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Week 2 term three

This week was the second week back to term three and it has been really exciting. We once again have switched tech arts and us year 7's have started art while the year 8's have begun sewing. For art everything is revolved around monsters and on Tuesday next week we will get to start our clay monsters. We are doing four small projects, the clay monsters, some pastel art monsters and we have yet to find out what the other two are.

In week one the life education caravan came and on Wednesday week1 we had our first session with Nicky. For life education we are doing out of the shadows or drugs and how they effect the teenage brain. Already we have had our introductory lesson and two other lessons in the caravan. We have learnt that if it's not food, water or oxygen then it's classed as a drug. We also learnt that although coke may not look or seem like a drug it has caffeine in it which if you drink too much of can be harmful.

Next week on Friday we have our annual school gala and my class room3 has been asked to run the stall. I would like to invite anyone who is reading my blog to come to Te Awamutu Intermediate from 5pm to 7pm to come and spend some time down at the gala and support our school.

Last week was so much fun hopefully we can have an even better one next week.
 

Week 5

This week was our first two lessons of food. Lesson one we learnt how to make banana milkshakes, but just about everyone ended up making chocolate or vanilla. We had to work in teams of three to get milk, ice-cream, or blend the ice-cream and milk to make the milkshake. My team was Sophie J, Liam, and of course me. We made a chocolate vanilla swirl milkshake I got the milk, Sophie got the ice cream, and Liam got to blend it all together. Then on Friday we got to make either mouse traps, pizza snacks, baked apple, or jacket potato. We got to make our own thing in groups of three in each kitchen. I made pizza snacks, Sophie made jacket potato and so did Liam.

In maths we are currently doing algebra and we have learnt about patterns and rules. to write a rule you have to find the difference then that is what you multiply by and then take that number away from the original number in pattern one and if it is a positive number you add it, negative subtract it.

Week 4

This week we had to do speeches so we could find out who went to the team/class finals. I ended up getting into the class finals and have to preform it again on Monday week 5. I think I did really well the first time and deserve to go through to the team finals, but I'll have to wait and see what Monday brings.

Also we had our last lesson of music in tec arts on Friday and next week we start food which I'm super excited for, but then again isn't everyone excited for food. In year seven food, this is only what I've been told, we get to make brownies, pizzas and other things that I do not know. We get to start food on Tuesday week 5 which is next week and I think we get to make brownies first, hopefully we do.

This week has been awesome.

Week 3

This week we had our last two lessons of proper music and next week we have our last to lessons of music as dance. We had our assment done which was where we had to play a piece of music on the piano, play chords on the ukulele, did a paper test, a listening test, and then a volume test. The volume test is where there was this sign... < above the line and that meant they where louder. There was three or four options on the sheet and we had to circle which was the one Mrs. Moat played.

This week I also had my first lesson of Japanese. We learnt how to play a Japanese game called atte muiti hoi! This game is where you do paper, scissors, rock then the winner sticks their finger in the losers face and say atte muiti hoi and points in a direction and the loser has to look the other way. To win you have to get the loser to look in that direction.

Week 2

This week in tec arts we learnt how to make a healthy living rap then we got to record and make a beat to back the rap. First we had to get into teams of two or three, then we had to write our rap, then we could make a backing and record it and then at the end we got to share it with the class. I worked with Sophie Jackson and we made this rap: don't eat cake, cause apples are great; don't have coke, because the waters broke; don't have sweets, because their nice to eat; if you eat healthy, you can now take a selfie. 

This week we had a college expo and even though I'm not going to college next year we had to go to see what we had to look forward to in two years time. There was things like business studies where you learnt how to spend money wisely, sewing where you learn to make things from jerseys to pyjamas and lots of other things.

Term 3, Week one

This week was the first week back at school, and to be honest I'm glad to be back at school and be with my friends. Now that I'm back at school I'm only two signatures of my bronze badge and I really hope that I will get it by week three. This week in music we learnt to play some of the song "I'm yours" which sounds really cool with base guitar and ukulele. In class we have started on area and perimeter and although I have a lot to learn I' think that I' doing pretty well and know most of it and just made a dumb mistake. I have learnt how to find the perimeter of a H shape. You have to first find what the sides measure up to and if it has  -, or = it means that its the same then if you have a line without a number, or -/= then you have to add up the top or the bottom( no horizontal lines included) and then add up the bottom ones and then what ever the missing number is you fill that in in the gap. Tis first week back at school has been fun and full of learning.