LI: To understand how reading can change one's life.
Today we had Marc from Duffy come and talk to us about the importance of reading and how reading can make a big impact on your life. Although Marc had some challenges in his life he used reading as a tool to get through the hard times. Marc believes that there is only CANs and not CAN’Ts. I felt the story that marc had said was really inspiring, his influence should be a role model for anyone who is going throuhg tough times.
For our camp celebration task was to create a recount of a past activity we have done while at camp. The activity I chose to write was archery, the point of this task is to paint a picture through a recount.
Arrows of Hope
As I walked up to the platform, I could feel the adrenaline run throughout my body. A fear of missing shot through me as I knew my group was watching. I took one step, another, and another, and I finally got to the platform. As I got up to the platform I felt a sudden breeze across my face.
First I grasped the bow and with the other hand I took an arrow out of the tube. I felt a heavy weight on my shoulders as this was the first time I have held an actual weapon. As I put the arrow through the bow I remembered the five f’s; footing, fletcher, fingers, face and fire. Everything seemed right so with excitement I shot the first arrow, the arrow flew faster than I could blink and in an instant it missed the target.
Second, I drew my second arrow. I felt I needed to get the target as I had missed the first shot. I did everything, the f’s, my aim, and so on. With my second arrow I pulled the string back, my hand quivering the more I pulled the string back. I let go of the fletcher and the second arrow was released. In a span of one second it missed the target.
After the second arrow I took another arrow. In frustration with myself I drew the next arrow, I connected the fletcher with the string and shot the next arrow with hope. In my surprise I had shot the blue circle. In the short amount of time I had feltI had achieved something.
After the activity I felt a sense of achievement as I walked away proud that I had hit the blue circle on the target.
LI: to learn how to create a joint.
For this session of tech our year 8's got up to creating their joints in their wood works. This week the tools we use were the Tri-square, ruler, Saw, Bench Saw. A joint is what holds one piece of wood in place as foundation. The joint will be a piece of wood that has a square like hole in it for the other piece of wood to fill, creating a strong foundation. Some of us had finished and some have still needed time to complete the task. I found this session exciting as we got to do use actual tools.
LI: to celebrate our PBS SLJ participants.
Over the holiday's our senior students participated in a holiday learning program call the Summer Learning journey. Us as a school found the activities included in the program really interesting and we found them to be enjoyable. Other than the activities Nano girl kept us occupied with fun experiments to every Monday. To celebrate our achievements PBS held a special assembly with new guests; Mrs Grant and Mrs Paleti. They presented the certificates and the prizes for the most exceptional bloggers over the holiday period.
LI: to learn how to plan/measure a wood work plan.
For our tech session this week we made our first official plan. We were given our plannings of our eight designs and we picked one. We were then given a new piece of paper, a plank of wood and a ruler. Now we have gotten all of our materials we could start with our plan, first I started with the base and the incline, then I started working up. My design I have chosen was a plane.
