Morning blog post

The day,

I woke up, slowly, quietly and with the intentions to leave without anyone seeing or talking to me. I wanted to think today was like any other day, but with everyone else treating it like it was some big deal then it came a big deal to me. See today was my birthday, but I dont like my birthday, I really dont. Im turning 14 today and 7 years ago my mum and dad dumped me, they left me on the side of the road and I've never heard from them since. Every year for some reason I expect to get something from them or hear from them but I never did and with the new family i'm living with I dont even feel comfortable talking to them about it.

 I went down to the garage to find my school shoes but I then realized my foster sister has obviously taken them to school, she had basketball at 6 so she had left early. I went down into the attic to see if they had any spare shoes, I went looking through some boxes then I found a small little brown chest with my last name engraved on the lid, I presumed it was mine so I opened it. The only things in it was letter's in brown envelope and black numbers on it, I then realized that all the numbers were labeled in order  , So I started reading the first one with the letter 1 on it. I got to the 4th letter and realized that these were letter's for me from my parents. They were writing to me, apologizing and explaining why they did what they did.

My last thoughts were why did my foster parents keep these from me? I rang the number on the bottom of each letter and my Dad answered. I told him to meet me after school, with my mum and that my foster parents will have to be there. "Why are you only talking to us now?" "I guess everyone needs an explanation, and we will get it tonight"

Morning Blog post

Our visit to Room 43

Yesterday the satellite classroom finally moved into their temporary classroom as a little while ago their original classroom was burnt down due to electrical fire with the air conditioner left on over night. A group of students from my class including me went over to Room 43 to see the new class and to officially introduce ourselves to them as we are their new neighbors. I got to meet all the kids and some of them talked to me and showed me around. Bobby one of the famous kids in room 43 gave me the deluxe tour, he showed me the room where he hides in the morning so the teaches cant find him. He introduced me to all the other students and where they work, he also showed me how he types as Bobby cant write words due to the disabilities he has.

Daily blog post

This weekend started with an 11:30 netball game, we ended up losing by two goals but it was my first netball game for 3 years ago. Surprisingly my grandma came down afterwards on Saturday to spend a few nights with us. She came down to help us find a house and just because she wanted a holiday, she will be heading home on Wednesday. To tell you the truth i wasn't really looking forward to going horse riding on Sunday afternoon because the weather from the night before had flooded all the paddocks. I ended up just cleaning the paddocks up, picking up poo and feeding the horses. I washed two of the horses after me and the owner of the horses went for a ride and then gave them some hay from the horse trailer. Unfortunately have the awesome duty of picking up poo and feeding the horses as the owner will be away over seas for the week so I have responsibility of 4 horses this week.

Morning blog posts

Top 5 teen problems today:

1: Cigarette smoking
Nearly 2/3 of young New Zealanders aged 14-17 have tried smoking cigarettes.

2: Bullying
As many as 70% of all young people have been bullied of some form.

3. Shoplifting
25% of New Zealand teenagers have tried shoplifting and 55% are adults but those adults started in there youth.

4. Obesity
 As of 2004 30% of New Zealand teenagers are obese

5. Bulimia and Anorexia
17% of teenagers are suffering from an eating disorder which makes 68,000 kids will suffer from these disorders once in their lives.

My opinion: I was extremely shocked and kinda disappointed that the percentages were so high, I certainly didn't expect the results I got. I thought the results would be half the percentage they were. 

Science

Science extinct animal:
European cave lion
The European cave lion or also known as eurasian cave lion first appeared 500,000 years ago and evidence shows that it was forced into isolation up to near the last european ice age. The cave lion is a lot bigger then the largest cats today and grew to an average of 3.5 meters and with males weighing up to 400 kilos.

Science

Summary of periodic table:
The periodic table is a table/grid to show the 118 elements, they are arranged by their similar properties. The elements are also arranged by there atomic numbers. Only 94 elements have been seen on earth but there are known to be 118 all together.  Each element on the periodic table makes up everything in our world. In 1864 the periodic table was created by Dmitri Mendeleev.

Science

Important Science discoveries

Isaac Newton, an english mathematician and physicist is consider one of the best scientist of all time. In 1664 Newton discovered gravity is the force that draws objects towards each other. It explained why things fall down and why the plants orbit around the sun. Isaac has discovered many things but gravity was the most important. 

Scientist post

Scientist- Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the united states.  He was born on January 17 1706 and he died on April 17 1790 at the age of 84. His professions were being a Scientist, Writer and a Politician. As a scientist he was famous for the history of  physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He also was a major  figure in the American Enlightenment.

Science Post

Science experiment

Mentos in coke and putting it in a hole

In year 6 we had to do a obstacle course and one of the challenges was putting mentos in a coke and you had to close the lid, shake the bottle and put it in a hole. Then you would wait for your bottle to explode. When your bottle burst you could go to the next activity. I was partnered with a friend but we struggled closing the coke bottle before it exploded, we had to do it at least 3 times.
For it to work you should have your mentos in one hand the cap in the other and a partner holding the bottle but I didn't think of that until we had finished.

Homework

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the
menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from
your guests.

Entree- Kumara rosti and garlic mayonaise
Main-  Chicken, spinach and feta pie
Dessert- Lemon curd tart with Raspberry coolie


Comments By Family -
Entree - Kumara rosti
Mum - Yum, Yum, Yum.
Dad - Very flavorsome, well cooked, wanted more!
Georgia (sister) - Really nice flavorsome and cooked golden brown.

Main-  Chicken, spinach and feta pie
Mum -  Lots of flavor, really enjoyed and loved
Dad - Beautiful pie, something different from the usual pies.
Georgia (sister) - Yummy pie with nice flavors and textures.

Dessert- Lemon curd tart with Raspberry coolie
Mum - I loved this lemon tart, the filling was smooth & silky.
Dad - Absolutely beautiful! wanted more and more, very nice flavors and textures.
Georgia (sister) -  Nice sour taste from the lemon with the sweet taste from coconut in bases and coolie.