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Monday, 10 September 2012
Olympic A4 Task
Sarah Walker
I looked towards the BMX track, preparing for my race. I glance around too meet the other competers, who are all trying to win gold for their country. The sun beams down onto the track, the nerve is spreading. This is my race, the time I will hopefully make my country proud; New Zealand proud.
Bang! the gun fires, I lunge forward, the rush of adrenalin flows through me. I grab tightly onto my handlebars, I push my legs as hard as I can on the pedals, and are thankful to be moving forward.
It's near the finish line, my olympic race is nearly over, but the question remains will I win Gold for New Zealand or Silver, Bronze what will it be.
The power inside me is building up every second, my heart pumps like crazy, my lungs craving for air. Bang! Then just like that the race is over, what a relief I an so exhausted, my muscles burning, my heart managing to slow down.
I'm very proud of myself which ever way it goes. I did my best and that's all that matters!
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In the End Sarah Walker won Silver for New Zealand.
I looked towards the BMX track, preparing for my race. I glance around too meet the other competers, who are all trying to win gold for their country. The sun beams down onto the track, the nerve is spreading. This is my race, the time I will hopefully make my country proud; New Zealand proud.
Bang! the gun fires, I lunge forward, the rush of adrenalin flows through me. I grab tightly onto my handlebars, I push my legs as hard as I can on the pedals, and are thankful to be moving forward.
It's near the finish line, my olympic race is nearly over, but the question remains will I win Gold for New Zealand or Silver, Bronze what will it be.
The power inside me is building up every second, my heart pumps like crazy, my lungs craving for air. Bang! Then just like that the race is over, what a relief I an so exhausted, my muscles burning, my heart managing to slow down.
I'm very proud of myself which ever way it goes. I did my best and that's all that matters!
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In the End Sarah Walker won Silver for New Zealand.
Great Chinese Invention
Here is a explanation about one of China's greatest Inventions; The Compass
Before the compass was invented ships where frequently lost in the middle of the ocean. Then the Chinese invented the compass and that solved the problem.
It's not possible to tell who actually invented the first compass. But the compass was used around the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Compasses are navigational tools that allow hikers and explorers to find their way in the wilderness by pointing the way to magnetic north. Compasses come in variety of different formats more expensive and more complicated compasses have advanced features. All compasses, however, have the same basic elements that make the devices to point the way to magnetic North.
A compass is important because it shows where North is. The compass can help hikers and explorers in the wilderness, help ships that are lost in the middle of the ocean and people who are lost in the wild or stranded on a island in the middle of nowhere, there are lots of different reasons where a compass can be used.
A compass points north because all magnets have to poles, a north pole and a South Pole, and the North Pole of one magnets is attracted to the south pole of another magnet. The Earth is a magnet that can connect with other magnets. The Earth's magnetic North Pole attracts the "north" ends of other magnets; it is technically the "South Pole" of our planet's magnetic field.
A compass is actually a navigational instrument that shows directions ina frame of reference that is relative to the surface of the Earth. A compass is a small magnet on a pivot.
The compass helps us with the navigational system. So when we are out lost in the middle of nowhere, but we have a compass we can find our way home. Another reason, you are ona cruise ship and the captain can't find his way back to the shore, but if you have a compass which can help him to help others find their way back to the shore. A compass helps lots of people including; explorers, hikers, ships, scuba divers, even famous people use the compass if they are lost in the wilderness.
In Conclusion, a compass is a great invention for the use of travelling around the world. As long as you have a compass you are safe, that's only if you know how to use it. Soon you'll get the hang of it.
Before the compass was invented ships where frequently lost in the middle of the ocean. Then the Chinese invented the compass and that solved the problem.
It's not possible to tell who actually invented the first compass. But the compass was used around the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Compasses are navigational tools that allow hikers and explorers to find their way in the wilderness by pointing the way to magnetic north. Compasses come in variety of different formats more expensive and more complicated compasses have advanced features. All compasses, however, have the same basic elements that make the devices to point the way to magnetic North.
