Term 1 & 2 Reflection

My personal highlights were the results in my maths tasks throughout the weeks, I enjoyed learning new maths equations and ways to solve them.

The thing I am most proud of are my choices during class, I feel things are more important now since I'm a year 8 and that choices are more important as I transfer to highschool.

My goals for next term are to try improve my times in maths. For writing I want to work on descriptive writing and hooking the reader into what im trying to explain, but my main goal for next term is to try different things.

Maths Work Book Week 1

This week our work book is based around perimeter, area and volume of a triangle and circles.

Thelma Eakans visiting us.

The author of this book Thelma Eakans came in a visited us to talk about the book. She brought in a lamp that they should have used because they used lamps without glass around the flame covering it and they had open flame which caused the explosion because the gas in the mine was methane and methane is highly flammable.

She also brought in a led man that her friend made and gave to her. It was very heavy and it was a replica of the monument at the brunner mine historical site.

Postcard From Hamilton

This week we got introduced to a postcard from Hamilton.
Here is my poem for the class back down in Hamilton.

Ruasonid
Fast Hands              (Adjective Line)
Skin Condition Moisturiser Tough               (Adjective Line)
Old Crusty Head Scary Meteor
Scared Angry Big Sad
Dinosaur

The Mines Afire! Pt1

We have recently started ready The Mines Afire as a class book and we are now doing comprehension questions. We had to think about the things that we would miss if we lived in 1896.

The Mines Afires

For the past two days we have been reading historical notes about the brunner mine disaster in 1896.
We are going to soon be reading The Mines Afire story and we a reading the historical notes about it for some basic knowledge.

Looking Back - 2018

Best thing about 2018 would be getting a new classroom with working heaters.

Thing I'm most proud of is being the bigger person in certain situations.

My goal for next year is to get under 2 mins in maths tests and act more quickly on more common equations.

Overall 2018 hasn't been too bad.