Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Week 5/6 Term 2
Hey everyone,
So the last two weeks at school have been short weeks as in week 5 we all had Friday off because of teacher only day then on Monday of week 6 it was queens birthday so we all got that day off as well then on Friday of that same week I participated in the Junior Tough Guy and Gal challenge. So I only had 7 days at school over the past two weeks.
During these two weeks, we did the usual things like maths reading and writing. We also got to do Indoor bowls. We were split into two groups, people who have played before and people who haven't. We were then split into two further groups and it just worked out that it was girls and boys.
In this picture, you can see two types of balls. One lot for each team. The first thing you do is roll the white ball into the middle of the mat, you then aim your ball to the outside of the mat because they roll into the middle. After all the balls have been rolled the closest ball to the white one wins and that team gets a point. If you roll the white ball off the mat then your team loses three points.
On Friday, I participated in the Junior Tough Guy and Gal challenge. This was held at Ngaruawahia Christan Camp. It consisted of running up hills, crawling through tunnels, climbing over fences, sliding under barb wire and running through a massive mud pit. The mud pit was the grossest part of the whole thing mostly because there were eels and my friends threw one at me. I finished the race with all of my friends Alice, Holly, Amy, Nicole and Sophie. The shower afterwards was really nice because you got to get all the mud off yourself. It was such an amazing day.
Well that's all for now, sorry its so short!
Byee
So the last two weeks at school have been short weeks as in week 5 we all had Friday off because of teacher only day then on Monday of week 6 it was queens birthday so we all got that day off as well then on Friday of that same week I participated in the Junior Tough Guy and Gal challenge. So I only had 7 days at school over the past two weeks.
During these two weeks, we did the usual things like maths reading and writing. We also got to do Indoor bowls. We were split into two groups, people who have played before and people who haven't. We were then split into two further groups and it just worked out that it was girls and boys.
In this picture, you can see two types of balls. One lot for each team. The first thing you do is roll the white ball into the middle of the mat, you then aim your ball to the outside of the mat because they roll into the middle. After all the balls have been rolled the closest ball to the white one wins and that team gets a point. If you roll the white ball off the mat then your team loses three points.
On Friday, I participated in the Junior Tough Guy and Gal challenge. This was held at Ngaruawahia Christan Camp. It consisted of running up hills, crawling through tunnels, climbing over fences, sliding under barb wire and running through a massive mud pit. The mud pit was the grossest part of the whole thing mostly because there were eels and my friends threw one at me. I finished the race with all of my friends Alice, Holly, Amy, Nicole and Sophie. The shower afterwards was really nice because you got to get all the mud off yourself. It was such an amazing day.
Well that's all for now, sorry its so short!
Byee
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Week 4 Term 2
Hey guys,
So this week has been really fun.
On Monday morning, I arrived at school at 7:10am to head to Rotorua for National Young Leaders Day. I have been to a couple of these before but this one was definitely the best one I have been to. There were a lot of very motivational things that were said and I'm sure everyone that went will take something out of the day. After arriving in Rotorua we took our seats and we were ready for the day. We were given a notebook so we could write down notes and quotes. There were about 6 or 7 speakers that had some awesome things to say for us. Everything they said had a meaning about some type of leadership. We all learned lots about leadership, and will hopefully be able to use some of the tips with our roles around school. A quote from one of the speakers Valentine, that is really cool and has a really good meaning is “You don’t have to be a leader to be a leader” In other words you don’t have to have a role to be a leader at home or at school. One really inspirational person that spoke was Brylee Mills, she was in a car accident at a really young age and had to have her right arm amputated above the elbow. She is a dancer with a message to never give up. There was a lot of different messages that we all took something out of. The speakers were Billy Graham, Brylee Mills, Valentine Taumiti, Pio Terei, Marina Alefosio, Emily Muli, and we were very lucky to have Avalanche City sing to us. I would like to thank Mrs Shaw and Miss Turnbull for giving us this great opportunity and all the parents that help with this amazing day.
