Sophia

=__Term 4 Goals __= =Goal 1: I will try to link my writing. I will accomplish this by linking in my books. = =Goal 2: Increase my vocabulary. I will achieve this by reading more sophisticated books. = = = =__My Reading Log (Week 2 & 3) __= =Tuesday 18th October, = =Title: The Bible, Genesis = =Author: (I don't know) = =Comment: It must be cool to have a vision of God and angels. I wish it happens to me. It's also really amazing how many children Jacob has in all. Twelve sons and a daughter. That's quite some! = =Wednesday and Thursday 19th and 20th October, = =Title: Tales of Deltora = =Author: Emily Rodda = =Comment: On Wednesday I read the first half of the book. It had many interesting tales in it. Like 'The Tale of the Pirran Pipe' and ' The Four Sisters'. I have also read about them in the Deltora Quest series. = =On Thursday, I read the second half of the book. The stories were the history of Deltora. My favourite part was when Adin gathered the people of all the seven tribes of the land together and fought for the land against the Shadow Lord. A fascinating story. Brought me out of my boredom. = =Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th October = =Title: Secrets of Deltora = =Author: Emily Rodda = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Comment: How I wish, wish, wish that Deltora was real! It would be awesome! This book was full of survival tips for Deltora. I'd love to see a dragon someday! = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 25th, 26th and 27th October = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Title: The Lady Grace Mysteries - Loot = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Author: Grace Cavendish = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Comment: Amazingly dangerous for a Maid of Honour who is also Lady Pusuivant. Queen Elizabeth 1 must've been furious because the crown of St Edward was stolen. Then Lady Grace/Lady Pursuivant/Maid of Honour/God-daughter of Queen Elizabeth 1, had to solve the mystery. Very interesting for me. = = =

=__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Term 3 Goals __= =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Goal 1: My first gaol for term three is to hand in the best work I can do. I will acheive this by using 100% effort in all my books. = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Goal 2: My second goal for term three is to join the Mathex team this year. I will do this by going home and study from my mum's college maths books. =

=__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**Vector Energy** __= =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**Today I learnt from Tracey, that there are 37 places in New Zealand that produce electricity for our country. There are Hydropower stations where they produce electricity from water, Windpower stations produce electricity through wind, a non-renewable power is Fossil Fuels.** = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**Tracey, from Vector Energy, explained that there aren't many Fossil Fuel places in New Zealand, because of this, we don't use much of it since it is non-renewable so we must save it. Tracey told us that there are 7 kinds of energy. There are mechanical, electrical, radiation, chemical, biomass and two more.** = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> **After that, Tracey showed us two games from Vector Enerhy's website. Then, Tracey asked us to discuss how we could save on water heating and heating. Some ways are to use cold water to wash your clothes, have a short shower instead of a long, hot bath, using energy-saving light bulbs and use a fireplace instead of a heater.** = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> **Later on, we summarised what we had learnt. But before that, Tracey showed us some toys, not baby toys, but toys that are actually interesting. One was this fan-like thing and when you turn it, a light bulb at the bottom of it will light up. The other one was a cardboard helicopter. When Tracey put it under some light, the blades on the helicopter spun. But when she took it out, it slowed down to a stop. I thought it was very entertaining.** = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**After summarising, we filed out of the music room and went back to class and started writing this recount.** =

=__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Move & Groove __= =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**This morning, we watched the Move and Groove. The first one was 'Teddy Bears' Picnic' by Mrs Duncan. This was one of my favourites because they looked so cute in pajamas and doing the moves to the song. Even though they weren't in time and the moves were simple, I really enjoyed it.** = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**My second most favourite dance was Mrs Roger's class. The song was called 'Blow'. I liked their moves and their costumes. The gloves gave some effect so that the moves looked more eye-catching and caught my attention. I especially enjoyed the end. It was so cool.** = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**My top most favourite dance was the teachers' dance. I liked it because it had the teachers dancing and there was a great choice of songs. It was funny because Mr WB got married and Miss Holder is getting married and the dance was about getting married.** = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**After all the dances were finished, I thought that most of them needed improving. Some of the dancers forgot their positions, while the others forgot the moves.** = =<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">**Coming back to 6e, we started writing these recounts. Not that there was ALOT to say.** = =__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Term 2 Goals __=

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__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Teen braves fire to rescue little boy: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">An eighteen year old neighbour named Wiremu Ropata and his older brother heard a scream while they were watching TV, just about to go to bed. The scream sounded panicked and shrill. Wiremu and his brother found out their neighbour's house was on fire. When Wiremu went outside he found the boy's family standing outside in shock. A woman died in the fire and six others were taken to the hospital. ==

__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Starving Boy eats a cockroach: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">'Crunchy and juicy' said the starving boy after eating a cockroach. The boy is six years old. This little boy described to someone that he was so hungry he found some cockroaches and tried eating them. He said they were crunchy and juicy. He said he was very glad that he does not need to do that anymore. ==

