Health Assessment

Relaxing -

What I learnt:

Relaxing is needed, you can not even realise it, but you could be relaxing. We learnt that relaxing can be easiest when you’re just laying there, thinking about what has been happening today and in the past, recent or not, the best way, is to forget about it for a moment, let it go and take a moment to calm yourself with nothing going on around you.

Why this is important:

Because without relaxation you cannot properly enjoy a good night's rest. Your body will be constantly going and be moving, you could fall asleep at any moment. You would become very stressed and tired which will affect your well-being, both your physical and emotional. When you relax you take the thoughts that are causing you stress and anxiety and let them go. Relaxation can help you remember to be resilient and try to do your best.

How could I use this in my own life:

Relaxation is needed for everyone. I need to remember to take a moment and make sure I can continue my current activity, or if I need to take a moment to relax. I would most likely need to remember to relax when doing something along the lines of studying or finishing some homework.

A snip-it of my previous work:

Body Cues - 

What I learnt:

Body Cues are the signs that your body gives when you're either in a certain mood or thinking of a certain thing. For example, when you're happy, most people will have a smile on their face, their eyes will light up and the eyebrows will most likely be neutral, another example is when most people are angry their muscles tense and their face goes a shade of red, some even grit their teeth.

Why this is important:

Body Cues are important because they can show the mood of a person and how you should treat them. They show how a person may act. They show how they are feeling, maybe even what they are feeling about the current or previous situation. For example, if someone shows the body cues of happiness, you shouldn't greet them saying something to sadden them.

How could I use this in my own life:

I could use my knowledge of body cues to see how my friends and family are feeling. By taking this action, I will acknowledge how to treat them, and the current situation they are going through. 

A snip-it of my previous work:

Empathy -

What have I learnt:

Empathy is shown when you show similar emotions to someone else and relate to their current problem. Empathy is a way of supporting others. Some people find it better to be shown empathy than people trying to tell them it will be okay. 

Why this is important:

Without empathy, a lot of friendships and other relationships would not exist. Not only does being empathetic support others, there are benefits too. The benefits of being empathetic can be showing that you care about the well-being of others, you gain respect, trust and other aspects. This can build a stronger bond between the two people involved. 

How could I use this in my own life:

Empathy is a way of supporting others. What kind of friend can you be if you aren't there to support your friends through tough times? I would need to know what empathy means to support my friends when they go through rough times in their lives.

A snip-it of my previous work:

What Resilience is - 

What I have learnt:

Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from something. Being resilient is to 'bounce back' and never give up when faced with difficulties and toughness in life. Resilience is shown when you take action and never give up, whether it be when dealing with bullies or facing a hard test.

Why this is important:

To be resilient is important, if you give up all the time, you are never going to achieve anything. Getting a job or achieving the reality of a dream, without resilience, you couldn't do either. If he had not been so resilient and given up, Thomas Edison would've never invented the light bulb. Without resilience, we would not have any of the things we have today.

How could I use this is my own life:

If I want a job, I will have to be resilient, I will have to overcome the challenges of having that job so I could earn some money. If I want to go to university, I will have to be resilient, I will have to work as hard as I can to get good grades and get a degree. Everyone with a job, a degree, has worked to get there, and has been resilient and not given up.

A snip-it of my previous work:

Mindfulness - 

What I have learnt: 

Mindfulness I being aware of the things that are being said and what is going on around you. To be mindful is to pay attention to what someone is doing or saying, being non-judgemental and trying to be completely focused on what they are talking about. Sometimes a persons body cues show what they are actually feeling over what they are saying. For example, they say they're not afraid, but they're shaking, as their voice it too.

Why this is important:

To be mindful is important, to have any basic communication you need to pay attention and be mindful of the current situation, show empathy and support others if they need it. You need to see what side of the story you're hearing and what their body cues are explaining.  If you pay attention to what they're saying and offer your opinion on it, this supports them and shows that you care. If you are mindful of others, you can maintain a strong relationship with them.

How could I use this is my own life:

To be a good friend I need to be mindful of the situation my friends are going through, and show some sensitivity. I would need to know everything going on. I would need to be mindful of what I say to make sure I don't hurt them in the midst of cheering them up. I would need to be mindful of my friends all of the time to show that I really do care and have a good relationship with them.

A snip-it of my previous work:

I wonder...

I wonder… 

What is the story of the most well-known Greek Gods?

The story of the most well-known Greek Gods starts with the Titans, children of the Primordial deities, Gaia and Ouranos. Kronos, the youngest of his brethren, had married Rhea, who had sired his six children, all of them, gods, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. When Zeus was in hiding, however, there was also another child of Kronos born, Chiron the Centaur, born of the Titan King, Kronos and a nymph Philyra. While the gods, their godly children and other gods and goddesses before them would rule Olympus in the near future, Chiron would be a trainer of heroes.

Kronos ruled the galaxy during what is now known as the Golden Age. Kronos was the king of the Titans and the god of time. He soon learned of a prophecy, that his son would overthrow him, he found a solution to this problem, he swallowed each of his children as they were born. His wife Rhea, betrayed her husband and hid the last child, Zeus, on the island of Crete. Feeding  Kronos a rock wrapped in a babies garments. Years later, Zeus confronted his father, forcing his him to release his siblings, who had grown up in the stomach of their father.

