I think Mr Sharpe did a great thing and he did it to protect himself. Teenagers like this should not get away with it and I am glad he has been arrested. Shop owners shouldn’t have to worry about being burgled or shot when they are in their own store. These people are getting away with it too much and I think all shop owners should stand up like Mr Sharpe did.

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*Become part of the touch team for interclass touch.

*Finish all my maths on time.

*Quietly get on with my work instead of verbalising everything.

*To swim Over 4 Lengths Nonstop and to bring my togs everyday.

*To Have An Exciting Attitude towards social dance. =)

I Will Acheive These By :

* Having A Good Attitude Towards Touch Practices And Showing Mrs Crowe That I Won`t Muck Around.

* Not Talking And Getting On With My Maths And Asking For Help If I Need It.

* Move Myself Away When I Am Tempted To Talk And Concentrating So I Wont Have Time To Talk.

* Remember My Togs And To Push Myself More And Practice.

* Having A Good Attitude And Always Being Cheerful No Matter What We Are Doing In Social Dance.

Just two goals seperate the winner and the loser,

The goal shoot on the mini marshmallows shoots and it goes in,

Then it is the Hotchocs passoff,

They get it to the goal,

The goal keep intercepts the ball,

The ball goes out and its the mini marshmallows pass in,

Then the worst sound happens,

The buzzer goes.

We had lost the final by ONE point,

We had tried our best and it was a great game to play.

and I am going to answer them with my thoughts.

1. If peanut butter cookies are made with peanut butter what are girl scout cookies made with?

   I think this is a really funny question to think about. It is true that if peanut butter cookies are made with peanut butter what are girl scout cookies made of. I had a giggle to myself when I read this and so did my sister. I think this question could create a big discussion in a classroom. I’m not really sure what the answer to this question would be but it did bring a smile to my face.

2. Why do schools use a three day suspension to punish kids for ditching?

   I think this is a great question. If kids ditch school they obviously don’t want to be at school and then their punishment is that they aren’t allowed at school for three days. I think as a punishment they should be made to go to school in the weekend because they used the school’s time to have fun the school can use their time to teach them things they need to learn.

3. Why is it that when teachers ask for volunteers to raise their hand to answer the question, they always ask the ones who haven’t raised their hand?

   This is a true question. If you are going to ask your children a question then why get them to put their hands up if you’re going to pick someone who doesn’t want to answer it or hasn’t put their hand up? If you aren’t wanting to answer a question or you don’t know the answer you don’t put your hand up and then the teacher calls on you anyway.

4. Why is it that when you look up a word, it’s usually described by yet another word you have to look up?
5. I think this is a good question for me as my class would agree. This is a good question to think about. As in the dictionary the definition for gullible the meaning says easily deceived or duped. See now I would have to look up deceived and duped.
6. If you were born on February 29th of a leap year, then when is your birthday?

   This has always confused me and it probably always will. You would be very lucky to be born on a day that only comes around every 4 years. I think this could be a good and a bad thing. The good thing would be that you would feel special and wouldn’t get very old ha ha. But the bad thing would be that you would only have a birthday every three years.

The Herald on Sunday today reported that suppression orders preventing publication of Glenski’s name, workplace and occupation lapsed after the guilty plea.

It said police had raised questions about whether Avondale College, Glenski’s employer, met its obligations as a caregiver to the international students.

Police raided Glenski’s home in March after being alerted by Avondale College principal Brent Lewis.

A colleague who was fixing Glenski’s laptop had found a file with hundreds of images and films of under-age girls.

Nine of the films were shot last year through a hidden grille and showed two Asian exchange students taking a shower, while a photograph of a neighbour’s young daughter, sitting on a trampoline with her genitals exposed, was also found on the computer.

When police executed a search warrant they found the bathroom at the North Shore address matched the one in the footage, as did the trampoline.

After the police raid, Glenski’s four children were taken into Child Youth and Family care and are now being cared for by their mother in the United States.

Glenski will be sentenced in Auckland District Court in October.

The charge of making child pornography carries a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.

Education Ministry guidelines state schools must have “robust” procedures for the selecting and monitoring of homestay carers and residences.

The newspaper reported a statement from Mr Lewis and Avondale College’s board of trustees said the case showed the school’s systems to protect student wellbeing were “rigorous and effective”.

“While the offending did not occur at the school, this matter only came to light because of the checks and balances within our system.”

I think this is sick and wrong for anybody to want to do this. He is a teacher so is dealing with students all the time. I would hate to think what other thing`s he could have done to these girl`s. These girl`s don`t seem much older than me so to think he could do this to friend`s of mine or even me! This is a horrible thing to happen and I hope he get`s charged for it. I hope this doesn`t happen again.

