Jellie park

 On Friday the year 7/8 students went to Jellie park as a day out. We spent around 5 hours there, it was pretty fun. We had to go on a bus for like 20 minutes, because Jellie park is over near Papanui. When we got there we had to go into 2 lines one was if you're going on the hydro-slide as well as swimming and the other one was if you were just swimming. After we had gotten changed and all that we got to go straight into the pools. I went into the pools for about 10 minutes and then went onto the hydro-slide, since I have a fear of heights going up the stairs to the hydro-slide was a bit scary for the first time. I only went on the hydro-slide twice and went into the pools for a bit. Sometimes I ended up sunbathing for a bit but was that a mistake... I got sun burnt really bad again. When it was like 30 minutes left of us swimming I got out and got changed.

Overall it was a great day!

100 questions

 100 questions

Today we did 100 questions.

Multiplication

In multiplication I got 100% correct and my time was 3 minutes 26 seconds. I was 20 seconds faster than last weeks one. I didn't achieve my goal by getting under 3 minutes so that is still my goal.

Division

In division I got 100% correct. My time was 4 minutes 43 seconds. I was a bit slower in division this week. I also didn't achieve my goal by getting under 4 minutes so that is still my goal.

3D shapes

Maths

 Today in maths we did 100 questions. We only did multiplication, I didn't achieved my goal from last week because I didn't get under 3 minutes. My time was 3 minutes 43 seconds, 3 seconds faster than last week. My score was 100% correct. 

My goal for next week is still to try get under 3 minutes.

100 questions

 100 questions

Today in maths we did 100 questions

Multiplication

For my multiplication I got 100% correct. My time was 3 minutes 46 seconds. I achieved my goal from last week which was time. 

My goal is still time. I am going to try and get under 3 minutes next week.

Division

For my division I got 100% correct. My time was 4 minutes 11 seconds. I achieved my goal from last week as well.

My goal is still time. I am going to try and get under 4 minutes next week.

 

100 questions

100 questions

Today in maths we did 100 questions.

 Multiplication

For my multiplication I got 100% correct in 5 minutes 17 seconds.

My goal for next week is to get a faster time.

Division

For my division I got 100% correct but I got it in 5 minutes 4 seconds.

My goal for next week is also to get a faster time.

Athletics

 Yesterday the year 4-8’s did athletics for the whole day. Some people didn’t do it because they were injured or were helping, me and my friend Caitlyn helped with the shot put. Caitlyn was doing the measuring to see how much meters the kids got and I was getting the shot put ball, it was very tiring because I had to keep going back and forth to get the shot put. For the whole day I stayed at shot put because that’s what I got put on. It was a pretty cold and windy day, but sometimes I had to keep taking my jacket on and off. Our first group we had were the year 6 boys. Some of them threw quite far like 9 meters,  after we had a few rotations we got to go to break. It  was so tiring standing up and walking around a lot because I had to walk every 5 seconds to get the shot put but sometimes I didn’t stop walking because as soon as I gave the shot put to the kid that was next they did it like straight away. After break we had our morning tea and then the people participating in athletics had to go to their next rotation. I think the group we had after break was the year 5 boys and another group but I can’t remember what other group it was. The other group we had threw quite far as well. After every year group from 4-8 had gone on shot put it was the sprints finals and relays. I wished I had a different job because shot put was very boring and tiring.

Ways manners help the world go better

 10 ways manners helps the world go better

1.  Your manners change you into a better person so use them.

2. When I clean up any mess I make, I've let people know that I don't expect them to do my cleaning for me. 

3. Accept your own mistakes, take the blame for them and say sorry quickly and then it is done.

4. When I talk quietly I am not getting into others personal space with my voice.

5. When I speak kindly I make others feel happy and calm. Speaking kindly will also make others like me, you should only say kind things because some people can get offended with some things people say. 

6. When I keep my hands to myself and don't shove, push, punch, touch other people, I respect their personal space.

7. When I compliment people and encourage them I help them feel good. If people compliment you should do the same back, it makes people feel happy.

8. Try and see the funny side of things when they go wrong, it helps everyone realise that often people do things without thinking or without understanding might happen.

9. Try and notice the nice things people do for you, it makes you feel happy and loved. Also when people do nice things for you appreciate it and even do something nice back so they feel loved and appreciated.

10. Being honest makes people trust you and like you, even if you tell one lie it will take a long time for people to trust you and want to be around you.

