Term 2 week 8

On Monday we did a l c and my team lost at volleyball. On Tuesday I stayed at home. On Wednesday There was no jump jam which sucked, It was mufti  day, but I forgot to where mufti. On Thursday there was no band for most people but there was a concert preformed by the people that did go to band, along with other schools. On Friday we had our final music tech art session. We didn't do much on that day though except dance which was bad.

Week 6 Term 2

In week 6 we learned about ratio, I learned about all kinds of stuff, like when you do simple ratio you can just put the number and the whole number as your answer.  It's sort of like a fraction.

In tech arts we did music. In music we were learning about drum patterns, it was pretty cool. I already knew what I was doing, so I was aloud to go on the electric drum kit and do my own thing. We also learned some guitar patterns and keyboard patterns like we always do.

We were having inter house sports/ winter house sports, but I couldn't compete because I was playing rugby, that uses mufti, so I didn't bring my P.E gear. My teacher said that I couldn't do Friday sport because of that.

We also had indoor bowels, and there were some good people and some bad people, but I was more of an in between kind of person. At indoor bowels they were choosing 6 individual people in either the class or the school. I obviously wasn't one of them, but hey I had my fun watching people bowel their's no where near the target.  

Week 4 Term 2

In week 4 we had a student assembly , witch  was awesome. We had a chocolate fish game were one person had too hold the fishing pole that had chocolate fish on, and the other person had to eat the chocolate fish off of the pole. The other thing about student assembly is that we have clips of the week, and our clip of the week was about a guy who was eating huis food like an animal, the whole school was laughing, really funny.

Tech arts:
`At tech arts we Were doing music which was cool, Because we were learning about the blues And we got to write our own blues.                                                                                                                                                      

In week 3 we did music and we studied and then wrote an Irish jig. It was surprisingly tough for a 4 bar piece. We also learned a way to remember E A D G B E on a Gautier. Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie.


In week 3 we also did Friday sport, FINALLY. The choices were awesome, like rugby, basketball, and Volleyball. I chose theatere sports though because it's so easy. All we had to do is play games like space Jump    

What happened in week 2

In week 2 we played lacrosse. The guy who taught us had us do tricks with the lacrosse stick. The tricks we did were tough,We had to go behind our backs, under our legs, and another one. We also had to pass the lacrosse ball between our selves and our partners, Which was tough for us because the sun kept getting in my eyes and my partner was either throwing it too short or too far.




On that same day we had 4 different substitutes such as Mrs Shaw, Miss German, the Lacrosse teacher, and the new room 6 teacher. Mrs Shaw was just watching over us as we caught up with our work. Miss German was in our class room just before Lacrosse, and came up on to Sherwin park at different times while we were playing. The Lacrosse teacher was teaching us Lacrosse, and The new teacher was in our class in the afternoon to make sure we didn't get out of hand.


Overall what I had learnt from that week was that:
1: I learnt how to play Lacrosse &
2: I know that when you have to leave for the morning it can turn into the whole day.
     

week 1 Term 2

So last week we did maths, a lot of maths. We did work on geometry, shapes and polygons stuff like that. But we also learned about angles in a triangle and different ways to find an angle.


TECH: Tech was way more fun, on Friday we made fresh water out of salt water. It sounds like a lame science experiment, but it definitely beats doing maths all day.


Jump Jam was very exciting because we all needed to get some energy. Maths really took the life out of us, so Jump Jam was very good for us.

Reading Goals

This week we had our Student Led Conferences and these were my Reading Goals:

1. To read more challenging books
2. To read more books
3. To read faster

Here is my plan of how I will achieve these goals.

1.  To read more challenging books I will go to the Library and use I PICK to choose:

• books that make me think (e.g. non-fiction books that I can use for projects);
• chapter books that don't have very many pictures in them;
• books by authors I haven't read before.

2.   To read more books I will:

• follow the read to self student actions during SSR;

• read one book for at least 30 minutes at home every day;
• read more than one book each day (e.g. I will have a book at school and a different 1 at home).

