Oli+P

=__**//Year Reflection//**__= __//**The highlight of my year**//__//**- The most**// **//extraordinary thing that happened this year and maybe even in my life was when we went to the great wall of China, but on top of that, i will never forget the moment when i saw, The Great Wall Of China! Through all the pain and work that we put in we finally got to the top, when we did, i was blown away when i saw the//** **//view, the mountains were amazing and we were so high up! We took a few photos then we had to leave, but what i didn't know is that we had to walk all the way back down! when we got to the bottom, I could hardly move and my legs were shaking like crazy, luckily for us after that we didn't have to walk much because the bus came and picked us up then we went to a restaurant to eat delicious food.//**
 * //29/11/2013, term 4, week 8//**
 * //__My greatest achievement this year__- This year at Avondale, I have achieved a lot. One of my greatest achievements was when i was awarded my Technology Captain badge. The best part of being a Technology Captain is working with and teaching younger kids things that they don't already know. There have been//** **//many big projects that we have had this year. One of the biggest projects we did was set up the year 2's wiki space. It was a bit simpler than this one but it had the basic things that a wiki space should have. A new project that we were assigned is we have to make voice recordings to explain to the year 4's that are coming up to the middle years next year what it is like up in the middle years and how the middle years works.//**
 * //__What I would like to improve on for next year__- I would like to learn and know all of my times tables off by heart as well as all of the division sums. I also want to learn an instrument, mabey guitar, drums or piano.//**


 * //22/11/2013, term 4, week 7//**
 * //For a couple of weeks now for English we have been doing debating but we have finally finished. Today my group, Thomas.A, Lara.G, Shea.T and I did our debate, Miss Houston said that I was the best speaker out of my group and the opposing teams group and I was very happy, on top of that our team won! The two third speakers in my group who are Shea and Lara had a huge come back, Lara was//** **//extremely behind and Shea was trying to help. In about 5 minutes Lara was able to do her part, in 5 minuets! Another thing that impressed me is that she basically winged it with her rebuttals and pulled off and awesome rebuttal. Over all as pressurizing as it was I personally think that we did an awesome job, and so did miss Houston and the rest of the class. See ya all next, bye ;)//**


 * //14/11/2013, term 4, week 6//**
 * //It is week 6 of term 4 already, just 4 more weeks until the end of the year, but of course as excited as I am I still have to move to Brazil, I will really miss my friends. But that is in 4 weeks so I don't have to leave yet! This week was another test filled week, we had bench mark tests like I said last week, then a science//** **//project and a Technology assignment. Once again the Maths bench mark test was the easiest, but of course the English bench mark was still pretty cool. For the science project we have to make a brochure to pretend that people are going on our super awesome deluxe spaceship to whatever Planet and whatever Galaxy we want. We have to mix facts with fiction and make our groups brochure the best, Ryan.T, Tom.A and I are in my group. For the Technology assignment we had to tell a story in 5 photos, as simple as it sounds it was a little bit trickier than I thought but of course my group which was Tara, Kealan and I pushed through and made an awesome story. Bye :)//**


 * //08/11/2013, term 4, week 5// **
 * //This week has been very special to me because my Grandad and Grandma and my Dad came on the weekend! Even though that was really exciting I got a huge surprise that made me sooooo happy, I woke up in the morning and I saw my Sister fast asleep laying next to me! I know that seing my Dad that has been living in Brazil for half the year and seeing my Granparents that I havn't seen for ages should be the most exciting thing about this week, I still think that seeing my Sister was the most exciting, me and my sister just have a special bond I guess. Anyway back to school work, next week we have//** **//bench mark tests, first we have to do our Maths bench mark and then our English bench mark. I am mostly confident about the Maths bench mark test rather than English because the first bench mark test we had at the start of the year I found that the maths was much easier. Well best of like to me, see you :)//**


 * //31/10/2013, term 4, week 4//**
 * //This week was the Musical and it was//** **//__excellent!__ I was so happy to see all of the smiling faces in the crowd as we sung and danced in front of two hundred happy parents! As a lead character in the Musical I think I did an amazingly good job with both my singing and speaking parts, but it wasn't just me that did really well, my class also did an awesome job and I am so, so, so proud of all of us! Even though the costumes were a bit regular seeing they were just black shorts and a black T-Shirt with a tie I still loved how amazing the whole class looked all wearing the same costume and wearing them happily. I am also very pleased that the parents thought the Musical was a bit humorous and of course that was one of our focuses.//** **//All of that hard work finally paid off and we mastered the things that I said we had to improve last week and we did it well, I started getting really good at being loud in front of everyone, memorising my lines, getting the timing right and singing perfectly.//** **//Don't worry I did not forget about the teachers and all of the hard work they put in, without them there would be no Musical, no costumes, no singing all together, no parents watching to say "there is my boy/girl!" and cheering on and most importantly we would not be having any fun, so thank you to all of the teachers.//** **//Again I am so proud of everyone who participated in the Musical and I hope to do something like it again, bye :D//**


