James Clear!

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog!

This week we have been learning about James Clear and some of his strategies to get us into good learning habits! Some of them that we learnt about -
Start incredibly small
Start in less than 2 minutes
Improve by 1% each day
Seinfeld Strategy - don’t break the chain.

I will be focusing and sharing with you how to start in less than 2 minutes and how this works. This habit stops procrastination and makes sure you at least start the habit your working on.
James Clear is almost a mentor as he studies and reads about lots of different ways we can get better at things then shares them in an easy way for us to learn about and understand. To read the article written by James Clear about this Strategy click here!


Reflecton!
I am happy with what I have learnt about it and I have also been focusing on this strategy in my everyday life so it has been making things a lot easier for me. It has made me be able to see and focus on my goals a lot better.

Sources!
To find out more about each of these strategies we have worked on click the links!
Start incredibly small
Start in less than 2 minutes
Improve by 1% each day
Seinfeld Strategy - don’t break the chain.


Thank you all so much for coming onto my blog and learning about James Clear with me!
I have found this entire process super interesting and useful for day to day life! I hope you guys all learnt something new and maybe you could share something onto your blog about James Clear and another one of his strategies.
What is a way that you could use this in your life?
What is something you want to find more about that has to do with one of the four topics me and my class learnt about?
What would be the most useful habit for you?

-Maddie 

Matariki Kites Task Three

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Welcome back to my blog!

Back at it again with another Matariki matrix blog post!
This blog is going to be about the Matariki kites and how they represent Matariki and what it means. These Kites are a bit different then normal kites and we have one that looks like a Maori kite in one of our classes.

I really enjoyed making this it was awesome to understand what it means to use these kites.
I am going to be sharing a few things that I have learnt after I have researched all about the Matariki Kites. I have also been looking into the different types of kites.


I have made a short DLO getting straight to the point on what I learnt about these kites, I found out most of my infomation using a piece of text ( Link ) and then thinking and researching further into this. There's a lot of different



My Reflection.
I Think that I have created this very well this is because I got straight into the point and I understood everything really well. I also think that this is a good way to share this and I think that it would be a great idea for you guys to pass on the message about the Matariki kites to share about others cultures.


Thank you all so much for coming onto my blog! I hope you all come back again soon. Did you learn something new? I hope you enjoyed it and I would love to see some of your guys comments!
-Maddie 

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra At YMS!

Kia Ora!
My name is Maddiosn and welcome back to my blog
. Today at Yaldhurst we had a special visitor coming to yaldhurst. It was the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

They had way less people than the original Orchestra usually there can be around 60- 100 people depending on the song. We learnt about the different families of instruments. There is a family of strings with things like Violin or the Cello. Then there is the Woodwind family with Flutes and Clarinets ( squidward in spongebob plays this instrument ) and finally there is Bass with Tubas and Trumpets. They are names these things based of the how the sound is made.


 My favorite instrument shown was the Harp.
What I learnt about the harp. You have to pluck the strings to make noise and vibration. There is pedals so using the pedals you can make evernote ( there is 12 all together ) sound different so every note can be used in three different ways. Finally the strings are all different colours so you can tell what one is a c note or an f note.
 I learnt that the bigger the instrument is the lower the sound can make and the smaller the instrument is the higher the pitch and the noise is.
Did you know that most musicians have to learn to play piano before other instruments for training. 


Here are some of the videos of the music we have heard if your a Harry Potter or Star Wars fan you might enjoy these.

 My Reflection! I really enjoyed this even though I don't usually listen to this type of music before. I enjoyed this because it opened my world into a whole different element of music and how the instruments worked to make sounds. The instruments really depend on the vibration. My favorite part was learning about the harp or hearing the Harry Potter song that they played, It was awesome seeing the different notes the instruments could play and how different note could make you feel.



 Thank you all so much for coming onto my blog! I hope you all come back again and have enjoyed this. What's your favorite song? What area of music do you enjoy? do you play any different musical instruments? If yes how long have you been playing for?

Matariki Matrix Activity Two! The Matariki Stars!

Kia Ora! Welcome back to my blog! This is another one of the Matariki work I have been working on! 



Stars.... but these are not just normal stars but the amazing nine stars of Matariki but wait theres more I have coloured them in and made the stars look like what they mean, If you would like to see this click the DLO below
 


 What do each of the stars mean, Link, Click that to get more infomation and detail about each one of
 I have really enjoyed this on, I feel like this because it gave me a chance to be super creative and show how I see the Matariki stars and how I can make them my own.


I have made sure that they are all represented correctly and that its bright colourful and fun. My favorite star I made was 8. This is because I think that it is shared in a simple way but you can understand it easier then the others without reading about it first.

 What I learnt! Well of course I learnt about what each of the stars mean but to go into more detail I now understand and know how to show what they mean. I now understand why Matariki is so important and how each star shines very brightly.


 Thank you all so much for coming onto my blog, again keep an eye out for all of the other Matariki blogs that will be coming, to give you a clue ( the next one will have something to do withhhhhhhh Kites! ) How have you been celebrating Matariki? Do you have a favorite star? What was your favorite star that I made?

Matriki Task One!

Kia Ora! Welcome back to my blog!

This couple of weeks we have been learning about Matariki and what it means. We are following the learn create share rule to complete tasks and then share them with others to keep the cycle going. First we learn about a topic to do with Matariki. Then the next step is to make something sharing what we learnt then we can finally share that with others to share infomation that we have learnt in a creative and interesting way.

This time it was simple a quick 5 things that I have learnt from the text I have read. I have shared this in a DLO so it is easy for others to understand. This idea was easy to grasp and figure out quickly.
Text I read.


This is the DLO I have made.



Thank you all so much for coming onto my blog! You will be seeing more Matariki post shortly. There is a total of 4 activities I need to do ( the next one has something to to with the stars of Matariki ) Please check them out soon and stay tuned in if you would like to find out more.

-Maddie :D