Athletics Inter-school

Yesterday we had out inter-school athletics. I participated in four events which was 400m, 100m sprint, high jump and long jump. I place 4th in 400m, 3rd in 100m sprint, 2nd in high jump and we didn't get told what we placed in high jump. I think our school did really well because we are a small school but placed mostly in the top 5. 

Graduation Dance

Since graduation is coming up the year 8's had been having dance lessons. We have learnt the cha cha, rock and roll, circle dance and the barnyard dance. One of the hardest parts was learning the thread the needle which took place in the rock and roll dance.  I think it was the most complicated dance move that we have ever learnt. My favourite dance is the circle dance because it is fast and upbeat. 

Athletics Day

Today was our school Athletics day. We had different activities to take part in such as long jump, rob the nest, ball throw and more. To make it more fun and exciting we got to compete in teams, my team was the yellow team although we didn't win as much games as possible we still got to have lots of fun and learn new things. My favourite activity was the rob the nest game because we got to steal other teams eggs. At the end of the day had our school sprints where all the finalists that placed in their heat raced. I raced in the year 8 girls race as well as the school finals where you race the fastest seniors, it was really hard but I came 3rd out of 8. 

Fire Station Visit

Since our inquiry focus is "people in our community" we got to visit the fire station. They gave us a reminder of a few fire safety tips such as having a smoke alarm in your house and also what they do as a fire fighter. Did you know that fire fighters aren't there just to save people from fire accidents they are also first responders so they are trained to do that. The fire fighters showed us their training course and

Mussel Problems

This week's maths learning was based on fractions and proportions. Zahra and I worked collaboratively to find the solutions to the equations. I think the last problem was very challenging because we had to use our multiplication skills and multiply big numbers which was very hard.  

Fractions Games

This game helped us order our fractions from smallest to biggest. It was also timed and kept record of your score so you can see how your doing. You had to pop the balloons you thought were in order, it will make a noise if you are incorrect. I think I did really well considering I'm not the best at fractions. If you would like to play the game and challenge your self (click here)

Navigating Narritives- Summarising

In one of our novel studies activities our take was to make a summary of the book. To help us with this we choose 20 important words from the text that would be useful for the summary. From there we selected 6 words that were very important and we then used those 6 words to write our summary. I think that Nazella and I made a good summary because we have understood the book.