2016 Year RecapBy Emily Kirk

Age 12The Island of Me

20162016 was a year, just another old year. But 2016 was, in many ways, different. 2016 was the first year that I was home schooled. 2016 was the last year that I was home schooled. 2016 was busy. It was different. 2016 led to

me doing many, many things, some good, some bad, but 2016 was fine. My recap is of what I have done, whether

it be good or bad, that is for you to decide. Read on…

P.S. If the links don’t work, please tell me and I will do a blog post with all of the links to the projects. I really hope

that they work!

Amazing SkiesWe get some pretty amazing skies here at Ra Puke. These are a

few photos of them.

AnimalsI have raised many animals this year. I have also won a few prizes with them. We have loads of other animals. These are photos of a

few of them.

ArtworksI, as you may have picked up from reading my blog, am a very

creative person. These are some of my artworks.

Good BooksBelow is a list of some of the good books that I have read this year.

You might want to try them out.

The Harry Potter series, seven book series – J.K. RowlingThe Ruby Redfort series, six book series – Lauren Child

The Heroes of Olympus series, five book series – Rick RiordanThe Nanny Piggins series, nine book series – R.A. Spratt

House of Secrets, single book – Chris Columbus and Ned VizziniChinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society, single book – Adeline Yen Mah

The Marvels, single book – Brian SelznickWitch and Wizard, single book – James Patterson

MathsI have done heaps of maths this year using a computer program

called IXL. These are just a few of my questions and their answers are on the next page.

No.1 - A triangle has an angle that measures 30°. The other two angles are in a ratio of 2:3. What are the measures of those two

angles?No.2 - The volume of a cube is 2,197 cubic centimetres. j represents

the length of each edge, calculate the value of j?No.3 - Type a digit that makes this statement true.

61,4……0,642 is divisible by 9.No.4 - How do you write 1,630,000,000 in standard form?

…… x 10 ..

Maths Answers

Just as I promised on the last page, I have got the answers to the maths, check if you were right!

No.1 – 60 and 90No.2 – j = 13 centimetres

No.3 – 4

No.4 – 1.63 x 10 9

PhotosI absolutely love photography and have done a few photo

challenges this year. Below is a link to the best challenge and around this page are pictures that I have taken.

Flowing

Poems

I love poetry, but recently have not posted it on my blog because I have been completely out of poem ideas. If you have any ideas that may fix this poem drought, please tell me, I’d love your help! Below is a link to all of my poems

(they are all in one word document). I hope you like them!Poems

ProjectsI have done a few different projects this year. They’ve been about all sorts of different

things. These are links to them all:

This is Me

Art Project Part I: Simple Biographies

Art Project Part II: Claude Monet Biography

The Greek, Norse and Roman Gods

The Digestive System

The Tower of London

Our Tramp to Sunrise Hut

Jean Batten's Diary

Jean Batten Biography

Jean Batten Newspaper Report

Kate Sheppard Graphic Novel

Kate Sheppard Letters

Quick Questions (and Answers)Another part of my home schooling was ‘Quick Questions’. The general gist of Quick Questions was that someone would come up with a question and I would research it. This is a link to my

questions:Quick Questions

ScienceI participated in the science fair this year and won my age group. The project that I did was ‘Is Treacle Sweeter Than

Golden Syrup?’. I loved it and below are a few links to it. Please go though them in the order that they are linked.

Science Fair 1Science Fair 2Science Fair 3Science Fair 4

StoriesI love writing stories and barely go a day without writing

something. This year I have written a few different stories. These are links to them:A Dark and Stormy NightA Mix-Muddled Fairy Tale

Cow StoryLong Views

Genies

TrampsDad and I went on four tramps this year. We went to Sunrise Hut twice, on the Manawatu Gorge Walk and up to Longview

Hut. These are the projects that I did on them:Long Views

Manawatu Gorge Walk Tramp Rough

Good Bye 2016…This is the end of my year recap. It has been a very busy year for me.

This year I’m going back to school, but please don’t worry, I’ll still by doing projects at home and will still be posting on my blog.

Thank you so much for sticking with me.