The Summer Olympics

“THE SUMMER OLYMPICS”

 

  • The Summer Olympics Will happen in Paris, France
  • July 26 – August 11 2024

 

HISTORY

 

The first ever summer olympics took place in Athens, Greece; This event happened from April 6 – 15 1896 to bring all the countries together in the form of playing sports to show unity and bonding to show love and respect to one another.

 

COUNTRIES

 

There are about 200 countries that are going to participate in the Summer Olympics this year, 2024. By participating in the Olympic games countries and athletes get together and unite to show respect, love and cooperation.

 

EVENTS

 

A lot of events are going to happen this summer olympics many sports are going to be played by various athletes from different countries. Some of the events that are going to occur are:

  • Archery
  • Basketball
  • Badminton
  • Fencing
  • Rugby
  • Badminton
  • Golf
  • Swimming
  • Taekwondo
  • Volleyball

 

NZ ATHLETES WHO WENT TO THE LAST OLYMPICS

 

Last summer Olympics there were 212 athletes from New Zealand who competed with the whole world last 2020. 112 men and 100 women.

 

Men Women

 

Marcus Daniel Lisa Carrington
Michael Venus Valerie Adams
David Nyika Ellesse Andrews
Dylan Schmidt Lydia Ko
Campbell Stewart Emma Twigg

 

EVENTS RESEARCH

 

  1. Archery – According to sport’s history, archery is one of the oldest sports that is still practiced ‘till today. Archery is mainly used in hunting animals and also used in war, until in the 1900 where it was recognized as a sport and was featured in the olympics.

 

  1. Taekwondo – Taekwondo is a martial art that means “The art of kicking and punching” that roots back to the time of ancient Korea. Taekwondo made its very first appearance at the Olympic games in 1988, and became one of the most famous sports practiced by many people for self defense.

 

  1. Fencing is an act of swordplay that has been practiced for thousands of years, fencing is a form of military training that transitioned to sport in the 15th century. Fencing is one of the longstanding sports in the Olympics since its appearance dates back to  the inaugural modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

(ESOL) Reflection

Rhianna Rose Austria   |   10 ESOL    |   March 26, 2024

What we learned in ESOL this week is very interesting. We  read a book about fake news and answered questions in a google doc by groups so we can work with people and improve our social stability. This week our tasks are to complete a vocabulary table and to finish a reflection to post in our blogs. There are a lot of new things that I have learned in this class, I learned the meaning of some English words that are used everyday when we are communicating with English speaking students in our school. I also think that I achieved the learning objectives; which are to learn new words, meanings and how we can use them in our everyday lives. I can use all the knowledge I picked up in these lessons specially in writing because I love doing literary works and I wanted to excel by fixing my grammatical errors and having a great vocabulary to make words more interesting in my writings.

 

Music This Term

This term in music I have learned a lot of things especially in playing instruments that I am interested in playing like Piano, acoustic  and Electric Guitar. I also enjoyed learning how does notes, chords and keys work.

  • This term I learned how to play the piano by practicing, I also learned the different kinds of notes that will be helpful when I am playing an instrument.

 

  • I tried playing the piano since we are having our solo performance next week. I also tried to practice playing guitar and other string instruments.

 

  • For me I don’t really have a least favorite thing when I’m learning music, I really enjoyed it and hoped that I can excel in the things that I love doing the most.

“Diwali’

1.  Diwali Festival – Also known as Festival of Lights is the biggest holiday in India. Diwali is where Indians clean and light their houses to make it look more welcoming for the Goddess of  fortune, beauty, fertility and prosperity “Lakshmi”. Indians also light outside their homes to symbolize the inner light that protects from spiritual darkness.

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2. Aarti – Aarti is the form of a music/song that Indians sing during the Diwali. The aarti is sung to praise the Hindu Gods, where they ask the Gods for strength for the ones singing and listening.

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3. Odissi – Odissi is traditionally a dance-drama genre of performance art, where the artist(s) and musicians play out a story, a spiritual message or devotional poem from the Hindu texts, using symbolic costumes, body movement, abhinaya (expressions) and mudras (gestures and sign language) set out in ancient Sanskrit literature.

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4.Indian Instruments –

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Athletics Reflection

Events Time / Distance
Shot Put 20.05
Discus 7.04
Long Jump 1.52
100 meters 14.4
Beep Test 2.3

 

In Physical Education we did a lot of things and learned, especially in sports. During athletics days we did multiple sports to show our cooperation and coordination to participate in the event. We learned a lot of things and made new friends during the event. Athletics improved our overall wellness and we had a lot of fun and exciting things that happened during the event.

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Year 10 Athletics blog (Legend)

 

Questions and tasks Sentence starters (if needed ) Evidence 
1. Introduction: Write the sentence starter out or write your own introduction about this unit. During the first unit in PE we have been studying and practicing how to do the events to serve as a preparation for  athletics day. We have learned about the correct ways of throwing a shot and discus. Our teacher also showed us the correct ways and gave us tips on how to improve our long jump and sprints so we can do our best when the athletics day arrives. You need to select 3 pictures of your participation as evidence for question 1. Put these pieces of evidence (hyperlinks or screenshot) underneath your Q1 answer.
2. What is your chosen event to focus on? I have chosen to focus on shot put because I want to improve my skills and beat my record.
3. Explain 3-4 pieces of information you learned about your event. Provide links and or pictures to support what you are explaining. Interesting pieces of information about our events that we learned were; these kinds of events will help every single student in our school to improve their  well-being specially when it comes to physical, social and mental health. This event also helped us to realize that we must give our best in participating to make the athletics day more active and fun for everyone. Lastly the athletics let us know that these events are very important when it comes to our health and education, for these events will help us excel and improve.
4. How did you demonstrate respect towards others’ abilities that are different from yours? Respect towards other students is very important,I demonstrated the act of respect towards others by not making fun of them when someone messes up but encourage them to try again so they can do better. I also showed respect by not judging others by what events they chose for themselves, because I believe that everyone can make their own decision and actions.