Today I went up town with my best ever friend Hayleigh as a birthday treat. We went and saw The Dark Knight. It was MINT! Its such a cool movie you should all watch it sometime! We went to McDonald`s ( No surprise) and went and caught up with Ngapere, Jah and Hakirau. LoL!

I really enjoyed my day and can`t wait til` tomorrow. I`m sure Mrs Crowe will enjoy it just as much as I do ! (NOT)

I think I improved on this because all my work has been handed in on time and most of it early. Now I need to work on getting it to the best of my ability.

I aim to know all my times tables off by heart by the end of term two by practising them ten minutes a day.

I have improved on this and now now all my times tables up to 11 of by heart.

I aim to improve my catching skills by practising them outside when I have spare time.

I can now catch a ball and am very happy about this one although the boys still don’t trust me. =]

I think I should focus on my soccer skills now!

I aim to improve on my reading skills by reading a book each week and challenging myself in what I am reading.

I have read seven books this term and have challenged myself a lot by reading harder books and looking up meanings if I don’t understand them.

 I aim to be able to run a lap of the feild without stopping by running every day.

I think I have improved since the other day I ran 8 laps around the field walking only a short part of the way.

 Hitler’s full name was Adolf Hitler and he was born on the 20 April 1889. He was a chancellor in Germany and Führer of Germany. Hitler killed a lot of people and led the Germans to war. Hitler went to  WW1 for France and Germany.

There was a lot more information on Hitler but I would bore you to death if I wrote it all  down. If you would like to know more about Hitler or if you were like me and had completely no idea what or who Hitler was you can go to this site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler  

Also since I thought about this for quite a long time I decided I would copy off some information so here it is; you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to

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Hitler served in France and Belgium in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment (called Regiment List after its first commander), ending the war as a Gefreiter (equivalent at the time to a lance corporal in the British and American armies). He was a runner, the most dangerous job on the Western Front, and was often exposed to enemy fire.^[20] He participated in a number of major battles on the Western Front, including the First Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Passchendaele.^[21]

Hitler was twice decorated for bravery. He received the Iron Cross, Second Class, in 1914 and Iron Cross, First Class, in 1918, an honour rarely given to a Gefreiter.^[22] However, because the regimental staff thought Hitler lacked leadership skills, he was never promoted to Unteroffizier (equivalent to a British corporal). Other historians say that the reason he was not promoted is that he was not a German citizen. His duties at regimental headquarters, while often dangerous, gave Hitler time to pursue his artwork. He drew cartoons and instructional drawings for an army newspaper. In 1916, he was wounded in the leg during the Battle of the Somme, but returned to the front in March 1917. He received the Wound Badge later that year. Sebastian Haffner, referring to Hitler’s experience at the front, suggests he did have at least some understanding of the military.

On 15 October 1918, Hitler was admitted to a field hospital, temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack. The English psychologist David Lewis^[23] and Bernhard Horstmann indicate the blindness may have been the result of a conversion disorder (then known as hysteria). Hitler said it was during this experience that he became convinced the purpose of his life was to “save Germany.” Some scholars, notably Lucy Dawidowicz,^[24] argue that an intention to exterminate Europe’s Jews was fully formed in Hitler’s mind at this time, though he probably had not thought through how it could be done. Most historians think the decision was made in 1941, and some think it came as late as 1942.

Two passages in Mein Kampf mention the use of poison gas:

Hitler had long admired Germany, and during the war he had become a passionate German patriot, although he did not become a German citizen until 1932. He was shocked by Germany’s capitulation in November 1918 even while the German army still held enemy territory.^[27] Like many other German nationalists, Hitler believed in the Dolchstoßlegende (”dagger-stab legend”) which claimed that the army, “undefeated in the field”, had been “stabbed in the back” by civilian leaders and Marxists back on the home front. These politicians were later dubbed the November Criminals.

The Treaty of Versailles deprived Germany of various territories, demilitarised the Rhineland and imposed other economically damaging sanctions. The treaty re-created Poland, which even moderate Germans regarded as an outrage. The treaty also blamed Germany for all the horrors of the war, something which major historians like John Keegan now consider at least in part to be victor’s justice: most European nations in the run-up to World War I had become increasingly militarised and were eager to fight. The culpability of Germany was used as a basis to impose reparations on Germany (the amount was repeatedly revised under the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, and the Hoover Moratorium). Germany in turn perceived the treaty and especially the paragraph on the German responsibility for the war as a humiliation. For example, there was a nearly total demilitarisation of the armed forces, allowing Germany only six battleships, no submarines, no air force, an army of 100,000 without conscription and no armoured vehicles. The treaty was an important factor in both the social and political conditions encountered by Hitler and his Nazis as they sought power. Hitler and his party used the signing of the treaty by the “November Criminals” as a reason to build up Germany so that it could never happen again. He also used the “November Criminals” as scapegoats, although at the Paris peace conference, these politicians had had very little choice in the matter.