Back from camp!

Last week the year 8's came back from year 8 camp. The camp we went was Hillary outdoors (formally OPC) We did many fun activities such as caving, high-ropes and tramping.

My favourite activity was caving because we learned a lot about the types of rocks and the glowworms.

Completing the high-ropes was my proudest moment out of the entire week. I only did 2 high rope courses and my favourite was the wobbly bridge.

One other thing that I liked about camp was story time because many people had funny and interesting stories.

The easiest activity in camp was the flying fox because we didn't have to do anything but marvel at the view.  I also liked spotlight because it was fun even through I didn't make it to the centre.

My favourite moment at camp was every moment. (apart from trying to get to sleep with 11 other boys in the same room) I really enjoyed my self at camp and I know the that year 7's will have a great time next year.

What was your favourite part of camp? (or EOTC for the year 7's) comment below

P.S. sorry for short post spent too long writing that annoying recount.

Teamwork

Cricket Project

Last week we finished our cricket world cup project that we had to do with a buddy. As my buddy I  had Ystefano. The other year 8 boys had some trouble with their buddies but me and Ystefano worked just fine. Our country that we had for our country was England. I was really excited when I picked our country because I though it was going to be interesting to learn about the people who invented cricket and the history of the sport. Unfortunately that creators or the first players of the sport were not known which disappointed me. Me and Ystefano and me had a system so that he would take the poster and do it at home and I would do the PowerPoint at home which made things a lot easier. I found out that many other groups had problems with this and one partner would end up do basically all of the work. I think that Ystefano did a great job with the poster and that our team work was a success.

Maori artwork

In my Maori artwork group I had Jarden, Thomas and William W. For the project we had to draw an artwork from a Maori legend. We chose the Sun from the story of when Maui slowed the Sun. . Are artwork only consisted of the Sun in the middle and a design on the bottom with borders. Me and William did a lot on the design and shape of the sun and we all did the colouring together because it was the most time-consuming part of the entire project. I think our team work was great because we all helped each other to do the harder parts of the artwork and I was impressed and satisfied with the outcome.

Some things I learnt this week...

Cricket world Cup

This week I learnt 2 interesting facts about the country I am studying. I learnt that England consumes the most tea than any other country in the world. I also learned that cricket was supposedly invented by some children living in south England in the 16th century. Cricket was probably first played with a thick stick and a rock until proper gear was invented. 

Someone in my class

One thing  I learnt about someone in my class was the Catherine M loves to read books. She has like already finished her chart and I have only read 2 fiction books and some non fiction books. She also is good with art and finishing her tasks early.

Something else

A few days ago I read a fact online that the 3x3 Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different positions that is can be turned and twisted into. If every second you turned your Rubik's cube into a new unique position it would take over 1400 trillion years to get through all 43 quintillion of them. Even if you started this project at the big bang you still would only be 0.001% complete. If you thought that the 3x3 had lots of unique positions a 7x7 has 19,500,551,183,731,307,835,329 ,126,754,019,748,794,904,992,692,043,434,567,152,132,912,323,232,706,135,469,180,065,278,712,755,853,360,682,328,551,719,137,311,299,993,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (or 19.5 duoquinquagintillion for short) different positions! There are more different positions in a 7x7 that atoms in 10⁸⁰ visible universes! (10⁸⁰  just means 1 with 80 zeros after it.) 

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