Maths: I now know how to use backtracking to solve equations, for example in most equations where you are given the answer like; N/5-13=7 but have to find out what ‘N’ is you do the opposite, for example the – sign by 13, turns to plus because you are doing the equation backwards so 7+13=20 then you have to do N/5 but you have to do the opposite again so 20 x 5= 100.So ‘N’ = 100.

Sport: This week I trialled for Inter-Intermediate Softball and  got in as the back stop. I also trialled for Inter-Intermediate Volley ball and got in! I now have fourteen badges on my sleeve.

This week my class has  done heaps of exit tests ( tests done at the end of year Eight to see if you are at the National standard) like PAT Maths and English, IKAN, Gloss, Asttle Maths, Writing and Reading comprehension.

My goal for this week is to:

 Present my speech clearly and confidently in the school speech finals. I will  do this by speaking slowly.

Maths: This week I have learned how to find the circumference of circles, for example to find the circumference of a circle with a radius of 10cm , first you have to double the radius to get the diameter so 10×2=20 then you times 20 by pi to get the answer. So 20×3.14= 62.8cm. I also have learned how to find the area of  circles, for example to find the area of a circle with a radius of 12 centimeters  you times the radius by itself because it’s squared so 12×12=144 then you times it by 3,14(pi) to get 452.16.

English/Writing: For writing this week I have been continuing on persuasive writing. My argument is on whether or not Junk food should be banned in schools.We have also had class speeches.So far I have made it to the class finals.

P.E: This week has mainly been focused on preparing for our sports camp chant; as sports camp takes place next week!I also got into inter Intermediate Basket Ball, and am trailing for Inter Intermediate Table Tennis.

My Goal for next week is to:

• Get into Inter Intermediate Table tennis. I will do this by practicing at home.
• I would also like to get top sports girl during Sports Camp. I will try to do this by trying my absolute best all week and by practicing some of the sports I will by playing at home.

My previous goal was to:

Finish all my maths on time. I have achieved this goal and am currently on top off my work.

Maths: I can now remember how to find the perimeter of a variety of polygons for example to find the perimeterof  Reflections you firstly find what all the dashes are worth, so dashes with two lines are worth 10 cm and 1 lines are worth five cm. Then you add them all together . Now to find how long side ‘A’ is you add all all the vertical lines on the opposite side up to get 10+5=15 so both sides are 15. To find the length of side ‘B’ you do the same but only the horizantal lines of side ‘D’ which is 5+10=15. So now that you have all sides you add them together 15+15+15+15=60cm.

English: We have been continuing on Persuasive writing. My argument this time is whether or not junk  food should be banned in schools.

My goal for next week is to:

Finish all my maths on time. I will do this by working when I am supposed to and not talking.

Maths: This week for maths I have learned that to find the actual size of a scale factors for example, if the scale factor is 1:1000, to find the real life size you can times the length, width or given size by 1000. So if the scale length of a gate is 4.5 cm then you can times 4.5 by 1000 so it is 4500 then you convert it to metres so you divide by 1000 to get 4.5 metres !

English/ Writing :This week I have been doing  argument writing. One thing I have learned is that even if you have one view on something, to help when writing to your intended audience, you can acknowledge that they might have a different opinion and provide reasons or solutions to their problem.

P.E: This week was school cross-country .My goal was to come first and I did.

My goal for next week is to: Come in the top four places for Inter-Intermediate Cross Country. I will do this by pacing my self so that I will run a good race.

Maths: This week for maths I have learned another strategy to help with adding and subtracting decimal equations for example to find the answer to 1.75 -1.38 you change it into hundreds so 1.75-1.38 becomes 175-138, you then go 100-100 which equals 0, then 75-38 which to make it easier to subtract in your head can become 80-43 by adding 5 to each number  so 80-43=37when you change this back to decimals it is 0.80-0.43=0.37

English/Writing: This week for writing we have been focusing on personifying human traits. To do this we have to act as though the ‘trait’ is a person by describing things like what ‘him/her’ looks like, what the house they live in looks like, what activities they participate in and who they are related to, for example if the trait was Evil they could be the daughter to Vicious and Nasty.

Tech Arts: This week was my final lesson for sewing in Tech and I finished my jersey and learned how to hem the bottom of my jersey without sewing it together.

My goal for next week is to:

Have my book review finished by next Thursday. I will do this by working on it in the weekend .

Maths: For maths this week  I have learned a new strategy to help when subtracting decimals for example,an equation  like 7.4-2.73

First of all you convert 7.4 and 2.73 into hundreds to make  it easier to subtract by removing all the decimals so it would then become 740- 273 (you add the zero on to make 74 to same amount of ‘places’ as 273). Then to make it even easier to subtract, you add 7 on to 273 to make it a ‘tidy ten’ so it then becomes 740- 280. Next you subtract that amount to get 460 but you add another 7 because that was the number you added on to make the original number a tidy ten (what ever you do to one side you do to the other)so  the equation is 7.4-2.73=

740-273=

740 -234+6=460

460 +7+467 which you then change back into decimals so the final would be 4.67

I have learned another strategy to help with adding decimals for example, 4.6 +5.23 you firstly add the two whole numbers which would equal 9 then you add the ” part of a number” numbers together, remembering to make all the numbers the same amount of number placings so 0.6 +0.23  you would have to add another zero on after the 6 which would make the equation 0.60 +0.23=0.83 then you add both parts of the equation together (whole number answer +part of number answer) 9+0.83=9.83

English/Writing: This week for writing I have finished writing my report on Orca Whales. I think I have definitely improved in writing with compound,complex and simple sentences.

