Week 3 Term 2

This week has been pretty busy. I have started writing my report about my chosen animal. We had the choice of bumblebees, giraffes, meerkats, the giant panda, bottlenose dolphin, or hectors dolphin. I had already done the hectors dolphin at primary and so many people were doing the giant panda, so I decided to do meerkats. I have also started my reading and I have finished finding the meanings of words and I now just have to do the summary and the paragraphs about the characters and the message. We had a maths test on decimals and I got all of them right except a couple, so I need to work on those as well.

In tech arts we have started music. We learnt about some different styles of dance and music and then we played the A-train on the keyboard. We also learnt a bit of a song and played it on the piano. We also watched some Irish jigs and learnt about those then made our own piece of music and played it on the keyboard. In extension food we made Mrs Shaw's fail proof carrot and pineapple muffins with cream cheese icing. The muffins contained flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, mixed spices, mashed bananas, crushed pineapple, grated carrot, eggs, and oil. The icing contained butter, cream cheese, icing sugar and you could make it as a cake as well.

On Wednesday and Thursday most of the class was out at music camp. Music camp is held at our school and other intermediates come to us. Their are teachers for each musical instrument and they learn their parts and then all of the instruments together form a song. While they were doing that I was helping Mrs Shaw prepare the burgers for their dinner as it goes from 9.00-7.30 for two days and the students from other schools stay over at the school. I also tidied the library and looked for the old books with the old stamps that are a bit outdated. We didn't have french this week, but hopefully wee will have it next week.