A compass is important because it shows where North is. The compass can help hikers and explorers in the wilderness, help ships that are lost in the middle of the ocean and people who are lost in the wild or stranded on a island in the middle of nowhere, there are lots of different reasons where a compass can be used.
A compass points north because all magnets have to poles, a north pole and a South Pole, and the North Pole of one magnets is attracted to the south pole of another magnet. The Earth is a magnet that can connect with other magnets. The Earth's magnetic North Pole attracts the "north" ends of other magnets; it is technically the "South Pole" of our planet's magnetic field.
A compass is actually a navigational instrument that shows directions ina frame of reference that is relative to the surface of the Earth. A compass is a small magnet on a pivot.
The compass helps us with the navigational system. So when we are out lost in the middle of nowhere, but we have a compass we can find our way home. Another reason, you are ona cruise ship and the captain can't find his way back to the shore, but if you have a compass which can help him to help others find their way back to the shore. A compass helps lots of people including; explorers, hikers, ships, scuba divers, even famous people use the compass if they are lost in the wilderness.
In Conclusion, a compass is a great invention for the use of travelling around the world. As long as you have a compass you are safe, that's only if you know how to use it. Soon you'll get the hang of it.
Sunday, 2 September 2012
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall
There were once two parts of Germany, the East whp were the communists and the West. The Berlin Wall was built to stop people from East Germany, escaping. There were many protests about the wall being built it all just started to happen in the early hours of the 13th August 1961, there were no announcements, notices the German Government just decided that it should happen. The wall was up for at least 28 years during that time 5,000 people attempted to get across to the otherside, but many failed due to the amount 100 to 200 people died .
There was a failed event of Peter Fechter (aged 18), who tried to climb the wall. He was shot and bled to death. tHe last person to be shot and killed, while trying to cross the border was Chris Gueffroy on the 6th February 1989. In 1963, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan visited Berlin commerating the 750th Anniversary of Berlin. The two of them wrote speeches, trying to convince the German Government to take down the Berlin Wall.
The date on which the wall fell is considered to have been the 9th November 1989, but the wall wasn't torn down immediately. During the weeks that followed, people came to the wall with sledgehammers and chisels to chip off souveniers. These people were nicknamed 'Mauerspechte' ( wall woodpeckers).
On the 13th August 201, Germany marked the 50th Anniversary of the beginning the erection of the Berlin Wall
There were once two parts of Germany, the East whp were the communists and the West. The Berlin Wall was built to stop people from East Germany, escaping. There were many protests about the wall being built it all just started to happen in the early hours of the 13th August 1961, there were no announcements, notices the German Government just decided that it should happen. The wall was up for at least 28 years during that time 5,000 people attempted to get across to the otherside, but many failed due to the amount 100 to 200 people died .
There was a failed event of Peter Fechter (aged 18), who tried to climb the wall. He was shot and bled to death. tHe last person to be shot and killed, while trying to cross the border was Chris Gueffroy on the 6th February 1989. In 1963, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan visited Berlin commerating the 750th Anniversary of Berlin. The two of them wrote speeches, trying to convince the German Government to take down the Berlin Wall.
The date on which the wall fell is considered to have been the 9th November 1989, but the wall wasn't torn down immediately. During the weeks that followed, people came to the wall with sledgehammers and chisels to chip off souveniers. These people were nicknamed 'Mauerspechte' ( wall woodpeckers).
On the 13th August 201, Germany marked the 50th Anniversary of the beginning the erection of the Berlin Wall
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Colonision of Australian Letter
The Colonision of Australian is when all of these prisoners were bought to Australia from london to start a new colony. In year 4 we had to write a letter about what it would be like if we were in London and we were prisoners who were put on a ship and travel to Australia, we had to pretend we were writing to an aunt about it. Here it is:
Dear Aunt Elizabeth
22nd August 1788
Life in London was very hard. I didn't know where my parents were. I was all alone with no where to go. I had no food or water just myself alone in London. One day I got very hungry so I stole a loaf of bread. So now I am on my way to Port Jackson ( also known as Australia), to start a new colony.
