Holes - Book Review

Last term we had been reading a class novel, the book we read was called holes. The book was written by Louis Sachar back in 1998.

The book was about a boy called Stanley, after he was taken to court he went to camp green lake. After meeting the other boys they got to work digging holes. After his friend ran away Stanley went after him.

In the book, my favorite character is Hector, also called Zero by the other boys. I don’t really know why, he just is.

I really enjoyed this book. It was fun to read with the class and I think it does a good job to keep the book interesting. 

After reading the book, we got to watch the movie made after the book. Although not everything was the same from the book and movie. For one, in the book, Stanley was fat but lost a lot of weight in camp green lake. But it doesn't mean that in some parts the movie was just like the book. It was very similar when someone got Mr Sir’s bag of sunflower seeds, and when they passed it to Stanley the bag slipped and sunflower seeds went all over the place. Not too long after, Mr Sir got slapped with the Warden's rattlesnake nail polish. Both were the same in the movie and book.

The movie was very fun because I gotta sit back and watch the movie without having to read. 

After all, I think the book was very fun and interesting, my teacher also asked ‘would you recommend the book’ but I don’t recommend most books I’ve read so I don't know...

Blind Taste Testing

Aim:

I want to find out how we taste food.

Research:

Method:

Equipment

• Unknown food
• Blindfold
• Person with a tongue

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Put your blindfold on
3. Hold your nose shut
4. Put the food in your mouth and taste it
5. Describe how it taste
6. Release your nose and describe the taste

Results:

1. It felt crunchy 

1. And sweet

2. It was crunchy and didn't taste like anything

2. Then it hit be with a lot of bitter

It at first didn't taste like anything and was just wet

After it only had a little taste, a weird bitter and sweet taste.

At first i was like a little taste of watermelon and a marshmallow feel

After it was more sour and even more watermelon then before

It tasted like nothing and had a girty taste

after it was sour and sweet a tasting like lemon

It tasted like sugar both when i took my hand of and when it was on

It at first tasted like the sea, slaty but also something else??

Then after it was hella slaty

Conclusion:

Discussion

Term 2 Relection

 Term 2 Reflection

One of my highlights for the second term was art, it was one of my favourite subjects because I like to do art out of school time. Also because I won the art competitions my teacher had.

I did find a lot of things challenging for me, such as the kete we had, I couldn’t think of ideas and after that, making the house for the kete was hard, things kept falling apart. But I still managed to complete it.

Another challenging thing is that I didn’t finish some of my work because I would keep saying I’ll do it tomorrow, yea I’m a procrastinator, I’m lazy. But this term I really want to do my best to complete ALL of my work.

Some of my subjects last term were Art, P.E, Drama and coding. I didn’t learn much in art because I already knew about the stuff she was teaching, P.E was hard because I’m a lazy person but it was still fun. Drama is something I really enjoyed and learnt tips on acting, but I didn’t think I did much, I was too scared to perform in front of others. And last is coding, I learnt a ton on coding, how to use scratch and cospace. 

Shapes

 Shapes!

Hello and welcome to my blog! Today I would like to share with you the work I have completed in my hurumanu called shaping up.First we learnt about vertices, faces and edges. We also learnt what rotation, reflection, translation and enlargement mean and how we can do them.

Say we are looking at a cube, The face of a shape is a flat surface on a shape. This cube has 6 faces. The edge of a shape is like a line where 2 faces come together. Vertices are where the edges connect.

Most recently we learnt about rotation, reflection, translation and enlargement. When a thing's direction is changed. Reflection is when the original shape looks like it’s gone through a mirror. Translation is when the shape has been moved, although the appearance doesn't change. Enlargement is an easy one, it’s when the shape has been largered. It just becomes bigger…

Thank you for reading, have you got any questions? Please go below and comment, also if you have seen any mistakes please let me know! 

Did you enjoy or learn anything new? 

Goodbye and thank you for your time!

Art

Art!

  Hello and welcome to my blog today! I'll be talking about all the things we have done during my term of art!

At the start of the term we were learning about stop motion. First stop motion we made in art was a flipbook. I can't remember what I did, and I don't have a video of it but I believe it was of a ball going up and down, up and down.

The next thing we did was messing around with clay, We got a hour to work on making a monster clay thing. Here's a photo of what I made. 

The next and LAST thing we did in art ( beside this blog ) was a stop motion out of clay. This part was the best! I made 3 stop motions... Maybe 2 out of 3 included clay deaths but that okay... Maybe... Hopefully that is OK. Anyways here they are.

