T4 W7

Term 4 Week 7

What did I learn? To get low in volleyball and how to serve.
What did I find easy/hard? I found math easy and hard. Because some of it I found really easy and some of it was challenging
If it was easy what did I do? Tell the teacher who provided me with the work
If it was hard what did I do? Ask a friend to help or a teacher or I could read it again to try to make sense of it.

T4 W6

TERM 4 WEEK 6

What did I learn this week? I learnt about two famous New Zealanders who I didn't know and found out what they did for New Zealand

If it was Easy or hard what did I do? If it was hard I would ask for help from a friend or ask the teacher who provided me with the work. If it was easy I would tell the teacher who gave me the work that I found it a bit too easy.

What did I enjoy? I really enjoyed the inquiry one the two famous New Zealanders, because I found it really interesting finding out new facts about them.

T4 W5

What did I learn? How to use different photo collages.
What did I find easy or challenging? working out how to use some pic collages.
If it was hard what did I do? Tell the teacher who provided me with the work, ask a friend or read through it again.
If it was easy what did I do? tell the teacher who gave me the work.

T4 W4

what did I find easy and or challenging? I found math easy because I knew how to do it and I also found current events easy because I knew most of them.
If it was hard what did I do? Ask for help or read through it again
If it was easy what did I do? Tell the teacher who provided me with the work
What am I looking forward to? Kings fixture

T4 W3

What did I learn? How to x + and - fractions. How to extend problems e.g Extend 6(
What did I find easy/challenging? Math because some questions took a lot of thinking.
If it was hard what did I do?Ask for help or read over it.
If it was easy what did I do? Tell the teacher who provided me the work.
What am I looking forward to? Next fixture

Brick making

30-10-2017 
We learnt how to make bricks. We put gravel and water into a mixer along with cement mixture.
Mr Hall told us why we can't use them for construction and how after an earthquake the chapel made out of students bricks was the only one that passed with 100%. 

Museum

On Tuesday 24nd of October. 8JB, 8GM and 8CH went to the Hamilton Museum. We learnt about Maori traditions and what they believe. We all so learnt about why East and West are more important.

Term 4 Week 1

What have I learned this week? That the French calendar starts in July because of there school holidays. Maori parts of a marae. In art, I learned how to do a watercolour background
What did I find easy/challenging?art because it took a while to get into rhythm
If it was easy or hard what did I do? if it was easy I'll tell my teacher the provided me with the work, that I found it easy and if it was hard ill ask for help or tell the teacher/friend.
what am I look forward to? going to the museum and the Dillworth fixture

T3 W6

TERM 3 WEEK 6

What Did I learn? The difference between the rule and the patterns

What did I find easy or hard? 5 sentence Writing was easy because I found it easy

If it was easy or hard what did I do? Ask for help or tell the teacher

What am I looking forward to? Hamilton gold tournament 

T3 W5

What Did I learn? I learnt that Breakfast mean to break fast and fast means not to eat or drink. And about where the word fraction comes from. It comes from an Italian word that means break

What did I find easy or hard? I found scince hard to get done in time because Ben and I couldn't figure out the first one

If it was easy or hard what did I do? Ask for help or tell the teacher

What am I looking forward to? Hamilton gold tournament 

Red Cross

Today Red Cross came to talk to us about refugees and what New Zealand does to help. We found out about different company's that supplied house and ones that helped refugees pay off the cost of the house.

T3 W4

What Did I learn? About A.I,

What did I find easy or hard? Maths was hard because I didn't know how to do the activity.

If it was easy or hard what did I do? Ask for help

What am I looking forward to? Hamilton Gold training.

Cross Country

Today we had Cross Country. We had to do three laps of the school and I came 8th and Kai won.
My little cousin raced and she came 1st in year 0-1 and my other cousin who was in year 4 raced and came 10th.

T3 W3

Term 3 Week 3

MONDAY

What did I learn today? What adjacent angles on a straight are. (1or more angles that add up to a certain degree we did it on 180/360 degrees)

What was easy/hard? adding up the Angles to 180 or 360

What did I do if it was easy? I told Mr Rees-Gibbs

What did I do if it was hard? ask for help

What am I looking forward to? Fixture

TUESDAY 

What did I learn today? How to do string art.

What was easy/hard? Nailing the nails for string art and getting them straight

What did I do if it was hard? ask someone next to me

What am I looking forward to? Fixture

Wednesday

What did I learn today? how to find the missing angle of a triangle

What was easy/hard? Finding the missing angle was hard because I didn't know how to do it.

What did I do if it was hard? ask mr Rece Gibbs

Thursday

What did I learn today? about Spina Bifida.

What did I do if it was hard? Ask for help.

Maioro

On the 10th of August 2017, Maioro came in to talk to us about his disability and his life story.
Maioro had spina Bifida and what he went through.
In year 7 he was at peachgrove and his teacher told him to stay behind after class, his teacher then said to him if he was into sport, he said no but he will give it a try. He tried wheelchair rugby, he like it but he was versing older kids and he got smashed. So he tried wheelchair basketball and he loved it he made it into the NZ U20's at 13 and played in it until year 13 then he got right into athletics and when he was 18 he played in the U23's world championship and go 4th in Discus and Javilin and got 2nd in shotput.

