The Olympics - Hurumanu

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For a while, my hurumanu class has been working on a task about the Olympics. We had to read a text about how the olympics has evolved , then write down the assigned questions and what you think answers are.

I wrote the questions and answers in my book accidentally, and had to re-write them on a document, but fortunatally it only took 10 minutes to re-write. 

The Olympics

 

1.  What happened in the 2nd century BC?

Ancient greece was invaded by the roman empire

2.  Question:                                                               The answer would be found in:

Where were the first Olympic games?                    -  Information about the Olympic games and where they were held.

What sporting events could people take part in? -  Information about sporting events that people could take part in

When did the Olympic games end?                        -  Information about how the roman empire affected the olympics

How did the modern Olympics begin                     -  Information about the revival of the olympics.

3.  What are halters? 

Large weights

4.  What reason did Baron Pierre De Coubertin give for wanting to hold the modern olympics every four years?

To try and keep it as similar to the first olympics as possible.

5.  Look at the section titled “When were the first olympic games?” and find one word that means the same as appreciate 

Honour

6.  Describe King Nero's personality.

From what the text said, he seems like a selfish, hypocritical narcissistic idiot who thought that the world revolved around him. He seemed like the type of person who would have had a massive ego and riot if he didn't win something.

7.  The first olympics were believed to start in 776 BC, Explain why you think the writer chose the put “were believed to”.

Because there has been some scientific proof, but there isn't any way to confirm their studies. 

8.  Explain why the layout of the text helps you understand the information.

It's easier to find the categories of what you want to find. And the text doesn’t have much useless information that can’t be used. 

Hurumanu

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For Hurumanu 2 this week, My class finished coding separate projects that were shared with the rest of the class, It was optional to share them (you had to ask the teacher beforehand), but there were prizes for the winning project. 

The event was organised so each person had a respectable amount of time for their project to be on the screen, The voting part was designed as if it were a democracy (you write the name of who did the best on a piece of paper, fold the paper in half so no one can see what you wrote and put it in a closed box)

In the end, one of my friends one the contest, and a large portion of the class didn't share their project (including me).

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Sadako - Hurumanu

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For hurumanu, a few of my classmates are reading 'Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes', This book is about a girl named Sadako who survived the Hiroshima bomb, but later developed leukaemia and died, She was told that if you create a thousand paper cranes then she would be granted a wish. She desperately wanted to survive leukaemia while she was alive, so she started to create paper cranes.

My teacher decided to get the class to create paper cranes, so far we've made one or two hundred out of origami paper, my teacher didn't count the ones made out of craft paper due to the fact of those being test cranes and only being one colour. 

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Coding - Hurumanu

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Recently my teacher swapped hurumanu's with another teacher, so now my class has less math, and now has coding. My class was separated into four groups of people with the same coding levels as us. I was placed in the forth group. 33% of all coding lessons have had something to do with mathmatics, unfortunately it's bound to stay that way. 

The coding lessons that we've had so far have been fun, and I've figured out how the basics work, What codes do what things, which ones don't work and my class is going to have more of this subject soon. 

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Japanese

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This term my class has Japanese every Wednesday and Thursday.

So far we've learnt simple phrases like 'Hello', 'whats your name', 'good morning', 'are you healthy?', a few others and we know how to answer the phrases we've learnt with an approachable reply.

We've also learnt some letters and words in the Japanese alphabet and how to write them. I've picked up on the way that words should be ordered, and I'm good at pronouncing things in different languages.

Japanese class is really cool, and I one day hope to be fluent in Japanese. 

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Art Kete

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This term, every Wednesday for an hour we learn a new skill that involves some kind of art (painting, stone carving, stitching, ect).

I chose to to fence stitching. In case you don't know, fence stitching is threading some sort of fabric or plastic though a chain fence and creating an image or variation of words. 

So far, we've chosen what fence to stitch on (I'm planning on swapping with the person next to me), found out how to do it and found some examples of what we should to create. The next step is collecting resources, planning out what we want to create and practising the method we'll be using by creating smaller shapes on the fence. 

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