The Antelopes

In the drylands of the Savannah two antelopes; a mother and her young, were feeding upon the dried tallgrass that covered the ground. The mother had beautiful polished, brown curled horns with a silk peachy orange hide that covered her tender flesh and clean hooves. Her young was not as beautiful as her and had short stumpy horns.

  After their small feast they laid down under the shade of a tree, before raising their heads to hear tyres running through the dusty pathway. It was a jeep coated with tall grass camouflage and large tyres made for rough roads. The mother and her young attempted to silently rustle through the grass to escape from the menacing jeep. It was shortly before they heard a large ‘BANG!’.

  The young antelope panicked and ran, but was not able to find his mother behind him. He stood still, hidden under the grass. He heard a faint scream before it faded away. He tried to retreat back to his mother, but heard the men coming close to the cadaver. The antelope had no choice but to run as fast as he could with his hind legs. ‘CLANK!’. The antelope looked down under to find a sudden sharp pain on his back leg. The bear trap underneath him had locked him in place. Attempting to pull his leg free increased intense the pain. Tearing up from unbearable injury, the antelope had cried for nearby help. ‘Hehehe.’ A pitch long laugh was heard from the top of a tree. A large lumpy silhouette was sitting still from the tree. The silhouette reeled in closer to the sunlight. The hyena atop the tree was laughing continuously. ‘Hehehehe. Such a foolish animal.’ cried the hyena. ‘Couldn’t you see the trap? You should be relieved. I’m not in for antelope flesh today. It’s what you would call… too runny.’ The antelope continued to scream for help. ‘You can cry your vocal cords out any way you like. Not like anyone cares about you. You were made no more than to be animate food.’ said the hyena, before hiding back into the tree’s shadow.

  The grass behind him rustled to reveal the two poachers that had previously murdered his mother. One poacher clasped together his snout meanwhile the other held a gun against and towards its lung location. The trembling young antelope resisted, but was no match for the poacher’s strength. It was not long before it had heard its last sound… ‘bang.’

  A warm orange light sheening on one side of its face, the young antelope stayed close to his mother, head to head, or at least, head trophy against head trophy.

Advent

This year, the first day of Advent was on Sunday the 27th of November.

Advent is a time of change. The first distinguishable change in the Church was the change of colours. The altar went from the green - of Ordinary time to purple - the colour that shows royalty; the colour for Advent. The word ‘advent’ originated from the Latin word ‘adventus’, that meant ‘to come’, so in the Church’s Calendar, Advent represents the coming or the arrival of Jesus’ birth on Earth.

  Advent lasts for 4 weeks. Every Sunday, a candle on the Advent wreath is lit (purple, purple, purple & pink). The candles each have a meaning - the first symbols Hope, the 2nd  represents Preparation, the 3rd symbolises Love and the 4th represent Joy. The final candle, which most people ignite, is the white candle; the candle lit at the time of Christmas. It is the ‘Christ Candle’.

Choices, Judgement & Life after Death

Walht - use some of these words to write a sentence that describes the relationship between the person becomes in life and one's life after death.
During life, a person makes his choices which s/he is judged on in the afterlife. In the afterlife, we are sent to Purgatory (where people are judged whether they belong in Heaven or Hell) and forgiven of our sins by God .

My Saint

Today in Room 8, we were given a task to remember our chosen Saint from Confirmation and why we chose the specific Saint.

Compare and Contrast

Walht - compare and contrast information from two articles to identify similarities and differences and then using that information to synthesize the key ideas that link to the values and skills of their sports codes.

Spyridon Louis and Pheidippides are both well-known Greeks and that involves them both running.

  Pheidippides ran many hundreds of kilometers for aid. Louis, at the marathon, was committed and persevered to the role of a runner even though he knew the foreigners overpowered him. Pheidippides was famous because of his bravery, enduring the run of 250+ km to the Spartans for defence against the incoming Persians.

Maths - Graphs

Walht - create graphs using a spreadsheet and to analyse data in those displays.

This graph shows how much it had rained in a week. Across a 7 day period, the average rainfall was from  3.2mm with Monday and Wednesday having no rain at all. The rain rose from 0mm (Monday) to 6mm (Sunday), with 7mm being the highest mm of rain.

This graph shows how Emily had built up her weight-building throughout the year. She had gone from carrying 40kg (of muscle) in January up to 49kg in December. Through January - February, May - June and August - September, she had not gained any muscle. The most amount of muscle built was from September - October; when she had gained 2kg of muscle.

As William progressed through the weeks, he slowly becomes faster at typing, removing 6 minutes off his first time (16 minutes). Between week 2 -3, William had a struggle trying to type faster as he did not remove any minutes from his time.

