The Plague Doctor | Chemicals and Chaos

Welcome to another post. Today, in Social Studies, I completed a creative writing activity for the Plague Doctor in the Black Death.

One would imagine an image of the Plague Doctor when the Black Death is named. The Plague doctor's suit costume contained a cloak, tucked under the masculine neck and stretched to the floor to hide as much of the body as possible. Doctors often spread all clothing with fat or wax, believing that this reduces the chance of infection from sick victims. Wax served protection against the disease by airborne droplets, as well as fleas, the main visitors of the disease.

At that time, it seemed to many that the plague spread, because of spoiled air. Doctors assumed that a mask in the form of a bird would repel the infection from the sick person and bring it to the doctor's clothes and considered that the eye mask of red glass made the doctor free from the disease.

The beak of the mask was filled with fragrant medicinal herbs to protect it from miasma and from the stinky smell, which also could carry the plague.

They carried a cane for examining patients without touching them, as well as for self-defence, against the jaded. Also, on the neck were a casket for aromatic herbs and substances that were supposed to scare off the plague.

Plague Doctors used a scalpel for opening the buboes and wore leather gloves to protect themselves. In those days, a wide hat identified someone as a doctor.

How Hubble Works? | Wānanga

Welcome to another post. Today, in Wānanga, we further continued on doing research on National Geographic Kids, and I continued looking at the Hubble Space Telescope. Last week, I posted my research on Hubble and today, I will be covering how Hubble works.


What's the title of the article?

Spaced Out: How Hubble Works


What is the article about?

This article informs about how Hubble works, it's functions, how fast it travels, and it's length and width.

This photograph of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was taken on the fifth servicing mission to the observatory in 2009.
Credit: NASA

Wide View of Mystic Mountain
Credit: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/

Have you ever wondered to take a closer look at the stars, see some of the coolest parts of our universe? Then you would need a telescope, a big one.

Did you know, the Hubble Space Telescope has a mirror that's around 2.4 metres across. So, that is much bigger than any telescope you have ever used from your backyard. The larger a telescope's mirror, the more light it collects, and the better its vision.

Hubble Space Telescope is about 13.4 metres long and weighs more than 11 tonnes.

Dr Joel Green, an astrophysicist says, "But what's most impressive about it is that we put it into space, so in order to do that it has to use very small amounts of power." Hubble uses about the same amount as power as a hair dryer!

NASA fuels Hubble with the largest power source, the Sun. Hubble gets it power from the sun and stores it as electricity.

The Hubble Space Telescope has viewed many heavenly wonders, such as the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
Credit: https://theconversation.com/hubble-in-pictures-astronomers-top-picks-40435

Two large solar panels capture sunlight to use as solar energy. The Hubble Space Telescope is not only big in size and low on energy. It's also fast.

"It travels around the Earth in its orbit at something like 20,000 kilometres per hour, so about 10,000 miles per hour, and it orbits the Earth every hour and a half." It takes Hubble 95 minutes to make a trip around the world.

At this rate, Hubble could travel from Christchurch to Alice Springs (Australia) in about 10 minutes.

Dr Jason Kalirai, also an astrophysicist says, "One of the reasons that the Hubble Space Telescope is so powerful today is that we've enabled new ways to use the telescope that didn't exist before."

Hubble is the first telescope designed to be visited in space by astronauts, who perform repairs, replace parts, and update its technology with new instruments.

"We installed a brand new set of cameras and spectrographs and instruments within Hubble during its last servicing mission, and they're all performing remarkably well."

Hubble has helped astronomers make amazing discoveries like determining the universe is between 13 to 14 billion years old. 

Although the Hubble Space Telescope launched over 25 years ago, it still continues to be one of the most important tools we have to learn about the universe.

Dr Jason Kalirai: Hubble has made countless discoveries through its observations, and answering new puzzles that have emerged requires more powerful telescopes. And so one of Hubble's greatest legacies is not just to answer questions about the universe, but also to open up new mysteries that we can solve with future telescopes."


Three facts you learnt:

1. Hubble Space Telescope is about 13.4 metres long and weighs more than 11 tonnes.
2. It travels Hubble orbits the Earth something like 20,000 kilometres per hour, and it orbits the Earth every hour and a half. It takes Hubble 95 minutes to make a trip around the world.
3. Hubble has helped astronomers make amazing discoveries like determining the universe is between 13 to 14 billion years old.

