Term 4 Reflection

Well, It's the end of the year again, that has come so quickly. Anyway this blog post is all about what we have done this term (this will probably be my last post for 2019).

We have done 'Writing to entertain' this term which was about writing different genres, here is my slide all about it.

We have also done some 'Readers Theatre' Which is presenting plays from the school journal books. Here are some pictures.

Here I am on the left in red, I was helping Tom read.

As you can see we have had a great term and a great year, so I guess I'll post you next year.

Figure it out | Students

Today I have completed a figure it out task about students in a class you can just look at the following.

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My Poem/Lyrics

Yesterday I made a poem that is based on Christmas eve for our writing to entertain topic not until today did I realize that it could also be my Lyrics for a song, anyway here it is.


Poem/Lyric | The day before

It’s Christmas eve,
I see presents on the floor,
Under the tree they sit,
There’s happiness galore.

We sit on the couches,
Waiting for Ben,
Because he’s working late
Now we finally hear the gate.

Now we play our game,
Mum chose something lame,
I chose something cool,
Dad stole it, cruel.

It doesn’t matter though,
As we sit around the table,
A smile grows on my face,
As mum connects the light cable.

The tree lights up,
The room along with it,
We are all happy,
This is our kiwi Christmas!

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Math Buddy | Advanced Bar graphs

Today I have completed my two maths buddy tasks for the week one of them being about advanced bar graphs and how to divide them into percentages and fractions, here are some of the questions.

The answer would be 4/15 because there are 8 lamb and 30 overall and then just half it so it becomes 4/15.

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Writing To Entertain

This week Mrs Gully gave us the task of writing to entertain by doing different types of writing. Here is my descriptive writing.

This man may not be familiar to any of you, but he is familiar to me and he might not show the kindness inside him when he asks me to clear the table, or when my older brothers fight in the kitchen, but at the end of the day when he’s watching the T.V. with his blanket on the couch that happiness shows.

He isn’t a loud person, (as long as my brothers aren’t fighting) he doesn’t necessarily like going to work but that doesn’t matter, he is a kind person on the inside. He likes to watch the Highlanders, he likes a good seafood chowder, he likes sitting on the couch with his dog presumably with a bowl of chips, he is my definition of a regular guy. If you can’t already picture this man, he is a round man with either a singlet or one of his 7 highlander shirts on, some blue or black canterbury pants on and an under armour cap.

This man is my dad, he is a good, caring man even if he doesn’t seem like it from the naked eye’s perspective.

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Reciprocal reading

This week for reciprocal reading my group read a story called 'the promise' because it had an eye-catching title, as a group we did a google drawing about it down here.

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New Math Routine

This week I was not here on Monday when our maths routine changed, but it's Tuesday now and I'm back on track. So for our new routine we are pretty much doing a hand in sheet each week which includes the sheet below, maths buddy tasks, a figure it out task and this blog post about what we are doing.

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Reciprocal Reading

Today for Reciprocal Reading we had the same group being, Junior, Millah, Aimee, Tom and I. This session we read a story about the author's dad and how he had never seen him before. It went a bit bad at the end because the dad died... I'm gonna leave that there. We had a good session today even though it was just me and Junior because the others were at other places.

Reciprocal Reading

Today and the past few weeks we have been doing reciprocal reading in our class. Reciprocal reading is when we form groups of 4 (usually the same groups) and we take turns at reading a school journal book and when we have finished we each get a role (predictor, summarizer and others) and we right down what we need to and that is pretty much all we do in reciprocal reading.

Some more of Halloween

I forgot to tell you guys that for our Halloween day we also dressed up. Now the dressing up was all made from people hiding themselves from evil spirits, they didn't dress up for no reason, anyway this is my group and I dressing up (I'm on the top):

Halloween day!

Today (Halloween) we are doing heaps of activities like drawing on mandarins. This is a video with me and jack the mandarin about the history of carving pumpkins.

If the video doesn't work, try this link.

I also made this piece of writing using the hollow woods cards:

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One spooky night in the depths of the forest, there lived a knight and a girl. They were walking down a path and they meet each other at an intersection. They both decided to go down a spooky track that leads them to a black, rusty almost broken gate that looked like the entrance of a cemetery. They slowly enter. They see a shadow, but when they got closer… It was the grim REAPER! They run out of the gates to get to the knight’s horse and sword all caught up in spiky vines.

When they were riding away they found a treasure chest so they stop and take a look at it… It was full of candy and weirdly enough, garden gnomes. When they went back to their house they found a goblin staring at them so they give him a garden gnome then he runs back to his cave and puts the garden gnome into his collection of gnomes. Then they sat down, chowed down their candies, and got headaches.

