Dogs And Soccer

One day a boy called Kane went camping with his school group to Cooba. Kane had a great time with his friends. On the first day Kane and his school group got off the bus. Kane went to his cabin with seven of his friends, Sam, Wally, Leroy, Ralph, Kai, Larry and Jake. On the first day group one went to do an activity called Earth ball. Group one got split into two teams. There was a big ball that weighed about twenty-five kilograms. The two teams were on a tennis court. One team started with the ball and they had to run to the back of the tennis court and back to the net and throw the ball to the other side of the court. The opposing team had to make sure the ball didn’t touch the ground otherwise Kane’s team got a point. In the end Kane’s team lost.

Then group one walked back to camp and had dinner. For dinner Kane had lasagne, vegies and baked beans on toast. After dinner everyone had a trivia night. The questions were really hard. Then everyone went to bed. On day two, group one went to archery, dune buggies and the big swing. In Dune Buggies everyone got into groups of three. In Kane’s group he had Alison and Ian. First I was the person that used the flags. There were three flags, red, green and yellow. Red meant stop, green meant go and yellow meant go slow. Then Kane had his turn at driving and he did the figure 8 circuit. Then we finished when Ian had his turn at driving. In archery everyone was split into three teams. In the end Kane’s team ended up with 129 points.
Then we had the big swing. The big swing is about 50ft high. Kane waited at the back because he didn’t know how high up he wanted to go. Kane was the last person to have a go and he went up about half way. It was the best time ever!

icicle
water
cave
underground
dissolve
cold
epsom salt
stalactite
stalagmite
winter

Ingredients:

half a cup of salt
1 cup of plain flour
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
1 cup of water
1 tablespoon of oil
food colouring

What to do:
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
Knead it until the dough is pliable.
Store it in a well sealed plastic bag or a container.

What you can make

An ashtray, Christmas ornaments, a pendant for a necklace, animals, or a sculpture.

A volcano is a mountain that has a giant hole in the top. There is a tunnel going from the hole to the centre of the Earth. Whenever a volcano erupts some magma escapes from the Earth and bursts out the hole.

Some famous volcanoes:


Mt. Vesuvius
Krakatoa
Mt. Fuji
Mt. Saint Helens Volcano
Mt. Rinjani
Diamond Head

Volcano
Magma
Lava
Molten Rock
Mountain
Crust
Ash
Gases
Flank
Bedrock

Ingredients:

1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup milk
1 egg

Method:

1. Pre-heat a large non-stick frying pan.
2. Add all ingredients into a bowl and mix until combined.
3. Lightly grease the pan with butter or cooking spray.
4. Cook large spoonfuls of batter until bubbles burst on top and the edges start to go dry.
5. Turn and cook other side until golden.

Have you tried these toppings?

Maple syrup, lemon juice and sugar, jam.

Bon Appetite

Rainbows are made from water and sun light.Rarely you might see a rainbow that has red on the inside and violet on the outside.

Where you can find a rainbow:

On a fish tank
At the beach
Somewhere it's raining

Colours of the rainbow:
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
indigo
violet
violet

What you need to make a jelly rainbow:

Measuring jug
Boiling water
125 mls Cold water
125 mls
Packets of different colored jelly

Directions:

1. Empty jelly crystals into a measuring jug.
2. Add half a cup of boiling water. Get an adult to do this.
3. When it is stirred together, add a half cup of cold water.
4. Stir until the jelly crystals are completely dissolved.
5. Pour into a container and refrigerate until it is almost set.
6. Do steps one to five several times using different colors of jell7.
7. Use a glass container to layer the many colours of jelly to make a rainbow effect. Refrigerate until it is set hard.

Questions:Did you ever drink unset jelly? Try it, you might like it!

Did you ever try to make a jelly sculpture?

Facts:
In 1845, industrialist Peter Cooper (who built the first American steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb), obtained a patent for making powdered gelatin.- Some discontinued flavors are: Italian salad, pickle and bubble gum.

The lyrics for the Aeroplane Jelly Song:

I like Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane Jelly for me.
I like it for dinner, I like it for tea,
A little each day is a good recipe!
The quality's high, as the name will imply,
It's made from pure fruit - one more good reason why

I like Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane Jelly for me!

The secret is male seahorses hold the babies!