11. If you see something that's not yours return it to the person it belongs to or turn it in if it doesn’t have a name on it, and hopefully you can find the owner.

Tech

 Yesterday for tech we had new classes. I am in cooking and digitech, I am happy to be in these classes. 

This term for cooking we are focusing on cultural foods. Today we made a hangi, I was gonna think it would have been really gross but in fact it wasn't actually that bad. For our hangi we had cabbage, carrots, potato, kumara, pumpkin, chicken, and these stuffing things made of breadcrumbs, melted butter, mixed herbs and I think somethings else but I can't remember what. First of all we had to get our ingredients on a plate and we had to wash the vegetables, then we had to peel our potatoes, carrots and kumara. After that we had to take the skin off the pumpkin. Then we cut them up into quarters and put them on our plate, and we got a piece of tinfoil and we put our vegetables and chicken on the tinfoil and had to wrap them up a specific way, which the cooking teacher told us to do. We put our hangi on a baking tray and put them in the oven for 45 minutes so the chicken good cook properly because if you don't cook chicken properly then you can get food poising from it. After 45 minutes had past we got our hangi out from the oven and opened them, but we had to eat them in the cooking class because the hangi was too hot to take anywhere. 

Our second class was digitech that was a pretty boring class because all you do is scratch. When we got in there the teacher told us what we have to do and things like that. We were allowed to work in buddies so I did, but we had to login to scratch separately. Mine and my buddies wifi stopped working so we had to go onto another computer. What we had to finish coding was a game the teacher had made already and we had to code the sprite to do like jump on platforms and get keys and things like that. It was kinda confusing but then I sort of got the hang of it. We only have 5 weeks left of doing digitech because of how the terms worked out. I think that digitech is really boring and if I had the choice to do that class again I wouldn't. 

Isometric drawings - maths

 

 Today in maths we did some isometric drawings. This is one of my drawings I did. I started with basic cubes and then I found it really easy so I did some more. We had to make a 2d drawing of our model. 

Tangram

 

 Today in maths we had the choice of what we did, but it had to do something with geometry. I did this tangram puzzle, it was pretty hard because we had to get the shapes into the right fit and we had to line them up with the lines. We had to rotate the shapes around so they would fit. This photo I added was the first one I tried, it was kind of easy but it wasn't at the same time.

Tech

 Yesterday at tech it was the last day for sewing and cooking. Next week I will still be doing cooking and something else but my group didn't get told what class we will be doing after cooking. 

At sewing we had to make a backpack from scratch. The teacher got like the fabrics and decorating stuff out, we got to do a sketch of what we wanted it to look like. The things it had to have was space to fit a water bottle in it could be the back pocket or it could have a pocket specifically for the water bottle. It also had to open and close, and it had to have straps because it was a backpack and had to have straps. People got into groups of 2-3, I was in a group with 2 other people and I'm glad they knew how to sew because I cannot sew what- so- ever. It was pretty stressful because the prize we got if we won was a block of chocolate and I really wanted to win, The thing that was most stressful would have been making the water bottle pocket and putting the straps on the back of the bag. A teacher came in and judged the bags my group came 2nd. At the end the sewing teacher gave out treats you could choose from chips or a little chocolate bar, so I chose the chocolate bar.

In cooking we made cookies. First of all we had to make the cookie dough, it was kind of easy to make,  I forgot what things we used to make it. After we had make the cookie dough we got to choose what things we wanted to put in. The things we got to choose from were m&ms, chocolate chips, raisins and I think there were some other things but I couldn't remember what they were. I put m&ms in mine I was going to put chocolate chips in as well but I am impatient so I couldn't be bothered waiting. When it was time to clean up, I was on cleaning the table and extra duty. When I have extra duty I ask the cooking teacher if she needs anything done. She said she needed her dishes done, but it was so hot in the cooking class that I had to open the windows and  stand outside the door. Towards the end I got told off because I didn't do the dishes, I didn't do them because it was way too hot in that class and I was outside for a bit. I ended up doing them, there wasn't much dishes which was good. But the bad thing was I had to wash, dry and put the dishes away. we baked the cookies for 10-15 minutes and the put them on a cooling tray to cool down. It got to the end and then we put the cookies in a bag and then went outside to line up for the bus.