In our Halloween themed morning I also drew this Jack o' lantern.

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Heroes

This week we have a new topic in our class about heroes that have left a legacy and/or have changed the world for the better, eg: Kate Shepard who was the first woman to vote in New Zealand. Here is my slide about what we are doing (I only did the last slide I didn't do the whole thing).

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Figure it out

This week I have made another figure it out about adding fractions and comparing fractions I have made a google doc about it.

Figure it out: Getting to fractions

1 - The Hohepa and McLean families are both driving from Morrinsville to Whakatane. Both the McLean and Hohepa family cars’ are one 20th of the journey apart (8 km). The way I did this was by simplifying the fraction from 120 to 12 and after that I found out that 8 was a key number in this equation being 8 x 15 = 120 and 8 x 16 = 128 and the whole journey is 8 x 20 = 160.

2 - Kim, Tim and Vim go shares in a startup technology company. Kim puts up 2⁄5 of the money, Tim puts up one third and Vim puts up the rest. How much of the company should Vim own? Vim should own nothing because ⅖ + ⅓ = 1 whole so really Vim should own nothing!


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Tech Wacky Wood

For tech in the start of this term I am in the wacky wood class and we get to choose what we are going to make out of driftwood, I have chosen to make coasters (like table mats for cups) because we do not have any at home. Here is my drawing with some ideas that I found (personally I like the one in the top middle).

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Persuasive writing (AGAIN?)

This week our teacher set us the task of creating a persuasive piece of writing about our school athletics and whether it should be compulsory or not, here's mine.

Athletics: To be compulsory or not to be?

Today I am arguing whether athletics should be compulsory or not, I personally think that athletics should be done in all schools because if you have nothing to do this might be for you.

Fitness, as students we need to keep our fitness up so we can live a healthy life. If you become fit and you find that you like athletics then you will have a new hobby that you didn’t know about. Even if you don’t like athletics it is half a day of hanging out having a laugh with your friends in your age group.

Hobbies, If you are looking for a new hobby try athletics because if you haven’t tried it before you might have a new hobby on your hands. In athletics there are many different things to test a lot of different muscles so for example, if you have a lot of arm strength you might want to try discus or shot put or if you are fast you could go in the sprints no matter what it is, see if you like it because if you do you can train and maybe go professional.

Fresh air, I might sound like your parents a bit in this paragraph but, a lot of people are stuck on their devices so if you enjoy doing athletics it would be a good thing to keep you occupied away from your screen. This would be good for you if you feel your life revolves around devices it could become a habit for you because if it is a nice day you can go outside and practice, practice, practice.

In conclusion, I feel that all students should participate in athletics because it keeps you fit, it can give you something to do and it will get everyone off their Chromebooks to enjoy themselves and try something new, and who knows what will happen!

By Rhys Anderson

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Equivalent Fractions

This week in maths we have been learning equivalent fractions and for those of you who don't know what they are, here is my DLO on them.

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Figure it out | Maths

This week I was doing a figure it out for maths about a year eight class that were raising money for their school by selling chocolate dipped strawberries, I have worked it out in this paper.
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Figure it out: A fair dip

What do you need to find out first?

You need to find out how many chocolate strawberries you are going to sell and then how many bags of chocolate you need to coat that many strawberries

10 cents for chocolate on ½ dozen strawberries

- $1.25 for ½ dozen strawberries

- 10 cents for origami box for strawberries

- Total: $1.45 for all the ingredients for one box

- The year eight class will be making a profit of 55 c per box.

They will need to sell around 125 boxes if they want to raise $250 for their school.

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Term 3 Reflection

This term we have done a lot of exciting things like:

• Westamaths
• Mini market
• PrEP
• Big market
• A very stressful term of wearable arts
• And even more in the classroom

It has been so eventful but, my favorite is westamaths because I was in a team with my friends Emil, Geordie and Will, I would like to congratulate the other yr 7 westamaths team that went to cantamaths (Jacob, Arielle, Honor and Addison).

Japanese, what have I learned?

This week for Japanese we have been making a DLO about what we have learned in our Japanese sessions. Here is mine.

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Curves of pursuit

This week week in T4 for maths we have been doing maths art E.G. enlargements, tessellations and so on. We got to chose between enlargements, tessellations, pursuit curves or mandalas/rotational symmetry, I chose pursuit curves because it looked really cool and it looked challenging. Once I actually started and read other peoples DLO's on pursuit curves it was as easy as breathing. Anyway the reason I'm here is because I have made my own DLO on pursuit curves just down there.



