Curling

The sport called curling is played with a curling stone and a curling broom. You must use your curling broom to push your curling stone as close to the home (target) as you can whilst your opponent also tries to get closer. You also need flat soled shoes and a loose shirt.

The curling stone by itself weighs approximately 17-20kgs or 40-44lbs, There are a few curling rinks in NZ 2 of them are Auckland and Dunedin.

This sport originated from scotland in the 1870's and Thomas Callender was called The father of NZ curling and he formed the Dunedin club in 1873 and it still plays today.

Nearly every curler would rather lose fairly than win by cheating. If you break one of the rules whilst playing the opponent will try and penalize you for it.

About Curling  -  Where you can start curling  -  History of curling  -  Glossary of curling terms

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As we pass down the road overlooking all the smoke was as black as charcoal and thick as brick, rising in the air we get the same thought we always have, SHUTDOWN THE FACTORIES! The sight is horrible you can literally see the birds protruding from the sky and landing on the pavement, dead. As we pass into the realm of smoke we cant see a thing.

From the road you can still hear the factories whizzing and whirring as they produce whatever they do produce. The sound was as loud as an elephant threatening a predator as all the factories worked as one.

The smoke was so thick that you could actually
feel it. It felt as sludgy as slimy ooze running
down a wall which made everyone stay in their
car.

The scent of smoke is not at all pleasant and one
whiff of all this smoke will leave you dead in a
couple of breaths. All the houses are as barred
in as super glue.

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Twelve hours of constant running

Working hard to get to the top

Everyone striving to be the best

Leaving comfort behind them all.

Vering to the finish line

Eager to compete to see who is best

Halls of decoration for the winners

Obstacles getting in the way

Unbeatable champions

Racing faster than rabbit

Resolution in its highest

Earning the prizes

Lawns finely mowed to run

Able to get better every try

Year 7 and 8 going for the best

Symmetry homework

                                                               Symmetry

Symmetry is when a shape or object in perfect comparison on each side and there is a point of symmetry in the middle which is basically a line strait down the middle or can be in different points on a shape.

Points of symmetry:

Points of symmetry are how many times a shape can rotate itself so it still keeps its origin shape

Asymmetric:

Asymmetric is when a shape or object is not in perfect comparison on each end of the line of symmetry.

Translational:

Translational symmetry is when you move the object or shape in however many spaces left/right up/down

Homework 1km Walk

Time Walking: 8:52mins

Time Running: 4:36mins

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Weather Acrostic Poem

While the sun gleams brilliant bright 

Everyone screams in delight

As they all giggle and laugh

Then the bad weather comes

However the sun draws back again

Everyone screamed in joy

Radiantly they all play. 

Homework Practical Task

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                                             Reflex Angle

Homework delayed gratification & the Stanford marshmallow experiment.

delayed gratification is the ability to wait in order to obtain something that one wants. E.g. "can I please play minecraft" "not until your homework is finished" (Delayed Gratification.)


The stanford marshmallow experiment is some studies on delayed gratification. The experiment was led by a psychologist named, Walter Mischel. He then became a professor at Stanford University. In the studies of delayed gratification a child was offered a choice between ONE small reward or TWO small rewards, if they chose two they had to wait an extra 15 or so minutes. The rewards were usually marshmallows. The testings showed that people that could wait longer for the better outcomes had better life outcomes this was measured by SAT scores, educational attainment, body mass index (BMI) and other life measures.

26 Hour Movie Challenge (THe maGiC CusHIoN)

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How to use graffiti art homework 1-2

Homework 3D model week 1-2

height: 55mm

Length: 44mm

Top Height: 42.7mm

Depth: 33.6mm 

Homework AR week 1-2

Augmented Reality (AR)

The AR is used for:

Some cartoons

Sport games

Google Maps

And more

Augmented Reality is seen almost everyday some don't even know if they have seen it. Augmented Reality is also known as AR, AR is a real image, example a NCAA game shown below has got 2 examples of AR, the scoreboard/time and the yellow line marking the 1st down line. In real life if you were watching this game you would not see the scoreboard/time or the yellow line because they are not really there.

