Let's Jump and Swim!

Today was Trekkers Big Day Out. The activities for today was to go to Mega Air and Jellie Park. It was out first time at Jellie Park for EOTC Week. It was really fun there. Last year for Trekkers Big Day Out we went to Mega Air and we did Top Team in out school field. The weather for today was hot, it went to 30.1 degrees celsius in Jellie Park.

9:10am

We had been to 2 groups. I was in the 1st group. So group 1 went to Mega Air first. When we reached at Mega Air and we were allowed to go, I straightaway went near the Alps (not the real Alps at Europe). It was fun jumping up to the boxes. After sometime I went to the Air Bag. It had been few months since I had been on the Air Bag. I decided to play dodgeball after jumping off the Air Bag. We went back to the Alps and tried to jump to the top. It was really fun jumping up and down the boxes. I was so hot that I had to sit near the cold fan. It was so nice and refreshing. I went to play dodgeball again. It was a bit fun than last time because, I met Axle in a team, so I joined that team. We hit heaps of people. It was really fun. After dodgeball I wanted to play Basketball, because I haven't played it for a long time. I went to Basketball and again saw Axle and Vann. I said to have a competition against each other. I was in Axle's team also. Vann had the smaller size, so it was easier for him. On the first go it was my turn. I shot it up and it went above the board and it landed on the net behind the hoops. I climbed up and got the ball and passed it to Axle. He had some shots and he got 2 in the hoop. After those shots he gave me the ball. I had 1 or 2 misses and I had 3 shots in a row. When I was looking at a game of Dodgeball I saw the other group looking at a video of the rules of Mega Air. The teacher called us to a space where we met. We got out shoes and lined up. We walked back to class and had our morning tea.

Next the teacher said that we are watching a movie until the other group have came back. They were watching 'Arthur's Christmas'. I was bored because we had seen this movie. I went to the other class to have a see and I saw Axle getting one of the games to play. Axle was finding the game 'Uno'. I was really good to play Uno but actually Axle was better than me. But we still had a game of Uno. It was really fun. After the round Vann and Lyan joined the game also. It was a interesting game. But at the end I won. When we finished the round it was time to go on the bus to Jellie Park. We went to the bus and went to Jellie Park.

When we arrived at Jellie Park we went in a huge line and got our tags for the hydroslide. I thought that we are going from the front entrance. But when we moved we went behind the building and went where the gate was open for us. We went behind the trees and went to a place where we could put our bags and place the gazebos. The teacher said to get changed. My friends said to go to the hydroslide first. I was really excited for the hydroslide. There was a huge line when we were waiting to go on the hydroslide. It took a long time to reach at the top. We decided to go to the snakey (one of the side to side slides, that's what we called it). When we reached at the top and decided that I would go first and then my friends will go. It was really fun and entertaining when I went, it reminded me of a slide in Hanmer Springs. I was going quite slow than I expected. I didn't even recognized but my friend bumped into me. I went much faster. We went to the hydroslide again and again. On our 7th time we went to the other slide that goes straight and fast. My friend and I had a race together. I pushed the side of the slide to go faster. When I was going to finish the water started coming up to me because I was going too fast. I landed on time when I thought that I won. I did a flip by accident. But my friend said that he won. We didn't know who won or not. We went again and again when my friend said that "let's do something else". I said to go to the huge hydroslide. But he took me to a 1.5m pool. He said that the pool was a bit warm. I went in the pool and said to have a running race. It took like 7 minutes to reach the end, it took a long time. The race was edge to edge race. But I went faster and won. My friend said to race back to the starting, my thigh was hurting because of the running. But I said to do a random swimming race. I tried to do some strokes but it didn't work. But after I thought to do dolphin dives to go further. I tried to do it and I went further than usual. But my friend was catching up to me. He was far away and I won. My friend said to go back to the hydroslide. The line was going faster than usual. But when we went to the middle we went slowly. But we finaly reached to the top and met our friends. Now this time I was last and my other friends would go ahead of me, we holded our friends shoulders and went off. After we had finished our 8th go we saw some people having their lunch. The teachers said to change and eat your lunch. We changed and ate our lunch. After eating our lunch the teachers seperated the people who were in the 1st bus and 2nd bus. We lined up and went to the bus. Last time we were in the 2nd bus and we changed to the 1st bus. We went back to school. It was a great time at Mega Air and Jellie Park. I hope you like my post about the Trekkers Day Out. Tomorrow we are going to do Sailing. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Being a Surfer!

