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. 

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.