On Tuesday morning, we had Tech Arts in the first block. We are in music at the moment. We learnt some new chords on the guitar, played an Irish Jig on the keyboard and learnt some more about different types and styles of music. For the rest of the day, we did maths, reading, and writing. I am nearly finished my Hectors dolphins report I just need to finish editing. I think I have done my editing really well I have done 3 pages of editing trying to change some of my simple sentences to compound or complex sentences. I have done a little bit more on my reading. I have finished the vocabulary for this part and I am up to summarising the story and doing a character analysis.
On Wednesday, we learnt a new routine at Jump Jam called Freaks. The competition team taught it to us. It's a really fun routine to do, but at the start, it was a little confusing to do. Like Tuesday, we were doing our reading and writing as it is due next week. I think I have done well but I still need to work on some of reading. That's all I did on Wednesday, It may not seem like much but it was actually quite a lot.
On Thursday, I had band for the first two blocks, It was really fun as we were with junior band for the first block. That was quite cool getting to play with junior band and some of them will be moving to senior band next week! After Jazz band, we had house meetings to figure out which sports we wanted to do for Interhouse Winter games on Friday afternoon. I am doing basketball. I haven't played in ages but ill try my best. In the afternoon we had student assembly, I was a part of this week's assembly doing the game and a National Young Leaders Report. The game that I helped organise was the chocolate fish game which is where you have chocolate fish on a stick and you try and eat them as fast as you can. Then as part of the NYLD report, I taught the school how to do the heads and tails game. This is basically where you flip a coin and choose whether it will be heads or tails.
On Friday, we did a small decimal test then I was on the floor with Mrs Crowe on how to order fractions. I found it hard at the start but then I got the hang of it and I now know how to do it. When you order fractions you usually change them to decimals if they are too hard to figure out just as a fraction. So if you had some fractions that were too hard to order by themselves you change them to decimals then that helps you order them but you still have to order them in fractions, not decimals. Then we had tech arts we learnt more about the blues and started making our own blues song. It was really cool nut we didn't quite get it finished. We were supposed to have Winter Games but because of the weather it didn't happen. So our day went back to normal. Our class played volleyball against room seven we went into it thinking we were going to lose as they are a very good class, but we came out with the win 41-33. This means our class is now undefeated. Maori was quite cool today as we were working on our short stories about the Waikato River.
Thats it for this week guys,
see you next time.
Bye
So this week has been really fun.
On Monday morning, I arrived at school at 7:10am to head to Rotorua for National Young Leaders Day. I have been to a couple of these before but this one was definitely the best one I have been to. There were a lot of very motivational things that were said and I'm sure everyone that went will take something out of the day. After arriving in Rotorua we took our seats and we were ready for the day. We were given a notebook so we could write down notes and quotes. There were about 6 or 7 speakers that had some awesome things to say for us. Everything they said had a meaning about some type of leadership. We all learned lots about leadership, and will hopefully be able to use some of the tips with our roles around school. A quote from one of the speakers Valentine, that is really cool and has a really good meaning is “You don’t have to be a leader to be a leader” In other words you don’t have to have a role to be a leader at home or at school. One really inspirational person that spoke was Brylee Mills, she was in a car accident at a really young age and had to have her right arm amputated above the elbow. She is a dancer with a message to never give up. There was a lot of different messages that we all took something out of. The speakers were Billy Graham, Brylee Mills, Valentine Taumiti, Pio Terei, Marina Alefosio, Emily Muli, and we were very lucky to have Avalanche City sing to us. I would like to thank Mrs Shaw and Miss Turnbull for giving us this great opportunity and all the parents that help with this amazing day.
On Tuesday morning, we had Tech Arts in the first block. We are in music at the moment. We learnt some new chords on the guitar, played an Irish Jig on the keyboard and learnt some more about different types and styles of music. For the rest of the day, we did maths, reading, and writing. I am nearly finished my Hectors dolphins report I just need to finish editing. I think I have done my editing really well I have done 3 pages of editing trying to change some of my simple sentences to compound or complex sentences. I have done a little bit more on my reading. I have finished the vocabulary for this part and I am up to summarising the story and doing a character analysis.
