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.