Aria's Tech learning story.

Aria’s Cooking learning story.

Ow! I burned my finger on the stove.

Sewing is finished onto Cooking.

As the same for sewing, cooking does have a lot of dangerous equipment that is lying around in the kitchen e.g Ovens, Knives. But luckily I learned how to use them properly and teach people how too as well just in case they set the whole kitchen on fire.

I have achieved the success criteria when I...

• Have followed the recipe so the product I created is perfect and can be a well-presented product that looks and taste delicious.
• Am able to work part as a team to help each other just in case we are stuck on what to do or we just need a helping hand on something else.
• Have creatively created something that you can’t buy from a bakery because what's the point to create a product that you can buy instead of wasting your time to cook it.

The K.C skill I used was managing self. And to be able to manage myself (And create a well-made creation) I had to ignore the distractions that surrounded me and listen carefully to understand what was going on so I didn’t really struggle at all in this class.

What was easy was creating the bread. Pretty simple,

• Hot water,
• 2 teaspoon of Yeast.
• 2 teaspoon of sugar
• Cup of flour.

At first, it didn’t seem simple but once I kept practicing and practicing it was just the easiest product I have ever made.

I would like to improve my decorating skills because most of my products were just plain and I regret putting nothing on it to make it seem WOW!.

If it wasn’t for my teacher I wouldn’t have been able to accomplish the goal to create great tasting homemade food.

Cooking ticked off.

Next is Music.

Aria's swimming learning story

Aria’s Swimming learning story.

Know how to swim safely, then you’re fine. Have no idea, then danger awaits.

Since New Zealand is surrounded by water, there is no excuse for you not to know how to be safe in the water. To be able to live around water then taking swimming lessons will be your hero since they teach you all kinds of skills that can help you to survive e.g freestyle, breaststrokes.

While swimming you always have to manage yourself. So that means to…

• Always listen to the instructor so you understand what to do.

• Not muck around while you are learning something.
• Being able to distract from all the things that are able to put us off.

So I'm saying that while I was in the pool I was good at managing self because of these three things.

Knowing that I was really good at managing self I realized that it helped me improve my swimming than what I did last year. I mostly improved on

• Turn our heads to the side to breastStroke 1,2,3 breath.
• Float on our tummy and back.

because as I remember I recall that I couldn’t swim very far because I didn’t turn my head to breath causing that to make me stop and take a breather. Now that I have improved I am able to swim as far as I can with breaststrokes.

Learning to survive in the water is important just how I now know that learning to be safe on a boat is important. As if 10 mins ago I didn’t know that you had to LEARN how to put a life jacket on properly. I thought that you just had to put it on, buckle and zip. Boy was I wrong. Struggling to breathe as if I was suffocating in a plastic bag while the life jacket got tighter and tighter. But luckily I now know how to put a life jacket on. (Properly)

My next steps are to obviously work on my freestyles because my arms seem to get tired. Maybe because I push myself too hard at the beginning and lose strength in the end. I just need to keep it even.

Don’t fear the water, make the water fear you.

Aria's Pepeha

Ka tangi te titi
Ka tangi te kaka

Ka tangi hoki ahau

Tihei mauri ora

Kō Taranaki te maunga

Kō Patea te awa

Kō Tainui te waka

Kō Nga Ruahine te iwi

Kō Ngati Tama Ahuroa me Titahi te hapu

Kō Oeo te pa

Kō Karen tōku whaea

Kō Ihaka tōku matua tane

Ko Simone toku tuakana

Nō Porirua ahau

Kō Aria tōku ingoa

Tekau ma rua aku tau

Kō Corinna tōku kura

Kō Ardelle raua ko Helen ōku kaiako  

Kō Michele te tumuaki

No reira tena koutou tena koutou katoa

Aria's Maths learning story

Aria’s Maths learning story.         

At Porirua College there are 220 boys.  132 boys choose to wear a lavalava.

E.J says that this percentage is because Porirua College students have a strong Samoan identity.

Do you agree that the percentage E.J worked out is enough to show that Porirua College has a strong Samoan identity?

Maths is a subject where everyone thinks it’s a waste of time.

Well that's not what I think and maybe it’s not what you think at all either. In my perspectives I think that it’s how you are going to solve a problem with or without anyone. Now let’s see how I solved this problem shall we.

Well first off I wrote down what I knew...

• ½ of 220 = 110 = 50% who wore a lavalava.
• 10% of 220 = 22 boys who wore a lavalava.

How did I know that 10% = 22. Well I wrote down...

220 = 100% then

22 = 10%. So mainly I took away the zero from the 220b and the 100%.

But we are trying to find out if we agree with E.J’s percentage and if P.C has a strong samoan identity. Now that would mean that we are trying to find out what 132boys is as a percentage. So I…

Plus 110 (50%) + 22 (10%) = 132 (60%). So that means that P.C does have a strong samoan identity because there are 60% of boys who do wear lavalava and 40% don’t.

Relating to others. This K.C helps all the time in maths because I used it by explaining what we were doing in a way others in my group can understand. Also I can answer any of their question if they wanted to know more e.g “How did you get that” or “Why did you do that”. Somethings I will explain it in a different way if they don’t understand me the first time.

My next steps would probably be to make sure I really understand what the problem is about and what I’m being asked to solve  before jumping into it. I can achieve that by reading and reading again so I can understand it better or I can just ask my group to explain what the problem is about.

You don’t know it but maths is all around you!