3.  To read faster I will:

• read more at home because practice makes you faster;
• graph how many words/pages I can read in 30 minutes once a week;
• search for how to speed read and try to do this (my Mum is going to try this too and we are going to have a competition to see who improves the most).

I am going to give myself until the end of the April holidays to complete these goals.

Maths Goals

This week we had our Student Led Conferences and these were my Maths Goals:

1. To get faster at basic facts
2. To get better at solving problems with algorithms
3. To write better learning reflections that describe more about what I learned

Here is my plan of how I will achieve these goals.

1.  To get faster at basic facts I will practise multiplication and division by:

• using Mathletics 20-30 minutes each day at home (I might not always do it on the weekends)
• using the Tables Mountain daily until I can answer them in 4-5 seconds (then I will do this 1-2 times a week)

• changing the Tables Mountain so I can learn the division problems
• using Maths games on the iPad and graphing my times to see how fast I am getting 2-3 times each week (e.g. Wipeout Wall and Division Descent)

  

2.  To get better at solving problems with algorithms I will:

• complete all my class work and use the instructions and examples in the text book if I get stuck
• write neatly in my maths book so that my teacher can read my work easily
• work with Mum to learn how to do algorithms
• practise solving 5-10 problems with algorithms at home each day (I might not do all of this stuff in the weekend) 

3.  To write better learning reflections that describe more about what I learned I will:

• search for examples of good learning reflections and check these with my teacher; 
• make a learning reflections checklist at home and show it to my teacher; 
• use the learning reflections checklist when I am writing my learning reflections.

I am going to give myself until half way through Term 2 to complete these goals.

Week 4

This week we had TECH ARTS  and we had to learn about shaping plastic to make cell phone holders. We also had a day where in the last period our teacher had to leave so we were working in the library with room 7. On FRIDAY we had FRIDAY SPORT  my group had to do minor games and we had to play Hash cricket with completely different rules.

Term 1 Week 1

1st week at intermediate has been reasonably simple. We  started with writing letters which are due next Friday. We also have a visual language task of doing a vision board which is due the week after.

My Edited Video

Term 4 WEEK 5

This week we learned stuff in maths. What we learned in maths was integers I learned about adding and subtracting integers. Here's an example  -1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 that is the number line it guides you through the process when it's to hard.

In English we watched a DVD called WALL E We now have to write a film review on it well bye.

week 11 term 2 3rd of jully

this week in school we learned about tree diagrams. I learned how to solve tree diagrams  you basicly start with how much you have at the top x what's on the 2nd row x the next row and it keeps going like that until your out of rows. once that's done, you've found your denominator. then you fin all possible outcomes to find your numerator.
 TECH ART  
in teach art we are doing design so far we have made spinning tops and now I'm making a little bird house thing were the light comes out through the bottom, and a mine craft zombie, that's head comes off.                      
AWESOME MASTER out.

This week we learned about how decimal fractions and how to convert fractions into decimals
Example: 5/10 = 0.5 and 0.73 =73/100
 tech arts was good because in art we got to paint with water colour all though I was a bit messy.

student assembly was funny they did a student vs teachers dance guessing game, sadly none of the students on the stage could guess the dance their partner was doing before the teachers guest so teachers won.

TERM 2 WEEK 1

This term has been pretty good in school this year.
Tech Arts Tuesday: tech arts on Tuesday was awesome we are currently doing my favorite subject in tech arts, Art! we just finished our ceramic sandals, and now we're doing this thing we're you put what your life means to you in a shape.

School: in school we're learning how to use proper dialogue and how to use it without saying he said or she complained.
Example: there are only 2 people so 'hey man are you going to the movies'
'Nah'
but since that we don't know who's talking if you don't want to use the he said you're probably going to have to start like this. 2 boy's named Tom and Greg we're talking in the yard
'hey are you going to the movies' asked Tom
'nah'
'why not?'
See now we've got a piece of dialogue but if you wanted you could of just used Greg answered if you wanted.

