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How hot is the sun?

How hot is the sun.

The sun is 93 million miles away.

The hottest part of the sun is the core it gets up to 27 million Fahrenheit. In celsius that is 14999982.2 degrees.

Does the sun spin in a matter of fact it does it spins quite fast here is a photo of it spinning.

We also had to read these facts sort of thing after we did that. We had to play some games they were really fun. There was this one when there were some words and you had to match them. There were 5 words. There was one I had a rough idea of so I tried it and it was right. I was so pleased.

Summarising 3-2-1

Topic: Fast Rust 

3 Things I learned

That you need iron ,water and oxygen from the air around us, or certain metals to create rust.

Rust crumbles as your touch it.

Steel rusts faster of slower in different environments.

2 Interesting Facts

The Auckland harbour bridge has been called one of aucklands biggest paint jobs. Three coats of paint of paint stop the 6000 tones of steel. This paint lasts about four years depending on the weather.

Rust can eat iron away just with water and oxygen 

1 Question I have

Why do people think rust is bad?  When other people like rust?

Extraterrestrial Search Parsons Vocabulary

WALT build our vocabulary

Text: Extraterrestrial Search                          Author: Sharron Parsons

Word (and page number)	Sentence in the text	Meaning in my own words
1. Extraterrestrial P.4 2. Potentially P.4 3. Cosmonaut P.7 4. Velocity P.8 5. Metabolism P.14 6. Protoplanetary P.22 7. Civilisation P.26 8.Terrestrials P.29 9.Cylindrical P.29 10.Metallic P.31	1. We earthlings have been fascinated by the possibility of Extraterrestrial life inhabiting neighbouring planets 2. Hundreds of the planets that could potentially support life have been discovered in our own galaxy 3. She was a parachutist before she trained as a cosmonaut 4.Spacecraft Velocity, about 8300 kilometers an hour. 5.Most like Earth also needs water, a range of temperatures in which in which it can survive, a mixture of gases it uses for its metabolism. 6. The scientific team there uses two powerful infrared optical telescopes to study fast-swirling dust and gas clouds called protoplanetary disks 7. One way to do this is to search for signal from other planetary civilisations. 8. Welcome to another episode of ETS, the online program  that invites Earths expert terrestrials.    9. But he was unable to make out what exactly, the cylindrical object was. 10. He described these UFOs as metallic.	1. Extraterrestrial from the outside of our earths atmosphere 2. It could be possible but yet certain 3.A cosmonaut is a person trained the a spaceflight program 4. The speed of something given a direction. 5.The chemical processes within organism in order to maintain life 6. The stage of a human of social development and organization which is most concerned most advanced. 7. A gathering, A place  of cultural activities 8. Something that has happened around the world 9.Having a form of cylinder. 10. Metallic is a form of colour

Internet Project

listen to ‘Internet project Interview rogan’ on Audioboo

In the late 1870s. The fastest way to get a message from New Zealand was by telegram. travelling along a cable. Some of the first telegrams cost 15 shilling per word that is over 100 dollar nowadays.Today we can send an email of a fraction of a sent. Nowadays Sending emails is much quicker than telegram.

When we search things or talk on social media you are normally connected to something called a wifi hotspot. These days we are making powerful computers called servers. Many businesses and universities have their own servers and networks.Big Internet companies have heaps of serves clustered together in one large building calls a data base.

168 million emails are sent every minute. 695000 updates on one social network are updated. 969 445 queries received by one major search engine. 600 plus videos one a sharing website. 11000000 conversations take place on instant messengers. Over 70 website created. 1500 Bogs posted. 370 000 Minutes on phone calls.

The Internet cost a lot of money and takes up lots of energy. The wireless technology also the millions of kilometres of wire and optic. Data centres use a lot of energy. A large number of data centres rely on energy generated by fossil fuels.  

Some internet companies are trying to find ways of reducing their environmental cost. One popular internet company has built a large data center in Sweden. The centre draws 120 megawatts of power, that's enough power for 16,000 houses. Even though the internet costs so much it changes our lives in many different ways. Technology is great,but we need to manage the environment cost so that we can continue to enjoy the internet.

Cyber bullying is very bad , it can really upset some people and it can cause death because they have been send threats and very mean messages on social websites. You know when you're doing cyberbullying and it is not nice. Think carefully before you send it will is hurt them or is it mean. Cyberbullying happens a lot way more than it should. People sometimes send threats through anonymous accounts. You know you're doing it and its a good idea not to press send.   

Argo Floats

An argo float is something that measures the temperature and salinity of seawater. There is around 3500 argos adrift. Argo float don't just drift around they are programmed to travel up and down in a continuous. cycle They are measured to be 1.2metre tall, they weigh about 40 kg, They cost $19000 and their lifespan is 5 years. The argo float allows them to measure temperatures in deeper and shallow waters. It can drift thousands of kilometres before the battery runs out. They are only made in three countries United States, Germany and France. The argo cycle first it descends around for six hours, then then it parks at 1000 metres, then drifts for 9 days, then descends to 2000 metre. then it ascends to the surface around 6 hours collecting data. Most argos work for about 5 years after that they sink to the bottom for good. They released around 800 each year so they don't run out. It costs them around $15,200,000 a year.  

