Omaka Scout Camp Timeline

Since Camp has been changed to EOTC week, the year 8s have been learning about the places we will be going in on week 7. We were given a bingo that had the four places we are going to. I decided to make my first bingo about Omaka Scout Camp. The task was to make a timeline about the important things that have happened to Omaka Scout Camp. This is my finished product, I hope you like it

Writing - Narrative Writing

This is more of my story so far. This is my problem at the moment but I am going to add more to make it more problematic. I hope you like my story so far

Ashleigh had just arrived at gary’s house. Gary was just making a soul into a potion of death. Ashleigh had knocked on the door and gone inside. “Gary? Are you here?”,Ashleigh had said. Gary had quickly hidden the potion and looked like he was doing something “ Hello, Princess Ashleigh, how are you? What do you need from an old octosquid like me.” ,He had asked her. “I’m well Gary. I actually want a potion so I can become a human, I want to experience how humans live.” Ashleigh had muttered. Gary had a double take, Ashleigh the future queen of the ocean, wanted to become a human. “ I can do that, BUT you have to make me a important role in the castle. I want to over-” Gary had stopped himself before he could say his master plan. He wanted to overtake the castle but he had to be able to go inside the castle first. He thought he deserved the crown.  He was wrong, he would lead everyone to despair.

Matter

This week for science 8bh has been learning about matter. Matter is what the world is made out of, there are many different categories of matter like living and dead organisms. We learnt about the three states of matter, solid, liquid and gas. We did two experiments about the three states.





The first experiment we did was about boiling water. The apparatus we used was a Bunsen burner, a tripod, a lighter, a beaker, ice, and a thermometer. The first thing we did was set the Bunsen burner underneath the tripod. We then took ice, put it into the beaker and checked the temperature, which was 0°c We then lit the Bunsen burner with the lighter and placed the beaker on top of the tripod, every minute we then checked what the temperature until the ice melted into water and started boiling. The last temperature we recorded which turned the water into steam, or water vapour was 110°c





The next experiment we did was a little bit boring because we had to wait and watch a potassium permanganate crystal diffuse into water and see what would happen. The apparatus we used was a beaker, water, tweezers, a straw and the crystal itself. We first filled water into the beaker and placed the straw not to close to the edge of the beaker. Using crystals we put the crystal into the straw and watch it fall into the water. When the water and the crystal meet each other the crystal lets out air bubbles which hold the crystals magenta like pigment. The air bubbles pop when the reach the surface and the pigment colours the water, slowly floating back down where all the pigment was. We didn’t move the beaker at all which made the darkest shade of purple land at the bottom while the rest of the water was stained magenta. After a while the crystal had diffused into the dye and we washed it out, watching the colour go down the drain. After that the experiment was complete.





It was really fun learning about matter and how our whole entire world is made out of little particles and molecules. If I could I would do this whole unit again because of how cool all the experiments were and how everything is just particles and molecules.

Narrative Writing

This week for writing we are making alternative fairy tales of classic ones. I made mine about the little mermaid. This is what I have written so far.

Hello fellow humans, welcome to the wonderful way of the sea. Once upon a hundred years a mermaid will come up to the surface to see the wonderful way of how humans live. Sometimes they stay up with the humans or they come back with more knowledge on the land.

This story is about a young mermaid named Ashleigh, or Ash for short. Like all mermaids she has an aquatic friend named Aries. Don’t mind her name, her parents had thought she was her twin brother Acules at first after naming her. Today was the day that ashleigh had turned sixteen and thought her father, Adonis wouldn’t notice if she had left for just a hour just to see the deep side of the water, the bad side of the sea. Aries had told Ashleigh many times that It was where Gary, An octosquid who had anger issues was living. Gary was banished to that part of the sea because he had almost killed the king. “It’ll be fine Aries, No one will notice i’m here” ,she had said. You see Ashleigh was going to be the next queen of the ocean as her uncle, the king had no children. Ashleigh was the only one who could be the queen. Many people had thought it was her destiny but she thought otherwise.

What she didn’t know was that she would make the deal of a lifetime, it would change her destiny forever.  