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Mini Market!

Recently in PrEP we have had our mini market and our group sold our bookmarks including, dyed ones, beaded and feathered ones and finally we had our pom pom bookmarks as modeled by Taylor in the picture. We made a respectable profit of 50 nuggets. I hope if you attended mini market that you made a good profit!

Financial literacy

These past few weeks we have been learning about financial literacy and vocabulary around that subject. I'm not gonna tell you too much because I have written it all in there.



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Background

On Thursday last week I was bored so I decided to make a background  I made it so the name looks like a burger and the drink and others are well themselves. Hope you like it!

Japan Wall

You might be wondering what is a 'Japan Wall' well, in our class we have a wall and we put things about japan on it because we are learning Japanese and the rugby world cup is in Japan this year. Here is my contribution to the japan wall. Also go and check out my last post to see some persuasive writing that I made about wearable arts and it being compulsory!

Another Persuasive writing

Today after school I decided since I do not like wearable arts that I would write a persuasive essay on why wearable arts should not be compulsory. I hope that my piece of writing gets noticed by my principal and I hope that you enjoy as well. Also you can take a look at my last post about wearable arts so you get a good idea of what we are doing in wearable arts, please take a look at my writing!

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Wearable Arts

This term my group and I have been working hard on our wearable arts costume. It has definitely been a stressful term but we are almost there, all we have to do now is complete our life size model. If you want to know about our journey through the tough and the easy (although there wasn't much of it) just hit this link. I appreciate your time, and thank you. here are some cool wearable arts costumes to send you off with.
         

PrEP 2019

This year for PrEP my group is called the PrEP Peeps and in my group are: Junior, Taylor, Rowan, Briea and myself. Here is our slide so I don't have to tell you what we are making (It doesn't have a lot...yet ).




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Street map DLO

This week our teacher set us the task of following the rules of geometric terms to make a map of a little town or something. I really enjoyed this task because even though it is still work it was fun to create a small town. I have put together a description of my map. Take a look!

Enlargements

In week five we did different types of art like enlargements, calendar art and mandalas. This is a little DLO on enlargements and how you are meant to do them. Enjoy!

 

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Football Reps Trip

A couple of weeks ago I was selected to be goalkeeper for the representative football team on the west coast and for the last couple of weeks I have been training for it on Wednesdays. I have done reps last year when I was in the 10th grade and we came third which is a big achievement for a west coast team. I am excited for this years competition because it will be quite an experience for me and I hope I can get in the reps for years to come.

Co-ordinates

This week we have been learning about co-ordinates and how to understand them, I have learned about co-ordinates before so this was just a bit of remembering for me. Today I made a co-ordinates DLO if you want to see it, it's just down there.

Learning Spanish

These last couple weeks the same as Japanese we have been learning Spanish with Mrs. Prendegast in the class next door. I have had fun learning about Spanish because we have learned about some things like what countries speak Spanish and why so many countries speak it. Here is a link to my map of countries that speak Spanish (The Spanish Speaking World). I really like learning about Spanish and hope to learn more! Want more posts like this? Keep looking on my blog!

Learning Japanese

For the last couple of wees our class has been doing Japanese. In Japanese we have been learning the characters, the culture and how they live there. I also learned that Japan is around the same size as New Zealand but it has about 120 MILLION I repeat 120 MILLION more people than New Zealand, I was shocked when I heard this because I knew that Japan had a lot of people but I didn't think that you could fit that many people in that space. I enjoy learning about Japanese and am looking forward to learning more!

Holidays Review about Football!!!

In the start of the holiday I attended a football camp in Hokitika for three days and I have done a review about it just down here.
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Fun Football Camp Review

Do you like football or have you ever been to a football camp? Well I have, just recently actually, and I enjoyed it so I’ll tell you a bit about it.

I signed up for this camp because soccer/football is my favourite sport. This camp was on the first Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the school holidays. The camp was held in Hokitika in the high school gymnasium. I went on this camp with my friend Emil, he is football mad like me. On the first couple of days I traveled to Hokitika in Emil’s parents car and on the third day we went with my dad. (Just to be clear although I am calling it a camp we did not stay the night).

I really liked this because it had two professional coaches so the trainings were very structured, the way I like it. This camp had a good balance of proper training and fun games. We had a good amount of time to have snacks and drinks so we weren’t dehydrated or hungry. I think this was a very good camp and would do it again in a heart beat.