This started the Titan war that lasted ten long years, Zeus’ siblings had joined him, and when Zeus released Kronos' brother cyclopes and hecatonchires because of a suggestion from Gaia, they sided with Zeus. The newly released brethren of Kronos constructed the three most powerful weapons given to the three biggest or most powerful gods, for Zeus, his lightning bolt, for Poseidon, his trident, and for Hades, his helm of darkness. All of these useful when Kronos and his army attacked, eventually losing, all of the Titans except the two, Prometheus and Themis, who had supported Zeus, were imprisoned in the earth as the cyclopes and the hecatonchires had been. Atlas, a Titan, who had been a major supporter of Kronos, had been sentenced to a worse punishment, being forced to hold up the sky.

Now, this makes me wonder…

What is the story of the other gods and goddesses, the ones that had been there since the beginning?

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanKronos.html

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Chiron/chiron.html

https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/myths/titanomachy/

Exactly one hundred words, with three language features, and five random words.

So, we did this again except we had to use five specific words, each randomised for each person, mine was -

Needle
Gas
Brick
Maximum
Ant

My language features were a hyperbole, metaphor, and alliteration.

Here it is

I was an ant, compared to him. He towered over me, his eye the size of a brick. You could give him a needle, he wouldn’t notice. And he wasn’t even at his maximum height, he still had growing to do. He could swipe us aside like we were a gas. In years to come, I would be retold my own story and I wouldn’t believe them. I took a deep breath and tried to slip behind the group of people, I couldn’t look. He heaved hundreds of huge rocks and moved them aside. He hadn’t yet noticed his audience.

Using five language features and exactly 100 words..........A random paragraph

"She was as beautiful as an angel sent from heaven. She was everything to us all, there couldn't have been a better person than her. She was simply svelte, scrupulous, scintillating I could say so much more.” I really didn’t know how he was holding it together, he looked on the verge of tears. “Do you know what she used to say, to everyone, despite everything, ‘The world's a stage, and we are all its dancers, some balancing on the beam, others already tripping over themselves.’”. He couldn’t hold his tears, they poured as he quietly walked to his seat.

I wonder…

So, for English we're are going to need to these 'I wonder...' blogs where we research our curiosity topic, picking a new one each week, today I was curious about The Cat's Eye Nebula. What is causing the Cat’s Eye Nebula to appear this way?

What the Cat’s Eye Nebula is currently going through is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun will experience several billion years from now. Each 'ring' is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen the projected onto the sky, that's why it appears bright along its outer edge. When a star begins to lose fuel,
it becomes a red giant. In this phase, a star sheds some of its outer layers. A fast wind streams away from its hot core, ramming into the ejected atmosphere, pushing it, creating the graceful colours across the galaxy. In the case of the Cat’s Eye, material shed by the star is flying away at 4 million miles per hour. Eventually, the hot core left behind will finish its phase and collapse into a dense white dwarf star. The central star is surrounded by a cloud of multimillion-degree gas.

Now, this makes me wonder…

Are there any other planetary nebula that can compare to the size of The Cat’s Eye Nebula?

Facts…

• The Nebula is thought to be 1,000 years old.
• The Nebula has three names, The Cat’s Eye Nebula, NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6.
• The Eye was discovered in 1786 by William Hershel.
• It is thought that it was originally 5 times the mass of the sun.
• The Cat’s Eye is believed to be around 3,300 light-years away
• The Planetary Nebula is found in the constellation Draco, in the Northern Hemisphere.

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When will move off of the subject of the government? NOBODY KNOWS

We have been learning about most of the thing to do with the government and more recently

SOCIALISM.

So we have to write a paragraph about whether we like it or not. I'm not particularly fussed on what the government does unless it affects me but, we have to do it anyway.

I feel like socialism is the best for countries. Others may argue it is communism but, communism is a controlling and limited community and can easily become predictable. Socialism taxes the people and others say that this is for no one but the government, while in reality, it provides for education, transportation and other things I have not mentioned. In New Zealand, we have a Socialist community, with communist groups within the country itself, and compared to other countries and communities, we are one of the most stable.

Creative writing

https://www.newschoolers.com/news/read/Flying-Houses-Floating-Sky

Ever since the revolution, those who hadn’t been taken had fled to the skies. It had been years since more than a few people had seen the ground, the few who had seen the ground didn’t come back sane. The guards thought that living in the sky, with no other communication, was punishment enough, as anyone who hadn’t caught a house to the skies was imprisoned or was on the run from the guards. They would send us up baskets of food, with the pulleys, according to how many people we had here. What they didn’t know was that we were all constructing bridges to reach each other, and the kids constructed their own pulleys to share and deliver letters according to where they needed to be sent, all of the homes were in a giant ring, so the pulleys were perfect for that sort of thing.

Some days the loneliness got to us all and we slept through entire days at a time and maybe even more. No one kept a calendar, nobody knew the what day it was anymore. Sure, things can get boring, but one-day things changed.