Compare and Contrasting

Walht: compare and contrast information from two articles to identify similarities and differences and then using that information to synthesize the key ideas that link to the values and skills of their sports codes.
   Pheidippides and Haley may have a few differences, but they have a few values they have in common. These include; confidence, role-model, courage and bravery. Confidence, courage, and bravery show for both of them as they both completed their task regarding the fact that it was a tough job. Haley, being scared of the high-bar, decided to befriend the high-bar (she was scared of the high-bar), while Pheidippides had run 250+ km for support from the Spartans. They were both role models at the end. The town for Pheidippides had celebrated the victory against the Persians and Haley’s Gymnastic team had cheered her for conquering the high-bar.

Spelling T3 Graph Data

Walht - Use a spreadsheet to enter and display data + Analyse & discuss data displays.
This data shows that this student had first started off with the maximum score of the spelling test. However, as this student progresses through the weeks, his/her scores consecutively loses memory and interest in his/her tests and begin losing a word per week.

Holy Mary Mother of God...

For R.E, Room 8 were learning about the assumption of Mary and the Feast of the Assumption. We noted and created a drawing/Prezi to present our finished product. 

Sit Back And Relax with the New and Efficient Seed Life Jel-cket!

The Seed Life Jel-cket is a caring parent for the plants that are a pain in the neck to care for. If you need a cheap plant starter kit, you can stop in your tracks right now!

  The gel is carefully and specially made out of tiny syringes that ‘drug’ the plant. The certain drug doesn’t include any negative side effects; the plant will still grow healthily, live longer and will be as green as ever. The gel detects the difference between the surface of a mammal, plant and even fish (for safety reasons)! Worried about bugs and creepy crawlies? No worry, when given the ‘drug’, it is given an ability to produce its own pesticide, strong enough to kill bugs, but not enough to sicken humans. The smell, taste or look will not change during the production of the pesticide.

   Interested? Well, there’s more! The gel is activated through contact with water for 15 minutes, where it will then release its syringe onto the seed. Because of its gel form, it’s willing to take the form of any seed, big or small doesn’t matter to the gel. Once sunk to the bottom of the water, the gel will communicate and teach the plant through electrical waves invisible to the naked eye. This is possible by the pain of drowning the seed, where it releases electrical waves, detectable by the gel and transferring back the seed’s waves into a different signal; teaching it when to stop and when to start drinking the water.

  That’s not all! The gel becomes a special wetsuit for the plant! Giving proper space of oxygen and feeding it water, that’s right; water! As the drug is injected into the seed, it gives it the ability to convert water into food capable of giving extreme nutritional value to the plant. The gel absorbs the water and filters it using its skin, storing the inedible particles in its skin, but far away enough for the seed to prevent contact. As it ages, the gel will soon be made up mostly of contamination and gel; slowly breaking down with the water, as soon as this stage starts, the gel gives little amounts of contamination to the seed, where the amount of dirty water given to the plant is continuously built up until it is fully immune to the dirty particles. By this time, the seed will have opened to a sprout; being bare of the gel, floating at the skin of the water and having the knowledge to feed on its nasty/clean pool.

Apple Crumble Procedure

Ingredients -

> 4 Apples

> 2 Tbsp

> Water (to cover bottom of pot)

> 1 Tbsp Cinnamon

> ½c flour

> ¼c sugar

> ¼ tspn

> 3 Tsp butter

Items -

> Pot

> Peeler

> Chopping board

> Hand Blender

> Bowl

> Round pyrex dish

> Microwave

Method -

1. Blend in butter and flour
2. Mix baking powder and sugar into flour
3. Peel, core and chop apples, add to pot water
4. Place onto stove, high, boil
5. Remove from heat, add sugar and cinnamon
6. Put back onto stove, stir until soft
7. Scoop onto pyrex dish, sprinkle crumbles over apples
8. Place into microwave cooks on high for 6-7 minutes.

How To Make A Weet Bix & Stewed Apple Parfait!

In Room 8 we created a healthy parfait using our leftover fruits.

Ingredients - 

> Stewed Apple (Sliced)

> Low Fat Vanilla Bean Yoghurt

> Weet Bix Bar

> Chopped Bananas

Method - 

1. Spoon an appropraite amount of stewed apples into the cup

2. Crush Weet Bix bar and place on top of the stewed apples

3. Scoop spoon full of vanilla bean yoghurt on top of Weet Bix

4. Place chopped bananas on top of yoghurt 

5. Eat out parfait

Milk, Detergent & Food Colouring Mashup

In science we observed items when 2 (or more) substances are mixed together.

Items needed -

> Plastic Container/Dish

> 50 ml Detergent

> 200 ml Milk (with fat)

> Eyedropper

> 4 Different Colour Food Colouring

Method -

1. Pour milk into plastic dishDrop 3-5 drops different food colouring onto each corner on dish using eye dropper
2. Clean inside of eye dropper or use spare
3. Drop 3 drops detergent on middle of milk
4. Observe what happens next

What really happened? -

In the detergent, it is made up of certain chemicals that cut up fat. When the detergent is in the milk it starts to create a small spiral-like ripple that is not visible to the eye since the milk is pure white. When food colouring is added, it can show what happens in the milk when the fat is being cut up.