Quiz article week 9 term 2

Nine months ago John Roughan got asked if he wanted to write a bibliography on John Key. And he did. He started to write and write. The main things were.

He was a great politician and was the leader of a group called MANA. John Key doesn't even need this book to become more popular. In fact, if you try to run for politician he would beat you in less than 10 minutes. Thats how popular he is.

John Key was born on the 9th of August 1961. He has 2 children and is the 38th prime  minister from 2008. He runs a party called New Zealand National Party since 2006. At the age of 7, his dad died. His mum had a contract to run a cafeteria at a milk treatment plant.

Solar system facts

I did this in my own time during school. :) Hope you enjoy!!!!

Edited writing sample

Dodgeball. Dodgeball. The worst tournament they could pick. Dodgeball. I prefer badminton. It’s just that the first time I played dodgeball back in Nelson was hard enough.

*Dramatic Flashback*

“Owww” I moan when the first murderball hit me. The coach just blows the whistle and calls me off. Someone makes a catch and gets me back on. “Oww” I mutter again when the next murderball hits me.

Well the first practice here at Point England wasn’t much better. It was probably worse. It was the  year 7s VS the year 8s. Guess how many boys were on the year 7 team? C'mon guess. 3. 3! That is how many, including me. I'm definatly the catcher of the team but not good enough to catch all the good guys out. The year 8 team had half the class and about ⅓ of the year 8’s are boys so we got pummeled like an asteroid hitting our ship. Literally. The balls were the asteroids and we were the ships. “MAYDAY MAYDAY” we yell. Its not fun. But the good bit about not being good at dodgeball is the fact you're not a target. The good people are. So you survive longer and if you're good at dodging you might be the final one in your team. The question was, how good would we be as a full class???

The first match was better than I expected. Since all the good people were on the same team as the weaker people the weaker people would sacrifice themselves to protect the better people. The good people slammed, pummeled and caught the balls so the decoys could come back on. Then it came to the final 5 on our team and they had 7. But luckily they had no balls on their side. So we got all the balls and threw them all at the same time we somehow got 4 out!

The final three were harder than the rest. We hadn't learned the concept of taking the good people out first. Our only way to win was to catch them out or somehow get 1 out by throwing all of the 3 balls on our side and hopefully hitting them. We caught 1 out and had 4 balls to throw. We threw them all at once. We hit another 1! The last one. But he had all the balls on his side. With a big thrust the ball leapt out of his hand into the air and catapulted into a person from our side’s stomach. “Not a big worry, he’s not a good player,” I think to myself. Like a flash he throws another. It flies right past me. Hits no one. “Phew!”Suddenly the next one hits another weaker person. I glanced around noticing that I'm somehow in the final 3. We had 3 balls on our side. We threw all 3 at once. He caught 1, deflected another with it but a diagonally flying ball hit him in the legs. Success. Other team annihilated. Good job team.

AFL or American Football League

Australian Football League or AFL for short. I’m not a fan of rugby but this was really fun. The things we learned were the drop punt, chest mark, high mark, speckie, ruck and handball. The coach was called Tim.

The drop punt was first and we did it along with the chest mark, high mark and speckie. The drop punt is where you drop the ball and kick it with the top of your foot and don’t let it bounce. The hard part is that if you let it bounce the ball would go haywire. The chest mark is where you put your hands out straight and catch the ball by pulling your arms in and getting the ball on the way ending up on your chest.

The high mark is when you put your hands up by your head like a diamond. The aim is to get the X on one side of the ball in the gap and then surround it with your hands. The speckie is where you jump and do the chest mark like your superman saving a cat from a tree. The way we did it was someone would drop punt it and the other would use the mark or speckie that would be best used for the balls hight.

The handball is where you have a straight hand with the ball on its side. The other hand is a fist and you hit the ball with where you’re thumb is. We practiced this a lot. It was tricky for a while. Then I got it a little. Not much, a little.

The ruck is where the ref throws the ball up and you need to tip it to your team. Kinda like basketball. I got put in a group of a very tall person and a very short person. The tall person got every ball it could. The smaller one didn’t get any. I had a 50/50 because I could get it from the short person, but not the tall.

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Braeden

Finals for FIFA World Cup 2010

The match was Netherlands VS Spain. The only goal was made by spain 4 minutes until extra time by Andrés Iniesta. There were many yellow cards handed out during that match. Netherlands had a goalkeeper of a brick wall. At least until that brick wall was destroyed.

The teams lineups were good. The lineups helped a lot with the defence and attack but personally the goalkeepers were the best players, especially the Netherlands goalkeeper. But sadly the score was 1-0 to Spain. Spain took home the world cup and netherlands were the runner-up this time.