As I told you yesterday we are going to Surf at Sumner. We had a great time there. It was 28°C, we were really hot out there. Last year we had done surfing in the first activity. It all started when...

At our classroom the teacher gave us a number on our hands for our groups. There was 3 groups for surfing. I was in group 2. We went on the bus to Sumner. I was feeling quite tired so I went to sleep. The drive was about half an hour to reach Sumner. We got in our class lines and put our bags under the tents. After putting the bags in the tent we sat on the white mat to listen to the instructors. They thought us the parts of the board and what to do, etc. Last time I had done surfing it was one of the worst surfing times that I had, because it was my first time. Group 1 and 2 lined up to get their wetsuits. After getting changed group 1 went to the beach to to surfing. We have a 20-25 minute session. Meanwhile, I was bored and wanted to do something. When I was thinking my friend asked me to play with a tennis ball. We played catches. It was fun playing around. When we were playing we saw the Crusaders (I think so) going for a surf. We didn't recognized how fast group 1 had finished their session. We lined up to go to the beach. The instructor said to lie on your tummies and reminded us the surfing position. After doing some practice we got our boards and went out to surf. The tide was high so the energy for the waves would be fast. I was excited to do surfing. After doing one try, I thought that it is quite similar to body boarding but a bit different. Doing surfing is a bit better than body boarding because the board is longer and easy to ride on. But it came to the end of our surfing time, but after group 3 and 1 we are going again to the sea to do body boarding.

We started to lie on our tummies and did that same drill and then we went out to the sea. I started near the shore for a start. But then the teacher said to go further. I went further trying to find any big waves. After a few small waves past a big wave went and I went fast as a jet boat (not that fast, but really fast). After some tries I went a bit deeper into the sea. There was one when it felt like that the wave pushed me up and I was flying for 1 or 2 seconds. It was awesome. I was more excited about doing body boarding. I went deeper until it reached under my shoulders. I tried to push myself to the shore. But it didn't work for me, I thought it would work next time I find another wave. The instructor said 2 more turns left until it will finish. On my first one it was a big wave, I didn't went up or like that but when the wave pushed me it felt quite weird (I don't know why?). I landed but on the ground. The salty water went in my mouth (Yuck!). Also that happened that same thing in my last go. It wasn't a big wave and I hit the ground. But it was a good last time lesson surf swim for me. I was really happy. We were having so fun at the sea that we didn't recognized how fast the time went. When we were going back to the tents there was a tsunami warning alarm. The instructor said that it was the sea rescue. We were all thinking 'what is even going on?' When we went back we heard that there were 3 random people stuck in a rip! There was a fire engine and a helicopter 🚁 flying over the sky. We got the notice that there was 2 people save in the rip and we didn't know about the other one person stuck in a rip. But that was good that none of the students were caught in a rip. We had to get ready fast because we had to eat lunch.

After getting ready we had some time to have a eat and rest. For lunch there was fish 'n chips. I just ate only chips. We had a nice and full lunch, we were ready to go back to school. We packed our stuff and went on the bus. We were all talking and having fun back to school. We had a good time at Sumner. On Monday we are having a Trekkers Day Out, so we are doing Mega Air (like last time) and Jelly Park. It will be fun at Jelly Park because we haven't been there for EOTC Week before. I hope you have a cool 😎 day/week. Bye!!

Climbing and Ice Skating!

Today was a exciting day for us because it was our first day of EOTC Week (Education Outside the Classroom). I was waiting for this day to come. We have some new activities this year to last year. So our first activity was Clip 'n Climb. There was Room 3, Room 10 and our class going.

Clip 'n Climb

It all started at 9:00am when we were going in the bus to Clip 'n Climb. We had to wear mufti clothes for the day. We arrived at Clip 'n Climb at 9:30am. We split into 2 groups. Room 3 and Room 10 were in 1 group and our group was in the other group. Room 3 and 10 went first. We had a half and hour session group. My friends and I were bored and we wanted to do something. I had a ball inside my bag (for some reason) and we played handball. It was really fun playing handball. As we were playing we saw some empty space and we played over there, when we went there, there was more people playing handball. It was really fun and funny. It didn't took long when it was half and hour when Room 3 and 10 had finished their time having fun. Now it was our turn to go and have fun. The instructor called us to the bottom floor where we had to get our harness and have fun there. First we listened to the instructors how to lock and unlock the clips. It was a really awesome time at Clip 'n Climb. I am also excited for Ice Skating afterwards.

