No Christmas?- Morning BlogPost

The Question:
Which religions do not celebrate Christmas?

Hinduism

Hinduism is a religion, which does not celebrate Christmas instead they celebrate a festival known as Pancha Ganapanti, On December the 21st they Celebrate Golden Yellow, On December 22nd they celebrate Royal Blue, also known as day two, day three (December 23) is known as Ruby Red, the its day 4 (December 24) Emerald Green then, the Sadhana, the final day (December 25), this day is named Brilliant Orange. At the festival the Hindu's eat lots of nice plates of food and drinks.

All I want for Christmas- Morning Blogpost

Dear Santa

For Christmas this year is it all right if I have something a little bit different from coal? I mean sure coal is great and all but would be to get me a have a brand new iPad Mini white, that I could play games on, do internet searches with and even get in contact with friends? That way you're not wasting your precious coal that you could be using for your fire place in that chilly North Pole weather.

How about a new drink bottle something that I would use almost everyday, for biking, for running and for every day use that could be useful too. 

Why not some new tools of the trade. I use those every day whether or not its for school work, drawing or just plan old mucking around. I think that that'd be nice! 

Why not throw in a new beats speaker pill they are so cool, portable so that I can take it anywhere loud so I can blast out my sounds and it comes with lots of different cases so I can make it look cool too. So thanks Santa for taking some time and reading this letter, Merry Christmas.

Sincerely

Matt Crockett

New Zealand

Third World Countries -Morning Blogpost

Third World Country

Meaning:
A country that does not have much money, and that struggles to afford average things eg. cars, ice cream and so on.

North Korea

North Korea

Led by Kim Jong e.g. North Korea is a very un-pleasant country to be in. North Korea is a very dull place with no signs of colour, North Korea is also a "Third World Country." As North Korea is sealed off from the rest of the world not many people get to travel there or are not allowed, although not many people would want to travel to North Korea. Known well for their dangerous nuclear bombs the life expectancy in North Korea is also considerably younger (68.8 years). While New Zealanders have a life expectancy of around 80 years.

Japan Kyoto- Morning Blogpost

Pink, green, orange, yellow, purple and blue all placed together in perfect harmony makes the marvelous city, Kyoto. Kyoto is placed on the map right next to Otsu. With Kyoto just catering to a little over 1.474 million people it is a very little city.

45 Minute Inquiry

"A rose by any other name smell as sweet", is a famous quote written by William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare wrote this roughly between 1584 and 1614, the exact time period for this is unknown.

Shakespeare's, well known "Romeo and Juliet",  is a fascinating story about two lovers, this is where Juliet mentions William Shakespeare famous quote "A rose by any other name smell as sweet", although this does not make sense to many when explained most will understand, the quote means that what ever you call something in this case the rose it will still be exactly the same thing as it always has been, a rose nothing greater and nothing less.

American comedy, William Shakespeare's famous quote a "A rose by any other name smell as sweet" was made into a classical american comedy, using the exact same name "A rose by any other name smell as sweet", as the title. Although the comedy was titled the exact same as the quote it was actually only very loosely based on the real thing.

In conclusion, Shakespeare's "A rose by any other name smell as sweet" was made a long time ago and is still used today in the odd sentence.

45 Minute Inquiry

Logging

This year C3 has sorted through a average of 63,013.6986 wood logs, a day. Logging has been around since the beginning of time and humans have discovered many ways of cutting down large trees mostly pine.

People first used large axes and hacked at the wood for hours and hours, sometimes days depending on how many lumber jacks are working and how big the tree is, later humans found that they could use a long saw with two handles and stand on a spring board while they pull and push the saw into the tree. This technique rapidly sped up the progress. Now we use chainsaws and people climb to the top of the tree and chop off all the branches the people that do this are also called lumber jacks.

Transportation of the trees has come a long way from men rolling the trees, to horses towing the trees. Now we use trucks mostly MAN, Volvo and Mack trucks. The logs are now transported to City Centre in Tauranga, most logs come from Hineua forest, from City Centre they are split into groups, groups that will be made into timber, for your deck outside, groups that will be made into common house hold items, like your table etc.

In conclusion the logging industry has come a long way since it first began, we have gone from axes to chainsaws, rolling logs to using large trucks. It is amazing to think that once upon a time your nice sparkling table was a tree covered in bark that was strongly inserted into dirt.

45 Minute Inquiry

In the late medieval times in Scotland a new sport was created this sport was named "Curling". Curling is a no contact sport and requires exactly four players.

Instead of being called a game like most sports curling a game of curling is called a match, in a match there are four players on each team (two if playing a match of mixed doubles.). The winning team is the team with the most houses. A house is a goal in curling and the reason being is that you need to get the curling stone (The small but heavy ball like puck), back to home! Obviously since this sport is played on ice, curling is most popular in Canada.

You only need very basic things to play curling other than the curling broom and curling stone these can easily be replaced by something as simple as a broom and a tennis ball, you also need long pants and a jacket plus some shoes with slider bottoms (slider bottoms are shoes that have a slippery bottom surface meaning you have full control and can also slide over to the curling stone with ease).

Curling has a history which goes way back to medieval times in Scotland, curling is also a well known sport in many countries that often have snow fall in winter time! In one of the Beatles music videos "Help!" they show a scene of a group of people curling!

