Sammy V.

Last week we had a Duffy assembly which starred Sam Verlinden. Like any other Duffy assembly, he came to talk to us about why reading is important, but it came with a twist. He talked about how he wanted to impress a girl, Hannah, but Noah would always one up him. That's when he realised he should sing her a song, so he read books which helped him with lyrics. The way he told the story drew students in and also cracked us up.

Shortly after that he showed us a clip of people dancing to his song, Jumble. Everyone was captivated.

I was surprised to find out that he was majoring in  music. He was our first guest to choose a different career besides being an athlete and author.

Tick Tock For The Clock

We have finally started working on creating our clocks!

First we started off with drawing an 80mm by 80mm square on a piece of card. Next we had to draw our design around it. That is going to be the back. Many of us were going to trace our design but it was too small so we had to draw it bigger.

Thirdly, we had to cut out the outline and the square. Then we were to trace our outline onto another piece of paper and cut it out. That is going to be our front.

After cutting out that one we had to draw two 40mm by 80mm rectangles. We had to cut them out and fold them in thirds. We then glued the front piece to the back piece using the two rectangles.

Unfortunately I'm still stuck on tracing my design around the square so hopefully this week I can move on quickly.

Week Seven's Assembly

For every school assembly, one class will have to host it. This has been going on for four weeks. Yesterday's assembly it was Room 6's turn.

Besides the usual, badges were given out to classroom monitors, acknowledgement for the road patrollers and library monitors, and principal awards were handed out.

When it was time for the prefects to give their messages, we were assigned the job of speaking about something that we are grateful for. I am grateful for growing up in a safe, friendly and loving environment.

Compare and Contrast

Today our tech teacher Miss Ferguson was away so we had a reliever, Mrs Apelu. Miss Ferguson sent us our task over email, which was to add two different clocks to a google drawing and write the differences and similarities between them.

Designing Our Clocks

Another week of Tech. We've moved onto sketching out designs of our soon-to-be-clock. We were given a piece of paper and had to fold it into quarters. Each square was for one idea. After sketching we were to colour all four designs in.

Of course it took a bit of time to do one sketch, so our new task was to colour in whatever we had managed to get done.

Smart Learners - Blog Profile

When you're uploading posts to the internet, you're sharing it to the world. With this you must be careful with what information you share.

How much are you willing to post about your family and you? Is it necessary? These are the questions you should think about when reading your post. You don't know who will use it and for what. Sometimes people online will ask you for your personal information which you can gladly deny.

Design Brief

During today's lesson we spent our time discussing about clocks. We first talked about the different types and then spent half an hour searching for images of the clocks online and inserting them on a google drawing (or presentation). After adding the images we had to add a label next to them saying what type of clock they are.

We then spent another 30 minutes working on a design brief for when we make our own clocks. I have decided to make a clock for myself.