Empathy

Empathy is where you put yourself in others shoes. Feel what they feel. Think, if that happened to me how would I feel. If people weren’t empathetic everyone would be upset and this world won’t be a happy place. If you say your dog has died (very sad) no one would feel how you feel they’ll all just say “Go get a new one then HAHAHAHA.”

If people were empathetic and your dog dies. Everyone would feel sorry for you and that would make you feel better. Like they’ll say “Thats so sad” and “I know how you feel.” They might even tell you about their dog or cat dieing. They’ll help you get over your dog dieing.

Dodgeball writing test

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Writing test Term 2

Dodgeball. Dodgeball. The worst tournament they could pick. Dodgeball. I prefer badminton. Its just that the first time I played dodgeball was hard enough. *Dramatic Flashback* “Owww” I moan when the first murderball hit me. The coach just blows the whistle and calls me off. Someone made a catch and gets me back on. “Oww” I mutter again when the next murderball hit me.

Well the first practice wasn’t much better. It was year 7 VS year 8. Guess how many boys were on the year 7 team. C'mon guess. 3 that is how many, including me. The year 8 team had half the class and about ⅓ of the year 8’s are boys. There all the good ones in our team apparently. So we got pummeled like an asteroid hit our ship. Literally. The balls were the asteroids and we were the ships. Its not fun. But the good bit is about not being good at dodgeball is the fact you're not a target. The good people are. So you survive longer.

The first match was better than I expected. Since all the good people were on the same team as the weaker people the weaker people would sacrifice themselves to protect the better people. We slammed pummeled and caught the balls so the decoys could come back on. Then it came to the final 5 on our team. and they had 7. But they had no balls on their side. So we got all the balls and threw them all at the same time we somehow got 4 out!

The final three were harder than the rest. We hadn't learned the concept of taking the good people out first so our only way to win is to catch them out or somehow get 1 out by throwing all of the 3 balls on our side and hopefully hitting him. We caught 1 out and had 4 balls to throw. We threw them all at once. We hit another 1! The last one. But he had all the balls on his side. He threw 1 of them, hit someone in our team. Not a big worry, he’s not a good player I think to myself. Then he throws another. Hits no one. The next one hits another weaker person. I'm somehow in the final 3 and we had 3 balls on our side. We threw all 3 at once and he caught 1, deflected 1 with it but 1 hit him in the legs.

The next dodgeball game I was doing a test so I couldn’t play. I had just finished the test when the game was over. So I waited till practice time. Practice time eventually came around and we learnt how the concept of taking out the biggest player (see paragraph 4 line 1.) We also learned teamwork so we could take out more people faster. We’ve done this before it was the throw all the balls at once thing. Still it wasn’t easy to take out all the big players. Lets hope todays game is easier than the rest.

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Quatar has been chosen to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. They have been $52,000 from the government to get their stadiums all spick and span ready for the tournament. Russia also made a bid at the same time for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The FIFA World Cup is where teams from all over the world play soccer to see who is the best team and gets the world cup. The first rounds are the preliminaries then the quarter finals, semi finals, and then the finals. The winner of the last cup was Italy. The host of the last cup was South Africa. The host of the FIFA World Cup this year is Brazil.

The homework machine

Book Title: The Homework Machine	Author: Dan Gutman
Reviewer: Braeden Class 4	Grand total of books read this year: 8
Book Genre: (Highlight) Fiction Science fiction Drama Romance Mystery Horror Comedy Series Fantasy Other (state) Non-Fiction Biographies/Autobiographies Historical Instructional Other (state)	Insert photo of book cover here:
Reading Level: Easy Medium Advanced	Rating:✩✩✩✩✩
Review: Homework is boring so these kids made a machine that would do it for them.	Excerpt: So Brenton pulls out his homework from his bag and puts it in the machine... then out the other side is a filled piece of homework!

Free writing

For my 50th post I did some free writing.

Once upon a time there was a man. His name was Bob. Bob spent as much time in water as possible because he likes to bob. Once he didn't go in water for 1 week and he literally ran over to the ocean and as soon as he hit the water he tripped and seaweed got stuck up his nose. Attached to the seaweed was a crab and he pinched Bob’s nose. He pulled the seaweed out of his nose and threw it back into the water, about 10 feet away. Unfortunately this just made the crab angrier and the crab jumped down and pinched his toe. The crab then walked off in search of the seaweed. Then Bob went and bobbed some more and by that time it was 5:00 PM. He then rushed home and was forced to eat his asparagus and brussel sprouts. Then he filled up the bath, got back in his togs, hopped in and started to bob once again.

