Novel study

This term our class has been reading our own novels and been doing activities around our book.
Here are some activities I did

Inquiry project

For my inquiry project I have done it on bigfoot, here is my presentation.

Narrative writing

Throughout 4 weeks our class has been work on narratives. We got to chose what our story was based on. I chose to do my on a made up halloween story. Here it is,

Halloween Scare

In a village called Johnsonville just in the country from Bucksnort, three boys are going trick or treating. There names are Steven, Jonathan and Jimmy. They planned to go around the villages community. For their costumes Steven is going as a clown, Jonathan is going as a vampire and Jimmy is going as a ghost. They all planned to stay at Jonathan’s house that sits on the outskirts of Johnsonville next to a forest. The boys decided to go trick or treating at 5:00 and go for about three hours. “Last house!” Jimmy said excitedly

“YAY! then we can go and eat our lollies” announced Jonathan ding dong! as the doorbell alarmed “Trick or treat!” the boys said loudly.

Around ten minutes later the boys were at Jonathans house and all stuffed with sugary lollies. “We should go make a hut in the forest,” said Steven,

“That’s a good idea.” said Jimmy, so the boys gathered up torches, food, a pocket knife, some rope, then off they went. It was around 8:30 at that time the sky was pitch black the moon was full with the stars out and not a sound in sight. As they trekked off into the woods they found a grassy spot for the hut to go, they were deciding what kind of hut to make and looked back to see that Steven had mysteriously disappeared. “Steven!” Jonathan shouted. After a few more shouts he didn't come back so they went off to find him. With beaming torches shining on the trees and bushes and scaredly looking around them, they suddenly heard a bush rustled behind them, then out of nowhere a clown came leaping out of behind it “RUN!!!” shouted Jimmy as the boys shot off, Jonathan said “Let's run back to my house!” as the clown got closer and closer the boys ran faster and faster. ”There’s your house” said Jimmy exhaustively. As they reached the house they looked behind them to see that the clown had gone. As the boys crawled their way into the living room door sitting on the couch was Steven. Confused and tired out the boys went to bed scared.

The next morning the boys awoke to the sweet smell of waffles. As the boys sat down on the table Steven added “I have something to say, you know last night when the clown chased you guys,” the boys were confused “How did you know about that,”

“Well... it was me.”

“Stephen!” the boys said angrily

“You played another one of your pranks on us again, didn't you.”

So after the big scare Jimmy and Jonathan never ever went trick or treating ever ever again.

Maths Probability Game

Today in maths we played a probability game.
How it works

You have a group of people and you have 12 snails a person chooses 1 or 2 of them. You have a board and you put the snails on them then you roll the two dice. Then you move your snail up the chart until 3 snails have crossed the line. After that you record the 1st 2nd and 3rd places 1st get 5 pnts 2nd get 3 pnts and 3rd gets 1 pnt. You have to play the game a least 5 times, the winner is the pnts with the most pnts.
Results:
First game 1st- 10 Sofia 2nd-7 Henry 3rd Henry
Second game 1st-7 Sofia 2nd- 9 Oscar
In our games 7-6-89 had the most chance of winning  because the dice goes up to 6 and 1 had no chance because there were 2 dices. Also 12  had an unlikely chance because you had to get doubles also 11 because it was so high on the dice.

Update:
From this table below I have learnt that there is a 1 in 6 chance of rolling a double 

Room 20 YOGA

On Wednesday room 20 did our first yoga lesson. For Hillary's inquiry we are doing Healthy Bodies Strong Minds. In our topic there are the four walls, they are Mental well-being, Social well-being, Physical well-being and our Spiritcal well-being. Doing yoga is for your mental well-being. In yoga it is all about relaxing and having fun. Some things that we did was go in the jungle and find all the animals, and at the end we had a sleep. Here are some photo's

Electronics

Mandaran Lesson

Today we did another lesson of Mandaran. 
Today we were learnt about how to say our family's names and also we did a family tree. 

Mandaran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_rDIzj6DRE Hello Song, Chinese

Today we had the Mandarin lesson with Tracy Lao Shi. We learnt about some Chinese traditions like the Chinese New Year and also the population-1.379 billion, ethnic groups-59 groups, food rice noddles sweet and sour pork, and some specal things like the Great Wall Of China and table tenis the national sport. 

Persuasive writing

In the past week for room 20's writing we have been doing persuasive writing. We got into groups four and writ a strong text about a animal to persuade the people to get or find it. To present it we did a plan then intro, reason one, two, three and last the conclusion. We got to choose what the reasons were and write about them and the main idea. 

Electronics emergency vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLFkD8TiTvs
Problem: Get ready get thru says be prepared with
emergency torch or light for our emergency kit.
At electronics I am going to design and make an
emergency light that is portable and will provide
light if the power is out.

Picasso Art

    

Room 20 have been making Picasso art. Picasso's full name was Pablo Picasso and was born on the 25th of October 1881 and died on the 8th of April 1973. The steps of making our art were doing the roll game or getting ideas off a Picasso website, Then drawed our eyes, lips, nose and (optional ear) on. After that we drew a head on a A three piece of paper and coloured everything in. After everything was colourful we stuck our pieces of paper on our head and it was done!

Electives!!!

This term I am doing the Peak Fitness elective. Each week we walk down to peak fitness gym and do a work out. We split into two groups and one group goes inside and one group goes outside. last week I was inside and did 60 skips and 20 wall balls and you keep rotating. After our work out we warmed down and did stretches like squats, lunges, arm stretches and star jumps. 

Key Tag Page Tech (Hard Materials)

Materials Technology
In materials technology we designed and made a tag.
This is the process we went through in making our tag.

Term 2 Goals

                                                                   Term 2 Goals

Last year my goals were to get my sports, tech and service golds by the end of the year. Also to get the sports captain job in the second half of the year. 

So far I haven,t completed my goals yet.

This term my smart goals are the same as last term.

Doing good work in tech, putting my hand up for sports and finishing recycling this year also doing some more service jobs.   

Writing Recounts

    Writing Recounts                                     

         Water Skiing

“Yep!” I said, as I galoped out of the water. We went water skiing at lake Tawawera. Booming noises rushing past my ears as I glided though the glassy water. I saw the skis inching closer and closer to the edge of the wake. I felt the drips of water that fired at my face and streamed off my chin. I smell the cooking sausages on the beach. Suddenly a boat came roaring past the waves were as bumpy as sandpaper. SPLASH!! I went as I belly flopped into the water.

My dad rushed back in the boat. I was in the boat staying dry as the drips runed off me. Minutes later I was on the dry shore and had my towl rapped around me. Sause, bread, sausage “YUM” I said as I chomped into the sausage.

After skiing we decided to make some shade. My mum told me that there was a tarpaulin in the boat so I sprinted through the water and grabbed it. With a tarpaulin, sticks and rocks it was look’en good. After the tarp was up we make sand seats to sit on.

That day I was very proud of myself for getting up skiing for my first time.

My Visual Mihi!!!

Intro

Hello my name is Oscar Ritchie. Welcome to my blog. I will post my learning that I am proud of and other awesome things I get up to at HNI. My first two goals for 2017 are:    

aceheving my sports, tech and service. For sport I would like to be involved in a load of rugby events, coming in the top three in cosscountry and being in top three athletics. Also different new sports by the end of year 7. For service I am going to do recycling for the whole of year 7. 

My other goal is to be a Sports Captain this year. 

This is me!!!