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This term for inquiry we are doing it about cultures, for this task we had to pick one thing to research out of ta moko, Korowai/kakahu, or the haka. I chose a ta moko. They are tattoos on your face that Moari does this to show that they are Moari and to show who they are. They use to be done with uhi dipped in a dark pigment, ta, now they are usually done with needles but some people still do it the traditional way. Usually, the design is of your family, prosperity, travel, strength, your career path, or a Maori tribe.
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How were your holidays? I didn't do much in the holidays, but for our first week back at school w have been doing lots of things like athletics practice and loads of other stuff throughout the week. To start the term, for literacy we are working on writing kids books with protagonists and antagonists in the stories. For our first task, we had to look at 4 books and write find the protagonist and antagonist in it and write about why they are protagonists and antagonists. I did the three little pigs, snow white, sleeping beauty, and cinderella.
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Throughout the past couple of days, I have been researching and reading about dreams, for our literacy task this week we had to research a topic that's we had questions about then write a review on the topic. I chose dreams and dreams were are a very interesting topic to research with lot of information. Here is my questions and my review on dreams:
Questions
What do dreams have to do with our actual life? scientists have noticed that people don’t usually dream about random things and that their dreams do usually have something to do with themselves and their lives.
There is something called lucid dreaming where you know that you are dreaming and you are incontrol of your dreams
Why do we have dreams we don’t remember? Your hippocampus is the last thing in your brain to in your brain to go to sleep which is very likely its last to be awake, so you could have this part where you wake up with a dream in your short term memory, but since your hippocampus is not fully awake you can’t keep that memory anymore.
Some people don’t remember any dreams but it is most likely that they did but they forgot about it.
You easily recall a dream if you are awake at the right time
You are most likely to remember a dream in the REM stage of sleeping, which is usually when you have dreams.
How long do most dreams actually last? Dreams last anywhere between a few seconds and 20-40 minutes, if the dream is longer it is usually in the morning before you wake up.
According to the national sleep foundation The average person dreams 4-6 times per night.
Why do we have nightmares? People usually have nightmares because of trauma, sleeping disorders, anxiety or even just a problem happening can trigger nightmares.
Usually nightmares happen on the last 3rd of the night.
research suggests as many as 71 percent people who’ve experienced trauma have regular nightmares.
Why do some of our dreams reoccur multiple times ?
Recurring dreams usually mean there is something in your life you don’t know that is causing stress of some sort. The dream repeats because you have not done anything to stop the problem. Another theory is that people who have recurring dreams have some sort of trauma in their past they are trying to deal with.
Through the research I have found out how dreams are created and why certain things happen throughout your dream that you probably won’t know. Dreams can be very different each time and make a good topic to talk about.
Scientists have noticed that people don’t usually dream about random things and that their dreams do usually have something to do with themselves and their lives, which means most of the things you dream about you have probably come across.Random things may become boring sometime this is where lucid dreaming happens. Lucid dreaming is a dream that you can control and you know you are dreaming, so you are probably dreaming about things you have seen before.
We have at least 4-8 dreams a night that are anywhere from a few seconds to 40 minutes long. and most of those we don’t remember. We have dreams we don’t remember because your hippocampus is the last thing in your brain to go to sleep which is very likely its last to be awake. So you could have this part where you wake up with a dream in your short term memory, but since your hippocampus is not fully awake you can’t keep that memory anymore, which is why we don’t remember most dreams. Your dreams are easier to remember in the 3rd stage of REM sleep, REM sleep is Rapid eye movement and is when you are most likely to have all your dreams.
Throughout the years you have probably had a dream that has reoccured before, have you ever wondered why?. Recurring dreams usually mean there is something in your life you don’t know that is causing stress of some sort. The dream repeats because you have not done anything to stop the problem. Another theory is that people who have recurring dreams have some sort of trauma in their past they are trying to deal with.
People usually have nightmares in the last 3rd of the night. Most nightmares are caused by trauma, sleeping disorders, anxiety or even just a problem happening can trigger nightmares. Research suggests as many as 71 percent people who’ve experienced trauma have regular nightmares.
People have and see very different dreams because there are so many different dreams that you can have. Dreams are very interesting to research about, with lots of facts that can be very useful.
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This week is the New Zealand national sign language week, 14 years ago sign language came one of the official languages of New Zealand. So for our tasks this week we had to create a video of us signing our name, and we had to go onto sign ninja which is a site that you learn how to sign all different types of things.
As one of the country’s official languages, more than 24,000 New Zealanders use NZSL daily. It is also the 12th most frequently used language out of about 190 languages currently used in New Zealand. There are hundreds of sign-based languages in use around the world, and even within a given language, there can be different ways. For example, people in Christchurch may use slightly different signs than people in Wellington.
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We have been learning about 24 hour time and how to covert am/pm. For this task, we had to pick 3 different movies,I chose the lion king frozen and inside out. We had to add the running time, the start time, a question, and then we had to get someone else to figure out the finish time of the movies. I have also added the answers at the end of my slide.
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This week we have been looking at the time and how to convert 12 hour time to 24 hour time, for this task we had to go onto Minecraft and create 2 clocks one analog time with the 12 hour time and one digital but with the 24 hour time instead.
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This week for our literacy we were doing flight. For our experiment, we had to fly paper planes and add different things to it to see how it would fly. My group added paper clips to our plane to see if the weight would affect the flight of our paper plane. After we had done our experiment we had to write reports on our experiment. Here are the results of my experiment:
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Since the start of the year, we have been learning Samoan. This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from. If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.
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For this term inquiry, we are looking at rockets, For this task, we had to create an animation on the thrust, drag, lift, and weight of a rocket. The thrust of a rocket is what helps it go up into space this is also what the lift does. The drag and the weight is what helps the rocket go down.
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Today for Wednesday we are doing Samoan again, we had to make an animation or scratch on greetings in Samoan. I decided to do an animation, this is what my animations says in English, hello, hello, how are you? fine thanks, how are you, fine, goodbye and then goodbye again.
Aurora is made by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within the atmosphere. Auroras are made with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and have plasma particles in it that gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields.
As they accelerate towards the Earth, they occur between these ion parts and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, giving energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.
For our piece of art, we had to grab a black piece of paper and rip it into a mountain-like shape. After that, we had to get a paintbrush and splatter paint on it to make the stars, then after it drys we get chalk pastels and put it on the white paper that we stuck to our black paper. Once it was on the white paper we used our finger to brush it up. Finally, we had to add the 7 Matariki stars. Here is my art piece:
Today we are learning about Binary and ASCII.
Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers. You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself! Try watching this video to give it a go yourself!
What do you think? Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII? Could you have a try for yourself? Can you work out how to write my initials in ASCII from the pattern above?
