Specialists

Science Science is defiantly my favourite subject and my favourite thing science would have to be dissecting sheep brains. Dissecting sheep brains was a bit disgusting but it was worth it because I found out where the different parts of the brain are like the thalamus, the cerebrum, the cerebellum and the brain stem. We have also been learning about forces and friction. In learning about forces we covered gravity and Newton’s laws so we did some interesting experiments and in learning about friction we got toy cars and drove them over different surfaces which we measured to find the average. Vinyl had the highest average. French In French this year we have been working on French food. We did a poster on different regions of France and what type of food they had there. We also had to put a recipe of a food that they make in the region. My poster was on the Normandy region. What I found interesting was that France has lots of apples in the northern regions and lots of seafood in the southern regions. We have also been practising to say and spell French words that are related to food like “manger” which means “to eat”, “j’ai faim” which means “I’m hungry”, “C’est delicieux”, means “it’s delicious”, “Mon plat préféré means my  favourite meal” and “La nourriture” which means “food”. Music Music has also been one of my favourite like Science and French. Music was a bit different this term because we have done two projects already and the first was a poster on our favourite instrument and I did mine on the trombone which is my favourite instrument. The other project we did in music was called creating your own instrument which means we had to design and build an instrument and I made a guitar drum which is a guitar with a built in drum. We have to also compose a song and play it. I am happy that Mrs Hambly will be coming back to teach again but it is sad that Miss Wagstaff will no longer be teaching. Sport This term in sport we played lots of indoor cricket and outdoor cricket and we occasionally played bombardment or vortex gridiron. On open day this year I played a full proper twenty 20 match and I went out for 1 which was pretty good compared to my teams captain who got 0. We played lots of indoor cricket matches this term in sport we have also done a few tests like the beep test and the semo agility but the best part about this term’s sport would have to be the house athletics day even though I only got two fourths, one sixth and one first but what I’m happy about is that the first that I got was the whole competition. J J J  !!! Art The highlight of art this term would definitely be Chinese lettering and ink painting. When we did Chinese lettering in art our art teacher Mr. Bell got the Chinese teacher Miss Fan and she taught us how to write Chinese lettering. She said that Chinese lettering takes time and you have to keep your arm straight so you don’t mess it up. We also did ink painting this term and we made many different paintings of things like trees. Ink painting was very messy because of some people trying to make bubbles with the ink. We also did a drawing with line unit where we given photos of line drawings and we chose one to research and write about it. Library This term in library we did a short book review of our favourite book. I did mine on ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’ by Rick Riordan. It is full of action and adventure so that is why I chose it. We have been keeping track of our reading during the term with a reading diary. Ms Cole has been encouraging us to borrow a range of different books from the library to read. I have been reading the ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ books this term and so far I have read three book from this series. Library has also been one of my favourite subjects this term.