On Wednesday, we learnt a new routine at Jump Jam called Freaks. The competition team taught it to us. It's a really fun routine to do, but at the start, it was a little confusing to do. Like Tuesday, we were doing our reading and writing as it is due next week. I think I have done well but I still need to work on some of reading. That's all I did on Wednesday, It may not seem like much but it was actually quite a lot.
On Thursday, I had band for the first two blocks, It was really fun as we were with junior band for the first block. That was quite cool getting to play with junior band and some of them will be moving to senior band next week! After Jazz band, we had house meetings to figure out which sports we wanted to do for Interhouse Winter games on Friday afternoon. I am doing basketball. I haven't played in ages but ill try my best. In the afternoon we had student assembly, I was a part of this week's assembly doing the game and a National Young Leaders Report. The game that I helped organise was the chocolate fish game which is where you have chocolate fish on a stick and you try and eat them as fast as you can. Then as part of the NYLD report, I taught the school how to do the heads and tails game. This is basically where you flip a coin and choose whether it will be heads or tails.
On Friday, we did a small decimal test then I was on the floor with Mrs Crowe on how to order fractions. I found it hard at the start but then I got the hang of it and I now know how to do it. When you order fractions you usually change them to decimals if they are too hard to figure out just as a fraction. So if you had some fractions that were too hard to order by themselves you change them to decimals then that helps you order them but you still have to order them in fractions, not decimals. Then we had tech arts we learnt more about the blues and started making our own blues song. It was really cool nut we didn't quite get it finished. We were supposed to have Winter Games but because of the weather it didn't happen. So our day went back to normal. Our class played volleyball against room seven we went into it thinking we were going to lose as they are a very good class, but we came out with the win 41-33. This means our class is now undefeated. Maori was quite cool today as we were working on our short stories about the Waikato River.
Thats it for this week guys,
see you next time.
Bye
Monday, May 23, 2016
Week 3 Term 2
Hey guys,
So this week has been crazy!
Monday and Tuesday were normal days. With the usual maths, reading, writing and tech arts. In maths, we have started a new unit, decimals, percentages, and fractions. I'm not the best with these subjects but I'm hoping to get better by the end of this area. In my book, I have been doing to order decimals and the properties of decimal number. When you order decimals there are two different ways to do this. Number 1 is to look at the first number before the decimal point to see if that is the same, if it is you look at the number after the decimal point then you keep going to see the difference. In this example, we are going to be ordering in ascending order. (lowest to highest) This is the first step, you can see that the two top numbers are the lowest so the first number will be 1. something. You then look at the second number and see that the second number is a zero and five, the smallest is a zero so the first and second number would be 1.05
then 1.5. The next this you look at is the next two numbers and do the same wich means the last two numbers are 2.05 then 2.5. So the order in acssending order would be 1.05, 1.5, 2.05, 2.5.During writing, time we are doing we are doing note taking. I have chosen to do it on the Hectors Dolphin. We have started taking notes from a sheet of paper with some information on our chosen animal. We then had to put our information we chose and put it into paragraphs. The paragraph's I have chosen are size and color, predator, food, and habitat.
In reading time, we have been doing, a character analysis. My group read the story 'Mrs. Flowers'. We then had to go through the story and change the words highlighted to something that we could understand more. We then analyze the main character/s.
On Wednesday and Thursday, we had band camp. This is where Cambridge Middle school and Matamata Intermediate come together with Te Awamutu Intermediate. During these two days, there were choir, Junior, and Senior symphonic band, and drumline. Over these two days, I learned lots about my instrument and some new songs. I made lots of new friends and had heaps of fun. During these two days, we learned nine new songs to play on Thursday night at a concert for parents and anyone who wanted to come. I learned about dynamics in songs, timing, and heaps of other stuff. The tutors that helped us over the two days were amazing. I'm in senior band so our tutors were Mrs Ward and Mrs German. They are really good teachers and everyone learned a lot. Thursday night was really cool. The concert was awesome, it was a cool experience and everyone had heaps of fun. I was sad at the end as our new friends that we made left to go back to their schools. That was it for the two days. It was really fun.