New Zealand Birds in Your Garden

Chaffinch

Chaffinches were imported to New Zealand. They are widespread throughout mainland New Zealand as well as offshore islands. They are the most widespread of New Zealand's introduced finches. Seeds are the dominant food source for chaffinches but they will also eat a variety of insects.

Chaffinches have white feathers on their shoulders, as well as on parts of their wings and tails. Males have a greyish crown and pinky-brown feathers. Females are mostly brownish grey.

Fantail/Piwakawaka

Fantails get their name from their beautiful fan-like tail. They are endemic to New Zealand. They are a common bird and can be found in a wide-range of habitats around the country. They weigh about the same as two teaspoons of sugar. A fantail's diet is mainly made up of small insects, such as flies and beetles. They occasionally eat fruit.

There are two different colours of fantails that exist. One is the pied fantail, it has a grey head and white eyebrows. They have a brown body with some white and black feathers. The other type has mainly black feathers. Pied fantails are more prevalent than black fantails.

Bellbird/Korimako

The bellbird is also known as the korimako or makomako in Māori. They are endemic to New Zealand are often recognised by their unique bell-like song. They are mainly found south of Hamilton. Bellbirds prefer to live in forests and scrub but can also be discovered in some nearby gardens. Korimako mainly eat nectar, they occasionally also eat fruit and berries. They also "glean" or pick insects and spiders from tree trunks and leaves.

Male bellbirds are olive green with purple feathers on their hands. Females are brown and have a yellowish stripe across their cheeks. The bellbirds have red eyes. 

Tūi

Tūi are another endemic species of New Zealand. They can be found throughout New Zealand. With a diet of nectar and honeydew, they feed from flowering trees such as kōwhai and flax. Tūi can be bad-tempered. They chase away other birds from "their" trees. They are very vocal birds with a beautiful song. They can produce a range of sounds, including coughs and grunts.

Tūi have gleaming green and bluey-purple feathers. They have two white tufts called poi and some fine white feathers around their necks.

Song Thrush

Introduced to New Zealand in the late 1800s, thrushes are now common in most habitats. Their diet consists of snails, slugs, worms and other insects. They also eat some berries and ripening fruits. To break snail shells open, they often use stones and they sometimes return to the same ones. Piles of broken shells can be discovered beside these favourite stones.

Thrushes have brown feathers covering their backs and white speckled underbellies. Their bill is yellow and their legs are pink.

House Sparrow

House sparrows were brought to New Zealand so that they could eat insects that were destroying crops. They rapidly grew in numbers and did more damage to the crops than the insects. Sparrows are most abundant in the north and dry eastern areas of New Zealand. Sparrows eat grains and seeds, including crops such as wheat and barley. Sparrows like to travel in flocks, with several hundred sometimes roosting together.

Male sparrows have a brown crown and a black bib. Females are brown but they have darker back feathers and a grey/white underbelly.

What's Hubble? | Wānanga

Welcome to another post. Today, in Wānanga, we had to read an article from National Geographic Kids and write a post/summary about it. I read an article about the Hubble Space Telescope.

What is the title of the article?


Spaced Out: What is Hubble


What is the article about?

This article informs information about Hubble, where it is, how far it is, what it does, and more.

The Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth in May 2009
NASA/ESA
Credit: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/hubble-telescope-galaxies-photo-legacy-wide-field-deep-universe-2019-5?r=US&IR=T

The Hubble Space Telescope is a spacecraft which is the size of a school bus that travels 8 kilometres per second that takes some of the coolest images in the universe. Hubble is around 550 kilometres above you.

Dr Jason Kalirai, an astrophysicist says, "Hubble Space Telescope is the most important tool that we have for understanding our universe and what our place within it is."

From space, Hubble can see planets, stars, and galaxies much clearer than telescopes on the ground, it can see as far as 13.4 billion light-years away (one light-year is 9.6 trillion kilometres). Its images have changed the way we think about viewing the stars.

No one really knows who discovered the telescope, but in 1610, Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei was first to make his own homemade telescope up towards the stars. Galileo Galilei invented the compass and the thermometer. Then, around 300 years later, astronomer Edwin Hubble used a large telescope to discover entire galaxies.

Dr Noel Green, an astrophysicist says, "The telescope itself is named the Hubble Space Telescope after Edwin Hubble, and one of these iconic images is of Edwin Hubble himself looking through one of these telescopes that you can almost mistake for the Hubble if it were in space."

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on 24 April 1990. It completes its orbit around Earth every 95 minutes.

Hubble's cameras used to take black and white pictures. Later, experts added different colours to these pictures.