For Excellence: 

Respect enhances other’s hauora. By respecting others we can make them feel that they are valued and it can also improve their self confidence and esteem. By treating others correctly we are showing a great example by letting them know that treating everyone with respect is a way of you also be respected.
5. Why is it important that you develop resilience when we experience success or failure? It is important that I develop resilience when we experience success or failure because when we succeed we gain more trust in ourselves that we can do our best. However, when we experience failure we get the feeling and the thought of trying again and again until we reach success.

Zombie Punnetts

AIM:

The purpose of this activity is to help us students identify traits using Punnett Squares. This activity also help students to easily understand on how to work on Punnett Squares

METHOD:

1. We picked the parent zombie’s alleles

2. The traits I chose are: Green Skin, Long Hair, Four Limb Count, Shirt and Pants For Clothing, No Teeth, Knife As A Weapon.

3. I decided my zombie’s traits by following the Punnett Square I made with the alleles of the parent zombies.

RESULTS:

DISCUSSION:

  • Gene – Genes are sections of our DNA that carries our traits,

 

  • Allele – Alleles are different version of the same gene. This explains why he have different skin, eye, hair color and etc.

 

  • Phenotype – Phenotypes are what an organism looks like on the outside. It is the appearance and the characteristics an organism has.

 

  • Genotype – Genotypes are what an organism looks like inside (Dna, Cells, etc.)

 

How do we fill up punnett squares? What is the point of filling it up?

  • Punnett squares are very easy to do and understand. There are 4 squares where we will put the outcome of the 2 alleles. On the side and upper part are where you will find the alleles of the 2 parents.

 

  • The point of doing punnett squares is to easily predict the traits and characteristics of the offspring of an organism.

CONCLUSION:

Did it work? Would you do anything differently?

My punnett square did work. I successfully finished the activity and I drew a zombie exactly how the punnett square results described it.

I won’t be doing anything differently because I successfully finished the work accurately.

Drawing in Pairs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1939ooSDmjQT-KYEQ2IzXcxmj9kWKH-DN3d97pNZnHD0/edit?usp=sharing

Questions and tasks Sentence starters (if needed )
  • Explain what the activity was that you participated in
 Today we played drawing in pairs. This activity is done in pairs, one is giving the instructions and other one will draw a picture according to how his/her pair describe the image
  • Which areas of hauora were affected when you participated in the game?
 The areas of hauora that were affected by participating in drawing in pairs were Mental, Emotional and Social wellbeing
  • How were the areas of your hauora affected when you played the game?
 My Mental health is positively affected by this game because I got to exercise my mind in being creative and descriptive.

My Emotional wellbeing is also positively affected because me and my pair both had fun.

Same thing as my social well being because I get to work with people which is a way to improve my social wellness.
  • Do you think that the values of social justice: fairness or inclusiveness and/or non-discrimination were shown today? How?
 The social justice value of inclusiveness was shown when all of the students had their own pair and all had the chance to play the game and have fun.

The social justice value of non discrimination is also shown when all pairs accepted each other to play with them.
  • How well do you feel that you participated in today’s activity? Why is that?
 I think I did well in this activity because we achieved the main goal for this activity which is to learn to cooperate with one another to make a task possible.
  • What are the definitions of our other key concepts?
 PIS are:

Personal – Yourself

Interpersonal – Relationship / 2 or more people

Societal – Community

Social Justice includes Fairness, Inclusiveness and Non discrimination.

Short term and Long term are

Short Term – Less that 3 months

Long Term – More than 3 months

Consequences are the result of the things that we did that affects us in all different ways.

Goals (Wananga Blog Post)

1. My term is going great so far. I am doing well with all my classes and I am getting the hang of activities that were tasked to us in different subjects.

2. The option classes I am taking are Esol and Music. At first my option classes were Home Economics and Music                 but my time table has changed and I’m taking Esol. I am enjoying it now because I have some of my friends that               are with me in that class. In Music I am also having fun and having a great time because little by little I am                         learning certain instruments that I wanted to play before.

3. My goal for this year is to improve my intellect and creativity in every activity I do.

4. I think that the challenges that I might face this year is to practice being comfortable around people, since                         whenever I am working with people that I know nothing about makes me scared and uncomfortable.

5. I am joined in a Filipino Youth Group here in Hornby High.

Water balloon challenge

Copy of Legend Hauora Blog

1. Today we played a water balloon game. We were grouped into groups where some of our friends are not on it. The rules of the game is the water balloon must be passed to each member, if not catched and it fell and popped the group is out, the game will go on  until a group remains to be a winner.

2.

The areas of hauora that were affected by participating in the water balloon game are Physical, Social, Emotional and Mental health.

3.

My Physical wellness was positively impacted by the game because I got to move around.

 

My Social wellness was also affected positively because I get to work with people I am not really close with.

 

Same thing with my Emotional wellness, a water balloon got my uniform wet and I got a little upset but later I realized that it is part of the game and I should just enjoy it.

 

Excellence question: This activity connected all students socially because we get to work with other people.

 

4.

The social justice value of…… was shown when the teams did not get any complaints when we got teamed up, we displayed teamwork and cooperation, we kinda lost but it is okay since we had a lot of fun.

 

5.

I did participate in today’s activity. I feel that I did well, we all did well because we actually managed to do the activity successfully.