Bee's Attacking TIS!

Today at lunch we saw a huge swarm of bee's covering the rose plant outside our classroom. When bee's swarm, it's when the queen bee decides to move to a new hive so they leave there old one and she takes 60% of the workers with her. You can see in the picture all of the bee's on the rose bush and they have just started to make their hive. I think that this is the new attraction to Tauranga Intermediate School, but hopefully they get rid of it.

Book Response 3

The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey

Written by J.R.R Tolkien


This book the 'Hobbit The Unexpected Journey' was written by J.J.R Tolkien and was placed in England. You could really imagine the places they went because of the detail they put into all of the scenes and what the people did. This book made me think about how helping other people could do you a favor to yourself. The character Bilbo changed throughout this book because he realized that he was thinking about himself going back to his home and that the dwarves were trying to get their's back. I liked how the author put the smallest detail about everything like when the Orcs were trying to kill the dwarves and the author was talking how the birds would fly away with fear. I think this book showed me to do what I think is right.

Aims Games 2013

Last week was Aims Week and I played squash. It went from Monday to Thursday and overall I got 29 out of 54. For the team event our school came 2nd out of the schools.
I went through 6 games and I ended up winning half of them. I had heaps of fun but sadly I cant compete next year. Also I went to the Aims Games opening series and the highlight of the night was the performance by Delicious.

Norm Hewitt One Of The Family

Today Norm Hewitt came to our school to talk about what happened in his life and to go for your dreams. He talked about when you treat your animal with respect he will give you respect back. The '5 freedoms' that he was always talking about was shelter, food and water, exercise, love and vet care. It was all about how a SPCA animal could be in your family and you should care about them. The things that he did n his life time were pro dancing in 'Dancing With The Dance' and playing hooker in the All Blacks. He talked about when he was young and how his dad would come home drunk and would hit his brothers, sisters and mum and how he ran out and hugged his favourite horse tommy and hid in the bushes. He had 3 pets, there was his cat Fluffy and his 2 dogs Storm and Trixie.

HughY Setting and Story Opening

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The smell of the oil creeps around my face as I hear gun fire. The cold chilled air runs down my spine as I swiftly across to the other building. The green glow from my headlight just gives me vision to see through the dim light. I jump over the table just before the enemy detects me. The garage is filled with cars for me to hide behind. I feel the rubber handle on my pistol as I screw on the cold, slippery silencer.

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WALT: describe the setting of a story using ‘show’ not ‘tell’

SC:

- to use descriptive language to help the reader visualise the setting

- to use language that activates the readers’ senses e.g smell and sound

- to use similes and metaphors to describe the setting

- to use interesting vocab to describe the setting

1. Gun fight

2. Glow from my headlight, slippery silencer & enemy detects me

3. B

4. It was obvious that it was a gunfight, but I think that was because you told me instead of showing me.

Term 3 Homework Week 6

The few 2 weeks we had to make a school using a program called Floor Planner and this is my school that I designed. We had to have certain things in our school including 4 classrooms and a staff room.

This was the Spread sheet

https://docs.google.com/a/tauranga-int.school.nz/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArjEOKwoYoyxdFJkRjg1U3hKc1pvcy1kMUtpTmVndlE#gid=0

As usual we had to finish a math worksheet and our basic facts practice.

Book Response Movie

We had to make a book response by either movie, animation or voiceover and Zane and I made an animation of a fighting scene in Abraham Lincon