Rhyming poems- Poko The owl

The owl sat up in the tree,

Trying to get higher so he could see,

The wind made a very strong breeze,

And Poko the owl started to sneeze.

Acho, Acho, Acho, It wouldn't stop,

He felt as though his nose would pop,

At home his mother said "eat this leaf",

The sneezing stopped! what a relief!

The next day he was feeling fine,

That was until he flew to the pine,

There, yet again he started to sneeze,

Stop! stop! I beg you please!

So again he flew home sneezing the whole time,

There his mum said "repeat this rhyme,

"Sneeze. Sneeze go away,

Please sneeze DO NOT STAY!"

Then Pokos sneezing disappeared.

And Poko found that very weird.

Diamante Poems

Clowns

Silly,Funny

Jumping,Laughing,Joking

Comedians, Jesters they're all alike

Playing, Rolling,Dancing

Happy, Stupid

Jokers

Ants

Black, Tiny

Walking,Running, Carrying

The smallest creatures of nature

Travelling,Creeping,Crawling

Miniature, Insects

Billions

Werewolves

Big, Scary

Running, Jumping, Fighting

Humongous beasts running free

Watching, Stalking,Biting

Hairy, Mysterious

Evil

Cell phones

Small, Portable

Texting, Calling, Dialling

Used to keep in contact with others

Ringing, Talking, Playing

Coloured, Different

Phones

Cadbury advert

Ally and I did a re-make to the cadbury advert. Here it is.... Sorry the music is a bit out of time with the video..

My Haiku Poems

Spring

Beautiful colours,

My skin soaks up the sunshine,

Spring's finally here

School

Laughter all around,

Classrooms fulled up with people,

Concentrating hard.

Some pictures of my shows are below.....

My Group performance.

My Solo

Acrobatics.

I guess you could say that acrobatics is my ‘hidden talent’. For those of you who don't know what acrobatics is its a sport as well as a performing arts. Most people believe that acrobatics is the same thing as gymnastics but they wrong, I guess they are sort of right but Acrobatics is a much harder and more challenging activity. Anyone can train to be good at gymnastics but with Acrobatics its a much harder skill to learn and most people who do acrobatics have natural ability's to do the sport but others that try often don't succeed and end up quitting. I started Acrobatics when I was 4 years old because I was always doing hand stands on the wall and bridges in the house so my mum took me to Ludiks acrobatics club and I immediately fell in love with the sport. Now alot of people think that that's what acrobatics is. Bridges, Handstands and forwards rolls but actually its flips, backwards and forwards walkovers, chin rolls, headstands, splits and much much more. I stopped acrobatics when we moved to New Zealand which was when I was 6 because New Zealand doesn't do it. In the 2 years In which I did Acrobatics shows and competitions I got 1st in the competitions 3 times, 2nd twice and 3rd once, I also got The best exam results out of the whole club, Best cartwheel award, The baby's award ( The best acrobat under the age of 6), 11 medals, 2 badges and 3 excellence ribbons. All those awards were for my individual performances but I also won heaps more for duets, and group performances. I think what helped me do so well was the practise twice a week for 2 hours each day. The thing I achieved the most was my south African Springbok Colours. You might not know it but the springboks rugby team aren't called the springboks because its a cool name but because as individuals they are the best rugby players in the whole of Africa. I got my South African Springboks tracksuit and a certificate to show that I, as an individual, am one of the best acrobatics in the whole of Africa.

My 'ways we like to learn' learning podcast

In class we learnt different ways people like to learn... To hear more you will have to listen to my podcast