At 10:10am we reached at Alpine Ice. It was my first time going to ice skate. I also was nervous. We were in a huge line getting the 'School Tickets'. We got the tickets to get our ice skates. The teachers decided to ice skate first and then have our lunch. We went to the side and sat down on a wooden step to sit on. We put our bags down and sat until we were asked to go to get our ice skates. The teacher called out by years. It didn't took long when our year name was called out. We went to the ice skate hire and gave the ticket to the person. They gave me the ice skates and had a try of them. It was so weird to walk. I went to the gate and tried to skate, it was much harder than I thought. I stayed at the edge about 2 laps around the circle. On the 2nd lap I was out of balance and I fell down. It was quite in pain. On my 3rd lap I tried to go without touching the edge. After trying it out I went much faster than usual. I mostly didn't touch the edge on my 7th lap, I was proud of that. But one of the bad things happened today was I fell down 4 times. My back was all wet. We skated from 10:30 am - 2:30 pm, that is about 4 hours we skated. I wasn't that tired by doing Clip 'n Climb and Ice Skating. At 2:30 pm we got our bags and went on the bus to go back to school. It was a good first day of EOTC Week. Tomorrow we are doing Surfing at Sumner. I hope you like my post about the first day of EOTC Week. Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

At the Olympics!

Yesterday was Olympics Day, I mean it was Athletics Day. We had to do various activities. There was Sprints, Shot Put, Long Distance, High Jump, Discus and Long Jump. The whole school had to do Athletics. It all started at 10:30am when we had to go to the field to do Sprints. We were all energized to do Sprints. We lined up from age groups. Our group went last because we were the oldest in the school. It took a really long time to get us racing. But at last we got racing. There were about 12 children racing in our group. We split it in half. In the first group there was Axle, Jullien, Joshua and others. They were all of the fast runners so I went to the next group. There was Lasa, Zayd, others and I. It said "On your marks, get set, go." We sprinted fast as we could. I came 3rd place, so I am in the finals of our group. There was, Axle, Joshua, Sam, and 2 more. I was quite tired with the energy that I used. I came last place. It was Axle who won the race. He was the 2nd fastest boy in the school. After the Sprints ended we had our morning tea, and then we played in the court. We didn't had much time to play.

After Lunch...

We sat in our age groups in the court. Our group was lucky because we had to rest for the session. We played hand games like chopsticks and ketchup slaps. But it didn't took long to go to the next station. It was, Shot Put. We had done athletics practice last Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The ball was heavy when I first time picked up the shot put ball on Friday. It was hard to throw the ball. I didn't got selected in the Shot Put Finals.

Next we went to the next station, Long Distance. We had to run the edge of the field. We had to do 4 laps of the field. The teacher put dots on our hand when we finish a lap so the teacher knows which lap are you on. But I came 5th place in Long Distance. Next stop, High Jump. I didn't participate in High Jump. Then, Discus. At practice it was really fun to do Discus. So it was my first go at Discus. I threw the Discus and landed safe, but my foot stepped over the line. But I came to the Discus Finals. The bell rung there wasn't enough time left in the finals, so the teacher said to do it the next day (today). Next stop and last stop, Long Jump. I thought that I was going to do well in Long Jump.  I could get 1st, 2nd or 3rd.  It was my turn to jump as far as I could. I ran to the mat, jumped and landed. The teacher measured my jump and wrote how far I jumped. I jumped 2.3 meters. At the end, the teacher said "...2.65 meters", Lasa and one other person landed on 2.65 meters and came first place. "...2.3 meters" I putted my hand up and came 2nd place. I was really proud of my self for trying my best and came 2nd. So that's how the day of Athletics went. We had a awesome day. I hope you like my post about Athletics day. Have a cool 😎 day!! Ciao!!

Digging Holes! Find any Treasure?