Instead of an eyepiece, Hubble uses digital cameras. This camera can record visible light, ultraviolet light and even infrared light. Visible light is part of the wave spectrum that can be seen by the human eye. Ultraviolet light comes from the sun and is invisible to the human eye. Infrared light is invisible to human eyes, but people can feel it as heat.

"Today, demand for the Hubble Space Telescope is at a record high. Anybody in the world can write a proposal to use Hubble, and we're receiving more than a thousand proposals every year from scientists wanting to tackle tough questions about the universe. Hubble is always doing the best science that's out there."


Scientists look forward to using Hubble to solve the mysteries of outer space.



Three facts you learnt

1. Hubble Space Telescope can see as far as 13.4 billion light-years away or 9.6 trillion kilometres away.
2. Hubble was launched on 24 April 1990 and takes around 95 minutes to orbit Earth.
3. Hubble's camera can record visible light, ultraviolet light and infrared light. Visible light is part of the wave spectrum that can be seen by the human eye. Ultraviolet light comes from the sun and is invisible to the human eye. Infrared light is invisible to human eyes, but people can feel it as heat.

This post is based on the National Geographic Kids article, Spaced Out: What is Hubble and National Geographic Kids's video, What is Hubble? | Spaced Out.

The Present

Credit: https://thevideosuite.com/the-present-official/

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am sharing the activity that I've finished in Wānanga yesterday. As a class, we watched the video, 'The Present'. The video informs us that we need to be resilient and create connections. The body acknowledges that the dog is not kept back by his missing paw. The dog is playful, resilient and happy.

We were given a few questions to answer after watching the video, such as;


How would you describe the boy at the start of the video?

• Angry
• Gamer

What did he think of his present?

• Happy at the start
• Angry after seeing that the dog doesn't have a paw

Why didn't he like him?

• Because of his paw

Why do you think he didn't want to play with him?

• He was interested in his game

Why did the mum choose this dog for her son?

• Because he doesn't have a leg, so she picked a dog which doesn't have a paw.

How do you think the boy feels about himself?

• Bad because he is not the only one without a leg.

What message do you think the story is trying to teach us?

• To be happy what you're given
• Never give up - Dog

After that, we had to write a diary from the boy. I hope you like it.

One really hot afternoon I decided to play Xbox 360 when my Mum was at work. I closed the blinds because it was too hot. I had a selection of games on the TV cupboard.

When Mum arrived from work she had a box in her hand. Then Mum put the box in front of me.

“What was inside the box? Was it a new console, a comic? or something else?” I thought.

I was still playing on my Xbox 360, then my Mum had a phone call. My Mum said before answering the phone call “I’ve got a present for you. Open it.” I decided to open the box to see what is inside it?

When I opened the lid of the box a dog barked at me. It had bright yellow skin with a black nose and brown eyes.

I called out “Wow!! Awesome!!” The best present ever!!”

When I picked up the dog I saw that he had a half left leg. I dropped the dog on the ground.

The dog sat up and came to me, I kicked the dog and said: “Get lost!”

When the dog was looking upside down he saw a red softy ball under the table. The dog ran and smacked the cupboard door on his head (crash)! After getting the ball he ran to me with the red ball. I kicked the ball and hit the box that the dog came in and still carried on with my game. The dog ran but fell down on the ground because of his left arm the dog sat up and ran but fell again. He jumped and trapped himself in the box. He tried to find the ball but he couldn’t find the ball instead he smacked the TV cupboard. After getting out of the box the dog couldn’t find the red ball in the box. I laughed. Then I remembered that I had to concentrate on the game. I couldn’t concentrate because the dog was barking and running to get the red ball. When the dog noticed me watching him the dog ran the ball to me with the red ball in his mouth. But fell down, after falling down the dog tried to balance himself to not fall down. The dog dropped the ball in front of me.

“Maybe it’s awesome with a friend that has got half a leg like me?” I thought.

I took the ball, got the crutches and put the ball in my pocket.

“Mum we’ll be outside,” I said to my mum.

We played fetch out in the front yard the whole afternoon.

I hope you like my post about 'The Present'. Have a nice day!! Bye!!!

Inspired Writing

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share you the inspired writing that I have created for writing. We started writing the inspired writing two weeks ago. We had to choose a topic which interests us. We had to choose from a following of:

• Our World
• Fantasy
• Apocalyptic
• Animals
• Space

As my interest topic, I chose Space. There were a few images of space that were given. I chose the galaxy. The next slide was Vocab, it is one of the parts in the e-asTTle rubric. We were told that we should be in R5 or R6, which should have onomatopoeia, it should have emotive language. In R6, we should point a clear picture in the mind of the reader and give the reader detailed and specific information. I am focusing on R6. 

