T2+Explain

__Thursday 9 June 2011__

How to solve a crime.

Crimes are a huge part of what happens in the world. Crimes can be from a small unknown robbery of a drink. To huge robberies of the likes of banks. There are all different types of crimes e.g. robberies, murders and a lot more.

Solving crimes takes a while and you need to look very closely to pick up every single little thing. Some of those include fingerprints, blood, hair and even small things like a small drop of sweat. To solve these things you have to have the right tools e.g for fingerprints they spay a powder over where they think there might be some fingerprints and then this powder shows up the fingerprints. Once the fingerprints are shown up you put a type of cello tape on them to get them up and they take them back to the police station to match the fingerprints.

When you go into the crime scene you have to be careful not to touch anything so that you don't disturb the evidence. Most of the time the police officers go into the crime scene with there hands in there pockets this will prevent them from leaving there fingerprints everywhere. While they are looking at the crime scene they will use a little lit to make the evidence show up more.

Well they are working they try and leave one hand in there pocket so they don’t touch anything they are not meant to.

They SOCO send all the evidence to the scientist to test who the evidence belongs to and what substance is what. Then the detectives get told who committed the crime.

__Tuesday 13 May 2011__

What Is Soccer?

Soccer is a well known sport and the most popular sport in the whole world. Everyone in the world knows what soccer is and heaps of people play it around the world. Soccer is a sport were you have to have good skill and coordination to be able to play it well.

When you get to the full size soccer teams there are 11 players playing one the field. You also have substitutions and there can be as many as what your coach wont's. You must wear soccer boots, shin pads and your club soccer socks and uniform if you come to a soccer game and don’t have some of these things then you can not play. The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world and it consists of 32 teams that get into the World Cup but 205 teams qualified for the World Cup. In the 2010 FIFA World Cup it was Spain that was victories and won it. They beat the Netherlands 1-0 but it was a close game. New Zealand were unbeaten during the world cup but they didn’t get enough points to get through to the next round.

If in a soccer game someone does a foul against you inside the goalie box it will be a penalty so you on the goalie. If someone does a foul outside the box then it is called a free kick. For a free kick you get a member from your team to shoot at goal but the other team can try and defend. Teams most of the team make a wall of there players in front. With free kicks your player that is taking it can only shoot straight at the goal if it is a direct free kick. If it is a indirect free kick you have to get a player from your team to touch the ball before you shoot. When that player on your team touches the ball the other team are aloud to run at the ball.

In soccer there is defense, mid field, strikers and also a goalie. The goalie is the player that is in the goal and tries to fend of the shoots from the opposition. In defense there are normally three back but it depends on what formation your coach wont's to play. In the mid field there is normally around four. This also depends on what your coach wont's. There are normally about three strikers. Again this also depends on what your coach wont’s.

When you are playing in a soccer game and the ball goes out on the side of the field then it is a throw in. You have to have both feet on the ground when you throw it and also the ball has to be behind your head when you go to throw it in as well or else if the ref lets you you get on more try then if you do that wrong to it is the other teams ball and they get to do the throw in. A lot of the time you only get one try though. When the other team takes a shot at goal and it missis and goes past the goal and over the line then it is the goalies ball and he has to kick it from inside his box from the left or right (depending on what side of the goal the ball went out on) and he has to kick it from the ground. If the opposition team takes a shot at goal and the goalie catches the ball before it goes out on the line behind then the goalie gets to kick it out but he does not have to kick it from the ground. He can kick it out of his hands or whatever.

When in a game of soccer and the opposition scores then your team has to take the ball up to half way and do the kick off. To do the kick off you have to have to people inside the circle and one of those people has to kick it over the line then once this is done the other team member inside the circle can go of the line and get the ball then the game starts again. When your team takes a shot at the goal and then there goalie hits it out behind his own goal then your team gets a corner kick. When your team is taking a corner kick you kick the ball from the corner and any of your team can shoot at the goal. This is a great opportunity to get a goal. So altogether soccer is a great game to get involved in. It keeps your fitness up and if you play for a club it is great fun trying to win the league over the season.

Editing When you get to the full size soccer teams there are 11 players playing on one the field. You also have substitutions and there can be as many as what your coach want's. You must wear soccer boots, shin pads and your club soccer socks and uniform if you come to a soccer game, but if you don’t have some of these things then you can not play. The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world and it consists of 32 teams that get into the World Cup, but 205 teams qualified for the World Cup. In the 2010 FIFA World Cup it was Spain that was victories and won it. They beat the Netherlands 1-0 but it was a close game. New Zealand were unbeaten during the world cup, but they didn’t get enough points to get through to the next round. Luke C.N

__Wednesday 18 May__

Why we shouldn’t have to do home work.