 * //24/10/2013, term 4, week 3//**
 * // It is week three of term four and this week has been crazy! We have had rehearsals for the Musical all week, everyday and all day; but through all of the hard work I think we are really improving on the Musical and it looks excellent. The things that we really need to improve on are the singing and the timing of our actions. At first all we had to show was the singing, now that we have added actions into it it has become very hard to sing while doing the actions, we have been focusing on the actions now and we are starting to loose the singing. Even though we are only focusing on the actions we are still not getting the timing right, there are three things that my class have to get right, one is stepping in time with the beat when we are going forwards and backwards, the second is moving the ball around in the right places and at the right time with my line that I am in and the last thing is swaying from side to side with the ball up in the air at the same time as everyone else. Other than that it is all good. So I think that calls an end to this weeks reflection, bye :) //**


 * //17/10/2013, term 4, week 2//**
 * // Hello everyone, I am glad to announce the beginning of term 4's weekly reflections. It is the second week of term 4 and it has been pretty good maybe even the best term all of them all! For English this term we are mainly focusing on debating //** **//which is a great topic to learn in school. Basically there are two different teams for one topic and there are 3 to 4 people in both the against group and the for group, I’m in the for group and my groups topic is//** should everyone be invited to parties? ** I would say that my team is doing really well because we have both good arguments and rebuttals. For math this term we are mainly going over topics that we have learned over the year and struggled with. The thing that I am most excited about this term is the Musical. I have a lead role as a student in the musical and basically I am on stage for the song, when we are talking about Aitkin who is the new kid and also the main character and when we are acting a scene where we are meeting him and group hugging. Over all I think this term is going to be AWESOME! And I hope you like hearing about my term. Bye for now :) **


 * //18/09/2013, term 3, week 9//**
 * //Yesterday I got my humanities assignment done and dusted. I am so proud of my self for going through all of that work and presenting it! I am also extremely happy that Mr.K is going to give me a good mark, well at least I think so. Basically at the end of everyone's presentations he asked a question like where is your unused land or where are your//** **//high-rise condos, Mr.K didn't ask any questions and said that he was really empressed to me and a couple of other of my class mates. We also had our hockey assessments today and i'm pretty sure I did well, hopefully. First we had to do dribbling with the ball, second we had to do passing and third we did shooting. Away from all school stuff i'm going to Brazil tomorrow, i'm actually moving there at the end of the year which I don't think is very good because I have only lived in Singapore for the year, but what is cool about it is that I will learn a whole new language fluently! So that is it for all of my terms reflection and i'll talk to you in term four, see you :)//**

//**28/8/2013, term 3, week 6**// //**Sorry for not keeping in touch with everyone, I just got back from my trip to Australia it was awesome. I also got back from china a couple weeks ago and I think that was better. This week we have been working on touch typing in humanities and technology, in english we have been doing running writing and narratives and I'm really enjoying it because I love writing stories. We have two big projects on maths and humanitities. The maths assignment is that we have to plan a big day out with our family and we have to think about all the costs that we'll have to pay to plan the day out. The humanities asighnment is that we have to plan a city in a dome on the moon refering to the plan that space people are already planning for 2016. This week was very fun and I'll see you later.**//
 * //11/09/2013, term 3, week 8//**
 * //My humanities assignment that I told you about is nearly due, next Tuesday it is due but luckily I have been working on it a lot. But the bad thing is that it is the hardest assignment I’ve ever done in my life! It is so complicated, there is for parts to it but other than that it is ok. I'm on the third part of it and the third part is the biggest part of it. The first part of it is your draft of the areas that we’re going to put in our maps, we just have to use colours to colour the different areas of our maps. The second part of it is that you have to do a draft of your good copy, draw your buildings and attractions in proper form. The third part is we description where you need to describe your whole map from top to bottom. The fourth part is we script where you need to explain all about your map and what different things are for and what is good about them.//**
 * //This is my description of my dome city that is completed.//**
 * //5/09/2013, term 3, week 7//**
 * //This week I was supposed to have my cross country but it was postponed to next week which I was very annoyed about. At least I had sport which was extreamly good; we are working on a new subject in sport which is hockey. I've never really enjoyed hockey or even played it, but I am relay enjoying it right now. I have been scoring in hockey which I don't normally do in most sports and it's cool to be able to do that. Bye :)//**
 * //This is my maths assignment that I did a while ago.//**

