T2+Explain

   __Thursday 5th May 2011__ 

 L.I. We are learning to use words that contain cause & effect. S.C. My writing 
 * will use words like because, as a result of, therefore

__Tuesday 7th June 2011__

The SOC (scene of the crime) is a unit in the NewZealand police force. They specialise in collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses and suspects at the scene of a crime. They are responsible for tracing evidence towards criminals and solving crimes.

When a crime occurs the SOC unit can not do anything unless they are contacted by a witness or victim. When they arrive they will walk through the crime scene with their hands in their pockets, making sure not to touch, or destroy or alter, while doing this they will question anyone who may have any specific evidence. SOC will go and check the crime scene for clues. These include fingerprints, hair strands, blood samples and other physical evidence. Once the SOC officers are satisfied with the evidence they have collected, they will begin questioning witnesses. The SOC unit will then predict what may have happened, based on the evidence they have collected, the information gathered from witnesses and any other information provided by the the victim. While one officer goes through the crime scene one last time, another officer takes notes of what they have found and what the possible scenario is. The police will then contact the witness’s and victims (and anyone else involved) and tell them what they believe that has happened. They will then ask them who might have committed the crime.

The Scene Of The Crime officers send the evidence back to the lab. There the evidence is examined and the S.O.C unit try to match any of the evidence, with previous offenders, that is known for that particular crime. If there is a match with the evidence. The police will go around to interview the suspect.

If there isn’t a match, the S.O.C will go to visit the suspect or witness’s and ask them further questions. They will then test the evidence on people that are possible suspects, based on information given from witness’s and victim. S.O.C will make a new scenario based on the new evidence they have collected. This will allow the S.O.C unit to narrow down the main suspects. The S.O.C officers will then go and interview the main suspects.

After interviewing the main suspects the S.O.C will match up the evidence with the suspects and then see if there is a match. The scene of the crime officers will then match up the suspects story, with the witness information and check the suspects alibis. When the scene of the crime officers decide who is lying they can finally determine the culprit.

__31st May 2011__

The SOC is a unit in the NewZealand police force. They specialise in collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses and suspects at the scene of a crime. They are responsible for tracing evidence towards criminals and solving crimes.

When a crime occurs the SOC unit can not do anything unless they are contacted by a witness or victim. When they arrive they will check the crime scene for clues. These include fingerprints, hair strands, blood samples and other physical evidence. Once the SOC officers are satisfied with the evidence they have collected, they will begin questioning witnesses.

__25th May 2011__

How To Wag School

Every normal person hates school. You sit there in a seat all day filling out maths equations and doing incredibly boring work. I can almost guarantee that everyone has tried to pull a sicky at least once in their life. But you have to know how to do it properly.

One of the ways is that you can lye in bed when you wake up. Don’t let anyone know you are awake. Hold your breath and squeeze your nose until you pass out. If you do it correctly your parents will think you are dead and will obviously let you have the day off school, as corpses don’t have the ability to learn.

Or you can make your parents believe you are going to school and walk to the bus stop then take off. Bring a spare change of clothes with you and get changed in some public toilets. The public will get suspicious if you are wearing your uniform. Wear a pair of sunglasses so no one can recognise you and don’t look directly at anyone that is associated with your school. If you do they will probably tell your principal. Go to a public phone and ring the school, telling them that you won’t be able to attend school today because you have had food poisoning and have been spewing all over the floor. Make sure to pretend to be your parents or the school will instantly call your parents and they will hunt you down.

Another way you can wag school is to tell your parents you feel sick when you wake up. They most likely not going to believe you. This will work better if you make your parents think that you are excited to go to school the day before. This will make your sickness seem more believable if you start acting disappointed that you are going to miss school. If your parents don’t believe you, stick your index finger down your throat until you vomit when your parents aren’t watching. Call your parents and when they see the puddle they will surely let you have the day off school.

Don’t try these wagging ideas to regularly or you will soon get busted. The first idea about pretending to be dead will probably only work once, or not at all.

Cody: this is very good work

__24th May 2011__

What is Basketball ?

Basketball is a popular sport that is played in large teams, often with six players on the court at once. Basketball requires speed, agility, high fitness, good hand eye coordination, aiming and often height. The aim of the game is to dribble (bounce) the ball up the court and shoot (throw) the ball through the opposite hoop. There is often a black square on the backboard of the hoop.

One of the fun things about basketball is that there are many loopholes in the rules. One of these is that if you touch the player with the ball you are fouled by the referee. But if you have your arm in a certain position you can smash into the opposing teams player with the ball without getting fouled.

Basketball is a very fast paced sport and is lots of fun if both teams play fairly. Because it is such a fast paced sport it is hard for the referee to pull up team members for cheating or making a mistake. Some of these rules include traveling. This is when you run with the ball without dribbling it. Another rule is double dribble, this is when you dribble, stop, hold the ball and then dribble again. Once you stop dribbling you have to pass to your team members or shoot to try and score a goal.

