Ta moko

What is a Ta Moko?
Ta moko is a traditional tattoo most Maori or New Zealanders wear on their face, chin, or body. Ta moko is referred as Maori tattooing . A tattoo is drawn on with ink, unlike A Ta moko, It is carved with chisels.

Why is it important?
A Moko on the face is the ultimate statement of one's identity as a Maori. Both men and women wear Moko on their face. It is believed that the head is the most sacred art of the body and to wear the moko on the face is to bear undeniable announcement of who you are.

How was Ta Moko applied traditionally?
The way they applied the Ta Moko to the face is they would, dip a narrow blade in black pigment and then tap the blade with a mallet to chisel deep incisions into the skin. This process left permanent grooves in the skin. Caterpillars were use for pigment in Ta Moko

Want to make a catchy jingle!?

Band aid - I rate this jingle a 10 out of ten, because I enjoyed the rythym, the beat and also because it always get stuck in my head. I noticed that this jingle repeated it because it was the main message.

Coke a cola -  I really enjoyed this one because they collected people from all around the world and got cokes from there as well, which was really smart and cool. The message I noticed was that even though its vrom different places its still the same. I rate this 8.5 out of 10.

The warehouse - I liked this one because i always sang this and got it stuck in my head just like bandaid. I also liked how it was short and catchy, and i rate this a 9.5 out of ten.

Novus - I enjoyed this one because it has the comedy in with this jingle, and becauseI always sang this when I was young. This jingle made you think that they were talking about something  else in the beginning but really it just meant to show your crack from your car, which was cool. I rate this a 10 out of 10.

Ten things that make a catchy jingle!

• Use the right words.
• Use a catchy beat or rythym
• Keep it simple
• Repeat the main reason
• Keep it short
• Use a funny phrase 
• Make it easy to remember 
• Rhyme it
• Dancing
• Lots of people 
• Good filming shots or places 

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What am I learning?

In music, I am learning on how to make a catchy jingle. I will be able to make this with the ten things I found that will help you.

How does my work show I am learning?

My work shows how I am learning by adding a checklist and my rates on those videos, because these will both help me to make a catchy jingle.

What am I wondering?

I am wondering how people can make such catchy jingles, and how it went viral, and the camera angles especially.

Making a hazard sign!

In Tech, I had the opportunity to make a hazard sign for the workshop. I took some time in making this, as it was really hard for me doing it on a computer. My hazard sign is about, not to put your hand in this bender, mainly because it can cause harm to you and a really bad injury. This can crush your fingers. I thought this sign was really important because some people may think it's funny to play around with stuff, but that can actually cause some harm towards you or others.

Hazard signs.

Hazards.
Hazards are something that is very dangerous that can give you the risk of getting hurt or that can cause harm to you or others around you

Types of hazards - 
No.1. - Yellow sign -  hazard -  According to Wikipedia, A hazard is any agent that can cause harm or damage to humans, property, or the environment.

• E.g
• These signs tell you it is dangerous.
• It also means to stay away, so you wont get injured badly.  

No.2. - Blue sign - Mandatory - According to the Internet - This sign means, A "mandatory sign" means a sign prescribing behavior. These signs are required to be blue. A mandatory sign shall show only what action is required. Mandatory signs generally use a white safety symbol on a blue background.

• E.g
• Ear protection - You must wear ear muffs
• Safety helmet, You must wear it to protect your head

No.3 - Red sign -  Prohibitive - According to google, this means, It is a safety sign prohibiting behavior likely to cause a risk to health or safety. These health and safety signs are required red . This sign shall show what or who is forbidden.

• E.g
• Swimming in this area is forbidden

I wonder why milk is white?

Why is milk white?
Milk is made up of about 87% water and 13% solids, such as fat and various proteins. Cheif among these proteins is something called casein, four types of which make up 80% of the proteins in milk. The casein protein micelles are typically suspended somewhat uniformly throughout the milk. White objects in nature appear such when there is some level of light diffusion going on and no part of the visible spectrum gets reflected off the object any more than any part of that area of the light spectrum. As you might guess from that, the casein proteins and some of the fats in milk scatter and deflect light uniformly throughout the visible spectrum. This results in milk being fairly opaque and appearing white to our eyes.

Now, This makes me wonder, Why onions make your eyes water?

Health - Resilience

For the past few weeks, my class and I have been learning about resilience and other topics that is based on resilience.  While focusing on those topics there were many things that I found really interesting. We had learnt about 8 topics, and the ones that I found excited to learn about were these five.

