Year: 2023

We have been learning what anxiety is. It is an intense and constant fear about everyday things. Signs may be fast heart rate,  rapid breathing and sweating. Anxiety is normal in stressful situations like taking a test or public speaking. Anxiety only becomes a indicator of an underlying disease when it stops you from doing everyday activity.

It is the end of term 3 so now we have to set our goals for term 4. In term 4 we have camp so one of my goals is for this camp to actually be fun unlike all the others I’ve been on. The next goal I have set myself is to do more of the opportunities I have because I have caught myself this term turning down every opportunity I get like Cantamaths. Because of this it made my teacher go on a big rant about water polo to my parents. Next term I also want to improve my creativity because right now I am not creative at all.

It is nearly the end of term three. This term has been the first and only term for winter sports. I played football for winter sports my team never beat South Brighton. We also started training for Koru games, Koru games are a sports event for intermediate schools all over Canterbury. I am also doing football for Koru games. We also started inquiry we are learning about the environment and how drinking water works. We are going to make water filters out of drink bottles sand and charcoal. This term there was also Cantamths which is a maths event for schools all over Canterbury.

We wrote Hauki and Tanaka poems for poetry. A haiku is not like a normal poem it uses syllables instead of rhyming. A haiku is meant to have 5 syllables at the start 7 in the middle and 5 at the end.

Tanaka                                                                        

                  The water started freezing

                    The snow came falling

              The mountains turned white

                   The rain started falling

Haiku

                      Today It’s Summer

                         It is very warm

                      I will go swimming

For technology I have been sewing. We are making a cushion completely from scratch. So far i have made the front of the pillow using a pattern and a black piece of fabric. I now need to make the back of the cushion out of black fabric.

We went skiing at MT Hutt on Friday. I went snowboarding for the first time so I learnt how to stop and turn. I spent the whole day on the beginner slope. We got a two hour lesson and then got to do stuff on our own. We had to get up at 5:30 in the morning because we had to get to the school by 6:15. It was then a 2 and a half hour drive from school to the top of the mountain. The biggest fall I saw was Malachi when he fell and his helmet came off but he was okay and kept going.

Cantamaths stands for Canterbury maths. It is a maths competition for Canterbury schools ranging from year 7 to year 12. It has lots of categories like poster and maths photography. It also has a big competition where lots of schools enter where you get lots of questions in quick and you need to answer all of them as fast as possible. I made a poster on how to do the butterfly technique for addition of fractions.

We have been learning how to write an essay we had to write an opening paragraph about vaping. Green means main idea and red means supporting details.

We have been learning about bio poems at school. A bio poem is basically an autobiography about a person it includes their achievement, Fears and parent.