Decimals Intro T3 W2

Here is my maths work for this week! All my working out is in my maths book, This week we learned to multiply decimals, where all you have to do is ignore the decimal point and add it in later.

Decimal Place Value Wiseman

This week is about decimals and on this google sheet we all had to answer the questions I had fun doing.

Narrative writing

Here is my writing for last week! I liked making this it was lots if fun I hope you like my story!

Fractions activities T2 W8

This is my maths work from week 8 and we were learning about fractions.

THE GREAT ADVENTURE!

Inside a small house filled with happiness and light, there was one room that was dark and very messy. This room was complete mayhem and the owner of this room was Noah. Today he would travel over to his best friend’s house, where they would play part four of the most well known game series in the world - ‘The Great Adventure!’ This game included magic, fighting and exciting quests. They loved the game ever since it came out and playing the game made them closer as friends! “Noah hurry up! You don’t want to be late!!” called Noah's mother all the way from the kitchen. It was time to go so Noah quickly grabbed his backpack and sprinted down the wooden stairs. Noah and his mother quickly drove to his best friends house!

As Noah’s mum stopped in front of Thomas’s house, Noah excitedly hopped out of the car and sprinted to the lime green wooden front door! Thomas’s parents loved colors and that’s why their house was so colorful. Noah knocked loudly on the door, then Thomas came down and let him in. They greeted each other and then headed upstairs, Thomas’s room was very tidy and just at the end of his bed there was a big t.v with chips, drinks and two controllers. Full of silent excitement they took a seat and started the game. As soon as they clicked on the start button the room started to spin! What was happening? The t.v began to glow a blood red and the boys began to panic as they tried to run to the door. But they fell into the big black hole, which was growing bigger and bigger consuming the whole room!

It seemed as if they would never stop falling until... BOOM! They finally crashed into a giant bush which cushioned their landing. “Urggggh what happened?” groaned Thomas. The two boys looked around and they both could slightly recognize their surroundings. “WOW!” exclaimed Noah. They were surrounded by trees and up above them was the bright blue sky. Right in front of them was a shining gold title screen of ‘The Great Adventure!’ The two boys slowly got to their feet and started to walk around. Noah began to search around the forest. “Everything seems so real… but it can’t be or can it?” said Noah as he glanced over at Thomas who said nothing. Then suddenly a loud booming voice called from somewhere above.  The voice spoke “Welcome to The Great adventure! We have chosen you both to compete in today's games! it said

Noah and Thomas were very confused but the voice carried on talking it said “You are here to compete in an obstacle course! For we are testing a new system to be in one of our levels. If you pass you can go home” Showing them a long path way to a door surrounded by trees. “but if you don’t you have to stay here forever!!” said the voice. Noah and Thomas took one look at each other when an orange bubble started to surround them. Noah and Thomas tried to escape but it was too late! When they were completely surrounded the bubble began too spin and spin, until POP! They had been teleported to a giant arena. Neither of them said a word, until they were taken inside the arena by medieval soldiers and put at the start of the obstacle course. They both looked at each other with determination. “We can do this” said Noah as he got ready to sprint.

Thomas looked at the race ahead of him. They heard the voice and it shouted “Ready… get set … GOO!”. The two boys ran for their lives and the first obstacle was to climb over a giant pile of boulders, Thomas struggled at first but carried on. Next was the type rope walk. Noah was in the lead and tried to rush his way across but ended up nearly falling off. While Thomas took his time and made it across. Coming up third was the Spike Canyon where they had to drink a potion of jump boost, to jump over the canyon! It’s more difficult than it sounded! Thomas ran to the table where two bottles sat on top, panicking Thomas chugged down the potion and jumped as far as he could.  Luckily he landed on his feet and carried on running. Meanwhile Noah was desperately trying to catch up and when he did he made a terrible mistake! As Noah sprinted to the table next to the Spike canyon, he grabbed the last potion and took one big gulp. He then jumped as high as he could, but he jumped so high that he went up into the cloud’s.