Are we digging holes in term 4! No, I was just kidding. We were reading a novel of Louis Sachar named Holes. If you didn't saw my last post of Holes that I posted, click here. My last activity was of Character Traits. For this post our activity is to draw Camp Green Lake. I think that Camp Green Lake looks like this.

Planets of our Solar System

For the 3 weeks we are doing a information report on the topic that we like. I chose the Planets of our Solar System. Here is my information report. This may be a really long report but it has heaps of information about our solar system. I hope you like my information report. Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

Planets of our Solar System

Hello, my name is Khush and I will tell you about the Solar System. Do you know anything about the solar system? I am going to tell you tell you some facts and information that you may or may not know. So listen carefully and come to my space journey.

Let’s discover the history of our solar system. It all started 4.5 billion years ago when a cloud of interstellar gas and dust collapsed resulting in a solar nebula, a swirling disk of material that collided to form the solar system. So that was how the solar system was created or formed. It has 8 planets. Do you know where is the solar system? It is located in the Milky Way’s Orion Star Cluster. Did you know that only 15% of stars in the galaxy host planetary systems, one of those star is our star named the Sun.

Talking of the Sun let’s know some facts about the sun. The sun is our star in our solar system. The sun has been for the last 4.5 billion years ago. It is known that the sun’s temperature is estimated about 15 million celsius. The sun is about 93 million miles away from earth. Do you know how many earth’s can fit the sun? It can fit about more than a 100 earth’s in the sun! How cool! Let’s talk about the categories of our solar system. We have 2 categories in our solar system. One is terrestrial planets. They are the first 4 planets in our solar system. Second, Jovian Planets, they are the last 4 planets in our solar system. 2 of them are gas giants and the other 2 are ice giants, we will talk about them at the end of our report. Jovian Planets have rings. I have one question to you. Have you heard about the smallest planet on this solar system?

Yes, you might guess it. It is Mercury, the smallest and first planet to the sun. Mercury is fast, it takes 88 earth days a year for Mercury. But a day in Mercury is about 59 earth days. It travels 50 km per second. The surface of Mercury is similar than Earth’s Moon. The first spacecraft to Mercury was Mariner 10, it was launched at November 3, 1973. It had it imaged 45% of the surface. Mercury has no moons. Did you know how Mercury got it’s name? In ancient Roman gods, Mercury is the messenger of the gods.  I forgot to say one more fact about Mercury. It’s temperature. Mercury’s temperature while facing the sun reaches about 430 celsius (800 fahrenheit), that’s hot! So what happens at nighttime? The temperature drops down to -180 degrees celsius (-290 degrees fahrenheit), I would not like to live in Mercury! Do you know what is the hottest planet in our solar system?

I think you might know it. It’s Venus. The hottest and 2nd planet from the sun. Venus spins the opposite direction to some of the planets. Venus is hot enough to melt Lead. Venus is named after Love and Beauty in ancient Roman gods. As Mercury, Venus has no moon. In 650 BCE, Mayan astronomers had detailed, watching Venus. In 1962, NASA sended Mariner 2 to Venus and releases Venus extraordinary surface  temperature. It was the first spacecraft to send back information from a different planet.

A day in Venus is 243 Earth days. So what about the year in Venus, Venus is fast so the year is 225 earth days. Now the extreme temperature of Venus, lets see the graphics. The surface temperature is about 471°C (880°F). The average temperature of Venus is about 864°F (462°C) and Earth’s average temperature is 57°F, that’s about 14°C! Gravity on Venus is 91% as strong as Earth’s gravity. Venus’s atmosphere is mostly Carbon Dioxide (CO2) , with clouds of sulfuric acid droplets. Venus also has mountains, valleys and hundreds of thousands of volcanoes. The highest mountain is named Maxwell Montes, it is 20,000 feet high, it is similar to Mount Everest in Nepal.

No man has been to Venus, but there has been some spacecrafts that had been to Venus’s surface, the spacecraft didn’t last long in Venus. All of the heat in Venus has overheated the electronics in the spacecraft in a really short time. So it means that it is really hard to live on Venus. Venus has a lot of Electric Field Strength, Venus has 10 volts, Earth has <2 (less than 2) volts. Sometimes Venus and Earth are called twins because of their similar sizes and similar mass (weight). Now let’s go to our own planet.

