Girls Self Defense Lesson

On Monday we were given the opportunity to participate in the girls' self defense program. It was when all of the year 8 girls' get one whole day and a bit off to get taught what to do in a bad situation such as getting harassed, kidnapped or threatened.
We learned how to do certain kicks like ballerina kick, forward kick, stomper and the backwards kick.We also learned how to do punches like the forward punch and the hammer punch these are very useful!
Ali ( Our self defense teacher ) told us different story's about girls getting harassed by older men and how they got out of those bad situations as well.
We got to do different games and other little activities such as making little nicknames for ourselves we had to use a strong word to show that you were confident and brave, my nickname was Gutsy Gracie!
In the end of the lesson we all got a certificate to say that we all made it through the course and with that we got a girls' self defense poster and it shows all the things you can do to a man if you get in a awful state.
It shows the different moves to each area on a male that you can do as well such as for the eyes you can poke or gouge or you could shin kick or you could break his fingers so you can get away.

Dangerous Decibels

Today in the 2nd block we had a session about Decibels and how we can get permanent hearing loss instantly! We did a lot of activities with the lady and it was very interesting to see what it safe and what can cause instant hearing loss. Something that I learn't is that if the decibels is 85 and under it is safe anything over 90-120 you should be starting to worry about your hearing and if it's over 130+ it can cause instant hearing loss. One thing i'm going to change is that whenever i'm listening to music on my Ipod i'm going to turn the volume down so I don't damage my hearing! Did you know that a bird can grow back there ear cells unlike people like us. 

- Grace

Homework Basic Fact

Every night we have to do a 3 minute Basic facts test ( Out of 100 )  to help us improve our timetables. We record our results on a document and it makes a graph for us.

Homework PowToon

This is a little movie that we had to do for homework on a website called PowToon. This little clip is from the book Bridge to Terbithia