On Friday, it was quite an easy day. Before morning tea for some of us, it was a finishing of time. I finished a lot of my maths that I had missed but I'm glad I finished it. The next block we had Tech arts. We have started our new tech art and that is music. It is a little bit boring at some stages but so far I like it. Friday sports time, I started 'training' for the Junior Tough Guy and Gal challenge, this is a 3km event running through mud, water and heaps of other.
So that's it for this week,
Bye for now.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Week 2 Term 2
Hey guys,
This week has been a hectic week,
During Monday, we had the typical Monday morning assembly. It wasn't as boring or as long as usual, so that was good. My favourite part of Monday was when we got to try lacrosse. I have never tried to play this sport so it was a cool experience. Lacrosse is played with a stick, with a 'head' on the top of the stick. You play with a ball. The ball is held in the stick as you run around the field passing to your teammates trying to score. I found some parts of this a bit hard to do but other than that it was fun.
On Tuesday in science, we made bath bombs with citric acid, lavender scents, food colouring and baking soda. We had to do this very carefully as we didn't want the citric acid and food colouring to neutralise and if that happened, the bath bomb wouldn't work. There were about five different colours and we were allowed to put as many colours as we wanted. I made mine like a rainbow. After science, I went over to the food room because my friends class had their cafe and I asked if she had any leftover food and she gave me a massive cupcake with marshmallow on the top. It was delicious. I played volleyball at lunchtime and it was our classes first game and we won by 20 points. Tuesday was also Mrs Crowes birthday, she doesn't like people finding out, so we decided to sing her happy birthday before the end of the day.
Wednesday was a finishing off day for some of us. We had the chance to catch up with writing, maths and anything else we needed to have done. We had our second lot of jump jam for the term and It was fun. I made a few mistakes, but I just laughed it off and kept going with the song.
On a Thursday I am usually only in class for the last block as in the first block, I have symphonic band, then Jazz band. Today at the band we practised our songs for the concert next week. We are playing with Matamata Intermediate and Cambridge middle school. At the concert, there will be symphonic band, junior band, drum line and choir. All three schools will join for two days to practise, then a concert on the Thursday night. School signing is always a fun time for me. Caitlin and I always have a good time. We also had our first RI assembly for the year. The message was about how sometimes sorry can be deceiving.
On Friday, it was our last lesson of science and we got to make sherbert. We used citric acid, icing sugar, and food colouring. I found this really fun to make because it was like the bath bombs it it nuetralised it wouldnt have worked. My sherbert is really sour but its also really yum. We had another game of volleyball today and won again by 20 points. I think that this year our class will do quite well at volleyball.
Well thats it for this week guys,
see you next time.
This week has been a hectic week,
During Monday, we had the typical Monday morning assembly. It wasn't as boring or as long as usual, so that was good. My favourite part of Monday was when we got to try lacrosse. I have never tried to play this sport so it was a cool experience. Lacrosse is played with a stick, with a 'head' on the top of the stick. You play with a ball. The ball is held in the stick as you run around the field passing to your teammates trying to score. I found some parts of this a bit hard to do but other than that it was fun.
On Tuesday in science, we made bath bombs with citric acid, lavender scents, food colouring and baking soda. We had to do this very carefully as we didn't want the citric acid and food colouring to neutralise and if that happened, the bath bomb wouldn't work. There were about five different colours and we were allowed to put as many colours as we wanted. I made mine like a rainbow. After science, I went over to the food room because my friends class had their cafe and I asked if she had any leftover food and she gave me a massive cupcake with marshmallow on the top. It was delicious. I played volleyball at lunchtime and it was our classes first game and we won by 20 points. Tuesday was also Mrs Crowes birthday, she doesn't like people finding out, so we decided to sing her happy birthday before the end of the day.
Wednesday was a finishing off day for some of us. We had the chance to catch up with writing, maths and anything else we needed to have done. We had our second lot of jump jam for the term and It was fun. I made a few mistakes, but I just laughed it off and kept going with the song.
On a Thursday I am usually only in class for the last block as in the first block, I have symphonic band, then Jazz band. Today at the band we practised our songs for the concert next week. We are playing with Matamata Intermediate and Cambridge middle school. At the concert, there will be symphonic band, junior band, drum line and choir. All three schools will join for two days to practise, then a concert on the Thursday night. School signing is always a fun time for me. Caitlin and I always have a good time. We also had our first RI assembly for the year. The message was about how sometimes sorry can be deceiving.
