Prince William meets with Mosque attack victims

Today, For current event reading, My Friends (Candice & Lilo) and I read about Prince William Meeting with Mosque Victims. We learnt that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Prince William have spent time in Christchurch meeting with the families of victims who died in the Christchurch mosque attacks and survivors. During his visit, the Duke of Cambridge expressed the royal family’s solidarity with the victims. The Prince was only in New Zealand for 3 days.

Reading Log, (Pt 3)

My Reading log (Pt. 3) 
This is the last set of my Reading log. I'm quiet
pleased with my reading this term.
I managed to read twice / three times a day. 
I'm also very pleased because our reading log
had 25 tables and I managed to do 21, 
So that's great!! (For me) Thank you all to those 
who have been keeping up with me about me Term 1 
Holiday Home Learning, I hope you've learnt / enjoyed my 
Holiday Home Learning Journey. 

23 - April	The Game of Love and Death (Chapter 7)	There was a hill, and down the hill, past the international district, rose the Smith Tower, it’s lights glowing against the black sky. Beyond that, Puget sound. It has taken the better part of two days, but Henry had convinced Ethan to go on Flora’s nightclub, His fingers twitched,  playing the notes of the Enigma Variations.
23 - April	The Game of Love and Death (Chapter 8)	After the show, Henry stood in the alley outside the club and rapped on an unmarked door while Ethan, Making no effort to hide his mortification, turned to face the street. No one answered, so Henry waited a minute before knocking again.
24 - April	The Game of Love and Death (Chapter 9)	The night had passed, Flora sat in her small dressing room, holding a tall glass of lemonade against her forehead. The stage lights were always so hot she felt like something out of an oven after a performance, and nothing was better than something cold, tart, and sweet to drink. As she lowered the glass of sip, she tried not to think about that one moment in her performance, but it was just too difficult.
24 - April	Infinity Ring, Cave of Wonders (Caravans and Caramel)	The desert wind whipped around them, Stirring up sand. Dak shielded his eyes and used his shirt to cover his mouth to keep from breathing in the grit. Sera and Riq did the same. They were standing in the middle of the dusty road and the three of them having just wrapped from the Great Wall in Ming-Dynasty / China.
25 - April (Anzac Day)	Infinity Ring, Cave of Wonders (The Riddle of the Cave)	The Guard had one hand on the pommel of the sword he wore at his waist. A few minutes later, The guard looked all three of them over, and took his time doing it. “They came from Medina. How is it you are wearing the clothing of China”. The guard didn’t seem to be buying it. He kept looking at their clothes. “You’re pretty young to be working caravans” For a moment, Riq worried that maybe the man was a time warden, an undercover SQ agent on the lookout for time travelers.
25 - April (Anzac Day)	Infinity Ring, Cave of Wonders (The Streets of Baghdad)	The screen went black. Sera stared at it. Really the message from Arin could not have been any worse. Of all of them, Sera was always the only one who had seen the Cataclysm. She’d witnessed firsthand what would happen to the world if they failed in their mission to repair the breaks. She also knew that somehow, she had parents n, in the future, a mother and father who had only been Remnants before Sera.
25 - April	Infinity Ring, Cave of Wonders (The Market Inspector)	Dak noticed immediately that Sera and Riq were staring at him. Sera, especially, looked worried, Maybe he should have told them what he was about to do before he did it. But they never seemed to like Dak’s ideas worked out really, really well. Other times……..!! He remembered that there were storytellers who performed on the streets. They hadn’t seen one yet, but Dak didn’t see why he couldn’t try to tell him a story. If people liked it and they tossed him a few coins, maybe they’d be able to buy some clothes.
27 - April	A Legend of Starfire (Chapter 10)	*Goosey, Goosey, Gander. Whither dost thou wander? Upstairs and downstairs, And up and over yonder* Wren didn’t know how much time has passed while they talked to Mary and Cole. After a while Mary drew wren over to the far side of the room, where a beautiful wooden bureau stood under a round mirror. “It seems that many Magicians in the city don’t know about Boggen’s horrible research”. They’ve known for a several years that Boggen was testing tainted stardust on his prisoners and have worked to thwart stardust.
27 - April	A Legend of Starfire (Chapter 11)	*What did she dream? She does not know. The fragment fly like chaff, Yet strange her mind was tickled so, To do anything but laugh.* Wren instinctively reached for jack’s hand. What were they going to do? There was nowhere for them to run. If they went back down the stair, they’d be in the midst of Auspex’s fight. Wren was surprised when one of the guards lowered his lance. Jack laughed as though he knew what Titus was talking and Wren hoped that his bluffing would keep them going long enough to figure out a way out of the House of Never.
28 - April	A Legend of Starfire (Chapter 12)	The steps kept curving down and around, down and around, circling in on themselves. Soon, The stairwell changed from sterile metal to earthen walls with wooden steps. The air grew damper. Then they were funneling through an arched doorway, older boys who must be leaders of some kind holding the door for the others to pass through.

