Pink Plastic: Zachariah Soakai

                      Pink Plastic

Hello my name is Armanielle and I will be talking to you about Pink Plastic and what that means is it is a community for gays lesbians and bisexuals and when my teacher had explained the meaning of it I felt very insecure about it because when I heard her talking to us about it I had assumed it meant Pink plastic bags. 

I assumed that it had been all about pollution and the amount of bags we are using I really thought that it was all about pollution so then when she had told me I was shocked and I was so blank and didn't know what to say to her and so then I questioned her why is the name Pink Plastic she then had told me that it was Pink plastic because it is gender specific and then I had clicked and remembered.  

I then had to figure out what is the definition of gender specific I then had a fair point of it and I thought to myself it means having there own roles and all sorts e.g I think it is about girls and boys having there own specific way of things such as clothes colours categories and the way they act and behave themselves.

This article inspired me a lot because we really don't ever get the chance to talk about these sort of things without getting in trouble by our own community or family and it is important for us to know all these things so we don't have a shock and all of a sudden mock them for who they are and it is good to understand these things so it teaches us to not be judgemental.  

Science: Water Cycle

                       Water Cycle 

In science today we learnt about the water cycle and we learnt what some of the water cycle facts are one thing I really enjoyed was learning that the water droplets that fall on a tree actually dirties the sea because the bark and mud from the tree all flows in the sea and pollutes the water.

We are very lucky we have filters and we have the water cycle to help us have clean water and to drink healthy water so we don't catch any type of sickness that will cause you a whole lot of problems and your family would be worried.

The water cycle is very fascinating because I found it quiet interesting I really loved learning new things because it made me learn more so when I grow up I can make sure I know all these things so I can get a qualified job and it will benefit me because I am getting prepared for NCEA and I really want to be a leader in the future and be a hard working role model for those who are new to Tamaki College.

That is my blog post for today thank you for reading.   

New Government concepts:Social Studies

Social Studies Government Concepts 

Today In social studies our teacher said to us no devices out because we were doing a little exercise with them. They helped us with government concepts. From there, we had to remember all the 7 key concepts that we would later have to explain in front of the whole class.

In social studies we learnt about the new government concepts and the meanings of them e.g (Laws is a rule or set of rules), (Rights Something we are entitle to),
(Government the group of selected politicians who make the laws for our country), (Democracy a system of government where people vote for the people they want in parliament), (Electorate is a voting district.

Mrs Apelu made us exercise our brain's by remembering what the key concepts of the leaders all around the world she made us practice it and she helped us if we were a bit stuck because she wanted us to be confident speakers because some of the seniors in our school are very shy and she wants us to be confident when we get to senior year.

Mrs Robertson made us remember what are all the 7 types of Government key concepts she made us read over all of those key concepts and she also made sure we kept repeating it over and over until we remember off by heart.  

I looked forward to learning this unit it was a bit tough to remember all the 7 concepts but its good that I am learning something new and it is great that I am learning new things so in the future I am gonna know all these things.

Freedom Writers Blog Post: We can Change like how they did too.

Freedom Writers

This term we studied about the freedom writers film and we learnt about how we could make a difference in our lives like being kind and spreading kindness to whoever you talk to so they can share and stop the violence and bullying that is happening all around the world.

To be honest I feel that there is no reason to be cruel and mean in this world because I feel like everyone in the world deserves to be treated the way they would treat themselves.

Some people really don't care about the peacemakers in this world and I think nice people don't get enough in this world and I think that we should stop the bullying, violence,fighting,jealousy and all those bad things people are doing in this world. 

We can all make a difference if we spread kindness and love to this world so there will be no suicide and killing but we cant help it it's the people that are thinking about that.

In the freedom writers film my favourite character was Eva,Benitez because she was a brave young strong honest independent young lady she stuck up for someone even though she was supposed to stick up for her own race aka (latina's) she is my role model and I admire her and have full respect for her.

The end:)   

Government: What do you think the government helps with.

The Government's Goods.

The Government help us with W-I-N-Z and social support such as loans and what W-I-N-Z is that they are people that help you with food or clothes they provide things for you to help you with if your a single parent or if your a single parent on the benefit W-I-N-Z would help you with everything that would need to be provided with.

The Government helps with student loans for University and they provide everything and they make decisions if they know someone has done something wrong they will organise a arrangement such as a law case,Home detention,Jail,Court room meeting,Visit at your home or if you have children that you live with can get taken away by the S-I-F-F-S the S-I-F-F-S are people who takes care of children such as Oranga Tamariki and they are a children's home centre if they get adopted or taken away from you they get put into that campaign. 

Why is it important for us to know our culture.

Hello everyone My name is Armanielle and I why I think it is important to learn how to speak your own language so that when you have children they would know how to speak there heritage and so I've learnt that if you know how to speak your own language than people that are your culture when they are talking to you they would know you understand what you are saying and it is very important to know how to speak your own language so you can pass it on to your children and I think it is very valuable and Honorable to know how to speak your language so that when your elder lies are talking to you understand what there saying to you.

The way I retain my language is that I have access to churches that help me speak my own culture and my parents speaking there language I also have a lot of aunts and uncles that can speak the language and if you don't know how to speak the language then they would call you plastic (aka) someone who is that culture but cannot speak that culture that is what plastic means to me.

Community Blog Post Social Studies

Today In Social Studies we talked about Community and what it means.
 We were all explaining what community means in our two groups so then we each came up with our own definitions of what community means to us A Community is made up of  Neighbours local Supermarkets , Pharmacy's and doctors. Each community in East Auckland is made up of smaller districts such as  Panmure , Glen innes , Mt wellington , Pakuranga and Howick so then we found out that community's are Locals that know every street every shop and that is what local means to me and especially when you know that
 community's will have Gang's , Gyms , and some thing's
like a local clubs anything like that is a community so that is how we find out what communities are to us it is pretty much like local Dairy and anything that is close by where you live.