__ ﻿21st May 2011 __

**MY LEARNING TARGETS**

My next step in writing is to use punctuation correct e.g. speech marks instead of brackets "me and my family ..." Also using capital for place names. Always good to include useful diagrams to support your writing (Tunsami)

I will achieve this by thinking about the purpose of the punctuation being used and carefully reading through what I have written at the proof reading and editing stage of my writing.

Date achieved: //Mrs Stock//

**Curtis you have begun your writing with a general statement, followed by explanation and conclusion. You have written in present tense and have some fun ideas that are enjoyable to read.**

How To Get Out Of Doing Your Homework

Homework is something that every child dreads, it is something that is assigned to students, by their teachers to complete at home after school. It can be anything from reading, to mathematics or even researching some random thing that is completely pointless to your learning.

Many kids try to get out of doing their homework but most are unsuccessful. If you don’t want to do your homework just tell your parents that you don’t have any, because you were ahead of the class in all of your schoolwork and you had time to finnish it at school. Or you can say that your teacher was run over by the bus driver and you have a new reliever teacher who is against homework until your old teacher recovers.

When your teacher asks you where your homework is after not meeting the deadline, make up an excuse like (Me and my family went on holiday in Afghanistan and a terrorist dropped a bomb on our hotel. We were lucky to make out alive, unfortunately my homework wasn’t quite so lucky) or (We were staying in our bach in the himilayas and it was lost in an avalanche that destroyed our home) or (The tooth fairy mistook it for a tooth and she stole it) or you can just stick with the classic (my dog ate my homework). The trick is to make your story completely believable.

After making up a (totally believable) excuse, your teacher will probably ring your parents to clarify your story. If you don’t want to get caught out you need to make a bulletproof diversion. Like if you went with the Afghanistan terrorists story you can change your answer phone message to say. Sorry we can’t take your call because our phone was blown up in a terrorist attack, please call back when we have a new phone.

This is how to get out of your homework and if you hate it as much as me you should follow these steps and you will never have to do homework again.

__16th May 2011__

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal;">What Is A Tsunami

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Tsunamis are a gigantic wall of water which is often referred to as a large wave. The word Tsunami originates from Japan. Tsunamis are caused by disturbances in the water like earthquakes and other natural disasters. When the water is disturbed water travels in all directions. Unlike normally when the waves only travel in one direction. Tsunamis are often destructive and travel at very high speeds. Tsunamis leave many people without homes.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">When you go to the beach have you noticed how many different directions the waves travel in? One. When their is a disturbance like a meteor hitting the water or an earthquake, a giant wave surrounds it and takes off in all directions. When you drop a stone in a bowl of water it has the same effect. As the huge wave comes in towards the shore it absorbs all of the water and sucks it back out into the ocean. This is the first sign of a Tsunami. This happens when the tsunami is building up. The amount of time it takes before the tsunami arrives varies.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Tsunamis travel at high speeds often up to 300kmph. Tsunamis can be almost any hight, from a few millimeters to over 10 metres tall. Tsunamis can collect debris, trees, cars and almost anything else that falls in it’s path. This makes the tsunami even more deadly, because as the giant wall of water passes over you everything that it has collected can bump into you and knock you unconscious or even kill you, while the tsunami comes over the top of you and quickly drowns you.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">These are some of the things to look out for when a tsunami strikes. They are incredibly powerful and destructive waves and surviving one is just pure luck and is definitely something to be proud of.

__<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Wednesday 4 May 2011 __

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">L.I: We are learning to use the structure of explain to give an explanation of what light is and to use present tense.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Light is something that is all around us. All life on Earth rely’s on it to survive. There are many forms of natural light, but for generations Humans have been trying to imitate this mysterious and essential source. Light gives us our sight and creates colours. It illuminates the darkness and and is capable of distorting colours and shapes. Light is often created by burning or just a chemical reaction. Light keeps us from living in the darkness.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Light is something many scientists don’t know much about. Light is made of of lots of tiny particles called photons. They are released from fires and a lot of chemical reactions. Billions of these tiny particles drift around in our atmosphere creating light. These beams of light are only capable of going in straight lines, while reflecting off nearby objects. When the light reflects into your eyes, you gain sight. Depending on what colour the light changes to when it reflects is the colour that the object appears. Without light there would be no life on Earth. Plants require light to grow, plant eating animals require plants to survive and if animals can’t eat plants, then the carnivorous animals will starve and without any animals or plants to eat, humans would soon die out. Light is capable of traveling at very high speeds. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Light travels at 300,000km per second.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Light is an essential aspect to our survival and lifestyle. Without it the world would never be the same. The sun is slowly burning out, so as long as people keep enhancing our artificial light, the future generations will be able to survive.

It has good present tense and it is interesting (maddie)