Week 4 Term 3

This week we have learnt a lot... again. For maths we have learnt how to write algebraic expressions, how to simplify them, and how to find, group, and simplify like terms. To write algebraic expressions you get questions like, the sum of 3 and A is what, the answer would be 3+A because sum means addition. To simplify expressions you would get questions like, a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a, you are just simplifying it so the answer would be 8a ( 8 x a ). To find, group, and simplify like terms you would get questions like ,2mn+3f+5mn+7f, you would need to find the like-terms of all four numbers and those would be 2mn+5mn and 3f+7f. After that you then need to simplify the like-terms to get the answer so the answer would be 7mn+10f. Yesterday all of the year sevens in our class said there speeches and all of the year eights in our class said them on Monday. I was really nervous for mine yesterday but I ended up doing really well. Out of 14 people I got top four and am now in the class finals. Mrs Crowe videoed us and are now in the student shared folder. It was so scary! For cross country I have ran 22.8 km and have ran the whole way. In total I have ran half a marathon which is 21.1 km and a marathon is 42.2 km and I'm trying to reach a marathon. In tech arts we have started making bags. The design I chose is white and it has a shoulder strap and a flap that covers the top. The pictures I chose was three different coloured hearts on the flap, and I am looking foward to finishing it tomorrow.  

Week 3 Term 3

This week has been absolutely crazy, especially with all of the student led conferences (parent teacher interviews) happening. Mine was on Wednesday at one o'clock, and it went really well. For maths we have learnt about how to use rules containing brackets, and how to use formulae. In tech arts we have started making pillows. We get to design our own and then paint it the colours of our choice. Mine is covered with words. I have put my family's name on the boarder and the things I like to do on the inside like dance, netball, family, school, and then I have put my nickname AJ in the middle and paw prints in all four corners. In class we have started another argument. The subjects we could choose out of were, should the New Zealand flag be changed?, Is our national anthem outdated?, or Should supermarket bags be banned? I chose should the New Zealand flag be changed, and I went with it shouldn't be changed. We have a challenge from our teacher and it is to get a young adult book that is not to easy for us to read and then write a huge novel analysis on it from the question we are going to get given, but if we don't like the book we have to read another one. I chose to go for twilight because I have that sitting on my shelf at home, and it's a pretty big book but we have till the end of term so I'm not worried. In french we are learning about stationary like pens, pencils, felt tips, rulers, and everything else you would find in a pencil case.
Au revoir

Week 2 Term 3

This week two of the worst things of the year has started, cross country and speeches. For cross country in just nine days I have ran 14.6 km which is way more than I would like to have done and we are still running for another three or four weeks and then we have school cross country and then eastern zone cross country. For my speech My topic is animal rights and how some animals are being treated horribly. Mine is around about three to four minutes and we have to say it in two weeks time. In tech arts we have made pencil cases, and you get to choose a pattern you like and a zip of our choice. We had to zigzag stitch the outside and then sew the zip to it leaving the zip unzipped a little bit, and once we had sewn the sides we then had to turn it inside out by using the space from the open part of the zip. in class we have learnt a lot of algebra. We have learnt a bit about graphs and how to make one by using a pattern and a rule. I also learnt that you always need to start at x axis not the y axis. The trick is to always to remember that x comes before y in the alphabet, so you start at x axis. I have also learnt how to generate rules from flowcharts. If it say thing like subtract six, divide by two, plus seven, you would combine all of those to make a rule.