T3 W2

Term 3 Week 2

What did I learn this week? More effective ways to use a protractor in math And about Atoms in science and more about the salvation army and what they do

What was easy/hard? 

What did I do if it was easy? Tell Mr B

What did I do if it was hard? Ask someone if they knew how to do it or read over it again

What am I looking forward to?fixture

Goals-

Salvation Army

Salvation Army

On Friday the 4th of August a former staff member of southwell who now works for the salvation army came to have a talk to the whole of year 8 about what she does and how we can help. She told us about how the salvation army have set up a food market for the homeless and for the straggling. They've also set up a psychologist to help them get through the hard times and also a manager to help the sort out a budget so they can pay rent.

40 hour famine

Yesterday 27th July 2017 

A man who worked for world vision came to talk about the 40 hour famine and decision making.

First he taught us a game where he would show as two choices and we had to put hands on our head for option A and hands on hips for option B and last person standing wins. Then he showed us some videos on some refugees lives.

Term 3 Week 1

What did I learn this week? more about the 40 hour famine and refugees

What did I find easy and or challenging? I found maths easy because we had to do shapes and find area and corners and faces.

If things were easy what would I do about it? Get it done quick so I could get on with more stuff.

If things were hard what would I do about it? Ask for help.

What am I looking forward to? Getting a tour around Waikato Stadium

T2 W9

Term 2 Week 9

What did I learn this week? What different types of metals make different types of sparks and that solar power is down 60% in price.

What did I find easy and or challenging? Hard was Current Events because I couldn't copy and paste I had to type it word by word and it took so long.

If things were easy what would I do about it? Get it done quick so I could get on with more stuff.

If things were hard what would I do about it? Ask for help.

What am I looking forward to? Gwynne shield.

T2 W8

What did I find easy and challenging. Challenging is science I had trouble with finding the answer.

if things were easy what did I do.get up to date with other stuff

If things were hard what did I do. ask for help or try to work it out.

what am I looking forward to. holidays

what did I learn? that solar power cost has gone down by 6o%

T2 W7

Term 2 Week 7

What did I learn this week? About different sources of energy.

What did I enjoy? Fixture.

If things were easy what did I do about it? Get more things done.

If things were hard what did I do about it? ask for help or read over it.

What am I looking forward to? Next fixture.

Chinese dinning day

Chinese Dinning Day 

Monday 12th June 2017 Chinese Dinning Day

On Monday 12th of June 8JB and 8CH went to Master House Yum Cha a chinese restaurant.

We ate 8 different types of food I found out that Octopus is really nice. There was a challenging dish it was chicken feet I tried it but I didn't really like it that much. It was a great experience trying different food. 

T2W5

Term 2 Week 5 revision

What did I learn this week: That a certain type of cactus can grow up to 71 feet tall

What did I find easy and or challenging:

Current events

If things were hard what did I do about it:

Calm down and read over  it again 

If things were easy what did I do about it: do extra

What am I looking forward to:next fixture

Goals for my learning

to do more editing in my writing

Mr Speedy

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Tuesday 23 May, my class went to Mr Speedy from 1.50- 2.30.  During that time we did a few different things.  First we did an Italian police drill where Mr Speedy taught us a feel different words in Italian eg: Relax and attention.  We then had to put these to the test, where Mr Speedy would call out an instruction we just learnt and we had to do it.   The last person to do it was out until there were three left.  The boys went first until there were three left - Hetekia, Antoneo and me. Then the girls did the same with Rea, Cindy and Leah. Then the top three boy and top three girls went until there was one left who was Leah.

Mr Speedy took us inside, and told us about Harvard university and how the library was named. Then he told us about how all the Southwell bricks were made and showed us a picture of who made.

T2W3

Term 2 Week 3

What did I learn this week? There are still 5000 landmines in 80 different countries from world war 2.

What did I find easy and or challenging?Math challenging .

If Things were hard what did I do about it? ask for help.

What am I looking forward to? Gwynne shield.

Goals for my learning?

Complete my homework quicker/ earlier in the week.

Term 2 Week 1

                                  TERM 2 WEEK 1

What did I learn this week? How to use steam and leaf and plot graphs 

What did I find challenging or easy? Steam and leaf and plot graphs

If things were easy what did I do about it?try to do extra

If things were hard what did I do about it? Keep calm and read the instructions again to try to make sense of it.

What am I looking forward to? First rugby game

Goals for my learning?To make sure to plan more before writing

Reflection Term 1

      Reflection

What did I learn this term: How to play D, A7 and G guitar.

What did I find Easy or Challenging: Finishing all my homework in time.

If thing were easy what would I do about it: Tell the teacher that I found it easy

If things were hard what did I do about it: Ask the teacher or tell him.

What am I looking forward to in term 2: RUGBY!!!

Goals for my learning: To use more describing writing.

T1W9 reflection

What did I learn this week? That the black with three holes is the better Bunsen burner.

Was anything hard or easy? easy was doing my first Social studies assignment. Hard was completing all my homework in time.

How can you make it easier if it was hard? I can my getting all my homework done by getting an earlier start.

What am I looking forward to? rugby trials.

Reflection T1W8

REFLECTION

What did I learn this week:What apparatus is.

Was anything easy/hard this week: Getting all my homework done and finding ideas for the writing 5 line.

What are you looking forward to: The next fixture and theatre sports.