Maths: in maths my group has been learning  about different types of strategies like rounding and place value
Example: 51 + 29 round 29-30 an take away one on 51-50 =80
whatever you do on one side you have to do the opposite on the other side

A N Z A C  CEREMONY: it was great we heard a lot of informative and persuasive speeches and poems, the speeches made me understand why they went to war, and the speeches made me understand their pain
and what they we're feeling.

WELLINGTON TRIP

SNORKELING was awesome, I thought it was gonna be boring and uncool, but it was rad.      There were no more parents or buddies to pair up with so I got to go snorkeling with one of the

instructors. I saw some carpet sharks that are surprisingly harmless and some snake stars which are starfish with tentacles, There was also a crab that doesn't come out much, he’s as big as this page probably and that's the size he’d be flat. HE’S MASSIVE!!!

CARTER OBSERVATORY was cool because if you know what observatories are then you know it means space! At the Observatory we saw what constellations would be found that night, and to be honest the ancestors were pretty lazy, I mean seriously the small dog was just a line.

I liked the 3 lions Leo Major Leo and Minor Leo. We also learned about extremophiles were they can live anywhere but if you take them out of their original extreme habitat and put them in another habitat they will die.

Wellington Zoo was cool because we got to see the Chimpanzees and Tiger get fed. we also saw how the chimpanzees and monkeys act. To get to the monkeys we had to go through my favorite exhibit, the Australian animals. We saw some wallaby which aren't that much bigger than a rabbit. and there was this sand pit that said, DIG LIKE A DINGO!

Wellington Museum City & Sea was alright but I think It could be better.

Holocaust center was very informational but I think it’s sad how Nazis would murder and vandalize and just get away with it.

Parliament was a bit boring for me but it was funny how they were yelling and screaming at each other ( debating)

Zealandia was awesome I really liked looking at all the animals and it was a perfect place to work on my drawings.

Te Papa was great especially with the flight simulator that was great, it made everything look so real, although it wasn't. I really think that’s the next step in fight history.

The national library was full of history, it felt like a museum more than a library.

Capital E to be honest ONTV wasn't so great but the show got done eventually.

The Media lab on the other hand was great I passed my * ball app and my drawing app, which was my idea. but the talking cat app wouldn't work.

This week I learned about algorithms in multiplication.I understand some of it but not all of it. If your multiplying by one digit like two then great all you have to do is multiply the whole number in one go. But if your multiplying with a two or more digit number, like 63 or 134 then you have to  split the number up.
                21                        
Example 3 563 x 54
                 2252
               1---1----+
                28150                  
            =  30402
                 
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Band: to be honest I don't really learn much in band: last week my teacher just kept talking on the phone. & the other weeks I had to go and find the other people that didn't come to band.  

Wellington trip: this Sunday my class is going on a trip to Wellington. we're going to explore everywhere in Wellington like Te papa the zoo Island bay marine center, and the Carter observatory. 
& we get to ride in a cable car.




                    

Term 1 week 6 11 march 2015

This week I learned about B.E.D.M.A.S because I've never  been taught it at all in my life.
I learned that if a number is next to a bracket you do what's in the

Brackets
indices
Decimals
Multiplication

Addition

Subtraction 

Example of BEDMAS: 6(3+2)+ 5- 4= 31            
In music we've been doing a rap about being healthy.
Actually that's about all I can type of what I learned, so see you next time.

Week 4 Thursday 26th February 2015

This week I learned about estimation and approximation, & how Leading digit & significant figure mean the same thing.
Example: Round to leading digit: 653 700 because 6 is the leading digit and if the next number is 5 or higher you round up but if it's 4 or lower. Round number to 1 significant figure the answer would still 700 for the exact same reason.

And that's all I learned this week that I can type on a computer
Stay chill
       
         

Week 3 term 1
Thursday 19 February 2015
This week in maths I learned algorithms in addition which was handy because i was never taught algorithms at my old school.
                1 1 1
Example:  4234
                  676
                4762
            -+--------
                 8572
In writing I learned that you can write an argument on one side of the debate but still show both sides to whatever the argument is.
Example: The teacher is sometimes not right but it might not be there fault.

That is what I learned this week. See ya next week.