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Nice Police Officer

One police lady honored by the mayor and police chief with a Beyond The Call Of Duty award. How she won it was because. One day she pulled over a lady that was crying because she had just found out the her mother had died. After the police officer let her off with a warning she could not stop think about her. She sent her some flowers with a note that said “I’m very sorry about your mother. I hope you find comfort in knowing she lived a long life and will continue to live on in your heart and in your memories.” Is it that sad and nice of the police office. I wonder what killed her mum? There was no words that I found tricky in the article.  I got my info from http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org

5 Facts about Afghans

5 Facts about Afghans

1. Afghans celebrate their new year in 21 March, the first day of spring.

2. Afghanistan would like its national game, buzkashi, or goat-grabbing, to be an Olympic sport. It involves riders on horseback competing to grab a goat, and gallop clear of the others to drop it in a chalked circle.

3. Mobile phone coverage is expected to reach 90% of the country this year, even though the percentage of Afghans with access to electricity is still one of the lowest in the world. Mobile phones are transforming Afghan lives and culture.

4. Poetry is a cherished part of Afghan culture. Afghans have told their stories in verse for more than 1,000 years. Thursday night is "poetry night" in the western city of Herat - men, women and children gather to share ancient and modern verse.

5. Afghan cuisine is more sophisticated than kebabs and rice.

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Taylor Swift Helping Out A Fan With Cancer

Taylor Swift is a nice singer that loves her fans. So no surprise on Oct 27 she  took the time to meet 6-year-old Taylor Rayburn backstage at her concert. Unfortunately she has cancer. Her dream was to see Taylor Swift and see did. Is it that soo cool. I wonder what type of cancer she has? There was no words that I found tricky in the article.  I got my info from http://www.inquisitr.com

Gran

Gran

I am inspired by my gran. She is a great teacher and a good friend. Gran has work at playcentre for 45 years teacher little kids through play and all time fun. Gran is also a great artist and loves nature. I am inspired by her because she has so much knowledge and is always sharing it. Also because she is a lovely kind lady. My gran inspires me to be the best person I can, to not only strive for my goals but to accomplish them and have fun doing it.

Bugs And Pest

This blog post is how to get rid of bugs and pest in the garden. 

How to get rid of birds

Birds eat heaps of our plant at school so the ways I have found are prefect for us.

Hang flashy strips of aluminum foil or metal. Hang old CDS.

How to get rid of slugs

 Spreading salt around your plants dries them out so they won’t go near it. Collect human, dog, or cat hair and put around your plants, not only will the slugs not go on it, but it will also keep a lot of the little critters away also. 

When you find a slime trail, destroy the track so other slugs do not follow. They will follow each others trail. 

There are certain plants that slugs hate like the strong smell of mint, chives, garlic, geraniums, foxgloves and fennel. Plant them around the edge of your garden to keep them out. 

Put Copper of foil barriers around plants that the slugs are eating. When the slugs cross them they are given a small shock. This also works for snails. 

Fill a shallow bowl with beer and wait overnight. The slugs love it. Dispose of the slugged brew by adding it to your comport. 

After eating your 1/2 grapefruit for breakfast, put it into your garden to make slug trap. Turn upside down after putting a small hole or two on the side for slugs to enter. They adore grapefruit and the slugs will gather there to eat the grapefruit and leave your plants alone.

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Dark Chocolate Makes You Happy

Eating dark chocolate, rich in cocoa has been linked with numerous benefits, including stress reduction and improved heart health, but a new study has revealed it can make your brain smarter and improve memory. Dark chocolate, which is 70 percent cocoa, is full of powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatory things that are known to be good for cardiovascular health. I think this is weird and good at the same time. I like dark chocolate, but I think they are  weird things to say are in chocolate. I wonder how they did their tests?

I had found a word tricky in the article here are the definitions below:

Cardiovascular: The heart and blood vessels.

I got my info from http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org

Weird Moth

For the past 2 weeks the fire breathing rubber ducks my learning group have been look at a weird moth caterpillar. We have been talk and writing questions about this weird moth. This was to practise our curiosity skills. Take a look at the photo.

My Writing

I thought it would be cool to share a piece of writing I have been writing. It is not finish but this is what I have got.

Falling Grace

Chapter One

What Happen In The Morning  

I feel my heart pounding like a drum them as I sit in the stable reading the book my mother gave me before she passed. I am worried, I am nervous but most of all I am angry. The queen order me here until I beg her for her forgiveness. I hear footsteps. But I shan't look up from my book. Why would I need to apologise for all the pain I have given her after all the pain she has given me. All I did was ask her to help me to save Vernon for the dangers that lay ahead. I feel like a little kid locked in my room. The book is all I have left of my mother. The queen of Loau or at least she use to be.

I hear a yell. So I look up, it is the queen, I see the rage upon her face. I'm too apologise and not get Vernon the Prince of Loau. But that we never happen. Vernon Is my brother he was my life, I was like his mum, till the day he became a knight. I wish he was here. He would have stuck up for me. Now he is in deep danger. I have to listen to the angry voice of the Queen and her words swirling around my head.

I plan to escape and save him from the war. We are trying to save the land but Newbowland dark Lord wants it. So we will fight for or land. Well not me nor Vernon. We will run away. They pick the people to fight and they will pick Vernon. So before they pick we will run up the south mountain.  They will pick us tomorrow so I have to make a plan. Vernon is coming so we need to leave as soon as he is here. But how...

