How To Grow A Brain For Beginners

HOW TO GROW A BRAIN!

• Simulate it
• Use it or lose it
• Failure is what helps your brain grow
• Brain Breaks
• Water
• Exercise
• Eat good food
• Exercise your brain in different ways
• Move seats ever so often
• Set goals

My Pepeha

A pepeha is a way of telling people about your history, where you come from and what you love. I have shown mine by drawing a mini mural of it.

Tuakana - Teina

Tuakana - An expert at being responsible and making the right choices

Tupu - Capable of making the right choices but doesn't do it all the time

Teina - Learning to make the right choices for their own learning

Tuakana - Teina is a system that our class has made by assessing yourself and asking yourself if you think that you can make the right choices all the time, most of the time and not very good at it. I placed myself as Tuakana, which means makes the right choices for my learning all of the time. I chose to put myself as Tuakana because I make the right choices for my learning and I am very responsible when a teacher is not near. This system is based on the relationship between the learner and the expert. I am Tuakana at netball and art, but I am Teina in driving a car or playing squash.

O N E W O R D C H A L L E N G E

Our Tikanga ( Marama Way )

Drivers and Blockers:

Feed Back and Feed Forward

Drivers are things that help your learning and blockers are things that distract you. I think that feedback and feed forward is a great driver for me because if I don't get feedback and feed forward I wouldn't know what to improve on and what I am doing well at. I would like more feedback and feed forward this year!

Treaty Of Waitangi

The treaty of Waitangi is an agreement between two sides/groups of people, which in this case was the Maori and Pakeha ( The British ). The treaty of Waitangi was signed by The British Crown and just over five hundred Maori chiefs from all over the North Island, on February 6, 1840. This resulted in the declaratiom of the British ruling over New Zealand. The Waitangi treaty was signed in the Bay Of Islands up north.  Around 1840-1850 Waitangi day was celebrated by everyone, but these days it's just a long weekend to us. I never actually knew what Waitangi day was about until this morning, it never really occurred to me that it was actually a really big event back in the day. 

Learning Smarts

I Did The Multiple Intelligences Quiz And My Top Three Answers Were:

What are multiple intelligences?

The Multiple intelligences quiz is a quiz which shows you how you learn best. I learn best with other people according to this test. I am also Naturalistic and Visual-Spatial. There are other intelligences which are Number Smart, Music Smart, Body Smart, Words smart, and Myself Smart.

Naturalistic:

Nature smart was my highest scoring learning smart. I think that this accurately represents me because I love the outdoors and being at the beach and going on adventures outside.

Interpersonal:

People smart was my second highest scoring smart. I think that this is correct because I love working in groups with other people and doing group projects like how we did Group Endeavour last year, I really enjoyed learning about global warming with other kids.

Visual-Spatial: 

I think that I am very picture smart because I like to make things very colourful and spruce things up with a little pizazz. I also like to use my imagination when  I am doing art.

Instagram Holiday Post

My Bucket list

My Favorite Space

The QZ is my favourite space because there is really comfortable furniture in it and when I need to get my work done that is the place that I go. It is also a really great space to read a book in.

My Lego Character

My Quote On The End Of The Year

I think that this quote sums up about the end of my year. Instead of thinking about what I did I should think about what I will do. I am really looking forward to the opportunities I will have next year being a year 8.

ANSWER THESE RIDDLES!!!!!

Can you answer these riddles? If you can comment below your answer!

Goals

These are the goals I set at the start of the year

Current Events

Earthquake Hits South Island

Last week a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the South Island, around Kaikoura. The earthquake was 7.5 magnitude, and it was 15 kilometres deep - which is quite shallow for an earthquake. It hit at around midnight. I was felt from Dunedin to Wellington, some people around the Hauraki plains felt it too. There was a tsunami warming for Kairkoura and Christchurch. There were two metre waves in Kaikoura and Wellington. There were loads of aftershocks. Rocks that were underwater have risen above the sea level with all of the paua and crayfish still on it. Navy ships came from all over the world to help the Kaikoura people get out, they even brought food. Luckily enough The earthquake has had a massive effect on Kaikoura's tourists, the town is practically empty! Here are some picture of the damage the earthquake has caused.

My reflection of this year

This year has been awesome. Over the past three and a half terms I have achieved and participated in so many different things! I completed my IE and presented it, I participated in Cross county - which froze me to death. We have also started our GE investigations, which I am really enjoying. We are investigating on the health side of global warming, so what it does to our health - and how our health will deteriorate during global warming. I have almost finished my Language milestone and I am really enjoying learning Spanish, I think that learning a different language is such a great thing to learn. Because what if one day I go to Spain, I will know how to get to places.

Here are some things I enjoyed this year. IE, GE, Cross Country, Swimming Sports, NYLD, House team challenges, book bash, milestones, volleyball, art - murals, jandals, native birds. I have also enjoyed all of the learning I have done too!

Leadership is a huge part of being in Marama. This year I have really enjoyed being a part of the Ambassador team and a house leader. I knew at the start of the year that taking on these roles would be a big job. Being the leader of Orewa with Edell has been great fun! I have enjoyed leading Orewa in Kapa haka. But I didn’t get the chance to lead Orewa in athletics. I really like being on the school ambassador team because I get to walk around the school and talk about all of the different learning in the different learning areas. I also like meeting and greeting the people that come to our school! My leadership goal for next year is to be the leader of the ambassador team and still be a house leader!

Now I shall talk about tech. TECH IS SO MUCH FUN! I really enjoyed making stuff for the garage sale. My group made tin can animals. Out of recycled tin cans, nuts and bolts, wire and some spray paint. I made a little pink cat and two dogs. The thing that I loved most about that was how we made over three hundred dollars all together, and we can choose what we spend that money on to leave a legacy. My idea was to spend it on putting some big trees and flowers in the Mapson Maze. Now I am in the FOOD tech group. In food, we are learning how to make gingerbread houses. In the first week we learnt how to make the gingerbread, in the second week, we learnt how to make royal icing and now this week we are making a little gingerbread house. I am partners with Emma. I have really enjoyed tech this year.

I have enjoyed being in the Marama team this year. I Have achieved lots of my literacy and maths goals and I have put lots of effort into all of the tasks that I have done. I hope next year is as good as this year has been. Thank you for such a great year of learning and fun.

What is global warming?

Global warming is the increase in temperature of the Earth's surface, land and water. As well as it's atmosphere. Average temperatures around the world have risen by 0.75°C over the last 100 years. In the past, when the Earth experienced increases in temperature it was the result of natural causes but today it is being caused by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere produced by human activities.

The natural greenhouse effect maintains the Earth's temperature at a safe level making it possible for humans and animals to exist. However, since our activities have significantly risen the greenhouse effect causing the Earth's average temperature to rise by almost 1°C. This is creating the global warming we see today. To put this increase in perspective it is important to understand that during the last ice age, a period of massive climate change, the average temperature change around the globe was only about 5°C.

GE Research

Instead of IE we are now doing GE - which is group endeavor. The people who are in my group are Emma, Abby, and Brooke we are researching on the Health side of global warming. Here is what I have researched for my question so far.

HPC Arts Festival Wordle