Why Do We Need To Sleep?

For reading our topic is Why Sleeping Is So Important. What I'm going to share with you is Why We Sleep? Sleeping is really important to our body because, during our sleep we gain energy and also it helps our bone, muscles and other body parts grow and fix injuries. If we don't get enough sleep we'd become very tired and it'll be very hard for us to focus on our work. For this task I worked collaboratively with Fraidoon, Mele, John, Fui, and Jericho. This is one part of our DLO. As we have many different questions and answers that relate to sleep.

Animator/Digital Artist - Exploring the Career

This week as part of inquiry we were learning about careers. Our task was to create a DLO. Our next step was to type down the title. For this DLO we were to put in the Maori name for the careers we chose as well. After that we were to find answers using our smart searching skills. These are the things we were to find answers for.

1. Description Of Job
2. Earning Potential
3. Qualifications / Training needed
4. Subjects you need to choose at college
5. Explanation of why this career interests you

Careers Questions

This week as part of inquiry we were learning about Careers. So Mrs Anderson gave us a site that ask us a few simple questions on what we're interested in, for example "How interested are you in work that involves: cars, trucks or other vehicles?". We were given 6 options Not Interested, Neutral, Fairly Interested, and Very interested. We received a large amount of questions, we got around 78 question. It took us around 15-20 minutes to complete this. After we've answered all the questions we were given many choices and the ones that I found interesting were Animator/Digital Artists and Mechanical Engineering. At the end we were to share our career with the class and including the salary they get per year. I found out that An Experienced mechanical engineers working in a position of responsibility such as team leader or technical manager earn between $110,000 - $180,000 per year and Animators/digital artists that work for advertising companies can earn between minimum wage and over $100,000 a year

HIIT Training - Week 1 Term 3

This term we had our second session of HIIT. (High Intensity Interval Training) During HIIT our challenge was to get Huffed and Puffed which is also known as Pau Ta Hau. In this session we were do these following activities. We did Star Jumps, Tap Steps, and High Knee Sprints. Our goal was to do one of these activities as much as we could in 30 seconds. After 30 seconds we got another 30 seconds to calm down. However we weren't allowed to stand still, we have to be moving the whole time. Tiava and Mataio, stepped up and helped the HIIT group with the techniques and taught us some new moves we could do while we're resting. This session we did something very different from our previous session. This session we were spit into groups of five. All groups were to form a line. Each line contained about 5 students. After that when the session started, all of the students in each line were to do those activity in sync.

Holiday Trips - Whangarei

This week my family had an astonishing journey to a place called Whangarei. It was a very long drive and it almost took 3 hours to get from point A (Panmure) to point B. (Whangarei) The reason why we went there was that my friend just got a new baby brother, so we went there to visit the newborn baby. When we reached there my friend's dad, told us to come to their house because the hospital is closer to their location.

After we visited the baby, my friend, her dad and my family went back to my friend's house, because we were staying there for the night.

On Friday, my friend's dad took us to a famous and amazing location in Whangarei called The Whangarei Falls. 

Then it was time for us to go home. However our journey back, my dad took us to his boss's farm. His farm was somewhere between Auckland and Whangarei. Unfortunately, I am unsure about the exact location.

My dad's boss's farm was enormous, so we used an ATV to get across. My dad taught myself and my sister, to drive it. 

This was an amazing experience. I hope I'd have the opportunity to visit Whangarei again.

Also here is a short video I created using some photos. 

NOTE: THERE ARE ONLY PHOTO'S OF TWO LOCATIONS WE'VE BEEN TO ON THIS TRIP.

I HOPE YOU ENJOY

GarageBand - Second Project

This week Nirosh and I were working hard on creating my second music, using the application GarageBand. This project was a bit difficult to make because Nirosh and I, had to combine more objects together than our previous project. It took us about 2 days to complete this project.

What is GarageBand?

GarageBand is a line of digital audio workstations for macOS and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts.

Initial release: January 6, 2004; 14 years ago

Stable release: 10.3.1 / June 29, 2018; 8 days ago

Operating system: macOS

Developed by: Apple

GarageBand - First Music - By Sanujan

During the holidays I created something that I thought was impossible for me to make. At first, it was very confusing because there were many different options to add. Are you wondering what I am talking about? If yes, well, during the holidays I was making music on an application called Garageband. I had no clue what Garageband was. On Tuesday my friend (Nirosh) came over to my house and he has a few experiences in Garageband, so he managed to teach me the simple and basic steps. He also helped me with the projects. So far we've managed to create two pieces of music. This is the first music. I hope you enjoy.

Maths | M&M's Presentation

Maths last week and this week was very different. That's because last week Learning Space 2 were give a challenge to do. The challenge needed collaboratively learning. So we got into our groups that we were split into and made a presentation. In my group there is Jonathan, Joel, Nickaela and Harlem.

Our first step was to make a prediction about how many M&M's we would get in a small packet. We were also supposed to predict what the most common colour in each packet would be.
After that we were to record our prediction. Then we were to pick one person who would touch the M&M's and count them. We chose Joel to do that.
Then we recorded the most common colour and how many M&M's we received in our packet.
After that we started to created the DLO. We were asked to find a few interesting facts and the history about M&M's. As time passed on, Mr Johnston wrote the percentage of colours you'd get in a packet according to the Mars Company. The following task was to make a comparison between our findings and the Mars Company's. What I found interesting about the M&M's, is that the founders of the M&M's copied the idea from seeing Spanish Civil War solders eating British made smarties.
At the end we showcased our DLO (Digital Learning Object) to the whole class.