Argo are an international project 30 world wide countries are involved. Oceanographers use argro data to learn more about the world ocean and also how water moves. Scientists were very interested when data comes back when it was hotter rather colder. Scientists can also make predictions about the effects of the water, which include rising sea water and and an increase of tropical storms. New Zealand waters are famous for releasing the highest number argos in the world (750). In 2012 there were over 3500 active argo float in the worlds oceans. The argo floats that are released near Antarctica with special ice sensors. If the surface covers over with ice it will stay down for a week, but sometimes it takes several months for it to unfreeze and for it to send its data.

 This is an argo float. It is much bigger than this.  

3200 Year Old Tree

Photographing the 3200 Year Old Tree

First, read and summarise the article.

This giant sequoia tree is 3200 years old and not till now it has not been photographed with a special camera.

It is 227 feet tall, 45,000 cubic  feet in volume, 27 feet wide and there is over 2 billion needles that more than any tree on the planet.

It’s one of the fastest growing trees in the world. It only exists in one place,in the Sierra Nevadas in California.

They had a very special camera that takes heaps of photos with a few cameras on it.

Then:

- watch the video and recount how 'they' took the photo.  

 It took ages wiring the things together then a even harder job pulling it up on pulleys to take the photos to the very top. It took them 32 days to - put the photo together in all its right bit and pieces.

describe the photo

Its a very unique photo because its got put together by heaps of different photos. I think its very clever because it must of taken a lot of work because it took 32 day just to put together.

I reckon it was worth  doing all the work because it looks incredible.  

- write about the biggest tree in our country

Te Matua Ngahere is the biggest tree in New Zealand but not the tallest. Its 16.41m around the tree trunk, 10.21m that is the trunk height, the total height is 29.9m   and the trunk volume is 201.8m.

The tree is based in Waipoua Forest of Northland Region New Zealand. The tree means father of the forest. To get to it you have to park your car and walk to it on a track. You used to be able to go right up to it but not anymore because kauri trees root are close to the surface and they don’t want to hurt them.

Cross Country

My heart pounded as I began to run around the field. Flicking grass tingled against my legs. I could feel my body getting hotter and hotter like I was next to the sun. My eyes watched other people zoom past me at a million miles an hour, trying to get one more popsicle stick I picked up the pass and then slowed back down. The taste of new air filled my mouth with pleasure. Picking up the pace I grabbed the stick from Miss Mack and was off. I could hear stomps of shoes sprinting towards me. People puffing around me to get a higher stick. Almost at the forth stick I began to run faster to reach one higher stick than last time. I slowed down not to waste all my energy. The air was fill with a stinky smell of sweaty shoes and socks surrounding me as I ran. As we ran back into class I had a huge drink of water. The water was smooth as it trickled down my boiling throat.

Holes qustions

	where	who	what	when	how	why
would		stand up for stanley
could					stanley stand up to x-ray instead of giving his things to him
will						Stanley chose to give x-ray his thing he finds
can
should						stanley give x-ray the things he find
might			Stanley give to x-ray

Book Reveiw

Title:Thea Stilton Trouble in the big  Apple

Author:Elisabetta Dami

Illustrator : Elisabetta Dami  

Characters:Nicky, Violet, Colette, Paulina and Pamela Thea , Pamela's family

Rating

1/5

I really enjoyed this book it as action a mystery and a lot more  especially It started at mouseford academy cheering on nicky running in the big apple. Then  it went back straight to the beginning of when the five arrived in the big apple. The middle is  when they start  figure out all the clues because a man named phoenix is writing  threats Pamela's family and others . They went to the big apple because nicky was going to compete in the big apple marathon.In the end they solve the mystery in the end. I would read another one of the series

Recommendations

I think you would like this book if you have read one of geronimo stilton books so you get the story but it is a bit more girly. If you like action and mystery you would like this book.This book is for you 8 to 9 year olds.  

Holes Chapter 9 Summary

*He had a shower the showers had no roof

*He got into a fight

*Stanley stood up for himself

*He also got and nickname caveman

*He got an talk from x-ray and squid

*Stanley started writing a letter mum
* He released that he was caveman

Yellow spotted lizard

Bush Safty

It was winter when bryan fell down the cliff. Bryan Managed to survive 3 days and was discovered on the saturday. He survived on sucking on snow he learned that before he went and he drank water from the the river before he left bryan put on almost all his warm clothes if he didn't he would of frozen lucky he was wearing wool. Things you need in the bush or tramping are a sleeping bag if you're staying the night and a thin rubber mattress, Food, water, compass, clothes. Before you go you you always tell someone where you are going and always check the weather before you go incase it rains.  

Reading

This is my reading

The glob family

Holes

Find the meanings of these words

Counselor:

A trained person is to give guidance

Compound:
Something that is for composed for two.
Society:
Commodity of people of two Spigot:
A small peg or a plug in a insertion vent of a cask Saliva:
A watery liquid in your mouth

Reading

This my reading

Holes

Convicted: Someone to be guilty of a criminal by the verdict or a jury decision of a judge in court.
The burglar was convicted of stealing the gold.
Outlaw: Someone that has broken the law.
That naughty man broke the outlaw.
Discourage: Cause to lose confidence or enthusiasm.
Someone was doing a talent show item and they lost there discourage.

The Apple Tree Dilema