We should have adjectives, language feature, emotive language, detailed and specific information.

Now, I am going to show you the image that I have chosen.

Below is the writing that I have written.

1. The galaxy is spinning.
2. The enormous galaxy is spinning.
3. The enormous galaxy is spinning like a hurricane.
4. The enormous galaxy is spinning like a hurricane in space.
5. The magnificent enormous galaxy is spinning like a hurricane in space.

The magnificent enormous galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy is spinning like a hurricane in space.


I hope you like my post about my Inspired Writing. Comment down below if you've written a Inspired Writing before. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

"...but it was the wrong colour..."

Today, we had to write the 100 Word Challenge for this week. The prompt for this week is, "...but it was the wrong colour...". Here is my writing...

It was a bright sunny day in Earth, Texas. Noah was preparing to paint his tremendous house. He was determining what colour he should paint his room. There were two choices, Blue or Green, he didn’t know what colour to pick. He knew that any colour he will decide will look good. Noah went to the stores to purchase some paint. He gave the paint to his painter, William. He didn’t understand what colour Noah preferred, so he began to paint. The next day, Noah came to his room to check. Noah yelled at William, “But, it’s the wrong colour!!”


I hope you like my post about my 100 Word Challenge. Comment down below if you've done the 100 Word Challenge before. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Sentence Structure Workshops

At Writing, we learnt about sentence structures. Our teacher had done an example with our class which started with, 'We stood outside for twenty minutes'. We ended the example with, 'This morning we stood freezing outside on the slippery, muddy field in front of school for twenty miserable minutes while we watched Aisa's team play league'. The teacher had made up a sentence that we could work on. The teacher had chosen, 'We played a game for hours'. We made the sentence into a complex sentence.

W.A.L.T: add more detail to sentences.

Here's what we had written:

We played a game for hours.

We played a game for a few hours.

We played a competitive game for a few hours.

We played a competitive game for a few hours inside the gym.

After school, we played a competitive game for a few hours inside the gym.

After school, we played a competitive game for a few hours inside the slippery gym.

After school, we played a competitive game of indoor hockey for a few hours inside the slippery gym.

After school, we played a competitive game for a few hours inside the slippery gym because it was raining outside.

I hope you like my post about our sentence structure. Comment down below if you'd had done a sentence structure before. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Red, Ladder, Sinking, Coins, Pavement?

For today's post, I am going to share the 100-word challenge that I had written. Our prompt was 5 words that had to put in the story: red, ladder, sinking, coins and pavement. We had to make a piece of writing that must include the five words in exactly 100 words. Here is my writing:

There was a boy named Ben. He likes finding things. There was a pavement leading to a cave named The Red Cave. Ben went inside to look around.

There he found a ladder sinking in a well. He saw something shining under the water. Ben thought to find out what was happening, so he jumped in. As he went closer, the shine became rising. Ben said, “What even is that?” There was an underground secret pathway. Ben had his torch and went further, suddenly with a surprise he saw coins. He was happy with joy. Ben woke up in joy.

Here is my proof of my 100 words.

I hope you like my post about my 100-word challenge. Comment down below what you liked about my 100-word challenge and what I need to do next. Have you done a 100-word challenge before? Comment down below ↓ . Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Should it be?

Yesterday we looked at a Vodafone video of a postman taking care of a pig named Sue. After watching the video we took notes on a Padlet and wrote our opinion of the video. Today we started to write our opinion and below is my opinion. Below is also the link of the video. The credits goes to Vodafone for the video.

Here is the link of the video: Click Here

Below is my opinion writing.

I think that each animal has the right (like humans) to live and not get killed for money. We should let them go in the wild. Animals should live freely and happily, not in a small place and nothing to do. Some animals are kept in cages and not letting them run around. We should not kill animals for food or money.

Treating Animals: Animals shouldn’t be threatened, they should be treated like a family pet. Animals should get a long lasting and happy life like us. Animals are important like humans, they shouldn’t be in a cage for their personal gain.

The text is fair and it’s good that the postman kept Sue rather than Sue dying. The postman treated Sue with kind and respect. The postman was friendly and kind. The postman treated Sue like his own family member/pet. I think that the postman deserves Sue because the postman treated Sue and cared her. People can eat anything else than animals, like vegetables, fruits, etc: Fruits and vegetables, they are healthy and have, protein, calcium, etc:

How Many are There?

