Term 4 goals

This term my goal is to be focused in class and get my work done. I also want to improve my time management because i don't always  get my work done on time. I want to get my silver badge as I am one signature away. My last goal is to participate in everything.

I am also going to Nuemere with Mrs Shaw and I cant to go there.

Term 3 Week 4

This week in tech arts we learnt about rock music and its history after we learnt how to play hound dog by Elvis Presley on the drums and guitar. I also learnt how to play London bridge and twinkle twinkle little star.

 On Wednesday me and other students went to Hamilton to the Waikato gym festival. I went as a reporter and photographer. We had an awesome day and lots of people got an overall placing.

This term we have speeches and on Thursday and Wednesday some people did theirs in front of the class on Monday next week I will  do share mine to the class. My speech is on animal testing because i feel very strongly about this topic.

Term 3 week 3

This week in tech arts we wrote our own blues song I did it with Sophie and Sophie and we wrote our song the clumsy blues. On Friday we learnt about advertising and we starting to creating our tune for our own advertisement on garage band.

this week we also took part in a first aid course on Wednesday where we learnt how to bandage an injury and also how to do CPR and  mouth to mouth we got into pairs to practice bandaging each other and putting them in a recovery position.

Term 3 Week 2

this week in tech arts we learnt about Bob Marley and reggae music. during this we learnt three little birds on the guitar, keyboard and drums. We also started to learn about blues music and we learnt how to write a song and next week we will actually be writing our own song in small groups. In maths we revised on what we got wrong i the test and i learnt how to convert cubic measure. On Thursday this week we had the college expo where teachers from TA college come to give us a taste of what we can do for our options if we go to that school. For me I am still deciding what college iI should go to the options I have are TA college and Cambridge High.

Term 2 Week 1

At the end of last term i decided I would like to be part of our school production and this week we started practicing for it by reading through the script and then learning the first two songs then on Sunday we came back to school for two hours and learnt the whole first scene of the play. I am  school girl in the play.

My goals for term two are two achieve my silver badge and be involved in lots of activities. My maths goal is to challenge my self to do the harder work. My reading goal is to read more books throughout the term and my writing goal is to improve my time management skills.

This week we have learnt lots in science this week we made soap we added colour and fragrance to the melted soap and mixed different layers of colour into each other. this week we also learnt about solids liquids and gases and what is required to change their state.

Term 1 Reflection

This term I have learnt lots of skills and knowledge especially in maths. I have tried to step outside my comfort zone and push myself further in my learning and other areas. I am getting closer to achieving my goals.

I have already signed up for the school trip to Noumea and entered my self in the tough guy and gal challenge and I plan to enter myself in many more activities like the EPro8 challenge and Ag day.

I have also learnt many things from the tech teachers during our tech sessions. I've learnt how to make a jersey, how to draw science diagrams properly.

Term 1 Week 8 & 9 Class Camp

In Week 8 we started doing science for tech arts we learnt how to display a science diagram you only draw from one perspective, all labels must touch the materials. Things like that had to be checked when it was marked.

In Week 9 our class went on camp to wellington we visited many amazing places like Weta Workshops where they work on special effects and costumes for movies like The Hobbit and the Avengers. We also went to the Space Place, Parliament, ONTV studio and media lab at Capital E, Zealandia bird sanctuary, Wellington Zoo, We visited a museum about the Wahine Disaster, We went snorkeling and we also went to the Holocaust Center.

At the Holocaust Center one of the people talking to us had been a Jewish child in the holocaust and had managed to make it to New Zealand she told us her story and what it was like for her. I found out that the Germans gave the Jews labels and made the children go to a school for Jewish kids only. I also found out that one school who had visited the holocaust center afterwards collected one point five million buttons in remembrance of the one point five million children who died during the holocaust.

At Capital E we were split into two groups. I went to the media lab first in their we were shown and taught how to create our own apps. Sam our instructor showed us how to make a app and we were to copy the app. the first one we made was simple. There is picture of cat and when you tap it, it meows then you also make the phone vibrate as if the cat is purring. The  second app was a magic eight ball app so when you shake the device and ask it a question a answer would come up. when we coded this we got to make up a list of answers and then the computer would pick a random one. That took up have the day then we went into the ONTV studio at Capital E in there we learnt and created our own mini movie called once upon a crime. I was floor manager that meant the director told me to cue the presenters in our story then i would tell the presenter to be ready and looking at the camera. I liked Capital E and I also learnt alot on hoe to make apps and also how to make a mini movie.

