Seminar Rubric

Science Lab

On Monday the 16th of November our classroom and other classroom went over to Pukekohe High School for the science lab introduction. When we were there we learn t about the stuff that we were going to be taught at high schools. The lab teacher gave us all booklets that we had to fill in. Things that were different from a classroom in this lab was that the desks were arranged differently. Als0 the surrounding were much different. Our first sort of lesson we had was having learn how to draw scientific tools. Then naming them and finding out what they do. Next we had to experiment with bunsen burner to a gas output and then lite a match to ignite the gas. This was very exciting. Next we had to experiment with the flame. The orange flame that came out first was the saftey flame. The next flame we experimented with was the blue flame. We created the blue flame by opening a air hole on the barrel of the Bunsen burner turning it blue. We then investigated which flame would be hotter. The blue flame was much hotter than the orange flame. Finally we experimeneted with chemical. We had to heat them over the Bunsen burner and waited until it changed colour. It started blue than went to orange.

Stepz Dancing

Recently the year 8 students have been having lessons which is about ballroom dancing. We are all doing this in prepration for the year 8 leavers social. Our dancing tutor is a person from the dance studio named stepz. His name is Simon and he is a great teacher. We learn many dances such as rock and roll, cha-cha, tango and many more. My favorite dance of them all would be the tango by far. When we go to these lessons we go with two other classrooms.

Zone Athletics

On Thursday 26 of November, other students and myself had the opportunity to attend zone athletics. It was a really great day. I was in for the 100m sprints, the 200m sprints and the relay. My first race was at 10:15 and it was the 200m Sprints. The organizers were taking 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place getter to the finals. In this race i came 4th place and made it to the finals. After this race i was so tired and feeling sick that i had to make my self throw up. Next the 100m sprints, unfortunately i got 5th place and did not advance to the finals. My 200m finals were not to far away. I got 4th again and was very pleased. Finally the relay race happend our team came 5th but we were still happy.

School Athletics Day

On Tuesday the 17th of November, our school had their annual athletics day at Growers and Turners Stadium. There were many events that people could enter in such as. Field events: High jump, long jump, discus, and shot put. In the track events there were 100m sprints, 200m, 400m, 800m, and a mammoth 1500m race. I had entered in the 100m and 200m sprints. The races were intense but enjoyable at the same time. First the 1500m races went first. The order of the race ages went like this. First the junior girls, then junior boys. Intermediate Girls after that intermediate boys. Senior girls and finally senior boys. This order happened in every track event. Next my first race came up, the 100m sprints. The juniors went first. Then my turn, i walked up to the start line with all of my heat. In my view and other peoples opinion, our group was the fastest heat. All the fast people from Intermediate boys were in this heat. The gun blew and we were off. I had come first place in that race, my time; 13.25 Seconds. I was now in the finals. My next race was the 200m Sprints. My hardest competition in that race was Caleb Krone. I was determined not to let him beat me, because he was a year 7 and if i got beaten it would be embarrassing. Luckily i came through and got first place. The 100m finals came up i won that race by diving and won the 200m finals. I was now going to zone for 100m sprints and 200m sprints.

Zone Touch 2009

Zone Touch this year was an awesome day. With our school sending three teams a Boys team, A Girls team, and a Mixed team. The day was almost perfect, with the rain coming down and drenching our P.E Clothes. But there was also many highlights. Boys Taking 3rd place, Girls taking 2nd place and mixed team coming 4th.

Music Inquiry

For my music Authentic Challenge, i worked with a classmate. Our website was named tempestuous, which focused mainly on heavy metal rock. We had to create a recording artist and post information about him/her on our website. You also had to include a biography, discography, awards, lyrics from a song, album play list, a recorded song and a photo gallery. One of our hardest problems to get around was uploading photos and choosing colors. Our website hyperlink is Tempestuous12.web.com. some of our classmates entered in the Net Guide school Website design competition.

Major Production Update

2 weeks till major production preformance and everthing is going great. My role in the show is to operate the sound and microphones. I am just one of five people in this group. We set up the casts headsets for the cast, and the stage microphones, and set the sound levels. The teacher in charge of us, and the equipment is Mr Pope.

Doodle 4 Google

Our Classroom had entered a google for doodle competition. We had to design a google home page with the theme My New Zealand. One of the students from our school was selected in the top 10 doodles. The student was flown down to wellington for a ceremony dinner. Then the google master will choose the overall winner. The prizes include a laptop, interactive whiteboiard and 10 thousand dollars worth of I.C.T Equipment.