In conclusion curling is a sport created a long time ago in Scotland, it was officially introduced to the olympics in 1992, and uses many sporting words that are not in many other sports, you only have to use very basic tools and can always improvise with other house hold equipment, curling has been around for a very long time and has a history that veers right back to medieval times.

Sinead O'Connor vs Miley Cyrus- Morning BLogPost

Reviewing a Movie- Morning Blogpost

Avatar (The Movie)

In 2009 a amazing movie was made by James Cameron, James Cameron decided to name the movie "Avatar".

Main actor, Sam Worthington plays the roll of Jake Sully, a disabled former marine who decided to join the Avatar program. Avatar is about a epic journey, a reluctant hero. Jake Sully is sent away to go into war with avatars he will soon find where he really does belong.

Avatar is a movie that I think all people would enjoy especially fantasy lovers, although IMD rates Avatar a 7.9 out of 10 I would overall I would rate this movie a 9 out of 10 and this movie is defiantly a movie that you should watch in 3D. I would happily watch this movie again as it is defiantly a all time favourite!

Tauranga Boys College Visit- Morning Blogpost

Today, The 28th of November 2013, myself and all the other year 8's from Tauranga Intermediate School, went to for our orientation day, the day started off with a bang. We got to TBC via bus, and all sat down on the benches we waited for 5- 10 minutes, in this time we watched people doing lots of cool tricks, then Mr Mangan talked to us for 15 or so minutes then, we were made aware of the classes we would be in next year our host teacher was Mr Ferguson, in my class was, Luke, Benji, Dylan, Ethan, Hugh.

Advisement- Morning Blogpost

Dystopian Image- Morning BlogPost

Dystopia- Morning Blopost

As we cued up in line, I could taste the thick bitter smoke, I inhaled it through my lungs, 

"When will it be over?" I heard my little brother ask

"Soon- Sammy... Soon," he replied in a surprisingly soft voice. I could hear my mother coughing, it was the fumes that were starting to get to her. Our old VW slowly crawled along the road, creaking and moaning as it went. My mother had stopped coughing now, and was trying to cheer my little brother Sam up,

"I spy in my little eye something that starts with, "G" she said in a warm voice, there was a long moment of silence,

"GRASS!" he shouted, my mum smiled they kept playing this game for a little while mean while I focused on the large pipes sticking out of the ground pumping out large thick clumps of smoke. The elderly man in the car next to us was beginning to cough I heard that croaky, hoarse cough that old people get, I saw him pick up his water bottle, the water in his bottle wasn't the normal "Crystal Clear" so called water that we used to have it had large clumps of dirt in it, this reminded me there was no clean water left in our small town. The large Volvo truck in front of us was letting out a real racket so loud, it could have been mistaken for a rocket taking off.

"BANG!!!" A massive bomb went off from behind me the alarms immediately sounded, the man in the car behind ours had such a large fright he banged his head into the steering wheel I could now see him clutching his bleeding head his wife leaning over looking with concern. Some of the cars that were near the explosion were now on fire a large bright fire I knew that it was just going to be seconds away till the fire found the petrol, there it was the fire had found it another explosion, more pollution, another unneeded death. I could feel another explosion even further away from us but still another explosion.

Similes- Morning Blogpost

• As annoying as my little brother begging for food.
• As peaceful as birds gracefully flying through the sky.
• As lucky as a man who has just won the lottery.
• As hot as the black bonnet of a old Buick Grand National in the middle of summer.
• A industrious as a nurse working in a black plague.
• As clueless as a cat chasing a moth dancing through the air.
• As brilliant as the "SUN" appearing in the middle of winter.
• As colorful as a meadow in the of spring.
• As energetic as a toddler on christmas day.

Dialog- Morning Blogpost

Dialog 1
(Discussion Between myself and Miss Campbell about how I am doing in class behavioral wise.)

"Hey, Matthew can you come here for a second," called Miss Campbell
"Sure, Whats it about?" I asked innocently
" I am currently writing your report...." she began in her usual voice
OH O I thought to myself
"And I need to write about your behavior this year," she continued
Oh no this was worse than I thought.
"What do you think I should write?" She asked
"Well.... I am almost always on task... but can be a bit off task at times," I started
"MMM-hmmm. I see, I see," She said quietly to herself.
"Do you think it would be fair if I said that you were very reliable and trustworthy," Miss Campbell asked.
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Dialog 2
(Discussion about the "Year 8 Assembly" between Miss Mills and I)

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Dialog 3
(Between Mr Scholes and I about how I am doing in class)

"Excuse me er um Matthew," Said Mr Scholes from behind me
"Oh, hi Mr Scholes," I replied
"I am trying to see if the students at T.I.S are prepared for when the people from "ERO" ask them how they are doing in class"
"Oh well I am currently a 5B in writing!"

Picnic Day- Morning Blogpost

You have been given the job of organizing picnic day. List all of the questions you would need to ask Miss C in order to organize a successful picnic day.

Criteria
Thought of many aspects.
More than 10 questions.

Places

Is it possible for us to go to Rainbows End (Auckland)?
Is it possible for us to go luging (Rotarua)?
Is it possible for us to go to the beach?

People

How many children are coming?
How many parents will we need?

General

How long are we aloud out of school?
Would all of the teachers be coming?
Are the YR7's coming as well?
Is room 42 coming as well?

What dates will this event be possible?
How long does it take for you to get authority from Mr Diver for us to do this trip?
Can we bring money?

