Facts About J.K Rowling

5 Minute Quick Write

DISCLOSURE:

Before you read this piece of writing, I only had 5 minutes to write, edit and re-read my writing so if I have made mistakes, I am very sorry.

Ever since she was a little girl, she always wanted to be two things. A paperback writer, and a huge inspiration to children as well as adults. ‘Supa Surlay’ (real name Shurlay Spirks) unfortunately passed at age 168, but achieved the pinnacle of so many awards that many had never thought of attaining. Surlay didn’t believe in anyone but herself; meaning she had all the time in the world to commit to her everyday book goals. What is this you may ask? Everyday Supa Surlay drove herself to write a 200 page book about anything in the whole entire world.

On this day: 30th July..

On this day in history..

On the 30th July 2008, my sister Tara was born. This may not be very significant to the whole wide world, but it is for my family. Throughout our 10 years of fighting, having fun and being ordinary annoying sisters, I’m very grateful that I’m related to her. We aren't really ‘perfect’ sisters, we fight about the silliest things heaps of times, then we somehow make it up in a matter of minutes. Overall, I’m not sure what our memorable moment is together, I guess I kind of forgot! Although, I’m sure we will make more and more memories together throughout our whole lifetime.

My Weekly Reflection

Every two weeks, I am going to do a reflection about the weeks at school. Every time I do this, I am going to set a goal for me to work on, and reflect about what I could have done better.

What I did well this week:
I believe I listened to instructions
Used my time well do get on with work

By the end of next week I want to finish:
My scratch about the three little pigs,
My gruesome version of the three little wolves,
Lastly, I want to finish my Khan Academy 4th grade so I can improve on my maths.


Thank you for taking the time for reading my blog, I hope you comment!

This Day In History 26.7.18

Flood kill 25 miners in Central Otago 1863

Facts By Emily Tess and Tara

Why do we need to know this, and why is this so important?

Because it’s how we made money in the olden days to survive. Without the miners, New Zealand wouldn’t have a networth like today, we wouldn’t have the things we do now, if we didn’t mine. We can also relate to this because we have the Pike River mine near where we live, and it was devastating when it exploded; killing many. Many miners lost their lives in the mines, it is a dangerous place and we are fine with the fact that we are sending people down to the mines with the risk of them dying.


The flash floods that killed the miners were in north east in Queenstown.


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Quick Write

This is my quick write from today. It is a storyboard of the story about the Three little pigs, I hope you enjoy!

This Day In History

On this day, the 25th July 1832 was the first railroad accident recorded in the U.S. Four people were thrown off empty car on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts (which is a state in America). The victims of the  accident had been invited to watch the process of transporting large, heavy stones. A cable had snapped on a vacant car on the trip back. The cart fell off a 34-foot cliff (10m), killing one man and the others were seriously injured.

5 Minute Quick Write

Everyday our teacher gives us a topic to write about, but there is a catch. We can only write about it for 5 minutes. This is my quick write from today.


Also, this piece of writing isn't real.




My cousin is a superhero and I am the assistant, we help people throughout the day whilst having HEAPS of fun doing it. We don’t always have to be superheros though, we could be animals, or we could just be ourselves. Although one day, everything changed. We went a place called SeaLifeShark**, and we got to swim with sharks! We suited up in our wetsuits and took the plunge into the water. We didn’t have a cage or anything to keep us save, and the worst thing just happened; A shark started to circle us. We were scared out of our minds, my cousin said that everything would be alright but it wasn’t. I knew it wasn’t. The shark circled my cousin numerous times, until it sank its teeth into his leg, and didn’t let go. That day my cousin nearly died, as well as I got the biggest scare of my life.




** this isn't a real thing

My Holiday Recount

My holidays were jam-packed, fun and exciting. I had a great time learning at a horse clinic in Christchurch, I went around to a friends house and saw a movie, as well as many more fun things. Overall my favourite event of the whole holidays would have to be the horse event I did on last Saturday. I have built lots of confidence between my pony and I, and I feel now that I am enjoying my events that I do with Skippy, having a great time. The event was my second 80cm, and I felt like I did much better than my first. The dressage wasn't the best, I think because Skippy wanted to get on with the jumping phases! Although, I got a clear on my showjumping, and just one stop in my cross country. Even though I did get one stop, the course was really challenging and it made me think about my decisions going into the jumps. Overall I had heaps of fun and I can't wait to do more with my pony!

Quick Write About My Pony

If I could excogitate something, I would make an identical version of my pony, Skippy. I would somehow put all of her thoughts and emotions into the new version, making it impossible to tell her different from the real thing. The only part of her I would change, is her size. I would make her into either a full size pony, or a hack (horse). I would do this so then I could continue riding her, even if I get to big, I’d simply move onto the even bigger Skippy! I’d love to make this because I’d really like to continue to ride her, even when I do grow out of her. This would also help not looking for another horse, costing lots of money. With this idea, you can save money, and continue riding your horse that you never want to grow out of!

