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Friday 13 December 2013

2013 Net book highlights

 

   Having a net book connected to the internet is awesome. It helped me so much. I can write stuff faster than using a pencil, search up the meaning of the words that I don’t know and I can share my work with my friends or the teacher. You can email your teacher what's the task for the day, if there absent and we can post our writings on our own blogs. Our teacher  can  see us on his device, what we're working on  and  if were on the right path.

   Its helps me do my basic facts faster by doing my xtramath and if you don't know what it means, it is a math program online that our whole class go on it to learn our basic facts faster. When I need help on my maths, I go to my tracking my success, a site that our teacher created to show the highlights of our learning and it has videos that helps us to do new year strategies. I’ve also learn to read better because there lot of sites that you can read online like Kiwi kids new, Nz herald and there are lots more. We also go on a program called math whizz. Math whizz helps me to learn new stuff on maths and it makes our brain work faster.

  If we didn't have any netbooks our learning we be slowing down and lot of us won't know that much words. I'm glad  that I came to this school where we learn with net books.
 














Yr 8 camp 2013 highlights


On Tuesday the 3rd we had camp for just the Yr8 at Rotorua. We camped in a place called kiswick. We left school at 9am. It was a long ride, most of us went to sleep. It took like 3 hours to get their. We stop two times because the bus driver has to have a rest. It was a long ride but then finally we got their. Going through Rotorua finding our way to keswick with the smell like raw eggs.

My favourite highlight of the camp was going on the luges ride with me Dillon, Crusader,Richard and Jaylee blocking the way and bumping into each others. My other highlight of the camp was hanging out with my mates.

My low point of the camp was walking up the mountain, with the weather spitting and waking up early to go for a run.


Monday 2 December 2013

Inter Zones, Athletics 2013


On Friday November the 29th Ms Vaafusuaga took us to the Eastern Zone held at the lloyd Elsmore Pakuranga park to compete in the Inter zone athletics. We took the yr8 and the y7 boys and girls that came first in the school athletics and I was one of them. I Made into shot put. We had to pick up the Tamaki primary people that made it because they didn't have a bus.


We had some helpers like (Ms V) Lorenzo and Ms Takere. It was a very hot day. All the boys were playing with sunscreen squeezing lots into our hands and squeezing it around. When we got there we had to set up the tie pole and look for a good spot. Finally it was time for my event.  

We have 3 throws each. My first throw was average, my second throw sucks and my last throw is the one that made me come first. I was so happy. After the whole Athletics I came first in shot put the yr8 boys came first in relay and we came back happily.