Week 1 Term 3 2017

Since Mrs Crowe has had a bit of a hearing issue, Mr McCab is teaching us this week. I totally forgot what we did last week, but I definitely remember that every single afternoon we did Cross Country practice. Our cross country course is 3km long roughly. We have one course that is similar to the real one, but it has a few short cuts. This course is about 1.5km. For our practices, we can either do the 1.5km course or a do the course twice which would be 3km long. On Tuesday we started our new tech arts, in this next tech art round we will be doing the Music tech. At this session of music we listened to some music and learnt how to recognize the different music by finding the different instruments and beats played in it. I forgot what we did the rest of the week, but I do know those above for sure

Week 7 Term 2 2017 Reflection

On Monday morning, we had assembly. Assembly was about one hour long, and we got some news back abut Mr Graham. About two-three weeks ago, Mr Graham was teaching a gymnast group, when Mr Graham and some other people were doing a flip competition. And since Mr Graham used to be a Gymnast, he tried to do a double front flip. He landed on his neck and had to go to hospital for the weekend. Mr Graham is at his house now resting and Mr Monk is back and teaching wood work while he is gone. Anyway, we got news about him saying that he is back at his house resting and he will hopefully be back at school next term.we had English, at English we learnt how to use comma's in the correct places in different wording of sentences. In this task we just had a bit of  test, and the people who got it all correct last week when we did another test, didn't have to do it. Unfortunately, that wasn't me, but I know that I'm not that good at English and I always take a while to get what ever it is locked in my head. In the afternoon of Monday, we had P.E, we were meant to do it in the A.L.C, but we decided to do it outside. We ended up playing soccer/football. Although we didn't have a ref or any actual boundaries, we still had fun. I feel some of the teams were uneven with the people that played soccer and people that didn't; therefore, the opposition team got quite a lot of goals and we didn't.

On Tuesday morning we had tech arts. In this tech art we are doing food tech. On July 23rd (Friday week 8) we are doing a food cafe for the parents and some teachers. At the food cafe our theme is "Healthy Cafe", for the Healthy Cafe I'm making either a Banana loaf or a Vanilla cake with a chocolate swirl in the middle with some strawberry's and toppings on top. During the tech art on Tuesday morning we were making up a recipe for a food product we are making. I made a few little banana/chocolate puddings, for the Healthy cafe, after I tasted my product, I was not happy as the texture was wrong and it tasted funny. So I will not be making that for the Cafe. In the middle block we had Maths, at Maths I was ahead of my group by about four learning intentions. I went onto the mat with the rest of my group and for me it was revising (cause I had done it) and for the rest of the group it was learning. On the mat we revised and learnt how to find the simplest form, for example...   10/30= 1/3,  50/100=5/10=1/2 etc.
We also revised and learnt how to find the equivalent fraction. An equivalent fraction is a fraction the same as another fraction, for example... 1/2= 2/4=10/20=1000/2000 etc. And... 3/9=6/18=9/27 etc.
In the afternoon I forgot what we did, but after school I had my Clarinet lesson. At my Clarinet lesson we didn't do much other than run through some of the songs and scales we have recently learnt. Straight after Clarinet (3:30pm) I had my BMX training. At training I learnt how to jump part of the triple on the last straight and some new technics when it comes to cutting riders off in the corners and on the straights.

On Wednesday morning we had Maths again. At Maths this time I did two more learning intentions. I forgot what they were, but I do know for a fact that I did two learning intentions. In the middle block
we had some spare time. In this spare time we got the choice of carrying on with our maths, do some of our report writing or do some reading. In this time bracket I did some of my argument writing. For our writing we are writing about if the law should be changed about either wearing helmets whilst riding a bike or not. I am going towards the rule, "we should have helmets at all times while on a bike".  Already I have written about 2/3's of my argument. On Wednesday at lunchtime we had an inter-class dodgeball game against rm 14. We ended up winning two games, losing one and drew once. Since we had two wins and more points over us and rm14 then we won. After lunchtime we had the middle block. Before jump jam we had more spare time. In this spare time I decided to do some of my reading task. In the reading tasks that my group is doing, we have to read a short story (three-four pages). We then have to write down the protagonist and if the character you chose is a dynamic character or a round character. We then have to write some of the character traits and some evidence from the story to prove those traits. After this we had Jump Jam. At Jump Jam we have roughly five or six songs, sometimes we have more.

On Thursday morning, I had band. At band we practice the pieces that are new and/or are what we are going to play in some band events coming up. We have just recently got a new piece from the movie "Moana", the song is called "how far I will go, from Alisia Cara". We were meant to play this piece in the combined band festival that was about a month ago, but the piece of music didn't arrive until the week after. In the middle block I had Jazz Band, instead of Jazz Band we had to highlight some of our music pieces (the parts of it we don't understand and need to practice). Since I had already don't that at home, I decided to do some extra maths work in the hub (while Mrs Crowe was doing robotics). Then we had school singing, at school singing some of the songs were abit inappropriate and some of the songs didn't have lyrics (correct lyrics), on the screen; therefore, we had to stop the song and go onto the next song. After lunch on Thursday I had robotics. At robotics we got introduced to a new website and a new game called "Expedition Atlantis". This game includes maths and programming. There are four levels in each stage and we have to complete every stage by Thursday week8.

On Friday was teachers only day, so we had no school. On Friday I was on the app we used on Thursday, but not all day. We had to look after my mums friends son. So we went out for lunch and to the park etc. On Saturday I had netball, I didn't actually have netball as the opposition team defaulted, so my team tequnicly won. My mums team won here game (29-28). And my sisters team also won their game (16-13).
Overall my week was full of all sorts of stuff, next week should hopefully be the same.

term 2 Week 6 Reflection 2017

On Monday was the Queens birthdays, therefore no school on Monday. On Tuesday at my Clarinet lesson after school, we learnt what our E scale, G scale and our highest note (C). After Clarinet I had BMX training, I learnt how to double manual on the last jump of the track and also how to jump the first double on the third straight. On Wednesday we had English in the middle block and I learnt how to use commas in the correct places of words ending with "s". I still don't fully understand all the rules, but I have realised after time I am a very slow learner. On Thursday at band in the morning I learnt how to play "how far I will go", off the movie "Moana". In the afternoon block of Thursday, I learnt how to program a sphero to go around a mini obstacle corse using "JavaScript". On Friday morning (before school), my finger got jammed in the door, so I had to go to the office all morning so I couldn't finish my writing. My fingernail root is crushed so my nail will fall off in the next week or two. In the morning block of Friday, I learnt how to say some of the colours, numbers and what the weather is in French. My week was good this week as I learnt lots at Maths, English, French and we were on chairs duty, but didn't have to do them all week.

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! :)