Book review - Friends

The most interesting book I read in Term 2 was "Friends" By Joy Crowley and Gavin Bishop I really enjoyed this book because it was about a snake and a lizard becoming friends and surviving in the desert. The snake and the lizard search the desert and try to find shelter, food and water but they come across trouble.

Assessment task- Creating a Pyroxenes shape

Identify classes of two- and three-dimensional shapes

by their geometric properties Assessment task

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0NIVKGPGgaIkeNZKh0G0D5C9QtZRi0HMQTI1l-wPr8/edit

Term 2 Novel study

This term I have been reading and studying the novel see ya, Simon

I found this novel interesting because he is a normal boy with normal characteristics but he cant do normal things

During the novel I had to complete a thinking map which shows that I can classify how the author has shown the theme of the book.

• Link to Classify Map

National Standard this covers

• Year 7/8  Standard
• I can identify and evaluate the way writers’ use language and ideas to suit their purpose and I can use my growing wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary to understand texts.

Overall I would give this novel a rating of  7/10 ( insert your rating here) and I would / would not recommend it to others to read because I feel like it sure teach's you a life lesson because not many people get to live the life others do and we need to enjoy it.

Current Events Term 2, 2017

WALT: I can successfully research a current event.

Here is a link to our online modelling book for this unit of learning.

The National Standard that I have been aiming for during this unit of learning is:

• Year7/8: I can use appropriate skills and technologies to find and use a range of texts for specific purposes.

Each week we have read a short text about a current event/ topic. We then formed questions based on what we had read.  After this we researched the answers to our questions and finally we gave our opinions on what we had found out.

Here is some evidence of my learning.

Describe Map One - Where does all the NZ tax money go?

Describe map Two -G7 fail to agree on a climate change

My Next Step is to continue to  apply the reading and  research skills that I have learned in a variety of other areas.

Music Term 2

Blog Post Title: Music Term 2

For Music this term, three things I learnt were:

1.New Zealand and world artist

2.Quotation's - Music is life that's why our hearts have beat's

3.Rap and Hip-Hop

Something I found challenging was finding New Zealand artist and making sure that they weren't world artist