Colour poem

Today after the diamante poem we did a colour poem. It was about red and had to refer to the war. 

Here is mine 

ANZAC diamante poem

This week for topic we have been doing stuff to do with ANZAC's. For ANZAC writing we did diamante poems. Here is mine.

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. 

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. 

Cricket

This week we have been practising and preparing for a cricket tournament on the West Coast. If we win we will go to play Buller and if we win that we will go to Christchurch. The tournament was supposed to be yesterday but it has been post-boned to Monday. 

I am number 3 Batsman and Opening bowler. I like bowling because it is satisfying to take wickets.  

Shapes

Today we looked at the differences and similarities between Trapezium, Parallelogram, Rhombus and Quadrilateral. Here is what I found out.

Numeracy reflection T1 W9

This week for the first ten minutes of numeracy we have done prototec maths. I tried stage seven and eight. I got 70 percent. Here are my stage 7 results. 

This is the first step to long multiplication. 

Literacy reflection T1 W9

For literacy this week we carried on with our camp reflection. I haven't quite finished it yet. 

This is what it looks like so far. 

Spine poem

This week we learn't a different type of poem. It was really fun and easy. The point was to make them funny and try to make them make a little bit of sense. 

Numeracy reflection

This week for literacy we focused on using long multiplication to complete easy equations.  I chose to do some slightly harder ones like these. 

Literacy reflection

This week for literacy we created a drawing about shanty town. Me and my buddy only had one day to do it. WALT: write a clear and detailed introduction using the 5 W's.

literacy Reflection week 5 Term 1

This week for literacy we were focusing on goal setting. For literacy we had to do two writing goals and two reading goals.

For literacy we also had to choose a topic to write facts about . I chose to write about the Wahine disaster because I know a tiny bit about it.  

For numeracy this week we also 
focused on goal setting. We had to set goals based on our PAT test.

Term 1 week 4 electronics session

This week on Wednesday we had an electronics session with Andrew. We learnt about positive and negative sides of a battery. We also did some things with led's. In this photo I am testing my strength.

W2 T1 reflection

This week for our numeracy we did a tally chart with a buddy, my buddies were Oliver, Callum and Kaleb. We chose to do it about Mamaku's favourite super rugby team. In the end the favourite team was the Hurricanes. For literacy we did a list of 10 things. My list was about my favorite ten rugby players.  My favourite rugby player is Beauden Barrett. In class our teacher is reading holes we did an activity where we had to set the seen by drawing it.