Hola, Buenos Noches,

I’m Tovie-Jean and today I’m doing an art reflection blog about what I learned in art this term!!

Let’s start off with what I thought the learning was that my teacher was trying to get across to me. I thought that whaea Rowena was trying to teach me (and the class) How to use texture, and patterns and how to use a small colour palette in our art. She was also trying to show us different techniques to use and how to do them.

To achieve this goal that she set for me I added some texture in the clouds/sky and ass different colors to add texture through color I also used colors I thought complemented each other and looked nice.

The art that we used as an example was this :

I think it’s a nice piece of art that has a lot of texture and it shows a small color palette and how to use a small color palette to your example !!

here is my (Unfinished) work :

To do this I choose to use pink and blue because they are very nice with each other and I choose brown for my dog. I used texture in the back of the sky by dipping the paintbrush on the paper.

Like this*

I enjoyed using these different textures in this artwork and I enjoy doing it for something that I loved. I like how we had the freedom to choose what we wanted to do.

I definitely struggled with using the small colour palette but I think I did relatively okay !!

Hola Buenos díaz,

I’m Tovie-Jean and today I’m going to explain a couple things about our brain and personality!

-1 what part of our brain controls our emotions?

The part of the brain that controls our emotions is called/known as the limbic system. “While researchers don’t know a lot of the structures within it, some key parts include the amygdala, hippocampus, limbic cortex, and hypothalamus.” It’s a group of structures in your brain that regulates and controls not only emotion, but behavior, motivation and memory.

-2 why is the limbic system so important to our personality?

Like I said above, The limbic system helps control your emotions, behaviour, motivation and memory and your characteristics and traits can be made up of/using some of these features. Seeing as your characteristics and traits are so big in your personality and play a huge part in what builds up your personality and who you are this is why the limbic system is so important.

-3 how do I believe personality tests can help some careers?

I don’t have a lot of trust in personality tests however I believe the can be useful in some careers. The reason I believe this is because a personality test tells you roughly what your traits/characteristics are based of of your tendencies. For jobs like detectives and cops etc, I think it can be helpful to take a personality test to kind of point out what you are like and wether you are fit for the job.

-4 Do I believe personality tests determine how a person behaved?

My answer is no. I don’t believe it determines how people behave as people can change. Through development people already changed a lot from who they like, what they like to eat, what they dislike for example, so by taking a personality test it doesn’t necessarily determine how a person acts but what they are mostly likely to do in different situations. If that makes any sense.

-5 how do I think our personality impacts our taha whanau and taha wairua in a short-term and long-term way? why?

I think it might affect Taha Wairua in a way that you could change your religion and beliefs. Also, in most religions, there are some things you can and can’t do so I believe that sometimes your behavior can change which triggers your thoughts to change around one of those rules and you might break one.

Anthrax

In health, my classes have been studying death dying and the afterlife. We have learned about different culture’s beliefs and traditions around death, dying and the afterlife and we have learned about the 5 stages of grief. For this assessment, we had to investigate a topic from a list of different kinds of things to relate to death, dying and the afterlife. I chose to investigate a deadly disease and I chose: Anthrax.

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A little about Anthrax/Some interesting pieces of information

Anthrax is a rare but serious illness caused by a spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax mainly affects livestock however humans can become infected through direct (or indirect) contact with sick animals.

• Anthrax is a rare and potentially fatal bacterial disease that most commonly affects the skin.
• Anthrax tends to affect hoofed animals it’s only occasionally that humans are infected.
• It’s found naturally in soil around the world and that’s how it spreads to animal hoofs.

Most treatment options include antibiotics and hospitalisation in intensive care.

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Hola, Buenos díaz,

I’m Tovie-Jean and today in this blog post I am going to tell you about my cultures and how we have funerals. My culture : I have heritage from Mombasa (a city in Kenya) and Overijssel which is from the Netherlands (it’s  in the East of Netherlands along the German border).

Since I couldn’t find any information around what Modern things they do in southeastern kenya.

Hola, Buenos díaz,

I’m Tovie and today my teacher forced me to write a blog post about what I read in Wananga!! Anyway, the story I read was about a photographer named Edith Amituanai. The story was about her taking photos of her surroundings and the people she knows as if they were unfamiliar.

What she did was she stood at the end of her driveway and took photos of the school kids walking to and from school. She said that she had a lot of people walk up to her and ask ‘why are you taking photos of me?’ and she also said a lot of them just smiled and walked by.

Anyway that’s what I read !!

Adios and thankyou for reading my blog !!<3

Hola, Buenos díaz,

In today’s Blog post, I will be talking about Bob Marley. Let’s Start off with an easy Question :

Who was Bob Marley?

Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Considered one of the legends Marley fused elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady into his music and was Known world wide for his distinctive vocal and songwriting style.

How did Bob Marley Die?

