I am Jody
I am really excited about sharing my learning with you. Keep watching this page to see what I have done and am proud of this year.Watch every week for an update.
MY WRITING
Smoking… just by the look of the cigar and your friends photo. But have you ever thought how many people have had this same experience. Smoking can cause lung cancer, bad breath, and heath problems. But there are some people who resist the urge to do it. If you want to find out more about what smoking does to your body read on.
The statistics show that in New Zealand 597,000 people over 15 smoke which is 23% of the population but between 4,300 and 4,700 deaths come from smoking every year! So maybe one of those people who smoke could share the same fate as all those other people who used to smoke.
As everyone knows most diseases come from smoking, but they don’t just come from smoking because smoking is a disease it’s self! Yup that’s right. Smoking kills, like an assassin killing its victim when it least expects it. I don’t see why people smoke when the packet says: ‘don’t smoke’ and other things about how to stop and quit smoking and they just go ahead and do it anyway! This I will have to find out myself.
Finally I don’t see any point in smoking. The only thing a cigar can do is kill and it won’t do anything else! I see that the only way to quit smoking slowly is to avoid contact with the cigar. The way I look at the problem is that people get addicted to smoking for the most simple but dumb reason: friends, because they’ll think that they are cool and once they get addicted to it they never stop smoking!
As you can see more and more people over the age of fifteen die each year because of smoking. So next time you are about to light a cigar and enjoy a good time think again about what such a little thing can do to you.
READING
My favourite book is the Young Bond series,by Charlie Higson at the moment I'm reading Double or Die. Here is an extact fom the book :
So this must be the Paradice Club.James knew that gambling was supposed to be illegal in England, and althoug this casino was hidden inside a disused factory, it was still big and noisy and obviously very 
popular. Hoping nobody would notice it was a little like hoping nobody would notice an elephant in Oxford Street. This meant nobody here had any fear of the police.Including the owner.
James decided he’d been here long enough. It was only a matter of time before
somebody spotted him. He hadn’t been expecting any of this. He wanted to get away and
think things through.
He saw a door and headed towards it. It led into a smaller room, which, if
anything, was even more packed and noisy than the first one. There was a makeshift
boxing ring in the centre and two men were stripped to the waist having a bare-knuckle
fi ght. Their faces were battered and gashed and they looked dead on their feet. The
smartly dressed men and women in the front row were cheering loudly and laughing. Their
clothing was spotted with blood.
James backed out and glimpsed another exit on the far side of the gaming fl oor. Two men
stood guard, but they were checking the people coming in and ignoring anyone going out.
James pushed through the crowds.
A laughing sailor offered him a beer, which he refused. A woman in a fur stole and
pearl necklace winked at him and ruffled his hair. But he kept moving, weaving between
the tables.
Then a man grabbed him. A short man in a cheap suit and shabby grey shirt. He
had an unhealthy look about him. His small baggy eyes were unfocused, his hair lank and
greasy, his nose broken. He had a cigar clamped between his teeth and appeared to be as
drunk as everyone else.
‘Hey, kid,’ he said in a thick American accent. ‘I need some good luck. You got a
lucky face. Help me out here.’
‘I was just leaving, actually,’ said James.
‘Yeah?’ said the man and he smiled. As James tried to walk on, however, the man
grabbed him again and waved a yellow gambling chip in his face.
‘Look at this!’ he said, ‘I’m down to my last chip. Five English pounds. You know
how much I came in here with? Five hundred.’ He turned to a man at his side. A fat,
pasty-faced fellow with receding hair. ‘How much is that in real money.
Abbadabba?’he said.
‘Two thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars.’
‘You hear that?’ said the American. ‘Two thousand bucks down the swannee. Here…’
He pressed the yellow chip into James’s palm.
‘Put it on the table for me, kid. Turn my luck around.’
‘No,’ said James, but the man leant in close and tightened his grip on James’s arm.
He was surprisingly strong and his fingers dug painfully into James’s flesh.
‘Nobody says “no” to me,’ he murmured with a hint of menace. ‘Now put this chip on
the table. If you win I’ll give you a cut. If you lose…’ He raised his eyebrows and noded at James.
Action: 99/10
Comedy:3.8/10
Thrill: 15/10
Excitment: 7/10
Over-all: 10/10
Topic
We have been doing fizzing and foaming experiments in class. Here is a video about it! www.youtube.com/watch. We have also been testing what happens when you mix an acid with a carbonate. I found out that tomato juice can dissolve baking soda, and vinegar causes a reaction with baking soda. Even though it got a little messy, we still had lots of fun!!
Art
Recently we have had the art exibition and have been juged on how well we use the things that we were givin. each class was givin a task (or things) that they had to use. they are listed below:
Room1. collage (summer time theme)
Room2. mini clothing fabric
Room3-4. colour blast
Room5-6. clay figures
and all of the Puriri and Kowhai got to take photos of water for our term 2 topic.
