Summaries

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Term one was a really good term. After being on a holiday I was glad to get back to school. I missed my friends and to be honest I got a bit sick of doing no work. I really enjoyed doing a tale to be told, that was the reading. I think I like that unit because we got to write and illustrate out own book. We were put into groups 2 years eights an 2 year 7's we wrote the book together but we had to do the illustrating independently.

The topic was good as well, i liked getting creative when we did the collage. I also really liked taking the photos. Citzenship I really enjoyed because I liked the interviewing of people when I did my inquiry.

For writing I found the discussion hard because most of the information I found didn't fit in with what I wanted as my point or it had nothing to do with the subject.

Over all I really enjoyed the first term, I am part of the North Creek project group and that is really good because I'm extended.

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Well what can I say about term 2. Apart from being really busy with science fair and speeches, it definitely had it's up's and down's. On the 14th of May was our annual cross country, I got 3rd in my race and I continued onto the South Wairarapa Interschool, there I came 27th. Next on the agenda was speeches.

First we presented them to the class and the two highest scoring year 8 girls, year 8 boys, year 7 girls and year 7 boys went through to the syndicate speeches. I happened to be one of those people and lucky for me I went from the syndicate speeches to the Wairarapa interschool for speeches. Yay !!!!! I did the best I could but I didn't make it through to the finals. But oh well because at least I did it. :)

After speeches we had our Science fair. I did mine on "Do leaves have fingerprints? An investigation into variation." Yes they do. Every leave has a unique fingerprint. I received a commended certificate. The science fair was really good because I learnt stuff that I wouldn't of learnt in the classroom. It was very good as well because mum helped me stay on track etc, it was good because it's something we did together.

They were the up's this term. The down's however were some of the work we did, not because Mrs Stevens or Mrs Southey didn't make a good job because they did it's just because I wasn't very interested.

For example I didn't enjoy the maths because I found it to easy. I already know about graphs and stuff. I also didn't really enjoy the chain stories, mainly because I like making my own stories.

Overall this term has been a good one. I think I've learnt many more life skills this term then last term because it has been way more busier. My life outside of school has also got busier so I've been learning time management and I've also been learning how to seperate personal life and school life. Anyway overall it's been a pretty darn awesome term 2 !!!!!!

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Term Three was great mainly because I went to Europe for 6 weeks.

But my favourite thing when I was here was the broken heart story. Here is mine -->

Descriptive Writing W.A.L.T: Write a piece of descriptive writing. Monday 23rd August 2010

Broken Hearts People say “A picture speaks a thousand words” so why does my picture bring people to tears? Christmas is a time for giving and receiving but for me it’s entirely different. My name is Emma-Lee Green I live, I mean I used to live on a farm in the small secluded country of New Zealand. I lived there until December, 25th 1997. I went to bed like any other night but little did I know that this was going to be the last time I would wake up, Pinky the pig my alarm went of at 9.00am the next morning so I slowly made my way down the hall I could see my Dad sitting at the table eating his porridge, my mum was as busy as a bumble bee putting the chicken, turkey and pork in the oven, my younger sister (Kimberly) was in the bathroom and my older brother (Samuel) we’ll I didn’t know where he was. Today was different, it was going to be a special day because all the family were coming around with food and presents.

When Kimberly was out of the bathroom I decided to go and wash my face and comb my hair, I then went out for breakfast. I was slouching at the table when mum said “Emma darling what are you doing after breaky?” I thought long and hard because I had a feeling mother was going to ask me to do something, I really wasn’t in the mood to answer that question but I replied “As far as I know I’m doing nothing, So what would you like me to do?”, “We’ll if you wouldn’t mind popping down to the dairy and getting me some milk, eggs and cream?” mum sort of asked I guessed she knew I would say yes so she mainly told me, “Sure mum” I said. I got up from the table and went to get dressed.

It was now 10.00am I was wearing my favourite checkered top with my blue skinny jeans, I put on my gumboots and started walking North-West towards the blue dairy. I didn’t walk along roads or footpaths I cut across our paddocks, then across Mr & Mrs Nation’s (our old but friendly neighbours) front lawn as far as we knew they didn’t mind. I reached the blue dairy and got all the things my mum wanted and since it was Christmas I thought I’d treat myself to a chocolate bar. On my way home I decided to take a different route instead of going through the paddocks I went along the road it takes longer but I like the view better, you could see the lovely still blue ocean. It looked beautiful. To get home I had to take a left turn off the main road, opposite the turn off there was a seat that I decided to sit on and eat my chocolate bar. I began to eat but I heard a noise, it startled me. I rotated my head slightly to the left and saw Mr Nation coming up the road, I didn’t think anything of it so I just kept eating. I started to hear footsteps, they got louder and louder I twisted around and ‘boom’ it all went black.

When I woke up I didn’t know where I was. It was dark outside I couldn't remember what had happened. I looked and looked but nothing was familiar. It then hit me. I was... I was gone.

