New Zealand volunteer organisations

What I am learning about:

Investigate community helping agencies that are available to assist people within the dimensions of Hauora.

How this work reflects my learning:

I think this work has showed my learning because I have shown that doing things without being asked is a way of helping people out in the community. 

What I am wondering about:

Would people volunteer to clean up the beach even if there wasn't a clean up event organised?

Orana Park

What did you learn today?
The blue colour on a Giraffe's tongue is a pigment that protects the tongue from getting sunburnt and from getting pricked by the spiky things that may come with the leaves Giraffe's eat.

Recount:
I was assigned to be with Denise. She showed us around the zoo and taught us a lot of things about the animals. I enjoyed feeding the Giraffe's. It was really fun seeing their tongue's wrap around the leaves, and also seeing how tall they are was really amazing. I really enjoyed seeing the Gecko's and how hard and easy it is to spot them. We wanted to see the tiger up close, but the tiger stayed in the corner and slept. It was really disappointing for me, but it was really fun to be at the zoo and I hope I would get a chance to go back there.

Stand By Me Crossword Puzzle

What we are learning: We are learning to describe changes, challenges and needs of adolescents with respect to the 4 dimensions of Hauora, explain ways in which you can take responsibility for your own well-being during adolescence, and investigate community helping agencies that are available to assist people within the dimensions of Hauora.

How does this work show your learning?
I think my work has shown my learning because I have explained different ways to show the 4 dimensions of Hauora.

What are you wondering about?
I'm not really wondering about anything right now.

The Importance of Empathy

Empathy: The ability to understand someone else's feelings as if they are your own.

What I learnt:

Empathy Can Change the World:

1. Empathy takes work and practice, and it requires for us to stop thinking of ourselves but to think of others. 
2. Empathy encourages peoples hope, peoples love, and peoples tolerance.
3. Getting out your comfort zone is a great way to make people smile.

"If we could see insider other's heart":

1. Peoples expression don't always show what they are going through or feeling.
2. It's easy for some people not to notice when someone is feeling down because something good just happened to them.
3. People can't always notice when something is wrong with someone.

Why I think empathy is important:
I think empathy is important because, if we could not feel or understand the same feeling as someone then sometimes we could go overboard with our actions without knowing it.

A video I have watched and notes about it:

Empathy is an active attempt to understand another persons perspective their emotions and in essence their reality. 

We are social animals and our ability to communicate and understand each others emotional states is key to maintaining a relationship. 

It is little wonder that the ability to empathise is hardwired directly into our brains.

Comic book superheroes

We have looked at workbook page layout and origins of superheroes.

How the body works

What we are learning: We are learning to explain how the body works.

I have been learning how the body functions. (HAIR)

Where hair comes from:
The hair starts from the skin. There are 2 hair follicle, that extend below the surface of the skin. At the base of each follicle is that hair bulb, where cells multiply.

As hair begins to grow, it pushes up and our of the follicle and through the skin, where it could be seen. Once hair is at the skins surface, the cells that make up a strand of hair, aren't alive anymore. That's why it doesn't hurt when hair is cut with scissors.

Jobs of the hairs on your body:

Hair is almost everywhere. Depending on where hair is, it has different jobs.
-The hair on top of the head keeps the head warm.
-The eyelashes protect the eyes from dirt and dust.
-The eyebrows protect your eyes from sweat dripping into them.

Why hair looks good:
The hair looks shiny because of Oil glands, also called Sebaceous glands.

Sebaceous glands produce the oil that makes hair shiny. Sometimes the Sebaceous glands pumps out too much oil that it makes the hair look greasy.

Hair falling out:

Hair is always falling out, and being replaced by new hair. Each hair grows for about 3 years, rest for a few months and then it falls out. A new hair grows out of the same follicle, replacing the old one. Out of the 100,000 hair on a typical persons head, about 50-100 hairs fall out each day.

Hair colours:
Hair comes in any sorts of colour. Hair colour comes from "Melanin". Melanin is a pigment.

The lighter someones hair is, the less melanin there is. Someone with blonde hair, has less melanin than someone with black hair. Also people lose the melanin in their hair, as they age.

Hair textures:

Hair comes in different textures (e.g. Curly, straight, and wavy)

Hair growing:
The hair grows half an inch per month. Some people can grow their hair really long.

Hair looking healthy:
Washing hair regularly helps keep it look great. It also helps to brush and comb hair regularly. A nutritious diet keeps your body and healthy from the inside and out.