Adri’s Blog

Today a few people from the Port Power AFL team, and a player from the thunder birds netball team, came to talk to our class about the badness of smoking. They explained to us about the chemicals in cigarettes and the risks of smoking.

some of the chemicals include methanol (rocket fuel), phosphorus (laundry detergent) and hydrogen cyanide (poisonous gas). all together there’s about 4, 00 different deadly chemicals.

I really learnt something and it was a fun lesson

After about 1 year and a half of very hard practice, I have FINALY learnt how to do long division of by heart and without any [much] help!!!

While L.A 21 and I were learning how to convert fractions into percentages, one of the steps was long division. Long division wasn’t one of my best skills when it came to maths, but for some reason, after the ten hundredth time it was explained to me, I got it!! I finally understand how to work it out and I must admit that I’m very proud of myself, it was a long journey, but persistence really does pay off!!!

And I also have minimal trouble with fractions and percentages now as well, so that’s good too

For art this week, [week 5] we had to cut out different sized circles out of glossy coloured paper.

Next we had to create an abstract piece of art work. By abstract i mean ’something’, but not an actual thing. For example a part of something or the colours of it.

Then we had to come up with a name for our art work, again not what it actually is but something that describes it, or really just whatever you want.

And finally, stick it on a white piece of paper, and your done. It was a really fun art lesson and I enjoyed it very much.

Here’s my art work, it’s called Pirates of the Kattabian!!!: (mine isn’t very abstract but oh well ;] )

The first big event that has happened so far (it’s week 2) is camp.

Unlike most students of L.A 20 & 21, I didn’t go to camp. During the time that the year 7 classes were at camp, my cousin, Anast, my classmate, suha, and I, were the only ones that didn’t attend camp, yet still had to go to school.

It was a three day experience that we missed out on :(  Throughout those three days, we all had been given a work sheet about newspapers. I have recently decided that in the future I would like to be a journalist, so there were very enjoyable taskes to work on.

We had to re-write a newspaper article, write a letter to our local newspaper editor about something that was bothering us on the newspaper or something that could have been improved, our opinion on a quote about newspapers, create our own front cover of a newspaper with a title and cover story,and many more.

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, and is commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps(ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all those who died and served in military operations for the country.

I think that ANZAC Day is a very, very important part in Australian History, and to have their very own day is a very honarably way to mark the anniversary.

‘Good leaders must first become good servants’ by Robert Greenleaf

It’s two days until Sports Day!!!

On Sports Day all the classes in the school, go down to Henley memorial oval. We have a lot of activities to compete in, we compete our class mates. The activities include; shot put, high jump, long jump and much more.

My favorite part of sports day is HAVING FUN!!! The sport is great too, but its playing the sport, not the end result that I worry about. Watching your friends and your friend watching you, that’s the most important part because I can count on my friends for all the encouragement and support I need (the ice-cream is just part of the best sports day EVER!! hehe)

When its over I’ll add to this post and share the end results!! (I might even tell you what place I came in, in the sprints)

Sports Day!!!

Sports day was so much fun!!! The colour Red won and then Green was secon and then Orange was therd and last but not least Yellow!!! But who cares? I know I don’t

This is the quote:

“The only way to have a friend, is to be one.”     - R. Emerson

That it the week 9 quote. As I wrote about in a previous blog post, we get one every week.

My thoughts about this weeks quote are that it is very true in some ways, yet, not in others. What I’m trying to say is that it is true that you have to treat people in a nice way, to get treated the same, but it’s really who you choose to be friends with.

If you picked the kindest and nicest person to be friends with, they will most probably react to the kind treatment you are giving and act in the same way. But if you choose to be friends with some one that looks friendly, but turns out to be mean and not nice at all, no matter how hard you try, the are most likely to respond in a negative way to the vibe you are sending.

For example when I was younger I tried to make friends, I wasn’t sure how, but I tried anyway. I walked over and asked to join into the game they were playing, and had a great time. It made me very happy and also hopeful to no that I didn’t need to try hard at all. I think experiences like this, are what molds a persons confidence and makes them the person they are today.

In class we have been learning about metaphors, and the difference between a metaphor and a simile.

The difference between the two is that a metaphor is comparing something to something else, for example:

The giants steps were thunder, or, he was a lion in battle.

In that sentence, its comparing, or really it’s more like telling you, that the steps of the giant, did sound like thunder.

A simile looks more like this:

He was a white as snow, or, was as slow as a snail.

In class we had to write this metaphor:

In the grey evening

I see a long green serpent

With it’s tail in the dahlias

It lies in loops across the grass

And drinks softly at the faucet

I can hear it swallow.

Beatrice Janoscoe

And draw a picture to match each sentence. Most of the class got a bit confused. A metaphor is telling you what it looks like, but still comparing. so basically it isn’t really a serpent, its a hose, and its swallowing the water so that the flowers can be watered. I was one of the confused ones

Every Monday Ms. Paladino gives us a quote to write in our diary.

This weeks is:

people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Jim Downing

My thoughts about this quote are that I think this quote is trying to tell us that if you have a chance to make a difference and be a leader, people will not remember you for who you are, but for what you did they even at made them feel either happy, excited, sad or maby even angry. another thing that could help is to do something nice to some one, most people only remember bad thing or experiences.

How will you use this quote in your classroom? I will use this quote by making sure that people remember me for the good thing that I have done and made them feel. I will be more including when it comes to others and i also see this quote as a back up for the whole TEAM thing and working together.