term 1 week 3

This week I was a call back for rock band, bass guitar. I had to learn a song in 1 week and I think I did pretty well. We are in the finals against room 13 for Danish rounder,s so we have been doing a lot of games and hopefully we will win the competition. I had to do an asttle writing test about is sport more important than music, or is music more important. I chose sport, and my three reasons are, health and exercise, recognition for your school, town or country, and learn to co-operate with people. I am really enjoying soft materials and we have just started making our jersey. We had to cut out the body sleeves hood etc. My body is dark blue, my pouch poket, sleeves and logo are red, and my hood is white.

WEEK 2 TERM 1

We only had 4 days at school because on Monday it was a long weekend. I'm getting to know a lot about the year 7s, and some of them are my friends. Mr. Ellis thinks I'm a good guitar picker so he wants me to perform in the symphonic band for base guitar, and he wants me to audition for the rock band which I'm a bit nervous about. I have to learn a song in guitar in a week and I chose, numb by Linkin park. We did minor games and I learned a lot of games that I forgot about from last year such as, Danish rounders, long ball, hash cricket which I really enjoy and scatter ball. I'm working on a visual language task about things about me, and I just finished an application task for house captain. So far I'm enjoying this year at T.A.I and it's different being the year 8 helping out the year 7s.

nature is speaking

term 3 week 1

The first week of the term has gone extremely fast as usual. We are now training for cross country and on Monday i only got 2.2 k, on Tuesday I got 4.5k, on Wednesday I really pushed myself and did 6k and on on Friday  my legs hurt so I only ran 3k. For Math we are now doing measurement, and I have learnt about PI. I learnt that you have to figure out the diameter of a circle and multiply that by PI which is 3.14, so if it shows you the radius you would have to double it to get the diameter. I learnt a lot about refugees because my persuasive writing is about that. In Tech arts I am enjoying music and have learnt a few more chords on the ukulele. I found it quite easy because it's similar to guitar, and learnt how to use this fun music app with Patrick. For guitar I have to try and learn sweet home Alabama and some more picking.

term 2 week 8

This week has gone really fast for me. In science for tech arts we had to make an octaginal pyramid, and I learnt that it needs an octagon on the base of the pyramid. We had to try and make it 1 metre tall with 40 straws, tape and scissors. We did volleyball again, and I learnt a few more skills. I started a book review called the outsiders, and I am almost at the end of the book and I really like it. For English I learnt about semicolons and where you need tyo put them. In math I learnt revised how to multiply and divide decimals because I forgot what to do, but now I completly understand it.

term 2 week 6

 This week has been fun and gone really fast. This week we only had 4 days of school because we celebrated the queens birthday on Monday. In science Quin and I finished the marble run on Tuesday, and and finished with 14 seconds but we meant to try and make it 20. I learnt about friction and forces on Friday. I learnt that the gravity and the ground force push against each other. We did winter sports and my sport was basket ball for Mangapiko. Our first game against Punui we drew, lost against Waipa and won against Waikato. In maths I learnt about ratios and at the start of the week I didn't know anything about they because I didn't learn much about them in primary, but at the first learning intention it was a big challenge, but now because we learnt about them all week I find it really easy.