year review

The year review.

Technology:

This time in technology doing wood work I finished early so then I had time to do these random pieces of art using wood and paint and sometimes the burner. The order of things this year has been good because I ended with my two favourite and started with my three least  favourites but everything this year has been fun making and different from what we did last year and things that are a bit out of the ordinary.

The good.

This year it has been very different from last year because last year it was all about learning and getting things done, this year has been fun but also learning, last we were confined to the classroom and this year we have been able to go outside every now and then. I don’t really being told what I can and can’t do and this year I have had  independence to get things done on my own agenda.

We have had a lot more opportunities to try new things because last year heaps of the things were year 8 only stuff, but now that I am a year 8 I can do a lot of things.

The worst.

When you broke your leg it wasn't that amazing because Mrs Herring's teaching style was very different to yours so we didn't always see eye to eye.

The tests are never very fun because it means remembering what you have learnt and still trying remember the things you already knew.

Another bad thing was that a few of the sporting events were cancelled like the softball I really wanted to try it because I couldn't do it last year.

Being in the digital class.

It has been different from being in a normal class because I have learnt to to type really fast and I can touch type most of the time. I have enjoyed using the Chromebooks because I was just use to using internet explorer, and word, but now we I can use both, but Google drive was a lot faster.

In the end I have had a fun year doing the things I like and believe it or not I don’t think I will miss primary but I will miss some of the teachers.  

if i were in the circus

If I were in the circus what would I do...

I would like to do something that would be impossible for me to do now, which is to swing on that  piece of ribbon that hangs from the roof, I'm not sure what it is called but I thought it would be fun.

Why?

Because it is something that looks extremely fun, and In the real world there is no chance I would be able to do this.

It would take a lot of practice to build up your strength to be able to hold yourself upside down, to the side and just hang there for a long time.

To be able to do this you would have to...

Not be afraid of heights, you would have to be strong, you would have to be dedicated and you would have to trust yourself. Another thing would, you would have to be flexible so you can do flips and the other stuff gymnasts do.

For this you would have to practice regularly, to be able to get the right skills so personally I would practice everyday, for about 5 hours especially if you were going to be performing in front of people.

When I was younger, when we went to the circus this act always caught my attention because it looked like it used a lot of skills. But if I think I can do something I won't let anybody help me until I have succeeded so if I had a coach I wouldn't even listen to whoever it was.

So this is a bit strange that I want to do something I actually hate (gym) but I think If I got started I would actually like it, and get hooked to it, but I have other talents than to hang from a ribbon doing flips.

if I were a sandwich

If I were a sandwich what kind of sandwich would I be?

Personally I like chicken sandwiches, so I would choose to be a chicken sandwich with lots of BBQ sauce.

Why? Because it's a nice and juicy sandwich and it can be a good thing to have for dinner or lunch. Also because you might not always get eaten if you were under cooked, so that could be a bonus.

What makes my sandwich the best?

I think because children and adults love it and you can add anything to it or make it into a lot of things or even personalise it so that it make your taste buds really happy. There are many parts to a chicken, you have the thighs, wings, feet etc and if you don't like one part of it you can have a different part that you do like. Another thing is that I go with lots of different sauces, like BBQ, mayonnaise, aioli, tomato if you so desire, and probably any sauce you can think of. Lastly you can add anything you like to a nice chicken sandwich, you can add vegetables, even some fruits like apples they are nice, and if you go to a shops me get a chicken sandwich they usually have lettuce in it, and I don't actually like lettuce on its own but when you put it in a sandwich it tastes a whole lot better.

What's not so good about my sandwich?

Well if you buy me, I may not be the piece of chicken you like and you can't exactly change that, and if you add something to me that doesn't go very well I will taste horrible,I may not always be cooked and if you have me under cooked there is a high chance you will be sick for quite a while.

So in the end I think I would love to be a chicken sandwich because it has more positives than negatives and it is naturally a really nice tasting sandwich.

Core dynamics

What were my first results.

I wasn't very happy with some of my results because they were a lot lower than what I was hoping, but then again I did do better than others in a few things so I wasn't completely last, next time I'm going to beat every record I set for myself.

What was the hardest?

