Term 2 Week 2 2017 Reflection

This week on Monday I went to young leaders day. At NYLD (National Young Leaders day), we saw and listened to lots of semi famous people from New Zealand, such as Trina Tamati and Matt Brown. I learnt to never give up and to always carry on, even if you are unsuccessful in whatever you are doing. On Tuesday I learnt at my clarinet lesson a new note. I also learnt how to play some confusing songs that got given to us last week (week 2). On Wednesday we had Inter-class Vollyball. We ended up winning to room 16, 46-21 (or a score similar to that). I learnt how to serve properly by some of my teammates. On Thursday I had symphonic band in the morning block, Jazz band and school singing in the middle block and Robotics in the afternoon block. At Robotics I learnt how to program the sphero to go through a custom track made with block sticks. Te Wehi and I decided to make a track that both of our spheros can go on at the same time. We made it like a mirror, so the spheros would do the exact same thing, but different direction at the exact same time. We only ended up programming 3/4 of the track, but the track was quite long and had lots or corners. And on Friday we had French in the morning, Tech Arts in the middle block and we were meant to have Friday Sport in the afternoon block, but it was raining so it was cancelled. At Moari (instead of Friday sport), I learnt what a wide range of Moari words mean. Such as Moana means Ocean and Aotearoa actually means Land of the long white cloud. Overall in my week I learnt heaps.

Week 3 Term 2 Reflection 2017

I have totally forgotten what happened last week. But I do remember the maths we did. At maths I learnt how to solve equations using backtracking. I have been taught two different ways... The first method is by using backtracking, with the squares and arrows. And the next method is when you take off the numbers to find X (or whatever letter there is). On Tuesday or Wednesday, we had inter class Dodgeball. It was against room 2, we won two games and we decided to let them win so we could play more. After that game, the next game was close and we ended up getting a draw. They tallied up the points from the games and we ended up winning against them, because we had more points. On Wednesday and Thursday, MataMata Intermediate and Cambridge Middle school came to our school for the annual Music Band Camp. We practiced our peices and played a concert on Thursday night. At food tech on Friday, we learnt how to make Piacattia bread and proper pizzas, with the proper base. Overall, I forgot what mostly happened, but I did have fun at volleyball and tech arts.

Term 1 Holiday Reflection 2017

During the holidays I have been out on farm with my mum, hanging with friends and more. My mum is a vet, so she goes on lots of  call outs/has lots of jobs to do. During my time out with mum we have seen cows with problems such as, infections, scanning to see if the cow has a calve (if not, sent to the works) and more. One thing I found very interesting and wanted to research about was a cow that we saw while scanning the cows. This cow was a Free-martin... From my understanding and some of my  research is that a Free-martin is a cow who is a twin with a male cow and got confused what gender they are meant to be, therefore looking like a girl, but its not but it is at the same time. The Free-martin looks like a girl, but has no udders or uterus. These cows usually get sent to the works, because of this problem. Also during the holdidays I went out to Marakopa with my friend and meet lots of her family. We saw all the flooding around that area. We walked up the streets and roads in the flooding water, which in fact the water was about up to my waist and higher. With out intentions my mum and I went out to Marakopa a few days later to a dog that I had revived about 16 months ago. 16 months ago, the puppy was dead when it came out of its mum (the dog), and I decided to try revive it as everyone thought it had died. I ended up getting it to scream like a kitten, which indicates that its alive. Overall my Term one holidays was exciting and interesting at the same time.

Term 1 Reflection 2017

Over term one we have had; camp, assemblies, lots of maths and we worked on puncuation a bit. My favourite week of term one will have to be the week we went to camp. We had so much fun at camp as we did loads of activities and lots of team stuff. During term one I have learnt how to do a multiplication and subtraction algorithms correctly, as I had forgotten in the tests, and puncuation (commas and capitals).

