Seminar Rubric

This is my Seminar Rubric, I got very high marks for it.

Stepz Dancing

Every Friday our class and 2 other classes have Stepz dancing lessons, we learn lots of different dances including The Tango, The Cha-Cha and line dancing. It is really awesome and great fun. The tutors name is Simon, he tutors us very well and slowly, so he makes sure we get it 100% perfect. We also learnt The Walking Cone, The Slide and Catch Move and Thread The Needle. They are pretty hard to learn. We have only had 4 sessions and I know the dances pretty well. We have our last session on the Friday coming. It was a huge success. A big thank you to Simon.

Competitve Athletics

On Tuesday 17th November, our school had a competitive athletics event at Bayer Growers Stadium. There were lots of different events on they were 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m, Long Jump, High Jump, Shot Put and Discus. I entered 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m and Long Jump. I did the 1500m event first, after I finished my foot was really sore. So I didn't do any other events. It was a fun day.

Careers Day

On Thursday 19th November all the Year 8's at Pukekohe Intermediate had a Careers Day. We had to carry around our timetable and go to 3 different classes throughout the day, I went to the Police Officer in Period 1 & 2, then The Army in Period 3 & 4 and then Mai FM in Period 5 & 6. Mai FM was the best they gave away free CD's it was awesome, even though I didn't get any. It was a great and successful day.

Islander Style Mufti

On Friday 20th November, the whole of the Franklin District had an Islander style mufti to support the schools in Samoa after the Tsunami disaster. We had to make a gold coin donation to our school to be able to wear mufti. All money is going to a good cause to help all the victims after the tragedy. It was a huge success. A big thanks to everyone who donated to Samoa.

Website Design

Our Class, Room 23 had to create a recording artist or band then design a website for them.

We could either choose Weebly or Webs to create our website. My band is called Tempestuous, it is a two man band and consists of a guitarist and/or drummer. Christian Nepia was my partner for creating this website.

We had to have at least five pages. The pages are Home, Biography, Playlists, Career and Photo Gallery. If you want to look at my website it is www.tempestuous12.webs.com

The class had to nominate websites that stood out and they were entered in a competition called Net Guide Schools Multimedia Challenge.

Doodle 4 Google

Our Class, Room 23 did a Doodle 4 Google NZ competition. Our teacher gave us a Google format, we used it many different ways. You were able to change and distort the letters into anything that had to do with New Zealand and its national icons. There were 20 finalists chosen throughout New Zealand and they get to go to Wellington and stay at hotel for free. Their art work will also be on display at Te Papa Museum. One of the finalists is from our school. This is their Doodle (Above).

Cross Country

Cross Country was challenging but fun race for lots of people, over 30 different people made it to Zone Cross Country. I came 9th so I was a reserve for Zone. It was the top eight that made it to Zone for each group. There were 4 groups: Year 7 Girls, Year 7 Boys, Year 8 girls and Year 8 Boys. Cross Country was a difficult for me, I started a bad start, past 4 or 5 people and then at the end sprinted all my energy out and came 9th. I was very proud of my placing I got. I wouldn't have got my placing if it wasn't for all of Mr Short's and Mrs Pearson's training.

MI test

MI test stands for Multiple Intelligences test.
There are 8 Intelligences, they are:

Kinaesthetic Smart (Body Smart)
Linguistic Smart (Word Smart)
Logical Smart (Number Smart)
Interpersonal Smart (People Smart)
Intrapersonal Smart (Myself Smart)
Musical Smart (Music Smart)
Visual/Spatial Smart (Picture Smart)
Naturalistic Smart (Nature Smart)

My Strengths are Musical Smart, Kinaesthetic smart and Interpersonal Smart. I need to work on Logical Smart and Intrapersonal Smart. Although my graph for Linguistic is a bit low, I am pretty Linguistic Smart.