Thank you for reading, and watching... hopefully. Have a good rest of your day. please, If you see something wrong with my blog like spelling comment down below I can try to fix it. Or not because I don't want to. Thank you for you time! :)

Hurumanu 1

 How To Be Normal

For Hurumanu 1 / Outstanders, we have been looking at our article for our level. I’m in group 3 the highest group working on an article called ‘How To Be Normal’ 

We had to answer questions, use sentences with words we were given, find adjectives from the article and do a quick true or false challenge. 

Did I understand?

1. Who did Charley bang into?  

Charley banged into Michaela's desk while walking to her desk.

2. 'Charley's at... More relaxed.' What is the main message/purpose of this paragraph? How does the author create this mood? What does it teach us about Charley?

This paragraph is teaching us about Charley and how she feels about herself. She’s feeling that she is weird and that she’s different from the other children.  

3. What impression does the author want to give of Charley? How do you know?

The author gave us the impression that Charley feels weird and wants us to feel sympathetic for her. 

Why is Charley angry with Amy? Do you think that she is right to be angry? Why/why not?

Charley is mad at Amy for standing up for her, and thinks she’s ruined her chance of having an in-joke with Michaela about bumping into her. I believe that Charley is wrong for being so mad at Amy all because she was trying to stand up for her.

4. Find a range of words and phrases to show how Charley is feeling throughout the story.

Insecure

Feeling like she's an outsider

Strange

Unconfident in herself/thoughts

Exploring language

What do these words mean? find a definition for each one and use it in a sentence.

1. Screeches

A screech is a loud piercing noise.

The owl outside my house screeches at night.

2. Apologise

To say sorry 

I wish the owl would apologise for keeping me up at night.

3. Intently 

Give a lot of attention to something.

I would look out my window and intently stare at the owl.

Write 3 sentences about the story using They're, there and their.

1. They’re

They’re making fun of Charley in the classroom.

2. There

Charley sat there and struggled to draw a line.

3. Their

By the time Charlie got to the classroom her classmates were sitting in their chairs.

All in order

Select at least 10 of your adjectives and put them in alphabetical order.

1. Careful ( Patience )

2. Chewed-up ( Paper )

3. Childish ( Way )

4. Crooked ( Line )

5. Extremely ( Short )

6. Final ( Chance )

7. Muffled ( Laugh )

8. New ( Girl )

9. Normal ( She is far from )

10. Straight  ( Line )

Why do you think we gave you this article to read as part of Outstanders hurmanu?

I believe we were given this to read to show that you should be happy being you and not trying to be someone you’re not, all to try to fit in.

True or False Speed Challenge

1. True ✓

2. False ✓

3. False ✓

4. True ✓

5. True ✓

Thank you so much for reading. Please enjoy the rest of your day. Also, If you have any questions, found something wrong with my work or just want to leave a comment, please do so. It really helps.

Hockey

What is hockey?

Hockey is a team sport, this sport is played between a group of two teams as long as

both teams have the same amount of players. The aim of the game is to use hockey

sticks ( Which have a hooked bottom with one flat side and one curved side ) and

using the sticks the team has to drive a small hockey ball towards and into the goal

of the opposing team. 

In each team there should be a defence which stays in their team’s half of the field.

Attackers are allowed to be anywhere beside their own team’s goalie circle. Last but

not least, the goalie stays in the goalie circle to defend their goal.

Unless you are playing in a real hockey team and only playing for a school sport you

most likely only need a hockey stick, Shin pads and mouth guard. Shin pads and

mouth guard are for safety purposes as you can get hit in the shin with a stick or a

ball easily. But when it comes to a mouth guard, Either you buy a mouth guard or else

you might have to buy a new set of teeth. 

Never use your hockey stick like you’re playing golf, just don’t be stuid we are NOT

playing golf. Try your best not to hit the ball up in the air, this can sometimes

happen when you hit the ball with your stick a little under the ball. Never lift up

your hockey stick above the waist.

While learning how to play hockey I learnt how to juggle with my hockey ball on my

stick, it isn’t easy and also isn’t too safe but that day we had plastic hockey sticks

and tennis balls.

If you may have any questions on how to play please ask away in the comments and I

will try to get back to you.

Hockey tips

 

When playing hockey  use both your hand to hold the hockey stick, use your non

dominant hand to hold the top part of the hockey stick, like this -

When it comes to mouth guard and how to mold them but when you do, do you

BEST to make it the perfect size because if you don’t it can be extremely

uncomfortable and for me it can make me sick.

To block balls have your stick down to the ground although sometimes it can be

tough to block like this but if you are a goalie you SHOULD block like this as it

makes it easier to stop the ball.