For writing we had a topic about explanation writing. The class had to write about "How does Sea Turtles grow into an adult?" We watched a video from TedEd named 'The Survival of the Sea Turtle'. I had learnt heaps of new things about Sea Turtles. If you haven't seen my last post about Oceans - A Source of Life, click on the link. I hope you like my writing and post. Comment down below, it would be great. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Watch the video first, then read my writing.

How does Sea Turtles grow into an adult?

Sea Turtles are old, really old, they have been since the late Jurassic, about for 15 million years, still existing today. Well is a sea turtle's life hard? It is hard. Sea Turtles have heaps of challenges in their lives, walking past threats like crabs, gulls and other on their way. But in the oceans there are more threats coming through.

First there are about 50 to 200 eggs are laid. The eggs are shaped as ping-pong balls. The eggs are laid underground on the sand so they are safe. After a month and a half after laying the eggs, the eggs hatch, but 20% never hatch.

Did you know that young Sea Turtles are that small that it could fit your palm. On the way to the shore, debris, pitfalls, crabs, racoons, gulls and other threats eat 50% of the Sea Turtles. Young Sea Turtles come to the surface for some air.

In their first days of their life, they hid by seaweed. After a few months, they avoid those who want to eat them, which making them eat them. They don’t fall into pressure for challenges. After a few years later, the Sea turtles that survive increase their size.

After 2 decades or 20 years of age they will continue their cycle and head off to lay their eggs. Now less than 10% remain from the 50 to 200 Sea turtles. Over the last decade the last several decade, beach development, nets, long lines, plastic and even noxious chemicals including oil, causing their survival rate to drop to around one percent or less. This is the human pressure that has pushed each eight sea turtle species into a threatened or endangered state.

A Mountain named Blue Mountains?

For recount I had wrote a time when I had been to Blue Mountains in Sydney (Not on my blog). My Dad and I went to Sydney at 1st of March and we went to Blue Mountains at 4th of March. I had a great day at Blue Mountains read below of my journey with my Dad at Blue Mountains. I hope you like my recount. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Blue Mountains

It was a Sunday morning in Sydney when we decided to go and look at Blue Mountains, to see the scenic view. We got ready and went in the car. I really like traveling and looking at scenic views. My dad’s friend went with us. He drove the car and he said to go to Oporto. We got a burger each and peri peri sauce chips. I checked on Google Maps where is Blue Mountains and is was 1 hour and 5 minutes to reach Blue Mountains. I am really excited!

This was my fourth and second last day at Sydney. On the way we saw Wet n’ Wild, remember when I went to Wet n’ Wild in Gold Coast. But the trees where covering the site and we were on the motorway. There wasn’t much things to look around but there was more cars than we see in our motorways.

My dad’s friend said that we are going to look at Three Sisters. I was thinking, “Three Sisters?” He said that Three Sisters is a tourist attraction. I was really excited to see the Three Sisters.

After 45 minutes…

“We are nearly there,” my Dad’s friends said. We were going on top of the hills, and there was a sign called ‘Scenic World’. We arrived at Katoomba. Katoomba is a small town outside of Sydney. There was an underground parking for the scenic view. We walked over to the entrance, we went inside and there was the view of the mountains. At the reception they gave a band (with a barcode), a map and said to go on the railway and then go for a walk, there was one way for 30 minutes and 10 minutes. My Dad said to go on the 10 minute walk and go on the railway back.

We scanned the barcode and took a photo of the view with my dad, on the way it said that the Scenic Railway is the steepest railway in the world. We had to wait in a long line. We waited for 5 to 10 minutes when it was our turn to go on the Scenic Railway. When we were waiting we heard people screaming when the Scenic Railway went down. My Dad said that they were being too scared of the ride. We were sitting in the middle of the railway. There wasn’t any seatbelts to wear. The doors of the side automatically closed. The railway slowly went forward, when the railway went steeper it got a bit faster. People screamed when the railway went steeper. The railway goes steep to 52°. We had to hold the bars that were on top. We wanted to take some photos when we go but it was really hard. My Dad took this photo when this railway was about to go down. People screamed and for me it was fun to ride this railway. When we arrived at the bottom we could see the Three Sisters. We took some photos together with the mountains. I went up and looked at the view and there were heaps of mountains in front and around me.

My Dad and I went on the 10 minute walk to the Cableway. We walked and saw the trees. When we were walking there was a old mine that had been closed. “Where here” I said, it didn’t seem like it was a 10 minute walk.