Production:This week was the actual performance week and after eight or nine whole weeks we finally got to perform. My character, Coach Crunchy was a real tough hardy “sporty” chick that coached a chess team and had a mono brow and a mustache.

Sport: This week my friend Rebecca  and I competed in a Duathalon. This  was out of the whole of Waikato and Bay of Plenty.To compete in this event you had to run 1.5 kilometers then bike 8 kilometers and finish with a 1.5 kilometer run. We did this event as a team where I did the running and Rebecca did the biking and we ended up coming third! 

My Goal for next week is to:

Have read a book for my book review by next Saturday.This is so that I can get started and it is not left to the last minute.

]]> http://miam3.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/week-7/feed/ 0 miam3 http://miam3.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/term-2-goals/ http://miam3.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/term-2-goals/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 02:06:14 +0000 miam3 http://miam3.wordpress.com/?p=166 ]]> My goals for Term 2 are to:

My Maths  Goal: 

Is to meet the national standards in maths.What I  need to focus on in maths is Number Strategies and Number Knowledge.  Fractions and decimals are also things I need to work on. I will try to meet the national standards by paying attention in class and using mathletics.

My English Goal:

Is to remember and continue to work on adjectival phases along with simple, compound  and complex sentences. I will do this by reworking sentences when I have writing due for class.

My Sporting goals: This term I want to score at least 3 tries in the Inter-Intermediate Girls rugby team. I will try to do this by being in the right place at the right time and by being  aware of openings in the oppositions back line. 

I would also like to score at least two goals in Inter-Intermediate Soccer.I will try to do this by always being in a good position as striker.During The tournament  I would also like to be  fair as Captain, and make sure I am not the only one with the ball. I will do this by being a fair player and passing the ball to others.   

Monday:We went on the Cable Cars up to the Botanical gardens where we then went into the  Space observatory to learn about ‘The problem with Pluto.’ I learned during this session that to find South you firstly find the Southern Cross , you then go across to a bright star called Alpha Centauri finally you go down from that star to the horizon and that is the direction of  ‘South.’

Tuesday: We went  Zealandia. I thought that this was the best thing on the trip , the guy there who was talking to us was really interesting, he made what could have been a really boring talk into a really funny and entertaining talk which I learned heaps from, for example

• Stoats kill for fun and not necessity which creates a big problem for native creatures.
• a certain leaf  can work as a bandage in the wild, and it also has antiseptic in it so it helps recovery.
• that there are only about 250 Takahe left in the world.
• there is a trap that they use to kill possums that involves using is own sweat and pus.

Wednesday: We went to the Wellington Zoo. I learned there that if you smile at a Baboon he thinks that you want a fight, because to him is as if you are barring  your teeth. He then gets all agitated because he can’t get at you through the enclosure. Since he can’t get at you he has to take it out on some one, so he talks it out on one of  the other Baboons, so we were strongly advised not to smile at them.

Thursday: We went on the Ferry across to Picton. The journey took about three hours. When we arrived we spent the time eating lunch and looking in shops. On the way back the crew practiced an emergency evacuation drill which we all took part in.

Friday: It was time to go home, we had already packed up all our stuff the night before so we were on the bus driving back home at 7:00am.

My goal for next week is to:

Make it into Inter- Intermediate Soccer.I will try to do this by practicing a bit at home with my brother.

Maths:This week in Maths we have been focusing on factors and multiples, for example the factors of 6 would be 3,2,6 and 1. Factors are  two digits  that are multiplied together to get your number . Multiples are the numbers that you find all the factors for; so 6 would be the multiple of 6,1,3 and 2.

Tech Arts: This week in Tech Arts I have learned that a Quaver is 1/2 a count in music, a Crotchet is 1 count, a Minim is 2 counts and a Semi breve is 4 counts.

My Goal from last week was to:

Score three tries in the Inter- Intermediate Touch Competition. I managed to score two tries. Unfortunately for me there were TWO times where when we were playing against Peach grove and they called a ‘touch’ they didn’t even get, when I was about score  a runaway try.

My other goal was to: Finish my report on the Girls Cricket Tournament on time. I didn’t quite  managed to achieve this goal because I was busy with some thing else during the time we had to finish, so I asked if I could finish it in the weekend and hand it in on Monday morning, I was allowed to do this and I think that it ended up being one of my best reports I have written.

My goal for next week is to:

Learn my script for camp, so that when we go to On TV  I won’t have to read my lines straight of the piece of paper. I will do this by practicing reading over the script this weekend.

Writing:This week in writing I am learning about how to write an interesting recount about Inter-Intermediate girls cricket.I am doing this by using a variety of different sentences eg; compound, complex and simple sentences.

English:This week in English I have learned that good story often has less adjectives and stronger verbs.

Maths:I have now remembered how to use the order of operations to solve equations for example, in an equation like this: 60-8-3×4+20 you would go;

Brackets

Exponents

Division

Multiplication

Addition

Subtraction

Step 1: 3×4=16 Step 2: 60-8=52 Step 3: 52-12=40 Step 4: 40 +20=60

Overall answer: = 60

My goal for this week:

My academical goal:is to finish my Cricket report on time.I will do this by working to finish it in the time that I have at school tomorrow without talking to other people.

My sporting goal:is to get at least three tries in Inter-Intermediate touch. I will try to achieve this by being a ‘team’ player. This will hopefully open opportunities for everyone to score; including me. 

My Goal from last week was to:

Get Head Student for my school. I achieved this goal and am now one of the Head Students.