Sera

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==Hey everyone! This is my page and I hope you enjoy reading and looking at my page. I enjoy reading, swimming, writing, acting, singing, playing music and lots more. I am in the P.L.O.C (Pukekohe light opera club) junior production, Bugsy Malone this year and the shows were in May. I was in the junior production last year as well, Noodle Rat Rotten Hat. I got a great part in Aladdin, the part of Jafar. He is the main evil guy. I also get my own song (well, sort of. Iago sings in it too) Yay me!! So I hope you have fun and have a good look around. ==

__ My Hyperbole poem: __ Supersonic Sera Her personality is like the most sleek and shiny bubble ever blown. And her hair is like leaves floating through the warm summer air, with the sun's rays reflecting off it. When she plays her flute, the music is so beautifully believable that it makes every person in the land bow at her feet. She has eyes like a deep chestnut with streaks of creamy gold. She is a little fish who, when you say go, will be at the other end of the pool in a flash. Her awesome netball skills allow her to defend the goal circle with the ferociousness of a lion and the style and grace of a leaping gazelle. When fishing she hauls up the biggest of fish and reads close on 20 novels a day while spectacularly winning every colouring competition she enters. The Supersonic Sera, The Almighty Her!!

__ My Cinquain: __ Homework Horrible and Boring and torturous It ruins everybody's lives Bummer



My Exposition 'Laptops should not be supplied by the government for intermediate students 21st century learning'

Laptops are a good type of research and learning. So if the government supplied laptops for kids at school, the problems of them getting bored would be solved. But what about the consequences? Kids would get bored very quickly, in some classes they would sit unused and what about the child/teacher/class interaction?

Kids get bored sooo easily these days. If they all had laptops at school, it would be fun for a while, doing everything on a computer. But then it becomes just plain boring.How would the teachers know if their students aren't playing on them? They would have to patrol the class 24/7!

Some classes don't need laptops. Use the accelerate class as an example. They are too smart for laptops, they would sit unused alot of the time. And if classes used them all day long, the children would get square eyes from staring at a screen. They would also become brain-dead and lazy as the laptop would do everything for them, like spell check for example.

Children go to the teacher or their friends and classmates for help and guidance these days. If they had laptops, they would go to the help tab instead. Friends and class bonds wouldn't be very strong. The teacher wouldn't have much verbal communication, they could just email the students what they need to know. Nearly all verbal communication would be lost within the classroom.

Laptops. They may be the thing that is the future or research and learning, but kids wouldn't use them responsibly, they would sit unused sometimes and child/teacher/class interaction could be in jeopardy. Laptops. Think about it.

On the 4th - the 6th of April, I went on camp to Totara Springs Christian Camp in Matamata. There was a top camp (cabins) and a bottom camp (tents). From my class Lee, Aria and Callum were in my group. We were at the top camp first. The activities were: Abseiling, Flying fox, BLAST, Archery and rock climbing, Hydroslide, and the Hot Mineral pool which I didn't go in. The activities at the bottom camp are Damper making (bread), Raft making, bridge jump, eeling, kayaking, and first aid. We did these activites on day 2 but I did not do the bridge jump or go on the raft we made because I was unwell. On day 3 we did team building. That involved 5 person ski's and an "A" frame, pipes and a golf ball, mine shafts (the mines being buckets) and a blindfolded person trying to get tokens without bumping into the 'mine shafts'. We also did a Trivia quiz. Camp was Awesome!

In my Statistics Investigation I was working with Hamish, Seth and Amber-Lee. We based ours around the Canteen and we called it 'Are you a No-go or a Go-go?'. We asked 8 students from 4 classes (31, 33, 39 and 40) whether they were goes or non-goers. If they went more than once a month we asked them what they thought of the service (on a scale of 1-10) and whether they bought in the morning, bought at lunch or ordered in the morning. For the non-goers, we asked why they didn't go and what they would like to see (would it make them go?). We had to make a hand-drawn pie chart (which me and Amber-Lee made out of magazine cuttings) and I also drew our pictogram. Hamish and Seth made our other 3 charts on 'numbers' (on the computer). Seth wrote our report/explanation. I am very proud of how our project turned out but we could have managed out time better.

==== We have been looking at Shakespeare in class. We had to choose a play that he had written, and then re-write it as a modern version. My group (Shahani, Aria, Caitlin, Emma, Amber-Lee and I) chose to do Romeo and Juliet. We had cellphones and digital watches as part of our modernizing. We had great fun doing this, and I have learned alot. Here is a video that explains one of the scenes in our play, and the voice overs are Amber-Lee and I. ==== media type="file" key="Movie on 2011-07-13 at 09.43.mov" width="420" height="420" align="center"