Venn Diagram- Morning BlogPost

Find The School Year 8 Boys- Morning BloPost

Records From TIS and Olympics

Discuss

School Records

Boys: Kyle Hamilton 38.46m

Girls: Fiona Bennett 25.95m

Discuss Olympic Record

School Records

Men: Martina Hellmann 72.30m

Woman: Gabriele Reinsch 76.80m

Shot Put

School Records

Boys: Rikihana Borell 13.32m

Girls: Khanum Elisaia 11.21m

Shot Put Olympic Records

Men: Ulf Timmermann 22.47m

Olympic Record (Women): IIona Slupanek 22.41m

Long Jump

School Records

Boys: Darcy Slattery 5.67

Girls: Petra Ririnui 4.77

Long Jump Olympic Records

Men: Bob Beamon 8.90m

Women: Jackie Joyner 7.40m

High Jump

Boys: Burton McAdam 1.65m

Girls: Nicole Young 1.47m

Olympic Records

Men: Charles Austin 2.39m

Women: Yelena Slesarenko 2.06m

100 Meter Sprints

Boys: Hamish Symes 11.52s

Girls: Mariha Ririnui 12.41s

Olympic Record

Men: Usain Bolt 9.63 seconds

Create Dialog- Morning BloPost

An elderly couple on a walk,
"Oh I do not know anymore Phil"
"Whats wrong Agnis?"
"I am not sure, there is just something on my plate. Maybe its the fact that we are getting too old"
"By golly Agnis you're right!


A teen discussing pocket money bonus with his/her parents,

" But mom, all the other kids my age get over $10 a week from there parents"
"But you're not one of them" Replied the young woman's mother.
" Why do you have to be so mean, all I asked for was more pocket money, after all you only give me $5 dollars a month!"
" You should be thankful you get anything when I was your age I got nothing at all! Now go to your room or you wont get any pocket money at all!"

Paper, Scissors & Rock arguing to claim that they personally are the best,

" Paper... Scissors... Rock!"
" Haaay no changing you were doing scissors first that means I win"
" Fine" replied Jake,
"Replay" Jake asked?
" Fine"
" Paper... Scissors... Rock!" They both sung at the same time
"YUUSS IN YOUR FACE I WIN!" Yelled George in triumph!
"No paper bets rock you egg!"

Waimarino Poem- Morining BlogPost

Waimarino,
Getting Wet,
Then Getting Blobbed,
Being splashed came next,
After we settled for lunch,
Subsequently became more drenched,
Settled in the spa,
Following diving-boards,
Waimarino.

The horn sounded indicating the start of the 12 Hour Relay, chaos began as the kids began running. Totara was in the lead with Rimu following closely in behind, 3rd place was Kauri. Everyone was cheering them on there teams hoping that they would win. All of the sudden there was a bang, then another and another the bangs kept getting louder and louder startled faces wildly looked around trying to find the horrible racket, as the bang got louder the ground began to shake harder and harder so hard that Tawa's tent fell over toppling over there table of food, sweets and water. Many kids fell over in the horror. The banging was so loud now people were covering there ears, Mr. Diver felt the ground begin rumbling underneath him he stood out of his chair but it was to late a large crack had forced it's way into the ground around him, he began to run forward trying to escape terror unveiling around him, he jumped trying to leap over the 1 meter wide crack but just jumped to short he began plummeting throw the crack there was a large "THUD" then a groan, a few teachers rushed over to help him hurtling a rope down for Mr Diver to climb up.

Drug Investigation

This term we have had our Life Education sessions. One of the topics we learn’t about were drugs. Everyone in our class has made a presentation about one individual drug so that we can extend our knowledge. I made my presentation to a class member and they have given me feedback about my presentation below.

Success Criteria

-Confidence.

-Their knowledge is genuine.

-Information is in their own words.

-No reading of the page, not too much text.

- Images match content.

-Visually appealing.

-Not too long or short.

that was really good I liked how you started with a quiz and finished off with a normal presentation.

Letter To Mr Diver- Morning Blogpost

Dear Mr Diver

I think Tauranga Intermediate school is a great intermediate school but there are a few not so good things about T.I.S in this letter I will tell you about problems such as the rock climbing wall and the car parks

T.I.S, for starters I think that you need more and harder rock climbing walls. The Rock climbing walls a currently far to easy, if you had harder rock walls kids would find it more of a challenge and don't we love a challenge at Tauranga Intermediate School! Also there a not nearly enough car parks. Do you not want more people to come in and look at our school? With more car parks T.I.S would be able to obtain more cars and be able to have more visitors coming in all at the same time!

Sincerely
Matt Crockett

How to list an item on Trade- Homework

How to list an item on Trade- Homework

Future Job- Homework

Give Advice- Morning Blopost

The Scene:

I found out my two friends smoke. I'm only 13. I don't know what to do. I am really confused please help.

Give Advice.

Advice:
Smoking is extremely addicting for some people and some people can actually get a urge to smoke. 13 is a very young age to smoke especially when the legal age to be able to smoke is 13, try to talk to your friends about what they are doing and tell your mum, dad or a older person whom could possibly give you advice. Make sure you don't get involved with your friends bad habit, as this could lead to you getting addicted. Smoking is also incredibly bad for your health and while your body is still growing it can be very dangerous to let things like nicotine and tobacco get inside of you and these things can cause major health problems in later life, it can also lower your life expectancy immensely. What you should do is tell an older person eg. a sibling, parent or caregiver, hopefully they will give you the right advice and possibly be able to help get your friends to stop smoking.

