Week 4

This week was quite exciting and also very tiring. We are doing a piece of report writing about a certain animal and I chose to have my topic as Meerkats. I have got heaps and heaps of information and I am trying to manage to fit at least the important stuff onto the page. I have learned tons of stuff about Meerkats and I can not wait to share my report with my classmates and teacher.

Later on in week 9 of this term we have a science fair and I have decided on my topic. I will be doing an experiment to find out what is the effect of colored light on plant growth. I have done lots of research and I am ready to start on my hypothesis and to start experimenting. I think I will have to start with my experimenting pretty soon because it involves growing stuff and I don't want to only have half an experiment for the science fair.

On Thursday this week I went to wims football as a reporter to both write about and take pictures of the two teams playing. Both teams played their hardest and achieved well.

By Max

week 3

This week I took part in the Te Awamutu intermediate music camp. Students from Cambridge and matamata intermediates came and took part in the festival as well as us. I play the trumpet and there were a lot of good tutors that helped me and all the other participants prepare for the concert that was held on Thursday night in the T.A.I  A.L.C. I learned how to play about a dozen pieces such as Bynip Blues, A Children's Christmas Carol, Hard Rock Blues and lots more.

Here is a picture of a trumpet for all those that do not know what it looks like.
   
Trumpets are played with combinations of the three different valves and blows.

As well as the music that last week was full of we also had our first 2 science lessons and we learned about P.O.E.W (predict,observe,explain and what if). We had to test what would happen when we lit a scharboughafair tea bag on fire with a lighter.

By Max

Week 2

Tech
On Tuesday at wood work, I learned how to put filler into wood. I used a scraper to push the filled into the gaps in my truck.I also learned how to drill holes free handed.By the end of the Thursday lesson I had unfortunately not finished my truck so hopefully Mr.Grahm will give me a lesson or two to help me finish.
Next week I will have science as my tech art.

I have done some descriptive writing lately and I believe that I did quite well as I got some very positive feedback from my pairs. I also did a geometry test and I know that I have improved majorly since the start of this year.

As a class this week, we had a session learning lacrosse and after learning how to throw and catch we had a few games. I learned how to pass to a person and catch with a stick. I played a fun game and afew relays and I hope that I will soon get another session sometime soon.
Here is a photo:

Term 2 week 1

This week I learned to find the unknown angle in any polygon. I also decided to do an experiment on what happens to plants in low levels of sunlight as my science fair project. I have started to research info  for what  I think will happen before I start doing my testing.I will test It in different levels of light with each and all of the plants. I will try my best with variables and I will monitor all my plants very closely and take care with all of them. I also learned to about some things at camp.


Here are some photos from camp at the narrows. 

Week 6

This week we spent a lot of time on maths. I picked up a lot about place value and 'to the power of'. I never knew this before but to the power of is just (e.g) five times five times five. The answer is 125.

This is what I have learnt this week.
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Sports

Sports post
Week 1-4
Over the last few weeks I have done quite a few sports at school. Soft ball and minor games were the first sports we did as a whole school and I really enjoyed that and I also liked going out and practising our class soft ball for the interclass competition that is on now.
Heats
I did well in swimming heats and I entered lots of races. I did three types of swimming and these were Freestyle, breathstroke and backstroke. I did not make it into the finals but I don't really mind.

Keep an eye out for my next sports update.
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