Zealandia is a bird sanctuary in Wellington when we arrived had a game where we had to match the Maori and English names for birds with the correct photo.We scored eight out of ten. Then we went into their display room and watched a video about what humans have done in the past that have ended up in some species extinct they also showed us their plan that they think and hope Zealandia will be in about five hundred years. I learnt that mammals didn't originally live in New Zealand and all the mammals in New Zealand were brought by humans from other country's.

 On one of the last days in Wellington we went to Wellington Zoo there we saw lots of animals even some from Australia. I got to pat emu and it even walked down the hill with us. When we went past the meerkats they weren't out except for one that was there look out. We had a learning session with one of the people there and she let us touch a blue tongue skink. We also learnt what adaptation is it means that an animal has a certain ability or part of their body that helps them adapt to their environment.






We also went to Parliament and while we were waiting for our guide Andrew Little showed up and had a talk with us. When we went inside Parliament we were taken into a mini debating chamber and we learnt the what people do for certain jobs.  

Term 1 Week 6 & 7

This week we started reading of a website for our class reading time most of the reading that we have read have been about the holocaust as later on after camp we will be doing a report on the events that happened during the holocaust. I have learnt that the Germans thought that they were superior to other races and wanted to kill all the Jews to make their country racially superior.

In maths we revised on powers and index numbers also we revised BEDMAS we also learnt standard form where you can turn a very long number wit lots of zeros into a smaller number for example:

first you start with the number 7684000

then you move the decimal point so that there is one hole number to the left of the decimal point
                                     7.684000
Next you count how many places the decimal point has moved to get to its place. So in this case it would be six so the number would end up being  7.684 x 10 to the power of 6 if it is
        0007684 it would be 7.684 x 10 to the power of -4

                               

Term 1 Week 5

This week in maths I learnt how to use a prime triangle. A prime triangle is in the shape of a triangle It is from one to two then the next line is one to three in between the numbers is all the numbers in between but they are not in order the order that they are in means that any two numbers next to each other should add up to a prime number for example :
                                                 1 2
                                               1  2  3
                                             1  2  3  4
                                           1  4  3  2  5
                                         1  4  3  2  5  6
                                       1  4  3  2  5  6  7
                                     1  2  3  4  7  6  5  8

This Thursday my mum left for Australia because on Friday my big sister was having her little baby boy Oliver. I wish I could be there but I've seen many photos.


On Thursday I ad another exciting moment for me On Thursdays I have ballet but on this particular day it was the day that me and the rest of my ballet class got our pointe shoes fitted.my shoes had to be ordered so I can't wait  till next week when I hope fully get my shoes.   

Term 1 Week 4

                                ☺Hello☺

This week I did some maths on estimation because in the test I got some of the questions wrong I did some things on just rounding and some significant figures. I also rounded then divided or multiplied in a couple of the questions I made some dumb mistakes like reading the question out of the book of not rounding the number nine to the number ten.

In tech arts we cut out our jerseys. We started to sew our design on if we had one and if we didn't have a design then we sewed our shoulder seams. On Tuesday I cut out my jersey and design and started to sew my design on on the front of my jersey I have the letter b and on the back I have a cat face and also a paw print. My jersey has a neon lime green back and front. My hood, pocket and sleeves are all ombre and my pattern is black because it shows up a lot better on the light color of my jersey. I learnt that when you sew a pattern onto something you do zigzag but you have to go backward were normally with zigzag you don't go backwards.

This week we started a new writing task our task is to wright an explanation on one of the seven wonders of either the Medieval word, the modern world, the natural world, the ancient world. I choose one of the seven wonder of the natural world the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis in the north and Aurora Australis in the south. I learned that the Northern Lights are In the south I only knew that they were in the north.

Term 1 Week 3

This week I finished my visual language task In this task we had a A3 sized piece of card and on it we had to describe our past present and future with photos and words printed of the computer or cut out of  a magazine. on the back we had to write a piece that said why we put certain photos on.

This week I found out that I have been selected to participate in the tough guy and gal challenge this challenge is a mud run where you go through an obstacle course  climbing under and over things even through a stream of thick mud.

On Friday we started french we mainly revised on things we learnt last year and most of us had forgotten many things. We also talked about the opportunity of going to New Caledonia. I am thinking of going on this trip to help with my french skills and to go somewhere I have not been.

Term 1 Week 1 and 2

 In week one we started on Thursday on the first day we had a school Porphiri to welcome the year sevens to our school. Monday week to was a public holiday so I was in Napier with friends and family.  We had our first sessions of tech arts in tech we designed what we want our jerseys to look like and we also learnt what different materials were made out of for example  the main ingredient in polar fleece is plastic bottles. This week in class we did two writing tasks the first one was our letter the year sevens had to write a letter about themselves and the year eights had to write about why they would want to be a house captain or class Councillor I wrote about house captain.