Bob Marley, was born on February 6, 1945. Sadly, Marley did not celebrate as many birthdays as he should have. He died of a skin cancer called melanoma in 1981 when he was only 36 years old.

Where and where was Bob Marley born?

Bob Marley was born on 6 February 1945 in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, to Norval Sinclair Marley and Cedella Malcolm.

What was the name of Bob Marley’s band?

Bob marley had two bands, His first band was The wailers and then later on it turned into Bob marley and the wailers.

Anyways Adios, Thankyou for reading my blog <3

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Hola, Buenos Díaz,

Today in music class we learned about the 4 voice types. Here are the 4 voice types :

♫ Soprano

♫Alto

♫Tenor

♫Bass

A singer in the soprano voice group is Ariana Grande.

A singer in the alto voice group is Beyoncé.

A singer in the Tenor voice group Marvin Gaye.

A singer in the Bass voice group is Barry White.

What is yodelling ? Here is a youtube video !!

What is Mongolian throat singing ?
Khoomi involves using the diaphragm and throat to sing one tone and the mouth to sing another one or two. It sounds like one voice singing two or more notes at the same time, both the fundamental base note and a harmonic tone or note on top of that. It is both beautiful and strange with a few notes coming from one voice and a single singer. The bass note from the singer’s throat and the higher, harmonic notes from the mouth, sometimes sounding like a waterfalls or monks chanting.

What is whistling ?

Whistling in singing involves creating musical sounds by blowing air through pursed lips or using a specific mouth technique. It requires precise control of airflow and mouth shape, usually by puckering the lips and adjusting the tongue position to produce different pitches. Whistling typically results in high pitches, and skilled whistlers can achieve a wide range of notes. It’s used in various music genres, like in Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” adding unique texture and conveying emotions. Whistling demands practice to maintain pitch, tone, and consistency, much like learning to play a musical instrument. Overall, it is a versatile and expressive technique in music.

Adios and thankyou for reading my blog 🙂

Hola, Buenos Díaz,

Last week on Friday In science we directed a chicken leg. It was so Funnnn !!

We did take a video But the file is too big so I can’t insert it and show you but here is another video showing basically what we did !! (sorry It’s a link)

https://youtu.be/VDoY_ZOiflE

we got to look and try and find the muscles, tendons, joints, ligaments, cartilage, bones, and marrow of the chicken leg.

First, we had to cut the skin off so we could see the muscles clearly. When I looked closely I could see the tendons connecting the muscles to the bones.

I used a scalpel and scissors to cut the muscles off, and when the muscles were off, we could see the bones, joints, ligaments, and cartilage. I broke the joints to get a better look at the cartilage and ligaments. I also was able to find many tendons and pull them out and I think that was really fun and I enjoyed that !!

Overall I think this was a really fun experiment (except the bit where I ate after class and even though I thoroughly washed my had and then though I had salmonella)

Have a nice day !!

Adios

The Dilution series …

Hello There,

I’m tovie and in science recently we have been learning about dilution and concentration. We took a chemical called

~Potassium Permanganate~

We used a Dripper dropper and took exactly 10 millilitres from a big container and put it into our measuring cylinder. then we filled a beaker up with water (It didn’t matter how much water we had) after we filled the beaker up with water we put 5 millilitres of Potassium Permanganate into one beaker and then we put 5 millilitres of water back into the measuring cylinder.

Then we repeat this process

∗Put 5 millilitres of the mixed water+Potassium Permanganate into the second test tube and then add 5 millilitre of water back into the beaker.

After you finish the process in all the test tubes It will look like the image above.

This was a pretty fun experiment, I enjoyed it very much. You don’t have to use Potassium Permanganate, you could also use something as simple as raro.

Have a good day!!

Adios !!

Hola, Buenos Díaz,

This term in PE we have been learning about Touch Rugby. When we play touch rugby there are 6 people on the field at one time (On teams). The field we played on was 50m Wide x 70 m In length. There is a couple pieces of equipment we used to play for example :

• A Rugby Ball
• Some Bibs (To tell teams apart)

And that’s all I can think of, I don’t think we used anything else.

Some of the rules we had in order to play were :

• No Forward passes
• The dummy can’t Score a try
• If the dummy gets touched it’s a turnover
• When a player is touched the opposition must move back 5 meters (from the ball)
• No contact (Pushing, Hitting, Gooseguarding)

One thing I improved was definitely how I caught and threw the ball so I’m happy about that !!

One thing I enjoyed was definitely watching people have a temper tantrum because someone dropped the ball.

I could keep working on My throwing skills !!

I enjoyed being on the same team as daisy, marvin and james because they are very competitive and I find it hillarious.

I always bring my P.e uniform  and out of 10 I would give myself a 9 this is because I work very well and Participate in every activity.

anyways thankyou for reading my blog !! Have a great day

Adios