Expostion Writing Rubric

ICT Rubric

Science Road Show

On Monday 20th of July The Fonterra Science Roadshow came to Pukekohe Intermediate to show their skill in science. Their first presentation was about Carbon Dioxide and how it affected the Earth.

The Science Roadshow team filled up a balloon with Carbon Dioxide, we all had to block our ears as Andrew lit the balloon and it exploded straight away. It was very loud. The second presentation was about sound. We learnt about pitch, frequency and amplitude. They showed us how we can see sound using a fire and a speaker. As the speaker got higher the fire got lower. There were over 20 exhibits to look at after the show.

The Science Roadshow was very cool.

Science Fair Rubric

Speech

Orienteering

Quite a while ago a few Pukekohe Intermediate School students went to Zone Orienteering and then went to Inter-zone this included me. For Zone we went to Totara Park in Manurewa and Inter-zone we went to Reeves farm in Patamahoe. It was very muddy at Orienteering. The Year 8 boys came 2nd at Zone and 4th at Inter-zone. It was very fun.

Environmental Sustainability

On day 4 Room 23 has Environmental Sustainability lessons with Mrs Nicholson.
We do lots of different activities including cutting apples into pieces to show which parts of the Earth are sustainability and drawing life cycles of natural objects
We learn about our world and how to sustain it.
The lessons are interesting and fun. Mrs Nicholson is a great teacher to work with. She helpful and kind.

Mathletics Gold Bars

These are most of my gold bars for Mathletics, a math site that children from year 2 to year 13 use all around the world. There are 93 gold bars to achieve.

Chocolate Sales

Chocolates were sent out to students during term 2 to be sold. The school has got lots of money from selling the chocolates and is going towards paying for the Year 7's camp next year. The flavors were Caramello and Milk Chocolate. There were over 180 boxes sold. The top seller was Jacob who sold 42 boxes. The leftover money will be going o buy big tents for sports when it is raining and when it is really hot.

Food Tech

Pukekohe Intermediate School run lessons of cooking and baking, the teacher who runs it is named Mrs Garret. She is very skilled in Food Technology and has taught us lots. We have made thick shakes, potato bakes, muffins, cookies, sausages, a peppermint crisp tart and cheese burgers. Others in my class have made butter chicken, sushi, pizza, blueberry muffins and much more. I will take this learning to high school to show my skill.

Tapuae Report

Mrs Hancock, a Pukekohe Intermediate School teacher has started a school wide sport called Tapuae. It involves using a ball and being on a concrete basketball court. The postions are Rovers, Shooters, Guards and Centers. There are 1 guard, 5 shooters, 4 centres and 2 Rovers per team. If you are on the court, you are not allowed to talk and have to clap to get the ball, then you pass it to the center and the center throws it either to the rover who passes it to the shooter or throws it straight to the shooter. The shooters goal is to throw it at the wooden goal in the middle and the guard has to block the ball from hitting it. The team with the most points at the end win.

Black, White and Grey mufti

Mathletics Certificates

The Mural

Last year we studied Maui's Dolphins to get a mural painted on the wall of Room 28. To get that far we had to study them, do mini projects and then eventually write letters to the government. Now we've accomplished all that and have a artist painting the mural right now at this very moment. The artists name is Vanessa Graham and she has designed our mural. There will be later updates.

Speech Assement

Glogster

Buddy Class Party

This is my Bubble Share that I created on www.bubbleshare.com. These are pictures of our buddy class party.

BubbleShare: Share photos - Easy Photo Sharing

My Narrative

Fact Recall

New Year in Another Digital Classroom

Room 23 is starting another a new year with new computers and 3 new class mates. The class mates names are Harrison, Steven and Jamie. Our new computers are the newest flat screen 20 inch apple i-Macs. We have eighteen of them.

2 people share one computer 7 people in our class are individually on 7 computers.

We have the latest 2009 software including The Internet, i-Tunes, i-Photo, i-Movie, GarageBand and Microsoft Office.