St Johns

Today our class had St Johns. First we did DRS ABC which was what to do in an emergency. D stood for danger. This meant to look around to look for danger. This could be anything from petroleum to milk. R stood for response. First try yelling to them. If that doesn't wake them, tap their collarbone. The collarbone is in the neck and shoulder. S stood for send for help. Send someone to phone 111 and ask for ambulance. Then tell them the situation and say the address of the scene.  ABC is how the patient is treated. A stood for airways, which meant to see if there is anything blocking their windpipe. B stood for breathing. See if the patient is breathing by putting your hand on your their chest for 10 seconds. C stands for CPR. Only do CPR if the patient doesn't breathe. 

Then we learnt how to tie a bandage and a cast.
Steps to tie a bandage:
1 make a pressure pad for the wound out of something not fluffy.
2 get a bandage and roll it tight. 
3 elevate.
4 make an elevation sling.
This is how to tie a bandage.

Steps to tie an elevation sling:
1 get a triangle of fabric.
2 put the corners of the short sides on the person's elbow and slide along. When at the end tell the person to hold it.
3 tuck the fabric under the persons arm.
4 wrap around the person's body to the corner the person is holding on to. 
5 tie a double knot. This is how to make an elevation sling.

Kiwikidsnews quiz

Typing test

YES!

I improved!

When the war came home - personal responce

This books genre is historical fiction because it is set after world war 1 when influenza first came to New Zealand. I recommend this book to anyone who likes New Zealand historical fiction books.

In this book...

Jim's father never came home from war, and his uncle Rory was changed completely. When Jim's mother leaves, he and uncle Rory try to escape the city of Auckland, now almost destroyed by influenza, or 'flu.

KKN quiz

This was my KKN quiz result.

My speech

Typing test

100 percent!!!!

The Tempest - personal responce

This books genre is comedy. It is a Shakespeare story but has been re-written by Tony Ross for children. I recommend this book to anyone.

Characters

Prospero (The rightful duke of Milan) Ariel (Prospero's spirit servant) Caliban (Prospero's servant/rightful leader of the island) Miranda (Prospero's daughter) Ferdinand (son of Alonso) Alonso (the king of Naples) Antonio (The duke of Milan).

Kiwikidsnews quiz

This was my score for the KKN quiz

Typing speed test

This is my score. I improved!

Hamlet - personal responce

The author of this book is Shakespeare but has been re written by Tony Ross. It is a tragedy story. 

Characters

Hamlet (main character), Horatio (Hamlets friend and the only one who doesn't die), Ophelia (Hamlets girlfriend), Polonius (assistant to Claudius), Laertes (Polonius's son), The ghost of hamlet's father (the rightful king), Claudius (the king) and Gertrude, Hamlets mother. My favorite character was Horatio because he was the only one who didn't kill people. He also doesn't die

The fox and the girl.

WALT: use paragraphs

I dove under the fence and raced towards the nearest bird. Then I sunk my sharp teeth into the duck. Then a horrible human ran out towards me. “GHAA!” he yelled “ THE DREADED FOX” as he was ripping up weeds. He ran around the corner of a small shack at the edge of the property. When he returned he was carrying a shotgun. BANG! went the shotgun and then he started running towards me. Another lead bullet whizzed past me. With that I dive into the bush, hiding under a fallen spruce branch. Then I run. I dive through the boreal forest. Then I hear footsteps. THOSE PESKY HUMANS! Adrenalin takes control. I dive into a pile of ferns, then… THUD! something hard hits me. A human girl! “gotcha!” she yells, furious. I stare up at it and it stares at me. Then its expression changes. Its arms move up. It has let me go! A MIRACLE!

Later the weather took a turn for the worst. At first, it was cold, but then it started snowing. The spruce trees started frosting up. Then I hear a loud THUMP! I look around to see the human girl unconscious, probably hypothermia. With the temperature dropping, there is no chance of her survival. Because she saved me, I decided to return the favor. I leap through the bushes, to her. Then I keep her warm by acting like a scarf, trapping heat in. Now she will survive. Now the big question is will I survive?

One cold stormy night later…

I am still with the girl, who is still breathing. Then two humans come from a shrub. The oldest one is leaning on a shotgun. The other one races towards the girl, so I dive behind a log. The younger human picks up the girl, who smiles at me. The humans then leave. I dive back to the bushes, to get to my family as the humans climb the last hill to there home.

NSL: describe the characters well.

Boy on a bike

WALT: use google draw to create a scene from a text

First we read a story called ‘Boy on a Bike’ written by Bronwen Wall. It was about a boy travelling the length of the North Island, on a fat bike, to raise money for the St John Ambulance service.

fat bike = A bike which has wheels that are so fat that the bike doesn't sink in sand, mud and snow. Fat bikes are very safe and perfect for travelling off road.

Finding fractions of numbers

This is how you do fractions of numbers. These are the numbers: 1/3 of 27, 1/6 of 36 and 1/10 of 50. To work it out you need to divide the numbers like this: divide 27 by 3. That is 9 so the fraction is 9. If it was 2/3 instead of 1/3 the answer would be 18 because it doubles.

Fractions

Ratios

To find the ratio of something you need to count them. This is an example: I have a new Lego spaceship. It has 5 blue bricks and 1 purple brick. The ratio is 5/1. But I want more spaceships so I buy 3 more. The ratio is 20/4 OR 5/1. This is because ratios can be changed. 

Join a club - main stars

I joined grey main football club. I play as a defender. I like playing football because it is very fun. I have had 2 training's but have only played one game because we had the bye. We play at blaketown school. Our coach is Jimmy (not me). We play at 11.20.

Main star - Cook a meal

Today I cooked dinner and pudding. For dinner I made slow cooked steak. The steak was cooked up with carrots, onions and cherry tomatoes. I cut the carrots and tried to cut a tomato but the tomato exploded. Dad cut the rest of the tomatoes and the onions. Then we added the steak (we chopped that, too) and also a can of tinned tomatoes. (we didn't chop these) Then we put everything in the slow cooker. Later I will serve it with rice. For pudding I made creme caramel. To make it I had to do the dishes first. Then we started making it. But straightaway we had a problem. No ordinary sugar. Of course we could have mixed up carbon, oxygen and hydrogen but we didn't have any hydrogen lying around so we mixed up unrefined sugar and icing sugar. When we finished making them up we had to put them in ramekins in the oven, the ramekins in a big tray and the tray filled with water?! We could have gone to the supermarket and brought creme caramel but we made it. WHY? Not because it wouldn't be main stars (it sort of is) but because we need to learn how to cook so we can eat. It is important to learn how to cook! That is why I cook every Sunday. Some of the things I have cooked are Pizza and Butter chicken.

Mum: I thought it was really yummy and the creme caramel was difficult to make and you did a really great job

Billie: I thought that it as so great that I wanted 3 helpings. I had two helpings. IT WAS SO YUMMY.

Kiwi kids news

Today I did the kiwi kids news quiz. This was my result:

The most interesting question for me was about the Wanaka earthquake. I thought it was interesting because I like researching earthquakes and monitor GeoNet. It was a 5.8 on the richer scale. I also predicted there would be an earthquake in Christchurch and I was right but it was only tiny - 3.0 - on the Richter scale!