Maths - I did some work on converting fractions to decimals, and vice versa (and back again). I also did some work of dividing decimals, and I have done the learning intention: 'To add and subtract fractions.' I got a questions wrong, but it was a dumb mistake. I just need to finish my learning reflection to start the next learning intention.
Writing - I finished taking notes and have begun to write my report about meerkats. Reports aren't my best kind of writing, and I keep being confused about what to write. I have written my introduction and have started writing my paragraph on their habitat, but I don't know how to make a report interesting. Is it even possible? Hopefully I will finish writing it by the due-date, which is Wednesday next week.
Reading - I have alphabeticalized all of the words I found replacements for, and I have started writing my analysis of the short story. I have half finished my brief summary of the short story, though it isn't very brief. I have used one quote so far. In my reference book, I stuck a piece of paper that explains the different point of view. I learnt about some new types of third person point of view, and about second person point of view. I never knew there was such thing until then.
Maori - We continued writing our stories about the Waikato river, and made a Google slide-show for the pages of the books. For a page of the book, we decided to find out how long the river is. It is 425 kilometres in length. We have lots of pictures and chose a font to appeal to children. I might show it to my sister when we're finished. We are going to present them in two weeks. It would've been in one week, but we have Teachers Only Day on Friday.
Extension Art - I was supposed to bring a canvas in for my next painting, but I'll have to do it next week. I continued drawing Brendon Urie, and I learnt some techniques on drawing faces. The techniques were first found out by Leonardo Da Vinci. They are about the shaping and spacing of facial features.
Extension Food - It wasn't on this week because the teacher was at a course.
Jump Jam - We learnt a new routine to the song 'Freaks'. Mrs. Crowe took paper and a pen to the A.L.C and wrote down the names of people who were seeking excellence. I hope I was one of them. I tried really hard at the new routine, it was really confusing, and I did my best at the other routines too. I decided that if I put all the effort in that I could, I would warm up quicker. It was so could. I was drenched going to dishes, and I was inside over half the time. I don't know what class won the Golden Rock because I went to dishes before they announced it, and I forgot to ask.
Dishes - I was on dishes this week with Grace. We would've probably been on next week, but both of the people who should've been on this week were both away on Monday. On Friday, the food was nice. There were little cupcakes with icing, a bowl of lollies, lots of nice stuff.
Tech arts - I had my first full lesson of music tech arts on Tuesday. We learnt some new songs on the keyboard and played a few tunes on the drums. We also reviewed the melodies we learnt last Tuesday, though I didn't really know them. On Friday we learnt about blues music and played a blues tune on the keyboard. After that, we started writing our own blues song. My group's song was about my pet, Barry the bee, we stung my finger when I stroked him, and he died. It was very tragic, but don't worry, it wasn't based on a true story.
Science Fair - I didn't have an idea for science fair, so I went on my class website and found a topic. It is: 'What is the relationship between salt levels in water and the ability to float an egg?' I am quite interested to see how this turns out. I wonder if there will be a certain point that there is so much salt that nothing happens. I guess I'll find out.
Last Week's Blog-Post - Sorry, but I can't fix the colour of it. I tried and made it worse, so I'm just going to leave it alone.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Week Three - Term Two
Doing Dishes - On Wednesday to Friday, I was supposed to do the staffroom dishes, but I only did it on Friday. I did it on Wednesday before Interval because Mrs. Shaw needed someone to help her. I was busy for the rest of the day and all Thursday. I was only on staffroom duty for three days. One of the people on this week was busy at the Music Workshop on Wednesday and Thursday, and then out of town on Friday. While I couldn't do it, I got my friend Grace to. Since Friday is the shared morning tea day, I brought her a couple of lollies from it.
Music Workshop - The Music Workshop is when a few other school come to mine and learn some music. Of course, they already play. They were all band students and choir students. I wasn't a part of it this year because I'm not in choir, but I was last year. It was fun. It took place on Wednesday and Thursday.
