Book Review

Last week I finished a book called "the school Of Good And Evil, A World Without Boys". The author of this book is Soman Chainani. In my last Book Review I did it on the first book in this series and this is the second book in the series. The main characters in this story are Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros.  I do have some spoilers. In this book it has it has romance, action and adventure.

This book is about two girls Sophie and Agatha and one boy Tedros. Agatha and Sophie are in there village and Agatha makes a wish that opens the gates to the world of fairy tales. As they find their way back to the school of good and evil it is not that any more and it has changed to the school of girls and boys. Agatha tries to get back with Tedros and Sophie does not want them together.  As the girls fight in the end Agatha goes to Tedros and Sophie find a love with someone else. I enjoyed the book and recommend it to anyone that likes romance and fairy tales, but it is a scary book. I rate this book 4/5.

have you read a book that you enjoyed and when you were reading it you could not put it down?

Book Review

Not to long ago I finished a book called "The School Of Good And Evil".  It is a good book. The author is Soman Chainani.  I do have some spoilers.  The main characters of this story are Sophie and Agatha. Sophie loves the colour pink and tries her hardest to be good and kind to others. Agatha on the other hand likes the colour black, lives by a grave and does not like other people. In this book it has  romance, action and adventure.

This book is about two girls Sophie and Agatha that get taken from their old home to a world full of fairy tales. The girls though that Sophie would go to The School of Good and that Agatha would go to The School of Evil but they were wrong and then they went to the opposite school.  As the girls tried to get home they have to face challengers and at times they hated each other only to at the end find there way home and be good friends.
I rate this book 4/5.

What books do you read?

Caritas Challenge

In Week 3 the Year 7/8 Hub did the Caritas Challenge. As you already know from my last blog what we did was the Live It Challenge. We slept outside at school in a cardboard box. We did this challenge to fundraise for Caritas. It started at 9:00am on Friday the 18th and ended at 9:00am on Saturday the 19th.
 From 9:00am to 9:15 we did the roll and got started on the great fun day planned. From 9:15 to 10:00 we had mass because that's what the people in Timor-lest do on a Sunday.
10:00 to 10:30 we had an Anti-bulling Assembly with the rest of the school.
Then we had a break. At 11:15 to 11:30 the City Missioner came in to talk to us about homeless people in Christchurch, NZ.

Next we did a Move It Challenge where we completed 3 hours of non stop sport. We invited  Mairehau Primary School. I did non-stop sports on the netball court. I enjoyed doing this and got very thirsty too.
For the next session of sports I did yoga and played some balloon volleyball, it was fun.

After that it was time to start building our shelters. I was with my friends Roza, Becky, Joanna and Tamera. We made our like a tent and it was a small space so through the night we would be closer to each other and warmer than the people the had theirs spaced out. Hear is a photo of our shelter

We then did a reflection on the experience we'd had. In my last blog is the Questions and my Answers of the Reflection.
The next day we took-down the shelters and had a game to 9:00 when we had finished the challenge.
I had lots of fun. Have you done the Caritas Challenge?

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Science

This term we are doing a science experiment. I'm doing "How salty does the sea have to be for an egg to float?"
  Here is my background research:

When you put an egg in tap water it sinks, this is because the density  of the egg is higher then the density of the tap water. But if you add enough salt the egg will float, this is because if you get the right amount of salt in the water the salt gives the tap water more density so water is higher in density then the egg.   Water has a density of one. An egg has 1.031 g/cm3   density.                             

Credit:

Salty Science: Floating Eggs in Water - Scientific American

How Much Salt Does it Take to Make an Egg Float in Water? | sciencing

How much salt do we need in water to make an egg float

Here is my Hypothesis:

Increasing the density of the water through adding salt will mean that the egg will float.

Here are the materials that I will need:

What I will need for my experiment:

1. 5 eggs
2. Salt
3. 5 cups
4. Water
5. Measuring cup

Here  is my Method:
I will have 5 eggs and 5 cups of water. The 5 cups will be numbered 1 - 5, in the 5 cups of water 1 will have no salt, 2 will have ½ a cup, 3 will have 1 cup of salt, 4 will have 1 ½ cups of salt and 5 will have 2 cups of salt.

I will leave them in the water for one hour.

When one hour is done I will see out of the 5 cup which one is floating of not.

I can't wait to start my experiment.
Have you done an Science experiment? If you have what was it?  

Caritas Challenge Reflection

Hi last week, Week 3, St Francis of Assisi participated in the Caritas Challenge. In the Caritas Challenge we did some reflections and here is mine.
Q:  Describe your experience of our Kaupeka Caritas Challenge so far. What does “1 day of difference for a lifetime of change” mean to you?
A: I've loved it so far, it means a lot to me to know that the money that we have raised is going to people that need it most.
One day of difference to me is a lot. One day of seeing and feeling like the people that are out there today living with less that we have.
Q: What has been a challenge for you so far during the day and/or what might be a challenge for you during the night? How did you or how will you overcome this?
A: During that day the challenges have been easy for me, the biggest challenge was building the shelter it was wasn't easy to work out what we were going to build, how it was going to stand up, how we were going to fit in the shelter and how warm we can make it. During the night the challenge that I think will be hard for me is go to sleep in a cardboard box cold. I hope I can get as much sleep as I can.
Q: What connections can you make with the people of Timor-Leste/ those living in poverty from your experience in our Caritas Challenge so far?
A: I could give money, food and more to the Caritas to give to people that can use the money and food to say as healthy as possible and trying to live in a house, get a job and more things that will help them.
Q: What could you do to help those living in poverty in our local community? (Think back to our City Missioner visit this morning).
A: To give all the things that I wouldn't use to the City Mission to help the people that need a better job, a place to live, clean clothes and more.
Q: What have you learned about Social Justice and Empathy while participating in our Kaupeka Caritas Challenge?

A: I am very lucky we are to have a warm bed, a roof over my head, a warm house, a car, clean cloths and so much more then what people have that I do and don't tack as an advantage and will now.

Here is a photo of us writing our reflection:

A Way That Will Make It Easier To Get An Assessment Done

Hi,  I'm going to tell you a way that will make it easier to get an assessment done. This will come in handy when it's an assessment that you would like to  get a better mark. Before we get to know how to plan out the assessment you need to have a plan. Know what the requirements are, like how long you have to do the assessment, what it must have in it, what it needs and how it is planned, why you are doing it and when it is due.

It is a way to spread out your assessment over the  time you are given. If you had 3 weeks to write a story, in the first week you should do half of your story (50%). Then In the second week write the next half of your story (the other 50%). Then you can edit and make it better in the third week.

What Assessments do you like and dislike?