hesaurDuring past past two weeks of week 7 & 8 in term 1, the teachers swapped out our P.E day for a real physical educations. Our task was to find a sport, or make a sport, and turn it into an adaptive sport. The teachers asked us turn that sport into a sport that would benefit the disabled. We needed to switch something like basket ball, into silent basket ball. This would benefit the mute; because they can’t talk, and now neither can anyone else. This task was very frustrating, because we needed to make specific rules.

Our game idea was: Roulette Ball. The rules are very simple. There is one small throwable ball and a water bottle. You need at least 2 people to play this game, so it’s more fun. But the more the better of course. You had to spin the bottle whilst the people playing would stand in a circle around the spinning bottle with the ball also in the middle of them all. Which ever person the bottle’s end lands on, that person must quickly grab the ball and throw it at someone. Which ever person the ball hits, they are out. the game continues until there is one person left. You may not grab the ball if the bottle doesn’t land on you, and the bottle must be spun properly.

Something I learnt is that when making rules, it is quiet difficult because of the amount of specifics you have to put to avoid cheaters and unfair plays because of wrongly put rules. I learnt this because we got sent back multiple times because our rules weren’t specific enough.

Something  that I am proud of is our new game and our differences that make our game a bit more diverse with our different opinions. The people in our group was; Geoff, Mylo, Van and I. We each had our different opinions on our game.

Something I would like to improve most of all is my listening skills, because I can get distracted really easily if I find the topic a bit boring or less important. I would love to fix this so that I can listen to people more.

If you had to make an adaptive game, what would it be?

November 21, Week 6 of school.

In past few weeks, our class has split into two groups for our novel study. The teacher would read us a novel and ask us some questions, it would use a lot of time but the stories of the novel was really nice. Our book was holes, holes is a book of mystery and throughout the story the book would tell you of the past to give you hints of the mystery. The main character Stanley Yelnats was framed and was taken to a camp called camp green lake.

Stanley arrives at camp green and is taken to tent D and they were forced to dig holes for a reason that they were not told. Stanley finds a golden tube and gives it to someone named X-ray who gets the rest of the day off because of the tube. The warden wants to find something but hides the fact that she is wanting to find something from an outlaw. In conclusion, Stanley finds a treasure from his great great grandpa and the Warden is taken to Jail.

We answered question and it was really fun having to listen to the story but it seemed as if I was really the only one listening. Holes is a great book and I’m sure it is fun to read in your spare time.

Have you ever read holes before?

On the second to last week of term 2, our teachers decided that we do a placemat where we put all the stuff that we have learned over the past weeks. I didn’t really like this idea because our internet was really laggy and it was hard to put the links in but I managed to push through. We had to link our: R.E learning, our writing, our reading and our PBL We also had to take a picture of each one of them and link our URL to the picture that we took. Even if it was hard, it was quite quick and just a little bit fun. We had to finish it because it was part of our hero post.

Here is a photo of my Placemat:                                                                                                                             

Do you know how to link a URL to a picture?

On a Monday, during term 2, week 8, me and a group of students went to the Travis wetlands to learn more about the wetlands and the creatures that live there. We learned that even the smallest insects can be carnivorous. There are some insects that use a single part of their body to kill, liquidify, and drink or eat their prey. There are also creatures that have their own little air bubbles in their pocket so that they don’t have to go up for air to decrease their chances of becoming bird food.

We got the chance to catch some insects so we could take a nice, close look at them. I found it really hard to catch them because we had to first find them, capture them, put them into a container, manage to find them in the container, and finally manage to catch them on a spoon after all of that. It was really fun, though, because I got to do it with my friends.

We had a very fun time, and we also didn’t get hungry because we got some lunch and tea breaks to help fill our stomachs from getting empty so that we could all run and have some fun instead of getting hungry and just walking. We also got to get some binoculars to take a nice, close-up look at some of the birds and ducks that were there. There was duck and bird poop all over the ground, and we had to avoid it because we didn’t want to get our shoes dirty. Over all, we had a really fun time.

Have you ever been to the Wetlands before?

This week we did something called the Laudato Si where we made a poster, puzzle or a recreation of the school for our create. I chose the poster because I wanted to make a poster with a sentance that rhymes and tells us not to keep burning our home. Laudato Si is a word that represents the care for our earth, our common home. It tells us to keep caring for our home so that everyone can onjoy it. even the next generation after us. The words I used to say keep our earth clean is: Keep the skies blue, not a darker hue. I hope you like my poster.

Here is my Poster:

Can you think of a rhyming sentance about keeping our earth clean?

This week, we made a a cool RE poster about the Holy Spirit and we even made symbols of our poster. We had to choose an element of the Holy Spirit. I chose the water element because it is the time where the river parted ways and split to let the people of God through and away from the bad people. I used the color blue and all the other colors that looked like water. The water spinning thing in the background is the thing that I made.

Here is a photo of my R.E poster

Have you ever made a symbol of the Holy Spirit?

This week in Week 6 Term 4 on Tuesday we went to the Art Gallery to view and see the different types of art inside. We also got to paint our own artworks.

First we got on the bus and when we got there the whole building was made out of glass! We waited for awhile then someone came out to get us. We went to the classroom inside the Art Gallery and listened to what we were supposed to do while we were inside. We went to go see some art and it was beautiful.

After we saw some art we went back to the classroom and they told us that we had different types of brushes to help us paint. As soon as they told us my friends and I rushed towards the seats grabbing the ones we could find. I made my painting out of all the seasons since I couldn’t choose a season.

After they told us we could go to the neon place everyone was looking at. We were the only group that got to do it within the Tumu Hub. It was really cool in there and there was some code on the wall that we had to crack to find out what it said. had a really good time there.

Here are some pictures of us

Do you remember which season I picked?

This week (Week 4 Term 4) me and my friend Nicholas made a maths create task together. We had to spend 100 dollars and have left over less than 4 dollars. I think we had made a really good birthday party with 100 dollars and now I know that 100 dollars for groceries is really not much especially of it’s a birthday where you have to spend for everyone. In total we needed to supply enough food forr 8 people. Here is our maths create.

LINK for our maths create

How much money did we have left?

This week in Term 4 we have a new maths create instead of maths boards we are now doing maths creates. For example we would have to figure out a crosswords maths create then make our own one of that. I made one after I have figured out the questions. It was quite hard to do. Here is my maths create; hope you like it!

Have you done a maths create?