My Reading Log For This Week

My Reading Log 2023

 

Date Finished Title, Author Synopsis – Brief story outline Link to my critical review
18/8/23 LEGO CITY POLICE PURSUIT When a sneaky crook steals money from the bank, two of the Lego city’s best police officers are on the case. A high speed car chase leads cops all over the city but what happens when the crook hides in the park using some tricky disguises. I really like the storyboard in this book and the creativity in the book as well and I hope there will be more books.

How do thunderstorms form?

Thunderstorms form when warm, moist air rises into cold air. 

The warm air becomes cooler, which causes moisture, called water vapor, to form small water droplets — a process called condensation. The cooled air drops lower in the atmosphere, warms, and rises again.

 

But the primary reason why it forms 

Thunderstorms form when an air mass becomes unstable (when air in the lowest layers is very warm and humid, or air in the upper layers is unusually cold, or if both occur). Rising near-surface air in an unstable air mass expands and cools, making it warmer than its environment, which causes it to rise even farther

 

Once That happens heavy hail starts to form at the top and light rain forms at the bottom once formed. the light switches places and when they meet in the middle the light gives the heavy negative energy and the heavy gives the light positive energy once finished they start to make lighting inside the clouds. If positive energy is at the ground, lighting will strike on the ground.

 

Here are some ways you can protect yourself from a really bad thunderstorm. Immediately get off elevated areas such as hills, mountain ridges, or peaks. Never lie flat on the ground. Never make a tree your shelter run inside any building. Never use an overhang cliff as shelter lighting may strike on the overhang falling onto your head. Immediately getting out of and away from ponds, lakes, and other bodies of water lighting may boil the water over 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

How The Water Cycle Works.

 

WRITING ORGANIZER -Explanation

General statement about the topic.

 The Water Cycle is how water moves all around the earth and which happens every day and every time. There are 4 steps in the water cycle, which are: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation and Collection.

 

Evaporation is when water gets heated by the sun so much that the water puddles get smaller and smaller once it’s small enough it flies into the clouds along with the heat. The sun heats the ground, the rain’s leftover puddles and rivers, oceans and seas then evaporating the water. That turns into water vapour. Evaporation means water is turning into vapour by the heat. Sometimes after it’s been raining a lot the rain leaves puddles behind but when it turns into a hot day the puddles evaporate and turn into vapour  some people think its just steam but its actually water vapour. Evaporation is followed by condensation.

Condensation is the process by which water vapour in the air is changed into liquid water. Also, condensation happens when the vapour is so light that the heat rises, the water vapour up into the clouds and the clouds make big water droplets that fall onto the ground or any types of water. Do you see the steam after the rain then it goes up into the clouds? Well that is actually water vapour which can make more rain! Up next is Precipitation

Precipitation is a form of water, (such as rain, snow, or sleet}, that condenses from the atmosphere, becomes too heavy to remain suspended, and falls to the Earth’s surface. It happens when rain, snow, sleet, or hail any kind of weather condition where something’s falling from the sky. When the rain falls in the clouds the rain drops will get so heavy that they fall to the ground, mountains, valleys, rivers and oceans.

The water drops down from the clouds and goes onto the rivers, ground, lakes, oceans. This is when water that falls from the clouds as rain, snow, hail or sleet, collects in the oceans, rivers, lakes, streams. Most will infiltrate (soak into) the ground and will collect as underground water. It rains from the sky and drops into the ground.  Then it repeats all over again.

 

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My DragonKeeper poster

 My drawings on Dragonkeeper celestial creatures. My personal favorite is The Red Phoenix. My inspiration for the Red Phoenix  was the wandering albatross. For the dragon it was the woodpecker and a Chinese dragon.  Then Qilin was inspired by a wolf, deer and bear.  After that it was basically a giant tortoise.