In this the AR is the scoreboard and the yellow line marking the 1st down.

In this the AR is the roads they places and the highway numbers.

This image is someone holding up an IPhone and telling the person directions and where/what everything is.

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Things That Annoy Me:

• My little brother getting me in trouble. When I do something like look at him funny he always goes and tells Mum or Dad and sometimes when I get lucky it backfires onto him. It is really annoying because I have done really nothing then I have to do some chore that should "make me wish I didn't do that" when that is nothing.
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• Breaking glass. When I do the dishes and I put something in wrong e.g. on the perfect angle on the side that has a crack in it it always shatters and it has to go in the bin and I don't like breaking things even though I have done it a lot.
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• The sound of polystyrene rubbing against polystyrene. When the sound of polystyrene rubs on polystyrene it makes my break crinkle and it makes my mouth go dry, because the polystyrene makes a horrible scratching noise and I really don't like it. 
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• Reading books with a missing page, word or spelling/grammar mistake. In a few books i've read there have been numerous spelling mistakes.
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Where am I?

I have little life among me fog clings to the ground. I sometimes have a building next door. I am feared, I am lonely and I have no sound. Most people always come at a certain time of life some young most old.

Book review #3

My book is Percy Jackson And The Titan's Curse

The author is Rick Riordan

I chose this book because I have enjoyed every book before it and the author has a very interesting style of writing.

The title on this book is important because the first time I read this book I didn't really know what was going on but then after I read the title over and over again I started to realize what was happening. The main place of this story is over in the skys of Long Island Sound.

The storyline is based on a young kid called Percy Jackson he is in the middle of the godly world and the mortal world, demigods as this book calls it. The problem with Percy is being a demigod he has a "scent" that monsters can smell. So every now and then a monster comes a long and tries to have him for lunch. This year he is going to find some new demigod kids and one chooses another path.

I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 8 and below the age of 15.

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On Thursday July 4th it was production day however a group of us (including me) didn't go. We went to a year 7 class, room 30. Instead of doing maths and literacy we watched a documentary called
Man on Wire and we did sport. In total there were about 30 people (one class room) that didn't go to production. The Man on Wire documentary was about a man Philippe learnt how to tightrope and then when he grew up he got a little team that would help him get to the top of buildings so he could tightrope across them. In the amount that I watched he went up to the top of the Twin Towers and tightroped across them.

Book review #2

My book is Percy Jackson And The Sea Of Monsters.

The author is Rick Riordan

I chose this book because it is the next book from Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief and I have really like this series so far.

The title on this book was important because you needed it to understand some parts of the story and it summed up the main place of the story. The main character(s) of this story are Percy Jackson son of Poseidon, Annabeth   Chase daughter of athena, Chiron the centaur, Kronos the titan lord, Luke the lightning thief, Tyson the cyclops, Hermes the god of Travel, Passageways, Messages, Zeus the god of lightning and Poseidon the god of sea.

The storyline is based on a young kid called Percy Jackson he is in the middle of the godly world and the mortal world, demigods as this book calls it. The problem with Percy is being a demigod he has a "scent" that monsters can smell. So every now and then a monster comes a long and tries to have him for lunch.

The author made these books to encourage his younger kid to read.

It took me about 13 hours to complete this book.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is about 8-14 and who likes fantasy/fiction/mythological kind of books.

Homework S4

I have been teaching my little brother (Liam) how to play the guitar. I have been teaching him 1/2 an hour a day for 1 week (210 minutes/3 hours and 30 minutes) and so far he has been able to play all the notes and some basic chords. He is now taking real tutor lessons at school and so far has not been enjoying it. I have been teaching him the guitar because I did it for a term and I was still doing it so I would teach him all I learnt on my lesson since he is a slow learner I have enough to teach him for a week. In the end Liam didn't really like how I taught him because he doesn't like other people teaching him.