Helping Mrs. Shaw - On Wednesday, Arden and I helped Mrs. Shaw prepare dinner for the Music Workshop students. We brought a few items in from her car. We put a few different veggies into separate bowls, and put cheese slices onto plates. We also got 250 plastic knives, forks and spoons into containers. We also made sure there was the right amount of plates and bowls (250 of each). Since there was quite a bit of rubbish from all that, we took it and threw it into the large bin which was kind of fun.
Sorting Library - On Thursday morning, Arden and I went through most of the books in the library to find books with old stamps. We went back at Thursday lunchtime to try to finish, and we almost did, but the bell rang before we could. We only had a few more books to do, though.
Tech Arts - We started to do Music in Tech Arts. I haven't done as much as some people. On Tuesday I was pulled out to get immunized and on Friday I was doing dishes.
New Lunch Entertainment - Because we aren't allowed to go onto the grass that we usually play Tree-Tag, Arden and I came up with a new game. We got another few people to play with us, Rowan, Megan and Gaby. I won't explain the rules, but the game is rather fun, and a little violent. I was forced to be lifted so that I would get a penalty of sorts. I was kicking, punching and slapping, but still laughing.
Extension Art - I signed my canvas that is now hanging in the library. I started drawing my portrait that I will be painting. I am painting Brendon Urie. So far, I have only drawn his lips, and they look AMAZING! Just kidding. They only look great.
Extension Food - We made carrot muffins with cream cheese icing. Mine were banana-y, and Arden's were black. They were nice though. I had them for desert the day I made.
Maths - We have begun to do fractions, decimals and percentages. I have only done things on Mathletics so far, and I haven't done them well. I have done several attempts at most things.
Writing - I have almost finished taking notes for my report writing. I have learnt a lot about meerkats that I didn't already know. I have learnt about their diets and their burrowing system.
Reading - I have read the short story and have almost finished the vocab task. I still haven't started any of the other tasks, though. I will start them next week.
Maori - We are writing a story about the Waikato river. I am in a group with Megan, Hadlee, Caitlyn, and Sophie J. We are still working on it.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Week two of term two
Lacrosse: We did some lacrosse skills with a guy from Waikato Lacrosse named Dean. He taught us some tricks, how to throw and catch, how to run and how to pick the ball up from the ground. After we learnt all of the skills, we played a game.
Tech arts: In Science we learnt how to test the pH of a substance using litmus paper and a universal indicator. If you dip the blue water in and it stays blue, it is a base, and if it turns red, it is an acid. If you dip the red litmus in and it stays red, it is an acid, and if it turns blue, it is a base. With the universal indicator (yellow), you dip it in and check what colour After that we made bath bombs. I have already used mine. We did a test in the final lesson about what we had learnt, and then we made really sour sherbet.
French: In French we learnt a lot more words. We learnt the numbers 20-39, the days of the week and the months of the year. The numbers are (in order) vingt, vingt et un, vingt-deux, vingt-trois, vingt-quatre, vingt-cinq, vingt-six, vingt-sept, vingt-hiut, vingt-nerf, trente, trente et un, trente-deux, etc. Twenty-one and thirty-one are odd because they are 'twenty and one' and 'thirty and one', where the others translate to 'twenty-two' etc. The days are (Monday to Sunday) Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi and Dimanche. Sunday is different because it has 'day' first. The months are (in order) Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin, Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre and Decembre. The last four end the same, and the first two are quite similar.
Maths: We got our geometry test back, and I made some dumb mistakes. We are going to start fractions, decimals and percentages next. We will do a pretest next week, so I hope I can remember some stuff from last year.
Writing: We finished editing and did peer assessments for the place descriptions. The next piece of writing we are doing will be report writing, and I'm doing my report on meerkats. We will read some information about our chosen animal, take notes and then write the report using nothing but the notes (and a computer).
Reading: We have started doing a short story analysis, but I haven't done anything yet. My group is doing the short story 'The very old man with enormous wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. We have to analyse the text, write a page about the text and find words to replace the ones we don't understand.
