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.