Earth, our own planet. Earth is the 3rd and the 5th largest planet in the solar system. Earth is the only living planet in the solar system. As talking about Venus’ and Earth’s size, Earth is slightly larger than Venus. Let’s talk about Earth’s rotation. A day for Earth is about 23.9 hours, so what about a year, we know what a year is 365 days in a year, but it is really 365.25 days in a year, it adds one quarter in the calendar because every 4 years we have a leap year.

As Venus, Earth has volcanoes, mountains and valleys. Earth’s crust (continental and oceanic), is divided into huge plates that are continuously moving. Example: the North American plate moves west to the Pacific Plate. The water covers up 70% of Earth’s surface. Most of Earth’s mountains are under Earth’s surface. In Hawaii, Mauna Kea is volcano is taller than the summit of Mount Everest.

The longest range of mountains is in South America named, the Andes. The length is 7,000 km long. The Andes goes through, Perú, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia. The highest point in the Andes is Aconcagua, it’s height is 6,962m high. Aconcagua is the highest mountain out of Asia.

The atmosphere of the Earth. Earth has 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% of other gases (argon, carbon dioxide, and neon).

Earth is the only planet with 1 moon. Our moon is the brightest and familiar object in the night sky. Do you know how the moon was made? When Earth was young, a huge chunk of rock smashed into Earth which made the Moon. The moon is the 5th largest moon in our Solar System (after Ganymede, Titan, Callisto and Io). The moon is far away than we seem. The Moon is estimated about 384,400 km away from Earth. That equals 30 Earth’s that could fit between Earth and the Moon. Let’s see the Red Planet.

The Red Planet, Mars. It is really hard to see Mars’ surface from Earth. Mars is really likely to find more life, and water might exist in polar caps. Mars is the last planet in the terrestrial planets. Mariner 4 is the first spacecraft to Mars. Mars is a rocky planet like the other terrestrial planets. The comparison. Let’s see the distance of Earth and Mars from the sun. Earth is 93 million miles away from the sun, Mars is 142 million miles away from the sun. Now the deepest canyon. Earth’s deepest canyon is Grand Canyon that has 1.1 miles deep. Valles Marinis is 4.35 miles deep. A day in Mars is 24 hours and 37 minute. A year in Mars is 687 Earth days. The highest mountain on Mars is Olympus Mons, which is the highest mountain. Earth’s mountain Mauna Kea is estimated about 6.34 miles high and Mars’ Olympus Mons is estimated about 16 miles high. Mariner 9 was the discovery of Olympus Mons. The largest crater in Mars is named Hellas Crater, it is 1,400 miles deep. Mars has 2 moons, Phobos and Deimos. Mars’ atmosphere is 96% Carbon Dioxide. Mars’ volume: 6 Mars’ could fit Earth. If your weight is 100 pounds (45.3kg) on Earth, on Mars your weight is about 38 pounds (17.2kg)! Mars is 1/10 of the mass of Earth. The average speed of Mars orbiting the sun is about 14.5 miles per second. Did you know that Mars is more tilted than Earth. Now that’s a lot of Mars, do you want to know about the largest planet in our solar system? So check this out.

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system and the first planet of the Jovian Planets. Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth. If Earth was a size as a nickel, than Jupiter would be a size of a basketball. Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and pass Jupiter. If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth than you would weigh 253 pounds (114.7 kg) on Jupiter (you would get more fatter in Jupiter). As knowing the days and the years of each planet in the solar system, Jupiter has the shortest day in the solar system. A day is only 9.9 hours. Would you think that a year is also short? But no, a year is 4,333 Earth days (12 Earth years)! Jupiter’s atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium, Great Red Spot had been created and a giant storm larger than Earth had been going on for hundreds of years. Jupiter has 53 conformed moons, there are 16 provisional moons. So there were about 69 known moons in Jupiter. Talking about the moons in Jupiter, I’ll tell you about the largest moons of Jupiter.

The largest, Ganymede. The largest moon of Jupiter and the solar system. Ganymede is larger than Mercury and Pluto, but it is slightly smaller than Mars. Ganymede would be a planet if it would orbit the sun. The 4 largest moons of Jupiter are, Ganymede, Io, Europa, and Callisto, that were discovered by Galileo Galilei. Jupiter means the king of ancient Roman gods. Jupiter is tilted 3 degrees. That means that Jupiter has no seasons. Scientists says that diamonds rain on Jupiter!

