During lockdown we got to choose what to post about for blogging so I decided to write a 100 word story. This story was based on this image from Pobble 365 “The Frozen Palace”.
I thought this would be interesting to do for a blog post because I enjoy writing narrative stories. It ended up being easy to write and good to do when you’re bored.
What are you doing during quarantine?
In Te Ngahere we have started making movies. To help us make these movies we started of by making mini movies that include 4 shots, an establishing shot , a long shot, medium shot and a close up shot. An establishing shot includes the setting and where the story is happening. A long shot usually introduces your characters. A medium shot shows more detail of what your characters are doing. The close shot usually shows what the characters attention is focussed on.
Something I think my group did well was working quickly and efficiently because in the time of 25 minutes my group and I were able to finish our movie that includes the 4 shots. Something I think we could’ve done better is to spend more of our time planning so that we knew what we were doing as soon as we started filming.
The easiest part as taking a picture of the whole library as our establishing shot. The hardest part was trying to actually come up with the plan/idea for our movie.
Have you ever created a mini movie before?
This week in Te Ngahere we had the privilege to have someone called Tai come to talk to us about mental health. He was a representative from the “I am Hope” foundation which is a charity that helps Kiwis with mental health. Tai told us that mental health is just as important as physical health and that it was ok not to know much about mental health because he didn’t really understand it too until he was 22.
He used his own story to help us understand the struggles that people with bad mental health can go through. For example he talked about a traumatic event he went through that put him in a bad place and how he got through that. Tai goes and visits schools, communities etc.. and shares the story he just shared with us to try and let people know that there is somewhere to go if they need. Something the “I am hope” foundation has done is try to make counselling free for Kiwis under 25 so that help is more accessible.
My favourite part was when he mentioned someone called Elliot who he met that helped him more than he ever thought without even knowing. Elliot is a person who played a major part of Tai’s story and he doesn’t even know.
Something that I learnt from his talk is everyone has something called an inner critique and your voice of reason which is like your minds two voices. I think I could see this information in the future so I know to listen to my reason of voice more.
Do you know much about mental health?
Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have recently been focussing a lot of our attention on our Science Fair which started last term and ended yesterday. We started our Science Fair with rewinding some of the people in our classes memory by learning about the scientific method. The scientific method is a series of steps that involves creating a hypothesis, Testing your hypothesis etc… For this we had to create an infographic that explains the steps in our own words.
When we started the science fair we had to pick a question or topic first. In my group was Breeze and Mahana and we choose to test the absorbency of toilet paper.
We also learnt about different types of variables like controlled variables which are the part of your experiment that you are keeping the same. In our science experiment the controlled variable was the two sheets of toilet paper we used every time.
Something I would have done differently was the fair test part because we only used 2 ply and three ply so it wasn’t really fair. I would also try to manage my time a bit better so everything I did was to the best standard.
I think I used my hoe of Tu maia and Kaha to help me not give up and to keep on track.
Have you ever participated in a science fair?
On the first day of Term 3 In Te Ngahere we tried another Taskmaster challenge instead of getting straight into work this challenge was called shrinking Island. We had to get into groups of 4-5 for the first round of this challenge. The rules were simple, you had two sheets of newspaper and your whole group has to be able to fit on the island without holding onto anything. The next round was even harder because the island shrunk by halving the page.
Once you think all your group are on the paper you are allowed to call to be judged. The teachers then count and you have to be able to all stand for 5 seconds. The challenge was to see how much your island can shrink before one of your group members falls or touches the floor. The group still standing with the small island wins.
After the first go we were allowed to try different groups. One of the biggest things we reflected on was that if you have big feet do not pair up with someone else with big feet but unfortunately some people still did that.
Have you ever tried a Task Master Challenge before?
In Te Ngahere we have been learning to create a DLO that catches the attention our readers. The purpose of this was to help make readers want to read our Blog post. Here is my DLO about Technology that I made to add to my post that doesn't have a DLO.
This is my post with no DLO Technology
Do you think this DLO goes better with my post?
