Descriptive Writing

The Bedroom

The lime green duvet spread out on the bed matching the walls and the desk, the beautiful smell of fresh air and perfume and the beautiful sounds of the birds chirping right outside. Everything is what I have always dreamed of. The curtains are blowing around everywhere, I feel like a princess.


The Library

Food smudged into the floor, muddy footprints all around me, ants eating at all the rotten food, books thrown everywhere, I can't even sit on the "what used to be" comfortable chair. I search for the sunlight but for some reason I just can't find any, it's like an obstacle course in here. This place isn't peaceful at all its so loud I cant even here myself think. This isn't really my favourite place anymore.

Room 23 Science Fair

Room 23 have been working on our science fairs for the last about 7 weeks, we got to choose out of making a model, doing photo journalism, a scientific investigation or a research board. A lot of us have been working really hard on these and are proud with what their boards came out as. There were a lot of awesome boards that you can tell had a lot of work put into them. The school science fair hasn't announced a winner for any section yet but because room 23 had two first places and one second place at the Franklin science fair I think they could have a chance of winning. There are more good boards in room 23 that may be able to get a prize in the school science fair so we have our fingers crossed that we come back with more than three places!

Mathematic Extension

Georgia and I have been selected to participate in the Mathematics Extension at Pukekohe Intermediate. We go on a website called www.duffyclub.co.nz and we have to do the tutorials, they are quite hard but we do them in groups of three so we get through them quite well. All the math groups we are in are Otago maths, maths extention and entrepeneur Challenge, the mathex and entrepeneur challenge are kind of the same and we do them twice a week and Otago maths is an extra test a few Thursdays. We will be participating in the Franklin mathex competition in week 5 term 3. We have just been given a certificate for participation from the teacher in charge which is Mr Pope and I am really glad I have received this.

Franklin Science Fair

The Franklin Science Fair has now been and gone, Room 23 from Pukekohe Intermediate school are very proud to have 3 winners from our class. The 3 winners are Sian De-Arth with year 8 scientific investigation, Erica Petty with year 7 scientific investigation and Shaylee Syme with year 7 photo journalism. They all did very well out of the whole of Franklin and are now moving on to the Counties Manakau competition, this will be quite a hard competition but these girls have fabulous boards so they might do well. We wish them luck and we are hoping they come back with good results.

Current Events

Room 23 at Pukekohe Intermediate are doing the Current Affairs quiz every Friday. We are doing this on NIE online and the URL is "http://www.nieonline.co.nz". We have to read the newspaper or watch the news to help us improve our score, we are doing this so we know what is going on in the world. This will be really helpful for us so we know all the important things that are going on.

Miss Morris

For the last few weeks Room 23 were very lucky to have a student teacher, her name was Miss Morris. She was in her 3rd and last year at Teachers College. She was a great teacher and she is really good. We all loved doing the work with her like the science experiments we did where we tested things out. We also really liked making our own News Paper with an article each about our science fair projects we handed in.

Unfortunately Miss Morris had to leave us, we had a great time when she was in the class with us and we are really gonna miss her. We wish her the best for the future and we hope she can come back to teach us some other time. She was fantastic in the room.

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Coca Cola Netball

On Wednesday the 19th May, 150 girls represented Pukekohe Intermediate at the Coca Cola netball tournament. All of the teams did quite well at this tournament with one team coming 3rd (the year 8 A team) and another coming 2nd and they were the Red Starz (year 7). Mr Sweeney (Pukekohe Intermediate Principal) was very happy with what Pukekohe Intermediate had achieved.

My team was All or Nothing,we did pretty good coming 3rd overall for the mixed teams which is year 7 and 8's. We had some tough competition but we only lost two games, we won the other three by a fair amount. We were quite pleased with our results and we had a strong team, I definitely liked the team I was in because we worked really well together. I can't wait till next years tournament when I can either compete in a year eight team or mixed again.