I heard screeching so I ran, I ran to a room that was empty all I could see were faces, my mum, my dad, Kimberly and Samuel but there were two I didn’t recognize a female and male. They were in tramping boots, dark blue pants and light blue tops. The male was holding a plastic bag, in the bag there was a chocolate wrapper and a flower. I tried to figure out what was happening then all of a sudden out of nowhere came Grandma Nina she made me jump. Grandma Nina had passed away two years ago, it was so sad. Grandma started to cry she whimpered as she said “What happened dear, who did this to you?” I just stood there gobsmacked, I just didn’t know what to do.

Granny commenced a walk and because I didn’t want to be left alone I accompanied her, She guided me to a pitch black room a little further in from the door I saw a light, it was white. Under this light was pair of hands cupped into a circle like shape I guess, the hands were old and wrinkly. In the middle of the hands there was flower in fact it was the same flower that I had seen in the plastic bag. The petals were white and the steam was black. The flower to me looked like a symbol of life, It was out of water and out of the earth but it still lived. The hands were most definitely a man’s and I know this because big drops of water came down and a broken voice said “she’s gone, she’s really gone.”

By Bethany

Anyway I had an AWESOME term three!

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Wow, we only have 5 days of school ! Well really we only have 4 and a half......!!!! What can I say, well apart from this term going so quickly I've just had so much fun ! I am so surprised that there is only 5 days of primary school then all the year 8's are off to college. I am really going to miss all the annoy but very crazy and very talented year 7's!

This term has had it's ups and downs, a down was when I came back from Europe so much had changed and it really hasn't gone back to the way it was before I left and that really sucks but a positive was getting rid of all my presents!

This term for reading we did two book reviews: Once by Morris Glietzmen and A million shades of grey by Cynthia Kadohata

Here's my Once review: Monday 18th October 2010 W.A.L.T: Create a book review Task: You have 3-5 minutes to create and book review.

What once occurred in history would be far to much to deal with in nowadays so for our sanity we best hope it doesn’t happen again. Would you like ta know what on earth i’m harping on about? Yes? No? Well if you would the best answer I could give would be to read Once by Morris Gleitzman,

This heavy but very true book is set in 1939-1945 when the world was at war and Adolf Hitler the leader of Germany decided to kill all the Jewish people. This lasted for six years and was called the Holocaust.

This book has been classed in the Children/Young Adult section because of it’s plot. The main character in this book is Felix. Fours years ago he was dropped by his parents to an orphanage and lived there until he decided he would break out and go and find his parents but when he returned home it suddenly hit him his parents had lied. This books conflict is between The Nazis and The Jews.

To me the best and scariest bit in the book is this piece: Once the nazis found our cellar. They dragged us all out and made us walk through the ghetto while they pointed guns at us. “Barney” I whispered “Where are they taking us?” Barney doesn’t answer for awhile. I know why. He’s got little Janek on his chest and Henryk holding his hand and the other kids are huddled around him.

In my opinion this book is sad but very true and I believe that anyone who wants to learn about history really needs to re-search about the holocaust. I was personally very upset while reading this book but I am very glad I continued reading and I would suggest to anybody who asks they should defiantly read Once by Morris Gleitzman.

We have spent 6 weeks on a career inquiry and here is mine and jasmines:

Medicine Topic Inquiry Friday 29th of October W.A.L.T: Create an inquiry based around careers.

Big Question: ~WHAT IS INVOLVED IN BECOMING A DOCTOR?


 * From primary school to college to getting into med school and becoming a doctor is no walk in the park.There are 4 med-schools in New Zealand one in Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch.
 * To be able to work in a hospital you need to have a bachelor in medicine and a bachelor of surgery (MBChB). After sitting those exams you have to spend two years working as a junior house surgeon after that 2 years you sit your (GPEP1) General practice 1, your (Primex) Primary Membership Examination. If you would like to work as an independent GP you will need to sit a postgraduate qualification for general practice exam.
 * When you start secondary school and have decided to become a doctor you should complete NCEA level 3, Good subjects to take would be Chemistry, Physics, English, Biology, Calculus and Statistics.
 * It takes around 11 years to become a fully qualified doctor these 11 years include, 4 years of college, 4 years of med school and 3 years working in a hospital.

Smaller Questions: ~WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES IN MEDICINE?
 * Nurse/Doctor
 * GP (General Practitioner)
 * Physio therapists
 * Counsellers
 * Anaesthesists
 * Pharmacist

~WHAT PERCENT OF PEOPLE WHO GO TO MEDICAL SCHOOL DON’T QUALIFY AS A DOCTOR? There are 4 med-schools in New Zealand one in Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch.
 * Some people don’t qualify for a diploma in medicine because they drop out, They don’t pass their exams and they think its too hard so they don’t study.

~WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PROS AND CONS THAT COME WITH BEING A DOCTOR? Being a doctor has good and bad days, so days are great when you can save someones life, we call that a reward. But some days someone passes away and theres nothing you can do to help them and we call that the cons.

As well as having the satisfactory of saving someones life you also get to work with new people but sometimes the new people you have to work with could be complete cows so that is a PRO and a CON depending on what situation you are put in.

One major PRO in being a doctor is the selary, there are lots of different types of doctors but the minimum wage is 70,000 and the maximum wage 230,000.

Over all the year was really good. I'm really looking forward to college and I've really enjoyed primary. I hope you have enjoyed logging on and reading my work. Thank you to everyone and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!