Comprehension Questions- Bao Bao Celebrates First Birthday

Comprehension Questions

Question One: Every animal turns one so why was Bao Bao's first birthday so special?

Answer: On Saturday, August 23rd, Washington D.C streets were filled to celebrate their favourite giant panda. Bao Bao and his brother, Tai Shan, were the only ones to survive after the rest of their panda family was perished in China.

Question Two: How did the zookeepers celebrate it?

Answer: They kept to a Chinese Tradition to celebrate both Tai Shan and Bao Bao. They were both offered three honey-dipped honey bamboo shoots and they had colourful posters next to them. There was "Long Life", "Good Health" and "Many Cubs".  Bao Bao immediately went for the the "Long Life" bamboo. He also was made a cake made from apple juice and various items. It had a large number "one" on it, also. Bao Bao attacked his birthday cake with delight.

Question Three: What are some of the things Bao Bao has learnt during his first year? What are some of the things in store for her before she turns two?

Answer: Bao Bao has learnt how to respond to her name and stand up straight on the weigh in's every month. The keepers are now trying to teach her how to lie down and present her paw when she needs her blood tested.

Physical and the Outdoors: Walking Johnson Reserve.

Hello,

My Mum and I, occasionally walk around the Johnson Reserve. We go through the reserve, out and down Osprey Drive and come back down through the entrance near Selwyn Ridge. Our walk would take around about 45 minutes. Here are some pictures.

The Entrance near Selwyn Ridge.

The Bridge by the Meadowviews entrance.

The Corner Track down below the Selwyn Ridge Entrance

The stairs up to the Selwyn Ridge Entrance.

The Johnson Reserve Waterfall.

The area where you first walk into the track from the bottom part of Waipuna

The Steps when entering the track.

The Bridge by the Waipuna Entrance.

Dangerous Decibels

Today, we visited the Whare Kai for a lesson about "Dangerous Decibels"with Toni. We learnt heaps about how long we can be around something that contains either a lot of noise or very minor noise.

Over the whole event, we learnt how to know the signs, what happens and what it looks like inside our ears, how it would sound if we had hearing loss, all sorts of stuff! We all got own pipe cleaner that resembled what happened if we went to a Heavy Metal concert and a card with noise control signs.

I thought the whole thing was good for me, to know how to prevent hearing loss in the future. Did you know, it is predicted that our generation will lose our hearing at the age of thirty? Scary, right?

Three ways we can prevent damage to our ears.

• Turn it Down
• Protect your Ears
• Walk Away

During the presentation, we were given a tuning fork and a ping pong ball on a string, We banged the tuning fork on the floor, and held it up near our ear and face. Then, we banged it five times, and put it near the ping pong ball. The ball flew up about 45 degrees, before returning to the pitching fork. Then, when it came down, it did the same thing again.

Comprehension Questions: Mining Cavern

Comprehension Questions

Question One: How is Bounce Below different from other trampoline parks?

Answer: Bounce Below is an underground cavern. It is located 100ft deep and 60ft wide. Before the tramp, it was a mining cavern.

Question Two: What are some of the things visitors will experience at Bounce Below?

Answer: The underground of an ex- mining cavern which has been transformed into a beautiful colourful trampoline park, unlike any other such as dialled. Safety first! The visitor will have to gear up with helmets and You will be made to head onto an old mine cart for the first ride of the "mountain". When going up, you will see amazing lights and sights. Tramps go for 10,000 ft along.

Question Three: What are the two ziplines called? What is special about each one?

Answer: When they are finished in the cavern, they go out to their parent company, Zip world. Both of them are called Velocity and Titan. They are special because Velocity is 500ft above the ground, also being the northern hemispheres biggest zipline. Titan can take people at the same time, which is really cool! Titan is not only one of the biggest ziplines around, but can amazingly carry people simultaneously, I think its great.

Maui and the Giant Fish

Homework: Physical Education and the Outdoors.

I am competing in the AIMS Basketball training, which we go through intense fitness trainings over the weeks. I will be recording what we do for the next weeks until our special week comes up.

Term 3, Week Two

This week, we did fitness tests and training. While two of us were completing in a push up-step-shoot-run and repeat, the rest of us had to continue with conditioning such as 2 minutes worth of planking or 20 press ups, etc. The game we continued with, there was a suction cup sort of pop-up pop-down item. We had to start out with two press ups, then we had to step and shoot. After that, we had to run to the opposite side of the court and come back. Next, we had to do three press ups, four press ups etc.

Term 3, Week Three
I wasn't allowed to do much this week as I had an important tournament in the weekend. The team participated in normal training with a lot of fitness and a lot of running. I practised my shooting.

Term 3, Week Four

Our coach Greg was back, so we ran through our normal drills. 

Term 3, Week Five

We went over a new drill which is called a press break. It is called Blue.

Term 3, Week Six

We had a 5 hour AIMS training due to needing to go over everything before the big week.

Term 3, Week 7

We didn't do any hard work, we went over our goals and went through post offensive stuff.

AIMs week

Monday: We won our first game 33- 21 to St. Peter's College in Auckland. I was privelleged to start too! Our second game we won again 33-9 against Whakatane. Great day so far.

Tuesday:

We had to play 3 games today. We won the first game against Hastings, luckily, by 40-38. The second game we won by one goal 30-28 to Waihi. Two challenging games in one day! We then lost to Peachgrove Intermediate in Hamilton, 45-26. 

Wednesday:

Now, our team had a fairly easy game and a heck of a challenging one! We had Otumoetai first up, winning by 46-19. Then, we had the top of the pool, Rosmini in Auckland. They were really well drilled! We lost by 62-24.

Thursday:

We had a fairly easy game to start, beating St. Marys Putararu. 49-20 was the score. Then, we crossed over 3rd of our pool playing Koromatua, who were 3rd in Pool A. We won 32-23. Now we were playing for 9th and 10th against at the winner on the court next to us.

Friday:

Belmont was our opposition today. We only had one game. The score at the end  was 39-36 and guess who won ... US! We were now 9th out of 36th! Great position and great tournament ! 

Top Three:

Rosmini - 1st

North Cross - 2nd

Peachgrove - 3rd

Two teams in our pool were in the Top Three, wow!

A Full Season of Basketball

I have completed my first homework challenge, I have completed a season of Basketball.

I am in the Under Thirteen Tauranga Reps Team, and we just competed in a competition between our region over the weekend, the teams are as follows;

• Thames Valley
• Waikato A
• Waikato B
• Tauranga A
• Tauranga B
• Rotorua A
• Rotorua B
• Central Country

To qualify to head to Dunedin in the next holidays, we had to place in the top three over the whole tournament. We were placed in two pools. We were placed in a pool with Thames, Rotorua A and Waikato B. We played Waikato B on Saturday morning, at 8am. We won that game, after a slow start. We then found out Thames Valley pulled out so we won that game by default and then had a small training session. Then, we got to our competition, Rotorua A. We took a massive lead, before they made an epic comeback. We held it together, just, before the end winning again. Soon, we were in cross overs. We then played Central Country, if we won, we would be playing off for 1st and 2nd. We ended up having a real good game, winning. We were all very excited, because we were now competing nationally. The final game we lost to Waikato A only by seven though, but we didn't care, we had already qualified and thats what counted. Now that half of the season is complete, we now move onto the more serious note.  Big future awaits us when we hit Dunedin.