Making Nets Using Geogrbra

 This Morning in Mathematics with Mrs David we learnt how to use a website called Geogebra Classic. Geogebra is a name in portmanteau created from the two words Geometry and Algebra. It is an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus application. We first designed a Pentagonal base prism and moved onto creating other shapes using Geogebra Classic.

Improving Your Gratitude!

- Taonga, My Gratitude Box

What kind of impact can gratitude affect on your life? In Health I have learnt that gratitude can mean a lot of things or can help you in lots of different ways as a person in life. I have also learnt that you have to practice gratitude and to practice gratitude you can do these three things, exercise, emote and extend.

My way of Exercising gratitude is, spending 10 minutes before I go to bed and write at least one thing I am grateful for on a piece of paper and put it in my Gratitude box. I will spend at least 5 minutes thinking about one meaningful thing that I am really grateful for to have in my life. It can be an environment, a person or even an object it just has to be something you are truly grateful for and why.

Emote, this means you need to feel what you are grateful for. When I want to feel what I am grateful for I like to make sure I am in a quiet place like my room away from any distractions like electronics and people. I like to take this time to wind down my brain from being on my phone to think about what I am grateful for before I go to bed. Sitting in a quiet place away from any distractions can help you think about how you feel about what you are grateful for.

The last thing you can do to practice gratitude is extend. If I was to write that I am grateful for my parents in order to extend I would do something that shows how I am grateful for them. For example I will clean the house for my Mum and Dad before they get home and because when my dad gets home from work he is always cleaning and I know my Mum likes the house nice and clean. I think this will show how appreciative I am because of my parents' hard work that they do. So doing something positive for someone you are grateful for can show how appreciative you are of them. If you are grateful for a park down the road from where you live, maybe you would like to pick up any rubbish in the area that you're grateful to have.

What are some benefits of gratitude on well-being? Gratitude can improve your social well-being because it helps you understand how lucky you are to have the people, people and objects that are important to you in your life. So you would always want to give them the utmost respect and love towards them because some things might not be possible without them. Gratitude also improves things like physical health, psychological health, self-esteem and can increase mental strength. Gratitude can also open the door to more relationships and some people benefit from better sleep, but overall gratitude can really improve your well-being.

Te Whare Tapa Wha - (Health)

In Health we designed and created our own Hauora Box.
On each wall of my Hauora box I wrote the four dimensions representing our well - being.
Each wall has its own dimension - Spiritual, Physical, Mental / Emotional and Social. The maori
words are - Taha Wairua, Taha Tinana, Taha Hinengaro and Taha Whanau. The words listed
under the main words showing what each wall represents are the keywords. The keywords are
words that relate to the dimension that it's in. 

If you look at a house with four walls like this Hauora box. If one of the walls was collapsing
or weak it wouldn't be able to hold the house or the roof for long. But if all four walls are strong
the house would stay up and won't end up collapsing to the ground. If your physical well being
was weak like you aren’t exercising or taking care of your body. That can in someway affect your
other three dimensions. It could affect the way you think or feel. 

Sometimes even one small incident can bring down all four of your walls.
Like you could have an argument with a family member and you have all these negative
emotions and feelings. So then you don’t feel like doing anything like exercise or going for a little walk.
Then you don’t want to talk to anyone like family because of your anger or emotions you are feeling. 

To fix each wall  you can work on one wall at a time or build on it. If you got into an argument with
someone that is family.  You could start with your Social well-being by talking to them about what
had happened and maybe hug it out. Or you could apologise if you think you need to. Once you're
like friends and have sorted out what ever happened you could go to the gym or go for a walk.
Doing fitness can help with things like stress relief or help you to feel better. Things like that
can also help your physical well-being.

How to read guitar tabs!

• What is a Guitar tablature ? A tablature is common for instruments with fretted strings such as the lute, vihuela or guitar. Tablature is a form of musical notation indicating instrumental fingering rather than musical pitches How many strings are there on a standard acoustic guitar ? There are 6 strings on a standard acoustic guitar. Name the strings from lowest pitch to highest pitch ? Low E, A, D, G, B High E. What do the 6 lines of the guitar tab represent? A 6 string guitar has 6 lines and on the tab staff the bottom line is the lowest or the 6th string. The number on the line corresponds to the fret to be played. What do the numbers represent ? The numbers on the Guitar Tablature represent the frets. What is a riff ? A riff is a repeated chord, progression, pattern or melody often played by rhythmic instruments. Me playing a little bit of Feel Good Inc - By The Gorillaz

Tech at Tamaki College

On Tuesday the 21st of May we went to Tamaki again. On Tuesday we made Chocolate Muffins. Normally we would cook or bake with a partner I normally cook with Bethan but unfortunately she was away sick. I was excited because I was on my own and I had to make 12 so that meant I had 12 to myself. But I shared some. These are the 7 simple steps.

Step 1 ~  1 1/2 cup of self rising flour into a large bowl, 1/3 cup of cocoa into the same bowl.

Step 2 ~ 1/2 a cup of sugar added to the bowl.

Step 3 ~ 1/2 a cup of milk.

Step 4 ~ 1/2 a cup of oil.

Step 5 ~ 1 egg

Step 6 ~ Mix well and drop 1 Tablespoon of mixture into muffin tin.

Step 7 ~ Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.





                                                                           

Cooking at Tamaki College.

Oh Noo it's our second to last week of cooking at Tamaki College. "Man i'm gonna miss cooking because every time we cook delicious food like the meal we cook today, Can you take a guess. We made Potato Top or Cottage Pie or a Potato Top Pie or what ever you would like to call it. The ingredients were - Mashed Potato mixed with butter, Cheese, Fried Mince with mixed veges. The cheese is underneath the mashed potato, On top of the mince. This was all made in a little tin foil.