Tech arts: In Science we learnt how to test the pH of a substance using litmus paper and a universal indicator. If you dip the blue water in and it stays blue, it is a base, and if it turns red, it is an acid. If you dip the red litmus in and it stays red, it is an acid, and if it turns blue, it is a base. With the universal indicator (yellow), you dip it in and check what colour After that we made bath bombs. I have already used mine. We did a test in the final lesson about what we had learnt, and then we made really sour sherbet.
French: In French we learnt a lot more words. We learnt the numbers 20-39, the days of the week and the months of the year. The numbers are (in order) vingt, vingt et un, vingt-deux, vingt-trois, vingt-quatre, vingt-cinq, vingt-six, vingt-sept, vingt-hiut, vingt-nerf, trente, trente et un, trente-deux, etc. Twenty-one and thirty-one are odd because they are 'twenty and one' and 'thirty and one', where the others translate to 'twenty-two' etc. The days are (Monday to Sunday) Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi and Dimanche. Sunday is different because it has 'day' first. The months are (in order) Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin, Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre and Decembre. The last four end the same, and the first two are quite similar.
Maths: We got our geometry test back, and I made some dumb mistakes. We are going to start fractions, decimals and percentages next. We will do a pretest next week, so I hope I can remember some stuff from last year.
Writing: We finished editing and did peer assessments for the place descriptions. The next piece of writing we are doing will be report writing, and I'm doing my report on meerkats. We will read some information about our chosen animal, take notes and then write the report using nothing but the notes (and a computer).
Reading: We have started doing a short story analysis, but I haven't done anything yet. My group is doing the short story 'The very old man with enormous wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. We have to analyse the text, write a page about the text and find words to replace the ones we don't understand.
Friday, May 6, 2016
Week one of term two (and a catch up for last term)
Hey. I know that I haven't written in a while, so I'll just give a brief summary of the interesting things that have happened.
Catch Up For Term One:
While my class was on camp, I was in room one. I was in charge of everything that my class usually does. I did the dishes and Chromebooks with some other students from room one. I mostly did maths the whole time, other than when I did Extension Art and pubertal change. I felt quite lonely at break times, but I hung out with some of my friends who are in room one.
We did pubertal change. I think that's all I have to say.
In Extension Art, I nearly finished my canvas. I spent one whole lesson trying to find the correct colour, and when I did, I had to make more, but the bell rang before I could. It was very disappointing. I touched up the grass/dirt area, and I think it looks pretty alright.
On Friday, in the second week of Easter, ten year eight Extension Art students, including me, went to Visual Arts Day at Hamilton Junior High. We were taken to separate stations where we spent the whole day making art projects. I was at the screen printing station. This is how to do it (1 colour picture):
1. Sketch some basic drawings onto A4 paper until you come up with something you are happy with.
2. Get a clear plastic A4 sheet and trace your drawing on with a Sharpie.
3. Cut out your tracing with a scalpel to make the stencil, using a place mat so you don't scratch the table.
4. Tape your stencil to framed mesh, using paper to cover the other spots that you don't want paint, and make sure you do it on the right side.
5. Put paint onto the mesh and spread it out using paper to test it. Keep doing this until you are happy, then do it on your top.
6. Heat dry the paint, and your done!
Back To Term Two:
I joined the school Magazine team for 2016. I will be in charge of the class photo pages. The other people are Rowan, Arden and Cheng-Yu.
In Extension Art, I painted over the snow and bottom of the mountain. I just need to one more thing, but I forgot what it is. The next project that we will be doing is portraits of other people. Next week I will do the last thing on my canvas and bring a photo of the person that I want to paint, but I don't know who it is yet. I have to provide my own canvas, though.
We started to do some stuff for the Science Fair, like research, starting our log books, and learning about it. I have already got an idea about what I might do. I have started doing some research and I have a few entries in my log book.
We watched the Brain Inquiry Presentations. My group wasn't ready on time, so we had to present it on Friday instead of Monday like everyone else. It was okay though. The other presentations were quite interesting, but some of them needed editing.