NZ Drug Statistics- Morning Blogpost

In 2008 there were only 680 recorded offenses involving selling, giving, supplying, administering and dealing cannabis plants, this went up even higher in 2009 launching to a total amount of roughly 980 offenses that involved cannabis plants. Luckily this went down in the year 2010 dropping back down to about 740 offenses, sadly this went back up and kept going up and in 2012 reached a whopping total of 1,750 offences.

Argument- Morning BlogPost

Between a 4 year old and a parent.

Dialog…
"MMMMMUUUUMMMMMMY," said the little boy,
"Yes sweetheart," the mother replied in a modest voice.
"Can I please have a lolly pop?"
"You've already had two today sweetie,"
Can I please just have one more?"
"No it'll rote your teeth!"
"B-b-b-but I want one!" The boys voice was turning into annoying whine,
"No you can't! Now if I hear you complaining any more you will be going straight to your room!"

Between 2 Insects…
Dialog

How to Wash a Car (The correct way)

Mrs Gilmoure- Morning BlogPost

Mrs Gilmore, was actually quite the average reliever. She stuck to the plan and was actually sorta fun, the plan was simple so we stuck to it, we had to follow the rules or there would be consequences. Lucky for room 42 none of us didn't oblige by the rules. Block one we did social it was the usual, people lugging themselves around the over sized hall. Second block was a little bit different then usual we went to a SPCA little show it was really fun and the host was Norm Hewitt.

Sfumato Art Technique- Homework

1 Kilometre Walk- Homework

How to use Floor Planner

Analogy- Morning BlogPost

Car and a Laptop

Open car door- Open laptop lid.

Put keys in ignition- Turn laptop on.

Push handbrake down- Open up your user.

Put Seat Belt on- Put in Password.

Push gear forward- Open up your program.

Push down accelerator- Type your question into Google.

Paragraph:

Believe it or not but starting a car is actually very similar to starting up your computer, first open your car door, like a nerd opening up their laptop lid. Then put your keys in the ignition, the same sort of way you would turn your laptop on. Later push your handbrake down like someone opening up their user. Put your seatbelt on, like a person plugging their passcode into their laptop, then push your gear forward like you’re opening up a Google Browser on your laptop, Push your accelerator down, like typing your question into Google.

Limerick- Morning Blogpost

There once was a old man whom lived in main,

He had a cold which he could not maintain,

Although he tried and tried his best,

The cold would not go instead it stayed,

He had a cold he knew that so,

But when would it go he wouldn’t know.

Spring Poem- Morning Blog Post

Spring, it starts on the very first of September,

Spring, a time were the kids run and play,

Spring, a time when the colorful flowers bloom,

Spring, a time when its not to hot nor cold,

Spring, a time when new animals are born,

Spring, a time to relax outside,

Spring, the perfect time to go on holiday,

Spring, a time when the animals play,

Spring, the time when you spring clean your home,

Spring, a time where the bunny rabbits grow,

Spring, a time where you can hit the skiing field,

Spring, a time were new beginnings start.

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Team Jones Movie- 26 Hour Movie Challenge

Inferecing- Morning Blogpost

Felila was exhausted,

A heavy breath could be heard coming out of her mouth, she was panting hard. Lying on the ground almost lifeless. There was a big line of sweat pouring from her face, her face had also gone cherry red, she had won she tried to get up in triumph of her victory but fell back down as she was so tired. Her candy floss pink Adidas sports top was beginning to drip with sweat.

Russell was hungry,

Russell lay hunched against the cold concrete wall holding his rumbling stomach. He looked around for any traces of food but did not see any thing his eyes were wide and his brown tangled hair was drooping well beneath his sad hazel eyes. All that could be heard down the cold wet alley was his stomach, he went to lie down and heard something crack in his pocket he got up as fast as he could thinking it could be a stale cracker or even a couple of corn chips, he checked his pocket to find nothing but a small piece of plastic. He threw it to the side with dismay and lay back down clutching his still rumbling stomach.

Troy was Lying (not telling the truth),

Troy had been boasting about his new iPhone 5, 

"It's so amazing and IOS 7 is so awesome," he told all the kids in 5th grade, 

"Wow really!" all the kids had cried. Later that day he caught the school bus home still boasting 

"I love my Samsung Galaxy S3!" he had said, 

"But I thought you had a iPhone 5" one of the kids had said as Troy got off the bus.

When he got home he went to his mum

"M--uu-mmm," he had called in a moaning voice,

"When can I get a phone?"

"When your 18 she yelled we have been through this before and we're not going through this again"

Commercial Suborbital Space Flight- Homework

Inferring Label- Morning Blogpost

Bob was lonely
Bob is a boy who is frequently alone and is very shy and has pale white skin, he has many great ideas but often keeps them hidden behind his shell. He hangs out with himself all day long and when at home plays with his budgie Fred who pecks him when ever he is not pursuing anything.


"Sit here George please before Bob gets here!" Ushered Jerry "Why?" George asked hurridily " just sit down he's coming!" "fine!" George replied, they both sat down as Bob walked in he went straight to the back of the classroom.

Kyle was excited about maths
Kyle is an eager student when it comes to mathematics he often looks forward to adding the large numbers and multiplying them by 362, he wonders why people often look at him funny. 