Seahorses eat brine shrimp, plankton and some small larval fish.

Seahorses live in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Seahorses live for up to 3-5 years in the wild.

The seahorse is a verterbrae.

solar

oven

pizza box

cling wrap

aluminum foil

smores

cook

newspaper

insulation

energy



How to make a solar oven



Materials:



1 Pizza Box

Newspaper

Scissors

Sticky Tape

Black Construction Paper

Cling Wrap

Aluminium Foil

A Ruler



Instructions



1. Draw a 21.5cm by 28cm square in the lid of the pizza box.

2. Cut out three sides of the square and fold back the flap along the uncut edge.

3. Cover the inside of the flap with aluminium foil, using the sticky tape to hold the edges on the bottom.

4. Put the black construction paper inside the pizza box. Use the tape to hold it down.

5. Roll up the newspaper about 4 cm thick and fitting it around the box.

6. Tape one piece of cling wrap stretched tightly to the bottom of the lid opening to cover them. Tape another piece on the top of the lid opening.

7. Put the box at an angle facing the sun. Use the ruler to keep it open.

Nut & Bolt Sorter.

Materials:

table
nuts and bolts
2 magnets

Put the nuts and bolts on the table and the magnets on each side. Each of the magnets has more or less power. Wait for the nuts and bolts to get attracted to each magnet then you have them sorted.

For THRASS, write ten words with "c" is for cat then write a descriptive sentence with each of the words.

cat
call
could
soccer
can
catch
caught
cold

The big tabby cat wants to eat my mouse.
I want to call my puppy Tank.
I wish I could drive a Lamboghini Diablo.
I like to play soccer on the weekend.
Can you please drive me to school?
My dog tries to catch tennis balls in his mouth.
Caught is the opposite of dropped.
When I have a cold I have to stay in bed.

Maths:

1. 37.9 times 83.701 - 3172.
26792. 29.7 times 103.21 - 2993.093.
95.0083 times 83.0095 - 7886.591484.
85.62 divided by 16.4 - 5.220731715. 1112.
92 divided by 37.4 - 29.7572193

Materials


A pair of scissors


The template below


A thumb tack or split pin


a straw


sticky tape





Instructions





1. Cut out the template.


2. Decorate the template.


3. Cut from the corners to the lines.


4. Fold each dot to the middle.


5. Sticky tape the circles there.


6. Poke a hole in the first quarter of the straw to fit your thumb tack or split pin into.


7. Put your thumb tack or split pin in the straw and through the paper.


8. And you're finished. Just go somewhere with a strong wind.

The bark on an Elm tree is very rough and has small patches of bark.

The leaves on the Elm are quite small and are like a normal leaf.

The tree is about half the size of an Oak.

The Latin name for an Elm tree is Ulmus

One fine, sunny morning my dad woke me up to say goodbye before he went to work. But before I heard the usual "See ya, buddy." I heard something a little different. "Ahhh!" he screamed. He picked me up with one hand (which was quite unusual) and took me to the bathroom. "Holy Guacamole, I'm a potato!" So he took me back to my room and let me lay there. Then he went to work.

A couple hours later when my mum woke up she thought it was quite unusual that a potato was lying where her son was supposed to be. So she picked me up and took me to the kitchen. "Hey! Where are you taking me! I'm your son! Not a potato." I screamed at her. She just shook her head and put me with all the other potatoes.

Suddenly I heard all the other potatoes talking. "So you're the new guy?" said another potato. "No I'm supposed to be a human!" "So are we, but every kid that lived in that room for more than six months gets turned into a vegetable. There have been turnips, onions, tomatoes, broccoli, celery, cauliflower, bok choy and potatoes. I think someone's coming. Stay still and stop talking." Then my mum picked me up but then I fell out of her hand and started dropping to the floor. "Ahhh!" I screamed. Just as I hit the floor I woke up. It was all a dream.