Resilience...
What is resilience?
To me, Resilience is when you never give up, or you challenge yourself to do something you can't. An Example is when you are facing something that you find hard to do in a test, But you know not to give up and you try your best. According to the internet, resilience means -  the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

We also watched a short clip based on resilience - Who moved my cheese!
The problem that the characters faced was that the cheese was going away very slowly. Once all the cheese were gone sniff and scurry went to go look for more cheese unlike hem and haw they waited for the cheese to turn up for them. When haw noticed it was turning up he went to go search for the cheese himself, and in the end, he did. In this video, I noticed that sniff and scurry were resilient and never gave up finding the cheese, but hem and haw weren't, and in this video hem and haw learnt that change is good, and to accept change you'll win in the end.

Relaxing...
Why is relaxation important?
Relaxation is important for us because it calms us down from over stressing and having anxiety. Reducing stress is also very important for our health because stress can give us health problems such as, high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity.

How does relaxation help us personally?
Relaxation helps us personally by helping our health. What it does is it lowers our stroke risk and it keeps us safe from depression. It also helps you by allowing the brain and body to function normally and it keeps us from having headaches and other health problems.

Relaxing can help us with many things that is stressing us out. It can help us to bounce back* by resting my muscles and to not over stress, It helps us to recover and it gives us strength to get back up from hard challenges we are facing.
*Bouncing back is just like resilience. Bouncing back is becoming healthy, happy or successful after something bad has happened.

Mindfulness...
What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to fully present, aware of where we are and what were doing, and not overly react or overwhelmed over whats going on around us. Being mindful is being aware of what's around you. Being mindful with your friends you'll need to remember
1. Paying full attention
2. Showing genuine interest
3. Being non-judgemental
4. Being receptive
5. Trying to connect and fully engage

One of the things we did that was based on being mindful with others was we had to get in partners and connect with each other. We did this to practice our mindfulness skills to maintain the quality of friendships.

Body cues...
What are body cues?
I think, body cues are when the person your connecting with is giving full attention with their body e.g, smiling, giving eye contact, posture, nodding. It's basically signals that show your emotions or reactions to how you feel.
The actual meaning of body cues...
Body cues is a type of non-verbal communication in which physical behaviour, as opposed to word, are used to express or convey information. Such behaviour includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.

Coping step plan...
To me a coping step plan is doing a step by step plan and breaking down a problem with less difficult steps. Coping step plan can help many people build their confidence as they learn how to slowly face
something their struggling with or something difficult.

Ways to help us cope...
1. Calm down
2. Remind yourself there is always more than one solution
3. Talk to a family member, friend or someone you trust
4. When you choose a solution, think about what will happen short term and long term
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As I was moving on to different subjects I learnt many things, an example is coping step plan. While researching about coping step plan I learnt that it can help you with many difficulties that your facing with. I also learnt that most of the topics we focused on were all based on one thing or had one thing in common, and it was, when dealing with something very hard you'll be able to recover from it and 'bounce back' very easily with just using these 5 topics.

Learning about all of these is really important for us, as it can help us with our future, our health, and our well-beings. Let me explain how... In the future we are all going to stress about the up-coming things we'll have like, NCEA exams, applications etc, and when we stress, It can cause serious health problems, and we can reduce stress by using one of these 5 things. Doing this it can help to protect us from various Mental health  - A well-being -  such as depression and anxiety, and doing these it can improve our ability to cope. Resilience, is directly related to well-beings, as they're both important to prevent the onset of mental-health problems as well as potentially lessening severity of existing mental-health problems. Just from doing one of these five things it can prevent us from stress and other health problems, which is important for us, our body and our health.

At my age I start to face my mood swings and get angrier a lot faster, and I start worrying, stressing out more, which it gives me head-aches. To stop that from happening I use one of these topics, especially relaxation, because it's easier and it helps to take your mind off of the things that is worrying you a lot. You could use these these in your life when you have something important that has to do with your school, family, work, etc. When you're stressed about one of those things you could relax, to clear things off, use a coping step plan, to help you slowly regain from your struggles, And be resilient, Just know that you can do it, and just thinking positive.
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Here is just the other topics we also discussed together as a class and worked on individually...

 

    

What is Pi?..

( Π,π  )
According to Wikipedia - A pi is originally define as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, It now has various equivalent definitions and appears in many formulas in all areas of mathematics and physics. It is approximately equal to 3.14159. It had been represented by the Greek letter since "π " the mid 18th century, though it is also spelt out as "Pi". It is also called Archimedes Constant.

How is it calculated?

1.  Draw a perfect circle
2.  Measure the circumference of a circle as accurate as you can.
3. Measure the Diameter
4. Use the formula(C= π*d = 2*π*r.)
5. For more accurate results, repeat this process with several different circles, and then average circles.