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Monday 31 March 2014

Videostar

Something I like to do at home is make videostars! Videostar is an app that let's you make your own music videos. You can pick your song and add loads of cool effects to your clips. I like this app because you can be really creative and the finished video looks awesome! Normally I do a videostar on the weekend because I have lots of time and it gives me weekdays to think of an awesome ideas. I know a lot of people who have this app and it is really popular. 
Have you ever made a videostar?
Here is a videostar I have made!




Tuesday 25 March 2014

Statistics

This term we have been learning about statistics. I have improved on many different areas, such as pie graphs, histograms, stem and leaf graphs, time series graphs and much more. There wasn't an area I got a low score in the test we had. So i don't really think i need to improve on anything. I've learnt so much in the past term. I didn't know how to even make a pie graph let alone understand them! But now I can do all of that. I think it this will definitely help later on in the year.

Wednesday 19 March 2014

Camp Revision

Last week, the year 8s went to OPC! It was so much fun! We were able to do loads of fun activities and really got to know each other.





The most challenging activity was probably the high ropes, there were 2 people and they had to make their way across a really thin rope using teamwork 15 metres in the air. The kayaking was also really tough! Me and Elizabeth were in a kayak together and we were playing a game were there was 2 teams and they had to pass the ball to each other and get it into the instructors canoe. You also couldn't paddle with if you had the ball. I had the ball and I was trying to pass it to another canoe. I had to stand up because I couldn't throw that far sitting down. I went to throw but I lost my balance and feel into the water! Later on we swapped our kayak with 2 other people's canoe. We had to stand up and try get into each other's boats, and once again, I lost my balance, and fell in.




The the easiest thing for me would probably have to be when we had to walk through the bush. Even though it was pretty hard, it still ended up being the easiest!



It definitely wasn't what i had expected! The Cabins were awesome, the activities were super fun and we all got a lot closer.





My proudest moment was probably when my group was caving and our instructor and teachers had left us to find the right way back. It was a super tight fit so not everyone could go in at once and i was outside waiting to go in and nobody could find the right way. So they all came out and i went in with some other people. We looked around for a couple of minutes and we still couldn't find it! But then i saw a little gap in the wall and sure enough, it led us out back to the instructors.





My favourite moment was when Samantha and I were doing the high ropes and we managed to get all the way to the end with out falling off!



Monday 3 March 2014

Diving


This term for swimming, I chose to do Diving. So far, we have jumped off the 1 metre and 3 metre boards. We have learnt to jump forwards, jump backwards, tuck jump, dive of the 1 metre, forwards roll off the side of the pool, backwards roll off the side of the pool and fall backwards in pike position off the side of the pool. I'm pretty sure I'm improving because I couldn't dive before diving lessons. I think next lesson I will be able to improve by really listening hard and putting in 100%.