Do you think that Jupiter has rings? If your answer is no, you are wrong. Jupiter’s rings were discovered in 1979 by Voyager 1. In Jupiter’s ring system it has 3 main components, the first outer ring is called, Gossamer Rings, second Main Ring and third Halo. Let’s see the next planet after Jupiter.

Saturn. The second largest and second planet in the Jovian Planets. Saturn’s rings are made of chunks of ice and rock. Like Jupiter, Saturn is made of hydrogen and helium. It is confirmed that Saturn has 53 moons, but there are still 9 provisional moons. The moons like Enceladus, Europa, and Titan has many secrets. Titan is Saturn’s largest moon of Saturn. Titan is a bit bigger than Mercury. Titan is the 2nd largest moon after Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.

Saturn rotates the same direction as Earth. Saturn is far but it is fast, it spins around the sun in 10.7 hours. Saturn’s axis is tilted 26.73 degrees, which is similar to Earth’s axis, 23.5 degrees. It takes about 29 Earth years or 10,756 Earth days to orbit the sun. Saturn doesn’t have a right surface. The planet is mainly gases and liquids. A spacecraft wouldn’t land on the surface of Saturn. The temperatures and pressures of Saturn would crush and melt the spacecraft, trying to fly around the planet. Saturn is 95 the mass of Earth. Saturn is 764 the volume of Earth. The wind of Saturn is about 1,100 mph (1,750 kph). Saturn’s temperature is about -178 degrees celsius (-288 degrees fahrenheit). Saturn is 1.4 billion kilometres away from the sun (886 million miles).

Saturn’s spacecraft ‘Cassini’ has been traveling for 20 years. Cassini has taken 22 orbits around Saturn. Let’s talk about the rings of Saturn.

Saturn’s rings are believed of pieces of asteroids, comets and broken tiny moon pieces. They are made of billions of small blocks of ice and rock. Some small pieces are as big as a house. Also some of the pieces are are large as a mountain! The rings would look mostly while from Saturn’s cloud tops.

The rings are named alphabetically in order of their discovery. The main rings of Saturn are know as C, B and A. The Cassini Division is is the largest gap between ring B and Ring A. Did you know that there are more rings than A, B, and C.

Scientists have discovered the D, E, F, and G rings. The D ring is the closest ring to Saturn. It is really difficult to see the D ring. No one has seen the D ring from Earth, but it is seen from Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s. This is something weird but the E ring is the farthest ring from Saturn. From the view of the rings the E ring is much wider than the other rings. That’s a lot of talking about Saturn, now the next planet.

Uranus. Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun. Also Uranus is the 3rd largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus is cold and windy. Uranus is a ice giant. Uranus was found from a aid telescope, it was the first planet to be seen from a aid telescope. Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel. Before Uranus was discovered he thought that it was comet or a star. But after two years Uranus was officially a new planet. William Herschel tried to make a name for the new planet. But he couldn’t make one. After a few time he named the new planet, Uranus, meaning the Greek god of the sky. Uranus has 27 small moons orbiting Uranus. With size and diameter, Uranus is 4 times wider than Earth. Imagine if Earth was a size of a nickel, Uranus would be a size of a softball. The average distance of Uranus is about 2.9 billion kilometres (1.8 billion miles). One day in Uranus is 17 hours and 14 minutes. But a year is much longer, it is about 84 Earth years! That equals 31,025 days! Uranus is the other planet where it rotates the other direction, Venus and Uranus rotate the opposite direction to other planets. Most 80 percent of Uranus is made up of icy materials which includes, water, methane and ammonia. How about the core of Uranus? It is so hot that it reaches about to 4,982 degrees celsius or 9,000 degrees fahrenheit. Do you know how Uranus’ colour is blue-green? Methane gas in the atmosphere makes the colour blue-green. Uranus’ atmosphere is mainly helium and hydrogen. also it has some amount of methane, some parts of water and ammonia. The methane gives Uranus the blue colour. When Voyager 2 was flying by Uranus it saw a Great Dark Spot while passing by also it saw a small Dark Spot in 1986. Uranus’ minimum surface temperature is about -224.2 degrees celsius (49 Kelvin), it is quite colder than Neptune’s temperature. The wind of Uranus reaches about 560 miles per hour, that means 900 kilometers per hour. Uranus is not a good place for humans to live on. Now the rings of Uranus. Did you know that Uranus’ rings are wied? If you don’t know check this out. All of the Jovian Planets have west to east sides of rings, but Uranus is the only planet with north to south side rings. It is quite weird, right. The inner rings are mostly dark gray rings. Uranus has 2 outer rings, the most inner ring is dusty and reddish. The outer ring is blue like Saturn’s E ring. Let’s tell you the most weirdest things about Uranus. Do you know why Uranus’ rings is facing north to south? It is not the rings fault, but Uranus’ axis is tilted 98° degrees. That’s how the rings are facing north to south. When Voyager 2 was flying around Uranus in 1986, it released that Uranus’ magnetic field was also tilted, by 60 degrees! But Earth’s magnetic field was closely lining up to it’s axis. So Earth’s protective magnetic shield stables. Actually that is not for Uranus. Uranus’ magnetic field always moves around. This doesn’t happen to any other planet in the solar system. From Uranus’ magnetic tilt makes the magnetic shield unstable. Now let’s talk about the 8th planet and last planet in the solar system.