Goals For Term 2 (and holidays, maybe):
I still have to work on my integers, as I get really confused about sub - sub =... and add+ sub =...
I need to revise my algorithems and keep practicing so I dont forget for the tests to came.
Also to read a wide range of books and challenging books, to find what book I enjoy and gives my brain a challenge.

See ya next Term! :)

Week 7 Reflection Term 1 2017

On Monday we had an assembly in the morning. In the middle block we had maths and I learnt how to understand powers and/or index numbers.  On Tuesday morning we had tech, and during that tech art we made a jersey, beanies, football and we also had the option of making some slippers or is we wanted to make something of our own (little pillow, small hand sewn ball etc). I learnt how to sew a beanie together with little material. On Thursday I had band in the morning. Mr Stanbridge asked me to help all the beginner clarinets because they were puzzled on some notes. The Flutes and Clarinets had a group first, then the saxophones and tennisax and baritone sax etc. came in then the flutes went out to practice. On Friday we had tech and Friday sport as usual.

Wellington Camp week 8 2017

I found Wellington very fun as we did over 15 activities. My favorite activities were; Weta Workshop, Capital E, Snorkeling at Island Bay and Parliment. On Monday we went to Weta Workshop and saw lots of props that were used in movies, such as, lord of the rings. After Weta Workshop, we went to Zealandia and we learnt about all the birds that were getting looked after or cared for in the facility. On Tuesday we went to the Parliament and we meet Andrew Little (Labour party leader), and he started talking to us and asking questions. In Parliament, we walked around with our tour guide and he taught us lots during the tour. On Wednesday we went to Capital E and went to the Media Lab and ONTV. We learnt about virtual reality at the Media lab, and we worked with cameras and green screens, with our video, Once Upon A Crime. After Capital E, we went to the Te Papa Bug Lab. Where we learnt about bugs such as, Mosquitos, Cicadas and more. Did you know that Mosquitos kill 1.5M people a year? On Thursday we went to the Wellington Zoo, we learnt lots about the animals there and my favorite animal is the Otter. After the Zoo we went Snorkeling at Island Bay. It was really cold, but I stayed in and carried on. We saw lots of fish and a few schools of Mackerel. There was lots of seaweed, so in some areas were the instructors pointed out that there were some interesting fish, we couldn't see them because of the seaweed. On Friday we had a long trip home, leaving at about 6am and getting back to school at about 2pm.

Week 5 Term 1 Reflection 2017

Wecome to my week 5 reflection...
On Monday we had an assembly which wasnt as long as I thought it was going to be, it turned out only being just over half- an hour. In the middle block we had a online Astle reading test, which took the whole block. In the afternoon we had Maths then P.E outside. For P.E we play softball and im usually 3rd base, short stop and sometimes pitcher. On Tuesday morning we had a test for Puncuation, and some answers of which I totally forgot what they meant. In the middle block on Tuesday we had Maths, and at maths I learnt how to find the HCM (Highest common multiple) and the LCM (Lowest common multiple) of given numbers. I forgot what we did in the Tuesday middle block, but in the afternoon I know we had Writing, where we have to write an explanation about one of the seven wonders of the world and say why it is and describe what's good and important about whatever the wonder is. Then later in the afternoon we had P.E where again we played softball.  On Wednesday we had Jump Jam in the afternoon and there were some songs that we hadn't "Jump Jammed" too, since last year in about Term 2- Term 3. On Thursday I was out all day with Symphonic Band (Morning), Jazz Band and school singing (Middle block) and in the afternoon we had robotics (the first class for me). At Robotic we had a class of about twelve people and we learnt that 0 (Zero) and 1 (One), can be used to code. On Friday we had swimming sports all day. I found this swimming sports fun, as all of Waikato had a little new add on to our chant. We all sang it loud and proud, earning the bonus point. Unfortunately, we got second, but overall we are still coming first (with house points). Overall this week was the funnest week of the year with swimming sports, P.E and more, other than testing, but we have finished testing now- YAY!