Narrative - My Unusual "Pets"

Last term 8bh has been working on narrative writing. Narrative writing can be fictional or non fictional writing, we were asked to write first-person personal narratives about something that happened in our lives. I wrote about one of my unexpected pets that I had owned.

A few years back when I was the age of five I really, REALLY wanted wanted a

pet, I was a little afraid of dogs so I wanted a turtle or a pet goldfish, I never

expected to actually get a pet. I had never expected this type of pet, and to be

able to get three little monsters that I had to learn to take care of in a few

weeks. It was a really ‘Baad’ experience

It was a hot sunny day in february when my parents had come home with a

trailer, I was five at the time so I thought it was a peacock or a ostrich, after all

I was scared of birds as a kid. My parents had said that since I didn’t get a

birthday present and my sister wanted a pet animal they put it towards

themselves to buy us a pet. I didn’t know much about animals so I thought it

was a dog. My parents said we could see the animals so I was really excited,

before I could look my parents drove our car to the backyard and closed our

gate so the animal wouldn’t escape. They opened the gate to the trailer and I

wished it was a bird or dog. Turns out they had gotten us Sheep. My parents

said that each of these sheep were ours, I had a little girl, my brother and sister

both had boys. One of the sheep that was my sisters was really friendly and

thought I wanted to pet it. “Get this sheep off me!” ,I had screamed. After a

while that one sheep had followed me started to leave me alone. As soon as

that happened I ran inside after closing the gate and asked my parents why we

had three little monsters living with us now. “You and your sister wanted a pet

so we got you three” ,they had said.  It was becoming night so I changed my

clothes, washed my hands and went to sleep. The next morning I had woken up

to see a german shepherd chasing our now terrified sheep out of their cage and

chasing them around our house. I had screamed and told my parents what I

had just seen. My dad quickly ran outside and threw something at the german

shepherd so it would go away, after a while it finally left and we put the sheep

back into their cage, we then fed them and got on with our day.

After a while I had asked my parents why we had bought the sheep, “We got

these sheep to keep them as your temporary pet and also to fatten them up to

sell them later on” ,My dad had said. I was really annoyed that we had animals

at the moment even though we wanted a pet. This wasn’t the pet I wanted, this

was the last thing I wanted. A few weeks later I was still angry at the sheep and

for a while I had thought they were goats and that they would eat everything

with no remorse so I stayed away from them for a while.

Every morning we would have to feed them milk and they would follow us all

the time just so then they could get extra food. I would try to run away from

them, every day they would start stinking up because of the poop they made so

we had to wash them every day. The bad thing was that they hated water so

they always tried to run away from us. It was a hassle but they finally co

operated with us other than running away. When they started getting older they

would start eating more, which made them fatter. I always tried to stay away

from them because they wouldn’t leave me alone and always cuddled up to me.

A few months later the sheep had disappeared from our backyard, I started

panicking, trying to see where they could have gone. My parents saw me

panicking and told me that they sold the sheep so then they didn’t have to

shear it and also so then when they were older then they would kill it. I felt a

little bit of happiness but mostly sadness from the sheep going to die when they

were older. After all I had just named one Bob. I knew this was going to happen

but I didn’t want to believe it was true. It sadly was, I knew this was going to

happen so I didn’t want to be attached to the little monsters while they stayed

with us. The next day I went on like nothing happened until I realised, I never

said goodbye!

Cybersmart Research Questions

Question: Explorers from Kushiro Pevek and Namsos arrive at the North Pole and check their watches. If they arrived at 11:42 a.m, 12:17 p.m and 3 a.m., respectively, which team was first?

Google Searches:

North Pole time zone - 3:02 PM
Kushiro time zone - 8:02 AM
Pevek time zone - 11:02 AM
Namsos time zone - 1:02 AM

Time Differences

Namsos - Pevek - 10 Hour Difference

Namsos - Kushiro - 7 hour difference

Namsos - North Pole - 14 hour difference

Kushiro - North Pole - 7 hour difference

Kushiro - Pevek - 3 hour difference

Pevek - North Pole - 4 hour difference

Times Arrived:

Kushiro - 11:42 AM -  6:42 PM

Pevek - 12:17PM - 4:17 AM

Namsos - 3 AM - 5 PM

Who arrived first - Pevek, They came at 12:17 AM while the others the others came in the afternoon.