I am in the Extension Food group for this term, along with nine other lucky students. There are certain classes each term, and this term it is room one, room two, room three (my class), room fifteen and room sixteen. It will be on every Thursday afternoon that there isn't a Student Assembly, like this week. We made Focaccia Bread, which is just fancy bread. The next thing that we are going to make will probably be Sticky Date Pudding, or just Sticky Pudding if you don't like dates. I don't.
I am nearly finished editing my Place Description writing, which is due next Wednesday. There were lots of mistakes, but I fixed most of them.
Mike King, a famous Kiwi comedian, came to school to talk about depression, drug addiction and alcohol, and his experience with all of them. Even though it doesn't sound like a nice topic, he made it funny, seeing a his professional job was making people laugh. He was really weird, so weird that it sometimes annoyed me.
We got a new Japanese teacher called Etsko. We had a powhiri. Sadly, I'm no longer doing Japanese.
Okay, that's all I'm going to write. I'll write again next week. Bye.
Catch Up For Term One:
While my class was on camp, I was in room one. I was in charge of everything that my class usually does. I did the dishes and Chromebooks with some other students from room one. I mostly did maths the whole time, other than when I did Extension Art and pubertal change. I felt quite lonely at break times, but I hung out with some of my friends who are in room one.
We did pubertal change. I think that's all I have to say.
In Extension Art, I nearly finished my canvas. I spent one whole lesson trying to find the correct colour, and when I did, I had to make more, but the bell rang before I could. It was very disappointing. I touched up the grass/dirt area, and I think it looks pretty alright.
On Friday, in the second week of Easter, ten year eight Extension Art students, including me, went to Visual Arts Day at Hamilton Junior High. We were taken to separate stations where we spent the whole day making art projects. I was at the screen printing station. This is how to do it (1 colour picture):
1. Sketch some basic drawings onto A4 paper until you come up with something you are happy with.
2. Get a clear plastic A4 sheet and trace your drawing on with a Sharpie.
3. Cut out your tracing with a scalpel to make the stencil, using a place mat so you don't scratch the table.
4. Tape your stencil to framed mesh, using paper to cover the other spots that you don't want paint, and make sure you do it on the right side.
5. Put paint onto the mesh and spread it out using paper to test it. Keep doing this until you are happy, then do it on your top.
6. Heat dry the paint, and your done!
Back To Term Two:
I joined the school Magazine team for 2016. I will be in charge of the class photo pages. The other people are Rowan, Arden and Cheng-Yu.
In Extension Art, I painted over the snow and bottom of the mountain. I just need to one more thing, but I forgot what it is. The next project that we will be doing is portraits of other people. Next week I will do the last thing on my canvas and bring a photo of the person that I want to paint, but I don't know who it is yet. I have to provide my own canvas, though.
We started to do some stuff for the Science Fair, like research, starting our log books, and learning about it. I have already got an idea about what I might do. I have started doing some research and I have a few entries in my log book.
We watched the Brain Inquiry Presentations. My group wasn't ready on time, so we had to present it on Friday instead of Monday like everyone else. It was okay though. The other presentations were quite interesting, but some of them needed editing.
I am in the Extension Food group for this term, along with nine other lucky students. There are certain classes each term, and this term it is room one, room two, room three (my class), room fifteen and room sixteen. It will be on every Thursday afternoon that there isn't a Student Assembly, like this week. We made Focaccia Bread, which is just fancy bread. The next thing that we are going to make will probably be Sticky Date Pudding, or just Sticky Pudding if you don't like dates. I don't.
I am nearly finished editing my Place Description writing, which is due next Wednesday. There were lots of mistakes, but I fixed most of them.
Mike King, a famous Kiwi comedian, came to school to talk about depression, drug addiction and alcohol, and his experience with all of them. Even though it doesn't sound like a nice topic, he made it funny, seeing a his professional job was making people laugh. He was really weird, so weird that it sometimes annoyed me.
We got a new Japanese teacher called Etsko. We had a powhiri. Sadly, I'm no longer doing Japanese.
Okay, that's all I'm going to write. I'll write again next week. Bye.
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