Memoir

The island was usual enough.

It had, a nature walk, an estuary, a bridge and a majestic view heading into the horizon.

My friends and I did what boys did,wrestled on the island, ran along the rocky side of the island, waiting without patience for the waves to pummel us with salty essence, bombing into the fresh, cool water, tramping through the eerie forest.

Doing nothing important at all.

By Connor R Bowden

Truffula Tree

Truffula Tree

I learned how to construct a truffula tree using a limited amount of resources given to our group.  
You can only use those resources nothing else which was actually a little bit challenging.
I also learnt that planning is really important if you want a superb-looking tree.

The materials required are

• 20 sheets of newspaper
• 4m of string
• 10m of sellotape
• 4 sheets of coloured paper
• Pair of scissors

The difficult thing about our entertaining experiment was concocting a truffula tree and especially
making the experiment stabilize and not collapse.

Fireworks

I vehemently believe that fireworks should be abolished to the public.

 Firstly, I think that since fireworks can harm people if not controlled properly so it is better and safer to go to a festival or a show so you can leave the professionals handle the fireworks.

Secondly, animals can give very scared from the explosion of the fireworks it's not just that they get a fright it's the decibel level of the fireworks the reason for this is because pets ears are really sensitive.

Therefore I vehemently believe fireworks should be banned.

ROOM 22

Room 22

The best thing that happened in room 22 has got to be making many new friends.  My 2nd favourite thing playing with my friends. Getting to know everyone was my 3rd favourite thing.  My 4th is making everything fun and exciting whenever there was something boring we always brightened it up.  5th is being in Mrs Madden’s class because we always did entertaining things and most of them involved sport. 6th is having all the nice,polite relievers like Mrs Mailei and Mrs Stafford and much more.  7th is all the special events we do like the Soran Bushi and much more.

Next year I’m going to intermediate so it’ll be little different but I’ll get the hang if it.

Decimal Place Value

Today we measured our height and weight in decimals
my height was 157cm
which is 1.57m
one whole five tenths and seven hundredths of a metre
here is a picture which shows my height.

Super inventions

My invention is called a hyper-drive it gives basically anything that moves the power of light speed.

To power the hyperdrive you need to flick the switch a few times and that mixes the trope gas and the canola oil, the pipes spin at jurassic speeds and that's when the light speed  kicks in but that's when the cooler comes in blows at extremely high speeds.

In conclusion I think this invention would really help NASA and scientist.

The Abandon Asylum

This place was where fears were born where nightmares were kept,
this asylum was petrifying there was only one hallway leading
forward I decided to go deeper into this awful place,
their were hundreds of empty, grotesque rooms with cobwebs dangling
from the ceiling and debris from the walls scattered all over the
mossy
ground, I was going deeper my heart was pounding like a bull's
hooves stomping on the ground at maximum speed what made it
worse were the creaky floorboards they were that weak every time
I would take a step it would crack like an egg hitting the concrete,
all I could smell was a mixture of rotting flesh and
that smell of farm mud ,it was REVOLTING!
The smell was just getting worse I couldn’t stand it
I thought my nostrils would melt in couldn’t find a way out
I was isolated in this hell.

Haiku Poem

Earth's point of view

The stars glisten bright

Hazy blue covers the globe

Levitate in space

The Blistering hot sun

The sun is blinding

Astronaut investigate

The sun's force is strong

Shrek Description

Shrek is a arrogant,selfish,rude ogre his stink waves are so REPULSIVE its like he is a 100 year old egg and he sure acts like an egg,he's like satan but smells horrendously bad Shreks nose is so big if he enter a competition over the biggest nose he would probably bet squidward in the finals.He wears and old run-down ratty leather coat with another vest that's just as bad.

The Apartheid

Nelson Mandela

Candytopia wordsearch

For my reading follow up I read candytopia and this was the word search supporting the article

Nelson Mandela

The Manatee

Their once was a parental unite type male taking a walk in the park by the beach ,he was really hefty he walked past some glorious cherry blossoms until a gargantuan hippo came roaming around he had a good view of the human but the human didn’t have a good view of the hippo so the hippo striked the human, the human still didn’t see the hippo then in one gulp the hippo caught the human blindsided but the next day the hippo couldn’t move and his nose was HUMONGOUS!

And that's when they named it the Manatee.

10 eggs and a basket

Runaway Robot Rampage

Runaway Robot Rampage

Hemi wakes up in a dash and the first thing he hears is a stampede of annoyed angry people, he thinks to himself " Where is my robot" Hemi scans the area for it, it was nowhere to be found, he starts to panic his hearts beating like thunder,all of a sudden the robot shows up with people holding pitchforks and torches chasing it, so he quickly ran into the shed and destroys the robot but when he comes out of the shed and the whole suburb is filled with havoc and chaos, it look like a war zone, the civilians were savage beasts no one knew what to do, suddenly someone arrived. To be continued. 

The 100 Word Challenge

The 100 Word Challenge

It was Wednesday 8:00 it was time to execute my plan, I sneaked into school but when I jumped the fence, my pants got caught, suddenly Mr Mears was slowly walking towards me to lock up the school, luckily he didn't see me yet,I had no choice but to go commando he was getting closer by the second 3..... 2....... 1....... RIP! I just escaped.  Moments later I got into the classroom I turned on the computer , I signed into fortnite and I was playing for awhile until Mrs Madden open the door then straight away "DUNGEON!" She chucked me in the dungeon with a trash bag as my pants she explained to me the instructions, a few minutes later I thought that giving me pants was quite nice for a mean lady like her.

