In year 8 2010

In 2010 i was in year 8.
i had Mr. Shillitoe for English and humanities untill term 3 when we changed to Mrs. King.
I learnt that how to reference properly and that there is a place in papua new guinea called Kundiawa and that there is a school there that is for the kids that live there.
we sent over some of the old laptops so that they could use them for school work.

December 7th

December7th 1941: On December the 7th pearl Harbour was bombed by Japanese in the early hours of the morning.
they used 350 bombers and torpedo carrying planes, targeting warships, aircraft and military installations on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and has declared war on Britain and the United States.

The attack destroyed two battleships, one minelayer, two destroyers with the loss of more than 2,300 US servicemen The US president, Franklin D Roosevelt, has mobilized all forces and is poised to declare war on Japan.


December 7th, 1995 : The Galileo spacecraft arrives at the planet Jupiter on it's mission to study the planet and its moons.This spacecraft took off on October 18, 1989 6 years earlier by the Space Shuttle Atlantis.


December 7th, 1999 : President Bill Clinton spoke out against human rights abuses in China for the firzt time in 1999. He pointed out that thousands of Falun Gong members had been imprisoned as threats to China’s government. Falun Gong is a mixture of Buddishm, Taoism, and slow exercises.

How did you feel about beginning your Year 8 classes in the new Murtoa building? What did you like? What didn’t you like about it?

I felt nervous about starting year 8 because it was a new school and a new building so I was afraid that I would get lost or something like that. I started off the year in the worst possible way, I was late and that made me almost me miss my class but i got there just in time, but I soon got settled in and made some new friends. Some of my friends are actually old Mitcham students.

Now that you have been in Murtoa for almost three terms, has studying in the building been as good as you expected, better, worse, and why?
Studying in Murtoa has been excellent because of how open and spread out the whole building is and the teachers are great as well.
I thought that high school would be like in the movies where there are cliques and if you are late than you get a detention but it is nothing like that, the teachers are nice there aren't that many cliques, but there is the occasional one or two. The thing about Mitcham Primary was that there was one group of girls that thought that they ruled the school and it was so annoying.

What for you have been the best aspect of using laptops, Mac desktops and other ICT equipment like the interactive whiteboards? Why?
I think that using laptops, Mac desktops and the other ICT equipment was good because all our work was good because we wouldn't have to keep attack of random loose sheets because they would be either sent to use vier email or on the home website were we could access them from any computer.

What have been the worst aspects of the above? Why?
There were bad things as well like if the person that used the computer before you hadn't plugged the computer in to charge it the computer wouldn't let you log on and that would happen quite a lot because people couldn't be bothered to plug them in, that got very very very annoying.

Next year, in Year 9, you will have an individual laptop as your personal machine to use at school and to take home. How do you think that will help your learning next year?
This would help because you wouldn't have to have a USB to take all the work on the computer home and you wouldn't have to send it home you could just take the laptop home instead.

What problems can you see might or will arise next year when you have a laptop to use in your learning? A problem that could happen is someone could forget to charge the battery for their computer and then if they need it that day then they would get in trouble for not being responsible student and remembering to charge their laptop and another issue is that you might be in a rush to get to school so that you aren't late and forget to get your laptop of the charger and leave it at home which is at home so it wouldn't be that effective.

Overall, do you feel it is better to learn with ICTs like computers, IWBs, cameras etc, or better to use books and non electronic whiteboards? Why? i think that it is better to use a little bit of both because a smart board would be good because you can access the Internet and that means that you can get all the things that you need of the Internet instead of printing the sheets of the computer and then copping it onto the white board but to much screens would be really bad for younger peoples eye site so a bit of both would be a good combination.

what am I

I wake up at 7am and I can here a loud high picked cheerping noise. I go and have my breakfast and then I take a bath from where I drink. I can smell lots of different things like burnt toast and the dish washer. The bottom of my home is rough but I like it because it makes my claws sharp.

This is my neighbour,

she is SOOOOO loud!!!

this is where I live and this is what i can see every day for the hole day!!!

APA Referencing

APA Referencing is the method that the American psychological Association.
although followed by most writers it is geared towards the social and behavioral science similar to the MLA.
APA referencing provides a clear easy method to creating a bibliography.

A Bibliography is...
A Bibliography is the information that you give the reader and it will tell the reader where you got the information and if the information has been updated because a bibliography.

the best web site in the world!!!

one of the best Web site is called the animated Handwriting Generator and it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool.
It lets you draw anything and then if you press the animate button it will draw the picture that you drew step by step.


it is so cool, i think i said that already, but it is that cool.

My term 1 and 2 reflection.

These past two terms have been great and i am looking forward to what term3 and 4 bring.
i think that i did a good joba t the assignments and i think that i tryed my best and i am pleased with the marks that i was given in all the assignments, the ones by my self and the ones that were in groups.
I tink that term 2 was the greatest because i wasn't a new student to the school and i was more use to the school and the classes.
I think that the next part of the year will be great.

the I-PAD

The I-pad is sooooooooooooooo cool i wish that instead of books that every on in the school could get one instead of those stupid books we have to carry around.
this way we could all have all our subjects in one thing ( the I-pad) it would be so cool.and then all the teachers would have to do is send us the work and then we could open up the document from our emails then we could all get the same work, no more photo copping no more using up to much paper printing off to many copies you could just send it to the students.

I know that it would be expensive but it would only be a couple of hundred dollars more than the many many books that we use now. so it wouldn't be that bad, in hinds site it would be actually quite good, saving the trees by saving paper and not making as much of a mess with all the paper that falls out of our locker and making our school look really messy.

so if i was in debating i would definitely win the argument.

Chinese Cinderella!!!!!

when we read Chinese Cinderella i thought that it would be like Mao's last dancer which was another book that i had to read last year, it wasn't that good from my point of view.
it was OK!!!!!

any way...
the book was a bit wired especially when the children got a pet duck each and then one of the ducks got eaten.
that was the most upsetting bit in the story for me.

wrong!!!

all the times put up on the bottom of my blog and when I posted them is wrong!!!

what is archaeology???

Archaeology is the scientific study of the cultures and the way the people lived based on the things they lift behind!!!!!

my music

on the 3rd of june i had to do a solo in my music class.
it was nerve raking, even though i always get nervouse today i didn't, I wasn't that nervouse at all, it was great.

even though i didi muck up some of the song i still got a prity good score i think.!!!!!

Pankration

Pankration is a martial art introduced by the Greek Olympic games in 648 BC and found as a blend of boxing and wrestling.

Pankration is the world that means "all power" or "all Powerful" in Greek . both are acceptable translations by Greek scholars.

The rules are you aren't aloud to bit, poke each others eyes and you can't bite each other.

usually it is till the your opponent forfeits or dies.

our special guest!!!

Today we had a special guest speaker, his name was Micheal Tenner.
he was at our school because he presented the award on be half of his mum.
Michael talked to us about what he did in the army. He was a general. He worked in Afghanistan from January 2007 March 2008. He also worked in the office for the U.S.A army on the third floor of the palace.
He told us all about how he moved all around the world and how he has one child in year 8, one in year 6 and two in uni.
He told us that he moved to the U.S. when he was about 4 years old.

I found it fascinating.