For me it was the push ups because that is the main thing I can’t do, I'm good at pull ups so I don’t understand why I can’t do push ups, but another thing I struggled with was the beep test because I have really bad ankles and I'm trying to get use to these authotics that I got recently and I hadn't run in them before the beep test so I'm hoping I will be use to them before the next one.

What was the best?

My favourite was the skipping because its probably the easiest for me and we hadn't done skipping in a while and I prefer skipping without little buddies asking.... Was that good? And can you watch me.

Exercise completed

All of them are completed for this week but I'm hoping we can have a week off because there are a few other sports i play in my free time and by the end of the week I can hardly walk.

why it is so hard being our age

What is so hard about being about age.

I think something hard about being our age is, emotion we are always in a different moods so some days we just wanna get the work done but other days we muck around and can't be bothered with anything. Another thing for me would be what's expected of us, some things I just have no idea of what it is and I think we are meant to no it, and in some subjects I'm above or I'm at and I don't want to fail so it's hard, and we all expected to be 100% good and I think that ruins your childhood we all need to have fun otherwise we're not normal, Mr Brunton always goes on about how we need to be role models but that means not taking risks be good all the time and that's just boring, I bet that all the little kids won't even remember what we have to do when they are older. As we are getting older we have a lot more homework that has to be done, sometimes it's hard to find time to get everything done and some things need to be done at home, and I find it annoying because when I get home I like to relax and I have chores that need to be done so there is a lot that needs to be done in not a lot of time.

super hero

If i was a superhero what power would I have?

If I could have one power I would have Super speed and strength.

I would want to have Speed because you could pull a lot of pranks of people and they would never know who it was because you would just run away, and you would always win races and I’m sure everyone would be jealous that you were as fast as light. But my main reason would be because i hate losing and in this case there is no way I can lose, in sporting events anyway.

Another thing would be you could run to work and you wouldn't be late, you could get the house cleaned in seconds so you would have heaps of time spear.

I would also love to have strength because you would always be able to lift anything no matter how heavy it is, I could go to lots of competitions and always win, and if I was moving house I could use my super speed to get there and I would be holding the fridge at the same. I could even go into the guinness world record book for holding the most trucks at the same time. I would save money on weights because I could use things that in my house that would weigh more than weights.

My homework

Why can’t we have no blogs?

I don’t understand why we need to have these, because I will forget to update it and i don’t like writing about what I'm doing or how I've been doing, I usually keep to myself, and I'm not really interested in what everyone else is feeling. I think we should stick with the end of term reflection which sums up the term and what we have been doing during the term.

I struggle with summing up what I've been doing because I always forget or can’t remember the important details so my blog will be really boring and I don’t think anyone would want to read it, I don’t even think I will read it.

I would be confused about what to write and how to write it and make it interesting for people to read, and everyone does the same sort of stuff in this class so they would already know about everything that is going on.

Altogether I think, if you want to tell everyone what you are doing get twitter, and it’s something I don’t really need to do because we are already really busy with all the other homework we have to do, lastly I think I should just worry about getting my speech done rather keeping a blog updated.

What we have been doing this term

Spelling

I've completed spelling, I found it quite easy because I have already done it for two terms so it always gets easier as you go on.

Nelson cards.

I have been struggling with the nelson cards because they are getting harder as you go on, and some of them don’t make sense to me, I'm always asking other people to help that have already done that card to put me in the right direction.

Inference cards

I like doing the inference cards because I have never done them before, and I understand them, but lately I haven't been doing them because of other things.

Dust jacket

So far I'm not enjoying my book, it is really confusing and I have no idea about what is happening, there is so much going on that I'm forgetting all the important information, and for the first chapter I read it twice because I didn't understand and that took me a long time.

Mediator road show

It was a long day dancing and singing to the wiggles and spider man, and I had to do the monkey, elephant and tiger 8 times. To make things worse I missed out on freedom Friday to sing the road show song for another time, I would've much preferred doing it later on and missing something else.

Road patrol

I'm lucky  I don’t have to do road patrol any more, I don’t have to be freezing and do it with my favourite person in the world (joking) but now I'm a little bit too late for milos which is a bummer but that has been what is happening in my life.