Space Word Search

Today I was doing the space related word search

My Sun Acrostic Poem

The Sun

Shiny

UVA

Night out

Space Haiku

Myths and Legends

Myths and Legends

Mythical creatures are really hard subject to study because they are really really rare to encounter for example Nessie (Loch Ness Monster)  and the Kraken (4x the size of a giant squid . although it may not be 100% true people still believe in them.

There are a lot of famous mythical sea creatures. There is also a lot of reasons why they could be famous. Maybe the scientist could be really close to identifying what the creature could be another reason could be they found it easier to study, like Chessie because of were her habitat is and were she swims.

There are a lot of theories on what people leave mythical sea creatures do comma some people believe that ogopogo has a beautiful singing voice.

One of the first steps to Studying a mythical creature is to find the location of its habitat, for example, the Loch Ness Monster located at the Loch Ness ( Scottish for  Lake ness) located in Scotland.

If you want to study them this information about mythical creatures will help you with your research and information.

Venus Word Serach

Today I was doing a venus related word search that was quite challenging.

 

Life On Venus

Article Comprehension:

1) What breakthroughs have led to hopes of discovering potential alien life?

Finding liquid water on venus.

2) Why has the existence of alien life been difficult to prove?

Because of how hot it is over 864 degrees fahrenheit.

3) Why would it be easier to verify if there is life on Venus?

Because it is the closest planet to earth.

4) What makes researchers sure there is no possibility of life on Venus?

It's so hot on venus, that their have trouble believing that there is a possibility of life (864 Degrees fahrenheit).

5) What did American and Russian probes find while observing Venus?

They found that the temperature and pressure conditions might be favourable to earth.

6) Why did Harold Morowitz and Carl Sagan think there could be life in Venus’s atmosphere?

They noted that the is carbon dioxide and sunlight.

7) What did Sanjay Limaye and his team focus on for their research?

He has been focusing on shape-changing dark patches for 10 decades.

8) What did the researchers discover?

That the particles making up the patches have the same dimensions as single-celled light-emitting bacteria on earth.

9) Why did the findings lead them to conclude there is a strong possibility of some kind of life form in the clouds?

Venus also comprises largely of carbon dioxide and water droplets which contains sulphuric acid.

10) What do they need to do to confirm potential life forms?

They need to sample the clouds.

11) Why will NASA not be able to help?

Because they got their hands full because of the trip to mars is 2030.

12) What may allow the researchers to obtain the proof they need?

They are aloud to get up close and personal with our nearest neighbouring planet.

13) Why does the author not want you to get your hopes up?

They don’t expect aliens to show up.

For reading today I was reading and article about if there is or not on Venus.

Signing The Petition

This is a thank you note from the greenpeace association for signing there petition.

Why dont you sign it?

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How Actions Affect Our Ocean

WATER FILTRATION EXPERIMENT

Ingredients :

Dye , water , oil , large bottle , cotton balls , sand , gravel and styrofoam .

Equipment :

Scissors and measuring cup .

Steps :

Step 1 . Cut your 2 liter bottle in half and then place the top half of your bottle into the bottom half .

Step 2 :Place 10-12 cotton balls into the top half of your bottle (make them compacted )

Step 3 :  Place your sand on top of your cotton balls and fill the bottle about ⅓.       

Step 4 : place your gravel in the top half of your bottle filling the last ⅓.

Step 5 : Pour dye and oil into some water to make your polluted water .

Hypothesis :

I think that the polluted water will take multiple times to filter the water propoly

Results :

The water was partly filtered. The cotton filtered the oil. The dye went faint .

Today I practiced synthesizing on into the book on martin luther king Jr

Cloze reading

Today I was doing  clozed reading

Prototec

Today I was testing my self on how fast and how good I can answer some questions.

Learning how to summarise

Today I was learning how to summarise and I thought I was improving.

Adding and subtracting intergies

EOTC WEEK

BONK! I fell directly on my butt.

On a cold crisp day the senior school travelled to Snowplanet in Silverdale by bus for EOTC, once we were ready, we all started strolling into the bus.

Without hesitation, my mind imploded.  The interior was extraordinary the design was really good.  Meanwhile we had to go and get dressed, we had to put on a pair of snow boots and a snowboard.  Minutes later we were all ready.

Once the doors opened into the snow a nice cold breeze flew right at my face, that was the moment I realized snowplanet was higher than it looked.  Several minutes later we finished the practice, finally that was done, my confidence boosted, I couldn't wait to go snowboarding. Eventually , we got to snowboard freely, I fell over a little of times but I never gave up, Is saw lots of pros going down the top of the mountain, also Mr Hopsinkson went from the top, he was going extremely fast.

It was a blast, I didn't want to leave, it was a great challenge.

ALL ABOUT ME

Kia ora,  my name is Connor and I am 10 years old. I live with my 2 brothers, my mum and my dad. my favourite thing to do is play with my friends.  My favourite food avocado and chicken roll. Please comment and keep in touch.