What is affirmation? Affirmation means ‘giving support and encouragement’ and Team Tui thought of their own motivational words, or words of affirmation. An example of some words of affirmation is ‘ I am an amazing person.’ Positive thinking can boost confidence/self-esteem. Here is a video of our words of affirmation.
The word expo means a large exhibition, which is what happened on Friday. First, there was an assembly featuring the year 8’s leave (all the best to them). Then, the exhibition started. Many other students came to explore Team Tui’s classes and their cultural arts. There was also a sale running to raise money for the year 8 leavers’ hoodies.
A rebus uses letters, symbols, pictures, to try and form words and phrases. For example, horobod can be used to make the word Robinhood, or rob in hood.
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Being Cybersmart has a lot of different things split into one category, for example Smart Surfing. That is supposed to mean being smart with searching on the web, avoiding malicious sites.
Bias means to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favor that person or thing and treasure it dearly. This Cybersmart showed that media is biased most of the time, and it is not always true.
This was my cultural create for the term. It is like a bandana from the Kayin state of Myanmar. I decided to make it because the bandana looked really pretty with all the strings. I used PVA glue, a piece of fabric, some beads, and red yarn.
Have you ever wondered why cats are so cute? So cute you want to cuddle or swallow them?
It is because there is a psychological response to cuteness that your brain has. The cats have very cute features that might resemble babies. Small noses, big eyes, large foreheads, that’s what makes them so cute. Also, they have fur that is soft to touch, they have high pitched meows that makes everyone go ‘Aww!!!’ . They also have playful behavior that lures you in.
The cuteness response was also evolved because cuteness can also cause you to take care of the cute creature, and that could be good for caring for your young. This effect also applies to other animals with similar features.
Have a look at the cat pictures below. Do you feel the cuteness effect?
There was a Wednesday when we got to watch films from other schools that were no longer than 3 mins. Some of them were funny, and some of them came with an important message or just a genre that the film makers were interested in. There were no snacks you could eat, but it was very dark and quiet I almost fell asleep but then I did shadow puppets when the light shone near my seat. My favourite movie was when there was a sad world but there were 3 clowns that were on the loose.
The Manaiakalani film fest happens every year and every school (even mine) participates to create films for a lot of other schools to see!
On Friday 10th of November, we had an athletics day that had multiple series of events eg, discus, shotput, long jump, high jump, and all other Olympic-like sports. Everyone was split into groups, Maungarei (Mt Wellington), Taurere (Mt Taylor), Kaiahiku (Panmure basin) and Te Wai o Taiki (Tamaki River). There wasn’t really some super prize trophy up for grabs, but we could buy some ice blocks, drinks, and sausage sizzles.
I was in the house Taurere, we wore green for the day. Everyone participated in the sports before the runner relays, which the top runners that were chosen could race against others. A lot of parents came to the day to relax in the shade and support their children. My favourite sport was high jump for the day because it is always so satisfying when you jump over and make it.
This was a fake news article for a Cybersmart task that gets us to make our own fake news article. What I did above was just a funny satire news article that no one has to believe.