Seminars

For my seminar I am doing mine on The Army. The army is a group from the military. The military is made from different groups like the army, marines, air force and different groups that helps their country and other countries. I have made a power point on keynote and I still need to finish. I started my seminar a few weeks ago and I am presenting mine on Thursday. From making my seminar on The Army I have learned a lot of helpful information to enter into the New Zealand army and the qualifications. My seminar has information about the Army museum, work hours, payment, Entry requirements, Army rankings from lowest to highest and information about Force 9. Force 9 is a army game made for people who whats to see what it is like to take control and be the leader for the army troops. If you are interested in going to the army there are lots of different jobs to choose from.

Websites

Over the last few weeks we have been making website's for the TVNZ6 Net Guide Schools Multimedia challenge. Our task is to make a website about Financial Literacy. Most of us got into groups and started making our websites. We all made our websites on wix.com. Our challenge was to get our websites finished by Friday the 25th of September. Some of the rules were: All copyright, trademark and privacy laws must be obeyed. You must cite the source of your material (such as images), A class entry can be made up by a group of students; if there is a mix between primary and intermediate levels in the class or team, the entry must go in under the highest class level within the class or team. All entries must have a supervising teacher, Each entry must only be entered once. Entries which are resubmitted after the closing deadline will be disqualified. Entries submitted from previous challenges will also be disqualified. These are only 3 rules of the competition. In the challenge there are 10 rules that everyone should follow. The challenge closes September 30th 2010 at 5PM. No late entries will be accepted.

High School Enrollment Night

On the 16th of August I went to Pukekohe High School to enroll for next year. When I went in we had to wait for a teacher to get ready to interview me. When she finally came she told me that I was going to be in the Massey house with my sister the colour of the house is green. On December the 2nd Pukekohe High school is going to have a orientation evening. At a orientation evening people come to have a look at the school. Most people have a look at the school so that they don't get lost on their first day of their new school. Most orientation nights are for students that are coming to the school in the following year. The days that we could go in for enrolling was Monday the 16th of August, Saturday the 21st of August, Monday the 9th of August, Tuesday the 10th of August and Wednesday the 11th of August. The times were between 4:00pm- 7:00pm. At Pukekohe High School they have house groups the houses are Blake which is black, Massey which is green, Day which is red, Jellicoe which is blue and Perkins which is yellow.

Class Careers

Between this week and next week we are starting up a class careers. We have to buy or rent out stuff we use everyday which includes our toe trays, bag places and even the computers Every one in the class found a career they liked and they wrote it down on a piece of paper. On that paper we had to write a description of the career and how much u get payed in a week or a fortnight. If we couldn't fine the weekly or fortnightly payment then they just wrote down the price that was already on the career, which was most likely to be how much they get payed in a year. When we finished writing them down we put them in a box and then the whole class sat down to wait for their turn to choose their classroom career. We couldn't see what our job was until we picked one paper up. The paper had the name of the job, how much you get payed and the description of the job. Some people didn't like their jobs until they saw how much they get payed.

House sports day

At the end of term 2 the whole school played sport through out the whole day. The games we had to choose from was netball at the Franklin netball courts or turbo touch on the school fields. The school house groups are Batten A and B which is red, Ngata A and B which yellow, Rutherford A and B which is green, Hillary A and B which is black and Shepard A and B which is blue. At the netball courts we had 3 or 4 teams in every house. I was playing netball for the day. From the beginning of the day the people that were playing netball met up at the school courts and started walking over to the Franklin netball courts when everyone was ready to go. When we got to the courts we all sat in our house teams and waited for our instructions and find out who was playing fist. After that our games started and team mates were cheering for their team. At interval and lunch we all sat down and had something to eat. When we all stopped eating the games started again. The Rutherford team were the loudest group cheering for their team while they were yelling and screaming the other houses were trying to beat Rutherford by trying to yell out their team name.

Maori Language Week

This week it is Maori language week. It started on Monday 26th July and it ends on Sunday 1st August. During the week all the classes in the school has been taking part in the daily Maori language activity. Everyday we have to translate a Maori phrase to English and find out what it means. We have to watch PINTV because one of the presenters have the student phrase of the day. The presenter that says the Maori phrase are on PINTV everyday to announce the new phrase for everyone to find out. When everyone has there answers they put it into their class bag and a runner from every year 8 class takes their class bag to room 23 and the year 7 classes take their bag to room 43 to get pulled out of the bag. If your name get pulled out of the bag you have to go to room 23 at interval to get your prize. Every class gets a paper with Maori words on it and they have to find the English word. When they have finish their class activity.Each day there are two different activities there is a class activity and a individual activity. Both activities are fun and you get to learn new Maori words and pronounce them correctly.

News Paper

For the last week we have been planing and drafting a news paper with our student teacher Miss Morris. We started on Monday and we had to be finished by Friday that week because she was leaving and she had to mark it before she went. We had to do our news papers on our science board topic. I did mime on How many glasses of water the human should drink every day. So my news paper was the same topic. When the class started their draft copy I was away so when I came the next day I started drafting it. After 3 days I finished my news paper so I proofread it and then I started looking for pictures to go on there. I found 18 pictures but I only put 4 pictures on there. Then on Friday I was finished and Miss Morris printed it our and then she made a book out of it.