Scholastic Book Fair

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR 2010

This year the amazing book fair as arrived!
There is very good deals like the 2 for $5!
My friend blair went and got an amazing deal.
He got 4 lots of 2 for 5 dollar books for 20 dollars
and he worked out all those books were worth 171 dollars together!

The book fair dates are the 20th to the 26th of October get in because all the books are disappearing fast so rush in and get some amazing deals!

Start Of Term 4

WELCOME BACK TO TERM FOUR

This term we have lots of important tests to decide were to place us next year.
But more importantly the year 8s are having there PAT tests for High School next year.
This term we need to work really hard to keep our standards high as we can.

Also this term we are doing seminars.
The year 7s need to do them on something they are good at and they feel confidant doing.
And the year 8s need to do theirs on careers.
What i'm doing mine on is the African big 5.

As we are getting into summer we need to start bringing hats and water.
We do not won't to be sun burnt and dehydrated do we?

Every year we have athletics at Pukekohe intermediate.
These activity include Long Jump, (when the pit is full) High Jump, Sprints, Discus, And lastly Shotput.

Discriptive Writing

This is a example of my descriptive writing some was written by the author and the rest written by me. See what part of the text I started writing at.

Cold gripped the forest, fields, and moorland like an icy claw. Snow covered everything glittering faintly under a new moon.
Nothing broke the silence in the forest except for the occasional soft rush of snow sliding from the branches and the faint rasping of dried reeds when the wing swept through them.
Even the murmur of the river was stilled by the ice that stretched bank to bank.
I walked over the crackling ice then it broke the silence... The ice cracked into two big lots. I fell in the icy cold water. I felt a warm hand clamp onto my wrist. my tattered head burst out of the icy cold water. I was gaping desperately for air. The person that saved my life had blond streaked hair and a brave and bold personality. When we chatted away he kept mentioning he was the champ of everything and he rules. Well hes a bit weird if you ask me but anyway he saved my life.

Also after we had finished the descriptive writing we had someone comment on our work and this is what blair said.

Good imitation of me I am awesome but... IM NOT A BIT WEIRD!
BLAIR RULES!
Blair Morrow.

Touch Typing

This is my new touch typing test that I did at the middle of term 3
This is my old touch typing test that I did at the start of the year

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I have had a huge improvement over two terms!
The difference is. In term 1 my rate per minute is
4 and in term 3 my rate per minute is 13!
In term 1 the number of characters I typed was 15
and in term 3 it is 44!
The number of mistakes in term 1 was a HUGE 52!
and in term 3 it was a weeny 14 mistakes!
My success rate in term 1 was 0% :(
But in term 3 it is 68%! :)

So I have improved a lot in typing throughout
the year thats why every class should have digital classes!

Math Week

Math week is a fun and interesting way to get your family and friends involved in maths.
You can enter this website by clicking on this link- http://www.mathsweek.org.nz/ or if it doesn't work by clicking type it in on the Google search bar. If you access this website you need to register but its free! After you play lots of different games on the last day of math week you can go onto an online auction and bid for things with your math week points!

VSA

The VSA raises money for poor and homeless people around the world. They are selling these bracelets around the school for $3.00 each.

Desciptive Writing

Lately at school we have been doing descriptive writing. Also when we were at the library we had to either be a author, book, light, teacher or a student. Either one we chose we needed to write a story about.

A week or so later we also did another activity describing the perspectives of either a student, teacher, book, the lights or an author.

Here is how my descriptive story turned out:

I am a gross smelling dusty old thing. Nobody picks me. I get exited some times because people move me all the time. While that's happening I think they're going to read me and take me to their house but it always leads me to disappointment. I have never been chosen. I am all lonely by myself on the old scruffy shelf. Oh look! someone picked me up. Oh hes issuing me out. Oh finally the joy! Oh look it morning I must of drifted of. Hang on were am I? im in a toataly different place. Oh this is scary I never want to be issued out again. I remember what my friends told me now. "I wish i haven't got issued out like you its a nightmare!" I know now. I just can't wait to go back this is total torture. We have a horrible life don't you agree?

What perspective do you think I was writing about?







You Guessed it a book!

ICT Room 23/30

Every day one which is usually on Fridays room 30 (which is our buddy class) comes in to our classroom do ICT while the year eights are at tech. As you should all now know we are a digital classroom complete with 20 big apple Macintosh computers. We are also a composite class which means we have both year sevens and year eights. We have least a lot of fun things by doing ICT, from real basic stuff like connecting to the server to much bigger things like doing an imovie and making and updating our blogs which I am doing back now. Every single day I just can't wait to do ICT. It is an fun and very successful thing and I have learn't a lot from it.

Science Fair Photos

Blog Photos

Current Affairs Quiz

From now on in room 23 on Fridays we go on a website called nie online. We go on a activity called the current affairs quiz. It has all the latest articles of the news and these are my results from the quiz. The URL for the website is http://www.nieonline.co.nz/quiz.cfm?quizID=97. To improve my results on the quiz I will watch the news every night. The times of the news is the 5.30pm news on prime, or the 6.00pm news on ether 1 or news. I already watch the news all most every night. I watch the 6.00pm news on three. It is important to do this quiz and watch the news every night so you know whats happening around the world.