I taught him by explaining each note and where to place your fingers. I explained the frets and how each time if you go down a fret you will make the note/chord

Book Review #1

My book is, Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief.

The author is, Rick Riordan

I chose this book because I really like fantasy/fiction kind of books because I find them interesting to read.

This story takes place in Long Island Sound, North America in a mystical place called Camp Half Blood. Percy just goes to a regular old school called Yancy Academy. Sometimes it sucks to be percy I mean he is dyslexic and ADHD but later on in his journey he learns that those disabilities can be great gifts. So far he has been to 6 schools and has been kicked out of every one for one reason or another. One of my favorite sentences from the story is "Look I didn't mean to aim the cannon at the school bus and fire, it just happened." I feel sorry for Percy for as he is always getting chased by monsters and other demonic creatures.

Also now Percy Jackson is a film and so far this has been the only book released and the trailer for Percy Jackson And The Sea Of Monsters is out.

It took me  about 7 hours to complete this book as it is fairly short.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is about 6-12 and who likes fantasy/fiction/mythological kind of books.

Bad product or service

My first bad product was when me and my little brother went into McDonalds to get a cheese burger after we ordered it and sat down to eat it my little brother asked "is this a cheese burger?" I replied "it should be" "why?" He answered "because there is no cheese." I then looked inside the burger there were two buns one on top one on the bottom and a patty, that was it. Then we went back to get it fixed and then it was alright.

Homework G8 (Design your own)

Our clothing's circle of life starts off in the clothing factory but when it gets to us it changes. When my clothes get to small for me they go to my friend Jialan and when they get to small for him they come back to us in my little brother's (Liam) drawers. After liam grows out of those clothes they go to another friend called Izak and then they come back when he has outgrown them and we send them to either A. Oscar or B. Aron. When those clothes are finally to small for them they find their way to a second hand shop where other people can buy them and the clothing would have another life circle ahead of them. Which means we need more clothes for our selves but luckily there is a life circle ahead of us as well as below.

Homework E7 (Design your own)

I started playing Magic: The Gathering when I was 9 and I started playing tournaments at 12 (now.) The first card I ever got was Moli Maro The Sorcerer. I have been to nearly every draft in the year 2013. I have versed only adults and 1 kid. I have beaten the kid with ease and I have beaten most of the adults I verse.

To play Magic you need a deck of 60+ cards 1/3 of them should be lands 1/3 creatures and 1/3 enchantments/auras. The lands are the cards that allow you to play other cards. You get 7 cards in your hand to start off with unless you mulligan. If you mulligan you go down to 6 cards then 5 if you mulligan again... The lands come in 5 different colours, green, white, blue, red and black. There are costs for each creature, enchantment and aura cards. Some cards e.g. Molimo Maro Sorcerer it cost 4 of any land and 3 must be green. It also has an ability that it's power and toughness is equal to how many lands you control. If you play Molimo Maro Sorcerer as soon as you can he will be a 7/7. The power and toughness, Power is how much damage that creature can do and toughness is how much hit points it can sustain without dieing e.g. if I have a 2/4 and a 4/1 decided to stop my creature from damaging my opponent  it would be called blocking, so if the 4/1 blocked my 2/4 they would both die, because the 4/1 has 1 hit point and 4 damage, and my 2/4 has 4 hit points and 2 damage and both creatures attack at the same time, therefore 2 damage to 1 hit point kills that creature and 4 damage to 4 hit points kills my creature. To play creatures like Molimo Maro Sorcerer if you have the required land cards to play him you will need to tap your lands, to tap lands you need to turn them on there side to signify that they are tapped. Enchantments can be placed on your/there creatures e.g. Blanchwood Armor gives that creature +1/+1 for each green you control. The 5 different lands are mountain for red, forest for green, swamp for black, plains for white and islands for blue. There are also two types of cards, foily cards and normal cards. The foily cards are shiny as shown below.


