my yr 8 blog

I really dont know whats going to happen in year nine and i dont know what it is going to be like. I guess I will take the learning that I learnt in year eight. My goals for year nine are just to pass all my subjects and do well in exams. One the holidays im going to Coffs Harbour and just hanging out with friends.

wHaT hAvE yOu lEaRNeD tHRoUgH bLoGgiNg?   I have learnt how to comment on other people’s opinions, and I learnt how to voice my own opinions.

WhAT wOUlD yOU sAY tO otHeR yEaR eIgHTS aBoUt tHe PoSsIbIliTy Of BlOgGInG In EngLiSh NeXt YeAr?   I would say to them that they should use blogging to voice there opinions and not to do work on it.

sOmE pEoPlE sAY tHAt “bLOgGiNG iS jUst a dIfFeRENT wAy Of LeaRniNg’. WhaT Do yOu SaY aBoUT tHE pOSsIbILity oF usInG bLOgS tO leARn?  You can learn about things by reading other peoples blogs and reading their opinions on things.

In English we are reading a book called the Dons. It is about a Italian family that live in Australia. Paul is a teenager who has to share a room with his nonno, who is slowly losing his mind. Paul’s dad died when he was a kid and now his mum has to work for the family and look after Paul and Nonno.

Today in our english class we had to look at people in our classes blog’s and people not in our classes blogs’s. We had to find impressive post’s and write down what we thought was impressive about them.

I read kirsten’s blog. Her post was about teaching and learning. What i like about this post was that she spoke what she really thort about teachers and how they teach.

I also read sarah’s blog. Her post about Alex was really good the way she told how it was written and how she says that she is looking foward to doing the project on the book.

Today we had to write about teaching and how we learn. Good teachers help their students with work and they listen to you. The qualities that a good teacher should have is patience and be able to listen, they should be able to keep the students interested in what they are teaching. Being a good learner means to listen to what the teacher has to say and working hard. The qualities of a good student are to be able to listen and work hard and to be able to take in the knowledge that they are teaching to you. The expectations i have for this class is that we can be able to listen to eachother. The expectations i have of my teacher is for her to listen to what students say and to help them if they are stuck. Having a good learning enviroment means to have a good calm and relaxing place to listen and learn.  

In English we are reading a book called Alex. It is a book about a girl who is a champion swimmer. She is training for a race against Maggie Benton. Alex always comes second against her, but this time she really wants to win. Alex is 15 years old, her body is a really big strong build. She goes to high school and is in the hockey team she plays parts in the school plays and she does ballet on top of swimming training every morning useally 4 miles every day before school. She is really confident and doesent really care what other people think of her. 

Two weeks ago my class had 8 alive, which is a week that we get to wear free dress and have no subjects and we get to go on excursions. One excursion that we went on we went to an eviroment farm. At that farm we learnt how to save water and other things like that. At the enviroment park there was an Indian village where there was people from India. In the village we learnt about Indian paintings and how they dress and we also learnt how to medatate. Another excursion that we went on we went rockclimbing, it was really fun. We practiced on the small wall then we were allowed to go on the high wall. The high wall was about 7-9 metres high. One the days that we didnt go on excursions we played learning games and we planted a little tree thing. We also planted a mural for the school.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE AN EVACUEE?
During the war the children who lived in London, had Anderson shelters installed, they had to practice air raids a lot. Their schooling time had been cut down to one or even half an hour a day, most of the time they’d spend most of their time in bomb shelters.
Then the ‘powers’ decided that the children should be evacuated to the safe country. All the children where taken to Paddington station.
Some of the children were only 5 or younger, but they still had to be evacuated. Most of the children got to go to nice foster parents.
The country was a new place for the city children, most of them were amazed by the new animals that the country people would see every day. In the book Goodnight Mister Tom, which is based on a true story, is another example of a good foster home.

WHAT WAS THE DIET OF PEOPLE LIKE DURING THE WAR?
In World War 2 Britain had food delivered from different countries by ship.
But the German soldiers sunk the ships that were carrying supplies for Britain. After that the country had 2 survive on their own, so they decided to ration everything. Children under five were allowed half the normal meat ration and children between five and sixteen who held blue ration books were allowed fruit, a full meat ration and half a pint of milk per day. Everyone was allowed 16 points per month to use on whatever food item they wanted. This was later increased to 20 points per month. The items still had to be paid for of course. In addition they also had a daily pint of milk and a double supply of eggs as well as Cod Liver Oil and Orange juice; although egg rationing varied from between one every two weeks during the winter to 3 or 4 during the spring or summer months.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE DURING THE BLITZ IN 1940?
The Blitz started during the afternoon of September 7, 1940 in Hitler’s attempt to subdue Great Britain. At around 4:00pm on that September day, 348 German bombers escorted by 617 fighters blasted London until 6:00pm. Two hours later, guided by the fires that set the assault, a second group of raiders commenced and another attack that lasted until 4:00 the following morning. For the next consecutive 57 days, London was bombed either during the day or night. Fires consumed many parts of the city. Many people stayed in the Underground stations that sheltered as many as 177,000 people during the night. The Blitz ended on May 11, 1941 when Hitler called off the air raids in order to move his bombers east for Germany’s invasion on Russia. Living in those times I think would be terrifying. Everywhere you stepped you would have watch out for bomb. And even if you escaped the bombing there was still the fire’s to look out for. You would be afraid to leave house because of bombings, but your house could still get bombed.

A 3rd world country is a country like Africa, India and South America. In those counties it is hot all the time so there is not enough rainfall to grow food or enough water to drink. Also the leaders of those countries spend most the money collected by tax or by donations from other well of countries on things for themselves.

We can smell the smoke of the fire warrior in the bush at collie rd.

We can hear the sound of the bush burning as the warrior gets closer to our house.

We run away as the fire warrior fighters who carrying water come to fight the warrior off.

Helicopters drop water from the sky onto the fierce warrior.
The brave men spray water on the warrior, but the warrior shoots out arrows on fire.

He is angry as a bull being teased, and as evil as the devil.
But the water keeps on spraying him, and finally the fire warrior dies down till all that’s left is smoke.