Week Seven

Maths - I finished all of the ratio work and am doing percentages work. I have made a few dumb mistakes. I am going to get Mum to buy me a new book in the weekend because I only have one fully blank page left.

Writing - We did a draft argument about school uniforms. We had to handwrite them, but it was actually easier than on a computer. No typing, backspacing, typing some more, backspacing some more. If you wanted to get rid of something, you just cross it out. Next week we will write another argument.

Reading - We have started our book reviews. I finished reading The Siren and I have started my book review about it. Mrs. Crowe said that our summary of the plot should be about as long as the short story analysis (150 - 200 words), but mine is 316.

Maori - I was doing dishes (one of the people wasn't there, so I was filling in), and when I came back to class, my group was just finishing our presentation. I was a little annoyed that I missed, but it was okay. We learnt about a battle between the Maori and the English.

French - We made wheels to show what the weather is like. They are the kind of wheels that are on the shows and games that you spin to see what you win, except smaller and no money involved.

Extension Art - I painted on my draft picture, and again I got Mrs. Dixon to make the skin colour.

Tech Arts - We learnt how to play 'Smoke On The Water' on the guitar, and we were assessed on our keyboard, drum and guitar playing. We got to play on the ukuleles which was so fun because they are so cute and small. We mucked around a bit on Friday because there wasn't much to do.

Student Assembly - It was alright. One of the videos of the week was Kid President telling us that everyone can change the world if they want to. One of the games was Chubby Bunny, and if you don't know what that is I'm not explaining because it's a stupid game that people have choked to death playing.

Jump Jam - Room three (my class) won the golden rock with three votes. We did six routines (I counted), which I'm pretty sure is more than usual. I think we usually do five or something.

40 Hour Famine - I did the 40 Hour Famine with Megan in the weekend. It was kind of hard to cut food and get changed etc., but we had lots of fun. We managed it through the weekend. We went from 7pm on Friday to 11am on Sunday.

Science Fair - The Science Fair Boards arrived this week. I am going to do my tests in the weekend.