Noah had no idea where going to land and hoped it was on the other side of the canyon. But he was wrong! He was going to fall in the hole right near the other side. Noah screamed his head off. As he was falling Thomas heard him and stared, his face full of horror. He witnessed his best friend fall to his doom. Noah was terrified and the only thing he could see around him was a pitch black darkness. But as he was falling he decided that this was it, the end of his life until he heard a faint voice call to him. “Noah wake up! Come on Noah get up!” the voice whispered and to Noah it sounded like his mum! Just then Noah started to open his eyes and he looked around and saw he was in his room safe and sound. It must have all been a wild dream. Noah got up and looked around. He still felt the shock from falling, but he also felt safe to be back in his bed. “Man that was one weird dream” said Noah as he hoped out of bed getting ready for the day.

Algebra problems

Week 9 is all about Algebra and we here we are learning to identify the unknown number which is the letter. 

Algebra 2.0

This week is all about algebra and I enjoyed answering the questions!

Fraction practise T2 W7

This is my maths work for week 7, where we were learning about fractions!

Intro into Fractions

Here is my maths work! We are learning about fractions!

Poetry

Here are three poems I have created, I hope you like them!

Journey to the top with no air!

In the month of May hundreds of people have made a very risky decision, they have decide to climb up Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Ever since last years tragic avalanche which was caused by the Nepal earthquake, which killed 24 people. No one has dared to climb up. What makes the situation even worse none of them brought bottled oxygen with them.

Already 4 people have sadly passed away on their journey and only a few of the climbers  will make it to the top without oxygen. Most mountain climbers would recommend bringing bottled oxygen with you but these hundreds of people have not! I have asked some people from Point England school to see what they think. Marilyn say’s That it is not a very wise idea.

If you want to climb up this mountain make sure to remember to bring bottled oxygen. Also you could do what Ed Viesturs did, which was after every step take 15 breaths in and out. Which may seem like a lot but up on that mountain the air gets thinner and thinner. That's why you need bottled oxygen but never forget to take caution.

ILuminate recount

On a normal Tuesday Point England School was blessed to have a special dance group come and preform for us! They were all the way from America and they were called Illuminate! It was a very joyful time as the whole school gathered in the hall and all the students were buzzing with excitement! None of us knew who was going to perform  but then came the time for the performance.

Suddenly the lights went off and the hall was dark, I heard all the little kids in front of us yelling with excitement and I was very eager to see what was going to happen next! Then I could see three glowing things on the stage! It looked really cool and music started to play! Then the Glowing stopped but a bigger glowing figure came and everyone was so excited and started yelling with excitement! It was so loud!

Out of nowhere 2 more glowing figures came and they all started to dance. It looked amazing but the teachers kept on opening the door and when the sun shone through it made it look a bit funny but still cool with there dance moves! Everyone was having agreat time and they were really good at dancing but then our time came to an end.

When it was finished I felt quite sad, I wish it could have lasted longer, but after the dancers got changed out of their outfits we got to do a Q and A. Some of the questions were funny like "How do you do your dab?" and the result was even more funny. It was a really fun day and I loved watching them it was so cool! Hopefully I will see them again! :)

Algebra T2 W5

This week is all about algebra and I learnt about how letters are just numbers we don't know yet!

Poetry

This week we are learning about the language features of poetry and I found this very fun

Mixture of problems 2

Here is my maths work for week 3 work and I thought that I learnt a lot in the extra for experts!

Mixture of problems 1

This is my maths work for week 3! 

Character Descriptions Task

Today's task was all about showing not tell and we had to describe three characters and this is what I came up with!

Giving the Ocean a Voice

This weeks task is all about the ocean! I love the ocean and I would definitely do all I can to stop the bleaching of the coral! Would you?

YEAR 8 CAMP!!