How to Make Gourmet Cheese On Toast

How to speak French Using Babbel- Homework

Uploaded videos (playlist)

Uploaded videos (playlist)

Venn Diagram Mainstream and Laptop Classes- Morning Blogpost

Y7- Y8- Morning Blog Post

Make A Net- Homework

This is the shape I choose for Homework. It is called a Pentagonal Prism.

XO Laptop- Homework

Learn French With Babbel

This is me doing a bit of basic sign language eg. my name basic words and 1 to 20.

The Last 2 Days- Morning Blogpost

The last two days Room 42's teacher Miss Campbell was absent because of a sore back, whilst Miss Campbell was gone we had a relieving teacher, Mrs Vertster. Mrs Verster was really really nice and she had heaps of cool worksheets for us to do! Coloring and lot's of word finds, of course my favourite were the word find's. Mrs Verster even let us listen to music during class! of course not the bouncy jumpy stuff but the nice smooth stuff. Overall having Miss Verster in the class was really fun to have as a reliever and I hope that I will have Mrs Verster as my reliever again.

Things That Annoy Me- Morning blogpost

• People picking there nose in public, this is a disgusting habit many people do but it's even worse when they eat it. 

• That little bit of hair that always sticks up on your head, looking like your'e a robot with a ariel sticking out of your head isn't a very stylish thing but it can be really hard to remove. 

• People saying car names wrong.

• People that interrupts you in the middle of a sentence.

• When people open there car door into your car, it isn't that hard to open your car door carefully, whilst I understand that this can happen you could at least write a little letter with your number on it. This has happened to my families cars. We have a Honda Jazz Mint Opel Green 2002 and with great force someone opened their car door into it and left a blue and white horrifying mark, we also have a Nissan Qashqai +2 ST 2012 Mineral grey, and a few months after we bought it someone opened their door into it, I have tried many times to polish both marks out but have failed.

• Chalk on a chark board, that irritating high pitched nasty scratch.

Who am I?

Who am I?
I am 76 years of age born in the year 1937, I am a well known actor and have short white curly hair, both my ears a pierced although I am a male, one of the first movie I featured in was Pawn Broker. I won a oscar in 2005 and the crystal Iris in 1998 I also have won more but saying would give away. In my early years of acting I had a small bushy afro, I have been in over 50 movies and T.V shows, I am worth roughly 90 million dollars and purchased my own private jet in the year 2009.

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What I learned in Language Week-Morning Blogpost

For language week I learn't my group didn't learn how to talk another language we learn't how to sign language, the tutor of this sign language was Miss Mills. Although I learn't sign language last year I had forgotten most of the signs. I learn't lot's of new signs and regained the knowledge of some of the signs I forgot but still struggle with a few, we had to make a video of us signing off "Hello, How are you?, Good, Name?, M- A- T- T, Me, You, NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language)" plus many many more. Language week was really inspiring and I am defiantly looking forward to continuing sign language next week. Although I can not sign fluently in NZSL I think that I have picked up a few more signs, I can now easily sign off some basics of sign language and easily sign my name (Matt).

Make a item in your house -Homework

For homework I've decided to make a coffee table in my house, the coffee table is located in the living room and is all solid wood. Here are the measurements:

Length Across Top: 935mm
Length Across Side: 840mm
Width Across Top: 480mm
Width Across Side: 455mm

Where am I?

There is lots of plant life nearby, I see many things from the top many buildings, sand, trees, bush, stairs and other people too. I also see some people taking photos with big smiles on their faces, whilst others are pouring with sweat. I can here a form of water flowing or crashing and a can feel a gentle breeze, Where am I?

Answer: At the top of Mount Maunganui

My Holiday- Morning BlogPost

My Holidays didn't start to great, I had a cold/ cough/ sniffles. I had, had my cold for over a week and was getting a little bit sick of it, plus my friend Liam was coming over and I really didn't want to be sick for that. It was the first Saturday night of the holidays when Liam came around, he was going to be staying for 3 day's because his parents were going down to Queenstown for a week. When Liam came over I found that he had a cold too, since neither of us had much energy we quickly went to bed. I woke up the next morning feeling a little bit better but still not great and I think Liam felt very much the same. We slowly walked out to the kitchen and began to make some pancakes for breakfast, we each tried to flip a pancake on the pan but only managed to flip 1 each out of the 2 we flipped each. Later we wondered out to the lounge and turned on the Xbox to play games we played a car game called Dirt 3. We played on free play and often switched cars, after 45 minutes of playing we decided to go jump on the trampoline to get some fresh air this quickly resulted in lots of coughing a spluttering so we went back inside. We grabbed the 2 cat's and played with them Merce (The Younger Cat) was in a very energetic mode and could not stop chasing the piece of paper attached to a string, whilst Maszie (The Mother Of Merce) wasn't very energetic she still gave us lots of nice hugs.

Yesterday- Morning Blogpost

Yesterday myself and four other Y8's spent the day in Mr Mossip's class. While the other Y8's went to the school production. It was really fun and we watched youtube clips about a man on a wire. The youtube clip was based on a documentary on a French man called Philipe's life of tight rope walking, in the documentary it explained why he was so good at tight rope walking and things about Philipe's life. Philipe was a daredevil but instead of jumping out of building's or jumping across the Grand Canyon on a motorbike, Philipe tight rope walked across high/tall buildings, this was illegal so Philipe generally had to generate plans so that he would be able to get to the top of the building without being discovered by any kind of security.

 Philipe travelled around the world tight roping across things, their were a group of people that travelled with Philipe. The people that travelled with Philipe often varied and changed, probably because they were scared that they were gonna get caught. At the end of the film Philipe finally conquered his dream of crossing the Twin Towers he did this in the year 1974.

