I got lost during orienteering...

On Wednesday we went to spencer park, and did teamwork activities for the William Pike Challenge.

We arrived at spencer park, with Rangi Ruru Girl's school. My favourite activity was when all of my group had pipes and we had to get a marble across the field. Later on we had to pick partners to go orienteering with and I went with my friend Jedi, and then Jacob joined our group. We read the map wrong a detoured from the group - the instructor had to run around the forest to come and get us, which I found pretty funny. Overall I had a good time and I hope we get to do something like this again.

The photo below is a group photo with the Year 7/8s of my school and the Year 8's of Rangi Ruru. 

The 'Hoatzin'

This week my reading group and I have been studying one of the birds of the Amazon named the 'Hoatzin', (Pronounced 'Hot zin'.) and one of my tasks was to do/create something on what I read about this bird. I chose to create a DLO based on what I read, and I found it hard to match a good color background with the pictures I included. If there is anything I can add or improve my DLO please let me know in the comments. Thanks, Happy Blogging!

Algebra - Maths :)

Maths! This week we have been doing revisions with our maths and one of the things we did was algebra. Firstly I found the equations really easy but they started to get hard. I tried by best to complete my work this week. I chose to do a DLO on algebra to teach you guys how to do it. I hope you learn something from this DLO, it is below.

Term 2 Reflection

Hi guys, today for our school, it is the very last day of Term 2 and because of this all of our class did an 'End of Term Reflection'. I talked about how I found some parts of the term difficult and how I improved. For this we had to write at least 200 words, and I found this hard because at first I thought we just had to write a couple of sentences.

If you would like to see my reflection click the link below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11rS8kp23uDWkgb-SbU7oU7HcHqcYT3kQHQNzW1FT2uA/edit

Newspaper report - The Yaldhurst Times

Hey! I have now finished my newspaper report and I think you guys are ready to see it.
What I found difficult was fitting it all onto two pages - because there was so much to write!
I was doing my newspaper on google docs as I tried to use a different website previously but that really didn't work haha.

To see my newspaper click on the link below:
CLICK HERE :)

Angles for maths

Hi Bloggers!
Today I will be blogging about what I have learned in maths for this week. 

I learned how to tell a certain degree of an angle for example: 

So, the grey dot is 130 degrees because the straight line adds up to 180 degrees, and all we have to do is take that 50 from 180 and it equals 130. 

I found it difficult this week because instead of working out 180 degree angles we had to work out 360 with odd numbers. 

I hope you learned something looking at my post today - Thanks and comment down below. 

The Yaldhurst Times - My Newspaper Reports

For the past week our whole class has been working on our own newspapers. Mine is called 'The Yaldhurst Times', I came up with this name by using our school name and thinking of what newspaper names could go on the end, and eventually I came up with 'The Yaldhurst Times'.

I found it difficult to get a right layout with my newspaper, since I was using google docs; we had an option to use other newspaper layouts on different websites but somehow it just wasn't working for anyone.

I also found it difficult to use formal language and especially using third person because a few times in my report I wanted to use 'we', or 'you'.
The requirements for my newspaper report were:

• Having a Headline, and a Byline
• Including a quote
• Other parts of information in a report from another source/website
• Correct punctuation

One reason why I'm doing this blog is because I am not yet finished my report and I would like feedback, and this is what I'm unsure about: 

1. Does my report look like a newspaper?
2. Do I need any extras to make it look like a newspaper?
3. Can you spot anything I need to improve?

Here is the link to my newspaper report:
CLICK HERE