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__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Dogs maul two kids: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">A three-year-old boy was attacked by a stranger's dog outside a video store while he patted it. Oracle Brampton had a hole in his cheek big enough to put a finger through a fter the incident in West Auckland. The owner of the dog apologised and pleaded not to kill his "best friend"(dog). Oracle was sent to the hospital by the ambulance after being bitten by a Staffordshire terrier. His mother, Athena Wapiha-Reo, and nana, Moana Wapiha-Reo said they took Oracle and his three siblings to a video store for a Playstation game as a treat for being good. But the outing turned into horror when Oracle and his sister,Nataliya,nine years old, went to pat the dog as it lay in the shop doorway. Security camera footage showed a girl patted the dog without a problem. But when Oracle and his sister bent down to pat it, the animal attacked. The owner ran out of the shop, grabbed his dog and fled."Oracle was screaming and holding his face and everyone around him was screaming at the blood pouring out of his face",said Moana. Oracle's mother almost fainted at the sight of her bloodied son but she still held him and applied pressure to the wounds until the ambulance came. ==

__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Rate of attacks on Libya set to slow: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Building on what US officials called a successful first stage of international military action in Libya, the focus is shifting to widening a no-fly zone across the North African country while carrying on smaller-scale attacks on Libyan air defences and setting the stage for humanitarian relief mission. The Defence Secretary Robert Gates and others said the US military's role will lessen in the coming days as other countries take on more missions and the need declines for large-scale offensive action like the barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles fired Saturday and Sunday mainly by US ships and submarines off Libya's coast. ==

__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Childcare changes would cost parents-GOVT: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Children's Commissioner John Angus said today a review by his office had found the quality of care provided for children varying from two year olds and under. He recommended a number of changes including reducing the number of groups of under-two-year-olds in one group. Ms Bell said research showed young children in ECE needed sustained interactions from responsive adults who were well educated in children's learning and developement patterns. ==

__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Japan's disaster toll rises to 18,000: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">The Japanese officials reported progress over the weekend in their battle to gain control over a nuclear complex that had begun leaking since the earthquake and the tsunami damage though the crisis is far from with a new surge in pressure reported in one of the plant's six reactors. ==

__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Don't underestimate the sea squirts: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">It's muscles, not mussels, emerging from the sea thanks to sea squirts. Researchers believe that they can harvest cellulose to facilitate muscle alignment. Banana peels may offer a natural alternative to water purification. Banana skins may also prove to be a safer way to draw heavy metals out of water supplies. ==

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__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">No official advice on abandoning suburb-John Key: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Yesterday, 7th of March, John Key said parts of Christchurch have to be abandoned and up to 10,000 houses will be broken down as a result of last month's earthquake. "If a suburb can't or a street can't be rebuilt, then that's the facts of it. But people need some certainty about that quite quickly"John Key said. Labour leader Phil Goff said that the estimated number of homes facing being demolished was 'pretty bad news for those people who were involved. ==

__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Christchurch Earthquake Update: __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Today, on the 6th of March at 12:21 the recovery efforts at the Canterbury TV building have officially ended with no more positive identifications. The Fire Service co-ordinater Paul Baxter said that the workers have sifted through the debris and that they were satisfied that they could do no more. ==

<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">3.Peter was a yachtsman who joins contests and James was an explorer who explored by boat.
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">4.Peter isn't really important to New Zealand but he did represent New Zealand in races. I think James was important because he came up with the peace treaty. ==

__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">New Zealand Herald: Christchurch Earthquake __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">In the New Zealand Herald it said that the police said there may have been more than 100 people are lost in the earthquake. Inspector Dave Lawry said that he was 100 per cent sure that there were no survivors in the building. Fifteen CTV staff members and a group of Japanese students were believed to be inside the building when it crashed. There were also people trapped in the Pyne Gould Corporation building. Four people were pulled out of the wreck today and the last, a woman, had been trapped for 26 hours. Police believe that there were there were twenty people in the ChristChurch Cathedral when it collapsed. The police are sure the people are now dead. The officers still have hope that there may be some people alive stuck in cavities in some places. This happened on the 23 of February 2011. ==

__<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cyclone Atu __
==<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">The latest cyclone that had brushed past New Zealand, making a risk of high seas on the North Island's east coast. Cyclone Atu was formed on Saturday 19th of February 2011. Cyclone Atu is expected to reach New Zealand by Wednesday 23rd of February 2011. Mr Duncan says that we are very lucky because Cyclone Atu is incredibily close but not quite close enough. The greatest threat was from sea levels anywhere in between the Northland and the East Cape. Mr Duncan warned that Atu could create large swells around Gisborne and Hawkes Bay. This is the third cyclone to pass us to the east. ==