Persuation Letter-Morning Blogpost

Dear
Member of Room 42

Aren't you sick of playing indoor soccer, I mean all you do is kick a ball toward a goal... You should be looking for a funky fun sport instead of your normal old boring Saturday Indoor Soccer? Well try rock climbing, it's a exotic sport that you have to use almost all your body for! You have to think really hard on which rock grip to grip next, plus you can always do different routes even if you've done the same wall a million you can still go up it differently you can try going up without using one leg or even try doing the wall with your'e eyes shut. The sport is so much fun and the competitions are even better for your'e own enjoyment, in some competitions you have to use designated grips while some competitions are timed, meaning the person who gets to the top the fastest wins!

Yeah soccers a really fun sport and all, but don't you want to exercise your arms to to get bigger muscles. Shore running after a black and white ball for 1 hour and 30 minutes?

Rock climbing is also really really good for your'e fitness and your'e health, while some other sports are good for your'e fitness and health too, wouldn't you like to get bigger muscles aswel? I really enjoy rock climbing and I think you would to it's a really really great sport to get into and it's good for you plus it's exceptional sport. Rock climbing also a really fun sport to do with your friends, you can race them or even just slowly climb up.

Sincerely
Matt Crockett

Jokes- Morning Blogpost

What did the bird say after it's cage fell apart?
Cheap Cheap!

What is invisible and smells like carrots?
Bunny farts!

Knock Knock
Who's There?
Cow go
Cow go who?
No cow go moo silly!

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Noah.
Noah who?
Noah good place we can get something to eat?Mother: "Because he thinks he's a chicken." Little girl: "Why don't you tell him he's not a chicken?" Mother: "Because we need the eggs."




Little girl: "Why does your son say, 'Cluck, cluck, cluck?'" 

HomeworkChallenge- Caring for Kittens

On 18th of April 2013 my cat Maszie gave birth to 3 kittens the first was born a 3:41am, the second was born at 5:45am while the 3rd was born at 11:41am. I decided that this would be perfect for homework challenge.

After 1 week my family finally decided on name.

Mogoly was a great name for a the eldest kitten, he was a male black with tints of orange, he started eating on Thursday or Friday. A interesting fact about Mogoly is his name originated from the movie jungle book.

Merce is the middle kitten she is  female classic tabby color with a black line going down her back. A interesting fact about Merce is Merce is actually short for my favourite type of car Mercedes- Benz.

Muthasa is  The youngest out of the 3 and is also male a classic tabby coat, he was the most advanced out of the three kittens as he started feeding when he was just two weeks of age. A interesting fact about Muthasa we had to watch how much we feed him as he started getting a little to fat.

Looking after the 3 kitten's was actually really fun. I knew the kittens from second one as they were a home birth and Mogoly and Merce were born in my room and Muthasa was born out in the lounge. It was a really awesome experience helping raise 3 kittens and I wouldn't  hesitate to do it again. The best part was coming home from school and having 3 little kittens rush to your feet meowing for hugs. One of the not so fun things was probably hunting down their tiny droppings and little puddles, their buisnes was generally hidden behind the television or under the table ever way it was never in plain sight nor was it easy to find. After a little while I got used to their special places and managed to put them in the litter tray before they went toilet. Overal having kittens to cater for was really fun and I would happily do it again even with the extra buisness.

Funky Art- Homework

Homework Post
Excellence In The Arts
E2: Create an original piece of artwork using recycled materials.

 At currently in my garage I have lots things that were once loved by many but as they have aged they have not been used so much. So I decided to go through some of the rubble. I luckily managed to find some odd nick and nacks varying from old hockey sticks to a old lamp. I thought these things would be perfect to use for my homework task. I dived right into it I bit by bit and constructed the overly odd masterpiece.

The project really worked up a sweat and was very very tiring. I managed to grab some glue to help me out with sticking the project together and also found some rope which insured every thing was tight. I choose to do a project like this as I wanted something unique that was abstract and I guess I wasn't really inspired by any thing other than my imagination.

Half way though of the strange master piece was looking very very odd and looked like it had been through World War I. The contraption began to look stranger and stranger. I stumbled into a few mistakes like forgetting to put enough glue on and dropping things on my toe's but in the end it was all worth it, it was phenomenal, outstanding mind boggling. It was strange yet fantastic!

The lamp ended up as the base and the hockey stick stuck out the top with the tire on the side, I had many strange things on the project but the outcome was amazing!


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Bad Product- Morning Blogpost

When I was six years of age, I purchased a brand new Ferrari F1 remote control model. I bought this toy at the warehouse, I knew I wanted a remote control car but there was so many to choose from. As I didn't want a cheap tacky remote controle car I decided to look in the over $40 dollar R.C cars. I strolled through the long isle until I stumbled across a Ferrari F-1. I found the awesome toy and ran straight to the counter with the Ferrari, I quickly flashed out my wallet waiting to hear the overall cost, "$50" the person at the counter said, I pulled out a fresh crispy $50 note and gave it to the person behind the counter and said "thank you" and I then frantically ran to the car. My dad followed closely behind and we jumped into the car. The ride seemed like forever we finally got home and I un-boxed the R.C car. I ran to the top of the road and began driving the toy. To my surprise the R.C car kept vering off to the side! I was so upset and yelled for my dad to come and take a look at what was wrong, we played around with the toy for a good 15 minutes but it still didn't work. I was really upset so my dad took me back to the Warehouse to get a refund. We went to the refund desk and got it refunded back for my money. I was really upset because my dad wouldn't let me get a new one as he said there might sill be something wrong with it.

