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Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Science

The particles move more when they're hot and spread out more.
The water also becomes lighter so it rises up.

Image result for convection experiment
I was curious about what life would be like living in a cult, so I decided to read someones story they wrote about what their life was like growing up in a cult, in her story she talked about how they would have to sit in 4 hour meetings every morning and how they found it normal and that people not living in the cult they thought were weird. She was born into the cult and knew no other lifestyle so assumed that it was completely normal.

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Drama

SSR English

Today in English for sustained silent reading, I chose to read an article from stuff about a 1 year old baby being flown to hospital in the Bay of Plenty after falling out a car window, the car was stationary at the time and the baby has suffered head injuries. The authors purpose was to inform the reader, the target audience is more adults.

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Today in English for SSR, I chose to read another article from stuff, it was about an Otago man being swallowed by a sudden hole, the guy was feeding his goldfish when suddenly he just dropped into around a 3metre hole, until someone nearby hear him screaming and helped him. the author's purpose was to inform the reader the target audience is more adults.

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Today in English I read about a car crash in Kawerau, a man died in a serious crash, the crash was caused when the police caught a driver speeding and attempted to pull them over, but the vehicle sped off and police pursued. During the pursuit the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree and died. The authors purpose was to inform, target audience is more adults.

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Wednesday, 2 May 2018

When you heat metal the particles get bigger and it expands because it absorbs the heat energy we proved this by heating a brass ball over a bunsen burner and the brass ball before we heated it fitted through a ring but after we heated it didn't fit.

What does Matariki mean?

Matariki has two meanings, both of which refer to the cluster of stars. Mata Riki means Tiny Eyes, and Mata Ariki means Eyes of God.
Matariki is a time in the year where you get to see the seven stars but only sometimes