Tyres aren't meant to squishy....

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about tyres.

This is another homework blog post, it's about how to check tyre pressure in a cool video I made just for this blog.

I think that checking tyre pressure is important, afterall, no one wants to be riding a bike or anything with a flat tyre. It can be dangerous and can pop easier. So I would not recommend it.

Do you ride bikes often? I don't, but I ride my unicycle!

What do you like about riding bikes?

Also,

Tyre? Or Tire? Which do you use?

Enjoy!

Whitebait Media! Part 2. There's still no whitebait :(

 

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Today I will be talking about Whitebait Media! Again...

This time, all of the year 8's went and we got a full tour around the really confusing hallways of the Whitebait Media building. I recommend reading the first post before coming to this one.

It was a really cool place, they had lot's of cool stuff! Including equipment for the Brain Busters TV show. I really enjoyed seeing all the cool things that they had and also being able to watch our final year 8's video properly!

Have you been on TV?

If yes, what kind of experience was it? If not, would you want to? Why?

Enjoy!

Whitebait Media! There's no whitebait sorry :(

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about Whitebait Media. It is a tv show company, they film shows like What Now.

Sorry, we asked, but there is no whitebait at Whitebait Media :(

Yesterday we visited Whitebait Media to do some singing, to record the song for our year 8 leavers video! How exciting! The five of us, Nikita, Grace, Abby, Maddie and me went.

It was an interesting experience!

Have you done recording before?

What does it feel like? Scary? Exciting? Relaxing? 

Which do you prefer, being filmed? or recorded by voice only?

Enjoy!

Whitebait Media by Mia

Puzzling over what to give as a gift to someone?

 

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It feels like I haven't posted for while, probably because I haven't. So, sorry for the delay!

Today's blog is a homework blog.

This blog is all about choosing a gift that the receiver will  appreciate!

For me, I appreciate all my gifts, because all my gifts have really thought about. I think that it's important to think of how they would feel receiving the gift. I think that it's also important for the receiver to appreciate the gift as well.

What has been one of your favorite gifts? Why?

How do you choose gifts for others?

What do you think people appreciate about gifts?

Enjoy!

Thank you! (To who...?)

 

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Welcome back to my blog!

Today's blog post is another homework one.

It is about 'How to write a thank-you note'

I never really thought about this to deeply, mostly because I've never needed to write one (although I have received a few). I think it's mostly because I say my thank you verbally. So it was interesting to look into this a bit more.

Have you written a thank you note? What for?

Why would you write a thank you note? Who to?

When do you think you might use it?

Enjoy!

Everyone's a builder... somehow

 

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Today I will be talking about our Cybersmart session with Miss Morgan. Today we learnt about what kind of internet media is fake and why it is fake. Then, we went to finding a quote (that is actually said by the person) and illustrate it. Here is the instructions for this on the Uru Manuka Site.

I chose a quote by Milton Berle, and American comedian and actor.

What do you think we need to look out for when looking at media?

What kind of tips can you give about images and text?

How can you find proof?

Enjoy!

Read. This. Sentence. Very. Slowly

 

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How long did it take you to read that sentence?

Probably not that long right?

Reading fast is good, it's smooth and feels good.

But!

Reading slow is really good practice too. So today, for my homework, I chose to do how to read slowly. I think that this was a HUGE challenge for me, since my typical speed is 300 words per minute. Which is above average. So reading slowly for me is quite challenging. But, I also think that I need to be able to do it more often.

Are you a fast reader?

Do you like reading? Why?

Why do you think reading slowly helps?

Enjoy!

Let's write an article!

 

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Today I will be talking about one of our Cybersmart session with Miss Morgan, you can see what we did on the Uru Manuka site.

We had to make our own article about Athletics Day this year.

Creating an article is not too hard, you just have to make it engaging and have the key points. Headline, Date, Image or video and of course the article itself! I found it fun, but the hardest bit for me was actually writing the article itself.

Have you written an article before?

What did you write it about?

Where do you see articles? Do you read them?

Enjoy!

Where would we be shouting and cheering really loudly? At NYLD of course!

 

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Today I will be talking about NYLD.

I'm sorry this came out late.

A few weeks ago on Friday, we went to NYLD, National Young Leaders Day. The year 7 and 8's and a few year 6's attended fro the day at Horncastle Arena. We all really enjoyed it, and found it entertaining and a good learning experience. We played games, listened and did a fair amount of shouting and cheering.

Have you been to NYLD before?

If yes, what was your favorite part of going? If no, then would you like to go and why?

What do you know about being a leader?

Enjoy!

I'm waiting right here... would you like to join me?

 

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Today I will be talking about being able to wait and save for something.

This means to be able to figure out something you might want and to be able to wait, and save up (money, or maybe something else) to be able to get that reward. Even if it might be hard.

I think that I can wait for quite a long time for something because I show lot's of these 3 aspects that I have mentioned in the video.

Can you save up for something?

How long can you wait untill you might give up?

Maybe this video might change your mind and give you more time to be able to wait.

Enjoy!

Taking too long to find the book you want? well check out this blog :)

 

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Today I will be talking about how you can find a book in a library.

Some of you might know how to do this, or you might not.

Finding books can be hard in the library, especially when there are lots of books. I remember looking for quite a while trying to find a particular book. But once you understand the way that books are placed in the library, it makes a lot more sense.

Do you go to the library?

Do you like reading? Why?

What are some of your favorite authors?

Enjoy!

40 synonyms of kindness!

 

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One of the activities that we have been doing for week 1 is Flow Fundamentals. There are 11 things every week, and then you have to do something with those 11 things and make it visually appealing on paper.

