Orientation at TGC

Today the year 8 girls went to Girls College and I learnt a few things:

1. That the pool that they have is really shallow at one side and a bit deep on the other side.
2. There are 10 blocks named from a to m (excluding h, i and l.)
3. The school is huge!!!
4. There are 1400 students already there.
5. If you're not in the top three classes you can get into them in year ten.
6. Even though the school ends at 3:20 the busses come at 3:30.
7. I will find out which tutor class I'm in on my first day of school.
8. I will keep my deans for the five years I will be at college
9. We wrote on a piece of paper.
10. There swimming sports is fun and you don't need to take them seriously.
11. Each teacher has a code name.
12. Today proved 100000.99% that I will get lost on the first day of school.
13. They talk about respect, participation and pride a lot
14. I will start school on the 4th of February.

 I am extremely excited about college and I can't wait to take on the amazing opportunities that I can do there.

What I learned in life ed

drugs

There are many drugs that you can take and they all can be addictive. You can go crazy for drugs and you can loose everything for them, drugs can also be shot into your drink at a pub. There are classes for the types of drugs, class a does the most damaging and it goes down from there. Even though a drug isn't class a you can get addicted to them and die from it.

        Drug over dosses can be a life and death situation. They can knock you out or do stupid things with them.

Alcohol effects

Alcohol can be dangerous and you need to be carful with it. In New Zealand you are allowed to drink alcohol when you're 18.  But just because you're allowed to doesn't mean you should. Alcohol can easily make you drunk which again will make you do stupid things. Imagine your at a party and your drunk, you feel sick and you need to go to the toilet. while you're waiting for the toilet you pass out, what would happen if a bunch of guys (who are also drunk) kick you in the face you can think of the side effects.

Alcohol

There are three types of alcohol drinks, they are:

Wine

Sprits

Beer

If I were to organise them to least amount of alcohol to the most amount it would be:

Beer

Wine

Sprits

You will see that when you are at a pub you will get a very small amount of sprits this is because there is so much alcohol in sprits that that is one standard glass of it.

You are more likely to get alcohol at a party then any other type of drug.

Recap on drugs and alcohol

In life ed I learnt many stories about people who have taken drugs, what they had turned into and then changed there lives. I never want to experience being addictive to drugs. I also learnt that nobody wants to be addictive to drugs you just get pear persuaded to do so.

Puberty

I learnt that there are seven steps of puberty and that you can really know when you finish or start it. There are many people who you can talk to about puberty such as your family. No questions about puberty are dumb so you just have to ask someone.  

Life education poem

 This is a poem I wrote about life ed.

You are lying there, you're hands are shaking

How long has it been since you've started breaking

The day you decided to say no to coke

Was quite possibly the day you broke

The amazing feeling you once had of cocanie

Has now been refilled with only incredible pain

The pain of loosing the things most important in life

They thought you were scary and that was a sight

You beat your child till he screams loud

So your neighbours wont hear the terrible sound

The family you once had is taken away, and

Your heart breaks in a terrible way

Is the book disappearing?

The book is disappearing. Look around you how many pieces of paper can you see or can you even see a rare book in its eliminate, or can you just see technology. People on there phones, laptops, ipods, kindels and everything else that has something to do with a screen. Our world is getting so 'tech' that we barely realised this crime that we have done to our children. They will never read as many books as you did.

 1/3 of our class reads on screens. Thats nine out of 31 people. But imagine in ten years time will books be extinct or will twenty years when they die out. Don't get me wrong, having a tablet or kindle would amazing. Kindles are more portable and are lighter than the 600 page book that you could be reading. They allow the reader to read everywhere and change the font size to there liking.

Libraries are getting more tech too. You can now hire an tablet at many libraries instead actually getting a book. Our school library even has Ebook account where every student in the school can read books online. Our libraries are losing a battle against books.

What do you think when our future generation might not even see a book in there life and we might have to take them to a museum to see one . What do you really think about our dying books.

 

Another story to punctuate

"MUM! where are my favourite socks?" I asked, yelling for help.
"And where are my Tuesday undies?" asked Dad, searching through his drawers, "You know I have to wear them today." "Just wear Monday's undies, no one is going to know," replied Mum.
"No ones going to know you say? I'm going to know! and to wear Monday's undies, pfft that would be idiotic!" Dad answered back with a streak in his voice.
This was only the beginning of our familys disaster for the next few weeks, things were starting to disappear and fast. With Dad losing his Tuesday undies and me losing my favourite socks, Isaac then lost his favourite bow tie, Mum then lost her favorite dress. We thought we were going mental!
"It's not like they could just hop up and run away," said Isaac.
Mum suggested that we recap our steps. 
"When was the last time you had your items?" she said. 
We all replied before washing day was the last time we had them.
"So maybe it's the washing machine thats caused all this drama," Mum said, with a glimpse a hope in her eyes.
We checked the washing machine, there was… nothing! with nothing to prove I decided to put a GoPro in the machine, to watch it in action, to see if there was something suspicious really happening inside. What I didn’t realize was that the washing machine would take my GoPro too. 
"AHHH ITS GONE!" I yelled at the top of my voice, "What are we going to do."
"Lets just give up," Mum said to me 
"Fine if that’s the best idea," I moaned.
A few weeks later Isaac had dropped his toy car behind the washing machine and as we were looking for it a pair of undies popped up out of the blue just sitting there. 
"Mum look!" I said with a big grin on my face.
"Who would have guessed?"
we both stood there smiling