Reading Log (Pt.2)

Reading Log (Pt.2) 
Dates - From the 18th of April to the 21st. (Easter Day)

18th - April	A Legend of Starfire Chapter 5	Spindly building reached toward the gloomy sky, with balconies and bridges connecting them. She waited, wondering if the dream was going to show her something more, but she had barely taken a few tentative steps toward the forest’s edge when a crashing sound came from behind her. Her calculations were wrong this time. Wren stepped back wishing for the cover of the forest.
19th - April	A Legend of Starfire Chapter 8	With a whispered rhyme, he wove a shimmering loop of stardust and, before Wren could do anything but utter a cry of protest, bound it tight around her wrists. As far as I know, Mary and Cole had similar bonds around their mouths and torsos.
20th - April	The Game of Love and Death (Chapter 2)	Beneath a Heavy cushion of clouds, Henry stoop in the soft dirt of the infield. The space between the first two bases was a fine place for thinking, Somehow he got distracted because it smelled like gut grass. His feet had touched the grass as the team's center fielder, Ethan Throne, bare-handed the drive on the run, his long and loose limbs so sure of every movement that he possibily did.  Ethan fired it at Henry in the time of him to tag the runner dashing back toward the second.
20th - April	The Lost Boy.	In this comic, I read that there was a boy who went into the forest once and got lost with many directions, instructions and also many horrific things coming his way.  He was in danger. One day he ran into a girl about his age and they introduced themselves to each other and became very close friends. The next day he went to her father's house and there was a problem, As soon as they entered the room, many owls flew around the room, and so her father had to use something very powerful to stop it.
21 - April (Easter Day)	The Game of Love and Death (Chapter 3)	Flora Saudade on the lower wing of the butter yellow beechcraft staggewing C17B, ready to refuel the plane. No other diplane was crafted this way, It made the staggewing an oddity. Flora, an oddity herself, loved that about her staggwring. But this particular plane wasn’t hers, It belonged to Captain Girard, who’d known her father in the Great War and who’d been something like a father to her, since she was a baby herself, teaching her everything he knew about airplanes.✈️🛩️
21 - April (Easter Day)	The Game of Love and Death (Chapter 4)	It wasn’t long until Flora could make her first flight. Love had Materialized in Venice, a city made more beautiful by the fact that it was doomed. In front of an ornate church named for the man who’d run naked from the garden of Gethsemane after Jesus was sentenced to death. Mark’s bones had been smuggled there in a barrel of salted pork - a strange way to keep a man and his memory alive.🤢🤮
21 - April (Easter Day)	Tom gates - The Brilliant World of Tom Gates	Tom gates is a young boy who likes a boy band called “Dude3” and inspired him to make up his own band with his only two friends called “DogZombies”. Tom has a crush on a girl in his class named Amy, but it seems like his enemy Marcus, seems to get in the way every time he wants to talk to her. He joined the school Choir because Amy said it’ll be lovely to see him sing with her and that it’ll help his band with their singing. Marcus joined when he heard about Tom joining. Amy and Tom became very close at the end, and for the first time, Marcus was friendly enough to give his tickets to Amy and Tom to go watch Dude3 because he wasn’t a big fan of them.🤦‍♀️❣️

Reading log.

A week has passed and now one week left to go. All my home work is done, apart from my reading log, which I'm trying to do and read everyday. Here is an update on what my Reading log looks like so far.

