last Thursday our school had our annual barn dance for the year eight leavers. We learn dances and dress up like cowgirls and boys. this is one of the dance we learnt.

these are some photos from the night. :)

Thanks everyone for looking at my blog, this will be my last blog post for the year I migth not be here next year but hopefully you will see me again!

This term our class has been doing Novel study 

Prototec Results

For the last while our class has been using a site called Prototec almost everyday and we graphed it it is a website that gives you a test on random basic facts at your maths stage. Here is a link so you can try it for yourself.

I like Prototec because it gives you different questions every time so you’re not just memorizing one or two questions.

Here is the graph that I put all my results, I think I did okay!

Please comment.

100WC For This Week

This week for 100wc the prompt,

...As the smoke cleared...

We had to think about :

• Where is the smoke coming from?
• What do you see as it clears?
• Is it good or bad or dangerous?
• What does it smell like?

This is what I wrote, hope you like it,

please comment.

I had done it! I had won, it was right there in front of me like a trophy glittering on a shelf. I reached out to grab it, its shiny outer, connected with my tender fingers.

“Aaahhh!” I screeched.

It had turned to flames.
It’s dark smoke filled the room like the questions filling my head!

'As the smoke cleared' I saw there was nothing left except…

“A note!” I muttered as a small shred of paper fluttered towards me.

‘You shall never win,'

'D.A.V.’

“NOOOOO!” I shrieked as I dropped to my knees.

“This isn’t over!” I screamed as a tear rolled down my cheek.

Bush Survival DLO

A little while ago our class went on a walk and learnt about surviving in the bush and what to do if you get lost, afterwards we had to make a DLO about what we learnt, this is the video my friends and I made.

Hope you like it, please comment!

Thanks for watching!

My Speech

For the last couple of weeks our school has been writing and practicing our speeches we all got to choose our topics, mine's ‘Why kids shouldn’t have homework.’ since I’m a year seven my speech had to be about 2.50 - 3.00 minutes I think it is about that. Hope you like it, Please comment.

Kids shouldn’t have homework

Have you ever gone home to find that you have a mountain of homework that has slowly piled up till you have way too much to do and it’s all due in tomorrow?! Well, I’m here to persuade all those who like homework that it shouldn’t even have been created.

Do you know that 76% of people think that kids shouldn’t have homework? I mainly think it’s because some people barely have enough time for family and hobbies because they are doing homework and studying.

Last year I didn’t want to come to school because I had either not done my homework or didn’t want more so faked being sick and missed out on heaps of school.

Have you have ever been over to your friends house and been given boatloads of homework and awkwardly had to do it or not do it and get in sooo much trouble when you get back to school?

It's so annoying right? Teachers just don’t get it, and it's even worse when your friend gets in trouble too because you feel like it's all your fault, I hate it when that happens.

Next do you know that kids already spend around six hours at school so don’t need another one or two hours of academic learning do

we?

We are already tired enough and need to rest, relaxation and to spend time with family, play with pets and do special hobbies this is important.

If you don’t have fun then you don’t like to do things as much and if you have homework then you won’t enjoy school as much.

Take me for example: I love school and I don’t have much home work at all, this means I have more time to learn more through experience.

Alfie Kohn, author of ‘The Homework myth: why kids get too much of a bad thing’ looked at the usual reasons why schools give homework: promotes higher achievement, reinforces learning and teaches study skills and responsibility. However, none of these assumptions have actually been proven in research, logic and experience.

Have you ever considered the cost of a homework book? At our school usually if you need a homework book you get them for free and imagine the price of that! Say $3 per book, per person, per year say 150 students for 5 years that’s $2250 for only 150 students. If the school has more students for longer - imagine the price of that?

So if you are  a homework lover or a teacher that gives out heaps of homework then I hope I have changed your  mind and that you will help me make a law against homework. Kids shouldn’t have homework!

Digi Awards

Me and my Friend Nikita made a thing called a digi award, we made a blog called 'A Special Quote'. It has LOTS of quotes, funny ones, keep calm ones, minion ones...

you get the picture. this is the link to 'A Special quote'.

A Special Quote

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