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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Descriptive Writing




At the moment in class we have been working on descriptive writing, what our learning intention was, was to find a book that has a descriptive sentence or paragraph and to add onto it and create an image for the reader. This is my story.

She had large, wide set green eyes, and long brown hair that curled slightly and turned to gold at the tips.

She wore a dark blue dress that flowed neatly onto the floor the delicate lace that coated the outside of it was still in tact piece by piece.

Her walk was peaceful slow and unique, her gestures were small, her voice was soft and calm. She was angelic.

She was there just there, no one realised. They were to tied up in their on un-imaginable lives.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Maori Language Week

This week Pukekohe Intermediate have participated in a Nation wide celebration
MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK
The chosen theme this year was “Te Mahi Kai” which is translated to The Language of Food, the Maori hospitality has always been a big part of the culture and this year having this as the theme has made it a bit more special, to celebrate Maori Language Week our school put on a number of activities for the students of the school and they had competitions where you could battle it out with other classes using Te Reo words and phrases. For instance every class would receive the classroom challenge in the morning and you had to either translate English words to Maori or vice versa. There was also a fishing competition where 3 people from each class competed against each other to catch ika (which is also known as fish) they had to make there fishing rod then find a way to catch the most amount of fish possible in the time frame, the winning class was room 43 catch 11 ika.
As PINTV has been starting up there was a special feature called “Te Reo Tuesday” which will carry on through out this year. This week it included greetings and farewells so we could use them in the playground.
There was a competition set out through out the whole school which was released a week before the start of Maori Language Week and that was the poster competition where you had to make an eye catching poster that showed it was Maori Language Week and Te Mahi Kai, and also the dates. Ana and Jade from room 12 took out the competition. Congratulations.
Thank you very much to Mrs Pearson and Mrs Poutai for their VERY hard work over these past few weeks.