Excogitate means to plan something.

My Venn Diagram about Prebiotics and Probiotics

This is my Prebiotics and Probiotics Venn diagram. The reason why I did this is because this terms topic is about food as my Venn diagram helped me a lot with my explanation writing. Prebiotics and Probiotics both help grow healthy gut bacteria. 

My Mould Experiment!

My Fermentation Process: Fermented Lemons, Salsa and French Fries.

How To Prevent Obesity: Explanation Writing.

How to prevent obesity 

By Tess Morgan.

New Zealand is a little green bean on the world map, yet we are capable of so many brilliant things, like our rugby, equestrian, and many more of our achievements. Although there is one thing that around 30% of New Zealanders do struggle with, a particular part is obesity, and eating healthy. A study of obesity scales showed that New Zealand is currently third in the world ranking, and rapidly moving up this chart to the brink of becoming second. Do we really want this for our nation? Do we want to be known for our obesity and eating problems for such a small country compared to the US whom which is in first place? If we go all the way back to what we genuinely eat and embed into our blood and bodies, this is how the problem of obesity and numerous types of diabetes has all started. Thankfully, It’s not too late to change our concrete ways, to have a greater wellbeing, to eat nutrient-filled foods for the sake of ourselves, as well as the benefit of our country. 

Figuring out about the many ways a healthier diet can decrease the chance of disease, incorporating fruit and vegetables into meals, how overindulgence of unhealthy foods can affect your immune system and eating enough probiotics and prebiotics is the first step to living a advantageous, beneficial life.

Decreasing Diseases with natural fruits and Vegetables

To begin, Fruit and vegetables decrease the chance of many diseases, like heart disease, high blood pressure and some cancers. Cancer is like a severe battleground and without acting fast, cancer can be deadly. With so many categories of this horrible sickness we have to make sure we have the right balance in the foods we eat. Without the nutrition in fruit and vegetables, blood pressure can rise and the risk of cancers will ultimately have a much higher chance to overcome your body. Although, if you’re eating a variety of different colours of vegetables and fruits full of many different vitamins; your health can change dramatically. Instead of feeling tired and grumpy, you will have much more energy to do things you’d love to do; as well as feeling much better with yourself and your immune system. There are many fabulous ways to involve vegetables into a meal.

Involving vegetables into everyday meals

Secondly, a great way to incorporate vegetables into your diet is to merge it into different meals to add hints of flavour. In addition to a great taste from the delicious colours in your meal, there is many healthy outcomes in vegetables like fibre for a nourished gut biome, many vitamins like L-ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) and potassium to help lower blood pressure, to sustain a full, healthy lifestyle. Vitamin C is found in various amounts of fruits like mandarins and oranges, as it is great to heal inflamed tissue in numerous parts of the body and; to provide help to fight bugs. With all of this goodness involved in your once unhealthy dinner, your meal has now changed to be an enriched supper with wholesome goodness to help your immune system. 

In turn, if you are eating the wrong foods it affects our bodies immune system dramatically. Our immune system is like an individual living person, if we give it the wrong food, then it effects how our immune system works. If you continue to feed your immune system unnatural meals and snacks, the immune system will getting weaker; making you feel weaker. The more someone eats unnatural sugar and fat, this unhealthy menace adds itself into the blood providing you with an energy rush or a sugar ‘high’. Once this energy rush has finished, it will leave you feeling bloated, tired and craving for more sugar to have that sugar ‘high’ again. If you let this go on and on, short term may be fine, but this lifestyle will affect your long term life and influence the future ahead; leaving you to high blood pressure, the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Another way to dodge these destructive illnesses is to regularly involve your diet with prebiotics and probiotics. 

How prebiotics and probiotics can help

To conclude, Prebiotics and probiotics are soldiers, fighting back against bad bacteria. These two are commonly mistaken for a spelling error although they are two different things altogether. Prebiotics are found in plenty of vegetables and fruits; they also provide help and feed the good bacteria called probiotics. These are found in many dairy products as well as fruit and vegetables. These two bacterias play a huge part in gut health, and absorbing nutrients from foods you eat. If you aren't eating enough of these bacterias, your body won’t have a balanced diet and your colon, skin and gut will be full of substandard bacteria.

In the end

Overall, 30% of our nation is obese and suffering the consequences including children, males and females, this makes us third, in the world obesity rate. We have so many options to choose fruit over deep fried chips, vegetables over a chocolate chip biscuit and providing our gut with natural and healthy bacteria. Do we really want to represent our ‘proud’ country as obese, unhealthy humans? I wouldn’t.