Camp

Camp was pretty good, we did lots of activities. My favourite activity would have to be abseiling, it was amazing! At first I thought I was going to die, but as soon as I started I loved it. I wasn't with any of my friends in my activity group which was a bit disappointing but it ended up being quite fun. When we went on the hydro slide I got to go with my friends which was great, I went with Georgia, Beccs and Brooke, we went so fast that we waked into the people in front of us...it hurt. Over all I had a good time and I would love to go back.

Camp 2011

In week 10 the year 8's of Pukekohe intermediate are going to be attending school camp(if wanting to). My class is going on the second camp so everyone is excited about it. We will be going for two nights, and everyone is very excited about it.

My Poems

PINTV

It's the end of the 5th week now and I have been selected for PINTV the t.v station for Pukekohe Intermediate. We read the notices in front of the camera and the whole school watches us. I will be on once a week which will be good because I will get a break every now and then. I am quite excited about doing this and I hope I do well.

2011

So far 2011 is going pretty good, I am kind of enjoying it. We are in a new class but we are still a digital class and it is great. We are now doing wikis as well which are a new challenge for us. We have a new teacher and lots of new challenges. I would like to do well this year and complete everything that I want to complete.

Super Kid

Since week 8 room 23 has been doing activities for Super Kid. The activities that we do are 100m sprint, card making, creating a hat, baking a cake, home made gift, animation, 50 knowledge questions, 50 times tables, mintie wrapper rip and ice block suck. Super kid is a great way to end the year because it is so fun doing all the activities. The aim is to get the lowest score possible so if you come 1st in something you get 1 point and thats the best you can get. Whoever gets the lowest score and is also the winner they will win a super kid t-shirt with the logo on it. So far it has been really fun so I cant wait to do the next few activities.

Seminar Keynote- Taekwon-Do

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Athletics

On Tuesday the 16th of November Pukekohe Intermediate School had their Athletics day. The students had a choice out of the fun athletics or Competitive, the school ended up having 300 people in Competitive and 300 in the fun day. The whole of my class (room 23) competed in the competitive athletics and two of them made it to Zone. Some of us didn't get a placing but it was still a really great day thanks to Mrs Hancock.

Seminars

Since the start of Term 4 the whole of Pukekohe Intermediate School has been set a task to complete a seminar each. The year 7's can do a like or interest and the year 8's do a career, but some of the year 7's are aloud to do a career. I have chosen to do mine on Taekwon-Do, this is an interest Because I do Taekwon-Do as a sport. I have been working really hard on this and to find enough information I talked to my instructor and I also looked in the Taekwon-Do bible. I hope my seminar is finished to a high standard and the students enjoy it.

Term 4

This Term Pukekohe Intermediate is going to to be really busy with all of the things going on. One of the things we are doing is Athletics. We are practicing at sport time and some classes are going over to Pukekohe High School to practice. . We have a choice if we want to do competitive Athletics which is long jump, shot put and those things, or you can do fun activities like hackie sack throwing and fun games.

Because its getting into summer time we are going to need to wear hats and bring water bottles to school. This is a big safety thing so you don't get skin cancer and with your drink bottles you don't get de-hydrated.

Every year Pukekohe Intermediate students have to do a seminar. The year eights do it on a career they want to do when they are older and the year sevens do it on something they enjoy or like. We are researching a lot at the moment so they are to a high standard.

A couple of my goals for this term are: to get a high score for my seminar and to do well in the term 4 tests.

Next week which is week 3 the year sevens are having all their testing and the tests might be a bit challenging. Then in week 5 Room 23 are having our class testing to see what we are capable of.

Touch Typing

Today at school we had a touch typing test on sense lang. I don't think I did very good and I know that I can do better, I had trouble finding one of the letters and then I realised that it was on caps lock. I was a bit disappointed with myself and I know that next time I will try a lot harder and I will be practicing up till then.

Maths Week

Term 3 Week Maths Week is happening and Pukekohe Intermediate is celebrating it. We have awesome activities going on like a poster competition, making games, code crackers and even more. Each day we have a class challenge and an individual challenge, we also have a 10:15 sprint and if you win any of these challenges you win a prize for you or your classroom. Room 23 are using a website that lasts for 1 week it is called Maths Week. There are challenges for each day like Maths Millionaire, Maths Millionaire Family, Math Ex and more. You win money (not real money) for getting the questions correct and on Wednesday and Sunday they have an auction where you can bid for prizes. The website is a great way to improve your maths, so next year when it comes to Maths Week make sure you sign up and give it a go.

Maori Language week

Week 2 Term 3 New Zealand celebrated Maori Language Week and the theme was Te Mahi Kai which means the language of food. At Pukekohe Intermediate we had a class activity that had to be completed each morning through out the whole week. Their were prizes to be won from the cool activities and there was a poster competition and even a fishing competition, the class winner of the fishing competition was Room 43 with 11 fish so congratulations to them. This was a fun week to celebrate with all the Maori greatings and fearwells that we learnt each morning. I can't wait ti'l next year round to celebrate it again.

House Sports Day

On Friday the 2nd of July Pukekohe Intermediate held a house sports day that the whole school competed in. There were two sports that you could choose from and they were turbo touch and netball. We had this day because it was a fun day to have on the last day of term, a lot of kids really enjoyed this day and would love to have one again.

We split into our house groups which are Sheppard, Hillary, Batten, Rutherford and Ngata, and then we split into teams a, b, c or d and competed against each other. This day was held at the Pukekohe netball courts for netball and the Pukekohe Intermediate field for turbo touch, we had some really good teams competing and everyone had great sportsman ship. I'm sure the teachers were very proud. The winner team for turbo touch was Ngata with and fro netball in 1st place was Hillary, well done to those teams !

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.