Channel 50 Summary

I am in Channel 50 at our school Somerville Intermediate. This is the extension class for the school and I go to one of the two year 7 sessions twice a week. We do lots of different things including thinking skills activities. At Channel 50 I specifically enjoy the philosophical discussions this is where we discuss as a class which option we would choose, Like for instance Wealth or Friends. We think about different meanings for the word so wealth doesn’t always mean to be rich or have lots of money. We then look at what the type of wealth would mean and then if you could have both and how you would use them. Also possible scenarios, which could happen with one of the options. At the moment we are looking at what the world would look like in 2050, technology wise and you as a person then. We also are searching an eminent person who we are similar to or admire. We have to find out information about them and answer questions about them such as what was your greatest accomplishment. I have picked Martin Luther King Jr. because I feel he was a great leader who made lots of good changes in the world, he also changed things he didn’t agree to in a peaceful way.This is all part of our huge project due at the start of November. So far I have written a future article set in 2050, I have decided who my eminent person is, I have brainstormed people past, present and future who have made a positive impact on the world. Also I have started researching my person so I can answer questions on them. Next week we are starting a bio-riddle on our eminent person. Channel 50 is really exciting to me and I will write a piece after I have finished the project. Overall, I really enjoy Channel 50 and look forward to what else it has to offer.

Hair Colours

Yes right now you are probably thinking what on earth but honestly it is something going on in todays society and it is affecting many people.Think of offending people about their hair colour as hairisim. I mean blondes get given a hard time when actually most blondes are very intelligent, like take my friend Ally for example she is in fact very intelligent and actually got into the year seven speech finals also only blondes from my syndicate went through to the prepared speeches for the year seven finals. Lots of people probably don’t know what colour my hair actually is well neither do I to be honest. My parents call it Strawberry Blonde along with the rest of my family. Whether people at school call it the new ginger-Ginga. It’s only this year that my hair colour has been brought up, I guess it all started with the radio station holding the hug a ginga day. The way I see it a radio station ran a hug a ginga day, no big deal. People then got angry at them because of the unfairness to gingas (I mean its only hugs) there was even an argument on NZ television. My opinion is hug a ginga day was fine all that really happens is people give you hugs, which is actually kind of cool, sort of like free hugs for the whole day. It may not of been like this for other people I guess, but for me I really didn’t mind. I guess it does get annoying when people say Ginga Ninga or Strawberry Shortcake behind your back, then they say I wasn’t talking to you but you know they were as you are the only Ginga in the class. Don’t get me wrong other hair colours get hairisim but brunettes or people with black hair don’t really. So back to the question, am I a ginga or strawberry blonde?? Cast your vote and why in the comments section below.

Cookie Sale Review

Cookie Sale Review

Today we held our cookie sale which was quite successful. We doubted we would be able to sell many as another class was raising money for the S.P.C.A cupcake day. To make matters worse they were in the class next to where we were selling our cookies. Our prices were cheap enough but perhaps too cheap. We sold one for 50c and six for $2. The packs didn’t really give us much profit as they were getting two free cookies. We sold them at morning tea and lunch. At morning tea the cookies did extremely well and would have sold out if we didn’t bring them inside to save some for lunchtime. At lunch the cookies sold out after around five minutes. We raised $70 which we thought was great. It was a brilliant way to donate money for those in need and we had a great time making them. We are now thinking of of running another cookie sale but might not have the six packs for $2 instead it would be the normal price of $3 for a bag of six. Everyone said they loved our cookies and it is great it’s going to a good charity. Overall, they were so fun to make and we spent around three hours making and wrapping cookies. It would be great to do this again with no competition and we all enjoyed it. All in all it was well worth doing!!! We have had many requests for another cookie sale, and some people even said they were the best cookies ever. One of our customers even brought over twelve cookies!!! We are donating our $70 to the Pakistan Emergency Appeal

A Big Thank You To:
Tabetha’s Mum- for giving us the use of her kitchen, helping us with the oven and supplying ingredients.
Mr Crowhurst- For approving this 10% project and helping us put it all together.
My Parents- For suppling ingredients and cellophane and ribbon for the six packs.
Mrs Bornman- For accepting our request to sell the cookies at school.
Our Customers- For helping to make this cookie sale a big success.
Kimberley- For coming up with the idea and helping bake and sell the cookies.
Tabby- For baking and selling the cookies as well as providing humour after spilling the vanilla essence EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Tear Fund - for making it easy to contribute to causes throughout the world such as the cause we have chosen, The Pakistan Emergency Appeal.

Cookie Sale

Hi Everyone
In our class we do something called 10% time. This is where one block a week we work on a project we chose ourselves. This could be anything as long as our teacher, Mr Crowhurst has approved. We have chosen to do a cookie sale supporting TEAR fund NZ. The money will go to the Pakistan Emergency Appeal. This will help people in Pakistan who have been affected by the recent floods. We are planning on baking just over 200 cookies before Monday the 30th of August. This will be a big challenge but we hope with your support we can help others in need. The cookies will be sold outside our class, Room 28. The cookies will be sold at morning tea and lunchtime for 50c for one cookie and $2 for six cookies. All profits go to the Pakistan Emergency Appeal.Help us help them, together we can make it right.

Thank you, Greer and Kim.

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