Hello everybody!

Today in music class we have been learning about the Indian light festival “Diwali”, also known as . Diwali also known Dipawali.  I am going to introduce you to Diwali and explain all the important information about it in this blog using the questions prepared by our music teacher.

Important Questions About Diwali –

1.What is the Diwali festival?

Answer: Diwali is one of the most important and biggest festivals in India. In the western calendar, Diwali usually occurs sometime in between October and November. The Diwali festival celebrates the start of a brand new beginning, the victory of good over devilishness, the success of light over darkness and sometimes a great harvest along with the new year festivities. In the southern part of India, Diwali mainly celebrates the day the courageous Lord Krishna triumph over the horrifying demon Narakasura. In the northern part of India, Diwali mainly celebrates the legend of mighty King Rama’s arrival to Ayodhya after his prevail over the savage demon king Ravana.

2. What kind of music is performed at this festival?

Answer: There are many kinds of music performed in Diwali festivals, people mainly perform aarti and or Bollywood songs in celebrations.

3. What kind of dance is performed at this festival?

Answer: The kind of dance that’s mainly performed in the Dewali festivals is Odissi dance, this dance is from one of the 8 different types of Indian Classical Dance forms.

4. Can you find any Indian musical instruments, what do they look like?

Answer: 5 Indian musical instruments:

1. Bansuri

2. Dholak

3. Dilruba

4. Ektara

5. Tabla

5. Add any interesting pictures or videos to your post.

Answer: Here are some pictures that show some features of Diwali.

Diwali lights –

Rangoli –

Odissi dance –

Conclusion & Reflection

In conclusion, I learnt plenty of the Diwali festival’s history, culture, traditions, music, the musical instruments used in the celebration and the dances performed in the festival. I enjoyed this class because it made me look deeper about the musical and artistic part of Diwali instead of the history of it. I hope that in the future we would also have more classes learning about different countries and their different ways of celebrating their festivals.

Resources & Reference –

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Thank you for your time and patience,

Divya

Hey everyone

today we learnt about Roman gods and Goddesses.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nD7Q23zAXDwzJYnyhBSqgCxILjjimzrOZHifq44DjcI/edit?usp=sharing

Google meet recording – practising the how to….

Why is it that it always captures you at your not so greatest moment?!?!!?

Day 2

Another full on day of learning!

Feeling a little overwhelmed with the sheer amount of content. However, I realise that I can’t physically do it all and will pick out what is relevant or I feel will work with or learners.

Dorothy B looking at LeARN Ako

Learn Create Share – are the base boards of out whare that is our learning

Learn is how we create effective practice that engages our learners and meet their needs in the digital world.

Deep Dive – Google Keep. Note taking digitally. Found on google as the light bulb icon

Hapara – being able to work with your learners and not just a monitoring tool making sure they are on the right pages. Creating class groups and being able to work along side students

Gmail – creating an easier work flow. The cog has the settings to change the out look and format of what the gmail page looks like. Being able to star improtant emails and grouping.

The lock and clock icon locks messages so that they can not be copied etc – in settings

Thinking around having a differnet app to open personal gmail so that there is not confusion as to which account you are in???

Takeaway – UNDO button – set at 30seconds. Have 30 seconds to recall email to edit etc.

Google Calendar – how does this work for me in a classroom setting? I use it on my phone but am still a pen and paper girl with a diary and planner. I find this easier to track but have dabbled in google calendars today and can see the benefit of using this especially as it shows google meets, meetings etc. Have set it up currently to show meetings. Will see how this goes…..work in progress.

Taming Our Tabs – Marie Kondo for google!!! Being able to condense or group tabs rather than having several open. The lollypops – can click and drag onto bookmarks. Pin tabs – right click to pin. Means that the tab can not be shut until it is unpinned – great for that ooops every now and then! Grouping tabs, Toby mini, Tab snooze and Workona.

Again a great time to be able to test and try! Need to find some time to clean up my emails and again personalise it. A bit of sand pit playing….

Bonus of the day

Lunch in the sun and a couple of chapters of my book!

On another note…….. Who knew there was a skinny snowman, lollypops and hotdogs!

I’d only just got my head around the waffle!

Ever since we’ve started term two, we have been learning about Roman times, and the gods they had. In class we did work about the marriage, Parents, Where they lived, Name, and what they’re the god of with them all to learn all about them.

my doc

Hope you get time to view my work, thank you for looking at my blog, have you ever learnt about Roman times?

Hello/Mabuhay everyone,

What we did for health this week.

Drawing and Chinese whispers

we did some games drawing on the back and tried to guess them, and the same for the Chinese whispers but you whisper it then the last person say it out loud.

The games went well and we all had fun, but all the games we did are not just for fun. But to also learn how to listen well.

today we learned about listening i loved how we did Chinese whispers we loved play it because we all had fun while doing it

Yestarday we made piklets.

