Measurement Scavenger Hunt

Maori instrument/ Purerehua

Narrative Writing

Subarus

9000 million miles away from Earth is a planet called Subarus.

On a fine summer’s day a young girl named Alpha walked along the lime green grass,
her long black braided hair dangling over her shoulders.

Alpha could hear the sound of a Macaw chirping and the rustling

of the trees as they waved side to side, dancing to a chorus of unheard music.

Her pale blue eyes, pasty in the summer light looking out into the horizon.

Her pale skin and black clothes standing out with the white of her shoes.

Alpha stopped walking because she heard a distant rumble.

The rumbling then stopped and she couldn’t hear anything.

Everything was dead silence. So she kept walking, keeping alert

of what's happening around her.

She thought the rumbling stopped, until it started up again a few minutes after.

She looked all around herself to try find what was going on.

Again it stopped, she began to be worried and scared because although

she could hear rumbling she couldn’t see anything.

She started to look around again,

she could hear the whistling of an object falling from the bright blue clear sky.

As Alpha turned her head she could see a big, bold, jagged object with red,

orange and yellow flames heading for Subarus.

Before she knew it a meteorite hit with a loud BANG!

The ground shook like there was something moving beneath it.

Alpha had no idea what to do so she started to find somewhere to hide.

She came across this empty old wooden brown house.

Alpha quickly ran inside the old shack and looked out the clear glass

windows to see what was going on.

Everything was quiet and still.

Alpha now decided to go outside.

She then swung open the door and walked outside

as she then shut the door behind her.

She started to head for Carton Lake.

She took a narrow path down to the lake with lots of purple

osteospermum flowers around her almost like the flowers has been

stroked with paint fading from Dark purple to light purple.

Alpha came across this girl that was standing on the water's edge skimming rocks.
She had long, bright, smooth turquoise hair streaked with purple braided and

neatly into two french braids on each side of her head.

“Hi I’m Alpha, who are you?” asked Alpha.

“Hello I’m Diana,” replied Diana.

“You’re very good at skimming rocks when did you learn how to do that?” asked

Alpha. “It was a skill I learned growing up,” said Diana.

Diana and Alpha were walking together along

the lake until they both heard the sound of a rumble coming

from above Alpha and Diana.

“COME ON LET'S GO,” yelled Diana.

Alpha started to run when the meteor had hit already,

Diana and Alpha were terrified.

They thought it was all over but about another 50 more

came crashing down one after another.

By now the meteors hit everywhere, the forest was destroyed.

The meteors were scattered everywhere leaving nowhere to go.

Diana and Alpha where now running as the were dodging all

the meteorites.

Alpha had now lost Diana because of how far ahead Diana was

in front of Alpha.

Diana suddenly stopped and checked if Alpha was still running

behind her Diana  now realized she left Alpha behind her.

Diana was starting to get

worried on where Alpha would be.

Diana was running back trying to remember what way she ran to get where she was.
While Diana was trying to find Alpha,

Alpha started to run back to where they started to run hoping that  Diana will remember
the way. As Diana was running back she was remembering

parts of where she ran.

She remembers running past a big mud hole in the ground.

So she knows she’s going the right way.

Alpha was worried that she started to run without thinking of where she was. Suddenly Diana and Alpha ran into each other.

Diana and Alpha were relieved.

“Where did you go?” asked Diana.

“You ran to fast in front of me,” replied Alpha.

“Sorry,” said Diana.

“As long as we have found each other,” said Alpha.

“ It was nice meeting you,” said Alpha.

“It was nice meeting you too,” replied Diana.

Alpha and Diana  said there last goodbyes to each other and set

off in their separate ways.

The End

Book Review / Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes

Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes
By Eleanor Coerr

This book is a non fiction book based on a
real life girl who lived in Japan that had actually
got the disease, leukemia.

The genre for this book is a sad book because
Sadako had got a disease and had died from it.

This story took place in Japan.
The setting kept changing to different settings like
when Sadako was at the hospital because of her disease
and it was also set at her school and even when she went
home to her house for a couple of days.

Sadako was in Hiroshima when The United States Air Force
had dropped an atom bomb on that city to try end World War II.

10 years later she died from the radiation from the bomb that
made her get a blood disease. Another name for it is the atom bomb disease.

The main characters in this book was Sadako, Kenji and Chuziko.

Sadako was the girl that had caught the atom bomb disease.

Sadako loved to run she was the top of her running class.

Kenji was a boy that Sadako had met when she first came to the hospital.
Kenji was born with the disease because his mum had it when she gave
birth to him. Chuziko was Sadako’s first visitor that had told her if she made 1000 paper cranes the gods will grant her wish and Sadako will be healthy again.

My opinion on this book is that this is a good book because it has
good language in it. There are some parts in the book where
you wonder what happens next.

My recommendation is that children from 9-13 years old could read this
book
because it has some sad parts in it.

Gravity work

Highlight the main ideas. Summarize these main ideas  in one or two paragraphs.

Gravity is a force that attracts all objects towards each other.

Gravitational attraction is greater for more massive objects.

Gravity decreases as distance between the objects increases.

Every object in the Universe is being attracted towards every other object by the force of gravity.

Isaac Newton was the first to come up with the idea that all objects are attracted towards each other

by gravity.

Gravity doesn’t disappear just because you are above the atmosphere.

Isaac Newton worked out that, if the distance from the centre of the Earth doubles, gravity becomes a quarter as much as it was on the surface.

As a satellite moves around the Earth in a circular orbit, the direction of the force of gravity is always towards the centre of the Earth.

When does gravity decrease?

Gravity decreases as earth distance between two objects increases.

When does the force of gravity become noticeable?

Gravity only becomes noticeable if one or both of the objects has a lot of mass,
such as the earth.

Gravity disappears when you are above the atmosphere. True or False?

It is true that gravity disappears when you are above the atmosphere.

According to the text, how long does it take the International Space Station (ISS) to orbit Earth?

The International Space Station takes 90 minutes to orbit earth.

Who first stated that all objects are attracted towards each other by gravity?

Isaac Newton stated that all objects are attracted towards each other by gravity.

Find six words in the text that have a suffix.

Noticeable, weightless, pulling, accepted,  horizontally, gravitation.

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