TERM 1 WEEK 6&7

I'm really enjoying rock band, and I have been practicing the song. Our song is called heavy dirty souls by 21 pilots. I have been doing a lot of reading tasks lately, and the topic is about the Holocaust which is about the Nazis in WWII. I have learned so much about it Like how over 6 million Jews got executed. In Math, I learned about scientific notation which seemed really confusing at the start, but now I understand it and find it pretty simple. I've also done revision on BEDMAS which is order of operations. Because there is a B at the start of the word it means you would work out the problem that is in brackets because B stands for brackets. Then E stands for exponents after It's D&M which is division and multiplication, then A&S which is addition and subtraction, so after you've worked out the division&multiplication you would then work out addition and subtraction. I've been enjoying robotics lately, and we started using the spheros which I really enjoy. I learned heaps on the video about computer science. I also had to install a game called Atlantic which is about coding your robot and taking it places which sometimes was really difficult with the math. I didn't do very well in the punctuation test, but I've learned so much about commas and awubises. I also learned that an appositive is extra information in a sentence that is not needed, so you put the comma at the start of the appostive and at the end. I've finally finished my jersey for tech arts which I'm really proud of.  

TERM 1 WEEK 5

This week on Thursday the call backs for rock band had to have a go playing as a group, so the teachers could see if we were in time. I'm now officially in rock band playing 4 string bass guitar! We won softball 8-3 against room 16, so now we have a 3 win streak. I worked hard at soft materials to get my white hoodie on which was really hard, and some of my pouch poket got sewed on. We had a boating safety thing in the pool and I leared some new things like how you have to lie on tou back with your feet toward the current while you are going down a river, and when you jump into the water with a life jacket on you hold onto your life jacket near the neck and take 1 step into the water. We had swimming sports, and I got 3rd in non champs freestyle, and 2nd in non champs flutta board and walking race. I was also in the year 8 relay for Mangapiko and we came 2nd in the relay, but sadly Magapiko came 4th overall. In math, I've practically finished the worksheet that you have to round significant figures with. I learned that a significant figure would be a number like 10. e.g round 19.73 to a significant figure. Answer =20. At home I've practiced how to read music for bass guitar, and I found it pretty simple. I did robotics for the first time this year and I really enjoyed it. I learned about Binary digits which is known as bits. It gets complicating but the first bit would be 1, then 2, 4,8,16,32, etc. If you had to figure ou the number 18 you would turn over bit, 16 and 2, so the would go 0,1,0,0,1,0.

TERM 1 WEEK 4

This week we have been doing tech arts, and I finally know how to start up a sewing machine and thread it all. I sewed my logo on the back of my jersey. It says U K and they are both in red. I also sewed my shoulders together, so now the back and front of my jersey are together. I learned that you always have to zig-zag stitch on the edge of the jersey and that you straight stitch on the hem. I learned about estimation. so if you have 45+73, you would round the 45 to 50 and the 73 down to 70, because now it's easier to work out. 50+70=120. If you have a big number like 312 you would just round it down to 300. In math, I'm also doing factors and multiples. I know to work out the highest common multiple of, for example, 12 and 18. 1, 2, 3, 6 are all common multiple of both numbers because those four numbers can be multiplied into 12 and 18. So the highest common multiple is 6. I still don't know if I'm in rock band since we have to do another callback. I learned some new rules in soft ball. The rules are stricter and now it's 2 strikes, 3 fouls, 3 balls, and 2 out, side away. I also learned in softball that the two people in the diamond, if they get the ball they can tag the runner, and get them out. For my explanation, I am learning about the great wall of China. It was built over 2000 year ago!

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.

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