Chapter Two

Time to Fight

I need to pack for I will escape tomorrow night. So I sneak down to the kitchen. I hear nothing but I need to check, so a take a peek through the gap in the door. Empty, good. I grab some old bread and full up a big bottle of water. Then head down to the  stable to check if Alice my horse is ready. She is a Andalusian with grey coat and a brown mane. I have had her since I was little. She is like my sister that I never had.

It is time to get some sleep, so hike up the stairs and into my bedroom. I lay down and I am very tired but something was keeping me up. Veron might not want to come the Queen would blackmail him to fight. That one thing lead me to a night without sleep. Tossing and turning. I get up from my boiling hot bed and open the curtains to find a lovely day. Perfect for escaping.

                           Chapter Three

The Escaping

I know the Guards would let me through the gate on a normal day, but with the Queen being so angry at me I am not to sure today is one of those days. This means I have to find another way to get out. This is going to be tricky because the gate is the only exit. Wait the gate is not the only exit me and Alice can jump the wooden fence surrounding the horse stable. That’s by the south mountain.  I'm nervous I do not yet know if Veron will want to come with me. If he does not come I will have to go by myself and that would be dreadful.

I grab my pack bag a head off for the stabes. Alice is confused on what I am doing here when I arrive. She normally get feeded at lunch time so this is a first. I put Alice gear on her and jump up upon her back. I kick open the gate and it shrieked as it as it swung open. I gallop with Alice out the stables and forward to my opponent the tall wooden fence. I talk to Alice as we approach the gate “I know we can do it.”

Alice's front hooves lifts of the ground and her legs stretch out over the gate. Her back legs jump up and we fly over the fence.  I feel full with relieved, We have done it, we have conquered the fence.  Now quickly we have to head off to get Veron.  Me and Alice take off. I feel like we're going as fast as lightning as we speed down to the royal driveway.

I see many carriages flooding in the driveway.  There is about a million so how will I know which one is the Verons. Wait what's is the symbol he has on his knight armorer. A cross look for a cross.  

Weekly News

This Kid is a Super Hero

When Wil a kid with down syndrome was born his dad a photographer decided to put his

photographer skills to the test by making photos to promoting positive images of people with the condition. They choose to do a theme of flying so in every photo he is in the air. That is so cool. I wonder how many photos they have taken?There was no words that I found tricky in the article.  I got my info from http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org

Art Evaluation

Last term for art we did some zentangling. It was really fun because we could pick pattens that fit our own personalty. First we practised many pattens to go on our art the we thought of something that we love I pick a apple. I chose a apple because I love apples. We drew it on a A3 piece of paper. Then what we filled it with  our own favourite pattens. Then we sharpied it. On my art I chose to do the background instead of the apple. My favourite part of my art would have to be the cool colours I used. The most challenging part was rubbing out all the pencil lines and the thing that I would do next time if I did it again would be to not press so hard with my pencil so it would be easer to rub out the pencil lines. My favourite patten would be the patten at the top with the flowers.

My Plan For Term Four

Milestones

Milestones I have achieved? Positive Participaction Be Published

Milestones I aim to achieve: I am going try to achieve all my milestones because I feel I can complete them all because I have started on all of them and most of them are almost complete. One that I think I will complete first would be my langues ( I am almost finished).

My next steps to achieve these milestones: Put milestones my timetable more and what part of that milestone I need to work on. Talk to others who have completed the milestone for some help. Talk and share what I have done in my milestone with the teacher that is in change of the milestone to look at what to do for next steps.

Learner Profiles:  What have you achieved?  What have you improved at?  What do you still need to do?  Add one next step below:
Reading	Writing	Maths
I have achieved heaps in reading and am very proud of myself. I can tell because I have ticked of many of my goals and have heaps of examples to prove it. I have heaps of things I have achieved in reading like I have made more connections this year than last year and am overall a better reader. I think I have a group of goals that I can check off now.	I have achieved heaps in Writing and am very proud of myself and the awesome pieces of writing I have worte. I know this because  I have ticked of many of my goals and have heaps of examples to prove it. I think I really need to work on learning more about and understand all parts of speech.	I have done really well in maths but still feel this is not one of my strength. I still have heaps I want to achieve. But many of my goals I think I can tick of because I have seen a huge improvement in my aws book.
Workshops I MUST Book into:  Parts Of Speech, revising and editing, Explore decimals,

School Events I want to participate in:

Athletics Volleyball Swimming

My Goals:

Get better at volleyball and participate more at game time. Do well in shorter races at athletics. To get a stronger kick therefore I will go faster.

Plan to achieve these goals:

To do this I need to practise more and get some help from Lilly. Practise at home doing short races racing Julie and Fairven. Practise more to get my legs stronger.

Student Led Workshops

What am I really good at? Hockey Skills Public speaking Reading Gardening

Weekly News

One Bite saved his life

Eugene Finney is probably the only person you’ll ever meet who will tell you. Finney and his daughter were swimming off Huntington Beach, California when they were hit by a rough wave. As he clutched his daughter and slipped under water, he felt something large slam into him and cut across his back. He realized it was most likely a shark bite, though not a serious one. Finney didn’t bother going to the hospital until he got back home to Finchburg. Doctors ran a scan and found something that was a bigger threat than the shark had been — cancer on Finney’s kidney. Without the scan, doctors told him he probably wouldn’t have known he was sick until it was too late to save him. But thanks to the shark, they caught the cancer incredibly early. Afterwards, he showed no signs of the cancer. Is it that really lucky. I wonder how long he hadx been in hospital ?There was no words that I found tricky in the article.  I got my info from http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org

Source by Helaina Hovitz