Then it was Monday. As much as you could think “How is he able to survive a day at school without bobbing?” He somehow manages to. First he has a breakfast of two vegemite toast then he goes over to his friends house. “Hi Fred” Bob says. “Hi” Fred replies. By this time it was 8:30 and it was a 15 minute walk to school. As they walked they talked. They like talking about comics and what they did over the weekend. When they got to school they sat down at art class. They painted their favourite superhero Toilet Man. He has a toilet plunger sword and a toilet seat shield. In Bob’s picture Toilet Man was fighting the Slime Army. In Fred’s he was defeating the Rotten Rats. I don’t know why their favourite superhero is Toilet Man nor he’s defeating the Rotten Rats or the Slime Army. The names just came to me at the time. 

Anyway after art class had finished they moved to maths. They needed to finish 15 problems to get a grade or its a an automatic F. The first question was Car A began a journey from a point at 9 am, travelling at 30 mph. At 10 am car B started travelling from the same point at 40 mph in the same direction as car A. At what time will car B pass car A? If you're curious what the answer was its 13 pm or 1 pm is when car B passes car A. Then he moves to science and they were studying plants…. Bob fell asleep. He got woken up by the bell for lunch and he pulled out his turkey sandwich. Fred had a PB&J sandwich. After lunch he has 1 more class the one he despises most. 

Social studies. I’m not going to bore you with the details but he gets slammed with a pop quiz and he gets the grade F. He doesn’t bother to study for social studies he doesn't even bring his homework home. He “accidentally drops” it on the walk home. When he gets home he runs the bath, hops in his togs and jumps in and starts bobbing. This happens until Saturday when he goes to his favourite place in the world the pools. On Sunday he goes to the his second most Favorited place, the water park.

The next day they had a school trip. To the museum about Egypt. It even made you thirsty just listening to it. Sadly The museum has no drinking fountains. It was torture for Bob having to listen to a things in a desert. Bob couldn't stand learning about a place with no water. So... He plan #1 into action. He lay in bed and acted like he was sick. "Ohhhh Owwwwww" Bob moaned. His mum fell for it. But then she saw me eat half a box of cereal. she says I need to go to school. Plan #1 FAIL Plan #2 activate. "I will miss the school bus" Bob protested. His mum said "I'll drive you to school. Uh-oh plan #1 and #2 have been a failure and I don't have a plan #3 meaning UHGGGGGG. At school I try plan #1 again, except in my chair not my bed. (see paragraph 5 line 4.) The teacher sends me to the sick bay. But when they say they'll call mum I get butterflies in my stomach.

Mum is not happy. She knows i'm faking it. But she is a little suspicious of the fact i'm faking sick on a school trip day. So mum comes to talk to me. She asks where i'm going to a trip to. Bob says The museum of the Egypt. His mum instantly knows why he's been faking sick and takes him home. Bob fills the bath, gets in his togs, and bobs away.

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Planes travelling past Indonesia are not going to be happening until Sunday because of an unexpected ash cloud from Sangeang Api volcano causes a big ash cloud. The reason the flights have been stopped is because that ash can have very well pulverized rocks in it. 

There have been 3 high eruptions during that period. But we can see a significant eruption in the volcano. The ash will be travelling further south and then disappearing so no big threat then. But as a result al flights have been cancelled for 31 May 2014.

Cold windy day

I’m running against the brisk wind, I can’t stop or i’ll be buffeted about. My stomach is rumbling, My jacket is flapping. I can’t run much faster. I look at my watch it replies me with 8:55! I’m late! I’m running but not for long. I have been running for so long and my stomach sends a signal to my brain saying Stop running, fill me! and I stop. I then remember I didn’t have breakfast. I take a snack from my bag  to have on the way.

While i was running my snack fell out of my hand twice. I then figured that I should stop and eat it then continue running. So I gobbled and gulped and swallowed until my snack was finished. Then I continued running but I tripped over and bruised my knee. So then I limped to school and When i’m halfway between the school and where I tripped over and the bell ring BRING!!!! “Great another detention”  I mutter to myself.

Bagpipes

Nikki and Braeden instrumen

Nikki and Braeden instrument.

TITLE

1. QUESTION/OBSERVATIONS

: Does the rubber band thickness/tightness affect the pitch?

2. HYPOTHESIS

Yes it will change. The thicker the rubber band the lower the noise

3. EXPERIMENT

Rubber bands book

Process/Method: Describe in steps the process you will go through to carry out your experiment. 1. Put the rubber band round the book horizontally. 2. Flick it on the book 3. Take the rubber band off 4.Put the next one on.

4. CONCLUSION:

Yes the thickness and thinness of the rubber band effects the sound of the guitar. The thicker the rubber band the lower the noise The thinner the rubber band the higher.