Week 2 Term 2

Hi Everybody :-)

This week we haven't had as much on.  On Monday we had the day off because it was Anzac day, and I went to the Anzac parade at 11 o'clock, because my older brother and my younger sister were in it for St.John, and I also wanted to see Te Awamutu Intermediate lay their wreath on behalf of the school.  After lots of people laid their wreaths, their were speeches, and then the release of 100 red balloons to represent poppies and soldiers who fought for our country.  Here is a photo of the memorial were everything happened.

Yesterday we had P.C, the worst subject in the world, P.C stands for Pubertal Change.  It is a really disgusting subject to learn about, and we did it all day!  The worst bit about P.C is I have to do it again next year, and I am NOT looking forward to doing the whole thing again.

Today, mostly everyone in the class has gone on band camp, there are about nine people who haven't, and I'm one of them.  I don't know what you do at band camp, but the year 8's seemed pretty excited, so I just hope that they have a good time.

My Character Description

This is my Character Description I have been doing for the past week or two, it is a made a description that I did all by myself, and it is pretty good ( if I do say so myself).

Why Me?

She looked around the room, then suddenly at me.  She flashed her wicked lipstick smile and I knew I wasn't in for a treat.  She glared at me with her beady eyes and I knew she had picked me.  I scanned the room, searching for a place to get out, I couldn't.  I was stuck here with this wicked witch.  Her wispy gray hair crawled in front of her wrinkled face.  She frowned, stuck it

back behind her ear and turned her attention back to me.  Her bright dress twisted as she bent down to look at me.  "You can do a job for me" she wheezed.  I held down the vomit which had emerged into my throat from her reeking breath.  A voice howled inside of me, "no, please no!"  

I closed my eyes and wished this day had never even started, I thought of being home in my nice warm bed again.  I opened my eyes and she was standing there, staring at me again.  She stood up and straightened her wrinkled dress.  She beckoned me with her witchy finger, her nail gleaming in the sunlight.  I gulped, then stood up and followed her, thinking about which horrible job she was going to give me.  Her ugly heels clicked and clacked as she led me in to the hallway, my friends mouthed good luck to me as I exited the room, shaking with uncontainable fear.  She lead me to a room at the very end of the hallway, I imagined a big dark room with lots of spooky equipment and shivered, I was freaking myself out, she wouldn't make me do anything that bad.  We walked into the room and I breathed a sigh of relief.  It was just a small box like room, with a desk and computer.  She trecked into the narrow wooden wardrobe and came back with a mop and a bucket of water.  My heart sank.  "Get mopping" she growled.  She strolled out of the room, and the last thing I heard was an evil cackle.  Frustrated, I grabbed the mop, and got to work, but the whole time one thought lingered in my mind.  

Why me?

Week 1 Term 2

It's Term 2, Yay.  We are back at school and we are using our devices even more now, I have got my tablet at school and it is quite handy to have when everyone needs a device, because I don't have to worry about getting a device.
Summer games are today and I am doing non-stop cricket, I can't wait!
Us Year 7's have also started art for Tech Arts, and it is super fun.  We are making clay jandals and they are going to look really good when they're done!  We are also making another piece of art and what we have to do is pick a shape that represents New Zealand or something that represents you.  The shape I picked was Marmite, and what we have to do with our shape is draw it on a piece of paper and then fill it with stuff we love, or things that represent New Zealand.
Today we also had the ANZAC service, we heard poems, stories and letters, it was so sad, I nearly cried.  Also, the SHINE painting is done, and it looks amazing!  Here is a photo of it:

That painting is out at the front of the school, I can even see it from my classroom!

As you can probably already tell, I am having heaps and heaps of fun at TAI, (Te Awamutu Intermediate,) but sometimes it does still feel a little strange being at intermediate and not at primary, but I'll get used to it.

