Term 2 Review and Term 3 Week 1

Term 2 Review

This term was fun.  I really enjoyed finishing the art tech arts and starting then finishing Hard materials. I made lots of plastic things and I even made A wooden box.  I got all of my work done and did it on time.  I did well in my fractions and decimals test as well. I did better than I thought I would.  I also did my holocaust visual art and I shared it and I did okay.  I have learnt a lot more when I came to intermediate and I hope to learn some more.  I am close to my bronze badge and I have about five more signatures to go.  I have almost finished my fox picture in extension art as well.

Term 3 Week 1 Review

This week we had the principal this week which was interesting and I'm glad to have Mrs Crowe back this week.  We did lots of cross country practice which I enjoyed except at the end when I couldn't breathe because of my Asthma.  I have finished my Student Led Conference and I've almost finished my speech.  I enjoyed tech arts and we are doing soft materials.  I made a tennis ball and we learnt about the different tools that we can use for sewing.

Week 8 Review

This week I received my never give up Shine band. Two more to go then I get my bronze badge.  This week we learnt how to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions. I also learnt how to order fractions. In tech arts I started to bend and make things with plastic I made lots of key rings and I was going to make a box but I didn't have enough time as next week we have to rehearse for production.  For reading we had to build on our knowledge of words and learn about character traits.  For writing I did and Argument on bike helmets.

Week 7 Review

This week in tech arts I finished my letter and it looks really cool. Next we get to bend plastic to create shapes.  I had to sand my letter and glue it on then put the switch on.  In maths we are learning about fractions and things like equivalent fractions, measurements and ordering fractions. For reading we are learning about character traits like happy, caring, mean and others.  We are also extending our vocabulary with vocab worksheets.  In writing we are doing an argument writing and I finished.  On Friday we had a teachers only day which was fun.

Term 2 Week 6 Reveiw

This week we did some more on decimals.  I got a bit behind but I think I'm catching up.  We are now starting off with fraction and starting off with the basic easy stuff I'm learning how to convert fractions to measurements and decimals.  I'm almost finished my L.E.D in tech arts and I have to cut out the shape of the base I learnt how to cut bigger pieces of wood a curve it. The shape is a leaf.  Next we get to choose what we do for our next project once we finish our letter and I'm going to maybe do a box.  I'm doing well with my saxophone and I learnt a new note which was b flat.  I can tell I'm getting better. I'm doing good with my book review and visual art project. I'm learning alot about people in the holocaust and I'm figuring out how I can write my book review

Week 5 term 2 review

 We have been learning about decimals in maths like how to add, subtract, multiply and divide using algorithms.  Sometimes it took me a while to understand it fully and it took a bit of practice.  we also had to do a report writing of the holocaust and I was surprised how much I knew, and I also like reading about things that happened in the holocaust like true stories about people.  I had a page full of notes that I had done last term which helped me.  We also had Inter-house competitions on Friday and I played netball.  We had some tight games but we ended up losing all of our games but most of our team was Year Sevens and all the other teams had a least two year 8 players.  This week we didn't have tech arts on Tuesday  as our teacher had a nasty accident and the relieve didn't start till Wednesday. When we had tech arts on Thursday I got to use a scroll saw to cut out a wooden letter J.  I had to drill some holes where the L.E.D's would go, draw the circuit and put the copper tape on.  I learnt that the positive and negative pathways can't touch and L.E.D's have a short leg and a long leg the short leg is negative and the long leg is positive.
Here is a diagram of how the L.E.D works and the circuit.

Week 3 Term 2 Review

Last week we learnt about algebra and I found it fun doing all the different steps to find out the value of the pro numerals.  For tech arts we are starting on Hard Materials and we took a tour around the workshop and looked at the different machines and tools.  We also learnt about a basic circuit and some other things about electronics like positive, negative and earth.  We also spent Wednesday and Thursday doing band camp which was to practice some pieces with some other schools and extend our learning of music.  On the Thursday evening we put on a concert for our families.  I did really well during the concert and got some parts right that I didn't in the practices.  I also got a principals award last Monday which was exciting.

Term 2 Goals and Week 1 Reveiw

The first two weeks back at school were pretty good. I managed to finish my writing which was writing to the editor on a article.  I am also learning about algebra in maths which is really fun but a bit complicated.  I also got this book about the holocaust that I will have to do a book review on.  I have almost finished my extension art painting and I think it looks really good.  In art we painted and gazed our clay and also painted the background of our kouru art.  I'm very happy with my art and want to keep doing it.  I like doing Tech arts and I can't wait to see what we do in other sessions.  In french we are learning how to greet people and say goodbye to people.  I can count to ten off by heart now and like learning about french traditions.  I am excited to see what a busy term will look like.

My Goals for Term 2:
To be part of Waipa Earth champions day.
To become a bit more involved
To get one more painting done in extension art
To start getting work done quicker.