CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD

Today in our cool to be kind C.I.P group we have been talking about Christmas since it is just around the corner. We had been doing some research about what other countries do for Christmas for every Christmas is different and unique.

C.I.P - Kindness Banner

For the last two weeks, we have been working on planning, drawing, and painting our kindness banners. We created these banners to put on the fences and walls of Hornby High to brighten people's days and create a better thought in people's minds. Since we have been working on making the world happier my group and I decided to put the world on our poster telling everyone to spread kindness around the world. We put the words in rainbow coloring and tried to make it as neat as possible. We all thought that the drawing was gonna be the hardest part but it ended up being the easiest. The painting on the other hand... not so easy. We had different ideas for different drawings. At one point we thought of restarting when we already were halfway done. In the end, our poster became what we had envisioned in our minds. Short, sweet, and inspirational... at least to us.

Rosa Parks - Cool To Be Kind

Today in C.I.P ( cool to be kind ) we have been looking at everyone who has changed the world with kindness and courage. I chose to work on Rosa Parks because she inspired me with her inspirational words and brave steps to make everyone equal. She started by refusing to move on the bus for a white woman when all the front was taken. This was on Thursday, December 1st, 1955 when Rosa went on the bus from a long day's work. Her professions were dressmaker, secretary, and activist.

             ROSA PARKS

C.I.P - Cool To Be Kind

For our, Cool To Be Kind C.I.P group we have been talking to the elderly, helping each other and learning the meaning of kindness by showing our values to help Hornby become a nice and friendly place to be. I feel like we could be doing much more to help our community by getting hands in and go to different primary schools and talk about what kindness means and how they could show kindness with just a simple smile. Maybe we could write letters and placing them all over Hornby so everyone can read them, or place some fun in the walls of our home with drawing and coloring competitions. Either way, I think that we could do a lot but we could do more with the help of the community. Be kind to your family, Help do the landry or clean the house. Be kind to your neighbors, talk to them and compliment them once in a while. But most of all be kind to yourself, treat yourself sometimes and think good thoughts about how you look and what you do.

C.I.P - What We Are Doing

Every Wednesday for the past 3 terms we have been doing C.I.P which stands for Community Impact Projects. In cool to be kind we go around and help others, talk to the elderly, and share our thoughts and ideas on our blogs. We want to make an impact on our community and make Hornby a better place to live. In our other C.I.P group, Tane Mahuta. We go and plant more native trees to keep nature in the world and we talk about what we are doing to destroy this plant. We want the native birds to come back to New Zealand by starting to plant those trees that the birds most likely go to. Making our home a better place to be without all the gases and oils leaking into our atmosphere. Help us make our world a better place to be by recycling, re-planting, and reducing the need for destroying our home.

     Helping our community

TerraCycle - Recycle your Stationery

For the past 2 weeks, we have been learning about TerraCycle (recycling stationery) Our Activity was to create a DLO to explain what TerraCycle is and what we hope to achieve during this CIP project.  You might be wondering stuff like, How many Kg do we need to have to make money of it? How are we going to spread our message? Who do you think will get involved? What will we do with the money from TerraCycle? Well we need to have 1 Kg to get one dollar so I am hoping to get 50 Kg to get money for the school. We are planning on spreading our megssage by posting it on facebook, posting it on our blogs, spreading posters everywhere, and setting it on our school slideshows on the tv's. I think that all of our school will get involved as well as those people in the comuntity that care about the envierment. We don't know what we will do with the money but it will come back to the school to pay for something.

Silver Ferns Poem - Cool To Be Kind

Today I have been learning and writing about the Silver Ferns. I found out that their name comes from the silver tree fern. I thought that because I made a poem for All Blacks and I love writing poems that I would write one for them to show how I feel when they shoot a goal through the hoop and score a win on the playboard. I wrote my poem thinking about how they might shoot a goal and miss but are able to get back on their feet to win the game.

The All Blacks Reply - C.I.P

Today at the start of C.I.P we had been shown a message sent from Anton on behalf of All Blacks. They heard that we, Hornby High School were creating a special something to encourage them with their mission to win the world cup. When I heard this message I felt inspired to make more improvements in my poem but when I thought more about it I felt like I had already done all that I could with the knowledge I had. 

THE ALL BLACKS - Poem

I have been writing poems to express how I have been feeling and decided that I should write a poem about all blacks to cheer them on from the sidelines. I always write poems that rhyme because to me I feel like they make the most sense. Plus when I think of a poem I think of a rhyme that has a story to tell. here is my poem that I wrote for the All Blacks.

The All Blacks - Cool To Be Kind

Today for C.I.P (cool to be kind) we have been learning about the All Blacks. We first had to find out what we already knew so we could find out what we needed to know. I knew so little about them when I first started this task but now I feel like I understand what people are saying a little better than when I knew nothing about who they were and what they had achieved. I put all of my findings on a google drawing so I don´t have to remember.

Cool To Be Kind Letter

Today for C.I.P we have been writing a letter to the person who we respect and look up to. I wrote a letter to my maths teacher Mrs, Shehata to thank her for helping with my maths and my self-confidence. We wrote the letters to the people we look up to because we want them to know that they mean something and they have helped us be the person we are today. Writing this made me feel happy because normally teachers don´t care about how you feel but only the work you get done while Mrs, Shehata asked me if I was alright when I felt like I was in a pit of depression.

Itś cool to be kind

Last week the cool to be kind C.I.P group planed a muffty day to help raise money for kids can charity. They help the kids in need who don´t have the essentials that we need. That includes food, Stationary, and clothes for those who can´t afford them. We based the theme around rainbow but to change it up we made it Radical Rainbow. We started by choosing the theme in groups that we made ourselves. We all came up with great ideas but in the end, we all decided on Radical Rainbow. Then we made posters and hung them around the school so that everyone would know to wear muffty and have fun.