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.

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.

Descriptive Writing

Recently in class we have been doing descriptive writing, as they wanted to make sure we wouild all be ready for "High School". Wr have so far written a piece on "The Library" where we had to describe either being a book on the shelf, a teacher, a student or the author of the book, then we had to write another piece about "A bedroom" wether it be your bedroom, a dream bedroom or a room in your house. Then the last one we wrote was also about "The Library" but we wrote about the setting and the piece below is the one I wrote.

The Library

The dirty windows blocking out the bright vibrant sun, the books disordely chucked onto the shelves, the librarian ready to pull out each individual strand of hair on her head, students rowdier than ever, footsteps surround me, the teachers efforts to make the class quiet devastatingly fails, the brand new shelves are already covered in a layer of dirt and dust, books sprawled across the floor, the displays that were once stunning in colour now dull and in complete disarray, it's dark the lights were sick of being the days entertainment, they've left but their shrieks and cries still linger within the walls.

Miss Morris

This past four weeks we have had a student teacher in our class, she has been a really great help and will definitely be a great teacher in the future.

Miss Morris was in her 3rd year at teachers college, which was her last. She was in our class for what sounded like a long time but really she made everything so fun and the time just flew by.

She was really great at helping us with our science fair projects and did heaps and heaps of experiments with us in the afternoon.

We wish you good luck Miss Morris for the future and we hope you have a great time teaching!

Current Events

This afternoon we went on a website called NIE online and completed a current affairs quiz which had all the recent news that had been on the news lately, every Friday we will be completing this quiz. I got 100% and I was really pleased with that. To get these questions right every week we have been asked to watch Prime at 5.30, TV 1 at 6.00 or TV 3 also at 6.00. The URL for this website is, http://www.nieonline.co.nz. Check it out.

AIMS Games

On the 5th of September to the 10th September, there is a big sporting tournament in Tauranga called the AIMS Games it has many different sporting disciplines such as netball, football, hockey, gym sports, swimming, cross - country, badminton, golf, tennis, rugby, basketball, multi sport, squash and water polo, for both girls and boys but our school Pukekohe Intermediate doesn't include all the sports offered but most of the sports included are and trialled so all students get a fair chance of going to aims, yet most of the time to trial you have to play that sport outside of school and be in quite a high grade. Like netball for instance they wanted all the girls trialling to be at least higher than D grade for the Pukekohe Netball Courts.

AIMS is a really big event for our school and there are round 95 students going to Tauranga and there's a teacher that's in charge of each sporting group that will also go to aims with the team as either there coach or manager.

I am part of the AIMS netball team and am really looking forward to it, the competition will be pretty stiff and but I think we have a strong team and have a good opportunity for placing.

Good luck to all the students and teams competing and hopefully we will come away with a few places!

Exposition/Speech - Why Aspartame should be Banned

How often have you heard “Sugar Free” or “99% Sugar Free?” Well that’s because the product makers add a little thing called aspartame, which is just a fancy word for artificial sweetener or fake sugar. They do this to make the product sound a whole lot better than it really is. But aspartame isn’t that great for you and has heaps of side effects if you unfortunately, receive aspartame poisoning. I think it should be banned.

According to doctors there is an enormous population suffering from side effects associated with aspartame, yet they have no idea why drugs, supplements and herbs don’t relieve their symptoms. Then there are users who don’t seem to suffer any immediate reactions at all. Also aspartame makes you crave carbohydrates, which will make you gain weight. Is this happening to you?

The side effects towards aspartame poisoning are very serious and have caused many problems with people all over the world, some of the effects include epileptic fits, pain in one or both eyes or even worse blindness, headaches, migraines, shortness of breath, personality changes, dizziness, unsteadiness and severe depression are all some of the possibilities you could get after receiving aspartame poisoning and trust me there are many, many more. What’s the point in suffering for something as little as this?

Aspartame is often included in your everyday snacks, meals and drinks such as coke zero, flavoured water, cereals, chewing gum, juice and even maple syrup and these are just a few, aspartame is consumed by the average person everyday and in your usual diet coke or diet lemonade and products similar to that contain round about 200 milligrams of aspartame. Do you eat or drink these products?

Artificial sweetener has been back and forth with the health board who is trying to get it banned while the government are saying its just a way of life and there's more people surviving than dying, so what's the point in taking away an amazing ingredient, for the unlucky few. But I beg to differ, because what if that unlucky person was someone in your family, someone who was really close to you. How would you feel? Would you rather sit back and say oh it doesn't matter, they'll be all right or would you rather stand up for that someone and make a big difference in somebody else's life.