Suzie Stump, Billybob Brick , Woody Wood and Wolly Winkle were just a few of the gnomes that lived in nevergreen forest. The reason this forest got its name was because the grass was never, ever, ever, ever green. It was always brown or yellow. TIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGG TINGA LINGA LINGGGGGGGG!!! the alarm went off and and turned the usually quiet town into an absolute rush. “What do you want on your toast!!!” Suzie Stump screamed from the kitchen to were Billybob Brick was which was a upstairs bathroom. “I would like toe jam with a thin slice of haaaaaaaam” Sung Billybob as he was combing his long white beard. “Im thinking of dying it red” He said to his reflection in the mirror. Billybob put his comb down very gentley and went downstairs.
“Oh I see you combed your beard” announced Suzie, “YEAH and Im thinking of dying it red too, what do you think?” Replied Billybob “ Uh.............sureeeeeeeeee..why not” said Suzie but she was thinking ‘ I know why not! because you will look like a complete plonker and everyone would think your an absolute nutter!’ “ I think you would look great with a red bearddddddddd” She added shortly after with an extra roll of the eyes. In nevergreen forest if you drag the last letter of the sentence it is called jubing. Jubing is the same as sarcasm and Suzie Stump jubed alot!.
Around one hour later when Billybob was ready for work he walked up to the front door. He stopped because he heard a weird buzzing noise he had never heard before. Suzie!!! he called out “ What do you want!” she replied. Suzie was quite grumpy but then again her great uncle was grumpy who they did a documentary of because of his life with snow white and
the other 6 dwarfs.... The 7 dwarfs were actually gnomes but dwarfs sounded cooler to the director. Suzie came upstairs. You could have easily thaught it was an elephant. Not saying she’s fat or anything but gnomes, or dwarfs if you prefer, are a bit chubby. “Whats wrong now!” she said. “I think... I think....I think. Is what Billybob started saying but he was interupted by Suzie who said “I know you dont think so stop lying!” “Well Suzie think we are being overtaken by the human species” Billybob replied. “Oh dont be stupid! have you completely lost your mind? Are you going absolutely bonkers!” Suzie said and then and then shortly after she added “Oh my gosh! Why didn’t you tell me that the humans were building on our front porch!” “I tried but, but, but” He said like a little baby. “We will just have to get revenge . Said Suzie.
The next day Suzie and Billybob called the rest of the the gnomes in nevergreen forest to sneak through the underground passage of the village to the main hall and there they would discuss their revenge . “Wolly? is Winkle here?” Asked Suzie. “yes I am here.” Called out mayor Wolly Winkle as he walked up the stairs of the stage. “Okay you, you, you , and you 30 in that corner will go attack, You 7 will guard the forest and the rest of us will mark a building when the humans leave so that they cant come back to try again” Said Wolly Winkle. “Okay when I give the signal you all sprint to your places! Now I know some of us wont make it out alive but just imagine in a few years your great great grandchildren can tell their friends that their great great grandparent was in the great gnome vs humans WW2!” Is what he then added.
The meyor started walking off the stage and when he got to the ground he clapped his hands together and Woody Wood walked up. “Woody Wood at your service mr meyer. How may I make your life a whole lot easier?” Said the shorter than short gnome. “ Go get my
apple!” “RIght away sir, I wont dissapoint you!” Woody Wood said and then walked away. “Okay gnomes. Get ready for my attack signal!” Shouted the Meyer. 2 minutes later there was a complete disturbance when a loud voice shouted ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!! The gnomes all sprinted into action and the gnomes on attack started punching the humans feet and legs. Some lay down and then 2 others pushed the humans over the gnome laying down to cause the human to
trip over. The other 7 sprinted to the very edge of the forests edge to make sure that no more humans came to help the ones under attack. The rest of the gnomes went to the places were the humans had been defeated.
There was already 7 gnomes that had been smashed to a deadly fate and 2 gnomes had their legs and/or arms were gone. But despite those casualties the humans were losing the war and they were slowly surrendering and running out of the forest. When all the humans had surended the gnomes all went back to the hall to celebrate but when they had all arrived they realised that Wolly Winkle, Suzie Stump and and a few other locals had passed away.
A few weeks past and Woody Wood was made meyor but shortly after his election he fell off the stage and is now in a coma. Billybob now lives in the biggest house in nevergreen forest because he was the one who warneded everyone about the invasion of the humans.
The gnomes lived happily ever after without any fearther invasions.....that was until..... THE END

My alien speech

Greer and Tami's Storybook Podcast

Some pictures of my netball game.

My Dramatic Jump To Victory...

(I did get the ball off her by the way when it came down...incase you were woundering)

My distraction so she couldn't pass properly...it worked

TECH: Brilliant Balloons

Today in tech we inflated balloons with only baking soda and vinegar. We did it 3 times. This is how we did it..........................

1. Put 10mls of vinegar into a flask (like one in the picture) and put 1tsp of baking soda into the ballon.

2. Put the balloon opening over the top of the flask without letting any baking soda escape.

3. Once the balloon is on properly, tip out the baking soda.

4. The Balloon should start to inflate while the baking soda and the vinegar mixes.

In the picture thats how the balloon should be over the flask top.

In room 28 we are doing a project called 10% time which is were we get 10% out of the week to do a project of our choice. My 10% time was to make a sculpture type of thing. Above there is a finished picture of my 10% project. :)

TRAFFIC LIGHT DRINKS
Recently in tech which im doing science at the moment, we made Traffic light drinks. Kim is my partner and we found it REALLY hard to stop the colours from mixing!!! Our traffic light drink failed aswell as the others exept for one group. Its supposed to look a bit like the picture above but ours just looked brown. But it was still really fun to do :) :) :)

My Netball Tournament!!!