Cross Country- Morning Blogpost

Tauranga Intermediate School Cross Country

On the 24th of June 2013, Tauranga Intermediate School had a cross country. Every member of Tauranga Intermediate had to participate un-less he or she had a medical certificate explaining why they could not participate. The races went in order year 7 girls first then followed by year 7 boys then went the year 8 girls soon after also followed by the year 8 boys. The race I participated in was the year 8 boys, their were roughly 295 kids whom participated in the race. The race started by a loud yell from the deputy principal Mr Scholes, straight after that the big crowd began to move slowly at first in fact so slow I was just about walking. Gradually the crowd picked up speed it was turning into a very slow jog. After about five minutes I was out of the over sized crowd and running past small groups of people. As I sprinted down the hill I remembered to savor my energy for the hills.

3 Course Meal- Homework

On Friday, I cooked a three course meal for my family, The theme was Japanese. The meals were very simple and I had practiced a couple of times before. The entree was pretty straight forward, Miso soup and traditional chinese green tea, whilst the main was a little more complex being a variety of different flavoured sushi. For the desert I made a sundae/ chocolate pudding.

For the table set up I neatly placed four large bowls onto a plate which sat on top of a flax woven place mat. I then carefully lit 5 tea light candles and placed them towards the end of the table, later I lit a large red candle and sat it neatly onto a flat metal fish. I then lay 3 more mats on the table for the food that would come later. Neatly I placed four crystal wine glasses on the table and attached a little ring with a fish or another little icon on each glass. Since I am not permitted to serve alcohol, I had to bare with juice. I would wait for every one to sit down then ask them if they wanted any juice. This was followed by four more ordinary glasses that I placed on the table next to the wine glasses, these glasses were for the green tea.

The entree was exceedingly fun to make I boiled up some water and poured it into a large bowl I then added 3 table spoons of traditional chinese green tea leaves (Japan also commonly uses these.). The change was instant the water began to go a soft tea green colour. I popped the jug on the table where the items I had put there earlier lay. I then got the miso soup powder and cautiously poured it onto a bowl. Shortly after 

Reviews:
For the reviews I sent each person a survey which they filled out, on this survey they had to say what they thought of the meal and if it was " Horrible , Alright, Good or Excellent.

Jess (My Sister):
Rating: Alright
Comment: I personally am not a fan of miso soup but I did think it was really nicely presented. So I am giving my marks on presentation instead of taste.

Roseann (My Mum):
Rating: Excellent
Comment: Miso soup was cooked to perfection and very very tasty.

Andrew (My Dad):
Rating: Good
Comment: The packet brand isn't as nice as the fresh stuff

For the main I successfully made twelve rolls of sushi, four of which were salmon and avocado, another four were teriyaki chicken and avocado and the remaining were mixes of cucumber, carrot, teriyaki chicken, salmon, avocado, capsican and a few others. Believe it or not but in one roll I had every thing but salmon!

First I had to get 4 cups of rice and pour them into the rice cooker, this was closely followed by 4 cups of water and three tablespoons of sushi vingar. The sushi vinegar is to make the rice sticky, so that when you roll it up in the seaweed it won't all fall apart.  It also makes a more authentic tasting rice to use in sushi. I also had to use a special sushi rice. Sushi rice is a lot shorter than normal rice it is roughly about half the size. In other countries it is actually called short grain rice. Sadly short grain rice is hard to get in New Zealand so you have to get sushi rice or settle for medium grain rice.  (Sushi rice seems to be really overpriced compared to medium rice - and I don't think many people would be able to tell the difference!)

I then prepared the avocado and carrots. For the carrots I had to boil up a pot of boiling water with a steamer on top. While that was boiling I chopped up 4 or 6 carrots. As soon as the water had boiled I quickly placed the carrots on the steamer. I do this because I like the carrot just a little bit softer than raw carrot. I cut open the two avocados. By the time I had sliced the avocado, the carrots had softened enough. I carefully grabbed the steamer which contained the carrots and poured them onto the breadboard where I had early cut the avocado. The cucumber and capsicum was sliced nice and thin and put to one side.

I then grabbed the chicken out of the fridge that had been soaking in a teriyaki marinade, I put the teriyaki chicken in the pan and began to cook it.  It was quickly cooked and so I took it out. The salmon still lay un-touched on the corner of the bench.  I tore of the news paper that was wrapped around it and began removing the skin. There was roughly 12 small bones that I had to pull out. Next I grabbed a santoku knife and cut the raw salmon into long thin slices. Five minutes later the rices maker beeped alerting me the rice was done. I put the rice into a bowl and added more vinegar until I was happy with the taste and then began putting it into the sushi maker. I made sure there was a clear line in the middle for the pieces of the food that I had prepared early to go in. Next I neatly placed a strip f salmon in one of the gaps this was followed closely by the avocado strips. In the blink of in eye I shut the sushi maker to form the circle shape. I sealed the cap on neatly and used a special pole type object to push it tight. To go along with this I arranged one sheet of seaweed onto the bench.

Reviews:
For the reviews I sent each person a survey which they filled out, on this survey they had to say what they thought of the meal and if it was " Horrible , Alright, Good or Excellent.