Date	Book title/story	Summary of what I read
12th - April	A Legend of Starfire Chapter 1	In chapter 1, I was reading about a girl named Wren Matthews. She was holding a pile of stardust in her palm, but her fingers weren’t cooperating, and was trembling threatened to humiliate her in front of all the other Fiddler apprentices. Wren also rarely wished she was just a normal girl, someone who couldn’t see stardust or work magic.
12th - April	A Legend of Starfire Chapter 2	Inside the council chamber, the members of the Fiddler council were seated at an ancient looking round table. In the daylight, Their grays layering up to the domed ceiling of the room. Wren. Whispered someone. Welcome. Wren and a few friends went undercover to find out what was making such a noise.
17th - April	A Legend of Starfire Chapter 3	Wren turned to a corner that had a long abandoned corridor and in the lower levels of the Crooked house and immediately ducked back, reaching behind her to motion Simon flat against the wall. Wren knocked once on a green door but didn’t bother waiting for a response. If Jack had Liza keeping visitors out, He probably wouldn’t welcome the two of them in, She didn’t care because she knew that Jack was already physically recovered.
17th - April	A Legend of Starfire Chapter 4	Beyond a ship, was a yawning hole that opened up to a starry sky ad a view of the valley Wren had never seen before. They were somewhere on the far side of the Crooked House, where aurora colors were just beginning to flicker across the landscape. The last time she had flown the aurora, she had been so intent on stopping Jack and she also thought about the danger.

Maths - Problem solving

Maths - Problem solving (Last Set of Maths)

1. Moana set her digital watch at 13:00:00 on the last day

of April. Unfortunately the watch loses 11 seconds a day.

What is the time on Moana’s watch when it is 13:00:00

on the last day of May?  

Since there are 31 days between the last day of April and the last

day of May, Moana’s watch will have lost 31 x 11 = 341 seconds.

To convert this into minutes, divide by 60. Hence 341 seconds = 5 minutes

and 41 seconds. Then subtract 5 minutes 41 seconds from 13:00:00.

This gives 12:54:19. This is the time on Moana’s watch.

2. In parking meters downtown, you can get 15 minutes parking

for 50c. Dad put $3.50 into the parking meter at 3.15pm.

At what time did the parking meter expire?

$3.50 = 7 x 50c. 7 x 15 minutes = 105 minutes.

105 minutes = 1 hour and 45 minutes. 3:15 + 1:45 = 5:00.

So Dad can park in the car park up until 5 pm

3. There are four children in Marie's family.

She is less than 11 years old and is the oldest.

There's a two year age difference to twins, Grace and Lily,

who come next. Tom, who is older than 5 is two years

younger than the twins. How old are each of the children?

Marie - 10 Years old

Grace - 8 Years Old

Lily - 8 Years old

Tom - 6 Years Old

Writing (Pt.2) - Holiday Home Learning

Writing (Pt.2) - Holiday Home Learning

Recounts are awesome. Your experiences can
be told in words to capture your readers and
take them on a journey with you.

Task - Write a recount about the worst birthday
you have ever had. I’ve never had a bad Birthday yet.

Speech writing is a very valuable skill.
When you have the ability to write speeches you can argue
your way through your words. Lawyers do that all the time.

Task - Write a one minute speech about one of these topics

• Teachers should be paid more money

100% I agree, Teachers are striking for more money

and they deserve that amount of money they want because,

they work 5 times a week and they also spent their own money

on students with no school supplies and that are going through

problems. Teachers deserve more money, they don't deserve

what the government are doing, adding more to their basket.

Teaches go to work to teach students, not deal with silly

issues and not get told to do more work.

“They need the money.”

• We should have a McDonald restaurant at every school

No way, *In my opinion*, I think that this is totally a bad idea,
We need to train ourselves to be healthy and fit. On the other hand,we also can’t have a Mcdonald restaurant at every

school because that's a lot of work for builders and

also, it’s going to become a distraction to the students learning.

Maybe we should just stick with students bringing their own

lunch from home or ordering something at school.

Driving skills should be taught at primary school

Maybe, Maybe not. Driving skills can be taught at Primary to get

students ready for the future if they want to drive, But it should be

in a specific class that are interested in learning driving school.

On the other hand, Driving skills being taught to students at the

age of 5 - 13 is going to get them into driving really soon, and the

next thing you know is that students are driving wildly around

the streets without license. So, if it was to be taught at primary

schools it should be for seniors only. (age: 10+)

Glenbrae School should have no uniform

I totally disagree with this. Glenbrae is a School and needs to be

recognized by people and if we have no uniform how are people

going to know what school we belong to. Glenbrae School is a

school, A school that should be recognized out in public,

and also if we are lost somewhere they people can

always google Glenbrae and contact the school and tell them

about a student from Glenbrae wondering around and is lost.

Every student should have a free day off school each week

This can be a good idea but at the same time they are missing

out 6 hours of learning a day, imagine a whole week without

even showing up at school, that's 30 hours of learning time '

being wasted.Unless, It’s urgent then they can but also

catch up with their learning at home with their supervisors,

parents, siblings and caregivers. Having a day off isn’t just

to stay home and relax, but to also catch up on the

learning you’ve missed out on during the week.