Boy - Novel Study

 Boy - Roald Dahl 

This was our last week of doing the chapters of our novel study.  We had to read pages 144 - 176.  I read them all on Monday.  I have finished all my novel study summaries and here are the ones I did.

EOTC - Jellie Park

 8 Tips on Water Safety

For EOTC we are doing activities about Jellie Park,  Adrenalin Forest & Town.  This activity is for Jellie Park.  The activity is tips about how to be safe in the water.  I made a google drawing on 8 tips for water safety.  Here is my google drawing.

 Book Review

My book was Boy by Roald Dahl.  I chose this book because I think Roald Dahls books are really funny and since it's a true story I thought it might be interesting.  Overall I really like this book because it was a true story from back in 1900s and I also think they could have made the chapters like relate to each other.  

My favourite part of this book was where he talks about being a fag at Repton.  I liked this part because it seems very annoying to be a fag and I wanted to know what it's like being a fag.  There were many characters in the book but the main one who stood out was obviously Roald Dahl and his mum.   

I would recommend this book to some people.  Not all people are going to like this book because it's based on a true story and some people might like made up stories.  I think people aged between 12- 14 would like this book.

I would rate this book a 3.5 / 5 because I don't like how the chapters don't make sense together but some of them do.  

Here is a photo of Roald Dahl when he was alive:

EOTC - Extra for Experts

EOTC - Extra for Experts

Next week we are going on trips out to Town, Adrenaline Forest & Jellie Park.  We are going as Kahui and we call it EOTC.  EOTC means Education out the classroom.  We have this slide and it tells us what tasks to do.  There is 4 activities for each place we are going.  There is also 3 activities for year 9s that is called extra for experts but I'm doing that one because they looked funner.  My challenge was this:

Pretend you are a tourist coming to visit Christchurch for the first time. 

Plan a day trip for a family of four around the city. 

You might choose to visit some of the places we are going for EOTC, you might have some other favourite locations. 

Include the costs/budget up to $200 for the day including lunch, snacks and any entrance costs for the attractions and transportation.

Here is what I did for this:

 

Have you ever been to any of these places ? 

What place is your favourite out of the three ? 

Speech Term 4

 Why we should be allowed coloured hair and painted nails at school.

This term we have been looking at speeches.  We have been doing them for about 3 weeks now.  My speech is about why we should be allowed hair colour and painted nails, hence the title. Here is my speech,  at the top is the time and title.

I really enjoyed my speech because I like some of the words I used.

I was a little bit challenged trying to make it to two minutes long.  I over came this by just working and changing some words and trying to stretch it out as long as I could.

I learnt that I really don't like talking to my computer to record.

The purpose of persuasive writing is to persuade someone with whatever you have written.  Say your speech is why we should be allowed phones at school.  Well you would have to come up with many reasons that you think your option is the best option. 

Gymnastics - Term 4

For the past couple of weeks we have been doing gymnastics for P.E,  we have to do a blog post about what we have done in gymnastics.  I have been on everything already!  These are some of the things you can do in gymnastics:

1.  Beam - Walk backwards,  Splits & Leap.

2.  Bars - Swing, One leg & double flip.

3.  Trampoline - Front flip, back flip & forwards roll

4.  Floor/ mat - Handstand,  cartwheel & Headstand

My favourite is the Bars because they are easy and I know how to do them.  I also think they are really easy.

 Design a New Uniform

This week in reading when we finished all our work, we had to do fast finish tasks.  I only started them today because I was busy reading.  I created a unifrom I think would be good.  I didn't add shoes because I think any sneakers would be fine. Here is my google drawing on the "new uniform"