This week at school I have been doing two interesting things that I will write about. First of the two; I got into fourth place on my classes chess tournament leaderboard. I was aiming for first but this was pretty good progress, going from eighth to fourth in about three days. In first place is my good friend Jake, second place is Jeremiah and third place is Paige.

The second thing I am writing about is my coding my scratch project that isn’t finished yet but the actual game itself works right now.

My Project ⬇

Scratch Project

Since there are no different fonts on this site I took a screenshot of this.

(it’s blurry)

My week at school started on Monday. My memory is pretty bad but I’m sure that it rained for more than half of the day. At the end of the day I did a bit of work on my inquiry animation. 

I can remember Tuesday a bit better than Monday so I will write a bit more. On Tuesday I got heaps of inquiry work done and (successfully) recorded my animation, and started adding music to it. Also we got to enjoy the wonderful Matt – A quote from Matt the Great. 

I can’t remember Wednesday, but on Thursday we went to tech and I made lots of progress on my bag. It should only take about another session or two to finish it and then I can work on other sewing projects. 

On Friday (today) Winter sport was cancelled because the grounds were incredibly wet and outside choice and challenge activities were cancelled too. So it was a pretty rubbish day overall. But we have dodgeball at the very end of the day so I guess it’s okay-ish. 

My RISE value that I used was success because I succeeded by finishing about eighty percent of my bag. I also succeeded in inquiry because I finished my animation and added music to it and got it approved by the amazing teacher.

This week we have been writing poetry and it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying. I have to write this blog post and put my best piece of writing on it. I think it was my best piece of writing because it flowed well.

Here is my best piece of writing:

Matt’s Rat

Matt had a treasured pet rat

The rat hated him back

It was quite grim

The rat ate him

It was a gruesome attack

Here is a second part that Kathy wrote:

Poor Matt.
He treasured that rat.
A scruffy, sweet, and whiskered friend,
Their days together seemed to never end.
But then one day, with a glint in its eye,
The rat decided it was time for Matt to die.

This week I did some maths. We did a quick sixty which was all sevenths questions. Then we did two Oxford Maths tests and I got over seventy five percent on both of them. After that we did a Blooket and I got fifth.

I also am working on a short animation for inquiry, which is about Saint Patrick’s day and how it is celebrated. To make the animation me and my group (Nikaire and Nishant) had to find images on Google and use polyline (a Google tool) to make the things for the animation.

For our winter sport we got to have three choices for what sport we wanted to do. I chose to do capture the flag for my first sport and got into the second capture the flag team.

We also had Tech this week and I continued on making my bag, but it was really boring. On the bus there everyone was screaming and yelling, and it was so annoying. Once we got there we had to attach the straps to the bag. I did eighty percent of my straps.

The lunches were very unusual this week and looked like something vomited them out and then ate it and vomited it out again.

This year the government decided to make us do lots more maths subjects and stuff (yay!). We do maths once a day with Mr Redmond and it is quite fun every single time. At the start of maths we do a quick sixty which is sixty basic maths questions, just to get us warmed up.

We have learnt more about six new topics with the first thing being whole numbers. I knew whole numbers pretty well already so it was easy, but after that we had to convert decimals to fractions and percentages (Fractions to decimals etc etc). I found this more challenging but still pretty easy. Next we did factors and HCF. The factors of 8 are: 1, 2, 4, 8! And the HCF of 8 and 12 is 4. I’m not very good at the prime numbers and prime factorisation but I did it anyway and ended up getting over fifty percent on my test. The fifth thing is surveys data sources and types. I can’t remember doing this so I guess I just forgot. The last thing is polygons and circles which was quite easy because I already knew the names of lots of polygons.

Oxford maths is pretty easy to do with only 2 tests per subject. First we do a pre test and then we do some work with Mr Redmond and then we do a post test. So far on all my Tests (both pre and post) I have gotten more then fifty percent correct on all of them with my highest being ninety percent (1 wrong).

In my opinion Oxford maths is really good because normally we don’t do many tests but now we do and the tests aren’t actually that hard if you know what you are doing. Overall it deserves a 98 out of 100.

wow amazing!

For literacy I made a timeline about dogs being used in WW1.  To make the timeline I Put a line down the middle and then put 3 lines sticking out of it with information boxes on the end. And here it is:

It’s hard to read but it says

Box 1: Dogs were first used in World War I by the Belgian Army in August 1914 to pull some of their guns and supplies on carriages.

Box 2: 1915 – Dogs were being used to do things faster than humans could do them. Dogs with better senses of hearing and smell would be sentries and scouts to find enemies. Faster dogs would be used to run messages along the trenches, as they were more agile and faster than a human, and communication was already hard enough.

Box 3: Dogs were officially withdrawn from military use in 1916.

This week at tech I finished my 2nd coaster file and it is getting printed for next week. Also I wrote a story and I feel like I accomplished it:

Part 1 – The Bird And The Cat
One day there was a bird. This bird was normal so that’s why this story is about the cat and the bird. Everyday the cat caught the bird and released it because it knew that it had already eaten all the other birds. Then one day the bird was not flying around anymore so the cat went to look for it. The cat looked everywhere that it had seen the bird flying around the previous day. It ran up into the tree and looked for the bird but could not find it. It looked on its roof, the baker’s roof, all the neighbours roof’s and all the poles in town but it could still not find the bird. As it was walking home it saw a lump on the ground in the distance. It slowly walked towards the lump and then started running because it realised that it was the bird. As it approached the bird it thought the bird was dead.

Part 1.5 – The Funeral

The Cat gently picked up the bird and took it to a small hole in the field near the village. As it laid it down the bird stirred and then jumped up and flew away into the nearby forest. The cat stood in shock for a second before sprinting after the bird. When the cat neared the forest a gnome said “HALT!” The cat stopped in its tracks as the gnome waddled up to it. First it waited an hour, then two, then three until it decided to walk over to the gnome. Once it got to the gnome the gnome said “i’m sorry about the wait, but while I was napping someone seems to have strapped bricks to my feet.” The cat gnawed at the ropes holding the bricks to the gnome’s small feet. Once the cat had freed the gnome, the gnome said “at first I was not going to let you pass, but since you helped me, I shall let you pass”.

I do have more of the story but I haven’t finished it yet.

This week I enjoyed doing action stations because I got to draw a monster. I drew a monster with a big, long head and a T-Shaped mouth plus a whole bunch of wavy tentacles and a bunch of black stuff coming out of it. On Thursday I went to tech and bent plastic using heat to create a very cool, amazing, the best coaster holder ever (I broke it accidentally).