Book Buddies

Description: on Tuesday's and Thursday's we have been doing book buddies. Book buddies is where you have a buddy. Pick a book, and read it and discuss it. Last time we did a 25 minute long debate. It is really fun and the book me and carter are doing is true grit by bear Grylls.

PrEP

Description: On Mondays and Friday's we have been doing PrEP. PrEP is our preparation for market day. we made rubber band guns that shoot loom bands. It was on last Friday and our guns sold out within 10 minutes. For us it was a mighty sucsess because we thought that the stuff we made wasn't going to sell.

Math

I got my maths result today.

I got stanine 9 but the section I need to work on is number stratiges

Banana Headphones

For the past few weeks we have been writing persuasively in an attempt to get people to buy our fake Headphones. I hope you are persuaded to buy my head phones.  

Come in and buy the awesome banana headphones. Banana head phones are strong. There frame is made from aluminium and plasticine so they won't break. They come in both plates and ear buds. They are fully Blue-toothed and have there own internet modem. 2 year money back Guarantee. PrestonPlayz wears them while gaming. They are so awesome. At the cheep cost of 599.99 they won't last long. Offer only stands till the 31st of November, 2016.While stocks last.

Millou Viaduct

The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France, it is the tallest bridge in the world with one mast's summit at 343.0 metres above the base of the structure. The cost of construction was approximately €400 million. It was opened in December 2004. Here's an example of the height and a photo I took:

Pantheon

Yesterday we went to the pantheon. The pantheon is a great big building that was originally built as a church, however Napoletana decided it should be used as a national building as well.  They decided to do an experiment there as they needed a place of a certain height to meet the requirements of a pendalunium science experiment. The pendalumion science experiment was an experiment to show that the world spun. 

The giant pendulum swings in a straight line back and forth and the earth underneath it rotates. As the earth rotates the big panel underneath that show the time spins but the pendulum just keeps going straight. This proves the earth is the one spinning. When we first saw the pendulum it was swinging over the 12.30 part, and when we came back an hour later the earth had certainly moved as it was swinging over the 1.30 part.

Because we were in Paris it was spinning clockwise, but in NZ it would be spinning anti clockwise.

Thinking about this was mind blowing.

The string was 67 metres long and 1mm thick and the ball weighed 28 kilos.

Underneath the pantheon there was a humongous crypt where there were lots of famous dead people buried there such as Jean Moulin, the leader of the French resistance, Marie Curie, who won two Nobel peace prizes and Jean Braille who created the raised dots for the blind, so named Braille. 

Imperial War Museum

At the imperial war museum front entrance they had a humongous naval gun that was used in the war against the Germans and the shells were bigger than me. When we went inside we saw a giant spitfire, harrier and a flying bomb hanging from the ceiling. This had me very interested and excited to see more. This was one place I had read about and really wanted to see. I heard about in the book grandpa's great escape read by Elly in class this year.  

We first went down to the ground floor and we saw a jeep that had been hit by an Iraqi missile with two journalists inside. The journalists survived. Next we saw a v2 flying rocket and then Connor spotted a tank in the back of the room so we headed over to see that, it was a Sherman tank. Then we decided to head up another level as dad had spotted a motorbike with a sidecar and a machine gun. It was very cool. Then we saw a truck that New Zealanders had used in the desert wars. After that we had a look in the second world war exhibition, it was cool and explained a lot about this war and new Zealand's part in it. There was a big section on world war one which I found really interested. We heard a story about a soldier who popped his head up once and didn't get shot however when he popped his head up again and shot in the head by two different snipers. We then walked through some trenches in the and there was a giant tank over the trenches which was very cool. There were lots of movies to watch and it was really interesting. Me and dad really loved it and for both of us it was our favourite in London.

The museum was huge, there were six stories. On our first visit we stayed 3 hours and then dad and I went back to visit again a few days later for another two hours. I bought a book on Nancy wake who was a NZ born woman who was a French resistance fighter and lived in Marseille and a 150 page tank spotters book about tanks.

                                               Huge naval gun out the front

Spitfire

Jeep that got hit by a missile

New Zealand jeep

 

Normandy/D'Day

Normandy is a Provence in northern France where the allied services launched the largest seaborne invasion in history. On the 6 of June 1944 is when thousands of allied troops spilled onto Normandy beaches trying to drive the Germans out of France. There were five beaches the allies were trying to capture. Omaha and Utah where the ones the Americans were trying to capture. Gold, Juno and Sword were the beaches the rest of the allies were trying to capture. The Normandy sites are spread along 120 km of coastline. I was tasked to find out which places to go to and why. These are the places we are going to go to:

Juno beach because it has a Sherman tank I want to see.

Omaha beach has the American cemetery dad wants to go to because there is 10,000 head stones.

Utah beach has the landing craft they landed in and the Utah Beach Landing Museum, the best museum on D'Day.

Gold beach has the Longues Battery where the Germans were shooting at the allied.

Caen memorial museum is a museum in France..