I am back again with my splendiferous, fabulicious new blog entry! You’ll hear all the typical stuff and all that jazz.
Maths
Recently, we had a second math test on Algebra. Jay liked watching our faces contort in mathematical torture while he just sat down and laughed. We’re having another One Hour Mystery Math Session again, about a child who stole a gigantic cookie. Of course I wouldn’t do that! Would I…
SDL
The SDL season is here again, which stands for Self Directed Learning (or, in Sam’s case, Self Inflicted Learning)! This is when we are allowed to learn whatever we want during the week, as long as it’s an actual subject in the NZ curriculum. We also have to do some reading, writing and maths exercise every day. This means I get to do maths in the afternoon, yay. I hope Jay’s going to give us the timetables soon…
Speeches
The Thorndon Speech Season has come to an end with two champions going onto the Finals, our two senior school pioneers, Hannah Saul and Mikey Mazey! WOOOT!
Science Roadshow
Just yesterday, we hopped on two different buses to go to the Hutt to see the Science Roadshow, which is pretty much a bunch of science experts going around the country to show us a seemingly endless variety of science exhibits. There were several displays, like Maps. On that, you have to predict the different names of types of maps, like Geological Map, Physical Map and Political Map.
Japanese
We have Japanese every Friday, just before Technology. We were made to do an inquiry on a main branch of Japan. For example I’m doing Japanese folklore. Did you know that their ruler of the underworld is Enma, a man always portrayed as short tempered and merciless. To scare children into telling the truth, parents used to say, “If you lie, Enma will pull out your tongue!” I’m sure that had a way of getting the truth out of them.
Be back next week for more Blogannuation! (my new word for Weekly Blog Entries.)
Yasmin
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Term 3
Welcome to this new, sparkling, fabulicious Room 5 blog!
The blog has gone all grey and dusty and old because Jay was so busy being evil, he forgot about this poor, neglected blog! Well, now you have a new post written by moi (Yasmin Larry) so read and enjoy!
Maths
Recently we have begun a new unit of maths – Algebra. It requires logical thinking, and the use of letters in the place of numbers. If you keep trying, it really isn’t that difficult. To improve on this, we have been doing ‘One-Hour Mysteries’ (as a class) to develop our mathematical thinking.
Writing
We participated in the Senior School Short Story Competition (a tongue twister in itself) and three stories were just good enough to get through to His Principalness Mr Sutton:
Lydia – “Lost” (A drama that deserves an Oscar)
Ben – “The Life of a Serial Killer” (It’s a fantastically twisted story)
Hannah – “The Unfortunately True Story of Me” (Better than Jacqueline Wilson,Roald Dahl and Jane Austen altogether)
We wish them all good luck!
Maori
We were asked to take any book out of our library of Maori books and translate it into English. We are going to scan these into a Powerpoint and then record our voices reading it. We will then share these with the Junior School.
Art
About two weeks ago (when SOMEONE should have been writing this) we had our first Graham Braddock Art Course. We were taught how to draw Still Life. It’s a lot more complicated than just drawing a bunch of fruit and leaving it alone. It’s boundaries, shades, dimensions, lines, scales, centimetres... More recently, we did Still Life on our own. You can come into Room 5 if you want a Butcher’s Hook (UK slang for look).
Inquiry
We have been doing a HUGE inquiry on China. Our big question is:
WHAT ARE THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NZ CULTURE AND CHINESE CULTURE?
We have been investigating this question in several different areas: Food, Medicine, Art, Government, Family, etc, etc. And let me put you in on a secret:
We’re planning to have this fantastic exhibition on what we have learnt! It is going to be fantabulous, I tell you, and that is all I can let loose. It will be fantabulous.
And one last thing…
SPEECH SEASON IS NEAR!
5 days,9 hours,30 minutes and 55 seconds left till Speech Day…
On a closing note, I would like to thank Jay for giving me this job…well actually it’s not a job because:
“If you like what you do, you’ll
never work another day in your life”
-Kong Qiu
And I love it!
I also promise to not be like our evil teacher and neglect this blog, and write in it every week. Jay’s happy now.
Rainbows,
Yasmin
The blog has gone all grey and dusty and old because Jay was so busy being evil, he forgot about this poor, neglected blog! Well, now you have a new post written by moi (Yasmin Larry) so read and enjoy!
Maths
Recently we have begun a new unit of maths – Algebra. It requires logical thinking, and the use of letters in the place of numbers. If you keep trying, it really isn’t that difficult. To improve on this, we have been doing ‘One-Hour Mysteries’ (as a class) to develop our mathematical thinking.
Writing
We participated in the Senior School Short Story Competition (a tongue twister in itself) and three stories were just good enough to get through to His Principalness Mr Sutton:
Lydia – “Lost” (A drama that deserves an Oscar)
Ben – “The Life of a Serial Killer” (It’s a fantastically twisted story)
Hannah – “The Unfortunately True Story of Me” (Better than Jacqueline Wilson,Roald Dahl and Jane Austen altogether)
We wish them all good luck!
Maori
We were asked to take any book out of our library of Maori books and translate it into English. We are going to scan these into a Powerpoint and then record our voices reading it. We will then share these with the Junior School.
Art
About two weeks ago (when SOMEONE should have been writing this) we had our first Graham Braddock Art Course. We were taught how to draw Still Life. It’s a lot more complicated than just drawing a bunch of fruit and leaving it alone. It’s boundaries, shades, dimensions, lines, scales, centimetres... More recently, we did Still Life on our own. You can come into Room 5 if you want a Butcher’s Hook (UK slang for look).
Inquiry
We have been doing a HUGE inquiry on China. Our big question is:
WHAT ARE THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NZ CULTURE AND CHINESE CULTURE?
We have been investigating this question in several different areas: Food, Medicine, Art, Government, Family, etc, etc. And let me put you in on a secret:
We’re planning to have this fantastic exhibition on what we have learnt! It is going to be fantabulous, I tell you, and that is all I can let loose. It will be fantabulous.
And one last thing…
SPEECH SEASON IS NEAR!
5 days,9 hours,30 minutes and 55 seconds left till Speech Day…
On a closing note, I would like to thank Jay for giving me this job…well actually it’s not a job because:
“If you like what you do, you’ll
never work another day in your life”
-Kong Qiu
And I love it!
I also promise to not be like our evil teacher and neglect this blog, and write in it every week. Jay’s happy now.
Rainbows,
Yasmin
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