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The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned

Term 4

Term four has arrived! This term is going to be very busy. There's the ball coming up and Athletics and so much more. Yesterday we started Social dance preparing for the year eight ball. Also coming up is the lip sync. I'm doing the lip sync with my friend Renee. We are doing a mix of song consisting songs such as Man in the mirror and Sugar. In maths we have started statistics, and in English we are  comparing short stories to a moving image based on the short story. So far this year I have 11 badges but are hoping to get two more which are softball and Athletics. In the last few weeks of term 3 I went to Sports Camp where I meet up with many of my old friends from Belmont, and of course made many new friends. I really enjoyed sports camp and did a lot of new things such as BMX. We did really well coming third over all and winning the sportsmanship trophy which is the hardest to earn by far.

Week 3

It is now the third week of the term and so much is happening. for starters we have four Chinese students and their teacher stay with pupils from our school. They have come here to learn better English and to also experience New Zealand. Also I have also gotten in to rugby sevens it is a very new experience and one I'm enjoying very much. Along with sports we also have a band festival coming up where we will be playing around six pieces for it. In class I have been learning about algebra expressions and using formulae, and in writing I'm writing a persuasive argument about the flag debate. Finale I am soon to start a novel analyses on a auto biographies and a piece of writing on responding to texts.

Term 3

It's now term three and I am really excited because so much is happening this term starting with Maori language week. To celebrate this celebration I am going to work towards entering the who are my ancestors competition because for the past term I have been making a family tree for my passion hour and now I can use that to go towards the competition. Also this term there are the many sports going on this term some of the ones I am in are, cross country, Aims games, Sports camp, jump jam and many others. I am also really looking forward to the Murray band music stay over along with all the other band activities. Along with all the sports and cultural activities there is also our chocolate selling competition/fundraiser that I am really looking forward to that, and as you can  see this term is going to be very very busy.

Prouduction

For the past term around 80 kids ( including me) were involved in Te Awamutu Intermediates production. We had practices on most Sunday and Tuesday afternoons, till the week before production where we were out of school for the whole week practicing. We practiced hard and tried to perfect the production and by the end of the week we were all tired. On the following Monday we had our dress rehearsal, our final practice before our first show. We got our costumes on, and read over our scripts before it was our turn to go on. The following day we had our matinee, our first performance. It went OK but we knew we could do better that night. Later on in the day we arrived to get our make up and hair done for our first night performance. The performance didn't go very well, people messed up, forgot lines and some one even lost their voice half way thorough their song we were all a little disappointed. The following night we preformed amazingly well  compared to Tuesday night. Every thing went well, even though Mrs Ellis had to become the new wally after the first wally lost his voice. On the last night we were all sad to be doing our last performance , but again we preformed outstandingly well. At the very end of the show, after the last bows had been made and the flowers were given to the directors we knew it was all over. Thank you so much to Mrs Ellis, Mrs Shaw Mrs German, Mrs Bailey, Mr Oliver and all the other teachers who help out for all you've done, we couldn't have done it all with out you.

Week 5 Learning Reflection

For my learning this week I have done a seconded verb work sheet and have been assigned a new writing task. First we were given some photo copied  information from a book about penguins, we then had to write in all the facts and key points in note form on a piece of paper. The next day we were told that we had to write an information report using only the notes we had taken and a few notes from Mrs Crowe. Last week we also  had our yr 8 french lesson. We went over what we had learnt the past week, then we were taught how to  say what the weather is, like rain, mist, sun and so on in french. I have also finished the first book in a new series i have started reading called I am number four.I have also now started on the second book, the power of six.