Neptune. Neptune is the last planet in our solar system. From the mathematical calculations, the astronomers discovered Neptune the 8th planet in 1846. Also on the same year Neptune’s largest moon, Triton was discovered as well. In 1984 astronomers were trying to find if Neptune’s rings exist or not. In 1989 Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to visit Neptune, it flew 4,800 km above Neptune’s north pole. In 2011, Neptune passes the sun at its 165 year orbit from Neptune’s discovery in 1846. Neptune is about 4.5 billion miles away from the sun. Like Uranus, Neptune’s magnetic field is tilted, but it is just by 47 degrees. The magnetic field of Neptune is 27 times powerful than Earth. Neptune’s wind is 3 times stronger than Jupiter and 9 times stronger than Earth. Neptune has 6 known rings. Neptune has 13 known moons, 6 of the moons were discovered by Voyager 2. A new 14th moon was discovered in 2013. Triton, Neptune’s largest moon orbits the opposite directions to other moons of Neptune. Triton is extremely cold than other moons, on it’s surface goes down to -235 degrees Celsius (-391 degrees fahrenheit). Now let’s see how Neptune got it’s name. Neptune was named after the Roman god of the sea. Did you though that was less information about Neptune. But Neptune has less information, but later in the future there will be heaps of information about Neptune. There are the facts and information of the planets of the solar system. Now let’s see the famous dwarf planet, Pluto.

Pluto. Before Pluto was named as a planet (the 9th planet). But in 2006 scientists declared that Pluto will be a dwarf planet. Pluto’s diameter is about ⅔ of Earth’s moon. But Pluto’s mass is about ⅙ of Earth’s moon. Pluto is 49.3 astronomical units away from the sun. One astronomical unit is the distance from Earth to the sun. From 1979 to 1999 Pluto was much closer to Neptune. In 1989, Pluto was 29.8 astronomical units away from the sun. Pluto’s largest moon, Charon is ½ the size of Pluto, that was discovered in 1978. Charon takes 6.4 Earth days to take a orbit of Pluto. Pluto’s orbit takes about 249 Earth years. Let’s wrap up the information report.

Mirror Reflection

Today for maths we are learning how to reflection. Watch this video for more information how to reflect. In this video there might be some bumps so sorry about that. Please comment down below. I hope you give me some feedback. Hope you like my video! Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

What Character is this?

Last term for reading I chose the novel, Among the Hidden, now for this term I chose a famous novel from Louis Sachar, it is named, Holes. In our novel activities we had one task about character traits. Character traits means the character's behavior and attitude. We had to make their face from our imagination. This character is not the main character of the story but it is related to the main character. It is Mr. Pendanski. If you have read or seen the movie, Holes you would know what I am talking about. If you haven't read or seen the movie then read this, this book is about a boy named Stanley gets accused to go to Green Camp Lake. When Stanley was digging holes he meets Mr. Pendanski. Do you think it is good? Give me a feedback and a comment down below of your answer. I hope you like my post about 'Holes'. Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

