Review of Week 3

This week in maths I learnt about circles and how to find the circumference of a circle and the diameter.  I also learnt about pi and I can recite the first six numbers 3.14159... though I don't know the rest.  In reading this week we learnt about point of view and I found it kind of easy except for when it come to Third person that where it trips me up.  I have finished my speech and put it on cue cards and I have almost finished my short story review.  I have been reading a series and I like it so much that I read a book a day and the books are pretty thick.  On Wednesday we did a first aid course where we learnt how to do CPR help someone in danger or injured.  We also learnt  how to bandage someone and what to say when calling an ambulance.  At the end we got a fist aid kit that had plastic tweezers.  In tech arts I finished painting my pillow case and then I started to sew the backing which included ironing and sewing on Velcro.

Review of Week 2

This week we did maths and we did metric measures and perimeter.  We have to also write an Analysis of a short story for reading and writing.  In tech arts I made a pencil case out of fabric and I made a second tennis ball.  I have almost finished my fox in extension art and last week I started on the fur strokes.  I am in the band festival doing percussion instead of the saxophone.  I am also going to Murray's Bay for a band camp soon.  In french we learnt about he things in the class room like exercise books and pencil cases. In soft materials I have also started on a pillow case design and I have done the draft and then I drew it onto fabric.  I have done well in cross country and so far I have done it quite quickly and I have been in the top few I think.

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.