Maths

Today for maths we did adding with improper fractions and mixed numbers. I already had a reasonably good idea about them so I did the tasks that we were set. There was a year 11 one a year 8 one and a year 5 one and I passed them all. I kind of liked doing that maths.  

Tennis

This week for tennis I have to play club champs against a boy from Hokitika. I won the last three times but it was pretty close. He is a year nine and is in the West Coast tennis team with me.  I have not lost a club game since the start of last year. I will also be going to a Canterbury tournament in the holidays. I have gone to 2 Canterbury tournaments and came second and Third.  

I hope I win club champs. 

League Trials

Today league trials are happening. Mr B our Deputy Principal and the coach will select a team to go to Christchurch. Last year we were undefeated. I hope I make the team. I play league for Waro Rakau. Our team lost in the semi final last year but won the year before. They also changed the grading to odd numbers which is international rules. 

Brunner Mine

This week for topic we went to the Brunner Mine site. We looked around and did activities about what it was like back then. We looked at the old entrance to the mine and we also looked at the big coke ovens.

We also did a play about a scene in the book 'Mines Afire' where the Brunner Mine explodes and the children in the class hears it explode, The teacher leaves to help with the recovery and locks them in the class. So the children go out the windows. I was a child so I just had to act surprised when the explosion happened. I kind of enjoyed the activity.

We also had to find out information about the mine. We got the Information from big boards.

I liked Brunner Mine and it was a good experience.

Maths

This week for maths we were doing our maths about finding the Range, Mode, Mean and Median of a number. Range is the difference between the smallest and biggest number. Mode is the Most frequent number in the data. Median is the middle number in the data. And my favourite to find is the mean which is the average which you find by adding the numbers then dividing them buy however many numbers you have. What we learn't was to always arrange my the data from smallest to biggest but I like the challenged of doing it all in my head. 

I enjoyed doing averages and I have a good understanding about them now. 

Hockey

This week Kaleb and I went looking for people to play hockey for school. Last year our team drew in the final against Karoro and I scored the winning goal in the semifinal against  St Patrick's.

We almost have enough for two teams. The competition is on the 9th March.

League

This week we started practising for league. We have twenty two people sighing up and I am one of the ones that play for a club. For league the competition is in Christchurch next term. Last year we were unbeaten. There is also a composition on the West Coast which we will be taking 2 teams. 

I have also got a game against Brunner Marist Hoki today for my club called Waro Rakau. 

Music

This week for music we had to find a song that we like. I chose a song that I play on the Violin called Cotton Patch rag. Here is what I like about.

Book review

This week I finished The wonderful story of Henry Sugar. 

I liked This book, It was a good size and very interesting. 

The Book was about an extremely rich man that goes to casinos every night and goes with his rich friends to play rich people games. 

One day he went to play blackjack with his friends, but drew the short straw and had to wait until the next round. So he was bored and needed something to pass some time. He chose to go to the library in the house. He looked through the library and only saw boring books until his eyes were caught on a thin book poking out. He read some of the book and resized it was a magician yogi book that talked about a guy that could read playing cards without looking and could see with not just his eyes but his hands and other parts of his body. He fingered out that would be extremely helpful for all the card games he plays and stole the book. 

There was one problem though, It would take years to practice this task and would require lots of effort being a yogi unless you were very special. Although Henry was very concentrated on having this talent and practised multiple times a day. 

See what happens to Henry in this good book by reading it.