Snowman Division

Walt: Find how many sets.

This game is just like the Candy Division game, but this game is just a different theme. This game helped me revise my multiplication and division. I found this game quite easy because I could easily use my multiplication. Next time I would like something more challenging for me to learn more. I didn't find out my score, but I know that I got about 100% because I didn't get any wrong. My strategy is using my multiplication.

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Today Glen Innes School went to the G.I. centre to show off our sick, (slang for amazing) moves and skills. Of Course many parents and some Glen Innes community residents came down to enjoy what us kids love to do. We love to keep our heart healthy and keep it pumping.

We started off with room 1 who were extremely good for children who have just started school. Some kids skipped so well that they looked as if they weren't even 5 or 6 years old.

So basically all the classes went in classroom orders.

I really loved room 10's performance because its was mixed with skipping and dancing. Nor did they just skip and dance but there were also some lovely bright smiles coming from them. I thought room 11's skipping routine was a bit off. Some students looked lost and confused and some looked angry. In my opinion I thought that they should’ve all skipped together rather than just having groups coming into the centre and skipping. It’s all about getting your heart up and running, not sitting and watching. Besides that I did enjoy watching.

Of course they left the best class for last (jokes). Its funny because room 12 were actually struggling with music and ideas, but today happened like we weren't even worried. Its actually something we’re good at. We muck around at the start and end up with an amazing performance.

I really enjoyed skipping in front of a cheerful crowd. It was fun and exhausting at the same time.

Budget/Savings/Holiday

Walt: Saving towards a goal (holiday).

I played a game with Claudia to learn words that are useful when talking about using money. The new words that I learn’t are consumer, income and profit. I used the definition sheet to learn these words. I was familiar with loan, goods, choices, decision and services. I find financial literacy really helpful for me because it will help me in life about making decisions and choices. It also helps me a lot because I'm not good at maths.

I don’t really need to save money because my dad has already made a savings account for me. $19.99 goes in my savings account every week. I do really need to save up on a new phone because I have been very clumsy lately. I would also like to save up for a holiday away with my family and college fees.

Function Machine

Walt: Solve problems in division, multiplication and subtraction.

This game is very interesting. I wouldn't really call it a game though. Its like a teacher that can help you with some things you need with. I find this really useful because if I need help with hard mathematical problems I can come onto this site.

WARNING!

How did this dragon get here?

No one really knows. What if it just flew right through the building and stopped for a nap? Well we’ll find out.

News reporter Ashley says she was in town reporting for the NZ fashion week. But then something caught her attention. No one would ever believe her. It was a dragon. It was flying around the town. She stated that, as it was flying up high into the blue sky, something flew into his huge hazel eye. He lost control and came shooting down like a meteorite. His enormous red body came flying down and crashed into an abandon building like a rocket. Luckily no one was hurt.

As soon as the dragon crashed through the building, she saw a young boy aged around 8-9 years old walking towards the dragon. As he was walking he was crying. The dragon stood up with smoke pouring out of his nose. As he stood up slim was dripping out of his wide mouth.

Police and swat crews arrived at the scene to find the reporter with the boy backing away from the dragon. The swat crew spread around the dragon and one of the swat crew members stabbed the dragon with a needle ( it had a special kind of sleeping drug ). The dragon felt the needle go through his rock solid body and tried to attack but yawned so loud that the building shock.

The reporter was safe, as well a the young boy. The boy’s parents got the news and came quickly with tears coming down their cheek. The dragon was caged and sent to the Milford Dragon Academy.

12 Days Of Mixed Emotions

The past twelve weeks have been amazingly exhausting. The year 8's have been to food tech for the past 12 weeks. We have had our ups and downs with our teacher. I did enjoy going, but some people spoil it for the good ones.

The two Favorite dishes that I made were fried rice and sweet and sour beef. The reason I chose fried rice and sweet and sour beef out of all dishes is because it was full of taste and colour. It was absolutely mouth watering when Chloe and I completed the dish. The taste was like happiness falling into our mouth. The smell was out of this world, and the combination of the colours was indescribable.

I hated doing the dishes and cleaning everything, but the people who surrounded me made cleaning entertaining. Most of the teams would eat then clean, but Chloe and I would always clean before we sat down to enjoy our meal. We did this so we didn’t have to worry about the dirty dishes.

Yes, we did have our ups and downs with our food tech teacher. We were also mistakenly blamed for things we didn’t do. It was kind of hard to understand her talk because she’s Tongan, but some people took it the wrong way. Its hard to remember the last time we all just focused on our work. But I clearly remember when Ms. V came in to help us with our brownies.

We do need to work on our noise level and respect the teacher more, but other than that I enjoyed being in food tech.   

Celia (Rm 12)     

Gem Division Game

Walt: Find how many sets.

This weeks maintenance is a gem division game. It just basically helps you revise your multiplication facts. I found it a bit easy. There were levels that said easy, medium and hard, but its all the same. Next time I would like something more challenging, so maybe if I don’t really know it I can learn something new. It didn't tell me my score but, for sure I know I got 100% because I got it all right.