We used

• Baking powder
• Flour
• Salt
• 1 egg
• Sugar
• Milk

First we sifted the flour, salt and baking powder in the big bowl. Second we mixed the egg, milk and sugar together in another medium bowl. Then we added the liquid ingredients (Egg, milk and sugar) to the dry ingredients (Flour, salt and baking powder) and mixed it all together. We got out a frying pan and used oil spray. We started to add little bits of the mix onto the pan and started frying them. We then put them onto the plate and dishes then out evenly.

Yesterday we made some sort of pancakes called pikelets which turned out kind of decent especially with the raspberry jam that we added at the end.

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp white sugar
• 1 cup self raising flour (or 1 cup plain flour and 2 tsp baking powder)
• pinch salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 tbsp of melted butter
• Spray oil/canola oil for cooking

Directions

1. In a bowl, beat the egg and sugar until mixture has thickened and turned pale. (I use an electric hand mixer for this, but you could do by hand.)
2. In another bowl, sift together the flour and salt (and baking powder if using plain flour).
3. Pour the egg mixture, the milk and melted butter into the dry ingredients, and mix until just combined.
4. Heat some oil in a non-stick frying pan on the stove to a medium heat.
5. Drop in mixture. When bubbles begin to form, flip each pikelet over to cook the other side. (Add a little extra oil, or spray oil to the pan after every couple of pikelets as needed to stop them sticking).
6. Serve immediately, with a drizzle of maple syrup and fresh fruit or cream and jam!
7. Once cool, these can be frozen and reheated in the microwave when needed.

yesterday we made piklets, we used milk, baking flower, suger, milk and 1 egg

method:

1. You get two bowls (one big one, and other little one)
2. then you put the dry ingredients but n0t the suger in the big bowl (you suff it, and leave it be)
3. in the other bowl you put the egg in and wisket it
4. after that you put the suger and milk in and keep wiskeing
5. then after when you did that you put the wet ingredients in the big bowl and mix it
6. you put the the stove on to 5 or 6 either one and but the frying pan
7. then you but oil spray on the flying pan
8. and put the battar on it and let it cook for 20 sec and filp it
9. after you do that you put it on a plate
10. then repet and claen up after

Yesterday we made pikelets.

We had to get used to being in the kitchen again and be sure to clean it thoroughly. These are the ingredients.

~Flour

~Baking powder

~Sugar

~Eggs

~Salt

~Milk

We had to sift the flour,  baking powder and salt together. Then I whisked the egg and sugar together until it had a lighter colour. Then we added the egg mixture to the dry mixture, Then added the milk to the batter that made it into a runny but too runny mixture.

Here are some examples of what they would have looked like if we had photos.

Yesterday we were making pancakes. We were making it in 4 people, not 2 how we used to, but that wasn`t much problem. Everything began with salt and baking powder adding to the bowl. Next, in the other bowl was added egg and sugar, It was mixed with milk. After the content of one bowl was added in the other one. After baking the pancakes in the pan, there was made 18 pancakes which were split by 4.5 to each

white – mā
red – whero
orange – karaka
yellow – kowhai
green – kakariki
blue – kikorangi
purple – waiporoporo
pink – mawhero
brown – kiwiki
grey – pangu/mangu
rainbow – uenuku

He Aha? – what?
Te Tae? – The colour (one)
Ngaa Tae – The Colours (more then one)

He aha te Tae? — What is the colour?
He aha Ngā Tae? — What are the colours?

He kakariki te Tae. — The color is green.
He kakariki he kikorangi Ngā Tae, — The colours are green and blue.

Hāro Pro: Ancient Roman Art

so on Maori we did this question and I answered it and here are the question

Page 2:

1. He wheroo, he waiporoporo,  he koowhai ngaa tae.
2. He kikorangi, he koowhai ngaa tae.
3. He karaka, he kakariki, he whero ngaa tae.
4. He maawheroo, he kikorangi, he waiporoporo ngaa tae.

Gloriavale – A woman’s place worksheet

What are the traditional roles of men, women, and children that are shown in the community?

Fill in the table below with the roles associated with each category

At what age are members of Gloriavale expected to start work?

What role does religion play in the lives of Gloriavale members?

Do you think people living in Gloriavale are happy? Why or why why?

Do you think the people in Gloriavale experience human rights?

Would you be happy to live in a community like Gloriavale? Why or why not?

The link takes you to the work I did today.

today i did this activity where we had to research  about that roman sculptures.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wXskUDqom3f9yRgMEymB1cgFxZrp7EZ_XA0Ye8k63mg/edit

In Maori we have been learning to say numbers and colours in Maori we used both to colour in a superhero. To complete it we had read the numbers in Maori and grab the colour that it needs.