Pluto Information Pamphlet

 

This week we have been doing lots of work around Pluto, We were set tasks to complete by the end of the week. One of the tasks we had to complete was an information pamphlet, lots of facts about Pluto. Enjoy!

What Is A Planet?

This week we have been learning all about planets/mainly Pluto, we had many tasks to complete about Pluto and planets, one of the tasks we had to complete was writing about what a planet is. Here are some of the facts I've found on what a planet is. Enjoy!

What is a planet?


A planet is a celestial body, it orbits around the sun and it has sufficient mass for itself-gravity to overcome rigid body forces, so that it assumes a hydro static equilibrium nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

The names of all the planets:Mercury,Venus,Earth,Mars,Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,Neptune.


Pluto is not under the list of all the planets.

What is Hydro static equilibrium? - In fluid mechanics, hydro static equilibrium or hydro static balance is the condition of a fluid or plastic solid when it is still/not moving. This occurs when external forces such as gravity are balanced by a pressure-gradient force and it is moving fast.

Is Pluto a Planet?

This week our reading tasks are all about planets but mainly Pluto. We had to write our opinion on 'Should Pluto be a planet?' Here is my opinion. I think it should be! What do you think? Enjoy.

Bruno's Diary Entry

 

For the past few weeks we have been reading a novel in the whole class called "The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas." We had a lot of tasks to complete, individually. The tasks were easy and fun to do. One of the tasks we had to do was write a diary entry from the main character 'Bruno's Perspective. Here is mine :

 

Dear Dairy, I really badly want to move back to Berlin. I don’t like it here! There is no one to hang out with, no fruit or vegetable stalls, I am so bored! Yesterday, I was so bored I decided to make a swing out of a tyre and tighten the rope around the tree. It didn’t really work out as I was ‘swinging too high.’ And I fell off. I cut my knee and got grazes on my arms. 

And now that I’ve moved I have to start school! Me and my annoying sister Gretal are having a teacher over to do lessons in the Mornings and afternoons. I don’t see the point as there’s only two students.

I read these books about exploring, they are really entertaining and they have left me wanting to go exploring for myself!
But overall I feel very bored here!
Yours sincerely, Bruno.

The Boy In The Pyjamas, BookMark.

Another one of the tasks we had to complete was creating your very own bookmark, this task was easy to do and fun to create anything you wanted. This bookmark doesn't look like much but it was actually difficult to line the barb wires up to the edges. Enjoy!

Gretal's Diary - The Boy In The Striped Pajamas.

For the past few weeks we have been reading a novel in the whole class called " The boy in the striped Pyjamas." We had to complete tasks around this book, One of the tasks we had to complete around the book was writing a Diary Entry for Gretal. Gretal was Bruno's older sister. If you haven't read the book or seen the movie, I highly recommend you do so! Here is my Diary Entry from Gretal's Perspective. Enjoy!

Dear Diary, Since we’ve moved to Out-with, I’ve been a little bit bored that everyday I arrange my dolls just to fill in time. I wish I had friends to hangout with, although there is someone that I do have in mind that I do like to talk to a lot. Lieutenant Kotler. He is such a handsome man, I have mixed feelings for him but even though I do have a little crush on him, The other night at dinner Pavel, our waiter/chef, looked very pale and weak and he accidentally slipped the bottle out of his hand and spilled it all over Kotler’s lap. Kotler stood up and beat him up. Bruno ended up crying and I was in shock that my face went pale.


Later that week, Bruno was reading a book on his bed. I came in and asked him a few questions about how he was feeling, he is bored as well. The funniest thing happened the next minute! He started rambling on about how he has an imaginary friend. I couldn’t stop laughing! He even believed I had an imaginary friend as well!

But that’s a secret I’ll never tell. Anyways bye for now.

Yours Sincerely, -Gretal.

Kate Sheppard

 Another person we had to research was 'Kate Sheppard.' Kate Sheppard is on the $10 dollar note. Next time you have a $10 dollar note you will notice this lady on the front. Here are some facts I have researched about Kate Sheppard. Enjoy! :)

Kate Sheppard


What are they famous for? What was their greatest achievement?

Kate Sheppard is famous for being recognised as the leader of the fight, so women have the right to vote in New Zealand.

Her greatest achievement was that she got the women to have a right to vote.


Were they well known for any other achievements?


She is also on the $10 Note In New Zealand.


Write a short biography for them: (Full name, date of birth and death, where they were born, family etc)

Her name is actually Catherine Wilson Malcom, born 10,1847, March, in Liverpool, England. Died July 13th, 1934, Christchurch, New Zealand. Researched and it doesn’t say cause of death- Assumed it was old age. (86)


List 5 facts that you have learnt whilst reading the articles:



All her family died before her.


She is on the $10 dollar note.


She replaced Queen Elizabeth ll on the $10 dollar note in 1991.


She was the reason why women can now vote.


Her name is Catherine Wilson Malcom.

Bedroom Design

 Today we have been designing our dream room in our house, we were allowed to choose any room in the house we wanted or an outside area. I chose to design my dream bedroom. Here is what it looks like :
 

I have chosen to add a nice bed, a vanity, some draws, an en suite, and a walk in wardrobe. What's your dream home/bedroom? enjoy!

John Walker

This week I have been researching about John Walker. John walker was a famous runner. As you can tell in this photo. Down below you would have noticed some facts I have researched about him. Enjoy! 

Sir John Walker


What are they famous for? What was their greatest achievement?

Sir John Walker was famous for being a former middle-distance runner from New Zealand and he also won the 1500-m event at the 1976 olympics. He was also the first ever person to run the mile in under 3:50.


Were they well known for any other achievements?


He was well known for being a former middle-distance runner.