Tessellation Patterns

Today for maths we are learning how to tessellate. I have made this DLO to show you how to tessellation. Watch this video for more information how to tessellate. In this video there might be some bumps so sorry about that. If there is any mistakes please comment. I hope you give me some feedback. Hope you like my video! Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

Rotating Things

Today for maths we are learning how to rotate a shape. I have made this DLO to show you how to rotate a shape. Watch this video for more information how to rotate a shape. If there is any mistakes please comment. I hope you give me some feedback. Hope you like my video! Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

Age Restriction - Task Card 5

For my last post I posted about my first task card about SMRF. I rolled the dice and 4 came, now for this task we had to tell the age restriction of Facebook, Snapchat and Twiter. I hope you like my post about the Age Restriction. Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

SMRF - Task Card 1

Today for Cybersmart we had a game to play. In the game there are objectives in every place. This game is like Snake's and Ladders, but you don't have a dice. There is a random number generator that you have to put. So I landed on 1, I opened the file and it said, 'what does SMRF stand for and what does it mean?' In the bottom of the page it said to 'write a blog post about this task'. I hope you like my post about my first task card. Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

The End of Swimming Lessons

Today is our last day of our Canterbury Swim School lessons. I was a bit unhappy, but it was really fun swimming 🏊. Like every year, we have water safety at the last day of our swimming lessons. If you haven't seen my last post about the first day of Swimming lessons at Canterbury Swim School, click here. Now let's talk about my new goals that I have made, I didn't make goals when I posted my first swim, but today I am going to make new goals that I think that I will achieve. Yesterday our group tried to practice our jumps from the diving board. I took this goal because I was nervous when I was jumping down the diving board.

When we reached at Canterbury Swim School for our last lessons we had to bring our old cloths. We sat down on the bench and listened to the instructors. We  They first said to float on our backs. When we went into the pool it felt heavy because we wore our t-shirt, pants and swimming shorts. After doing that we tried to put our hands up while doing that (it was quite hard). We sank into the water. Also it was really fun doing that. Next we tried to float while not standing. We had to paddle like a bicycle and push gently, front and back. The instructor said to do it for 30 seconds. It was hard in 30 seconds. We had heaps of tries but it was hard to do it. Afterwards we switched groups and went on the other side. Now we had to pull our partner out of the pool. I was partnered with Josef. I was the person in the pool. They said to sit with your one foot up and one foot kneeling down. Josef pulled me up easily because he was strong. After my turn he pulled the foam noodle so tight that it made me let go. I was still on my goal to jump down the diving board. But it was the time to go back on the bus. The instructor said "Good Bye". To all of us. It was a really good time swimming at Canterbury Swim School. At Monday we will be swimming in our school pool. I hope you like my reflection about the last day swimming at Canterbury Swim School. Also hope you like my post. Have a cool 😎 day and week. Bye!!

Me practicing on the Diving Board

Our Group in the Big Pool - Listening to instructor

Our Group in the Big Pool - Listening to instructor

Swimming in the Big Pool

Moving Around Shapes, Translation

Today for maths we are learning how to translate a shape to another place. I have made this DLO to show you how to translate a shape to another place. Watch this video for more information how to Translate a shape to another place. If there is any mistakes please comment. I hope you give me some feedback. Hope you like my video! Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

Different Nets for 3D Shapes

For this term our main topic for maths is Geometry. This is our first DLO about Geometry. Watch this video for more information how to Different Nets for 3D Shapes. If there is any mistakes please comment. I hope you give me some feedback. Hope you like my video! Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

The First Swim!

Today was our first swim at Canterbury Swim School this term. I was really excited about going to Canterbury Swim School and learn there. For the last few years I have been to Canterbury Swim School with our class. Today I am writing a reflective post about what happened at Canterbury Swim School. At 10:15 we changed to our togs and had our morning tea. Then we went to the bus. After reaching Canterbury Swim School we were put in 4 groups. In our group there was, Corbyn, Travis, Jolly-Rose, Sharney, Mackenzie and I. First the instructor said to float on our front and back. After doing that we did a lap of kicking. Then we did breathing. We had done about 4 laps of that. By that time it was to go back to school. We had swam for half an hour. Every time we had it for a hour, but this time it is for half an hour. It was a nice first day of Term 4. I hope you like my post have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

Below are my videos of me swimming.