On my first tournament this is                My first card I ever owned was
what I got.                                              Molimo Maro Sorcerer

 

Homework P5

My squash coaching lessons last for 1 hour from 11-12am. I started in Term 1 and have been doing it ever since. I would also like to do it throughout year. It cost  $50 a term and $200 a year. The coach's name is Graeme Randolph and he is very skilled at squash. I play in the squash court at the back of the gym. I play squash because it is fun and it is similar to tennis and I quite like tennis as well.

To play squash you will need a racquet and a squash ball. Squash balls are quite small and are not very bouncy unless hit hard. If the ball is hit hard enough and correctly the ball can go over 100km. Also with the squash balls there are two types of balls the yellow dot and the blue dot. The yellow dot is for the warmer days e.g. summer and spring and the blue dot is for the cooler days e.g. winter and autumn and the red is for extremely hot days. The reason for the two temperature balls is so that the bounce better in that season (blue cold, yellow warm, red hot.) The racquet is similar to the squash racquet but the head is more circular and there is not always a hole in the middle of a squash racquet. You hold the squash racquet differently as well, you hold it with your fist around it but make a v shape with the gap between your thumb and index finger on the side of the racquet. You should get a titanium framed racquet rather than an aluminum frame or you will be riskung your racquet bending. "In 2003 Forbes rated squash number 1 healthiest sport" I found this information on Wikipedia.

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For my Science Fair I have tested to see which games take the most power from your laptop. I have chosen 4 games to test: League of Legends, Minecraft, Tekkit and Lord of The Rings Online. I record the information by charging my laptop to 100% and then letting it run for 1 hour without doing anything. I then note down the percentage lost and test a game. I was correct.I do the exact same steps except I play the game for 1 hour then the next game until I have played them all. Then I did the write up and got it printed then stuck on my board.

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I started my weekend on Saturday like most people however I did my science fair project (playing games) I did that for approxamtly 10 hours. Then I slept for the rest of the day until dinner then after I finished I did another 1 hour of *science fair,* then I went to bed and didn't wake up until 1:30pm the next day. That day I did exactly the same as the day before except I had to clean up. My science fair game takes 1 hour every time I play it the game is called League of Legends. After I finished a couple of games I decided I was hungry and I went into the kitchen to get something to eat and I realized that someone was cooking dinner

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1.) My idiom is *a piece of cake.*

2.) What it means is that when you do something that is really easy then complete it people say a piece of cake. Also when someone is doing another thing that someone can't do easily and when the second person congratulates them they say it was a piece of cake.

3.)The saying came from when people are cutting a cake it is easily done just like when someone says a piece of cake after they have done something.

4.) At home we don't have any main idioms but we use different ones all the time although I can't remember any.

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Which came first the chicken or the egg? The problem is still not completely answered but most people in the world think that the chicken came first because the most ancient animal they can find is the plankton and they came from natural resources connecting together. Then they evolved into land animals and more sea animals. The animals just kept on evolving until they got to the chicken. The first people on the planet were confused about which came first the chicken or the egg, and that was how the dilema was introduced.

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Why do most animals contract in winter and expand in summer?

Answer:
Most animals contract in the winter so they can stay warmer like a cat. Cat's can be very long and very short, but the shortest that they get is in the winter. The longest they get is normally is in the summer when it is warmer. The reason they grow longer in the summer is that when the sun is shining on the animal the animal is spread out so much that it won't need all the heat, and they shrink shorter because the body heat will keep them warm enough to survive another winter.

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I wonder why people think aliens might exist.

I wonder how many trees there are in the world.