If I could describe the last week of school, last term in one word it would be….. AMAZING!!! Because all of the year 8’s of Point England school traveled all the way to the Marsden bay camp site, for our own Leadership camp! This camp was all about teaching us year 8’s how to be a leader for the school, since we are the oldest students. We didn’t just learn we also did all kinds of fun activities, such as the water slide, flying fox, kayaking, archery and playing at free time where we got to play on the camps volley ball court and around the area. We were all split into camp groups named North beach, One tree point, Marsden and Ruakaka which was the one I was in. I was lucky enough to have three of my friends in my group and there names are Alexis, May and Marilyn. Let me tell you what happened at camp.

We made our journey by bus and the trip was long. Inside the bus was full of the chatter of children, I was sitting next to my friend Jessica and we both enjoyed the ride with games and conversations! When we finally drove into the camp site I could spot the tall and giant flying fox! My whole head was just buzzing with excited thoughts, I couldn’t wait to see our cabins and go on the water slide! It only took us 5 to 8 minutes to unpack the bus and take all our gear inside the dining hall, we all gathered in the dining hall to eat our morning tea from home and chat to our friends. I wasn’t that hungry and I was just to excited to sit still!

After a while we had to take our things to our cabins and I was so happy that I got the top bunk and to be with my friends in the cabin! Once we were finished taking our bags, we all gathered in a small lounge next to the dining hall to start our first leadership activity. We were learning about how to be a leader and also help the person in charge, because even though we might not be the leader but we still have to help them by listening and doing what they say. Our second leadership activity was about our words and how they can bring us up or tear us down. We talked about how we have to chose our words carefully and to be kind and say nice things and not bad things.

We had morning tea next and free time!! I was soo thrilled that we had free time because I could not wait to see what the rest of the camp site looked like. There is a swing, monkey bars, a small cage where you have to kick the ball into the holes in the walls, a big see saw and lastly a huge chest set outside. Everything looked super cool and I loved standing on the see saw going up and down. Unfortunately our free time came to an end and we had our third leadership activity, which was about team work and listening to each other. The first day went faster than a cheetah!

The next day we were given our activity list for the whole day and the first one my team had was push play! We played all sorts of games like cricket and soccer. I was really good at cricket if I do say so myself! It was really tiring and when push play came to an end, we had a short break to go get our togs because we were going to go kayaking next! I love kayaking but my arms got sore. It was so much fun and what was really fun was that we had a backwards race where we had to row backwards all the way to the end, I didn't win though. When our time was all most up we tipped over our teachers kayak her name is Miss Berry!! It was so funny and I was soaking wet because they tipped my kayak too! When we got back to our cabins we had a shower and got changed.

My favourite activity was the water slide!!! It was so fun going down the slide and what was even better was that my togs were made out of a very slippery material which made me go faster! I remember I went down the slide back to back with my friend Koula and IT WAAS SOOOO COOOLLLL!!!! I was happy that we got some lunch and some free time after that because it was a long day! I also loved angel art! Where we just got to relax and draw, I drew a poster of what we had learned with Mr and Mrs Samuel's who are the parents of one of the year 8 students. Mr and Mrs Samuel's taught us that words are powerful and to walk the talk, so thats what I put on my poster! The last thing I loved about camp was the food! We had tasty meals every night and I loved dessert, I can almost remember the taste of that lovely pasta!

Everything just went by so fast! On our final day we had clean everything! The bathrooms, our cabins, the small lounge and the dining hall! It was easy because everyone helped out and I got to vacuum, When everything was crystal clean we had free time while waiting for the buses. I couldn't believe that I was going back home but at least I had a fun time with my friends on the bus! 
This is me and my friend Ariana on the bus! --->

I will always remember this experience for the rest of my life! My least favourite thing was... NOTHING! I loved it all and I can't wait to see what the year 7's think of it next year! I'm so thankful for all the blessings we had on this camp! I want to thank all the teachers, parents and everyone who helped make this camp possible! I will try to be a good leader this year and try my best at everything!

Addie accident Book Review

This is my book review for the book Addie accident. We were given the task to do one Book review in the holidays, so here is mine!