On Friday, it was our last lesson of science and we got to make sherbert. We used citric acid, icing sugar, and food colouring. I found this really fun to make because it was like the bath bombs it it nuetralised it wouldnt have worked. My sherbert is really sour but its also really yum. We had another game of volleyball today and won again by 20 points. I think that this year our class will do quite well at volleyball.
Well thats it for this week guys,
see you next time.
Monday, May 9, 2016
Week 1 Term 2
Hey, guys so wow its term two! Last term went so fast, especially for an eleven-week term.
On Monday, we had a powhiri for the new Japanese teacher, Etsko, and a new teacher in room six, Miss McLaughlin. The powhiri was an excellent start to the term. I'm glad it wasn't an assembly as the assembly would have been long. We also got told about science fair which is happening later this term.
During Tuesday, I did some more maths. I did to find unknown angles (including parrell lines). This is where you have an angle, and you find the angle opposite to it. While I was away, the school had a speaker, Mike King, came to talk to us about his story and going through depression and anxiety. While I wasn't there, I asked some people who were there about what they thought. Most of them said that he was an excellent speaker and amusing, but he didn't have a message as such. Tuesday mornings are always tech arts and our tech art that we are doing at the moment is science. We did P.H testing and the P.H table. I found out a lot about this as I had never actually known/heard of P.H testing. This is where you have a piece of paper blue or red and you dip it into acid if it stays the same colour then it is dipped into the same type of acid that the paper was soaked in. If it turns a different colour, then it means it is dipped into different acid to what the paper has been soaked in.
Wednesday I was away sick, so I'm not to sure what everyone did.
On Thursday, I had my first block of band for the term. We have started learning new songs for the band camp in a few weeks. We have been practising for a while now and I'm quite excited for this activity. Jazz band we are still practising the same songs. I don't mind when we do this as it allows us to practise more and get things better. During lunchtime this day I trialled for the Belmont netball team. This exchange happens every year with Belmont Intermediate in Auckland. I think I did my best but you never know what happens.
On Friday I was relived as I had made it throgh my first week back at school! Friday was a normal day maths in the morning before us year 8's went to french with Mrs Shaw. We did a little recall test I scored 11 1/2 out of 20 so I was pretty happy about that. I need to keep practising my french as later this year I am going to Noumea a French speaking country. During Friday sport time I had another trial for Belmont netball. I think I trialled pretty hard and did my best Im not to sure if I got in yet though so Im quite nervous to find out.
Well guys thats it for this week.
See you soon.
On Monday, we had a powhiri for the new Japanese teacher, Etsko, and a new teacher in room six, Miss McLaughlin. The powhiri was an excellent start to the term. I'm glad it wasn't an assembly as the assembly would have been long. We also got told about science fair which is happening later this term.
During Tuesday, I did some more maths. I did to find unknown angles (including parrell lines). This is where you have an angle, and you find the angle opposite to it. While I was away, the school had a speaker, Mike King, came to talk to us about his story and going through depression and anxiety. While I wasn't there, I asked some people who were there about what they thought. Most of them said that he was an excellent speaker and amusing, but he didn't have a message as such. Tuesday mornings are always tech arts and our tech art that we are doing at the moment is science. We did P.H testing and the P.H table. I found out a lot about this as I had never actually known/heard of P.H testing. This is where you have a piece of paper blue or red and you dip it into acid if it stays the same colour then it is dipped into the same type of acid that the paper was soaked in. If it turns a different colour, then it means it is dipped into different acid to what the paper has been soaked in.
Wednesday I was away sick, so I'm not to sure what everyone did.
On Thursday, I had my first block of band for the term. We have started learning new songs for the band camp in a few weeks. We have been practising for a while now and I'm quite excited for this activity. Jazz band we are still practising the same songs. I don't mind when we do this as it allows us to practise more and get things better. During lunchtime this day I trialled for the Belmont netball team. This exchange happens every year with Belmont Intermediate in Auckland. I think I did my best but you never know what happens.
