Week 5 Term 2

Bonjour!

This week for Monday and Tuesday Mrs Crowe was away at a course, so we had Mr McCabe teaching us.

Monday
For most of the first block we had assembly. Mr McCabe wasn't taking assembly this week, so the assembly was shorter than most weeks. Some people, year eights, got their silver badges, five of them. I am really close to MY silver badge, because I am only six signatures away, and, unfortunately, most of the signatures I need are for Including Others, and those ones are the hardest. After assembly we did writing. I have finished my writing, I just need to edit and proofread it properly.

After interval we were meant to have PE, volleyball in the ALC, but instead we had to sit down on the floor, and Mr McCabe gave us an hour long informative talk about poverty all over the world, and if everyone payed their taxes properly, and gave just a little, everyone, we could stop poverty tomorrow. He also said about the polar bears and global warming, and how soon the ice will have melted, and all gone. He also talked about the Zika Virus, and how if every Olympian from all over the world goes to the Rio Olympics, and then come back to their countries, they will bring back the Zika Virus back all over the world, and everyone will get it.

After the talk, we had Maths. I learnt about fractions, how to order them, and how to find the whole from a given fraction. After lunch, we just had a choice of Writing, Reading or Maths, to finish what we needed.

Tuesday
For first block we had Tech Arts, music. In music, today we were learning how to use GarageBand, an app on Apple devices, that you can make music tracks, songs etc with. Most of us knew how to use the app already, so we got started quickly. We had to pair up in twos and use our Blues song that we wrote last Friday as our lyrics. For our music, Jorja and I used Smart Guitar, and Smart Keyboard, then we recorded our voice track, and we also changed the voice around a bit, making it sound "Chipmunk". Then we plugged the iPads we used into the speakers, and we got to listen to each other's songs. Some of them were funny, cool, and serious. Jorja and my song was about her pet bee, Barry, dying after she stroked it, because it stung her and then died because it didn't like it.

After interval, we had the option of Maths, Reading or Writing, whatever we needed to complete. I did Maths, because I needed to get it done, and I had about five more activities to complete. I finished all of those in the hour and fifteen minutes we had, then our relieve teacher stopped us and set up a game on the whiteboard, kind of like hangman, but if you got a whole word right, your group got five points, if you got one letter right, you got one point, and if you guessed wrong, there was no consequence, you just moved on to the next group.

After lunch, we were going to maybe go out for soccer, but it was raining, so we didn't. That afternoon, I worked on my reading task, the man with enormous wings. I am almost finished, and the due date is tomorrow lunch time.

Wednesday
For the first block, we were going to have maths, but instead we had an ICAS Science test, which was quite hard. The year 8's got one whole hour for the test, and the year 7's got fifty-five minutes. There were forty-five questions in the whole test, and a few I couldn't work out, so I had to guess and move onto the next question. After the test, we maths like we were supposed to, but only for about twenty minutes until interval. In those ten minutes, if we needed to, we got to go to the library to return or issue, or both, a book\s. I went to the library, but I couldn't find what I wanted, so I came back and edited and printed off, then handed in my reading task.

After interval, we had SSR, which stands for Sustained Silent Reading, I think. We had that for fifteen minutes, then we had a choice of reading or writing, and some people also did maths, but I had finished all of those, so I started on a short story competition, called The Power Of Words. The POW is short stories, original ones, written by 11-17 year olds, and to enter you just write your own story and send it to the publisher, who, if she thinks yours is good enough, she publishes it to the world, and if you score first place, you get a World Vision prize pack. The word limit is 700-1500 words. I am doing this, and I am almost finished my story, I think.

After lunch we the year 7's had French, and I continued with my short story competition writing, which I am getting closer to finishing. At ten past two, we went to the ALC for JumpJam, and we did the song Freaks again. It was only the second time doing it, but everyone seemed to know it!

Thursday & Friday
Thursday, I was home sick all day.
Friday, T.O.D; Teacher Only Day, so yay, holiday!

Au Revoir!