On Sunday me and my netball team ‘ Willowbank J2’ are having a tournament.
Its the whole day and Im not sure what to expect because I've never been to a netball tournament. But I am really looking forward to it because my friends say that its just like grading and I really liked grading because we played 3 games and we were there for the whole day. Alot of people found it tyring but I actually really liked it.
So far on ‘The charts’ we are coming first in flight 1 which is the one below championships. It goes Championships, flight 1, flight 2, flight 3... etc. I hope we do good!!!!!

How to make a Gmail account

Equipment.

• Computer
• Internet Browser (Safari, Firefox etc)

steps:

1. Open up your web browser (internet explorer, firefox, safari...etc). Type in www.gmail.com.
2. It will come up with something that says welcome to gmail. Fill in your details that it requests and then read the terms and conditions if you are not sure about gmail.
3. Once you have read the terms and conditions click accept which should take you to a page that says congratulations...
4. On the page it will say ‘show me my account’, click that and it will take you to your very own gmail account that you can now use freely.

Tami's DOUBLE CHOC CHIP COOKIES

• 225 g/8 oz unsalted butter (softened)
• 140 g/5ox caster sugar
• 1 egg yolk,lightly beaten
• 2 t vanilla extract
• 250 g/9 oz plain flower
• 25 g/1 oz cocoa powder
• pinch of salt
• 350 g/12 oz plain chocolate chopped (chocolate chips)

1.Preheat the oven to 190/gas mark 5.Line 2 large baking trays with baking powder.

2.Place butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat together until light and fluffy, then beat in the egg yolk and vanilla extract.

Sift the flour, cocoa and salt into the mixture, add the chopped chocolate and stir until combined.

3.scoop up table spoons of the mixture and shape into balls, place them on the prepared baking trays, spaced well apart and flatten slightly.

4.Bake in the preheated oven for 12-15 minutes. Leave to cool on the baking trays for 5-10 minutes.Then transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.

Review: Who killed the electric car?

WALT: Describe how advancements in technology occur to meet the need or to solve a problem.

What problems does the electric car solve?

It solves having to go to the gas station because you just have to charge it at home in the garage. If everyone used the electric car not normal cars that we use everyday that take oil/gas, there wouldnt be as much oil spills, fumes. etc.

Who will benefit from the electric car?

I think everyone would benefit from the electric car because its easy and quick to charge and its much easier to charge it than to go to the gas station all the time.

What problems are caused by the electric car?

The battery doesn't last very long so you couldn't use it for long trips.Its quite expensive so most middle class people cant afford it.

Who killed the electric car is a very informative Documentary with lots of good facts and opinions.

This non-fiction movie is all about the electric car. Who made it, and why G.M (General Motors) took it off the roads and crushed to peaces.

The movie stated that some people didn't find the idea of an electric car appealing at all but others found the idea AMAZING.

Something I found quite weird and confusing was that when the movie started it was at the electric cars funeral and when the movie ended it was at the electric cars funeral. I was also confused on WHY they were having a funeral for the electric car with flowers and everything that normal funerals have.

I found the movie quite boring. Some parts were interesting and had good facts but over all, I was yawning by the time it was finished and I don't think I was the only one.

I would rate this movie 2/5 because it had good facts but was very boring. I would recommend this movie to an older audience.

Movie review by Tami Bear.

MY BLOG:

Lately me and my mum have been playing a game on the computer called "crazie cabbie" and we have been trying to beat eachothers high scores (sadly she's winning). The aim of the game is to jump over the other cars and try to get to the next destination to improve your score.
Its a really fun game and my mum is addicted to playing the game....Im just trying to beat her high score. Well im gonna go back....and try get a higher score.

A bit about me :)

Hi my name is Tami. Full name: Tamryn Bernice Bear. I am in room 28 at Somerville Intermediate School and my awesome teacher is Mr Crowhurst. A few of my best friends are Ally,Morgan,Greer.I went to Willowbank primary and It was awesome. My hobbies are netball, SPORT! and drama. I LOVE chocolate its sooooooooooo Yummy!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant even pick my favorite chocolate because i love it all. I play for the Willowbank netball team J2 with my friends grace and simmi and asha. I play GK and GD which are short for goal keep and goal defense so im the defence part of the team. YEAH DEFENSE!

In class we have been focusing on causes in our world.I have done a podcast about a cause I care about which is Cancer.

I hope you enjoy my podcast and learn more about Cancer.