On the boatthe conditions are terrible. It smells like vomit, dead bodies, rotten food and fish, it's horrible. The ship that I was on was called The Lady Penrhyn. They have sentenced me seven years in prison. They have too many prisoners in London. So they are taking us to Port Jackson. Every day we get a certain amount of food, it's not enough! Some of the people on the ship were getting sick with scurvy, but luckly I didn't.
On the second month of the journeywe stopped at Rio De Janiero which was are second stop to stock up on food. Soon we had to leave Rio and get back on that disgusting boat. Everything about that boat is horrible the food the smell the conditions, I wanted to go home. Whenever I went to sleep I dreamed of the positive things in life, been rich and going to school, going back to England to see my parents.
Seven months later we arrived in Port Jackson it was a reliefto see land. When we arrived there were other people on the island, the Aboriginals . They were here before us. The first thing that we did was that we were ordered to cut down the trees I didn't want to do that. The jobs that I did were helping the cook, feeding the animals, helping the gardener and making the tents. Also I had to share a tent with other children.
After a couple of years I got realeased. I could start my life all over again
Best wishes
Amelia
Dear Aunt Elizabeth
22nd August 1788
Life in London was very hard. I didn't know where my parents were. I was all alone with no where to go. I had no food or water just myself alone in London. One day I got very hungry so I stole a loaf of bread. So now I am on my way to Port Jackson ( also known as Australia), to start a new colony.
On the boatthe conditions are terrible. It smells like vomit, dead bodies, rotten food and fish, it's horrible. The ship that I was on was called The Lady Penrhyn. They have sentenced me seven years in prison. They have too many prisoners in London. So they are taking us to Port Jackson. Every day we get a certain amount of food, it's not enough! Some of the people on the ship were getting sick with scurvy, but luckly I didn't.
On the second month of the journeywe stopped at Rio De Janiero which was are second stop to stock up on food. Soon we had to leave Rio and get back on that disgusting boat. Everything about that boat is horrible the food the smell the conditions, I wanted to go home. Whenever I went to sleep I dreamed of the positive things in life, been rich and going to school, going back to England to see my parents.
Seven months later we arrived in Port Jackson it was a reliefto see land. When we arrived there were other people on the island, the Aboriginals . They were here before us. The first thing that we did was that we were ordered to cut down the trees I didn't want to do that. The jobs that I did were helping the cook, feeding the animals, helping the gardener and making the tents. Also I had to share a tent with other children.
After a couple of years I got realeased. I could start my life all over again
Best wishes
Amelia
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The Sun
Here is an Information Report about The Sun
The Sun is the centre of the solar system. The Sun is a giant ball of hydrogen gas formed billions of years ago. Along with the Sun the planets were formed. The Sun is really hot, sometimes explosions happen because the sun is too hot.
The dark spots on the Sun are called sunspots; sunspots are ares where the temperature is colder than usual. The Sun is about 4 1/2 billion years old! The temperature of the Sun's core is about 15,000,000 Degrees Celsius. The hottest part of the Sun is the core. The sun is ten times bigger than Jupiter and 109 times bigger than Earth. The Sun's diameter is 864,938 miles ( 91,391,980 km).
At night the moon blocks out the Sun it's called an eclipse, if the moon totally blocks out the Sun it's called a solar eclipse. The distance between the Earth and the Sun is 150 million kilometers (93 million miles ). Just like other living things the Sun was born and the Sun will die. The Sun is now a middle-aged star, meaning it is about in the middle of its life. You may think the Sun will die soon, but it will keep shining for another five billion years.
The Sun is incredible it can do amazing things, without the Sun we wouldn't be who we are now. The Sun rotates once every 27 days. The Sun is one out of a billion stars. The Sun is special it made life on Earth it made lots of incredible things.
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