Tori just remembered they did. He was acting normal at that time and not crazy at all like he is now. When they first met he was showing Tori around the Truham school, she was surprised. She got home and although she is so careless at school she cares so much for her little brother Oliver. When Tori's mum got home she was irritated because Oliver wasn't in bed yet. When he should've been, it turns out that they don't like each other (Tori and her mum).

17 - 06 - 20
Tori was in Becky's room with her, this is the point is where Tori was helping Becky to find a costume. For the costume party, Tori decided to dress up as Wednesday from "The Addams Family". Which I guess is a bit dark because at first, Tori said to Becky that she was going to be Snow White. But turns out Tori despises Disney.

29 - 06 - 20
Nothing really happened apart from her going to the party.

01 - 07 - 20

Hurumanu - Power To The People

Author: The Press

Title: 25 Women under 25 to watch

Today for the English part of our Social Studies and English hurumanu, we needed to read a book at the start of the period. So we can blog about it after, as I didn't bring a book to read. Our teacher Mrs. Clark provided paper flip pages to read, I decided to read the one about powerful women.

What I really liked about this book was that it really cave credit to women, I also learned some things about these successful women. Although these wonderful women are successful. They didn't have a perfect road where their fate was to be doing what they are doing. Some of them experienced anxiety or some of the disabilities, but that's not the point. They are genuinely loved by their fans for their work, not because they pity them. It is pretty amazing at what they have achieved.

 

Science: Lab Safety

Science, Lab Safety

How to keep yourself safe:

• Place bags under desks.
• Do not run in the lab.
• Do not use equipment immaturely.
• Wear the proper gear.
• If you have long hair tie it up - when doing an experiment.
• Do not eat or drink in the lab.
• Wear safety gear like safety glasses or gloves - when doing an experiment.
• Wash your hands after handling chemicals.
• Do not smell or inhale and especially taste the chemicals.
• Don't play around with chemicals without the teacher's permission.
• Dispose of lab waste properly - Broken Glass, Chemicals.

Safety:
To protects yourself from harm or dangers.

Hazardous:
When an object or place can be dangerous to you.

Meniscus:
The curves that are seen at the top of a liquid depending on the container.

Art - Zentangle

Art:

Manga Pasifika doodles:

Zentangle - Meditative doodle that has patterns and tangles, combined.

Basically doing a “zentangle” but specifically basing it around Manga and Pasifika. - 
(possibly including Art Nouveau and kowhawhai)

Tasks - 

Try drawing a zentangle using this "link" mixing the kinds of arts into one art piece.

(Here is my really bad drawing)

With my drawing (Zentangle), I used anime as my base and the details inspired by kowhaiwhai. 

As you can see in this photo I used the hair as the base for all the kowhaiwhai art. 
I used mostly warm colors.

These clothes are meant to represent the kowhaiwhai culture, because it 
originated in New Zealand. I used traditional maori clothes.

 

On her face I added a moko, I also made her a necklace that I often see in major haka
dances on the girls. I gave her fully black eyes to represent a goddess as her hair is flowing
in the air like a goddess.

Try to blend pencil colors:

Here is just a diagram I made using google drawings -