Today instead of swimming (because of my uterus) I had to do my “Water Safety” slides, specifically the second slide.

This slide made me save a copy of a slide of statistics, each graph showed the rates of drowning victims in NZ.

The first slide was about the percentages of drownings per each different ethnicity, e.g NZ European, Māori, Other.

The second slide was the percentages of drownings per each age group. (spoiler alert, 45-54 yr olds have the most drownings)

And the last slide was the percentages of drownings in each month. (2018-19)

From this information, I had to write at least 3 statements per slide, 1 statement from each slide included: Pacific peoples have lesser drownings than the Māori, no children under 4 have drowned, nobody drowned in September.

Judging from this information, the water safety regarding children is pretty good, (imo) there were only around 7 deaths coming from 5-24 year olds, the water safety for 25+ is a different story however, the statistics show that roughly 26 people 25+ died, which is almost 4x the amount compared to the 24 and under.

In my opinion, I think people should get more swimming lessons and common sense because, if 25+ had more of that, they’d know what they can and cannot handle while in the water.

Do you know somebody that has drowned?

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Link to my slides

For the past few weeks, I have been learning about how to make a how to for a writing test, (that happened to be today) I have also been slowly creating a poster to show my learning. It’s title is, ‘How To Draw an Anime Head By Natalija Caran‘.

In this poster I was supposed to include,

• Time connectives
• Adverbs
• And imperative verbs

For those of you that don’t know, time connectives are words like: Then, first, second, after, next.

Adverbs are words that describe verbs, like: Slowly, carefully, politely, quietly, quickly.

And imperative verbs are ‘bossy’ verbs, they tell you what you have to do, words like: Put, stir, mix, beat, draw, pour.

Of those categories, I had one time connective: Lastly.

Three adverbs: Carefully, politely, cutely.

And one imperative verb: Draw.

I found this work a bit difficult because it was hard to choose what to do, and also where to put time connectives, adverbs, and imperative verbs. I feel like I could’ve done better, like putting more time connectives, since I learnt about that a lot at the start. I also feel like I put too much effort into the coloring and presentation rather than the content.

What are your hobbies?

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Today in dry land swimming I did an activity surrounding the topic “drowning”, from Jan 2012 – Dec 2022 there have been 797 preventable deaths which isn’t great considering we literally live on an island, compared to a landlocked country.

Because of this, there’s some things you need to remember when in, on, or around water.

1. When at the beach, I should swim between the flags
2. When at the pool, I should walk instead of running
3. If I know I’m not very strong of a swimmer, I should stick close to the shore

Did you know that 85.5% of drowning victims are male? And that most drowning victims are also NZ Europeans?

One thing I think is important to remember is to always listen to the lifeguards and be alert, since I have horrible hearing.

Do you enjoy swimming?

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Today I stayed in from swimming for reasons..

My teacher taught my classmates and I about beach safety, like how to keep safe at the pool/beach and what to do in a rip/if you’re in danger.

The types of waves you can find at the beach are:

Plunging waves, this type of wave can grow quickly and smash down just as hard. They can be powerful and dangerous to swimmers.

Surging waves, this type of wave occurs when there’s deep water close to shore around rocks. They don’t grow to an impressive height, but can set off powerful currents able to injure people.

Shore-break waves, this type of wave is a strong, plunging type of wave that break on the shore. They can be quite dangerous when entering or exiting, or while playing in shallow water.

Fun facts: Did you know there are seven types of breaking waves? The largest wave ridden was about 86 feet tall, ridden by Sebastian Steudtner.

One thing that I should remember while at the beach is apply sunscreen, I don’t do this very often so it should be imperative that I do anytime I swim at the beach.

Do you like to surf at the beach?

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Last Friday I did my experiment, my experiment was What Freezes Faster?

In my experiment I had 3x cups of water at different temperatures, one cold, one warm, and one hot. I (Whaea) had to put the three cups into the freezer and waited roughly an hour for all three cups to freeze, I would check on them every twenty minutes.

In the first twenty minutes the cups started to freeze, the sides were freezing and I noticed the cup of cold water was starting to freeze over.

In the next (a little over) twenty minutes the cup of cold water had frozen COMPLETELY, the warm was freezing as well and the hot still had a long way to go.

In the last twenty minutes they had all frozen, according to prior knowledge I made the conclusion that the cup of warm water had frozen, then the cup of hot water.

I thought this experience was enjoyable and I would do it again (however I’d like to do it with a partner next time), 10/10 from me.

Do you like science?

