Y8 Camp Reflection

Y8 CAMP

At the end of term 1 most of the year 8s went to Marsden Bay Christian Bay Camp for a school trip.

After the 2-3 hour drive in the bus we finally reached our destination and it felt good. When we hopped off the bus we were all told to grab some bags and put them on the deck and with 10 seconds of reaching the camp it started raining. After managing to take all the bags inside we sat down and ate our lunch. After lunch we go inside to the meeting room where we talk about our activities.

After we finished getting all the bags in we sat down in our groups, And then we had to learn about friendship, Teamwork and Kindness. One way they taught us how to learn teamwork was by tying our hands together and made us make fruit Kebabs.

After that we went to our cabins and set up our rooms and beds, three people from my cabin were unable to come. So as we set up our room we noticed that we only had five people and that there were ten beds. Not long after were called in to get ready for dinner. After we finished dinner the teachers asked if we wanted to stay up to stay and watch Johnny English, some people went back to their cabins to get there sleeping bag and pillow and some went back to sleep in their cabins. Halfway thru the movie it decided to crash so everyone ended up going to sleep or staying up talking.

Day #2

Today started off with breakfast, then we went to our meeting room to find out what activities we were going to do. But because it was raining we had to turn to plan B, so first we just had fun while we were suppose to be on kayaks in the water but we had fun. While we were drawing we were asked if we wanted to go on the kayaks me and Te Mauri were lucky enough to go on them for a little and then we chucked everyone in. Our next activity was the waterslide the best thing about the camp it was so fun. It was a huge slide that was awesome one kid even went and got his soap. After we finished our time on the slide we went to have a shower and change our clothes for our last activity. Our last activity was archery and it was awesome while the other boys left and played around that meant I was able to have more shots.

After we finished all our activities we went back into the meeting room to get told we were allowed free time, everyone ran outside but me and my cousin (Josh) went straight to the soccer gladiator cage. But not long after that I was told from a teacher to go to the Flying Fox because my mum wanted me to (My mum was working the on the Flying Fox). After I got to the flying fox I got to go up, and I was so scared but as soon as I hit the top I was amazed, at the awesome view amazed, Mind Blown. Still a little bit scared i decided to get this over and done with as I step over the edge I instantly forgot the fear and felt the pain of the harness.

After the free time was over we went to the meeting room to discuss how much time we would have to prepare our team item we ended up getting 1 hour to prepare our item. After we finished preparing our item we were told to head back inside for dinner. We finished dinner and went back in the meeting room to do our items.

Some were smart, funny, cool and weird in the end we came last. Once we finished that we were aloud to stay up and watch Johnny English 2 or go to sleep I decided to stay up and watch it, but again it crashed half way thru.

Day #3

Today was the day we were cleaning, clearing and preparing after 1-2 hours of cleaning we got ready to leave. As we got back to school we had to unload everything and then we got to leave.

Division Maths Week 1

This was our Week one maths task teaching us about divisions.

The Immersion Assembly

Immersion Assembly

Early monday morning was the school Immersion assembly, meaning that today was the first day back at school. All of the teachers either made a movie or a live performance.

As I walked into the hall I was excited to find out what our topic for the term was going to be. Playing in the hall on repeat a song that resembled the following “All i do is art”. Some teachers were wearing some creative costumes like a pallet of paint and a hat as a brush.

Team one talked about doing their favourite things, Chocolate and more, they made a video and said all of their favorite things. Team two talked about seasons and how they were going to draw all different things.

Team three are doing Architecture they made a funny video like Grand Designs but it was just a tent.

Out of all 5 performances my favourite was Team 4, their topic is Comics they made a humorous video with super heroes, Bat Guy, Team Leader America, Wondering woman and the Villain Bear Baxendine..

As the team 5 teachers walked up to the stage they were dressed in colors of our House Teams Red(Te Aurere), Blue ( Hine Moana), Green ( Hokulea) and Yellow ( Hikianalia). They all lined up for a race, in the end Hokulea won.

Technology To me

Technology To me is my LIFE.

Technology has gotten better over the years.

For me I think technology is better.

Facts:

1. It’s weird how phones have gone from two plastic bottles and a pipe to all the cords and wires.

2.People went from making homemade candles and now we have scented candles.

3.Batteries, Batteries have changed a lot from the olden days by the price the size and the amount.

4.The first computer was made in February 1946.

5. Technology has changed a lot since 1880, 1920 and we know that it has changed a lot.

Word Problems

This is our word problems. We are learning to figure out our maths from words.

Anzac Biscuts

Triangle Addition #1

This was one of our tasks for our maths. We are learning to get better at adding decimals. 

Good Or Bad

We were learning about all the things in World War 1. And we were also told all about the technology.

My First Win

So, last saturday I had my second real club soccer game for Ellerslie out in Mount Roskill.

On the way to the fields the sky was grim, looking like it was about to rain. As we reached the field I jumped out of the car and I straight away noticed that none of my teammates were there. But after about five minutes the manager showed up with his son Luke so while we were waiting we kicked the ball around, practicing.

