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Monday, 17 February 2020

Tomorrow, When the war Began, Chapter two


Tomorrow, When the war began. Chapter two


  1. How did the group of teenagers ascend Tailors Stitch? In a land rover 
  2. What are the two special events happening the day after the teenagers leave for the bush? Common day and Kevin's concert
  3. How many days were they planning on staying? 5. How much food do you think is reasonable to bring, split between 7 teenagers? Dinners, Breakfast and lunch
  4. Who is the Hermit and what is he supposed to have done? He is a man that lived in the bush and he supposedly killed his wife and child
  5. Do you think the Hermit will be significant to this story? yes Why/Why not? I think he will be important because he might actually exist and he might try to kill the kids going on a camping trip or possibly save them 
  6. Are their decent down Satan’s Steps into Hell dangerous? Yes. Discuss what are the dangers, how could they have made it safer, what would you have done? Some of the dangers are falling down and dying breaking a leg and not being able to get back up or they could get stuck. They could make it safer by just not going 
  7. Predict what the bridge signifies. That someone has been there

Friday, 14 February 2020

Tomorrow, When The War Began Chapter One


  1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of first-person narration? Only Being able to hear from one person's view, you can understand what they're saying more
  2. Why do you think Ellie needs to tell the story in chronological order? So we can understand it better.
  3. Pick one interesting word from the chapter, find its meaning, and explain why it is interesting. Chronological. Following the order in which they occurred
  4. John Marsden foreshadows several events and characters in this chapter. Make three predictions based on the evidence in the text about what may occur later in the story.
  5. What kind of story do you think Ellie is going to tell? Uses evidence from the text to support your answers. How their camping trip went bad and they ended staying there for longer than they wanted to.

Monday, 10 February 2020

Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Our solar System

Jupiter - Fastest spinning planet
Saturn - It has 62 moons
Uranus - Often referred to as Ice giant
Neptune - Roman god of the sea
earth - We live to hear
venus - Second brightest object in the sky
mars - People call it the red planet
mercury - Smallest planet

Friday, 18 October 2019

Acid rain

Acid rain is rainfall made so acidic by pollution that it causes environmental harm, mostly to forests and lakes. The main cause is the industrial burning of coal and other fossil fuels, the waste gets burnt which turns to gas and combines with atmospheric water to form acid. 

Acid rain experiment: Method in a petri dish take a plastic way boat and around it put a small chunk of apple (moist), 3 drops of universal indicator, 3 drops of bromothymol, small flower petal (moist) and calcium carbonate (moist) 

Changes: The apple should go harder than before, the calcium carbonate should go crusty, the flower should go hard, the bromothynol blue should go green, the universal indicator should go red

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Gymnastics

last week for P.E. we started gymnastics. This video here is me doing a front flip on the mini-tramp, I think that if I kept trying toland it would have got it. I think that I could improve on my landing.

Monday, 2 September 2019

Wte Sentences

WALT: we are learning to write WTE sentences to improve our writing.

The simple Sentence: Like fingerprints everyone's tongue print is different.
Very short sentence: Asia is a continent.
The power sentence: The queen of England is very powerful.
Red, white, and blue: Food, sleep and water are the key things that humans need to survive.
The adverb start: Remarkably, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Begin with a preposition: For the house to be built it will cost a bunch of money
The -ing start: Speaking to Jacinda Ardern would be grea.t
The -ed start: Thrilled he was when he got off the rollercoaster.
The semi-colon: His entry was awesome; his exit was to.
The em-dash: The Nissan Silvia-great price-very popular amongst car shows.
The w-start sentence: When he jumped he screamed.
Explore the subject: Nissan, a very good car brand