We had arrived at the Scenic Cableway. It wasn’t a long line like the Scenic Railway. When the Cableway came there were more people than we waited in the line. My Dad and I stayed in the front to see the view. There was the three sisters in the view. When we turned around we could see the trees and the nature. The Cableway was slow because people can see the view of the mountains and hills. When the cableway stopped it gave us a tiny swing of the cableway. We went out of the cableway and walked to the Skyway.

The line of the Skyway was similar to the Railway but the Skyway comes every 2 minutes (there is a screen to count how long does it take). After 2 Skyways came and went it was out turn to go on the Skyway. My Dad’s friend said to go in the middle of the Skyway because you can see under the Skyway (the electro-glass cabin floor). When we went in the Skyway we went in the middle of the Skyway. There was a introduction of the Skyway, facts and its view. They also said that you can see the Three Sisters from the view. When the Skyway started we could see under the Skyway. It was amazing. We could see Katoomba Falls, Jamison Valley in the distance and plants and trees under us. There was an announcement that we have reached to the destination, we didn’t got off because we didn’t had time looking on the other side. So we stayed and waited for the people to come, we were still standing in the middle of the Skyway. When we reached back we went in the car and my Dad’s friend said to go to Echo Lookout. There is a great view there.

We reached there in a few minutes. We had a good parking near the lookout. There were dark green mountains. There were tourists looking at the view. It was awesome. We could see the three sisters really closely. I took some pictures of the Three Sisters and the view of the mountains in a pano. It was a great view. This was the best trip so far. In the distance we could see the Skyway. I was thinking “Why is the Skyway far when we could see the Three Sisters closely?” It was quite weird. We went downstairs. There was the Prince Henry Cliff Walk but we didn’t want to do it. We stayed for 10 minutes then we went back in the car to go home.

It was an awesome day at Blue Mountains and Echo Point. My favorite time was when we had to go on the Scenic Railway, done the 10 minute walk, the Skyway and Echo Point, there was a great view.

"But How Did he Get up There?"

For this weeks 100 word challenge our prompt was "but how did he/she get up there?" I had finished this writing in 10 minutes. The prompt was good to write and below the image is proof that I had wrote in 100 words. I hope you like my post and please comment down below. I hope you have a cool day!! Bye!!

Tony woke up and screamed “aaaah!” There was a creature beside Tony looking confused. Tony asked in shock “whoo arrre youu?!” The creature picked me up and said “It’s no time to talk just follow me.” The creature went to a cave where there was no one there. The creature said “You are in danger, think that you need to go to space.”

“We are nearly there,” said the creature.

Beep, Beep, Beep. The alarm rang, Tony woke up and jumped on top of the low bookshelf. Tony’s mum came and asked “How did you get up there?” Tony wondered.

Can This be 100 Words?

The 100 Word Challenge

For this challenge we have to write a story that is exactly 100 words. How? So there is a picture below that we have to write a story about. This picture below is about a giant teacup that scooped grass. Now we had to write a story out of that. It took about half an hour to finish the whole story. It was really fun writing this 100 word challenge. I hope you like my post about my 100 word challenge. Have a cool day and week!! Bye!!

Suddenly the giant’s teacup fell...

5 Minutes ago… 

The giant was sitting in his old and rusty chair like always drinking his stinky tea. Boom! There was a loud explosion that came from the west. Suddenly the giant’s teacup fell down, down and down all the way to Earth.

A Few Years Later - On Earth… 

The scientists came and found the unknown, mysterious teacup that scooped up grass. The scientists wondered and scratches their head, “how could this happen?”. The End The movie ended well and the people enjoyed the movie, some people said, “Wow what a movie that was."

All About Me

For writing our task was to write all about me. We had a few days to complete to finish the writing. Now here is my all about me.

Bonjour awesome viewers, welcome to my blog! In this blog you would find my learning and fun trips that I go every year. Now I will introduce myself, my name is Khush and I am a year 7 at Hornby High School.

My favourite sport is Cricket. I play Cricket with my friends. My favourite subject is Maths.

I also play cricket for Halswell Cricket Club. In Winter Sports I play Soccer. My favourite teams are New Zealand Cricket and FC Barcelona.

I learn best by sitting by my friends and discussing as a group. But sometimes I like to sit by myself.

My goals for this year is to learn other subjects like Reading and Writing as much as my favourite subject Maths.

I hope you like my all about me. Please comment down below, I will reply back. I hope you enjoy on my blog. Have a cool 😎 day!! Bye!!

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.