//**This is the story itself but not completed:**//
//**24/07/2013, term 3, week 1**// //**It's the first**// **week** //**back from school and i'm extremely excited about this term and the main thing that i'm excited about is that i'm going to china on sunday, we're going to the great wall of china, the forbidden city, food street, Florence Street a famous sports stadium, tiananman square (not**// **//really sure how to spell that), we get to stay in a nice hotel, we get to catch a bullet train from one place to another and we get to go on a plane by ourselves but with the teachers. It's been pretty easy this week, probably because it's the first week back at school, but i'm fine with it. Week's two and three i won't be doing much, we're going to china on week two and it's only three days of school in week three. So that's basically all i can tell you for this week theres not much going on this week so i'm sorry for the lack of paragraph but at least I tried, see you guys later. :)//**
 * //24/07/2013, term 3, week 1//**

__//**I'm going to share about what subjects I have learnt, what I like about them, what I think I can improve on and what goals I want to set for this year.**//__ //**This semester in English I’ve been enjoying persuasive writing the most of all topics and the reason I like it is because it is extremely helpful when you’re older and it's just so fun and easy and in case you don't know it's basically trying to persuade people to do or to agree with something. In maths there is a lot more topics to choose from so I’m going to tell you three, time such as 24 hour is fun because when I was 8,9 and early 10 I didn't know what it was until of course I came to Avondale grammar. Chance and data is great because it's one of those easy subjects that if I’ve had I hard day at school I can have a break and do something easy. Finally, my third math topic is recording graphs because I love doing all of the counting, adding up and recording. Science is one of those interesting subjects for me and one of my first jobs was going to be a scientist because it's full of new discoveries, words and challenges. We've been learning a lot and so as I did with maths but I am only going to tell you one of the topics that I’ve enjoyed in science. The eye is an interesting part of the human body and was my favourite thing to learn about, I obviously was enjoying it because I was listening and researching a lot about the eye, I’ve even remember parts of the eye and I think it would be cool to tell you some of these: cornea, pupil, lens, optic nerve, iris, vitreous gel and retina. Manderine was extremely hard to learn and understand when I first came to Avondale because I had been learning Italian for four years and to come to a new subject was really hard, now I understand a lot more and can talk a little bit of manderine to my teacher. I'm not sure if I have told you but I am actually going to china at the start of next term in week 2 so my manderine teacher has been teaching us about bajing and its architecture such as the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China and china's history. I love drawing so obviously I love art, miss knight has been teaching us how some buildings work, how there shaped and how to draw them overall. I've gotten better at art over the years and am starting to become a hobby, it's full of colour and it just looks amazing. In history we've also been learning about architecture and that's why we were learning about architecture in art as well because miss knight thought it would be a smart idea to carry on the buildings and architecture topic in art. Architecture isn't all we've been learning about, we've been mostly learning about immigration, emigration and migration, immigration is coming into a country to live and emigration means that someone is coming out of a country to live somewhere else, we also did a couple of projects on this topic. Drama is a great subject that increases your enthusiasm in everyday life and is very good for your self-esteem because it makes you feel happy about yourself. I wrote my first script and melodrama with a group and I have to preform it and I just love it so far, it's going to be awesome. In health we've been learning new words and finding out their meaning, self-esteem and the media is what we've been learning about the most. The media is basically people who are on magazines, T.V., video games, advertising products e.c.t and self-esteem is what a person thinks about his/her self. I saved best till last, technology is my favourite subject because there is so much that you can do you just won't get bored, I received a technology leadership badge for a reason, because I love all technology and because it's my best subject. We've been learning about lots of topics, last term and a bit of this term we discovered a new website called scratch which is a programming site where you can make games and this term we've mostly just been exploring on our tablets.**////**Thanks guys and girls and I hoped you enjoyed my long paragraph if you could finish reading it, see you next time!!! :)**//

__//**Goals that i want to set for the year**//__ //**1.Getting work finished on time/faster.**// //**2.Asking for help sooner rather than later.**// //**3.Cooperating better and putting more effort in with a group or with a partner**//

