Week 1 Term 3

The last two terms have gone so fast! This week we have had a maths test on measurement. Measurement is all about area, perimeter, volume, metric measures etc. I have learnt how to use metric measures and I learnt a new strategy, and I have also learnt how to find the circumference of a circle by using pi. I have finished and handed in my persuasive writing and we have four more reading tasks. Task one is a short story analysis, and task two is a short story and moving image comparison from Ray Bradbury and we have to choose one of his short stories and then compare it with the film. Task three is a static image of any short story which we would make with slides, and task four is a static image of any short story on an A3 piece of paper.

This week we have also started cross country training. One lap is 1.5 km and that is around the school field then around sherwin, one and a half laps is 2.2 km which is one lap plus once more around the school and you can even do two or three if you wanted to, and each day we add how far we run onto google spreadsheets. We have been practicing each day unless it is pouring down with rain. I also made it into the Waikato gym festival so I get to go and compete in Hamilton along with other people who made it in.

In tech arts I made sushi. It was difficult, but it ended up being really yum! The most difficult was rolling the sushi because sometimes it didn't work, but in the end I made three rolls. I also made a bar and I called it the healthy sweet treat. It was only made out of peanut butter, honey, dates, coconut, sultanas, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and sesame seeds. Once we had made the bar we had to freeze it and while we were waiting we made our packages. Next week I'm pretty sure we are starting to plan our cafe and I can't wait!

 

Week 10 Term 2

Finally, it's the last week of school! We haven't done anything major this week because we don't want to start anything new before the end of term. I finished all of the maths work and I handed in my draft persuasion writing.

At the gym festival and I was in flyers which is the second group. Their are three groups springers, flyers, and twisters. Springers are the least advanced, flyers are a bit more advanced, and twisters are the most advanced. Each groups had to compete at the vault, beam, and floor. In the end a lot of people got placings and I came 4th=. Their was a lot of waiting, but I had fun.

I didn't have tech arts on Tuesday because I went to the marae. Our class was going on Wednesday, but we were at the gym festival so we went with the other classes. We went on the buses and when we arrived we had a powhiri then got straight on with the seven activities. The first one we went to we learnt the school haka that matua po had made for us last year. t the second activity we made fried bread, and we learnt and write down the traditional recipe. At the third activity we learnt a new song and what the words meant. At the fourth activity we had a crayon and we had to lightly trace over a carving onto the piece of paper to make a pattern. At the fifth activity we had a partner and practiced using rakau sticks. At the sixth activity we had a direction in Maori and we also had a place in maori. We had to then use that direction to get to the place. The seventh activity was my favourite. We had a large stick and when the person said mahue we had to swap to the stick on the left and when they said matau we had to swap to the stick on the right. If the stick dropped you were out, and the last one standing wins.

It was the last lesson of extension food and we made Sticky date pudding with toffee sauce. It was delicious. In the pudding all you needed was pitted dates, water, baking soda, butter, brown sugar, eggs, flour, and vanilla extract. For the sauce all you needed was cream, brown sugar, vanilla essence, and butter.

Week 9 Term 2

This week some people from Belmont came over to Te Awamutu for our 23rd sports exchange. Their were 13 sports played and Te Awamutu Intermediate won six of them, Belmont Intermediate won five of them, and the other two were a draw. Last year Belmont took home the shield, but this year it has come back to Te Awamutu.  

For maths, I have nearly finished the work on percentages. I learnt how to find the percentage change, to calculate profit or loss, and to calculate simple interest. For reading, our draft analysis had to be finished on Wednesday, but I also finished editing it and handed it in early. For writing, I have chose to do should plastic bags from supermarkets and other retail outlets be banned. The draft has to be finished by next Friday and I'm not going to be at school next Tuesday and Wednesday because on Tuesday I'm going on the marae trip, and on Wednesday I have the gym sport festival.

We have finished music and we have now started food. For the first lesson we made dip sticks and cheesy rolls. The dip sticks was just crusts from the bread with marmite and cheese on them, and the cheesy rolls was corn and cheese on a piece of bread (without the crusts) and then rolled up and put in the oven. The next lesson we made paraoa bread which is technically just a sweet Maori bread. It's taste nice but also really weird because it's sweet. Next Week we are making either butterfly cakes, peach danish, or banana bread.

For science fair, I didn't get to the finals but nine people from my class did and then four placed.