Life Education

The life education van gave us some booklets to help us with the learning that we have learnt from the past few sessions. Today we learnt about making the right choices, our health, feelings, and emotions. I think it is important to make the right choice because if we choose to make the bad choice there are always a consequence for that. We also learnt how to deal with pea pressure. Pea pressure is when someone forces or tries to make you do that specific thing. Like if I had to go straight home and my friend convinces me to go to the pools and tries forcing me to go there that would be Pea Pressure. In the photo above we were completing our booklet activities. In this booklet it has really fun activities that you can learn from and have fin at the same time. 

Comprehension Games

Today I practiced my comprehension games once again. I really find this website helpful because my reading improves every time I go on this.  I think this really can help you with any reading skills.

Get Wise with Jeremy

Yesterday the Year 8's went to have a session with Jeremy on get wise. Jeremy told us some really valuable facts on how to save money and to dont give up and be the best you can be. I learnt that there are always 2 crossroads, there is a easy path and a hard path. He also told us that be the best you can and if it is too hard then keep trying until you get there. I also found out that when you deposit money into your bank account the bank will actually reward you with money in your bank for keeping your money with them. Jeremy told us a really inspiring story  on how he grew up living on the easy path and how his family struggled. He gave us some wrist bands that had 2 different sayings which were:

Spend some on you and save some too,

Spend to your needs and wait for your wants,

I think everyone could relate to this and everyone should really start spending there money wisely and start focusing on there education if you want to get your dream job.  

Comprehension Reading Challenges

Today I was practicing my comprehension games. I was learning about what is a fact and what is an opinion. I played 3 different games to help me understand this pro-ply. This website is really interesting because it really helps you with the skills you are stuck on reading. This website really helped me with my reading because I learnt new stuff for every game I played. The first game I played was it showed a question and I had to type down if it was a fact or an opinion. This can really help you to make new sense of learning. If you want to go on this website here is the link:

http://www.carlisleschools.org/webpages/pluta/teacher.cfm?subpage=1265199

Story Starters Scrambler

Today for writing we went on a website which we had to press a button and it would give us a topic on what to write about. The topic I got was write a to do list for a thousand year old lawyer who stars in a T.V show. I was learning to use my language features I learnt and to use my imagination. In the picture above there is my to do list and a picture on what the topic was about. One of the things that were on my to do list was to become one of the next biggest stars. This is the website we used :

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/writing-prompts/

I found this website really interesting. One thing I liked about this website was after they gave you the topic on what your writing you could change certain parts of the topic. I really like this website and I recommend this to other people who get really stuck on a topic to write about. 

Life Education

Life Education

Today we had our first session in the Life Ed caravan. We are going to have 4 sessions this week but we started today. In the caravan we learnt about our body parts and how they work, the names of these body parts and more body parts. The lady ( Nicole ) told us that our heart isn't the actual shape of the heart. The actual shape is the size of our fist. Did you know that when you look at something, you are looking at it upside down but then your brain quickly see it and thats how we see stuff. We also played a quick game. We played 2 games. The first game was she had to say a number and we had to clap that much in the beat and who ever went out of beat was out. It was really fun in the caravan because we learnt new stuff and had a bit of fun.

Comprehension Challenges

Today I played some reading games to help me practice all the learning skills I have learnt from the past few weeks. For one of the games I had to read the text and answer the the question or pick the answer that was correct. For one of the other games it was like memory but there were some cards and it had a text on and had the words entertain,inform or persuade. I then had to pick the word that matched the text I just finished reading. I was practicing authors purpose and using pie to help me up with this.