//**14/062013, term 2, week 9**// //**Today in technology we leart how to make shapes, group them so i'ts one shape then make them into a picture! I'ts awesome!**// //**13/06/2013, Term 2, Week 9**// //**This week we have been finishing a lot of prodjects such as The eye and how it works (fin).pptx but that was prety easy. Fortunetly homework seems to have been realy easy over these two weeks, last week it was put in on time and it was surprizingly easy and this week it was easy and I finished it realy early, all my tests and assesments seem to be paying off. I also am able to have more free time to myself and you guys so I can talk to you people out there more. So all I want to say is have a great week just like me and have fun. Peace out :)**//

//**12/06/2013,Term 2, Week 9**// //**Yes, I am awere that I have alredy uploaded this file on to my wiki but i've realised that the other one was not completed and this one has a linke to a quiz that I have made with another class mate that I would like for you guys to try out. But please remember to read my teching tool carefully other wise you will have no idea what the quiz is asking you. Hope you do well and I will definetly check everyones scores soon. Catch ya later.**//

//**07/06/2013**// //**We have been exploring a new website called prezi and this is a prodject that I did with someone in my class for history. Hope you injoy.**// media type="custom" key="23270596"

//**06/06/2013**// //**Last week I said that it was a test filled week, well gess whos having another test filled week. I've finished my benchmark test on maths and english and who knows what's next, but again atleast i've finished my english and maths. And i've also been covering some manderine tests, even though i'm not the best at manderine, I managed to pull off an A wich apparently was the best score in the class. But I am still waiting for my results for the reading tests in manderine, i'm sure I did well even though the whole test was in pin ying (chinese simbols). And once again I'll be sure to give you the rusults on all of my tests. catch ya later. :)**//

__//**Sorry i'm having some technical difficulties about splitting these two texts apart. sorry for the inconvenience**//__
//**0606/2013**// //**Today in technoligy I learnt how to put a header and a footer in to a word document. A header and a footer makes your work look a lot more proffesional. I learnt what cc and bcc mean. I also learnt how to change a doccument into a pdf file wich means that nowone else can edit it.**//



//**This a writing piece that I have commpleted for homework.**//

//**29/05/2013**// ===//This week we are doing our naplan tests. Today we did language conventions and writing, tomorow we're doing reading and then the next day we're doing maths. It's a pretty test filled week but I think i'll have a great time and breeze through my work. Be sure to look at my page often as I will tell you how I go on all of my tests. Bye for now.//===

//**22/05/2013 week 6**// ===//This week i've had heaps of fun we've been doing heaps. I love doing P.E. offsite it's so open and I feel so free although it was raining today I still had fun. Since I am a I.C.T. Captain I got my first I.C.T. assignment! :) It was extreamly exciting and fun I got to work with the little year two's who loved us being there. this week was a great and I want all of the rest of the year to be exiting for you guys and for me.//===

//his is a homwork piece that we had to complete about a persuasion map, injoy.//



 * //This is my scratch prodject that I've been workig on. I put a lot of work into this and I've found lots of new things out about scratch so please injoy.//**



//**This is my latest history homework that I was working on yesterday, it took me a long time to figure out but I hope you guys injoy**//

//**In technology we are learning about creating surveys. We used Survey Monkey to build this quiz about Cybersafety - we will be using this to help assess our learning**// media type="custom" key="22428410"

//** This is an avatar that I made today 20/02/2013 **// media type="custom" key="22234278" //** Sup olive_tree fans, on this page I'm planning to share my learning with you for this year. I'm only three weeks into school and I already have the newest tablet which is the newest piece of technology out there and the coolest thing is that we're the only school in the world to have them up and running! **//

//** 27/2/2013 **//

//** This is a History project I've been working on. **// //**__ Dirk Hartog __**// //** (1580 – 1621) **// //**Place of birth: Amsterdam**//

//**Facts about Dirk Hartog:**//

//***He is a 17th century Dutch sailor and explorer .**//

//***He was the second person to land on Australian soil and was the first recorded landing in Western Australia.**//

//***He named Dirk Hartog Island after himself which is off the coast of shark bay.**//

//***He climbed a cliff and left a pewter plate on the rock face to leave a record of his visit.**//

//***He charted the coast line of Western Australia and his name for the region,**//

//**Eendracht’s land, began to show on world maps.**//

//**Credits: Wikipedia and Shark Bay’s history (Department of Environment and Conservation**//