Sailing

Yesterday the year 8's in Tangaroa and year 7+8's from Ata Hapara went sailing. I didn't want to go sailing but I got forced to go. It took about 20-25 minutes to get to lake rua, When we got there it was about a 5 minute walk to get to where we had to go. When we got there we had to get told the rules and then we had food, I was pretty tired that day. After we had morning tea we had to learn how to rig the boat. It was kind of easy but then it wasn't easy at the same time. We had to be in a group of 3 but I had to be in a group of 2 because there wasn't enough people. Rigging the boat would have been one of the easiest things, the hardest thing/s was learning how to get over to the other side and duck under the sail and then back to the other side. After a while we had lunch and then some people wanted to go back to school so I went back because I wasn't  going to do anything else.

Tuesday

 Today people from my class went skiing, I didn't go skiing because I didn't want to. There was a lot of people that didn't go, our timetable for the day was different to any other day it was work, play, work,play, work, play, play. This morning we did our inquiry for about 30 minutes and then we did a kahoot. After the kahoot we went outside for about 15 minutes with m friends and we sat in the pods near the library, and then went to break. When we got in from break we ate and then we did a quizlet game, we did that for about 20-30 minutes. Quizlet is where the teacher sets up a game and we have to put in a code and then we get put into teams with people. Towards the end my group won twice, when we win one game then we have a 5 second penalty which means you can't start until 5 seconds is up. If you win twice then you have a 10 second penalty and it goes up 5 each time you win. After the quizlet we went outside again, some of my friends went out to netball so I just sat on the bike track being bored. We then went out to break and then after break we came back in, ate and then we had to do blogs. Today has been a pretty fun day.

Tech

 Yesterday at tech I finished my bag that I started at the start of term 3 for sewing. I didn't really like it because I didn't get to really finish off the design on the front which was flowers. I did the design of flowers because we had to do something about the environment so I did mine about saving the bees. Sewing class is the most boring class. I was going to make a hacky-sack but the teacher made me finish my bag,

In foods we made the same thing we made last week which was calzone. Calzone is good but I didn't like it as much this week. One of the people at my group table forgot to turn the oven on and we had our calzone's in the oven for like 30 minutes and then we only had about 6 minutes left before we had to line up to go back to school. So we had to put it in another oven, when it had finished cooking everyone else started lining up.

Healing plants

Yesterday for inquiry we had 3 topics and we got to choose one that we wanted to do. The choices were healing plants, creating a food garden and making a safe place for the native birds. Me and Charlotte are doing it about healing plants. What we started yesterday was we researched the types of healing plants and started making a drawing of it, the drawings we had started was Aloe Vera and sage. We also made a slideshow which we will post to our blogs when we have finished.

Referendum 2020

What does referendum mean

A general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.

My opinion on referendum

End of life choice

I support the end of life choice because you would get to know when you die,
die without the pain and people will get to actually say goodbye to their
friends/family. 

Legalizing cannabis

I don’t know if I support legalizing cannabis or not because some
people will use it for drugs and selling drugs.
And there are people who need it for medicine,
but if people use it just for drugs then I don’t support it but if they use it
for medicine and actually need it then I support it.

Equivalent fractions

 Also you have to use multiplication and division

Mexico Olympics 1968

Write about the image below. 

Do the research-Mexico Olympics, 1968? 

Why was it controversial?

Two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and
John Carlos, each raised a black-gloved fist during the
playing of the US national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".

List the 3 athletes and countries they’re from.

People

• Tommie Smith
• John Carlos

Countries

• Africa
• Mexico

Unit fractions

Tech

Today for tech I did sewing and cooking.

For sewing I got some of my beanie sewed up, the other part I had to do I didn't because it was confusing and I don't know how to sew. Most of the time the teacher helps me. The design I am putting on mine is still a donkey, I was going to put a donkey and barney on it but I decided not to.

For cooking we made salad in a jar. We were allowed to put egg and pasta in but I didn't want it. Towards the end we had to put a salad dressing in it. I chose a random one and it didn't taste good, if I didn't have the dressing it would have been alright. If I had the choice to make it again I would but without the dressing. My table group finished first again, and we did our jobs we had to do.

Fractions

 Here is what we have been learning in maths. It is different ways to make a whole.

Maths

For maths today we had to do this thing about fractions. It's not really a clear photo but it just gives an idea.

Tech

Today for tech we got new classes to go to. I am still doing sewing but I am also doing cooking.

For sewing we are making a beanie, for our design me and Kirsten are both doing the donkey from Shrek to put on the beanie. The teacher said we aren't going to do much book work which is good. Sewing is still my least favorite class, that is one of the reasons why I don't like going to tech because I hate sewing it's still very boring.

