term 1 reflection

This term has been absolutely fantastic.The first week I couldn't stop second guessing myself about being in room three but I fit in just fine!I learnt the same amount that I would learn in a term of primary school that I did in a week of intermediate.The year is speeding by and summers over😞.I am glad that I have participated in many things though,such as basketball,french,music [guitar and tenor saxophone],extension art,robotics and many more.Easter Friday is coming up which means no school on Friday but im sure we will learn just as much this week as any other.I believe over the term my maths has improved increasingly fast. I've learnt about integers,place value,indices/index numbers/powers,multiplication,division and subtraction algorithms,prime numbers and much much  more.I have also learnt about where capital letters and punctuation belong in my writing because it is very tricky to remember but at lest I was't the only one who needed to work on it.And in reading I've tried and succeeded in finding a different genre of book that I enjoy.

At school we do  house competitions.This term my house Waipa has competed in three inter house events with the other houses Mangapiko,Waikato and Puniu. First we competed in minor games coming second to Waikato then we participated in swimming and came first but overall still in second place then just last week we had summer games and now Waipa is in third place behind Mangapiko [2nd]and Waikato[1st]😢.

Overall my term has been great And I hope to have an even better one in my following time at Te Awamutu Intermediate School.

camp week 8!😆

During week 8 my class[room 3] traveled to Wellington for a fabulous class camp!The bus trip was eight hours but it felt way longer.My favourite part would have to be Weta Workshop,we learnt how they make movies and how hard it is to be an actor.First we were shown some casts that had to be taken of an actor just in case something happened to them-they looked so real! What I found fascinating was that if they had a full body cast of any actor it was as if they were immortal because if the real actor died you would still have the cast and make movies with him for as long as the cast stays.After we learnt about the casts we just looked at some of the cool things around the place and there were a lot!

I also really liked Capital E. My group went to the Media lab first and designed android apps with Sam while the other group made a video to once upon a crime at the ONTV place then we switched and they did virtual reality instead of the app making and we did ONTV.

Some of the other things we visited include Zealandia [animal sanctuary],Wellington museum[Wahine disaster],snorkeling at Island Bay,Tour of Parliament,carter observatory[Space Place],the Wellington zoo and many other fun things.

This was one of my favourite camp's ever and it was a great opportunity to learn new things!