Another story to puncuate

"Morning class," greeted Miss Green.

It was an ordinary day, everyone was sitting at their wooden desks with pens and pencils by their side. The sweet sound of voices filling the room brought music to my ears, I decided to listen in on Brittney's conversation with Ella.

"OMG, last night I reached into my bag to get out my book and it wasn’t there!" explained Brittney.

"No way!" replied Ella.

That exact same thing happened to me, I was sure I put it in my bag but now it was gone. This is a little strange, I thought to myself, why are things disappearing.

Eventually, the bell went and it was time to go home. I told my mum what I had witnessed at school and she was lost for words.

That night I couldn't get Brittany's and Ella's conversation out of my head. I grabbed my laptop out of my bag to google this mystery, as I unzipped the case, I looked down only to see that there was no laptop in my bag. This was insane, I decided to look in my other pocket of my bag, and to my surprise my lunch box was also missing.

The sun was shining, birds were singing, it seemed like an ordinary day. I walked into my class that is usually full of colour, but not today, my class looked like a prison cell. 

"What happened?" I gasped.

"Don't worry kids," assured Miss Green, "We have a thief in our class and I'm going to get to the bottom of this,"

One by one, Miss Green started checking our bags. Everyone seemed relaxed, except for James, Miss Green made her way down the line and James was last to be checked.

"Oh!" said Miss Green looking rather lost, "What is this?" she asked James.

As she pulled out two books, a pencil case, my laptop and two class posters from James's bag.

I was utterly shocked to say the least.

"I'm so sorry!" cried James, "It's just that everyone has laptops or books and our class is so colourful that I wanted to take some of it home to make my house look better. The truth is that you should be happy with what you have and not want stuff from other people."

Punctuate

I need to punctuate this piece correctly.


It was a monday morning, I just got woken up by my mum to get ready for school I got out of bed and reached down for my uniform but it wasn't there. I looked under my bed under my pillows but I couldn't find my uniform anywhere.
"Kaidin, have you gotten in the shower yet?"
 "No mum, I can't find my uniform."
 "Well you better find it quick or you will be going to school in your onesie."
 "But mum, I can't find it anywhere it’s like its just disappeared."
 "Oh sure just like all your other stuff huh Kaidin?"

I got a note to go to school with to say that my uniform is lost and that I have to wear mufti just for today. Which was a pain because every teacher I walked past asked why I'm in mufti and where my uniform is; so I just showed them the note and moved on. When I got home I went to go grab my iPod from where I always put it, but when I looked and that wasn't there I yelled out to my mum. "Mum, have you seen my iPod?"
"No, but do you know where you last put it?"
"Mum, if I knew where I last put it do you think I'd be asking you where it is?"
"Sorry, just trying to help."

I thought to myself that I'll try to find it later so I ran into my room to go on my PS3, but surprise surprise it’s not there.
"Mum!"
"Oh what now Kaidin?"
"I know you're up to mischief. tell me where all my stuff is!"
"Kaidin, do you really think I would hide your uniform away from you? so you would go to school in your onesie? Now what’s gone missing now?"
"My PS3 the whole thing! the controller is here but not my HDMI cable, power cord or my Elgato!"

I really couldn't be bothered looking for all my stuff because it will take me hours, so I just thought of going for a bike ride. I walked outside to get my bike and I couldn't believe it. My bike  had no tyres. 
By this time I've had enough, I went up to my mum and said
"Mum, I know you’ve put all my stuff somewhere please can I have it back?"
"Kaidin, I have hidden your stuff away would you like to get it back?"
"Yes! Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?"
"Right here."
My mum led me to her bedroom where my stuff was all scatterd around the room. My PS3 the power cord, the HDMI and my Elgato. My iPod was under her drawers and my bike tyres were under Liams bed and  my uniform was in my mums drawers.
"Okay thanks mum for hiding my stuff."
"Thats, okay I'll do it again sometime."
"hahaha, yeah right!"

A little friend written by me

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Rimu Peel

Write a PEEL paragraph responding to this statement

Rimu is the best syndicate at TIS.