Why do we have homework when we do all our work at school then get sent home for more? I think that we shouldn’t ever get homework because we do all our work at school and so why should we have to go home to do more? I think that when were at home it should be time to just sit down and relax and spend time with our family or just get a rest from being at school all day.

Why waste trees for homework when we do work the whole day at school? I know that when I get home I don’t wont to do anymore work after school and I know that most other kids don’t wont to either. When kids get home we just wont to relax and watch TV or play playstation or something and just relax. If we spend 6 hours at school doing work why do we have to do more at home when that is the time to relax and spend time with your family.

Homework can be stressful for students as well which leads to students doing bad at school and also they get the stress of if they haven’t been able to do there homework they know that they will get into trouble. If kids know this a lot of the time they will try to fake being sick and more to try and get a day of school so that they wont get told of. If they don’t go to school then this leads to not enough education and can fail test’s and more. Homework can also lead into arguments for example If a kid wont’s to watch T.V but there parent wont’s him / her to do there homework that is the start of a argument.

Teachers might think it is good for kids to do homework so that they can see how much they progress but then why don’t teachers just watch the kids in class time? A lot of kids don’t have that extra time for homework most days either. They might have to go to there sports practice or go to there music lessons after school or they have to go out somewhere. I know that kids would rather do other stuff like I would rather play some soccer, play drums, hang out with some friends or just relax for the rest of the day. I don’t wont my time wasted with homework since we have just had the whole day at school doing work.

I really strongly think that homework is not necessary. We do all our work at school so we should be aloud to come home and do what we wont for the rest of the day. Definitely not mire work.



 L.I. We are learning to use words that contain cause & effect.S.C. My writing

==L.I. We are learning to use the structure of explain to give an explanation of what light is and to use present tense ==

__Friday 13 May 2011__

What is a Tsunami?

Tsunami’s are a form of wave that is huge. They are formed out at sea and when there is a disturbance like a earthquake or a natural disaster. Tsunami’s are a huge wave that will cause destruction wherever it goes. It can easily wipe out buildings and anything that gets in its way.

Tsunami’s can be just a very small wave no bigger then a normal one you see at the beach. In Japan there massive Tsunami was caused by a 8.9 earthquake, there Tsunami was 7 meters high which wrecked a lot. They can be from 10 centimeters high to around 10 meters high. It is unpredictable how high a Tsunami can be. Tsunami’s have high speeds which are normally around 300mph or more. Tsunamis can take down mainly anything from trees and cars to buildings and boats.

Tsunamis are formed by a sudden disturbance in the sea floor. It is normally caused by earthquakes or natural disasters but mainly earthquakes. Tsunamis can sometimes be mistaken for the name ‘Tidal Wave’ but a Tidal Wave is not like a Tsunami because Tsunamis are not caused by a tidal action like Tidal Waves.

Tsunamis carrie an enormous amount of energy that is spread over a large volume of water were the sea is deep. When the Tsunami reaches shallow water it is concentrated into a smaller volume and the wave’s power destroys whatever is in its path.

Most of the time you will know if a Tsunami is approaching because there will be a Tsunami alarm that goes of. If the sirens start going of then straight away you should get to a high level of land as far away from sea as possible. Tsunamis are more then one wave a lot of the time, so when one wave finishes do not expect it all to be over. Don’t go back until you know it is safe and are told to return.

A Tsunami is a form of a wave that can be massive from 10 centimeters high to 10 meters high. They cause destruction wherever they go and will wipe out whatever is in there way. So when one comes you don't wont to be anywhere near them. You will wont to get to as high ground as you can.

__Thursday 5 May 2011__

Without light we would not be able to see in the dark. Light makes stuff visible especially when we are in the dark. If we did not have light then living things would not be able to survive.

There are different types of light. We get natural light which is like sunlight, moonlight, fire and lightning. Then we also get artificial light which is like, lightbulbs, lamps and more.

 Light is made up of particles called photons. Photons can move and travel around. Light travels as packets of energy called quantas. Each quantas is made up of photons and its value will be value to each other. Light is a form of energy which is made up of electromagnetic waves. Some of these waves you can see others you can’t.

Scientist’s believe that light can travel around the word 8 times per second, They believe that it can travel up to 300,000km per second. Out of everything in the world nothing can travel faster then the speed of light.

//** Good job Taylor. Your general statement explains what light is and how it works straight away. You also have interesting facts in about light and your using present tence. Thomas **//