I wonder how many stars there are in the universe

I wonder what other planets has lifeforms

I wonder what other planets can contain human life

I wonder how many websites are on the internet

I wonder what the first thing ever invented was

I wonder which came first the chicken or the egg

I wonder how wireless internet reception works

I wonder what causes the moon to hold the earth in place

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My morning with me trying to wake up at 7:30am, my dad almost always succeeds. Sometimes he chucks the cat on me and sometimes he takes off all the blankets. But when I do finally wake up I get into my school uniform which is neatly on my floor. After that I go into the kitchen and get myself some cereal normally I get cornflakes but if Mum got something special in the grocers it's normally gone by the second day, all I say is "It wasn't me it was Liam". So after I've had breakfast I just have to do my hair and brush my teeth. When I've done all of that I must do the dishes. Normally when I am in the middle of doing the dishes my mum wakes up and we go to school.

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The Pet Hippo

There once was a man that had a hippopotamus as a pet. Greyback. He kept him outside and the hippo wasn't very happy about being outside. So after the man went fishing while Greyback crept into the food shed and ate most of the man's food. When the man got back he saw the hole in his food shed, and saw his pet hippo at the crime. The man coaxed Greyback out with a handful of grass and chucked it on the ground. The man then fixed the hole with sticks and twigs. The man decided to build Greyback his own house and put around 5kg of grass on the side so Greyback would have nothing to complain about. But when all was going well Greyback decided he didn't want grass he wanted hay. So he tried to explain that to the man and after a lot of moaning and spitting out grass the man changed the grass to hay, so now Greyback was happy until Greyback got thirsty...

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Yesterday May 27th we went looking at the disability classrooms 1ed by Bobby. I am not entirely sure what all of the disabilities were but some of them creeped me out. Devon was a smaller person he had ear aids and both his eyes were at each end of his head. There are 5 - 10 classrooms in the buildings. They have moved here because there old class got burnt by a hot air conditioner running.

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On Friday my family and I were extremely tired from our trip to Wellington. Surprisingly I slept from about 7:30pm till around 3 in the afternoon and everyone had a try at waking me up (even the cat) they all gave up and I just kept on sleeping. On that same day I mainly used electronics and I went to bed at around midnight. Unfortunately I had to stay outside until 12:56am before I was allowed to use my laptop, even though I didn't get to use my laptop much yesterday my mum said I used my laptop all day yesterday. Which was around 4 hours which was hardly fair. I think you'll find it hard to believe but when we went to the government house in Wellington my little brother ate a mini almond cake because that was the only one he could have then he puked all over the carpet.

Science Test

At home in the morning I started a new science test I had to do was get three house hold cleaners. My hypothesis is that bleach will have the most abrasive materials. Get 3  teaspoons of each and dissolve them in water and see how many minerals was in each of them. I picked bleach, lemon floor cleaner and eco dishwashing powder. The one with the most amount of abrasive minerals was the bleach, then it was the eco dishwashing powder and last was the lemon floor cleaner. Then I did it again to try get different results which I did I got more abrasive materials in the eco dishwashing powder. In the end my
hypothesis was correct once.

Homework E1

I first started guitar in term 1 of 2013. My teachers name is Allan Campbell he is a very skilled guitar teacher and has taught me a lot. I go to guitar at 4pm on Tuesday until 4:30pm. I have been doing guitar through term 2 as well and I want to do it for the rest of the year as well. I do not know how much guitar cost. I do guitar because it is a fun instrument and the only instrument I play.

To use a guitar properly you need to not put your thumb above the guitar neck or your fingers wont be able to reach the 6th string properly. You need to stand your fingers up and push down on the strings and not have your fingers laying down on the string and pressing down. If you get a strap do not put it at bottom part of your strings put it in the middle of the knobs. With the guitar if you only play one string it is called a note if you play multiple strings it is called chord. The notes are E, B, G, D, A, E. To play a chord you need to play multiple notes e.g. D has got 1 E, 1 B and 1 G.

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Camp Activites

Vertical Play Pen

I'm proud that I kept on trying to finish the vertical play pen it was surprisingly difficult t went you had to climb a pole with metal pegs on the side climb onto a beam stand on the beam and climb up 2 tyres and get onto the next beam. Then you need to stand on that beam and climb onto a rope and stand on that to get onto the next beam. I was stuck on  that for at least 5 mins then you have to up on a tyre then climb through the tire the sit on the tyre and the parent lowers you down.

