When the year 8’s left for camp the year 7’s watched a movie called Soul Surfer. The movie was about a woman who liked surfing and entered competitions and then a shark suddenly bit her hand off. After watching the movie we had to do some tasks which included writing about privileges for disable people entering competitions (I chose that one). After finishing the task we blogged it for our literacy. Here’s what I wrote.

In sports inclusivity is shown a lot because if you think about it paralympics was made just to include people with disabilities and to show their skills to the world. I am going to be talking about inclusivity in surfing sports and inclusivity in general. I will also be talking about the pros and cons of having special accommodations in surfing sports. 

 If surfing competitions had special accommodation for athletes with disabilities it would cost more for the event holders. If surfing competitions gave special accommodations to athletes with disabilities it would be easier for the person to get to the event faster and they would not have to worry about getting to the event because the athlete would be right at the event. Most highly recognized sport competition holders have to give accommodations for athletes (the paralympics have to give accommodation to athletes with disabilities).

If surfing competitions did not have special accommodations for athletes with disabilities it would be more cost efficient which could mean they would have to spend less money. The disabled athlete could easily get accommodation in a hotel nearby the event and the athlete would have more comfort in a hotel nearby without anyone nearby but, accommodations usually give rooms that meet the expectations of the user.

In conclusion, if surfing competitions give or do not give special accommodations they both have their own pros and cons so, in the end it matters about what works for the athletes comfort and choice but, big sport competition holders usually have to give accommodations for the athletes with their needs fulfilled so they can have a good experience at the event with accommodations. All of this shows the inclusivity in sports especially paralympics which proves that most sports include everyone no matter who you are and the disabilities you have.

Have you ever wrote something like this? If you have what was it about?

Today for literacy we had a variety of options which we had to finish by Wednesday. We had 3 tasks and the tasks we had to do were: Give advice to year 6’s when coming into the year 7’s and 8’s class, putting goals for next year by writing 5-7 goals, blog at least one piece of work from last week. Today I finished the first task by giving some advice for year 6’s for next year. This is what I wrote:

Be yourself self. Never try to be someone else because if you are yourself people alike you will be friends with you and you will actually get friends that you can relate to. If you try act like someone else people won’t like you because you try to be someone else. So my advice is to be yourself to make your intermediate experience better.

Have you ever done any piece of writing before? If you have what were the different tasks?

This week for inquiry our group has been learning about different countries involved in WW2. We got to choose 20 different countries. While doing this research I’ve learnt about how many people lived in those countries  back in 1940 and how many troops they have lost in the battle. I found out that the Soviet  Union lost around 9.8M troops which is the most out of any country. Have you ever researched about WW2? If you have what were you researching about?

Today for literacy our group made book covers. After we finished our book covers we had a choice about who our story is going to be about based on the book Cover. I chose my friend Archie’s book cover. This was my story:

                          Chapter 1 The Start:

At 7:20 am I woke up early for school knowing that I only have 3 hours at school instead of 6 hours. I knew that school today would be easy since it was the last day of school, but still something felt off like a weird feeling, an usual one. But later that day I knew I was wrong. On the way to school I felt like someone was watching me, I couldn’t move. Looking behind me I saw no one but I heard a slight laugh, a weird psycho laughing an unusual one. 

At school everyone was staring at me. I didn’t understand why neither did I bother. At classes no one sat next to me but I didn’t care all I cared about was the math lesson. At break I took my phone out and watched the news and I saw a video of me  standing in front of someone that was getting dragged into a sewer. I then understood why I felt I was being watched and why everyone was watching me.

This was the book cover:

3 days ago we had to fill a form for what we want to do for action stations, I chose card games. Today we did action stations and when we were playing card games, the teacher (Caroline) taught us about a game called 500. The game was about winning each round and to win you have to get 500 points. You get points by winning a round in the games you play (each round you get 10 points), but if you say that you will win a certain amount of times in a row you can get more. If you win 10 times in a row you get 250 points which is really hard to do (you have to be really lucky). I found understanding the game pretty hard but after some time it became self explanatory. One of my friends won 10 times in a row so he got 250 points which was devastating because he basically won the whole game. Have you ever been to action stations? If you have what activity did you choose?

Today for mahi-a-tahi I finished 30 minutes of Duolingo. In Duolingo I’m learning Japanese and I’m in unit 4. My goal in these 30 minutes was to finish at least 1-2 lessons in Duolingo and learn 1/4 of a new character. I achieved both of these goals in 25 minutes. Have you tried Duolingo? If you have what language have you learnt?

 Today for Maths we coded shapes on scratch. On scratch I created a project that when you insert a number that’s not 0 and 1 and any negative numbers it will create a shape with that amount of sides, I created this by using a formula with every shape and put it into coding. Have you ever coded something like this? If you have what shapes have you created?

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Today for a mahi-a-tahi point I finished 30 minutes of Duolingo. In Duolingo I finished one of the activities in unit 4 and I half completed learning a character in Japanese. Have you ever learnt a language in Duolingo? If you have what language have you learnt?

Today for math mahi-a-tahi I finished two level 8 prototec. I think I did really well with stage 8 prototec because i’m a year 7 and I finished stage 8 prototec and on one I got under one minute and the other I got 1 minute and 24 seconds. Have you ever done prototec? If you have how fast have you done prototec and how many questions did you get correct?

For the past two days my literacy group have been learning about analogies. On the first day we learnt about the basics of what an analogy is and I found that interesting because I never knew that you could also compare things in this way like a simile and metaphor. To put what a analogy is its basically just a way to compare two similar things and compare them using certain words, this is the layout  _ is to_ as___ is to_. On the second day we did a creating task in which we had to make 5 slides and on the first slide we had to put a explanation of a analogy then for the rest of the slides have examples of analogies and what type of analogy they are. Have you learnt about analogies? If you have what types of analogies have you wrote.