I thoroughly enjoyed studying these 11 things and trying to get creative to show my learning. This activity was challenging because you didn't get strict instructions, you only had the word, statement or video to start off.

This week's 11 things were...

So I did something with these 11 things!

Have you done something similar to this?

What is your favorite thing out of the 11 things?

What would you do for any one of these 11 things?

Enjoy!

(I'm very sorry if it's hard to read)

Spend your money wisely!

 

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It's been a while!

I hope you all enjoyed your school holidays and are up and ready to go for Term 4.

Today I will be doing one of the many homework activities this term.

This term's homework is 'how many old 'new' skills can you build?' There was a list of options of skills and I chose this one.

How to make a budget

It sounds pretty important, and it IS important so keep reading if you don't know how to do this already.

I found it an interesting topic to grasp onto and to learn about, I learnt a lot of new things and that I have to put first things first; think of what priorities there are. I also think that this is an extremely helpful thing to learn now so you don't have to put in lot's of effort to learn later :)

What do you think a budget is?

If you already know, then why do you think it's important?

Enjoy!

How to make a budget by Mia 

Camp Episode 1 - The first and probably last episode :)

 

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Today, I will be telling you about Arthurs Pass camp.

You may have noticed other students in Rimu doing a camp series on their blogs. Unfortunately, I was in Student Summit, and I was pretty busy, so I didn't get to do this, nor start it!

Instead, I mashed about 3 points together about camp that  I would've done if I was able to.

If you have been on camp, where did you go?

What were your favorite activities?

If you have never been, what would be something you would like to do?

Enjoy!

Teaching 48 people online is very, very, VERY challenging!

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Today I will be talking about Student Summit!

Which... was a lot different than the past few years I have been attending to it.

Instead of going to somewhere for part of the day and presenting or doing some learning from others, it was all digital. Students did Google Meet's and presented their presentation digitally because of the Level 2 restrictions.

Have you been to Student Summit?
Did you contribute to the Student Summit this year?
If you didn't, would you want to? And why?

Enjoy!

I have a dream... (of what? arrotscay? o_o)

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In Rimu, we are going to be writing our speeches. When I first heard about it, I got really excited because I like to make speeches and it's fun to present as well as choosing a topic I am passionate about.

But hold your horses! 

(okay, I don't actually own any horses but if you do, hold them if you like -_-)

Before we start actually writing our speeches, we did an activity to put our minds into the 'ready-to-do-speeches' state. We did this by creating a visual representation that has the 6 tools from Mental Toughness for motivation!

The 6 tools are -

| Positive Thinking | Goal Setting | Attentional Control | Visualisation | Anxiety Control | Self Awareness |

We had to put some phrases or words that represent these 6, well, 5 because Visualisation is the drawing itself :) We used google drawings to create this. My dream for how my speech will go is that I am able to pick a good topic and to be able to engage with the audience well.

While I was creating the drawing I was constantly thinking about what others and what I will be doing my speech about. The hardest part of doing a speech would probably gathering information and actually writing a good speech. The easiest bit for me to do would probably be to present because I am a pretty confident public speaker.

If you would like to leave a comment for me maybe you could use these as your sentence starters...

Positive - I liked the way you...

Thoughtful - You brought me back to when...

Helpful - I noticed that...

Have you done speeches before?

Do you like doing them (writing & presenting)?

What do you find hard about speeches?

Enjoy!

Oh yeah!
and before you go (please comment first!) arrotscay means 'carrots' in pig latin. Everybody learned the language today :D

How do I make comments more interesting?

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Today we are going to be talking about comments and how you can make your comments even more interesting than just text. We learnt this is our cybersmart lesson for the confident group. Here is the link to the Uru Manuka site that will take you to our lesson plan.

To make this more interesting, I am going to teach you how you can add URL's to your comments. This way, we can add voice, or video recordings of you saying your comment.

How amazing is that!?

It took a few tries to properly get it working in the comment, but in the end it worked out perfectly. It's a really cool way to represent your comment than the usual text and it helps people to understand your feelings in the comment as well as making it easier to understand.

Have you heard this before? (I didn't untill now...)

Would you want to give this a try?

What do you think the benefits of this would be?

Enjoy the presentation!

Let's fish those voting skills out...

Hello to everybody on the other side of the screen!

Do YOU like poems, mysteries, news reports!?

Well then you are in for a TREAT!

Today we have 28 words, 28 entries! 

And hopefully some votes from YOU!

Not too long ago we did a writing competition, it had three categories. News report, Poems and Mysteries. We had to use as many as the 28 words we wrote down we thought of the 'brain' so there might some very brainy entries in there (haha get it?).

We had to try to use as many of the 28 words while still fitting the category AND and making sure our work was NOT over 150 words. Easy for some but hard for some too.

This is where YOU come in!

Since this is a competition, we are going to need some kind of voting system. So, firstly, you must read the entries and vote for your favorite one in each category! 

Voting closes on the 21st of August at 3 pm so get those votes in!

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Storytime with Mia! You can't fall upwards right?

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Today I will be doing some storytime.

Basically, it's just me telling you some random thing I want to share with you.

Overall, all I did was think of something I like doing and shared it with you. It was interesting to think about the other person's perspective when I am telling them about it.

If you could do storytime sessions, what would you say? Why?

Who would you say it to?

Do you think it would be interesting?

Enjoy!

Imagine you are a spring...

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Today I will be talking about resilience.

Everything will be explained in the slide about what resilience is and some examples.

I learnt that resilience is really important, and that you when you make mistakes or when you feel under pressure is that you should have resilience and make sure you bounce back! I enjoyed learning about it and sharing it with this blog.

Do you know what resilience is?

What do you think you could have more resilience in?

How well can you bounce back?

Enjoy!

What is Resilience? by Mia Yee