Tami's Camp Recount

On Tuesday 4Th May I was up early ready to go to camp. I loaded my luggage onto my boat. My dad hooked the boat up to the car.My parents took me to Motutapu Island on our boat because I was sick when everyone else came on Monday when everyone else went on the ferry.

When I arrived my friends were waiting for me at the beach. I said farewell to my mum and dad and I went to get ready for my first activity which was..... The confidence course. It was a nice activity to start off with because it was simple and relaxing.

After lunch I had my second activity which was the high ropes. I was soooooooooo looking forward to the activity because last year we did low ropes and I really enjoyed it! High ropes is really my sort of thing! I was really proud of my self because i tried, and completed all the obstacles on high ropes.

My last activity for the day was straight after afternoon tea and if I can remember right it was Orienteering. Ally and I were on a team and we were so close to coming first but we had one wrong.

When orienteering was over we went and got ready for dinner.

DAY 2

It was an early morning at 6:20am. I got up and started sorting my bag for room inspection.

After breakfast I had my first activity which was how I would have it every day.

Our daily routine was: wake up, get ready for room inspection, go for breakfast, get ready for first activity, after the first activity we had morning tea and then we did our second activity. After lunch we did our last activity of the day followed by afternoon tea and then free time until dinner. After dinner we did some evening activities.

I really loved all the activities but my favourite was:

Survivor: I love survivor because it was really cool. We went through tires, up and over walls, walked across wires and heaps more. My favourite part of survivor was when at the tend of the activity I jumped in the mud pull and pulled Ally and Kim in with me.

The food was really yummy I especially loved the Milo before bed every night.

The walk back was long but not boring. Ally, Amber and I were talking the whole time and laughing every second they told me stories about when they were walking there and what happened when they got to camp on Monday.

When we got on the ferry I chose a top seat but it was too cold so I went inside but there were no seats left so I sat on the deck with Ally. We are both very convinced that we had the best seat!

When we got to Half moon bay I searched for my things and got off the ferry. I then went to find my mum who was waiting for me.

The End.

By Tami

Netball

I am in the Willowbank Netball team J2 and after a long Saturday of grading from 9:00-5:00 my team and I made it into the championships.

We were all really happy when we found out but we all knew the kind of pressure we were going to be put under now that we were in the championships grade.

Our first game was against Owairoa and it was a draw. We got a goal at the last second but it didn't count because the buzzer had already gone.

Our second game was against Sunny Hills but sadly they won. Our whole team agreed that we were a bit slack in the first two thirds but then in the last third we did really, really, really well and if we had played like that the whole game we would of thrashed them!

Its quite weird because basically my whole team are shooters except for me...i cannot play shooter....I am good at GD,GK AND WD.

Its really cool because my team has known each other for ages and were all really good friends so we already have really good teamwork.

My Podcast about Impact

MOBILE PHONES

Mobile phones started off as 2-way radio’s also known as “rigs”. The rigs were first sold in 1910. The first rig installed was in M. Ericson’s car. Hi’s rig was sold in Sweden in 1956. Unlike today, you couldn’t dial phone numbers from your car, you had to stop at a place were the telephone lines were accessible.

Telephone’s have changed a lot in the past hundred years and now you can get all different shapes, sizes, styles and even different colours! You can take your cell phones everywhere because they’re light, small, portable, They can easily fit in your pocket and you don’t have to search for a telephone line.
Cell phones are not just used for calling, the are used for texting, playing games,taking pictures, videos, recording sounds and playing songs! There’s even a text language!!! For example “Wuu2” means what you up to?”, Brb means “be right back” and LOL means “Laugh out loud”. Nearly everyone knows text language and use it all the time.
By Tami Bear Room28

CANCER

Cancer is the number one killer and the bad thing is anyone can get it.

Cancer is a terrible decease that has no treatment that cures it completely.

There is lots of different types of cancer like lung cancer,breast cancer and liver cancer, but they are all as bad as the rest.

Cancer is caused by mutated cells that are not like other normal cells in the body.

Unlike the normal cells, The cancer cells keep growing bigger and bigger and bigger until the form a cancer lump also known as a tumor.

When you have cancer you sometimes get symptoms like feeling weak and losing hair.

If you get cancer,you get a bead for everything you go through.

If you get an x-ray you will get a black and white bead to put on your chain.

If you had breast cancer you would get a pink bead.

So cancer doesn’t have a treatment that cures it completely but there is a treatment that is commonly used called Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy works by killing the cancer cells so that the cant spread anymore. But there is a down side, Sometimes the chemotherapy doesn’t wok and you have to go again and again.

By Tami Bear

room28

In room 28 we have been taking photos of our school. These are the ones i have chosen and fixed in iphoto.