Typing Test

MI Test

MI test

Highest Result: Interpersonal
Lowest Result: Kinaesthetic & Linguistic

Rugby League 09

This was the first time Pukekohe Intermediate had ever attended Zone Rugby League. There were two teams that went to the event, an under 55kg, and a over 55kg team. The event was held at Mountford Park Manurewa on the 1st of September. The day was awesome with the under 55kg team taking out third place. Our team the over 55kg had played three games that day, our first one against Mansell straight after we got off the bus, then Manurewa and finally Takanini. Unfortunately we lost every game. Each game was 20 minutes long, each half was 10 minutes. The rules were all the usual, no high tackling, forward passing, knock ons, and other basic rules. Extra rules that applied for league were on the sixth tackle hand it over, you have to pass the ball twice in twenty minutes and no kicking unless the last tackle.

Cross Country 2009

Our school Pukekohe Intermediate had their annual Cross Country run. The Cross Country run was consisting of 1500 meters around Bledisloe park. It was a great day for running, the skys were almost clear and the track was great. first the Year 7 Girls took the starting line, then the Year 7 Boys, next the Year 8 Girls and finally the Year 8 Boys. Everyone assembled at the fields by the netball courts. To me the run was intense, I took out 30th place in the Year 8 Boys race. We had started our training a good 6 to 7 weeks before the event. We did our cross country with Mr Short and his classroom.

I.C.T Proficiency

Exposition Evaluation

Science Fair 09

Pukekohe Intermediate had there annual Science fair competition. Our Group ( Jesse Watkin, Alex Sheree and I) did our science fair project on Viscosity. We chose to present our project on a research board. Our group ran into some trouble while doing our science fair project, our topic started as finger prints. We were planning to do how people disguise their fingerprints. Our group learnt a lot about viscosity, such as what it is, how it used and how it affects liquid. Our overall score for our project was 70, i think we could have improved our score by displaying our infomation in a different way and adding more infomation.

Science Fair Evaluation

Science Fair Evaluation.

Science Roadshow

On Monday the 20th of July, our classroom attended the Fonterra Science Roadshow. During our session time we saw two professional demonstrations by roadshow staff. The demonstrations were Earth - matter, energy, life and Sounding out waves the science of sound. There were also over 60 hands-on exhibits with themes how things work, gravity, Investigation life, Measurement, Light reflections and Astronomy. One of demonstrations involved a helium balloon which was lit on fire and then exploded with a loud bang, we had to cover our ears because of sound.

Exposition

Washing your hair is essential, for personal hygiene.

When you wash your hair you are preventing Dan draft, head lice, oil and the build up of dirt and germs.
Many people do not like washing there hair they believe it is a waste of time and its not important. But washing your hair has many benefits.
Imagine having a photo taken, it may have been for school or a family photo. You get up have your photo taken. A couple of weeks later you see the photo and there is you with you dirty hair. Then you wished you had washed you hair that day.
Washing your hair has many other advantages unlike skipping it. Some shampoos also strengthen hair as well as cleaning it. Also conditioner helps keep the hair smooth and silky.
Washing your hair is essential everyday. This makes washing your hair one of the most important roles of personal hygiene

Christian Nepia

Zone Rugby 2009

Over 55
Under 55
Under 45
On Thursday 4 June Pukekohe Intermediate took 3 teams to Bruce Pulman park in Papakura.
The three teams were sorted by weight. Under 45's, Under 55's and Over 55's were the 3 weight divisions. It was a great day with the under 55's coming 2nd on the table, under 45's taking 4th and over 55's unfortunately taking last place. Also the weather was on our side the whole with not a cloud in the sky.

Mathletics

After lunch time every day ourselves or our buddies go on to Mathletics. Mathletics is a math program that runs all over the world. Here are some of the awards I've gained.



1000 points in a week = Bronze Certificate
5 Bronze Certificates = Silver certificate
4 Silver Certificates = Gold Certificate

Speeh Assesment

Buddy Class

BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.

On Wednesday 8 April we had a shared lunch with our buddy class Room 36. We started off our shared lunch by having a game of dodgeball against Room 36. Soon after around about 12 Oclock our class went to our Room 36 to start the shared lunch. Every one had a great time listening to music and EATING the food.

i-Web

For our D.A.R.E authentic challenge we had to create a website about drugs to help educate people on why not to take drugs. This is our front page of our website explaining the dangers of taking Methamphetamine and why not to take it.

