This year I have learned a lot of things in all subjects and in general as well. I think that I have also improved my attitude towards learning in general. I have participated in a lot of activities this year including: Rock Band, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Extension Guitar Group and Inter-Intermediate Rugby.

Maths: I have leaned a lot of things in maths this year, including: how to divide decimals,  to find line of symmetry, expand and simplify expressions, I have learned to find unknowns in inverse operations and much more.

English: In English this year I have learned quite a lot, including: I have learned how to completely check and edit my work for spelling and grammar mistakes, I have learned how to correctly write a piece of argument writing to the best of my abilities.

Goals for Next Year:

• To get over 50% (pass) on all of my tests next year.
• To use my knowledge I have learned at Te Awamutu Intermediate at Hamilton Boys High School next year.
• To get all of my work finished on time.

This term we had a whole school science fair. I decided to do my topic on What effect will using different liquids have on the growth of plants. I chose to do my project on what effect will using different liquids have on the growth of plants because I have always wondered how long plants would survive living on liquids other than water. I did my experiment by getting four plants all of the same species and all healthy. I labeled them according to what liquid I would be watering that plant with. I kept them in the same place for three weeks, watering them with the same liquid and the same amount of liquid every day and measured them every week. My outcome was that my Water plant continued healthy for the whole three weeks, the Raro plant was average but slowly dying, the Coke plant was drooping and wilted and the sprite plant was dead. In the end I found out that a little bit of sugar is ok in plants because it gives it a double shot of glucose (which is basically what sugar is) but if you give them too much it will get an overdose and kill off the roots.

This week I have…

This week in fabric tech arts we started sewing our sweatshirts and I learned what the meaning of most of the clothing care labels are. This week in English we learned how to do note taking and report writing of our notes, with our note taking we have to write down just the keywords e.g. instead of  “the cheetah’s top speed is 80 mph,” you would write “Cheetah – Top Speed – 80 mph.” In maths I learned how to count the number of decimal places in an equation to determine the amount of decimals in the answer so .45×8.78 says that there must be 4 decimal places in the answer.

What a week. We have just got back from Totara Springs music camp I learned how to play Eye of the tiger, Star Wars, Bridge Street March and Yellow Submarine. In extension English I learned how to write a Haiku poem. We had our first Fabric lesson and we started thinking about what we are going to do on our sweatshirt, I already know what colours mine will be.

This week I have learned how to do explanation writing. Explanation writing is a piece of writing that explains how something works or what something is. In band I learned how to play Star Wars. In tech arts I learned how to play 12 bar blues on the keyboard and guitar. In maths we are learning to do tree diagrams. I also decided what I am doing for science fair and have started researching it. My question is: ‘What effect will different liquids have on the growth of a plant’. We also did a group science fair project on paper planes our group question was: What effect will different wing designs have on the planes flight length’. We found out that a wider wing span helps the plane glide for longer.

This week in maths I learned about BEDMAS and how to figure out equations that have brackets, multiplication and division etc.I also learned about multiples, multiples are say the number is 2 the multiples of 2 would be 4, 6, 8, 10, 12… In band I learned how to play the songs The Tempest, Surfing USA and Spider-man. In English I have learned some more vocabulary and what they mean like Buzzard is an Eagle like bird of prey and Dexter is a breed of Irish Cattle. In food I learned how to make Tomato Soup for our Cafe.

Goals for next week:

My first goal for next week is to get finished all of my BEDMAS maths work by working harder nd not getting distracted.

My second goal is to get my free choice writing done and marked well because I know I haven’t spent much time on it and I know I can do well.

One scorching hot day my family and I were camping at the beautiful Lake Whakamaru with some of our friends from Taupo. It was so hot that you could fry an egg on the concrete so we all decided to go out on Lance’s boat and maybe go knee boarding and biscuiting. We went and got all of our puffy life jackets and towed the boat to the boat ramp.

The boat is in the water, we tie the knee board onto the back of the boat, Lance checks if Logan (my friend) is all ready and off we go. Speeding down the lake, Logan boarding on the back. He was really good and I mean really good. He stayed on for like 10 minutes and even went over the wakes. But now it’s my turn!

I’m out on the lake waiting silently looking at the hundreds of trees and flying birds surrounding the lake it’s an astonishing sight. Then Lance gives me the signal and the boat starts moving. He starts off not that fast but speeds up. As the boat starts moving I pull myself up onto my knees I start to wobble but I keep myself steady. I quickly undo the strap and pull it over my knees. Now I grab the handle and it pulls me strait over the front and I eat a lot of water.

As I sit out on the water waiting for Lance I take one last glance of the beautiful scenery before we go back in for lunch.

Marked Work

Knee Boarding

This week in food tech arts we had our time trial for our cafe. I learned that we have to have it done in an hour next Tuesday for our actual Cafe. In maths I learned more about factors and multiples and learned about Lowest Common Multiples and Highest Common Factors. My goals for next week are to get all my exercises in maths correct and to get all my English work finished.

This week I had food tech arts, I learned how to make Sushi with Salmon, Carrot and red capsicum in it.
I learned what one significant on maths is.
We did lots of tests and I know that I have a lot of room to improve.
I Joined senior band playing the Electric Guitar.

My goals for next week:

To start using a thesaurus when I am writing and check my spelling.

This week in food technology I made a Peach Danish I worked with Jake. I had Mr Ellis’s  guitar group we got given the song Knocking On Heavens Door. We had the ASTLE Writing test in the hall. We did the IKAN test and I got 4 wrong. We did the school basic facts test I got 33 out of 33 on Addition and Subtraction, 31 on Division and 28 on Multiplication, also we did the PAT maths test.