The Bully Chip

  The Bully Chip

Text Title: The Bully Chip 

Text Type: Fantasy Book

Text Creator: Glenn Wood 

Text Purpose: "A year after they defeated Lester Smythe, the evil mastermind, Callum, Sophie and Jinx are having problems with the new kids at Thanxton High. The bullies seem to be targeting them. And the friends soon discover they're in the middle of a dangerous plot for revenge."

Date: Publish on 2013

In those whose interest in those texts: Novel for children by a New Zealander author.

The Evidence: Someone said that this novel is great fun with laudable heroes. Callum and Sophie are great role models and Jinx has his place in spite of being heavily put upon. Ideal as a class read-aloud for school years 5-8 and for reluctant readers in the same age group. 

Helping Eco - Warrior

Today in Social study we have gone around our school and pick up the rubbish that we see. It was really fun picking up rubbish because I think that it really helped our environment to keep clean. 

What did we do to help? The way we have helped Eco-Warrior in our school is that we went around the school picking up all the rubbish that we have seen. We have collected the rubbish with a small bucket and gloves for our hand. It didn't take that long for us to fill the bucket full.    

What are your thoughts? My thought about picking up rubbish in our school is that we are helping each other to make the planet clean. I'm really happy that we have collected those rubbish because I think that it has helped the environment with less flooding. 

What do you want people to know? What I want for people to know is if you see rubbish in your way make sure to pick it up and throw it at the closes bin that you see. That way the rubbish won't get blown away by the wind to the river. If those rubbish has blown into the river, it will now go to the ocean affecting our marine lives. 

                                                

SOCIAL STUDY - Trashing the planet

What have you learned about the video? What I learned about the video is that the earth is dying, the ice is melting, the sea level is rising and there are more factories that are releasing carbon dioxide into the air. We need to work together with us humans to rebuild our planet by reducing plastic waste and making new reusable products.  

Some example that I could do to reduce pollution are:

• Riding a bike or walking instead of driving.

• Taking a bus or carpooling.

• Buying a car that has greater fuel efficiency.

• Turning off lights and appliances when they are not in use.

• Using energy-efficient light bulbs and appliances.

• Buying fewer things that are manufactured using fossil fuels.

 

What has the video encouraged you to think about? The video had encouraged me to think that if all the whales have died, then the ocean will die. If the ocean dies, that means we will also die because almost all the oxygen that we get in the world is from the ocean. 

 

What do you think? What I think about the video is that we need to start changing plastic to something we can reuse. Because more and more every day the ocean gets plastic and marine life thinks that it’s food for them. But they are actually plastic that will kill them.

What can be done to reduce what goes in the red bin? The things that we can do to reduce what goes in the red bin is that we should use more reusable things. 

Making a Metal Oxide

 Aim: To make a metal oxide and observe the difference in properties of the product compared to the reactant. 

Equipment: 

• A piece of magnesium 
• Bunsen burner 
• Safety glasses 
• Metal Scissor tongs

Method:

1. Light your bunsen burner 
2. Hold your piece of magnesium in the scissor tongs. Ensure you are holding onto the very tip of the magnesium. 
3. Place the other end of the magnesium into the Bunsen flame (at the top of the blue flame)
4. When the magnesium begins to burn, do not look directly at it, as the light emitted can permanently damage your eyes. 

Result:

Discussion: After we have covered the gas hole in the bunsen burner, the fire has changed to the colour blue which means it is really hot. We then hold the magnesium with the scissor tongs and put it right above the blue flame. In a very quick second, the magnesium started to burn while giving the effect of very bright light, while the magnesium is burning make sure to not look directly at it because it can forever damage your eye.   

Conclusion: What I think about the experiment that we did, is that it was really fun. I had a lot of fun doing the experiment and I'm looking forward to our next science experiment. 

Metal and Acids

Aim: To show that hydrogen gas is produced when a metal reacts with acid.

Equipment: 

• A test tube 
• A boiling tube 
• Bunsen burner 
• Wooden splint 
• A bottle of acid
• A piece of metal
• Safety glasses

Method:  

1. Add your sample of metal to your test tube. Add 2 mL of acids.
2. Carefully invert the boiling tube above the test tube containing the metal and acid.
3. Hold the test tubes together for a few minutes, allowing time for the inverted boiling tube to fill with gas.
4. Light the flaming splint with a lighter.  
5. Carefully, but quickly, tilt the boiling tube full of gas upwards and insert the burning splint into the mouth of the test tube.  

Result: 

As the result, the sound that we heard was "pop!". 

Discussion: 

As the metal is dissolving with the acids we quickly put the other test tube above it so that it won't release any Hydrogen gas. The more we wait for all the H2 to get trap in the tube, we see that it's becoming more grey, which means it is realising H2 ( Hydrogen gas). After a few minutes, we then call our teacher to light our splint, when the splint was on fire we quickly turn over the test tube and put the burning splint inside. The sound that it made was a loud "POP"!.

Conclusion:

I can tell that our experiment works because of the way the test tube made a sound. Maybe next time we will try to cover the tube so that the H2 won't scape, and also the sound will even be louder than we did last time. But anyway I like that experiment.

My School Holiday

On the two weeks holidays of school, I mostly did nothing for a week. Then on the second week of the holidays, my family and I went to lake Tekapo and stay there for one night. While I was there I enjoyed the view of the lake, at night you can feel the cold wind passing through you. Before the sun came down I went to the playground and just watch the sunset. At night I made my self a hot chocolate and just sit outside until 10:00 pm. I can hear the wave of the ocean crashing and splashing, it was so relaxing that time at Lake Tekapo. 

Then after we came back from Lake Tekapo, 3 days until school. We went on a long drive to The Giant house it took us 1 hr and 19 mins to get. The first thing that I saw when I have arrive was the sculpture, the stairs were made from mosaic sculptures. As I go inside the giant house, I saw more whimsical mosaic sculptures, my favourite pieces of art that I saw there was the giraffe. 

In the last few days of my school holiday, I just took a nap and played a little bit on my phone. I also went to the park and play basketball with some of my friends. And that was mostly my school Holidays.