Overall I think this was a very fun football camp and would recommend it to anyone who wants to try football or likes football to do this.

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Surprise speaker

Today we had a surprise speaker and we had no clue who it was until our librarian introduced us to Jake Bailey. Below is his book that he has written about his times through cancer in a really touching way. He must have real guts to tell everyone about his struggles although his treatment didn't last as long as some kids that he saw in the hospital, one of them had to do chemo therapy for four years. The lessons that he squeezed into his speech were amazing. He is a really inspirational guy and I would listen to him all day.

Math For The Start Of The Term

This week we have been learning about mode, median, mean/ average, and range which helps us with our data and make a DLO. Here is my DLO.

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Planting Garlic

Today, Friday, me and 7 others of my class (the rest of them were at production and rippa rugby) did some planting. We planted garlic. We also learned how to plant the garlic properly, first you hoe a row/s and then you put your garlic cloves in with the pointy bit up and the white rough bit down, here are some photos. I enjoyed planting garlic, you would too.

(I am on the right here)

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Finders Keepers

This week my reading group has been reading 'Finders Keepers' by Emily Rodda it is a science fiction book about a kid who gets sucked into a game show. Here is some writing that I have done about it

4/6/19

Name: Finders Keepers by Emily Rodda

Genre: Science Fiction

Characters: Patrick, Claire, Danny, Judith, Paul, Estelle, Michael.

Summary of what I have read so far:

Patrick, a teenage boy One day in the middle of that week Patrick was walking home but on the way there he stopped at the computer store. He entered the computer store and looked around for a computer that was on. He found one that was humming to itself, he tried pressing a key, it suddenly lit up Patrick started playing the game on it, he moved around and found a chest filled with treasure, he collected it, the screen went black. A message popped up, it said, WHO ARE YOU WHO ARE YOU WHO ARE YOU. Patrick, typed Patrick. “Congratulations Patrick”, It read, “You have been selected to play ‘Finders Keepers’. To play go on channel 8 at 10 am on Saturday”. Patrick stopped for a second and ran home in excitement. On saturday Patrick and his mother, Judith went to the chestnut village mall to buy some new shoes for Patrick. After they had bought the shoes Judith said she was going to get a cuppa, so they went to the coffee shop and they were going to watch the big Chestnut village clock strike ten. Patrick asked his mother if he could watch from the other side of the mall, she let him, so he went over but he went to the tv store instead and a game show was on and there was a presenter on the screen, the presenter said, “Come on down Patrick.” And everything went blurry and Patrick got sucked into the TV. He opened his eyes and he was in this place with a crowd and there was that presenter on TV he saw just before.

Character development:

Patrick: Patrick is a (presumably) teenage boy who likes computers but doesn’t have one, and he got sucked into a TV in the mall into a game show that he got invited to earlier in the week.

Danny: Danny is Patrick’s toddler brother that I don’t know much about.

Claire: Claire is Patrick’s older sister and that is all I know about her.

Judith: Judith is Patrick’s mother that has taken him to the mall to buy him shoes at the chestnut tree village.

Paul: Paul is Patrick’s father that hasn’t been included in this story a lot.

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Persuasive Writing

This week we have been doing some persuasive writing, and our teacher gave us the topic: Is Greymouth's future in tourism? here is my work. l:v)

WALT: Write a piece of persuasive writing

Is Greymouth’s future in tourism? I think not. I am arguing against this because I
think it’s a bit silly, Greymouth is already a fine place and it doesn’t need to attract
tourists.

I think Greymouth is fine because there are already heaps of tourist attractions
around the West Coast like Hokitika, Westport etc. There are a fair amount of
people that have come to the west coast because in their country they don’t  
have all the green trees and all the birds and native animals that we do. That alone
attracts tourists to Greymouth so I don’t think we need all the stuff Hokitika and
Westport have because they aren't that long of a drive.

Where on earth would we get this money! It isn’t free to have all the attractions
that other countries and places do. It would be like a cycle, we buy and make the
attraction and the tourists come and pay to see the attraction. Would it be worth
all that money? Would we make income? I just don’t think it’s worth it. I’m not
exactly sure if the government would source the money or not but I don’t think
they would.

If Greymouth built tourist attractions it could steal other peoples customers. It
could cause other tourist attractions in other places to shut down because no one
was visiting their places. People could get angry, and we don’t want that, do we?
Tourists like new things to visit that’s why they tour so if we put in something new
tourists would leave the old places and they would shut down.

In conclusion, I think it would cost a lot and might not be worth all the money so
that is why I don’t think Greymouth’s future is in tourism.

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