Swimming Sports

On Friday 23 March Rimu House walked to Memorial Pools for swimming sports. There were lots of different races to take part in. The races I swam were the 25m Freestyle, the 25m Backstroke, and the 25m Doggie Paddle. They were not competitive races, they were just for fun. The highlight of the day for me was free swimming in the pool. I enjoyed hanging with Hugh and Ryan. After the free swimming, we walked back to school.

3-Learnt: I learnt what the water cycle is, I learnt about water vapor, the evaporation process. 2-benefit: Had more knowledge than me, helped me a lot. 1-Mistake: Being slow but catching up with the class.

Homework

On Wednesday 6th March I made a three course meal for my family. Here is the menu and the feedback.

This is the menu.

Now for the feedback: I was looking forward to our meal after I had seen the menu.  You prepared all the vegetables and the chicken first so that it could be cooking in the oven, and the smell was delicious. I thought that the entree looked fresh the dessert was a family favourite. It was tricky to remove the large casserole from the oven but you did it without burning yourself! I thought that you presented your plates very nicely and the whole meal tasted really good. I am looking forward to seeing what you are going to serve next time.. Well done Cole!!

Homework activity choices

My 10 homework activity choices are:

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal 3 course meals, including the menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of your meal and feedback from your guests
G4. Give of your time: Visit an elderly person at least eight times over two terms

P1. Improve your fitness: Over a 12 week periode run or walk at least 60km or cycle 120km
P6. Walk or run around the Waikareao  Estuary four times with a family member

E2. Create an original artwork using recycled materials
E3. Visit an exhibition and review it. Present your review on your blog

A1. Improve your maths ability: Complete a random 10x10 grid under 2 mins
A5. Improve your study skills: Research Rimu-where do you find it? Why is it important to Maori? What uses does it have? Why is Rimu the best tree in the school?

S4. Care for younger children: Organize a series of games or activities for younger siblings or neighbours or teach them a dance or an instrument
S6. Design your own challenge

My first month at T.I.S

I am a year 8 in room 42 and Miss Campbell is my teacher. Everyone is getting to know each other well because of some activities as What Floats My Boat and My Personal Profile. Every morning we go on any news site and share some news, then we do a 12x12 grid in maths then we go and do real maths work. I have lernt BEDMAS wich stands for Brackets, Exponents,  Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction.  We have been do a lot of work on a story called All Summer In A Day such as a visualise summaries and a prologue. We also have this app on google chrome and it's called sumo paint, you can do really cool patterns and paint. 

By Cole Hodgson