Term 1 Week 4

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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.

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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.