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(Experiment slides)

Today in maths I learnt about the different types of triangles, triangles such as obtuse, right triangle, and equilateral triangle.

On each slide, I had to define and name each type of triangle as best as I could. On the first slide however, I decided it’d be a great idea to put a picture of a grandma behind my work. So on the off chance that you have access to my slides, it’s there.

An example of a type of triangle: This is a Right angle triangle, it’s called a “right angle triangle” because it has a right angle.

Personally my favorite triangle is the “acute triangle”, because I like the name, an acute triangle is a triangle that has an acute angle (an angle which is less than 90°).

I found this work to be difficult, because I didn’t know what a lot of the triangles were. I had to look at different sources of information to be able to define them.

Here’s a link to my slides

What do you like about geometry?

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(Sorry for the lazy one today, my bad! TwT)

Today in DMIC I had to sort random shapes by gEoMeTrIc TeRmS!

I got sorted into a three person group with Makaia, Travis, and I.

Firstly we put labels on the book such as, parallelogram, hexagon, triangle, etc. Then Whaea Jazz said to pick a random shape and take turns grouping shapes together based on geometric similarities. E.g a trapezoid and a square are together because they’re both quadrilaterals.

After we finished DMIC, I got an independent task that included sticks. My friend Zyah said that we (Zyah, Makaia, and I) needed 16 sticks so we grabbed, 16 sticks.

One of the questions was, “create a square with your sticks, how many did you use?” and other questions like that. Then there was this one question which was like, “create a 2×2 large square using your sticks, how many did you use? Why’s there less?” I quickly figured it out by taking my friend’s sticks to put the inside lines for the invisible squares. There ended up being 8 sticks (minus the additional inside sticks).

Then we drew some boxes and a rectangle (for some reason). After that I just wasted the rest of the lesson away by drawing some AwESoME cATs!!

Do you like geometry? Why? or why not?

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Today I had to create a slide deck about geometric terms, such as 2D shapes, polygons, etc.

Here’s a list of terms I already know from previous lessons.

2D, 3D, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, square, angles, heptagon, acute angle, obtuse angle, rhombus, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon.

And a list of terms I learnt this time.

Kite, plane shapes, regular polygon, irregular polygon, congruent shapes, similar shapes, scalene triangle, isosceles triangle, equilateral triangle, right angle triangle, and isosceles trapezoid.

I found these new terms that I’ve learnt quite surprising, especially the “kite” one.

My favorite new term would be the irregular polygon, as it looks really funny on google images.

Lastly I had to explain the “properties of shapes”, which was VERY confusing, I barely understood anything I read online about it. THIS was my least favorite part. I ended up just copying the first thing I saw on google.

Here’s the link to my slides.

What do you like/dislike about geometry?

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Today I learnt about science and atoms (as well as other cool things!)

In an atom, there are several components that make up these little things.

-Nucleus, its the collection of spheres in the middle

-Protons, they make up part of the atom (represented as a +/positive)

-Neutrons, they also make up part of the atom (represented as a -/negative)

-Electrons, they “sit” on the outside of the nucleus

During the science class, I made an atom (don’t worry, about big as your palm). Here’s a picture of it!

Atoms are the things that make up everything, your mom, your dad, chairs, stars, the atmosphere, anything you can name is made up of atoms, even deez nuts are made of atoms.

We also learnt about other things! We met this scientist guy, he and this woman explained how they studied at the same university as the guy on the dollar bill. He showed this picture of him in Antarctica laying by a seal, on the left showed how him and the seal were the same temperature, and on the right just showed the original picture.

He taught us about forces and cool magnetic stuff (related to forces), and then he brought out *liquid nitrogen* which is also called dry ice! So he did this thing where he put a balloon into a little container then he put the dry ice on it and it FROZE!! Then Alequa (the assistant volunteer) pulled out the balloon and shook it till it retained its original state. Kewl.

At the end, he got the dry ice again and showed us this 2000 year old contraption thing and explained how it works and who made it. He put the dry ice inside, let it spin, then put the cap on which started steaming everywhere and making loud booming noises, giving the illusion that it’ll explode! It freaked me out SO much that I used Zyah as a human shield (we had to stand back for that one).

Do you like science?

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(Here’s a new picture from the Science Road Show!)

Today I learnt about polygons (yaaayyy).

Polygons are shapes that have multiple sides, straight lines, is closed, and has no intersecting lines.

Some examples of polygons are triangles, octagons, and squares.

Here’s the link to polygons slides

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(It’s short today because I’m sick, sorry TwT)