Jess (My Sister):
Rating: Excellent
Comment: I really enjoyed the sushi and the teriyaki sauce on the chicken was really good.

Roseann (My Mum):
Rating: Excellent
Comment: Salmon was beautiful and crispy on the outside and lovely and tender on the inside.

Andrew (My Dad):
Rating: Excellent
Comment: Great taste full of variety of ingredients.


The desert was very very tasty and super simple. I made brown sundae. The meal consisted of chocolate pudding and vanilla icecream. Luckily for desert I only had to cook for three as my mum did not want any. For the bowls I used special sundae cups, I


Reviews:

For the reviews I sent each person a survey which they filled out, on this survey they had to say what they thought of the meal and if it was " Horrible , Alright, Good or Excellent.

Jess (My Sister):
Rating: Good
Comment: I really like the desert, how ever I do not think it fitted the theme.

Andrew (My Dad):
Rating: Excellent.
Comment: Who doesn't like sundae with chocolate pudding. It was divine!

Game- Morning Blogpost

Need For Speed Carbon.

Need For Speed Carbon is a older game but is still very very good, you get to drive exotic cars and customize them to the max! You start off selecting which car you want there are three choices a Muscle Chevrolet, a tuner Mazda or a exotic Alfa Romeo. Each race you win you get $5,000-$7,500. After you win 20-25 you level up, this entitles you to more race cars. Also each race you win you unlock something this could be a new exhaust pipe to a brand new car! The game Need For Speed Carbon also allows you to get team members. Team members help you out on races they can win the races to, although if your team member does win you get $100 less than you would if you won yourself. Need For Speed Carbon also has at least 100+ of races for you to enter so you will never get bored. As in most games when you start to get to higher levels things get harder the races are better and they have better cars too. There is also a separate menu where you can do challenges, the challenges are really fun they vary from excepting cops to to player races. The graphics may have aged but its still one of my favorites.

Jobs- Morning Blogpost

Parents Jobs.

My mum, my mum currently works in the A.P.U unit at the Tauranga Hospital. In the A.P.U unit she administrates what is wrong with the patient and what medicine the patient should be given. She is very busy in this and works a one night duty every 2 weeks. She also works every now and again at Plunket NZ, for this job she goes round to houses and checks the caregivers babies health, state and how they are doing. In A.P.U unit my mum is generally very busy and works very strange rosters. My mum really enjoys her job and is always meeting knew people. 

My dad, my dad at the moment currently works for the Police. He is very very busy doing this and works very hard. He gets to do lots of fun things in his work and is never bored. While he still does office work after solving each crime he still enjoys his job. His roster is continuously changing and I never know what he is going to work. I dont really know how he copes as he works heaps of nights. 

On The Weekends- Morning Blogpost

Mogoly: The oldest kitten, a male black with tints of orange, he started eating on Thursday or Friday. A interesting fact about Mogoly is his name originated from the movie jungle book.

Merce: The middle kitten, a female classic tabby color with a black line going down her back. A interesting fact about Merce is Merce is actually short for my favourite type of car Mercedes- Benz.

Muthasa: The youngest, a male also a classic tabby, he is the most advanced out of the three kittens as he started feeding when he was just two weeks of age. A interesting fact about Muthasa we had to watch how much we feed him as he started getting a little to fat.

Maszie: The mother of the three kittens, classic tabby color and a friendly companion. A interesting fact about Maszie, I am the only one in my family who can pick her up and put her around my neck and use her as a scarf. Another interesting fact about Maszie is her name is actually short for Maserati.

In the weekend I catered for my cat and three kittens. It was quite a job as I frequently had to clean up their accidents, when I wasn't looking they often crept in behind the television and did their business there. I tried to stop them but repetitively failed. At about lunch time I picked the kittens up and carried them outside onto the deck there they staggered around not knowing what was there, their mother Maszie lay happily on the cat scratcher not bothering about the kittens as she was very tired because she had just feed the kittens. Muthasa the youngest kitten jumped back inside, this was a very big surprise as Muthasa is the biggest. Mogoly the oldest followed Muthasa  but did not go inside instead he stopped at the door and stood still. This left Merce sitting on the cat scratcher alone, other than Maszie, who lay asleep on the top of the cat scratcher. 

Idiom- Morning Blogpost

14-06-13
Idiom

On the fence

An undecided person, you are on the fence is like theres too much option or you dont know what your doing. Another way to say you are on the edge is you are confused or you have to much option, therefore putting you in a awkward position and/or not knowing what to do next.

If someone is having a car problem and it's going to cost the same amount to get it repaired as it would to go buy a second hand car, a person might say "Your on the fence there".

Playground Dialogue- Morning Blogpost

Playground Dialogue

"3...2...1 GO!" shrieked Jack.
We quickly jumped on the bars I then yelled "You will never bet me" laughing as I went. We soared round the monkey bars missing at least one on each swing. "Remember whoever loses has to buy the winner a chocolate bar" Jack hollered.
I yelled back in reply "I like snickers!" still racing along the cold metal bars.
"Theres the finish!" Jack declared. I raced past Jack leaving him in my trail and quickly crossed the finish line, "haha that will be one snickers!" I yelled as Jack came through the finish line. Jack muttered something silently "Blah blah next time,". "Rematch" I yowled knowing he was annoyed at my victorious win. "Your on" Jack quickly called back."You still owe me a chocolate bar" I laughed as Jack started the countdown.