Week 9 Term 1

This term has been incredibly fun for me, I have made lots of new friends and I have settled into Te Awamutu Intermediate really well.
I am having heaps of fun doing things like Tec Arts, Jump Jam, and keyboard lessons, and I am sure that I will get involved in lots more activities at this school.  I am really excited to start school again next term, and I also really excited for my friends from primary to get to this school next year!!!

Te Awamutu Intermediate present Once Upon a Crime | March 26

Here is my Capital E ONTV groups video. ENJOY!

Wellington

Last week I was in Wellington for the whole week on camp.  We all had heaps of fun doing exciting activities all around Wellington city.  I hope I can go to Wellington again, next time with my family so I can show them some of the places I went to.

Zealandia:
Zealandia is a great big wildlife reserve, in which endangered animals are kept so they are saved from going extinct.  At Zealandia we did a big walk all around the park we saw lots of different types of animals such as: birds, insects and we even got to touch a tuatara!

H2O Xtreme:
H2O Xtreme is the Upper Hut Pools.  We had a lot of fun there as well, there was three hydro slides; a dark one, a light one and a yellow one that is like a slide, there was also a non-stop river.  I had a go on all of them.  It was so fun!

Carter Observatory:
Carter Observatory is a place where you can learn about space.  We saw a learned lots of fascinating things. We learnt about different planets and their moons.  One of the exhibits had a little piece of the moon, with a little sign above it saying 'Touch The Moon', so everyone got to touch the moon!  It was really cool.  After looking around we went into a dark room with a screen on the roof, on the screen we watched a little clip about space and then we saw some of the pictures made in the stars.

Parliament:
When we went to Parliament it was a really amazing experience for all of us.  We learnt quite a bit about what happens in Parliament and met two people who are part of Parliament; Barbara Krulger and Andrew Little.  We even got to go into The Camber, the room where all the big decisions are made.  When we were in there they were arguing about housing in New Zealand, it was really interesting.

Capital E:
At Capital E my group did a movie making activity, what you did was you could make mountains and trees and rivers, it was quite fun, but my favourite part of when we were at Capital E was when we made a video called Once Upon A Crime, I played Reporter No.2 and I also played Beauty, from 'Beauty and the Beast'.

Wellington Zoo:
At Wellington Zoo we saw lots of amazing animals like; cheetahs, meerkats, we even saw penguins!
It was a really fun trip.  While we were there I got a gift for each person in my family.  I got a little badge each for my siblings and a little tiger key chain for my mum.

Snorkeling:
We all went snorkeling at Island Bay, it was really amazing.  I was scared at first to get in the water, but then soon settled in.  We saw lots of cool sea life like; different coloured fish, lots of paua, and a giant crab!  It was so fun that in the end I didn't want to hop out.

Holocaust Centre:
The Holocaust Centre was really cool.  I learnt a lot about The Holocaust that I didn't know.  The one thing I found interesting was their collection of one and a half million buttons.  They explained to us that a school had decided to collect them to represent how many children were killed in The Holocaust.  It was really sad that so many children died, but it was amazing how one school had decided to do that to represent all those children.

Museum Of Wellington:
We learnt lots at the Museum Of Wellington about the Wahine Disaster.  The Wahine Disaster is a big cruise ship that crashed in the middle of a storm.  In the Wahine Disaster about 51 people died, we watched a video of the disaster and it was really sad, some of the people survived died the next day from a disease, and some of the lucky survivors didn't die the next day, but lived a normal life again.

I had a really great time in Wellington, I had never been to Wellington before and now I'm glad I did, so an extra big thanks to all those parents who helped us go on camp, we couldn't have done it without you. :-)

Week 7 Term 1

We are going on camp on Sunday and I can't wait!  I have never been to Wellington before so it will be a really exciting experience, but I still need to remember to pack warmer clothes because Mrs Crowe said that it is a bit colder down in Wellington.  In Wellington are going to do lots of cool stuff like; snorkeling, swimming, visiting The Beehive, and loads more, it's going to be really fun!