Advertising

What is advertising???

What is advertising?

It is when there is like a sale on a newspaper or a video on a site about a product, and sometimes there are funny, cute or sad stuff to make you buy it.

Why does a consumer advertise?

So that people could see how cool their product is, and then more people will buy it, which means companies getting richer.

What have you learnt about advertising?

That advertising makes 100 and thousands and even more kids make their parents buy them a cool product if they watch a cool ad.

What surprised you?

How many kids whine and tantrum just because of how cool an advertisement could be.

What disgusted you?

The same as the last question: that there are so many kids that whine and tantrum just because of how cool an advertisement could be.

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What is in our food?

What is in our food?
Written by Sam Holloway

Want to know more about how sugar is bad for you? Click here to see a documentary on it (or scroll down to the end of this post).

The reason you are reading this story is because you want to know what is in our food? Read on to learn.

Everyday men should only have about 9 teaspoons of sugar and children 4 teaspoons. Most people go over the limit, and could get diabetes, a heart attack, or you might even need your teeth pulled out!

If you drink lots of juice, and I mean like 5 and-over-ish bottles a day, any age, your teeth would rot, and possibly all your teeth would have to be pulled out!


Rotten teeth:
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Did you know?
Did you know that once a 2 year-old girl had to get 6 of her teeth pulled out, because her mother let her drink too much fizzy and/or juice! That's why you need to look after yourself too, not just your mum.

Every year, people, kids and adults, are getting fatter and fatter. As products are getting cheaper, they are also putting way more sugar than you're meant to have! Eg: kids should have about 4 teaspoons or under a day, and Tiny Teddies have about 2x more sugar than kids are meant to have. They have about 7 teaspoons of sugar!!!

Same as low fat or fat free products. As they lower the fat, they increase the sugar. Ever since they lowered the fat, they increased the sugar.

That's why people are getting diabetes, and eating too much sugar; they are eating fat-free stuff. That's why I think that people should stop fat-free products, and lower the sugar, so a lot of the trouble with sugar now will be stopped.

By Sam

Documentary I wrote about:

Fun Run

Today (Thursday the 11th) it was the Fun Run! Before the Fun run, I was going to be in the obstacle version, but after that, I chose the competitive version.

It took AGES before it came to the year 5 competitive race. "Year 5 competive racers for BOYS!!!" Mrs Miller cried out. Oh, no! I thought to myself. As a walked to the starting line, my stomach felt weird. I knew I wasn't ready for this. "GO!!!" I suddenly ran as fast as I can; ALL around Paki's paddak all around the original field (the biggest) 4 times!!! (4 laps) After I ran half of Paki's paddak on the first lap, my ribs started hurting... Oh, no... I had the stitch!

After the whole race finished, I ran back to the waiting and watching place. I felt SO dehydrated.

Well, now that the race is finished, I felt glad (even though I came 10th) that I was in the competitive. I hope I do better next time!

ME RUNNING:

How to make a figure 8

Yesterday, Mrs Hardaker sent Mrs Hinde to look after us for the afternoon, and she set us a task; to make a video or doc on how to make a figure 8. This was my one:



How to make a figure 8

Journey through the legends

Journey Through The Legends

Last week on Wednesday, the whole of Nga Rakau Nui performed a show called Journey Through The Legends, that included 4 legends; (in order) Rangi & Papa, How Maui Fished Up New Zealand, The Seven Whales and the legend of Te Mata Peak. The show started from about 6.00 pm to about 8 pm-ish.

We all practiced the show for weeks; practicing lines, practicing actions and even dress rehearsals. The music and actions were one of the hardest. The show was on for 6 nights, and each night was about 3 hours. Our class (room 19) and room 12 was doing the legend Rangi & Papa, room 10 and room 7 were doing How Maui Fished Up New Zealand, room 18 and room 6 were doing The Seven Whales, and last of all: room 11 and room 20 were doing the legend of Te Mata Peak.

We are all now happy and sad that the show was over and we all enjoyed it.

Pictures of the show Journey Through The Legends:

The Baby & The Black Hole

The Baby & The Black Hole

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Explanation Writing

How do we make a skateboard work?

Planned by Sam, Conor and Jesse. Written by Sam.

First, you have to put ONE foot on the back of the deck (the deck is the wooden base with grip on the top).

Then, you put your other foot on the deck to get your balance.

 Once you have your balance, you have to put one foot down on the ground and push.

Then you should get the hang of it.

After that, you should try a small jump.

Tricks:

Olly, inward, 360, 180, 560, pop shove it, manual, kick flip and nolle.

Now you know how to make a skateboard work, go out and have fun with it!

Samuel Holloway