Monthly Blog Post On Ginger Ninja

Yes, Ninja is asleep on the couch (again!), and no it is not the same day that I took the last picture (I am saying this because my parents asked me if this picture was taken on the sam day as my other one). Anyway Ninja has been normal in the past few weeks. The only change in his behaviour is that he is starting to be a bit of a hungus (he gets really hungry after he just had kai). That's the only thing I can say about Ninja this month but if anything pops up I'll probably update the post or make a new one.

Homework Challenge - P5

I have completed (yet another) Homework Challenge. I have not yet "finished" it but I am preparing for later on in the year (around 1 week). This activity (as you can see from the image) is from the category "Physical Activity and the Outdoors", I have circled the task I have completed. As you can see I had to complete a season of a sport. I haven't yet completed the season but I have one game to go so I am just planning ahead. The sport that I played for one season was Hockey. Hockey is an amazing sport and is really fun. It's not also fun but also competitive. With the opposition and your team mates. You challenge yourself a lot and push yourself to your limits (if you play hard enough). My team is the B team. Not the A. Not the C. The B. We were playing a grade above our grade that we were supposed to be in. So in other words we were playing against the A teams. We did play the A Boys and A Girls. We got thrashed against both of the teams. the Boys 7-0 and the Girls 2-0. Finally I would like to summarise the sport Hockey in a couple of words. Really fun and addictive. PS We also had the best coaches ever (Mr Jens and Mrs H)

Prediction and Other Things About KiwiKids Article

Article Link Here

P = I think this article will be about... Two animals that make an unusual friendship. Either that or one of them helped the other with someone eg one of them was in trouble.
C = Nothing.
Q = No questions. The article is covers everything I want to know.
S = Technically, it is more of a video than a article but still covers a bit. It is about two unlikely friends basically (well to me).

Legend/Key:
P = Predict
C = Clarify
Q = Questions
S = Summarise

Article Comprehension (C.E Reading) - Questions and Answers

Article Comprehension:

1. What causes cavities?
2. What was the genius idea the scientists at OraganoBalance came up with to try combat cavities?
3. What was the experiment they conducted to test their thesis? Was it successful?

Comprehension Answers:

1. People think that sugar is the main reason you get/have cavities. It is not. It is something in your saliva that feeds of the remains of the sugar (after you have finished digesting the food) and makes the cavities. It is called "streptococci mutants". They (like I said before) feed of the remains of the sugar while sticking to your teeth. While this is happening the spit of acid, this is the cavities.

2. The people of OraganoBalance had an idea that they could use a substance called "Lactobacillus Paracasei". This is a bacteria found (naturally) in milk products. The reason they got this bacteria was so it could bind with the streptococci mutants and this could result in the streptococci mutants getting dragged away from the teeth. It was an idea that seemed good because it was tested on rats (it seemed to work then).

3. The team at OraganoBalance made two batches of mint candy, each of these batches are coated with different dead types of lactobacillus paracasei. The third batch was bacteria free. They each then tested the candies. They found that the tests were successful and they did work.

Article Comprehension Questions - C.E Reading

Article Comprehension:

1. Every animal turns one so why was Bao Bao's first birthday so special?
2. How did the zookeepers celebrate it?
3. What are some of the things Bao Bao has learnt during his first year? What are some of the things in store for her before she turns two?

Comprehension Answers:

1. He was americas favourite giant panda. Also he is said to be one of the most cutest animals ever (to American people).

2. They kept to the ancient Chinese tradition. The first part of the tradition was offering him one of three honey-dipped bamboo shoots. Next to each one of the bamboo shoots was a poster, the posters said "Long Life" "Many Cubs" and "Good Health", these were believed to tell his future. He picked the bamboo shoot with the "Long Life" next to it. They also made a nutritious cake made out of all sorts of juices like apple juice and beet juice and also had different shade of pink.

3. She learnt how to wrestle by "practicing" against a blue buoy. Her keepers are now trying to teach her to "Present her paw".

Dangerous Decibels

Today at school we had a subject that we did. It was called Dangerous Decibels. A decibel (Or db for short) is practically a way of measuring noise, like how if you want to know what something weighs you use grams or kilograms so on and so on. Anyway what we learnt at dangerous decibels was, what is a safe number of decibels that we can be around. The answer to that is 85 db. The highest decibel that I know something can go up to is 150, I just can't remember what that was that went that high. We also used these things called tuning forks. I learnt that these tools can break teeth if you whack them them put them to your teeth. Also if you whack them against something and then put them to your ear and it could damage your ear.

How Mauao Got His Name - Homework