Materials:



Bike

Alarm

Alarm Disabler

Lock

Special Chain

Security Camera



How To Set Up:



Put your bike in the bike rack. Then lock up your bike with the special chain and put the lock on it. Set up the security camera, alarm and the alarm disabler and leave your bike. If anyone tries to break the lock the alarm will go off. The security camera will catch the person on camera so you know who tried to take your bike.

slime
eyes
alien
green
U.F.O.
Roswell
space
planet
spaceship
unusual
asteroid
meteorite
astronaut
discover
Mars
martians
moon
galaxy
abduction
Stealth Bomber
weather
balloon
Milky Way
invasion
antennae

They are coming soon
Aliens from outer space
They're in a test tube

1. Who wrote the Round the Twist Series? Paul Jennings

2. In the scene where Bronson is fishing with Nell in front of the jetty, does the camera zoom in or out? Zoom in.

3. Where do the Twists keep their goldfish? In a tank on the wall.

4. When Bronson is outside at night in the cabbage looking for babies, how does the director show that it is night? Blue Lighting

6. What special effect does the director use for the baby? The baby is green.

7. What is written on the newspaper headline?

A. Blue boy alive and well.

B. Aliens invade a lighthouse.

C. Green baby found in cabbage patch.

8. What does the director use to change scenes after the teacher tells Bronson to change the baby's nappy? Clockwise direction of disappearing and reappearing.

Books by Paul Jennings

Round the Twist Website

Once day I went caving at the Jenolan caves. The caves were over 500 kilometres long. I saw heaps of stalactites and stalagmites but then the bats freaked me out and I ran away from there. I was running but then there was a huge hole that I fell into. “HELP! HELP! IS ANYONE THERE! HELP!” I screamed. I jumped and jumped but I couldn’t get up. Then a man saw me and helped me up. I said thankyou and then I kept on running. I saw the end of the Jenolan caves but then I heard a rumbling sound. The caves were collapsing! I saw some rocks starting to fall from the roof of the cave. I ran as fast as I could and jumped and made it out. But then I remembered I had to go out the same way I came in. “Aw, man!” I said.

With a cutlass near
And the Jolly Roger high
You are a pirate!

In the crow’s nest of Black Beards ship I found an eye patch with two patches, a wooden leg made out of plastic, and a parrot that looks like a hawk.

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Drink and the devil had done for the rest

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

For my winter project I am sanding back and painting an outdoor chair. This outdoor chair is about 70cm tall, 150cm long and 60cm long from the side.

This session my dad showed me how to use an electric sander. Then I sanded the all the small bits of wood and the two long pieces of wood on the sides. The next session I used sandpaper to get to the hard to reach places and the bits I couldn't sand with the electric sander. On the next session I got back to work with the sandpaper. I sanded the bottom of it and then sanded the legs. The next session I fixed the wheel because it snapped in half. Then I did a quick sand. Next session I painted the top and sides of the chair. Then I painted all the places I missed that weren't on the bottom. On the next session I painted the bottom and finished painting for the first coat. On the next session I did the final coat and finished all together.

This is a picture of an human skeleton.

Igneous
Rock
Molten
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Hard
Science
Magma
Chemical
Clastic
Organic
Crystal
Sandstone
Conglomerate
Granite
Rough
Layers
Smooth
Limestone
Lava
Geologist
Basalt
FossilMarble

Place Value - Mystery Numbers
1. This mystery number has 4 digits. Every digit is an odd number. None of the digits is a 9. Every digit in the number is different. The smallest digit is in the thousands place. The greatest digit is in the ones place. The preceding describes two possible numbers. The mystery number is the greater of those two numbers. What is the mystery number? 1357 the mystery number is 5

2. This mystery number has 5 digits. There is a 4 in the ten thousands place. None of the other digits is a 4. What is the smallest number that this mystery number can be? 40000

3. This mystery number has 6 digits. If you add one to this number it will be a 7 digit number. What is the mystery number?

4. This mystery number is one half of a billion. How many zeros are in this number? 6

Poetry Homework for this week is by Edward Lear:

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat:
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!

You may write it out, and learn the first stanza.

Please write out as many of the THRASS "b is for bird" words that you can.


Back
Boast
Boost
Best
Blue
Book
Bass
Broom
Broad
Beast
Bee
Brush
Bristle
Box
Bank
Bake
Begin
Bat

Someone is Simon and they have to say Simon says... e.g. Simon says jump up and down. If Simon doesn't say Simon says and someone does that they are out e.g. Hop on one foot. Continue with the game until a couple of people are left. If there is one person left at the end, they are Simon for the next game. If everyone is out at the end the adult in charge chooses someone to be Simon.