15 minutes on, more of my teammates came. Tino, Sam, Bailey and Harry. We started kicking more balls around while we waited for one more player. Soon, Tsubasa came, so because are in the 11th grade we have 9 players on the field and on saturday we only had 9 players.

So we had no subs and it was a tough game, for the first half it was a hard stalemate. The second half was more interesting. The first goal was scored by Tino a awesome goal as well, kicked it in with his left foot even though he is a right footer it also just slipped off the goalie's gloves. The next goal was scored by Tsubasa it was a very good goal set up by me and the goalie saved the shot but luckily Tsubasa was there to finish it in. The last goal was scored by the other team just past our goalie’s arms.

Alphabet Multiplication #4

This is a task all about times tables.

Walt: Learning how to multiply big numbers.

World War 1 Presentation

This term we have been working and looking around World War 1. Our teacher gave us a site all about a soldier called George Bollinger.

Zeal Zone Activity

Every Friday we go to Zeal Zone and we swap classes every week this week I was in Mrs's Moala. I was helped by Collin and Josh.

Alphabet Multiplication #3

This was one of our tasks, there will be more.

Call Of Zombies Boat

This is how you make a paddle boat out of cardboard. If you didn't or couldn't hear us properly I will just type it down here. Now what you do is create to objects of cardboard that look's like pant's and you would have to create two of them. And for the other piece of cardboard shaped like a square and a triangle combined but cut out room for the propeller at the bottom. And finally the rubber band to make the propeller go.

Titanic Research

List some questions that you would like answered?

1. How much did the titanic weigh?
2. How many years did it take to build the Titanic?
3. Where was the titanic going.
4. How many kids survived.
5. Why was the Titanic going fast.
6. Where was the Titanic built
   
   
   
   
   Question 1 information:
   46,000 tons
   
   
   Question 2 information:
   3 years
   
   
   Question 3 information:
   New York from England,Southampton
   
   
   Question 4 information:
   56 out of 112
   Half
   
   
   Question 5 information:
   Because it was trying to set a world record and so the Titanic could be popular
   
   
   Question 6 information:
   Belfast, United Kingdom

Holiday Recount

If your ever thinking of going to Australia, Melbourne. We went to the mall to spend our money and so we could have fun. I went with my brother, Sister & mother.

After walking around so much we decided to go eat Hungry jacks (Pretty much Burger King) and we ordered actually a lot of food. While we were eating my brother booked us some tickets to Captin America The Winter Soldier. After eating Hungry Jacks we kept walking around until our movie started and while we were walking around we saw a lot of shops that were pretty much kmart target,big W, and Kmart.

We are going to the cinemas to watch Captain America my brother is shouting us (doing it for free). Once we got in the cinema we noticed that we were in a 3D cinema and the we needed the glasses five minutes before the movie started. Ok now i’m not going to say anything about the movie because then I might be spoiling the movie so yeah. And after The movie was finished we decided to leave.

We went home after the movie and went back to my aunty’s with my brother and mum and sis. As soon we got there I went all over the house and I really wanted to see my brothers room today. After I saw that he had a small room I wondered how we could all sleep in there because it was so small with a single bed. I asked where I was gonna sleep and I ended up on the floor.

When I saw all his stuff in his room like the XBOX360 I knew what I had to do CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS 2. I was smashing through the bots like a HUGE CRAZY MANIAC  versing 20 people. I ended up playing it for about 3-4 hours SHHH don’t tell my mum. So any way my best map is  Hijacked this map is a map where you are on a boat and try not to die. Me and my brother were playing and when me and him were playing we put the points to 150 and I got 80 kills 5 deaths and my brother got 70 kills and 2 deaths and then I got kicked off. When I got kicked off I saw my brothers cousin and I went into his room and played for about 2-3 hours :). While I was playing the game my brother,sister and mum were watching frozen and a quarter till the end she told me bed time so that was the end of that.

The reason why we went to australia because it was my brothers birthday on the 20th of April. And another reason why we went because my brother went in 2012 and because we well I really wanted to go to australia.

Immersion Assembly Recount

Immersion Assembly

Immersion assembly is usually the first day of our term and shows us our topics.

Team 3,... Team three was doing the topic of light. They were demonstrating what light can do. So they dressed up in different colours and did the show. They showed how the light bends and reflects off glass and different colours. Light is like the fastest thing in human history and will probably stay like that forever. Light goes 300,000,000 meters per second and then stop.

Team 4, Team 4 was producing something with the water and a movie and how its called buoyancy and the water displacement. They were asking questions like what was the word for water displacement and more. Team 4 was all dressed up in like diving materials and swimsuits so that was the theme of water. The movie showed us new words and interesting facts about water.

This happens every term the immersion Assembly it is to show us what we are going to be learning what our topic is. This topic is very interesting for me and I want to learn a lot about our topic.