Aria's Reading learning story

Aria’s Reading learning story

“The whole book was a great read!” “To sum this book up in one word: Brilliant.”

Stephen Measday, is the author who wrote a fiction book that made me fired up - Send Simon Savage. Do you know what the purpose is for a fiction book?. Well ifiction means it’s all made up, so it would most likely be to entertain you with all the exciting parts in the book. An example of Send Simon Savage,

“Mum!” “Simon dropped onto the couch next to his mother.” “What’s going on?”

Glenda Savage gripped his hand. “It’s your father.” “He’s . . . he’s disappeared.”

Why did I choose this book? What made me think that I would like this book? Well., the blurb at the back was just filled with all the excitement that made me feel so thrilled and I had to know what would happen next in the book e.g

“Time travel is real”

“It is also a tightly kept secret”

“But there are people somewhere in time, who know more than they should”

“And they are doing things that they shouldn’t.”

“Someone has to stop them.”

“How did that hook you in Aria?” Well the kind of books I like are adventure and mystery. They make me feel like I am on a road that leads me to a quest of dangers and risks that lies in a exciting book and that's what the book did to me. That little bit of the blurb made me feel like I was about to start my new quest.

Understanding the book is pretty hard but that’s why you have to read over and over again so you can understand it or use the reading skills like evaluating. That was a reading skill that helped me to be the best learner I can be. What I did was that I thought of being the character in the story e.g if I was Simon Savage (The main character in the story)  and my father disappeared then I would feel depressed for a while but in the meantime I would also look for him because I care about my dad and I’m sure that he would look for me too if I went missing.

Locating information. How it makes me a learner is that I find out interesting things about something in the book and it makes me curious on what’s going to happen next. E.g I located information so I found out that when Simon’s father use to be a scientist and he was still alive he worked in a lab for a top secret government called the Bureau to create fantastic machines so they can use in the future e.g Simon’s father was the one who created the time machine. But none of his family knew anything about it.

Look at this video I recorded and see if you can imagine what’s going on.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zifC77Wj2g8jbHkoNickEb-kJWgY4Q3E/view

If there’s no end then there is no beginning.

Aria's Tech learning story

Aria’s Tech learning story

12:30 to 2:30 on a Thursday is the time when the year 7 & 8 go over to Brandon Intermediate where your favorite subjects may be there. Art, Sewing, Cooking, Woodwork and music. Cooking is my favorite because you get to make delicious food that you share with friends and whanau.

Woodwork, is the first class I was put in when I came back to Brandon Intermediate. Not one of my greatest skills because I am not great with wood e.g I always seem to drop a piece of wood and it would make a huge noise. But that didn’t stop me making a box.

The purpose of making a box was to put in something that is valuable to you or just storing something in it because you have nowhere to put it. I achieved that by working with people that can help me to achieve my goal to make a box e.g Gabby, Titi and Ata. We helped each other to accomplish the goal by giving each other a helping a hand and reminding each other what the next step was.

What I found difficult was that I had to use a block plane. “Are you talking about a flying plane?” Well no. A block plane is a small woodworking hand plane that has a blade on the bottom.it’s designed to carve the wood as you push it along. Yeah so as I was pushing it, I did it at the wrong angle and that would prevent the shape to be a bit crooked but by practising over and over I knew that I would get better at it.

The k.c skill I used really well was managing self because I always listened to the teacher so I can get finished and done with the things that needs to be done instead of just mucking around and being left with a piece of wood which nobody ended up with. I also used relating to others really well by helping somebody if they were getting left behind so they can catch up and move on.

When I finished creating my box I felt proud of what I made with all the hard work I put into to it. Everytime I look at it, it always reminds me of how I never gave up and just kept going until I have achieved creating something that needed to be done.

Now woodwork ticked off.

On to the next subject… Sewing

Aria's Art learning story

Aria’s Art learning story.      Success Criteria

We all don’t know what's real and what's not real but we do know that it comes from our imagination.

This is Surrealism art. Just before you ask “What the heck is surrealism art” I'm going to ask you guys some questions. Have you ever imagined combining a bridge as your eyes on your face? Or on the other half of your face there’s a tiger? Actually that’s what surrealism is, combining two or more pictures together to create something extraordinary  instead of ordinary.

I was good at putting in something that was important to me that told you about my identity e.g as you can see there is a cat, you might just think “Oh I guess she like cats” Which I do but I drew a cat because he’s been with me ever since I was like around 6 yrs old. He’s taken care of me whenever I am feeling emotional or sick but later on he is just being lazy!

Fact: Surrealism was created in 1920 and there were many artist that was doing this kind of art like Pablo Picasso.

What I felt about my surrealism art was like, how can I explain it. It was like a cheery feeling that just make me smile whenever I looked at it. How? Well it reminds me of how much hard work I put into it by making it how I want it to be.

What I got better at was not going all random. What I mean is that the first art I did was just putting a bunch of stuff on my face and that turned out to be quite messy so then what I did was just do rough drafts and putting less than two things on my face. Each time I had to think carefully about how my art communicated important things about my identity. This was the hard part.

Tip: Always do a plan and by doing a plan you have to draw fast so then you can  move onto the next draft. Also try not to do bold lines because it’s meant to be quick and done. You can do that on your perfect draft.

My next steps is maybe to include something that seems impossible because I want to try and take some more risks and also see what I can do. I will achieve that for next time. I will think of something that is nearly impossible for me and I shall draw it and see where it will go.