John Walker was also the person who invented the match stick!


Write a short biography for them: (Full name, date of birth and death, where they were born, family etc)


Sir John George Walker.


Born on the 12th of January 1952. He was born in Papakura,Auckland.


John Walker died on the 7th May 2011, at the age of 67. He died in Los Angeles, California, United States.


Cause Of Death: He died from Liver Cancer.


List 5 facts that you have learnt whilst reading the articles:



He was famous for being a former middle-distance runner, in the olympics.


He went to the olympics.


He was the first person to run the mile in under 3:50.


He sadly passed away after a 6 month battle for liver cancer.


He was also an inventor, He was the first person to make the match stick.

Week-10 Finding Fractions Of an Amount.

 This week we had to complete a workbook, Finding Fractions of an Amount. Here is my workbook from this week. I had to work out all the answers in my maths book and write them into this google slide. Enjoy!

Bruce Mclaren-New Zealander

Bruce McLaren


What are they famous for? What was their greatest achievement?

Bruce McLaren was a New Zealand-born automobile racing driver, he was the youngest to win an international Grand Prix contest for Formula I cars. Which is the U.S. race in 1959, when he was 22.


Were they well known for any other achievements?
- He was also noted as a designer for race cars.


He was a driver, designer, engineer and inventor.


Write a short biography for them: (Full name, date of birth and death, where they were born, family etc)

For the past few weeks we have been researching famous New Zealanders, one of the New Zealanders we had to research was 'Bruce McLaren' Here are a few facts I have found about him. Enjoy!

Bruce Leslie McLaren, Born on the 30th of August 1937-and died on the 2nd Of June 1970. Meaning he died when he was 33. He was born in Auckland. Died in Good wood Motor Circuit, United Kingdom. He died in a crash whilst testing an experimental car of his own design.


List 5 facts that you have learnt whilst reading the articles:

He was famous for automobile race car driving.


He was a designer,driver,engineer and an inventor.


He was the youngest person ever to win an international Grand Prix contest.


He is well known for being an expert at designing cars.


He died from a car crash.

Jean Batten- Further Research

For the past few weeks we have been researching about famous people from New Zealand, After we researched some people, we were allowed to chose one famous person from New Zealand or around the world. I chose to research more about Jean Batten because I was curious and wanted to look further into her achievements and life.

 Here is my google slide, facts about Jean Batten. Enjoy.

The Gloomy Forest

 

 I pushed the tip of my toes into my hiking shoes, squeezing them in and forcing them to fit, knowing they were too small for me as I got ready to explore the forest. I couldn’t tell mum that my shoes were too small or she wouldn’t let me go to the forest at all. I couldn’t even tell her where I was going, she told me to never go in the ‘gloomy forest’ as she would call it. Apparently, there are ‘bad things in there that are dangerous for young girls my age’. I agreed that the forest was bad and I knew it was out of bounds at all times with no exceptions.

But it didn't end there...

- Gloomy Forest - Click here for the rest of the story.

Lock down Writing

This week we have been writing stories about what happened in your own lock down, and what your family did. Here is my writing about my lock down. How did your lock down turn out? enjoy.

Life During Lock down - Bailee

Lock down was a very well… How could I put this nicely, ‘exciting adventure with my family’. During the start of lock down, I was extremely excited to hear we didn’t have to go to school for a while. I couldn’t stop thinking about everything I could do in these few weeks away from school. Around the first week of not being at school, I loved being able to sleep in, although that didn’t last long. I enjoyed baking sweet treats for the family, I say for the family but really, I was the one that ate most of them.


I’d always get asked by my parents about where all the baking went, I’d have the same response every time, making something up along the lines of blaming it on my older brother. I would bake all sorts of things like cookies, cakes, cupcakes, and more. My little brother was always in the kitchen looking over my shoulder, licking the icing bowls and slobbering all over the spoons, even when I still needed them, He would classify this as ‘helping.’


I got sick of the idea of baking all the time so I knew I had to find some other ways to entertain myself, at this point I started to miss my friends, and funny enough I even started to miss school. Two weeks into lock down, we were starting to get sent work tasks that we had to complete by the end of the week. I regret telling my mum about work that needed to be finished, she ended up waking me up early in the morning and making sure it was finished by 3 PM.


Every day past 3 PM, I would scroll through Netflix hoping to find a decent movie. I found this series called “YOU.” It had two seasons and I finished that in about a week. When I was up to the last episode of the last season I straight away began to be bored. I was disappointed that it was finished, but also because the next season wasn’t coming out till 2021.


Although lock down was a bit boring, I still enjoyed some of the things I had done. It was good to get away from school for a bit but i'm glad to be back.

Eva Braun Research.

 

For the past few weeks we have been reading a novel called " The boy in the striped pyjamas." We had a few tasks around this book to complete, one of the tasks being : Research about Eva Braun. If you don't know who Eva Braun is, she was Adolf Hitlers wife. Here is some facts about Eva Braun.

The Fires In Wellington.

Today we did a quiz all about what's happening in the world. For one of the questions we had to see what city had a fire in a building which was causing smoke to be all over. We answered this question correctly, choosing Wellington. Here are some facts about what we have researched. ( The Fire .) - Enjoy.

Concentration camps

For the past few weeks we have been working on, all about Concentration Camps from the world war 2. For this task we had to find facts about the camps. Enjoy.

Static Electricity Experiment

Static Electricity Experiment

A few weeks ago we were working on Static Electricity Experiments. For this task we had to blow up a balloon, tie a string to the bottom of it, and rub it on someones hair. At the end of this task, we rubbed it onto Shakeira's head and put it up against the water. The results were, that the water bent once the balloon went up against it.