Term 2 Week 3

Last week, our school hosted a band camp, where students from two other schools who participate in groups such as band, choir and drum groups all came together with other students to learn a few pieces and perform them in front of an audience.

This camp was held over two days, Wed 29 - Thu 30 of March. On Wednesday, our excited music students awaited the arrival of the other two schools while setting up all the equipment for the event. All the students worked hard at their pieces from 10am-7:30pm on Wednesday and from 9am-4pm on Thursday. After the dress rehearsal on Thursday, we all had dinner in the hall (lasagne! YUM!) before the big concert. The concert began at 7pm and it was spectacular. Everybody performed exceptionally well. 

I think our camp was a huge success and all the schools managed to mingle with one another, play together, and learn together. 

Weekly Reflection

Week 7

This week I would like to write about the recent events at my school. On Monday afternoon, the Production Call Backs were due. Before that, we had our first auditions, and about 30 students from all that auditioned, were chosen to be main characters, and they would audition again in the call backs with the song "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" which would be sung in a duet with a boy (or girl considering we had a lot more girls than boys). We had a few days to practice our parts. So back to Monday, everybody who was chosen sang their duet, and everybody was nervous and shaking. There was so much tension in the room!!! Also, there was a lot of talent, which only worsened the nerves. After everybody sang, we got into groups of fours, fives and one group of three and we read from two scripts, acting as some characters, and today we found out our parts! Luckily, I managed to get the part I wanted!!! Princess!!! 

Portrait Poem. -I AM

I am a musical nerd who enjoys tests.

I wonder how the world will end.

I hear music wherever I go.

I see the birds fly over the trees.

I want to experience the point of life before life itself disappears.

I am a musical nerd who enjoys tests.  

I pretend that I can control the world with my thoughts.

I feel like I’m a white rose in a garden of red tulips.

I touch the sea just to see it spread out and surround my fingertips.

I worry that I will never be good enough.

I cry for all the broken souls in the world.

I am a musical nerd who enjoys tests.

I understand that beauty comes from within.

I say that appearance doesn’t matter as much as your soul does.

I dream of changing the world for the better.

I try to be above the average.

I hope that I can be the person who saves the world from anger and negativity.

I am a musical nerd who enjoys tests.

My Opinions on Animal Cruelty

If you hit a baby, or young child and hurt them badly, you can get arrested and put up for child abuse. So why is it when you purposely harm an animal, is it looked over? Technically, according to Darwin's theory, if we evolved from animals, then we are hurting our own kind. Dogs can get taken away in to animal control facilities for 'harming' a human, which is like their prison, and they will rot there until someone takes them, or they get put down. Although, maybe, just maybe, the human should have been the one put under arrest. A dog won't just attack you (unless it has rabies or something), but most of the time, the humans will provoke the dog to get aggressive by teasing them, hurting them, hurting someone the dog protects, and then, it really is the humans fault. I think that animal abuse, any type, should be treated the same as with babies and children. Animals were on this planet first, we are strutting on their land. The least we can do is stop hurting them. 

My Weekly Learning Reflection

Week 5

So far, we haven't really done much learning this week. Our week has mostly consisted of tests and getting ready for camp (which is in two weeks time!!!). I have been doing maths where we had to work on understanding integers and adding and subtracting integers and positive numbers. Other than that it has just been tests and things like assemblies, P.E, Jump Jam ect.
Also this week our class had our production auditions where you read a script as though you were on stage and you sang to the judges. 

My Weekly Learning Reflection

My First Weekly Learning Reflection 2015

This Week In:

Maths I have

Revised how to use powers, and what primes, factors, prime factors, HCF and LCM are. 

Primes- Can only be divided by themselves and one (e.g. 2 3 5 11 23...)

Factors- Are the numbers that multiply to make a certain number (e.g. factors of 24= 1, 24, 2, 12, 3, 8, 4, 6)

Prime Factors- Are the factors of a number that are also primes.

HCF- Highest Common Factor (e.g. HCF for 18, 21 is 7)

LCM- Lowest (or Least) Common Multiple (e.g. LCM of 6 and 4 is 12)

In PAT Maths I scored a stanine 9 (with two incorrect answers)

We didn't do Reading this week except for Reading PAT today where I scored stanine 9 (one answer wrong)

We also had a maths IKAN where I made silly mistakes

First Time As A Year 8. HAPPY 2015!!!!!

Hey Guys!!! Welcome to 2015!!!
Sorry I haven't been on for a while. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

So this year I will be a Year 8 and I have big aspirations for this year. 
I am continuing with Band and Jazz band and have auditioned for Choir.
I will be auditioning Rock Band on Thursday and I have applied for House Captain and Class Councillor. I am planning on joining Jump Jam and would like to join Extension Science. I know, what a nerd. :) Yeah, I know I am. Oh and I play piano. Grade 5 exams this year. 

SORRY! I missed some information from Dec last year. I auditioned for Talent Quest last year and got in, and ended up with 2nd place equal overall. My remix of Mary Had A Little Lamb was well liked. I was presented as playing Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano on stage, and everyone was saying, "No way, she won't be playing Mary Had A Little Lamb at a Talent Show," 

Boy where they flabbergasted when I began.

I started with Mary Had A Little Lamb then went on to
Oh When The Saints Go Marching In
Say Something 
All Of Me 
Skyscraper
Moonlight Sonata
Zur Sonnenuntergangstunde 
Payphone
Fur Elise
Memory