Maths week poster

In Kendall's Name

During our D.A.R.E authentic challenge on drugs while researching we came across a very sad story of a sister who lost her sister to drugs. We sent her an email to ask if we could use her story she replied with the following email.

Hello,
Thank you for your interest in Kyndall's story. You are more than welcome to use anything you would like.
Please see her website and please look through the PowerPoint presentation, her journals and also the archived News information.
If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask.
I applaud your efforts in helping the world-wide drug epidemic.
Thanks,
Nicole

Graphic organizer

Fact Recall

Narritive

Could of said NO


“Ouch” a screwed up piece of paper hit Matt on the back of the head, he looked around swearing under his breath. Reaching for the piece of paper he opened it up. It read you wanna do something fun today something exciting, Matt looked up at Josh the slim boy with the black hoddie and blondish brownish hair, Matt glanced back at the piece of paper and read on how about we steal some stuff it read at the bottom of the piece of paper it read P.S meet me in the corridor and a few very nasty words carried on the sentence.
As the interval bell went Matt stayed back for a little waiting for all the rest of the students to leave the classroom. Once everyone was gone Matt walked to the corridor and meet up with Josh who was surrounded by girls. When Josh saw Matt he told the girls to leave. “What do you want”? Said Matt “oh yes I had a really good idea in class that we should get back at Mr Garrison and steal his laptop” laughed Josh. A few weeks earlier Mr Garrison had caught them after school tagging on the walls of the school therefore they had a very bad grudge against Mr Garrison plus it was none of his business. Even though Matt didn’t like Mr Garrison he was very worried that he would get in more trouble than before. “So you wanna do it”.
Matt had to think long and hard about his decision if he did it he would prove him self worthy of Josh but if he didn’t he would lose his only friend for sure, “Yes” replied Matt “good meet you at the classroom after school 3:30 don’t be late!”.
At 3:30 Josh was waiting outside the classroom looking up and glancing around he saw Matt and said are you ready I nodded he opened the door and ran in I followed. When I got inside he was already at the desk he threw the laptop at me I dropped it there was a loud thud that echoed in the room. Josh then started cursing at him then they go in to an argument. They were vey unaware that the teachers would be back soon and sure enough Mr Garrison walks in.
The next was a terrible day as the Principle, their parents and Mr Garrison talked to Matt and Josh. Matt and Josh were expelled from this school and therefore Matt thought back to the incident and the only thing he should of done when Josh asked to steal the laptop was NO.

Comic Life

D.A.R.E 2009

Decision Making, Drug
Assertiveness, Abuse
Responsibilty, Resistaance
Esteem, Education

D.A.R.E

This term in D.A.R.E we have had Constable Sheree from the local community to come to our school and teach our class about drugs. We he have been learning about all sorts of drugs and why not to take them, resisting them and drug abuse. One of the most common drug we discussed was Methamphetamine. We discussed the harmful effects of Methamphetamine such as that it kills brain cells and other bad effects. We also discussed peer pressure and not to give in to it, we did little activitys not help not give onto peer pressure.

Lunch Time Touch

Lunch Time Touch

Every lunch time at Pukekohe Intermediate, classroom touch teams take to the field to participate in the classroom touch competition.

Mrs Hancock the school sports co-ordinator, has started this competition. She got students to help with the competition such as setting up the field or refereeing games.

Rules to the competition and the game are very straight forward. Rules for the competition are that you can only have 6 players on the field, your team must have 2 girls on the field during the game. All touch rules apply.

Our classroom has won 2 games against room3 & room5 and unfortunatley lost 2 games to room 4 and room 5.

To improve our game play, our class need to work together, run forwards and eliminate errors.

Quote:
The touch rugby referees have been and the competition couldn't of happened without them. :)

2009 Digital Classrom

2009 a new year but with the same class and the same teacher. This year we have aquired new and improved apple computers. These computers are way more advanced than the old computers this computer has more updated versions of a wide variety of applications. 7 of our students have been lucky enough to have a computer to themselves we have also welcomed 3 new students to our class Jamie, Harrison and Steven.

Goals 2009:

Zone sport awards
Sibley Cup for rugby