National Shakedown

As soon as the clocks long hand struck on the dot of 9:26am our
school siren rang. We quickly went drop under our desks.
As I dropped under my desk, it kind of reminded me about the people of Christchurch and how they had to suffer through those bad, horrible earthquakes. People thought it was a joke. I’m guessing if we had an earthquake they wouldn’t actually be laughing and thinking that it is a big joke.

As I went under my desk, I wasn’t comfortable where I was. But something popped into head and reminded me that we were doing this to see how it feels to be in an earthquake. I’m guessing that it would be absolutely horrible if I ever experienced an earthquake.

I feel devastated about what Christchurch residents had to suffer through. I don’t know how it feels but sooner or later I might experience what Christchurch residents have had to go through.

Looking at people who think its a joke breaks my heart. The moment that an earthquake really strikes that smile won’t be on their  face any more. The laughing and mocking mostly came from silly, stupid kids.

In conclusion I strongly think that Christchurch residents now don’t have a proper life because of what has happened. People also have to think before saying horrible things about earthquakes. Lastly if you think its a joke think harder before you make things worse for yourself.

The moral of this story is that earthquakes are not a joke, it is a real life experience so listen and be sensible if you have an earthquake drill it may just save your life.

MY SPEECH

Drug use

My speech is about drug use.

Good afternoon students and welcome. Today I’m going to be talking about Drug use. I am talking about drugs not being used at the olympics.

Do you really think that athletes taking part in the Olympics need to take drugs? Obviously no. 

A lot of the athletes in the London 2012 Olympics take drugs. The International Olympic Committee first introduced drug use controls at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Drug use should be banned again instead of having checkpoints. More people pass the test but you might not realize they still take drugs. Dimitris Chondrokoukis the Greek world indoor high jump champion and one of the main rivals to Britain’s Robbie Grabarz for the Olympic gold, has been withdrawn from the Games and faces a two-year ban after failing a drug test for an anabolic steroid, it was announced on Thursday. Do athletes in the olympics  really win medals because they train hard, or do they win medals because of the different drugs they use. Is it really worth taking drugs. I think drugs are a waste of time because you can die from it, and you sometimes won’t get a chance to compete in the olympics because you failed a drug test, lastly drug companies maybe put ingredients that kill you and more.

I absolutely think that athletes that take drugs can get killed and a big cheater.
Here I have a picture of some of the drugs that athletes take. heard terrible news that a lady came first but she cheated because she took drugs so Valerie Adams got gold. Now the lady that took drugs won’t be able to participate in the olympics for are long time.  The reason why my speech is about drugs is because I’m trying to stop athletes taking drugs so they can have fun taking part in the olympics. Its really not nice to get kicked out of the olympics because you cheated by taking drugs.

In conclusion I strongly feel that drugs should not be used at the olympics. It causes a lot of harm to your body. I hope you enjoyed my story and thank you for listening to my speech about drug use.

Do you know what S.S.R. means?

YUMMY IN MY TUMMY

On Thursday the 30th we went to the hall to make sandwiches. Mine was made up of:

1. Cucumbers
2. Tuna
3. Carrots
4. Ham

The food was donated by "Pak'n Save" Glen Innes. Its so nice that they have donated all this food. I thought my sandwich was absolutely delicious, I bet you; you would want to eat it all the time. I was sitting with the girls at a table. Right after my first sandwich, there comes another bun to make another sandwich. 

"What no tuna and ham"

What a bummer. I was so angry. Then I thought that I could have a carrot sandwich.

I really enjoyed my two sandwiches. They were really yummy. " I could really do another sandwich please". Here is a little poem I remember every time I eat healthy.

Five a day is what they say to keep the colds an flu's away

so fruits an vegetables you should eat to keep you faster on your feet.

I enjoyed eating my lovely sandwich and my friends did too.

I couldn't stand the level of noise going on in the hall though.

I really had a blast making sandwiches in the hall.

PERSUATION

We have been learning to write and present our speeches. We had to persuade the audience to think our way. The Olympics was our theme.

The criteria we had to use to write and present our speech included, an introduction, delivery, content and our conclusion.


Today we learnt

1. To use powerful words

2. To use appropriate words


I think my speech was good because it had powerful words (eg. explosion, hesitated and more ). I also managed to have different sentence beginnings. I lastly think that I caught most peoples attention.


I thought my volume wasn't as good as possible. I could have spoken louder but I didn't.

My background was good, there was no problem finding it or bringing it up onto the projector.

I thought my conclusion was really brilliant. I thought it came from my heart and it was really my honest opinion. I'm sure people loved my story.

I have learnt to use metaphors in the stories that I write. It will help me succeed at my writing.
Using powerful words will help me get peoples attention. It will also help to make my story strong and powerful.
Lastly I can now use descriptive words. When it is hard to remember to use descriptive words I can think of something similar .
I can also use some humour in my story.
Don’t forget emotion. I really had fun writing all about Olympics.