Paintball
The most rewarding thing is playing paintball. Last year we had to raise $2000 I raised $24 and got shot to bits. This year I used knowledge from last year and stayed defense. I was not the only person in defense Caitlin was also in defense and she still had a full clip and surrendered and I was alone with a  3 vs. 1. Believe it or not I actually stayed for longer than I wanted. There were 2 kids and 1 adult. I shot the adult 10-15 times and I made 1 kid run for cover and I kept him pinned behind a tree and the third was coming behind me, unluckily/luckily I ran out of ammo, so I had to surrender, so the last three managed to get the flag and we lost.

Clash Of The Camp
The biggest challenge for me was the Clash of The Camp the food challenge. I had to eat wheat bics with tomato sauce and whipped cream which was fine for me but the drink made everyone throw up, it contained 3 raw eggs, hot chili sauce,  popcorn, pumpkin, peanut butter, jam and whipped cream it was HORRIBLE!

Homework Expectations

Amount

We think that 30-45 minutes every weeknight is a reasonable expectation for homework. Per week that equals approximately 2.5 hours per week of homework.

2 terms = 20 weeks. Every homework task should take you 5 hours to do.

Quality

You need to work on each homework task for at least 2.5 to 5 hours. It should like it was done by a year 8 student. The product you make (if relevant) should look good quality.

Blog Post

- must be at least 2 paragraphs

- has to be punctuated correctly, spell checked and no errors

- you must include which category and task number in your post title so Miss C can sign you off.

Dinosaurs To Life

An Australian billionaire is building the worlds largest robotic dinosaur park at Palmer Coolum Resort. The park already hosts the prehistoric T-rex, Omeisaurus and the Apatosaurus and is still growing.  The dinosaurs are mostly over 20m long and around 7m high. They will be showed in natural woodland environment at the resort.

My opinion is that it would cost a lot of money but it would make the Palmer Coolum Resort look really cool so if they have the money just keep going with it.
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Sunbeds Banned

In New Zealand people under the age of 18 are no longer able to use Sunbeds. The Associate Health Minister Jo Goodhew has announced that rule last week. The Government has changed this rule to try to help reduce skin cancer. The Government has said that this will be law by the end of the year.
My opinion is that this rule/law should take place until they find other ways for people to get tanned without being out in the sun.

Completed tasks:
E1) Learn an instrument
Violin
P2) Compete in a sport
Squash, Tennis
S1) Teach Little Kid(s) an instrument
Little Brother, Guitar

Water Cycle

3-Learnt: I’ve learnt how to do slide animations, that Dylan is a slow reader, that if you get your head in something you can do it fast. 2-Benefits: A benefit of working with Dylan is that he showed me how much time/effort I have to put into each worded slide, that I now know Dylan better and what he is capable of. 1-Difficulty: The difficulty that Dylan and I had was we fell far behind but we caught up.

RIMU Homework

My ten chosen homework activities are:
G1) Prepare 3 course meals for family
G2) adopt a pet from SPCA
A1) 12x12 table grid in under 2mins
A2) ICAS tests
S1) teach little kids instrument
S2) design challenge
E1) Learn instrument
E2) create an original artwork
P1) Bike 120k
P2) Compete in a sport

My First Month At T.I.S

I have been at T.I.S for one month so far and in that time I have taken Guitar, Violin, Squash and tennis. In class we have done a lot of work, we designed our own All Summer In A Day image using a fun new application called SumoPaint. Each morning we do a 12 x 12 times table grid and my goal is to get under 2-3mins! Every morning after maths we do either a Run, Zumba or Kempo. During maths I have learnt a lot of methods, Pythagoras Theorum and standard form I have also been able to memories the BEDMAS (Bracket Exponent Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction). We have also done some work on our O.L.J (Online Learning Journal). My class job is to grab all photocopying from the pigeonhole.