Creative Writing

                     THE TOWER OF NEVER ENDING ======================================================================

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Characters are: Jeanne, Gray, Lola, Jayne and sander

 

CHAPTER ONE THE TOWER

The Tower Of Never Ending they call it. As I look up at the tower I see a faint figure at the tip of the tower. I say to my friends “ W-we should go back”. But inside my friends was curiosity of what lies inside the tower. My friends say to me “look, maybe just a quick peep?”. I replied “Fine”. so we grabbed our flashlights, some extra batteries and EMF ghost detectors, music box detectors, cameras and headed straight for the tower.

 

CHAPTER TWO THE STAIRS

So step by step up the stairs creaking 50 steps into the tower we saw a room that had all the necessities: water, food and beds. So we raided the room once we were done.  Jayne  looked through the window and saw 5 people that looked like us. His first thought was shocking. So quickly shoved his head back through the window and told us everything we were flabbergasted. After a break of processing things we headed on our journey up the stairs.

 

CHAPTER THREE 5/4

After 70 steps we saw another room except it had a balcony. Of course we raided the room again but sander wanted to look out the balcony and explore first he saw some plants and shelves but when he leaned on the rails he fell. One of the rails was so rusty it just broke off.

At first we all said what was that noise but when we looked down we saw sander’s dead body spiked in the back by a rose. We were astounded Jayne wanted to end it all but she didn’t so then we continued.

 

CHAPTER FOUR THE REALIZATION

After the death happened we were all still shocked on what happened Jayne was breathing heavily 70 steps later we all saw the same room where Sander died 50 steps later we saw it again and again we were all going crazy. 19 steps in we realized we were in a loop.

 

THE MOST FUNNEST DAY EVER

 

On a Very special day of my life, my birthday, my family and I went to the Inflatable world! And all of my friends were coming. But first we had to get the birthday room and sign up my friends for my birthday party once that was out of the way we were setting up the birthday room My parents and I set up the food the cake, Gummies, one of the weirdest Filipino foods were hot dogs and marshmallows on a kebab stick? Well the room was done setting up now we just wait for the guests!

 

First who came up was Zoey. I don’t want to play yet. I wanted to play with more friends. After Zoey it was Jeaden and Jamie then I was playing. After them it was Ion! He came along with Zachary Then Nicole, Graziel and Zuriel, Kean and Sam.

 

It was awesome all my friends were here but we had to eat first. Once we were done eating we rushed to all the bouncy castles but it was really sad because we only had 2 hours but we made the most of it. This was the best day ever!               

 

Making my tree hut

Last term Room 6 started a project about making 3D tree houses. We had to collect recycled materials and I used hard rolls ,Styrofoam, masking tape, mask boxes, string, cardboard 

 

den cut offs. I found it very hard to make my tree hut balance and have a solid base. But it was worth the hard work and problem solving in the end!.

 

 I first made the base first and then I glued hard rolls under the base to stabilize it and keep it firmly on the ground. Then I made the trunk by gluing it to the base. I tried to put Styrofoam on the top but it kept falling off. After a few tries I had an idea to put it on the bottom instead!.

 

 

 On top I just added a cardboard box on top which I glued on. I was supposed to put in some windows but I didn’t  because I reckoned it would make holes that water might get in (we had success criteria we had to meet.)

 

 I worked on stabilizing for a bit by adding Styrofoam marshmallows for weight. I was done with the tree house structure and now time for decor.

 

 I used some string first to make a rope to hang on the side of the hut. I made quite a few knots in it. I made a person next out of Styrofoam marshmallows. I cut it in half but not all the way then made the body by cutting the sides but not all the way too! Finally I made the head by just cutting it in half!. The last step was just gluing it all together. Weird for making that but it worked out!

 

 The very last step was…. Painting!!!!. It was so much  fun. I loved adding the color to my hut. In the end we had to all test that our huts could pass the success criteria. First, we put our tree huts in front of the classroom fan and counted to ten to see if they would fall over in the wind. None of them did. Then we had to put at least 4 scissors in the hut for weight, without it falling over. Lastly Mrs Yumul poured water over them to see if any water could get inside. I was successful with all of them.

 It was really hard to make but I liked the challenge and experience!