Why do bees swarm?

There is a huge swarm of bees that is a on a rose bush at our school.

Why do bees swarm?

When a queen leaves the hives and takes workers with her. Up to 10 thousand bees could be in the swarm. There can only be one queen at a time otherwise it gets crowded. So they fly around to find a new place. Mostly happens in Spring.

AIMS Games

Last week we had AIMS. I competed in one event which was hockey. AIMS stands for associated, intermediate and middle school. 

On the Monday our first game was at Bethlehem College. We were versing Pinesville. The games were shorter they were 20mins each way. At the end of our game we won 6-0. We were so happy. Our second game of the day we played Murray's Bay 2-1.

We came first in our pool games which meant we had to have a cross over game with someone who came second against St Cuthpits. So that meant we were playing off for either 5th,6th,7th or 8th. We won our semi final to come either 5th or 6th but then we lost our final so we came 6th.

We came 6th last year as well as this year. I think we did really well it was a long week!

Jump Jam

On Saturday 14th September the Tauranga Intermediate School Jump Jam competed at north island champs. A few months ago we sent a DVD off to get judged. We came 1st out of New Zealand. Our song was Proud Mary. The top 10 teams from north and south island competed. We were against 10 teams from the north island.

We had to met at 8am at the hair parlor. It was such an awesome place it had black and white square floors and a juke box. It was so retro! We all got our hair done. It was crimped and then put up and back combed. We really did look like Tina Turners! We had red tassel dresses. Angel was a boy she she wore a waist coat and Olivia was Tina Turner she wore the same dress as us but in black.

We all drove to Bethlehem College where we were competing.  The year 5&6 category was still going so we went and watched. After that we went down to the green room to touch up our makeup and go through the routine. We got all our photos taken and waited backstage for our call. The music comes on it starts. Seeing all the people in the auditorium made me happy with our bigs smiles we were loving it!

Everyone came back out then the judges announces the winners. "Second place is... Aquinas College" said the judge. Then we were all silent "and in 1st place is... Tauranga Intermediate"!!! screams came from the team we jumped up and received our trophy and our certificates. We were going to nationals!!!!!

One of the Family SPCA 2013

In second block the whole Tauranga Intermediate had a whole school assembly. Norm Hewitt came to our school and talked to us. Norm Hewitt is a rugby player who plays with the All Blacks. Norm Hewitt had a dream of being a cowboy. But when he watched the All Blacks play in 1976 he changed his dream, he wanted to be an All Black instead of a cowboy.

Norm had a lot of animals. He had a horse called Tommy he used to ride him at night so he didn't have to watch his father beat up his mother. He also had a cat called Fluffy he was a fluffy cat, and two dogs called Storm and Trixie. He told us that he told all his secrets to his animals, they didn't judge him on how he looked or anything they were good listeners.

Whaea Shelly was a person who had adopted lots of animals from the SPCA. She has a bull dog called Ozzy he is 77 years old in dog years and 11 years in human years. Whaea Shelly told us what the five freedoms are, Shelter you have to have shelter that will keep your animal warm on cold days and good shade in the hot days. Food and water, also being able to access food and water at anytime. Exercise making sure it is healthy and gets all the exercise outside as possible. Love, all animals need love and even humas do to. Vet care making sure you animal has the best care as possible and making sure it is not unwell.

Norm Hewitt grew up in Pironghia with his family. There was only 23 people at his school. One third of those people were Norm's brothers and sisters. The three things at Norm loves is the All Blacks, Fish 'n' chips and Cowboys. Norman also won the Dancing with the stars 2001.

Setting and Story Openings

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


Walking through the doors. Hearing the doors sounds go “ding dong.” The smell drifted under my nose. The strong smell of animal food surrounded me. The cute little kittens ran around in there little cages like crazy children on to much sugar. Birds in their cages chirping to the music that was in the background. Puppies were fast asleep on one another. Walking around the aisles, hearing the toys getting squeaked. Watching the kids run around the store going “look mummy look how cute the animals are, can we get one?” Walking down the aisle stood fish tanks the faint sound of the bubbles bubbling in the tank......

Comment: I really enjoyed reading your story because it was easy to find out what the scene was and you described everything well.

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