Letter to Ms Tapuke

Dear Ms Tapuke,

Hello. My name is Tidus and my nationality is New Zealand and my ethnicity is
Samoan. There is only six of us which is my Step Dad, my Dad, Mum, Brother and
Nana. I am the youngest in my family, I am only 12 years old

I’ve loved gaming my whole entire life, it is our biggest
hobbies in our family. My favourite food is meatballs,

Colour is Grey, Orange and Blue. My favourite sport is soccer, but I don’t really play
it.

The only things I like at school is maths and fitness. My goals for this year is to get
good at reading, writing and stay good on maths. I do not like going up in front
of lots people, it makes me really nervous. So don’t recommend me doing the mihi.

My teacher for literacy is awesome, I like writing and kind of reading, I think if she
keeps doing what she’s doing I can learn and get better.

I am a really good gamer, i’ve been gaming for like 7-7½  years which I have
mentioned in paragraph 2. I also started playing piano in 2017 of August.

Yours sincerely,

Tidus Ulfsby

Explanation Writing

This is some work I had to catch up on, it was kind of cool.

Extension - Functions and For Loops

                                           Things I have learned in Coding so far
Our Extension class was using a app called Swift Playground. We learnt some things like A function and a For Loop.

A function is a piece of code that you can easily call over and over again. It includes the specific steps performed in the function.
We did some dance moves like the Macarena and repeated it.
A For loop is just a command telling the computer to repeatedly do something over and over again, or simply, a loop.

Tidus My Visual Mihi

This term we had to do a Visual mihi about us.
I really enjoyed doing this because I like drawing.

Tidus Waste Wise

Here is my work I did with my friends Walter and Arthur, it is about what we could do to make our earth not dirty and trashed.

2018 Extension Trip

On the 19th of February the year 7 & 8 Extension crew went on a trip to Digital Nations 2030.    
A Lady called Zoe came and showed us where our room was, she had a chat with us about OMGTech.
I was excited to go in, we all then met a man called Michael,
most people in our crew knew what OMGTech was except for me and some others.
So it was my first time seeing them all,
Michael took us through a programme called “Code Avengers” This was when we all went on
computers and started.
It was cool because we got to spin a wheel that shows a t-shirt chocolate and a sticker when we
were done, I got the one I didn’t want to get which was the sticker, but I was grateful.

I moved on to another project which was using Makey Makey,
There was some people who were teaching us how to use
Makey Makey. I was amazed at what things you could
do with Makey Makey, The next one I went on was learning
to code these robot car things. We had to code our robot to complete a easy course,
but it wasn’t as easy as it looked. It was actually pretty hard to code the robot
around the course, because we had to do one code then test it then do it again and again and
keep repeating.

Near the end we just cleaned up and packed everything away and got free fruit, I was happy that
we got free fruit because I was starving (Hungry) for food, I grabbed a really large apple that
made me full. As always in the very end we got on the bus and drove back to school.

Photo of our Extension crew

Extension - SP Coding #1

Coding - Swift Playground

We learnt about Commands Sequences and more.

What I nearly learned was functions.

I kind of like coding, I wish I was better at it.
But I found this hard because it wouldn’t let me turn right.
So I had to turn left a lot of times.