This Year's Reflection

I felt like my first year in intermediate was  amazing, i definitely enjoyed my first year ever in intermediate. 2015, So far i’m enjoying the life of a senior, there are many good things about being a senior.

One thing I found very satisfying this year was all the trips we went on and how many activities we did. We did activities like friday sports, and trips like Rainbows end and Polyfest and soon Parakai.

The difficult parts in this year we're moving to more work and more difficult work. I also found work extra hard from Extension, Maths and Reading & Writing. I feel like this year I maybe could’ve done more work then I have done.

I’ve enjoyed the new teachers and the ways they teach and the way they talk to us.I think that the teachers are doing good for teaching us a lot of new things.

This year has been super fun, busy, challenging and cool. I want to be able to look forward to next year as I will be a year 8.

Overall I had a really fun year, did new things and accomplished new achievements. 2015 Was an amazing year in my opinion, and I thank all the teachers for teaching me.

Thinkboard #16

Poem

This is my tyrannosaurs poem, me and my friends worked to make it.

Coyote And Turtle

This is one of our reading tasks. 

Thinkboard #16

This is one of our weeks maths tasks. WALT: Learn algebra.

Google Expedition

Today we had the opportunity to try the Google cardboard. We were using it to see around the world and we saw some famous buildings, Sharks and even stars.

The first thing we did on those cool gadgets were we were in a crater with a cave and we were with Sir David Attenborough, If you didn't know who David Attenborough is then he is a famous narrator of documentaries and a scientist. as you moved your head it moved in the phone.

They set us challenges to try and find things like a Python and a Mantis. We visited many places including Mt Fuji, Borneo Forest, In the ocean, Dubai, Burj Khalifa 43 floor and 120 I think, some kids were even screaming from the height.  In the ocean we could see heaps of bull sharks and some people, bull sharks are supposed to be the most vicious sharks.

We also went to space we could see the moon, heaps of stars and even a continent on earth. We were asked who could name the country, It was Africa. It was so cool in space and all the places.

The Google cardboard was an amazing gadget as it felt like I was actually in a different dimension and actually in the places. We were able to see heaps of cool things and I’d like to use it again. It would be cool if we could use it for learning somehow and just have some for fun.

Thinkboard #15

This is one of our week's maths task. WALT (We Are Learning to): Add & Subtract.

Thinkboard #14

This is one of our maths task. Walt (We are learning to): Multiply numbers and the tenths, Hundredths And Thousandths.

Thinkboard #13

This is another thinkboard. WALT: Subtract and add with decimals and numbers behind the dot (Tenths, Hundredths and Thousandths).

Thinkboard #12

This is our thinkboard. WALT: Subtract and Add decimals.

The Secret Underground

This on one of our literacy tasks.

Number Knowledge

This is one of our maths task. Walt: Use the appropriate strategy to solve the word problems.

A Time Something Went Missing

As I have grown up I have lost many thing’s, I wouldn’t be surprised if you have to, some things were important to me some were not.

I think that everyone loses something at once, me I have lost my favourite pair of shoes, my favourite hats my phone and my MONEY!!!. What I have missed out the most on was my money and shoes well actually I miss all of them.

But this will be about my phone, so on a sunny weekend me my cousin and my mum were outside at the park. While me and Louis were playing with the ball and playing music (on my phone), my mum was relaxing on the bean bag. We were playing soccer, taking penalties and trying to skill each other. After around an hour or so, we got bored so we all packed our stuff and drove home. After around 10-20 minutes it started raining.

When we got home we started playing xbox after the rain cleared I walked louis back to his house and back. When I got home I played some more xbox and then had a shower and went to sleep. When I woke up I went into the lounge had breakfast and then when to go grab my phone… But as I walked in my room it wasn’t where it usually was and after that I remembered, I didn’t bring my phone back home.

So I ran out to my mum and told her that “I left my phone at the park!”. As I was wondering if it broke (from the rain) and so I ran across to the park to see if my phone was there sadly it wasn’t I ran home and told my mum that “It wasn’t there”.

A few days later my mum got a call apparently someone got my phone and called my mum. I was pretty excited when she told me, he told her to pick it up at the dairy so a few days later my mum went to the dairy and got back for me. I don’t know if it was wet but I was happy when I saw it was still working.

Add/Sub Yr 8-1 WALT solve addition problems with hundredths by changing one number into a whole number.

This is one of our maths task. Walt: Solve subtraction problems with hundredths by changing the second number into a whole number.

Add/Sub Yr 8-2 WALT solve subtraction problems with hundredths by changing the second number into a whole number.

Thinkboard #11

This is one of our maths task for this week. We are learning to subtract decimals.

Immersion Assembly

First day of term 4 2015, as usual there's always a immersion assembly at the beginning of the term. Some were still recovering from the holidays.

To start things off Mr Burt made a movie for the beginning of term 4 it was about an annoying bird called a fiapoko (bird), and how it annoying a couple of kids at their own house at point Dingaling. As it annoyed the kids it got so bad that they called the fiapoko exterminators, and the fiapoko exterminators came to the house and the kids showed them to the bird as the exterminators killed the bird. The exterminators took the bird back to the house and put it in the oven, after it was cooked they pulled out a bag of KFC. (In this film no fiapokos were hurt as they were made up).

As we walked into the hall we saw some teachers dressed up in dinosaur masks and tutus. At this moment we didn’t know what our topic was so we were ready for what was to come. It went in order from Team 1 to Team 5. Each team had their own movie. Team 1 is going to the zoo to see how the animals adapt and live in the zoo. And they had a karaoke competition, they chose kids from year 1 to year 8. The prize was a trip to the zoo with team 1.

Team 5’s topic was about adaptation and how others have adapted to the surroundings. The team 5 teachers (Miss Peato, Miss Hockley, Miss Ingrim and Miss Clark) made a game show and the teachers were contestants on the stage, they were having a noodle eating contest but the challenge was to eat it with chopsticks. The first person to eat it all wins, as they got ready to start we could tell who was going to win, As they ate one teacher, Miss Clark was speed ahead as in eating them and it wasn’t long for her to finish the plate. The reason she won so quickly was because of where she was brought up, she was brought up in Tibet a region in China. Which is where people use chopsticks, After she won the other contestants had something to say. They said it wasn't fair since they were from Samoa, Tonga, England and New Zealand, Miss Peato (Samoa) explained that where they're from they don’t use chopsticks.

Number Knowledge

This is one of my maths group task for this week. We are learning to understand and know how to solve word problems.

Thinkboard #10

This is one of my maths group task for this week. Walt: Add decimals and units.

Thinkboard #9

This is my maths group thinkboard for the week.