Characters:

· Jen
· Kira
· Aughra
· Fizzgig
· The Mystics
· The Skeksis
· Garthims
· Plane Striders
· Podlings
· Crystal Bats

psis

This story is about a Gelfling called Jen. He is sent from the Mystics to find the crystal shard and put it into the dark crystal. Along the way, he teams up with Kira, a fellow Gelfling that helps him get to the castle of the Skeksis, and where the Dark Crystal is.

My Opinion

I think this movie was funny because Fizzgig got thrown into a pit with lava in it, the Mystics making funny noises, and two of the Skeksis emperors dying.

My favourite characters are The Crystal Bats because Kira hits one with a weapon.

Animation

I think the animation wasn’t extremely good but it wasn’t too bad either.
I give The Dark Crystal 3.5 stars.

Mean Problems - remember, mean = average.

1. Sandra is playing in a tennis doubles tournament. The rules say that the average age of the pair of players on each side must be ten years old or younger. Sandra is eight years old. Her partner must be 12 years old or younger.



2. Juan has played in four baseball games this season. He struck out an average of twice per game. In the last three games, he didn’t strike out at all. How many times did he strike out in the first game of the season? 1



3. Jerome took five spelling tests in the last marking period. He scored 100% in all but one. His lowest score was 80%. What was his mean score for the spelling tests in the last marking period? 20%



4. Lucy bought seven pens. Four of the pens cost a dollar each. Three of the pens cost 30 cents each. What was the average cost of each pen? 70c

We have been studying the Beijing Olympics for Term 3 SOSE. My friend Slinky has made information about the mascots. Here are their names.

Beibei
Jingjing
Huanhuan
Yingying
Nini

Beijing Mascots

Past Mascots

6:45am: Wake up and whinge until I get let out of the laundry.

7:30am: Run into every room into the house to wake everyone up.

7:35am: Lie down on the couch.

8:00am: Move to the heater.

12:00pm: Come for a ride to drop the boy off at soccer.

12:30pm: Watch the boy play soccer.

1:00pm: Go back to the car.

1:20pm: Get back out to watch the boy again.

1:30pm: Get the boy from soccer.

1:35pm: Get into the car to go back home.

2:00pm: Arrive back at home.

2:05pm: Watch the roosters in the backyard.

2:30pm: Start clawing at the door to get them.

3:00pm: Start roaming the house over and over.

3:30pm: Watch T.V. with the boy.

4:00pm: Get bored and leave.

4:05pm: Watch the boy put the roosters in the pen.

4:10pm: Get let out into the backyard.

4:11pm: Run to the fence and bark at the other dogs until I get yelled at.

4:20pm: Play with the boy.

4:30pm: Go inside with the boy.

4:35pm: Lie down on the couch again.

5:00pm: Chew on the reindeer toy.

5:30pm: Play fetch with the boy.

5:45pm: Lie down in front of the heater again.

6:00pm: Roll around the floor to scratch my back.

6:05pm: Get yelled at.

6:06pm: Go outside.

6:30pm: Come back inside.

6:45pm: Go for a ride in the car to the shops.

7:00pm: Wait until they come back.

7:05pm: Bark at every stranger I see.

7:30pm: Lie down and go to sleep.

7:45pm: Get into the back seat and sit with the boy.

8:15pm: Arrive back at home.

8:30pm: Get put into the laundry to sleep.

The Monarch butterfly is a very interesting creature. Its colours are amazing with black and orange and its ability to eat milkweed is unbelievable. These are just some of the many things of the Monarch butterfly.

When it migrates it can cover 128 km and it can reach up to speeds of 18 km an hour. These insects migrate to warmer places over the winter because it is more comfortable.

When flying it travels 5 - 6 metres above the Earth’s ground. This is about the height of 2 and a half Mr Mcs. Although it can’t go above the ground when it is a caterpillar, it truly is a magnificent sight.

interesting
things
migrates
winter
Mr Mcs

Milkweed is the only thing the larvae can eat.

It has been in Australia since 1871.

The monarch butterfly’s wingspan is in between 8.9–10.2 centimetres.

They are poisonous because the caterpillars ingest it when they eat the milkweed.

They live in open habitats including fields and meadows.

They are also known as the wanderer butterfly.

They are wonderful

Can you now guess what they are?

Monarch Butterflies!