On Friday I was relived as I had made it throgh my first week back at school! Friday was a normal day maths in the morning before us year 8's went to french with Mrs Shaw. We did a little recall test I scored 11 1/2 out of 20 so I was pretty happy about that. I need to keep practising my french as later this year I am going to Noumea a French speaking country. During Friday sport time I had another trial for Belmont netball. I think I trialled pretty hard and did my best Im not to sure if I got in yet though so Im quite nervous to find out.
Well guys thats it for this week.
See you soon.
Monday, May 2, 2016
Week 10 Term 1
Hey guys
So I missed out on writing week 10 blog post so I am going to do that now.
Week 10 was alright it was mostly just a catch-up week as we only had two days the week after before camp. So during week 10 we did maths. At the moment, we are doing geometry, angles, and shapes. During this time, I did interior and exterior angles of a triangle. I find these quite fun but when we are given only 1 or 2 angles and we have to find the rest that's usually when I get confused and stuck. Exterior angles are when there is a triangle with a line on the outside and that is where the exterior angle is. Interior angles are angles inside the triangle.
We also have been doing descriptive writing. This is where we had to write about a 15 min time at a place. We then went through and highlighted ll the to-be verbs (boring verbs) this was surprising to me as I only had a few. To be verbs are words such as is, have, sounds, like feels and more. This writing is quite fun and I enjoy it. This is my piece I wrote it is not completely edited but I am still quite proud.
So I missed out on writing week 10 blog post so I am going to do that now.
Week 10 was alright it was mostly just a catch-up week as we only had two days the week after before camp. So during week 10 we did maths. At the moment, we are doing geometry, angles, and shapes. During this time, I did interior and exterior angles of a triangle. I find these quite fun but when we are given only 1 or 2 angles and we have to find the rest that's usually when I get confused and stuck. Exterior angles are when there is a triangle with a line on the outside and that is where the exterior angle is. Interior angles are angles inside the triangle.
We also have been doing descriptive writing. This is where we had to write about a 15 min time at a place. We then went through and highlighted ll the to-be verbs (boring verbs) this was surprising to me as I only had a few. To be verbs are words such as is, have, sounds, like feels and more. This writing is quite fun and I enjoy it. This is my piece I wrote it is not completely edited but I am still quite proud.
Matarangi
L.I To write descriptively by using precise/specific nouns and verbs to describe a place.
Hot sand blends through my feet, sea breeze tingles down my spine, sea spray splashes my face, and seagulls chirp in my ear. The hot sun beams on the sparkling sea below. The boats in the distance as still as a statue. The foam above from a plane slowly disappears. People trotting past on their afternoon jog, sweat pouring down their faces, but pure happiness with their effort. Towels lined up all down the line. Surfboards in the sand, and the bright smile on everyone's faces brings joy to the beach. Cold turqoise waves crash down on surfers below. The salty spray lands everywhere, although the disgusting taste makes you want to vomit, it brings happiness to the people near. The roaring of tractors dragging their boats out of the water, getting stuck in the wet sand and laughing all the way down the road is there all afternoon. Green slimy moss rocks crowd the surface edge of the beach. Joy spreads across childrens faces. As the beach clears out the sounds of tractors seagulls and laughter dies down to a still. The boats in the distance have gone and the surfboards and towels have disappeared. The tide is near full and the sun is now gone the only thing left is the glistening moon. In the distance the lights of coromandel sparkle over the dark sea. Everything and everyone is gone, the peacefulness is gold.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Week 8/9 Term 1
Hey guys so over the past two weeks we have had short weeks because of easter so I am just going to do a blog post for both weeks in one!
During week 8 we were writing an explanation of the water cycle, I found it alright to write about, but some parts I did get really confused on. The water cycle includes precipitation, run-offs, condensation and evaporation.
Mrs Crowe also found some sites to help us with our writing. I think these help, but I did learn not to just use those sites as they can be not all correct. These sites are Hemmingway and Grammarly. Grammarly helps with correcting your grammar and punctuation, whereas Hemmingway helps you find which sentences are hard to read very hard to read and so on.