For cooking we made quesadillas. My table group put too much onion in ours, but I was the one that put the least amount but still a lot. We got told to put kidney beans on but I didn't because I don't like them. My table group was the fastest group done, we got our food done, table wiped down and dishes done while everyone was still making their food.

I like the fact that we are doing cooking so then we get to make food.

100 questions

Today in 100 questions I got 100% my time was 4 minutes 57 seconds. I improved a lot from last week  I was 2 minutes and 28 second earlier than last time. I achieved my goal from last time because my goal was to get under 5 minutes and I did. My goal for next week is to get under 4 minutes or to get 2 sheets done in 10 minutes.

Maths

In my maths group we are learning about divisibility rules. We are learning the rules for 2,3,5,9,10.

The 9's and 3's are a bit confusing but other than that it is going good. This is the rules for 2, if a number ends with an even number or 0 it can be divisible by 2. The rules for 5 are if a number ends in a 0 or 5 it can be divisible by 5. The rules for 10 is if a number ends in 0 it can be divisible by 10.

I need to focus on learning the 9's and 3's so it isn't as confusing.
Here is a few examples 1820 would be divisible by 2 because the number ends with a 0
2562 would also be divisible by 2 because the last number is an even number.

  

My journal - day 2

For mine and Zara's logo we decided to make another logo because we couldn't think of a name for our other one. Our new design is create your own donut. So what it is, you get a kit, a few donuts and a bunch of different candies like m&ms, skittles, sprinkles, chocolate etc. It comes with 3 different flavors of icing. I think this idea is a good idea because we really just need to think of a name for it.

My journal - Day 1

For literacy we have to make a logo/advertisement for the logo . I am working with Zara and what we are making is shoes that you can design/colour yourself. If you buy 2 kits then you get a free pair of white socks. We haven't figured out a name yet.

Tech

Tech was so boring like it usually is. It was the last session for this term, the classes I did was mechatronics and sewing.

It was the mechatronics teachers last day, all we did in that class was code robots on a board like we did last week. Mechatronics is probably the funnest class I did this term. Some people accidentally broke the robots but they are made of lego so they go back together.

Sewing was SO BORING it is still my least favorite class. I am in sewing again next term. In that class I hadn't finished my bag because I don't know how to sew and the teacher hardly ever helped me. The bag we had to make had to have an environmental message on it, my one was about saving the bees. I still haven't finished my bag but the teacher said she will finish it for me because I am in that class again.


My next classes is as well as sewing cooking.

I hope next week isn't as boring.

100 questions

Today for 100 questions I got 100% in 6 minutes 31 seconds. I achieved my goal from last week because I got under 8 minutes. This weeks goal is to get 5 minutes or under. I like doing these 100 question tests because they are fun and it makes me feel more confident when doing them.

Tech

Yesterday for tech I am still doing mechatronics and sewing, my first class is mechatronics we had a reliever teacher because our other teacher was away. We had to wait about 20-30 minutes for the boys bus because their bus was late, so while we waited the reliever teacher told us a story about a pea factory and it was really weird. For mechatronics we had to make a mini putt which is we had to add lego pieces to a block thingy and get the robots to hit a ping pong ball into a hole. The hole was a ramp like a golf course and then we hadto get the robot to code and hit the ping pong ball and try get it into the hole.

After we had our break I went to sewing, sewing is my least favorite class because I don't know how to sew and I always forget what bit of my bag I am up to. I always have to get the sewing teacher to help me. Yesterday I sewed the sides of my bag and got the handles but I also didn't know how to put them on so next week I am going to get the teacher to help me. I am going to try work hard next week so I can get it finished and take it home.

William pike

For William pike, for my passion project I am still working on Spanish. I am starting to understand more Spanish without looking at what the words mean, some words are easy and then some words are hard. I am happy with how much Spanish I have learnt. My goals are still to understand more Spanish and then start having conversations in Spanish.

100 questions

Today in maths for my division test I got 100/100 and my time was 8 minutes and 28 seconds. The questions I struggled most on was the 12 times tables but I ended up figuring it out. My goal is to get under 8 minutes.

Link to spreadsheet

Maths

1 meter bike challenge

For maths we were doing a 1 meter bike challenge, the aim was to see who could get closest to 1 meter riding a bike. We put a chalk mark at the tire and then rode the bike and estimated how much 1 meter was, then stooped the bike and put a mark where we stopped and measured how long it was.

My length was 94 cm I was 6 cm off.