Tane Mahuta

Tane Mahuta

For the past two weeks, we have had the opportunity to work in the garden behind the school grounds. We had a lot of work to do and we have ongoing projects to make the garden amazing. 

For the first week, we were split into three grounds, the first group was working on cleaning up the Outdoor Classroom we have been planning. The second group was helping Mark trim the tree, making sure to trim all the branches that are either dying or are dead. The third group was helping Mr. Tisch with moving types, moving small planter boxes and moving tarpaulins. 

After we all finished our projects we moved on to cleaning up the greenhouse, making sure that it was ready for remodeling. We had to clean out all the weeds and pile all the old wood planks outside of the greenhouse. Along the way, we found a bunch of rusted wood that we had to clear.

For week two of Tane Mahuta, the class was split into three groups. The first group was helping with the Outdoor Classroom, the second group was helping Mark tri the trees. Finally, the last group was helping Mr. Tisch with the planting beds.

Mr. Tisch created a line for us to dig in and turn the soil to make it lose. We used the shovels and dug down into the soil. We made sure that we dug down about shovel height. 

Change & Challenges

The four walls of Hauora

Physical

Doing exercise to keep your body healthy and keeping it in shape. Eating healthy foods to improve your
health.

Spiritual

Experiencing the purpose of life, through either yourself or others.

Emotional

Your controlling and understanding your emotions especially when you're frustrated, mad or upset. 

Social

Communicating with others and going out instead of isolating yourself.

Team Reflection

This week in our P.E Hurumanu we have been playing cross-court games in the school gym.

The focus of this week's activities was working in small teams of random people and see how we work

together.

Our activity was cross-court games. For this activity, I rated myself at level three. To achieve at level
three, we have to show that we can consistently contribute, include myself in the team activity. We also
use positive words to encourage our team and other people.

During the game of cross-court games, I showed that I am working at level three by contributing most of
the time when I tried I made sure I was trying my best, and I used encouraging words to support my team
and the team I was versing. These examples show that I have met the standard for level three.

While playing the Cross-court games, something that I found challenging was that in the first game every
like 10 seconds either someone from my team or someone from the other team would pick up the ball,
even if it was necessary. The reason I found this challenging was because we weren't able to play a
proper game, and we were all fighting because of it. However, I managed to overcome this challenge by
having to move on to the next game meaning they were not picking up the ball when someone went to
pick it up.

Another problem we had was that the two teams were not getting along, we were constantly arguing and
fighting about random things that would happen in the games. In the last game, we started to not fight as
much meaning we could enjoy a fun game of floor hockey.

Next week I am aiming to work at level four. To make sure that I am working at that level I am going
to work on involving myself in the games we play more, and trying to support my team some more.

Team Reflection

This week in our P.E Hurumanu we have been playing Floor Hockey and Six Corner Soccer. We have
been playing these in the Schools Old Gym, and we have been playing these to work on our teamwork
skills.

Our first activity was Floor Hockey. For this activity, I rated my self as a three.

To achieve at level three, we have to show that we can consistently contribute to the game and
sometimes use positive words to encourage my team.

During the first game of Floor Hockey, I showed that I am working at level three by participating every
time I went up, and by cheering on my friends Jasmine and Kahciar when they went up. These examples
show that I have met the standard for level three.

Our second activity was Six Corner Soccer. For this activity, I rated my self as a two.

To achieve at level two we have to show that we can sometimes make a contribution, and sometimes
we need the teacher to remind us to participate.

During the first game of Six Corner Soccer, I showed that I am working at level two by contributing some,
and not acting like I wanted to participate. These examples show that I have met the standard for level
two.

Next week I am aiming to work at level 4. To make sure that I am working on that level I am going to work
on contributing to the game more and cheering on my team some more.

Team Reflection

This week in our P.E Hurumanu we have been Playing Kick Long Ball and Bench Ball. We played these games in the School Gym. We played these games in the school gym because we were learning to work together in a team.

Our first activity was Kick Long Ball. For this activity, I rated my self as a two.
To achieve at level two, we have to show that we can sometimes contribute to the game, we sometimes need the teacher to remind us to contribute to the game.
During the first game of kick long ball, I showed that I am working at level two by not contributing as much as I could have, and the teacher had to remind me sometimes that I was in a team game and that I had to contribute a bit more. These examples show that I have met the standard for level two.

Our second activity was bench ball. For this activity, I rated my self as a three.
To achieve at level three, we have to show that we can consistently contribute to the game, we included ourself in the team activity, and we use positive words to encourage our team.
During the first game of bench ball, I showed that I am working at level three by supporting one of my team members, Taylor when he tried to catch the ball and dropped it. I also showed that I worked at level three by constantly getting involved in my game.  These examples show that I have met the standard for level three.

Next week I am aiming to work at level four. To make sure that I am working that level I am going to work on contributing more to the game and not being told to contribute more to the game by a teacher or team member.

Music Through The Ages

For Beats and Beyond Hurumanu we had to learn about music, and how it has change over time. We had to research from the 1990's to the 2000's. We worked in pairs so we could get it finished in the time limit we had, I decided to work with a friend of mine, Lucy. Here is what Lucy and I made.

Beats & Beyond

For the second day of Music Hurumanu, Ts and Mt started off with one of our teaches Mr Mitchell showing us some of his guitars. He also played a tune on each of them. He played all the guitars and told us about how different in the sound. He also told us the types of guitars and what they are used for.
➥Subject: Music | Beats And Beyond Today, Mr Mitchell brought in different types of Guitars: ➥ Nylon String Guitar ➥ Steel String Guitar ➥ Dreadnaught Guitar ➥ Backpackers Guitar ➥ Electric Guitar.
We then had to do our Glossary. There were different words including, Sound Hole, Capo, Whammy Bar etc. For our glossary, we had to find the meanings for a bunch of items for guitars. Here are a few of our glossary words.
➥Whammy Bar- The Whammy bar is a bar on an electric guitar that quickly changes string tension.
➥Capo- The Capo is used to hold down all 6 of the strings at the same time.
➥Sound Hole- The Sound Hole is a hole in the body of a guitar where the sound comes from.
After Mr Mitchell's "performance" instead of calling this class 'Music' we used Taylor's idea and name this class 'Beats and Beyond. We then had to make a title page for our books. We also got to draw to make it look "amazing"!