2017

Welcome to my blog for 2017

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Week 5 Term 2 inter class relay

On Monday we had Mr Mc Cabe for our reliever because Mrs Crowe was at a maths course during our volleyball time Mr Mc Cabe had an interesting talk to us about human greed and his opinion that in twenty years there will not be any fish left in the sea because humans are greedy and just want more and more.He spent an hour talking to us about child poverty and whale farming in japan and how they say they do it for research but his opinion is that they don't.

On Tuesday i carried on trying to finish my work and of course I did science this week we carried on creating our marble run. me and Jess made our marble run of the go through the middle our structure then are going to carry on spiraling it around the outside. We have to think about the gradient of our ramps two make it twenty when the marble gets to the bottom.

On Wednesday we were going to do some maths work on ratio but we were interrupted by the fact that we have to the ICAS science test so that is what we did the year sevens had 55 minuets to finish their test and the year eights had one hour to complete their test.

On Thursday I got to school early and finished my reading to get it in on time i have not finished my  writing yet but are going to try get it done. I also finished the maths that I had too do. We went  out for PE today we did it against some other classes we spit into a year 7 and year 8 team. For PE we did relays in our teams we had one wooden stick we ad to get round a field made of six cones each person in our team ran from one cone to the next  passing the stick o the next person. the stick had to make it round the field four times.

This weekend our school has four days of  weekend this Friday we have teachers only then this weekend is the queens birthday weekend which makes Monday a holiday this weekend is also the weekend of my birthday party. For my BDAY party I am going to adrenaline forest. Adrenaline forest is a series of obstacles from tree to tree. The course concludes of six stages each stages higher than the next. I have been wanting to go there for so long neither me or my friends have ever been there.

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Week 4 Term 2

On Monday we had our assembly and Mr Mc Cabe talked to us about bullying and how its not okay. We also watched a volleyball video we learnt some drills and some ways to help improve our skills the video was not filmed in New Zealand so the instructor had a accent that to us sounded funny one of the drills was to through a ball at the wall and when it bounced back volley it back to the wall and repeat.

On Tuesday we had science our challenge was to  create something that would transport a straw from one side of the room to the other and back we could only use certain things
Equipment :
1 balloon
1 roll of string
1 straw
2 pins
1 scissors
we put the string from one side of the room to the other threaded the straw on blew up the balloon then taped the straw to the balloon and let the balloon travel along the string. We had to think about if the balloon was tipped down it might just spin around.

Tuesday was also my birthday  I just turned twelve I got lots of presents and had a great time.    

On Wednesday we had jump jam in Jump Jam we learnt a new song called freaks the leaders taught  us the moves then we tried to do the song it went pretty well.

On Thursday I had art. this week in art I painted the hill on canvas I also put the detailed lines on the hill. we also had a house meeting to decided which sport we will go i for winter games i'm in netball.

On Friday winter sport was cancelled till next week. We did a test on google form about ordering fractions. we did some group work on narrative story and which type it is. Today we had science we started a new challenge our challenge is to make a marble run that will be exactly twenty seconds with certain materials.
Equipment :
2 A2 pieces of  card
1 scissors
1 meter ruler
1 metal ruler
pencil
1 roll masking tape
We are doing the challenge in pairs and I am doing the marble challenge Jess.
                                   

Week 3 Term 2 Starting Science

Holla                                                                                                                                                   On Monday we started new piece of writing this piece is report we are doing it on animals I choose Meerkats we got some note taking sheets and we had to read the hole thing then select certain things to put on our sheet then start to right our report about our animal we choose. Did you  know that Meerkats are only the size of a ruler when standing on their back legs. We also had a class volleyball session on Monday I was able to serve the ball and get it to the other side of the volleyball court. We learnt the different ways to hit the ball over the net you can hit it with your finger tips up into the air and over the net if you don't hit it hard enough it wont get enough height and wont go over the net another way is to put one hand on top of the other and cross your thumbs over top then hit the ball with your arms just above your wrists. We learnt about different types of characters for reading there are Static or dynamic and flat or round static characters are characters whose personality doesn't change throughout the story dynamic characters their personality has changed by the end of the story.we also learnt what a antagonist and a protagonist is a antagonist is the villain or bad guy in the story and a protagonist is the good guy character of the story.                                                                                                                                                                            On Tuesday we had our first Science session with Mrs Tyson we learnt where everything is and where we can or cant go first we learnt which part of the room is the classroom and which is the lab we only do experiments in the lab we are not allowed to go into storeroom one or two without permission. To get to storeroom two you have to go through storeroom one. We also learnt about P.O.E.W. pronounced (poo-we) the teacher she made it sound grouse  so the students would remember it. P.E.O.W stands for Predict . Observe . Explain . What If . First you predict what will happen for your experiment. Then you observe it happening. After that you explain how you think it happens. then you say what if I changed this factor ad you try that. The way Mrs Tyson gets us to pack up is we have a competition between the classes of which class can tidy up the quickest who ever got the most wins by the end of our sessions Mrs Tyson will buy hot chips for us to have one lunchtime.

