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.