Also during the week of week eight, I participated in Wims touch. It was a very fun day and everyone enjoyed it. The boys won their competition and the girls got third. I was really happy with how I played, and even more excited when I scored a try.
Last but not least week nine was only a three day week so not much went on apart from summer games on Thursday. It was an extremely fun afternoon, and I think that everyone gave it their best. We haven't found out results yet but hopefully PUNIU win!
Also, in science, we were looking at the Periodic table and we even had a mini quiz on it. We had to find the chemical and write it down then set it out as if it was an atom. This was fun and hard!
Well, that's it for now see you next week!
Bye
During week 8 we were writing an explanation of the water cycle, I found it alright to write about, but some parts I did get really confused on. The water cycle includes precipitation, run-offs, condensation and evaporation.
Mrs Crowe also found some sites to help us with our writing. I think these help, but I did learn not to just use those sites as they can be not all correct. These sites are Hemmingway and Grammarly. Grammarly helps with correcting your grammar and punctuation, whereas Hemmingway helps you find which sentences are hard to read very hard to read and so on.
Also during the week of week eight, I participated in Wims touch. It was a very fun day and everyone enjoyed it. The boys won their competition and the girls got third. I was really happy with how I played, and even more excited when I scored a try.
Last but not least week nine was only a three day week so not much went on apart from summer games on Thursday. It was an extremely fun afternoon, and I think that everyone gave it their best. We haven't found out results yet but hopefully PUNIU win!
Also, in science, we were looking at the Periodic table and we even had a mini quiz on it. We had to find the chemical and write it down then set it out as if it was an atom. This was fun and hard!
Well, that's it for now see you next week!
Bye
Friday, March 18, 2016
Week 7 Term 1
Salut,
This week the year eights had their first french lesson for the year! It was really fun and I remembered a lot more than I thought. We had a worksheet about our family and our family photos. We then revised on how to introduce ourselves in French by saying our name, our age, where we are from and what languages we speak. I remembered most of mine but I did get stuck on some of the words. This year I am going to be going to Noumea (a french speaking country) to learn more about their language and culture.
The Makuhari students have been here for nearly two weeks and their stay is coming to an end. They have done a lot of things while they have been here in New Zealand, like going to Waitomo caves, Kiwi house and horse riding. They have also done a lot more with their host families. Today (Friday) we had a farewell assembly for them, they were given a soft plush toy kiwi to take back to their hometown.
For, the last few weeks I have been trialing for the Waikato Intermediate and Middle schools Touch competition. (WIMS) After a lot of lunchtimes practicing and getting everything almost correct, they chose the team. I was quite excited as I made it into the team. The competition is on Tuesday, I am so happy that I got chosen and get to participate.
In Maths lately, we have been doing Integers and Number properties.I think that I have been doing really well in this and I am trying to push myself more in my maths as my start of year stanine wasn't the best so I really want to improve it.
Next term I will be competing in the Junior Tough Guy and Gal challenge. I think this will be really fun and I can't wait for it to happen.
That's all for this week guys. Hope you have a good week.
Bye
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Week 6 Term 1
Hi everyone, this week we have had a lot of cool things going on at TAI, on Tuesday we had boating, Thursday we found out our head students for 2016 and the Makahari Students from Japan came over. Boating on Tuesday was really fun, we learnt about how to scuba fall out of a boat, how to save someone and what emergency communication supplies you would need. When you scuba fall you sit on the side of the boat hold on to the top of you life jacket (while its on you) then fall on your back into the water. When you save someone you have your foot on the rope and throw the buoy into the water and the person puts it on then you pull the rope towards you while your foot stays on the rope. On Thursday we found out who our head students would be for 2016, this was a very long process and I was very nervous as I was one of the participants, but in the end it came down to four of them Amy, Raiha, Cheng-Yu and Matthew. I was really happy for Amy as she is one of my best friends! Thursday was also a very exciting time for some as their Makahari High School Students came to New Zealand to stay for two weeks with there host family. Today (Friday) We had four Japanese students in our class, they are very cool and understand alot more english than I thought. In wood I have nearly finished my speaker which I am really excited about as I can't wait to use it.