Google Maps

Click on this link to view my Google maps

Miss Morris-Student Teacher

Miss Morris is a student teacher this is her third year. She is a very good teacher she explains things very well and defiantly has a bright future ahead of her. If she passes as a teacher she wants to teach intermediate stage.

House Sports

At the start of every year the year 7 & 8 students are divided into different house groups. There are Ngata, Shepard, Hilliary, Rutherford, and Batten. They are the names of famous New Zealanders. Here are there full names. Kate Shepard - she let woman vote. In the old days only men were allowed to vote for party's like national and labour. etc.
Sir Apirana Ngata - He was the first Maori to get a degree at university in 1893 and was the first New Zealander to get a double degree in 1896. Sir Edmund Hillary - the first ever New Zealander and the first person in the world to get to the peak of mount Everest he began to climb mount Everest in 1953. Sir Ernest Rutherford - He was a scientist. he studied radioactive things. Jean Batten - Beat a world record for riding solo with the fastest time flying to Australia to England and another one from New Zealand to England. We do lots of different games and sports within the house groups and we also have house points. I'm in Shepard.

My Speech

Here is my Speech. It is on Why All Classrooms Should Be Digital





Do you like computers or technology? Of course you do, it’s what makes our everyday life fun and interesting. Just imagine if that was put into our six hours of school WOW that would be awesome. I’m here today to tell you a little bit about why I think all classrooms should digital.



Do you know that there is such thing as a class full of computers? Well there is, it’s called a digital classroom, but they’re not very common. Don’t get too excited because if there is a digital class in your school there’s only very little chance you will get in.




From experience of being in a digital class I know it is fun and educational. And it is good to have computer knowledge because things might just pop up in your life that you need the knowledge for.




There’s heaps of school work you can do on the computer, and its way better than old fashioned school things. For example math who likes lovely old bookwork? Not me of course! All you guys out there don’t like bookwork do you? So instead of doing all that boring stuff we go on the computer and play on Mathletics! It’s a really cool online website where you can change your character, V.S. your friends at math and do math’s activities for gold bars and certificates, not real gold bars of course! That’s how good old math can be fun on the computer.


When you go on the computer does your Mum say (get off) your eyes will pop out or your brain will rot? Well add up all the times you have been on the computer and that will add up to hundreds of hours and have your eyes popped out or has your brain rotted? No! It’s just a way for your parents to make you get off the computer and this has not been technically proven that any of this will happen to you so why not have digital classes. The computers will not do any damage to your body at all.



So what do you think, digital or non digital you know my opinion, I hope you agree with me that digital classes are fun, educational and exciting. But its up to you.

Hockey

I joint the oni puk team in hockey this year. I am really enjoying it. I do practices on Wednesday afternoons at the intermediate turf. We play our games at the high school turf on Saturdays for 50 minutes. 25 is half time. My position I play and enjoy is center ford. They normally score the most goals. HOCKEY RULES!!!!!

Speech presentation

Me Project

This is my me project. We did me projects in term two to share the places we like, the people I have as friends and family, and the passions we have. My shape of my me project is a fish. I chose a fish because I like fishing, and eating fish. it was a fun experience for me making my project. I hope I do a project again as fun and as good as this one.

My book bag

We made book bags about one of our most favorite books. I did my book bag on a well known author to me called Adam Blade. Here is some stuff I rite on my book bag.
Plot summary- An evil wizard called Marvel has put a enchanted spell on all of the good beasts of Avantia to turn them evil.
The land they once protected they are now destroying. And Tom a young boy heads off on a journey to release Marvels spell with his Horse Storm and a young girl called Elenna and her pet wolf called Silver. Tom has a sword and a wooden shield and once he releases the beasts they give him a gift. For example Ferno the fire dragon gives him a dragon scale which he attaches to shield which protects him from rushing fire when he holds out his shield. Elenna has a bow and arrows and she is very good at using them. Its a great adventure all the way through the book. that a little of my book bag hoped you enjoyed it.

Dance mat typing

We go on this cool website called Dance Mat Typing. It lets us learn about typing and do touch typing.
It also teaches us in funny ways like a singing goat and a tap dancing hippopotamus. And you learn a lot from it to.

Touch typing test

This is my second touch typing test.
we test our touch typing on a great
website called Sense Lang.
My rate per minute was 4 words,
I typed 15 characters and I had 52
mistakes which is quite a lot but i'm still
just learning and I hope I do much better
in the future.

This is my Mathletics avatar. we go on mathletics all the time to improve our maths.
its a fun way for children to learn maths.
There are lots of different thing you can do on mathletics for example there is Mathletics LIVE which lets you choose your level difficulty and then play against people all around the world.
You also get credit which lets you upgrade your avatar.
One last thing I forgot to mention when you get a serton amount of points you get a certificate which is very cleaver because your children want to earn them so the try there best to earn them and get more smart at maths.
I recommend this website to anyone who wants to improve there maths. and i just love it myself.