My culture

Hi, My name is Gurpuneet Singh and my family came from India in 2011. My favourite sweet is kaju barfi. My favourite place to go to is the Golden temple. My family speaks punjabi language. The thing that is really important and special to me is my family. We all do fun and spend quality time together. I belong to a Sikh religion. In our religion, we have ten gurus Guru Nanak dev ji, Guru Angad dev ji, Guru Amar das ji, Guru Ram das ji, Guru Arjun dev ji, Guru Hargobind Singh ji, Guru Har Rai ji, Guru Har Krishan ji, Guru Teg Bahadur ji, Guru Gobind Singh ji. But now our Guru is Shri Guru Granth Sahib ji. It has became true that if anyone tries to steal gold from the golden temple, that person will lose their eye sight. There was also a lucky fish that used to live in the golden temple pond, we call it sarovar. The fish had a ring on its nose and if somebody saw that fish they would have become lucky. But today people believe this fish is no longer alive, because it died long ago. There are lots of other colorful fishes in the golden temple water.
In our culture, we do arranged marriages. Love marriages are not common in our culture. Girls after marriage live with their In-laws family and boys live with their parents. We don't smoke or drink. We always pray to our God in the morning and night. We live with our parents and look after them in their old age.

Parihaka

In class for religious education we are learning about Parihaka.
Parihaka is village in Taranaki. The chiefs of parihaka were Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi and they both liked Jesus and trusted in him. The people of Parihaka believed in the chief because the albatross feather fell on Tohu's marae and also they believed in the albatross because it was the bird of mana [spiritual power]. One day they were getting attacked by the soliders. The soliders were putting them in jail because they wanted to take over their land. Instead fighting with the soldiers, the women made bread for the soliders and the children danced on the road. 

I enjoyed reading the story of Parihaka because it teachs us not to fight on but to stay calm and happy.
I found it hard to Polyline the feather of the albatross.

The dragon slayer

In Room 1 we are learning to structure our writing.
I am going to
describe the setting
describe the characters
describe the problem
describe the resolution
edit for spelling and punctuation
Present my work to a peer for assessment.
I found it hard to edit and spelling and punctuation.
I found it easy to describe the setting.

In a time when dragons threatened mankind. Only one man was to stop them. On a stormy night Tarragon the dragon slayer trudged on the desert road on his battle horse , Black bull.

 Finally after a long journey through the desert, Tarragon found the dragon's lair. He had his armour on and he had his long sharp sword and shield with him. He woke the dragon up and they started fighting. After a few hours of fighting Tarragon stabs the sword in the dragon’s stomach and the dragon slowly dies.

After fighting the dragon ,Tarragon was so tired. He headed back to his horse and as he was about to go back, he found a little baby dragon. At first he looked at it and ignored it. But after he felt sorry for it. So he threw away his shield and put him on the horse. Then two more came and sweetly at him. He sighed for a moment and loaded them up too. But there was no more space for him ,so he just walked along.

The Materialiser doctor

This week we are reading the materialiser book.
It was a really interesting and spooky book.
This is my made up picture of the doctor that was in the book.

Bruce Mclaren

This week i was learning about Bruce Mclaren.
I enjoyed making the facts about Bruce.
I found it challenging to find the facts.
Next time i will add his childhood picture's and find more facts about him.

Recounts

Today my learning intention was to describe 
In my success criteria I am going to
* use some long and some short sentences.
* use adjectives and adverbs.
* use juicy verbs to start a sentence.
* use a simile or a metaphor.
* keep to one main idea in each paragraph.
* edit for spelling and punctuation.

I found it hard to use a metaphor or a simile because I didn't understand what it meant.I found it easy to keep to one main idea in each paragraph.

" Whoo hoo! " I yelled as I rode on a roller coaster with my Dad. We were at a giant place in Palmerston North. It was amazing because there were heaps of bouncy castles and food to eat like candy floss ,candy, giant lollipops and heaps more.


After we drove to the playground and as I was about to touch the bark with my shoes. I hit the wood and fell down on the ground with a bleeding knee. So we had to sit down with a tissue over my knee and wait till it stopped bleeding. It was extremely painful so Dad and I went back at the motel.

Fizzy drinks

Is fizzy drinks healthy or not ? 
I firmly believe that fizzy drinks are harmful to our
body. In fizzy drinks, there is a lot of sugar which is not good for our health. Some people may not like it or probably they are allergic to it. You can’t actually see the sugar because it’s gone all down to the bottom and dissolved in water.

In the coke, there are artificial colours and preservatives which can cause rashes on the face and make you feel not so good in your body. You can drink fizzy drinks once or twice in a month. But if you drink too much,you will start getting sick. If you don’t want to get sick, then avoid drinking fizzy drinks such as coke,sparkling, sprite etc.

Adults can drink fizzy drinks because they are strong,healthy and have developed their immune system. Children are still developing their immune system, so they should be careful when they drink fizzy drinks. To make our body healthy and strong we should prefer to drink water and fruit smoothies.

In conclusion, I will say water is healthier than fizzy drinks.