Week 3 Term 3

This week everyone has been busy selling chocolates for our school fundraiser. For maths, we have started volume and I have learnt how to find the volume of some 3D shapes. For writing we have started either our discussion or our persuasive argument. I am doing a discussion and my topic is should we have licenses to ride a bicycle on the road? For reading I have chose a short story and it is called tell tale heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

In tech arts we practiced making our recipe again on Tuesday then on Friday our two guests we invited came and ate our food. I ended doubling the recipe and made ten stars and ten others. Since our theme was beach we had a poster that said welcome to our beach cafe and it had pictures of a surfboard, a fish, and a beach ball. We also had pictures of waves on the board and blue table cloths on the table.

In French we learnt the names of clothing. Shorts and t-shirt stay exactly the same except they are said with a french accent. Un shorts (shorts), un t-shirt (t-shirt), une robe (dress), une jude (skirt), un pantalon (pants), chapeau (hat), veste (jacket), chaussures (shoes). When you are saying what colour it is the color comes after, and some colours are different. Blanc (white) becomes blanch, violet (purple) becomes violette, and bleu (blue) and noir (black) just have an extra e on the end, but it doesn't change how they sound,.  

We have to say our speeches on Monday, but I haven't practiced much, and I'm the first person to do it. Next Wednesday I also have the Waikato Gym Festival that is held in Hamilton.    


     

Week 2 Term 3

This week has gone so fast! We have got a new writing task, but it is still persuasion writing and we get to choose to do another persuasive argument or a discussion argument. The difference between a persuasive and a discussion argument is that in a persuasive you argue what you think, and in a discussion you are giving both sides. For reading, I think I am going to do task one, but I am not sure what short story yet. For maths, I have learnt how to find the area of composite shapes. I have also learnt how to find the area of triangles, parallelograms, and circles. Hopefully we are starting volume next week. I took part in the year eight Australian maths test and the first nine were really easy, but then it started to get harder. Our speech is due on Monday and my topic is about why people should be more aware of coeliac disease.

In tech arts we planned our restaurant and our theme is 'Beach Cafe'. We made our invitations and planned what we were going to make on the day so we could practice it on Friday. I chose to make something savory because everyone else was making something sweet, so I decided to make mini pizzas in the shape of stars to look like starfish and also in the shape of shells. We have two practices before we actually make it on the day and we get to invite two people as well as our teacher.

On Thursday we had the college expo. It is when Te Awamutu College presents us the available optional classes to choose for year nine. Even though I am not going their next year it was interesting to look at their options. Their was metal work, wood work, outdoor education, music, dance and drama, French, Japanese, Maori, business studies, photography, special effects, art, agriculture, fabric, food, and graphics.