On Wednesday and Thursday we did not have jump jam or french because there was a band camp on students from Cambridge middle school and another school come and stay one night and over that time they learn skills and work towards a performance on Thursday night the student from our school that are in our school band take part in the workshop as well.

On Friday we had our second session of science we did experiment that includes a lighter and a teabag we lit the top of the teabag and it burnt almost to the bottom and flew in the air.

     

     

Week 2 Term 2

Monday
Today we did a lacrosse session with Dean he has played
 in world lacrosse teams we learnt some skills and tricks like getting the ball getting the ball in the air and catching it on the back of the
head of the stick and then up in the air then catching it in the front of the head on the stick or putting the stick under your leg and flicking the ball up from under you leg and catch it. We also learnt how to properly throw the ball if you aim the stick at the ground that is where the ball will go if you aim the head of the stick towards the sky that is probably where the ball will go if you hold your hands closer to the bottom and closer together you will probably go further but you have more control over where the ball goes if you hold your hand further apart.      

Wednesday
Today we had french in french this week we learnt some popular names then we choose one of the names and pair up and have a conversation with our pair. Here are some of the popular french names.                                           Girls          
Helene
Emile
Elodie
Lelia
Marie
Anne
Laure
  Boys                                            Camille
Louis
Jacky
Marc
Yann
Alexandre
Luc

Thursday
this week for school singing my house won the point YAY
This week in extension art I got closer to finishing my project of Tolaga bay                                                

week 1 term 2

Hollla WELCOME! to term two of 2016 for my blog At the end of last term our class and room seven went on camp we went to the narrows. Most of us had already been to the narrows before because we went there on camp at our primary school, but it was still really fun we left school at nine on Wednesday. We technically had a mufti week because on Tuesday we had school mufti then we were on camp the rest of the week so that was mufti to. When we arrived at the narrows we unpacked and put our stuff in our cabins I was in a cabin with all my friends so it felt comfortable. Then we got into the activities my group had the water slide first we learnt that if you put your legs to far in the air or two low when you hit the water it will hurt. After that we had a shower to clean off then headed to our next activity. Which was the BMX it wasn't my favorite activity because the bikes were really small and we didn't use the proper track we had to make a rout through a paddock next to the go carts luckily the paddock was full of bumps. then we did other things like archery, trolleys air riffles and go carts there were two go carts we went in pairs and went round a loop course twice one of the go carts had foot pedals for acceleration and brakes. The other go cart had things connected to the steering weel. When Quin had is turn he went to fast round the corner and broke the go cart so we had one left. Sadly for Jess the one that still worked was the one with the foot pedals and she had to have two cushions folded over to just reach the pedals. there was a rope swing in one of the big trees near the water slide. One of the times I had a go when I jumped out of the tree my shorts got stuck and they ripped so I had one less pair of pants on camp after that. On the last day we had paintball we used sling shots to fire the paint balls and the arena we used was awesome. This week First day back at school instead of the long assembly's we usually have we had a porfiri to welcome the new Japanese teacher and the new teacher in room six because the current teacher is on maternity leave we sat there for a while and my leg started to go numb then we did maths and all the normal things in maths we learnt how to find the amount of degrees and the missing angles in a shape here is a table to show what we learnt and how to do it sides | triangles | amount of degrees 3 | 1 | 180 4 | 2 | 360 5 | 3 | 540 6 | 4 | 720 7 | 5 | 900 8 | 6 | 1080 can you see any patterns in there the way to figure this out is find the number of sides say four take away two equals two and times that by 180 so two times 180 equals 360 you d the same with any polygon. this week we had tech arts our trucks are starting to come along and we have two sessions left for wood then we move onto science can't wait to see the finished model of my truck. I also did some Belmont trials this week I tried out for netball I didn't get into the team but i don't mind I can try next year. this week I put my name down for aims games i'm going to go for gymnastics because that is something I like and I am really good at. Au revoir

Term 1 Week 10

This weekend I did rep netball trial sadly I did not get in, but it won't stop me from trying next year. On Saturday I had two netball grading games my team did not win. Last week we won both grading games. This year we are aiming to get into C reserve.