Monday, March 7, 2016
Week 5 Term 1
Hey guys so this week has been very busy. On Monday a few selected students went to Cambridge to compete in WIMS swimming, this was a sucsessful day and everyone did really well. On Tuesday it was the first of AUTUMN! On wednesday we had our last lesson in Japanese with Mika, as on Saturday she left New Zealand to go back to her hometown in Japan. On Thursday we had our very first student assembly, it was a funny, and exciting experiance. The theme was to introduce ourselves to the school, and to do this we held a fashion parade. The House Captains were dressed in swimwear and the Class Councillors were dressed in usual dresses and stuff. It was really fun and at the end they had Mr and Mrs Student Council, I won Mrs Student Council and Will from room 13 won Mr Student council. On Friday we had school swimming. It was a very fun day and everyone tried their best. During the day we were told the points from different races and the placings of all the houses. At the end of the day Waipa was winning, Puniu was second, Waikato third, and Mangapiko fourth. Today (Monday) we found out the overall winner of Swimming Sports 2016,
4th- Mangapiko, 4 points
3rd-Waikato, 6 + Bonus Point
2nd- Waipa, 8 points
And first the overall Champion PUNIU, 10 points.
Thats it for this week! see you next week.
4th- Mangapiko, 4 points
3rd-Waikato, 6 + Bonus Point
2nd- Waipa, 8 points
And first the overall Champion PUNIU, 10 points.
Thats it for this week! see you next week.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Week 4 Term 1
Hey guys, this week we have done alot more than the lastr few weeks. We have been put into maths groups and started doing some proper maths YAY. We are doing round to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, and we have also done to understand the language of number these activities were quite fun. At home I have made myself some flashcards to help me recall my times tables better than before. We went to the muesum to learn about the Treaty of Waitangi, this was a funny experiance as we all had to dress up in costumes and play one of the pmain people/groups that were involved. I was William Hobson. I have also been trialing for the WIMS Vollyball team, I think I have done quite well as I managed to get into the third trial! Some of the junior band joined us last week in band that was cool.In Japanese this week Mika (our teacher) made us a traditional japanese dish, this was very tasty as it was kind of like a sweet pancake. She showed us what she put in, and how to make it.
Well thats all for this week, see you neext week bye
Well thats all for this week, see you neext week bye
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Week 3 Term 1
Hey guys so this week has been about the same but we have had testing all week. Im not a big fan of doing tests. We have also been swimming and some of us from rm 3 have been selected for the swimming heats in monday morning. Thursday was a very cool day as we found out who the house captains for 2016 would be, I am soo excited as I got House Captain for PUNIU house. I cant wait for this year it will be a bit harder with my responsiblity as house captain but I think I can handle it and I would love the challenge. I also started japenese today we made pekachui oragami. Next week I hope to have more to share but for now thats it.
Bye
Bye
Monday, February 15, 2016
Week 2 Term 1
Hey guys so we have been at school for two weeks already, and its gone soo fast. We have done a maths test on number to see which groups we will be put in for the first couple of weeks. Us yr 8s have all handed in our letters applying for either House Captain or Class Councillor, I am so nervous to find out if I have got a position and If I do, I would like to apply for head student I have have wanted to be a head student for along time, and I would really happy if I got this job. We have started our very first tech art for ther year we are doing hard materials which is really fun I have nearly finished wiring my speaker box then I get to paint and put my box together and it will then be ready to use!! YAY
Bye for now
Bye for now
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Week 1 Term 1 2016
Hey guys so School has started again, and its been pretty busy getting things done and sorted out, hopefully it goes back to normal next week.
So far this week we have had a powhiri to welcome all the new yr 7s and some new teachers. We have been swimming, we had our first band lesson with some new yr 7s, and practised some games for our minor games interhouse competion. The year 8s have all started their letters for either Class Councillor, House Captain or both.
Ill let you know more later
Bye
So far this week we have had a powhiri to welcome all the new yr 7s and some new teachers. We have been swimming, we had our first band lesson with some new yr 7s, and practised some games for our minor games interhouse competion. The year 8s have all started their letters for either Class Councillor, House Captain or both.
Ill let you know more later
Bye
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