I've been in Rimu for around two years and in that time I've realised that it is the best house for many reasons. Firstly, I've considered the teachers and the hard work they've done for us. Rimu teachers are the best teachers at making us 'grow our knowledge' during the year that we have with them. Secondly, the technology, Rimu house is the only laptop house, using laptops helps us work in a more independent way. In mainstream classes teachers and students struggle with only having a few desktop computers and some ipads, they also have to share the computer room, this makes it hard for teacher as she has to explain everything. Lastly, the Rimu house chant. Made by Mrs Mills last year, the Rimu chant shows the other houses that we are the best, as well as making all the houses scared, the Rimu chant has some humor (e.g when we say shift it to the left shift it to the right.) Although have a three days and a term till I'm off to college and have to say I'm dreading going. Rimu is an exended family that I'll remember forever.

Using PEEL

Write a PEEL paragraph responding to this statement

Being a mum is easy, yeah right! First of all, the making of the lunches, every morning I wake up at 6 to get everybody's lunches ready. I find this really hard as my kids are really picky. Secondly, being the driver, to dance and back, to swimming and back and to school and back. I drive my kids everywhere which wastes my fuel and any spare time that I might have had. Another point of why being a mum is hard is the jobs that I have to do. I mow the lawns vaccum the floor and walk the dog while my kids watch tv, that really gets my blood pumping! Anyway, being a mum is hard, to the day that they can speak, to the day they leave home and start their own family.

Mr Diver, our principal in a paragraph

Mr Diver is the most successful principal because he can control a school full of tweens. Firstly I want to state that when we're at assembly he can really control us. What I mean is that he only needs to stand up from his seat and give us an angry look and 75% of us are silent. Secondly, if there is a fight going on he will be the first teacher in on the action. He races towards a fight and within a second he's spilt the fighters and is telling them off. Another example is that when we are giving our teachers a hard time he will stop us. He does this by walking into a classroom and asks whats going on, we all get scared when he does find out what's going on. Although there are many other examples to why and how Mr Brain Diver is the most controlled principal Tauranga Intermediate has ever seen I though these three examples captures him the most.

Dialouge

I'm in camo leading a line of three people. Behind me is my best friend, Dan and behind him my other friend Kevin.

 "Ok guys stay here while I go closer," I mouthed to them
"No I'll go closer! you could get killed!" Dan shouted to me from behind
"You two both have familes that you need to get back to! I go!" Kevin shouted at the end
"I have to go, I'm closer and I'm the leader of this group but please don't shout, I know the tanks are loud but you guys are super loud," I said bravely to the guys
"NO I'M GOING!" shouted the other two in unisine
"We'll all go, just remember to stay together," I told the boys "THREE, TWO, ONE"

I that was the last thing I said to the two before they died.

My made up story

I have been on this planet for 200 years in your time.  I went here to discover life on a new planet besides Earth. I came here with my two friends Rufus, my excited border collie, he likes discovering new things so when I told him I was going on an adventure he put on his puppy eyes and now he's here with me. My second compaion is Mr sparkles, my teddy bear. He was born for space, he actually has a space suit that came with him! I must tell you that he was vey excited when I told him he was coming to.  Our space ship got damaged when one of my compaions put there paws on the control pad and crashed the plane, I'm very dissipointed in Mr sparkles.  Anyway we walked for about a few meters but Mr sparkles just stood on the ship and I was NOT carrying him. So me and Rufus continued the journey without Mr sparkles, but then suddenly we heard a scurring noise, at first I thought it was Mr sparkles but then I saw a monster or an alien local. Rufus and I ran as fast as we could but the alien was on top of us, I'm serious it flew! While looking up to see where the alien was I tripped and fell. The alein swooped down and gave me a plaster and told me that his name was Coll. Me and Coll talked for a while and quickly turned into friends. Now if you look on the planet of Hulu you might just see me and Rufus on Colls back soaring past the glaxy.  

5 Orignal Similes

In class we are learning about Similes, for our blog post we have to create five orginal similes.

NO CLICHES!

As sharp as sea shells cutting on your bare feet at the beach.

As shiny as a crow's eyes when its spotted your diamond necklace.

As relaxed as a baby sleeping in its cradle.

Intricate like a beauitiful Picaso painting.

Burning like a man tanning at the beach without any sunblock.
As hard as a strong mans muscels.


My best one is in yellow.

Weather in NZ

Use this link to do this task.

Use these subordinating conjunctions to make 4 comparative statements related to these charts.

because:
Alexandra has the most range, because the average warmest temperature is 24 and the coldest average temperature was -5.

although:
Hokitika has the highest amount of rainfall, although it doesn't have the coldest range.

even if:

Alexandra has the coldest range, even if the temperature was higher by 3ºC.

whereas:
Alexandra has the coldest range, whereas Hamilton and Napier have the warmest range.