Science

Yesterday we made paper darts and we saw who's one could glide the longest distance. I threw mine backwards so i don't know how well i would have done, but some of the other students planes went quite far across the distance we were doing. It was a great science experiment to teach up about the different forces. Forces are cool things, and they are always around you. Helping you with balance, walking, and your every other movement. We learnt lot's doing these experiments and activity's on forces.

My Idea On Respect

Today for our writing task, we needed to write a persuasive piece of writing on why it is important to show respect. This is my idea on it. 

I think it is important to show respect because it makes everyone feel joyful and good about themselves. Respect can be shown in many ways by respecting the environment, friends & family, your own property, and yourself. You can show respect by doing as little as writing a note saying nice information about someone or as little as picking up some trash or opening the door for someone. There are so many ways to show respect and when you show it, there is a big chance that you will receive and enjoy it just as much. Respect is important because it can help the world one person at a time and it can influence people to start respecting people more often. In my opinion I think it is a good thing to show because it brings joy into peoples lives and it is a good way to make people feel better about themselves. 

So maybe you should start showing respect more often. What is your opinion on this?

Math D.L.O

This is my D.L.O for the week on ideas for a class pet. I had a lot of fun making it and doing math to work out the costs.

Letter About Fitness.

For our whole class writing task, we had to write a letter to a teacher or other students on if we thought it was a good idea to have fitness in the morning. We had the options to agree or disagree with this statement. I went with agree because I personally think it is a good idea for many reasons. Here is what i have come up with.

Aiden

Year 8 Student
Hornby High School

Christchurch, New Zealand

8042

Mr T. Mitchell  

Year 7 Dean & Team Leader

Hornby High School

Christchurch, New Zealand

8042

Dear Mr. Mitchell,

I am Aiden from 8Bh, and I am writing you this letter to inform you on why I think Fitness is a good idea for us students in the morning. I also have some suggestions you could make it more enjoyable for other students that dislike it.

To start this letter off, I think it is good that we do fitness because is a great source of exercise and it is a good way to get the blood flowing through our veins, and in our mind’s making it easier to learn and bring in new knowledge. I also think it is a good idea doing it at the start of the day because it is releasing energy before we go into class to start the day. It is also waking us up before we go into class.

For the second reason, I like fitness because of the different ranges of physical activity and exercises. My favourite part of fitness is the races. In my opinion, I think that fitness is a great thing to do before class and overall a good thing to do to start the day.

For my last and final idea, I have some suggestions on ways you can make it more interesting for some students that may dislike it more than others. Instead of making us run around the courts, you could start fitness  with like a game or activity to get us warmed up. You could also add different exercises instead of doing the original ones all of the time.

I hope this letter gives you some good ideas and some things that can make it more interesting for others. Thank you for taking your time to read through this letter.

Kind regards,

Aiden

Reading Prediction.

For this weeks blog post for reading, we had to make a prediction on why we think Vince Vawter wrote the book paper boy. We had three question and we had to predict off of those topics. Here is what I have predicted.

• Why I think he wrote the story
• Where he got his ideas from. 
• Why he wanted to share his story

(1. I think he wrote the story to share how difficult it is for kids & people like that to talk like others, and how hard and embarrassing it would be for people like that.

(2. I think he got his ideas from self experience. He was that boy in the story and he used to do the paper run for his neighbor hood. 

(3. I think he wanted to share his story because he was once that boy that struggled, and had to go through the practice and the social awkwardness of not being able talk normally to the people he was delivering mail to. 

• Two thoughtful question for the author.

How much of a struggle was it with the stutter in your voice?

How much training did you have to train your voice to get better with everyday conversations. 

How We can do some good.

Reading
I really liked this reading. I think it was a great act of kindness that Konner Sauve had done that for the people at his school. In my opinion Konner Sauve, is a great friend and has done a good job at setting a standard for his school. Konner Sauve had managed to keep it unnoticed and kept his anonymous Instagram account unidentified. Konner Sauve used his unidentified Instagram account to post comments about other students in his school. Konner Sauve kept the Instagram account unnoticed for 43 weeks. I could say that he made a few peoples day during that period of time. He is also a great influence for people and maybe someone in a nearby school could do the same. Or maybe you could do the same

Creative writing.

She saw it coming from around the corner. But she didn't know when, or how it would affect her. All she new is that is was coming and quickly. 5 Hours Ago... Britney was Catering at a big get together. She lived in She was born in Ireland but is currently living in the gold coast in Australia. she moved to Australia 3 years ago to start learning how to cater for parties ad get together. She loved doing that for a job.  It was a great offer that she took. Britney lived in a nice house in the gold coast. She had A husband and two children. Her husband's name is Daren and her children's names are Emily & Robbie.

Paperboy

For reading, my group are doing a novel study on a story called paperboy. Paper boy is an award winner story and i can see why. This is what i thought of the front cover before i started reading it. On the cover of the book, there is a Boy looking to be doing the paper run. The boy doesn't look to happy about something. The boy is standing down the stairs of a house in the neighborhood. It looks like he doesn't like doing the paper run. I like doing the novel study and i would love to do it again.

My free writing.

Today for writing we were doing persuasive writing. before we started writing, my teacher asked the class to do 10 minutes of free writing to get us warmed up before we started the lesson. here is what i wrote.

Once upon a time, there was a rock. It was grey and and round and it was really rocky. It was a hard rock and i called it rock. Rock sat on the beach, well he didn't really have a choice. He sat there for hours, days, months, years until the day he was grounded up and turned into sand. Now sand is Yellow and small. He was very sandy. He is very soft. I called him sand. Sand couldn't do much apart from sit there for hours, days, months, years until the day he got compressed into a rock again.