Week 1 Term 2

I am so glad to be back at school. On Monday we had a powhiri, a formal welcoming ceremony, to welcome and introduce our new Japanese teacher, Etsko, and a new teacher for room six. We have started to edit our writing and we are learning how to get rid of run-on sentences, sentence fragments, vague words, to-be verbs, and weak and hidden verbs. I have been able to get rid of everything, but I still need to get rid of three run-on sentences before I hand it in. For maths, I have learnt a bit on geometry, but still have a lot to learn. I have learnt to understand the geometry of points and lines, to understand angle properties, to revise angles and transversal, to find unknown angles with parallel lines, and at the moment, I am learning to revise finding unknown angles in triangles.

In science for tech arts, we had to purify salt water with green food colouring so it was clear drinkable water. There was three particles, salt particles, water particles, and colour particles, but all we wanted was the water particles. In the end, we only ended up with water particles because salt or colour particles couldn't be evaporated, so the salt water was now clear and drinkable. This week Mrs Crowe had to choose two people from our class to participate in extension food, and luckily I was one of them. We made focaccia bread and topped it off with bacon, cheese, and salt. In french, we had a test to see what stage we were at with our french and there was 20 questions. For ten of the questions we have to translate the English to French, and for the other ten we have to translate the French to English. Overall my score was 12 and a half out of 20, but I also got some wrong because of incorrect spelling.

We had Mike King visit our school and talk to us about depression and what he went through as a child. He was always being teased because he had a big head and when he was older became a drug addict and an alcoholic because when he used them it took away pain, sadness, and anger. Eventually, those stopped working and when he was in a angry mood and he was drinking it would just make him even angrier. His friend suggested a councilor and he wasn't sure at first, but when he found out he went and saw one he thought it would be a good idea. His councilor, Stella, discovered that he had depression and he eventually learnt to deal with it. He said it has now been 9 years he has now gone off drugs and alcohol and has learnt to deal with his depression and let people know around him what he is feeling.