Month: June 2022

Wonder Comprehenshion

Wonder novel Comprehension

 

Hello, my name is Ivan and I’m going to do a review on the novel Wonder. This also includes me thinking how the other characters felt and just overall explaining it through my mouth. Also, spoiler alert! Go and read the book if you haven’t.

 

First, we get introduced to the Pullman family consisting of August Pullman or Auggie (main character), the mother, father and Via (the cool, overprotective sister).

 

Let’s start with Auggie (August Pullman). He was born with a serious case of facial deformity which is pretty much just being born looking like a mutant. They did not detect it because he was still in the womb and technology was not that advanced back then.

 

After August was born, he had to go through 27 surgeries because of his face and he had been homeschooled until 5th grade, when he finally understood that his mother was planning to send him to a school called Beecher Prep. Auggie and his Dad didn’t like the idea but he gets sent there anyway because his mother is terrible at fractions (pun intended).

 

August meets Mr Tushman, the principal who is a really nice guy. I liked him alot. Mr Tushman introduces Auggie to the deputy principal, Mrs Garcia, who is also really nice but she gets a bit too carried away with her smiling and is sometimes described as creepy. After the nice talk, Auggie is introduced to Jack Will, Julian and Charlotte. I will stop there with August because our class has only gone this far in the novel, but I will guess how he felt right at this very moment in the story.

 

August probably feels nervous and worried because he hasn’t really talked with other kids his age and he’s scared that they might laugh at his face or his deformity may creep them out.

 

Now let’s move on to the mother. In my eyes, she is one of the nicest characters to Auggie because, well, isn’t that what mothers do. I think that she probably feels worried. She feels worried because this is Auggie’s first time going to school and she’s probably scared that he will have a bad first day at school.

 

(There isn’t much information about the father in the novel so I won’t talk much about him.)

 

Via, the overprotective sister is probably really worried about Auggie going to school because she won’t be able to protect him from the bullies there. 

 

This has been my comprehension of how the characters felt and a bit on Auggies story.

 

By Ivan

Water + Mandarin Experiment By Ivan

Water + Mandarin Experiment

 

Materials:

  1. A bucket of water
  2. A mandarin

 

Method: fill a bucket with water and put mandarin in and see what happens.

 

My experience: So first we put the mandarin in the water and it was struggling to float(it still did though). Next we peeled the mandarin and put it in. It sank to the bottom like a rock. Then we put the peels in and they floated. Then my friends put the piece onto the peel and put it in the water it floated. I found out that for mandarins the skin is what keeps the buoyant. 

 

Hairy Dryers by Ivan

Title: Super Balls

 

Purpose:

Understanding air pressure

 

Hypothesis/Prediction (What I think will happen and why?)

 

The ping pong ball will lift up

 

Equipment/Materials

 

Ping pong ball 

Hair dryer

 

Method

 

1.Plug in the hair dryer

 2.Turn it on

 3. Put the ping pong ball in the middle 

 4. Watch what happens

 

Discussion

 

What happened was that the ball started flying and whenever I put my hand under the ball it would fall while the hair dryer kept on blowing air into my hand. That’s it

 

Conclusion

 

The ping pong ball lifted up and continued flying

An Expirement By Ivan

On Monday 13th of June 2022, Team Tui went to the hall to do the “Candle in the glass” experiment

 

Ivan’s hypothesis: I think that the candle would go out and the cup will lift up.

 

What actually happened: The candle went out and the cup lifted and let the water go in.

 

The experiment went something like this:

 

Everyone was yelling and i didnt know what was going on. We put the candle on the plate but it kept on falling over and we were panicking the when we were about to light the candle and put the cup over the teacher said we were done and that we had to clean up.

Samoan Reacount

Samoan Language Week recount by Ivan

 

I chose to make a coconut bowl for Samoan language week. First we had to scrape the skin off a coconut with a knife – which took me a whole day.

 

The next day we had to halve the coconut with a hammer and scrape the coconut meat off. I was doing it pretty well but I soon had to stop because some of the brown stuff went into the meat and that would make it less tasty when we turned it into a dessert. This also took a whole day.

 

The next day I asked Mr Raj to make my coconut into a bow. I smoothed it with sandpaper and Mr Raj used the angle grinder to smooth the edges.

 

The next day I got sick so I wasn’t there on Thursday and Friday.

How to Make Heavys Sandvich

Heavy’s Sandvich 5000

 

This should feed one man and one man only

 

Ingredients:

2 slices of white bread cut into triangles not squares

1kg of bologna

2 slices of lettuce

1 tomato

Some swiss cheese 

1 slice of ham

1 olive 

 

Things you will need

Knife 

Tooth pick

 

First you will need the knife to cut the slices from squares into triangles.

 

Now just separate the slices, grab one and do these steps exactly as I say or there will be no ancient power inside your sandvich.

 

So step 1 get your one slice and cut some ham then put it on it. 

2.Now grab exactly three square slices of swiss cheese and put them on top of the ham and on top of eachother. 

 

3.Now grab your tomato and cut exactly 2 slices next to each other and on top of your swiss cheese. 

 

4.Grab one slice of lettuce and put it on top of your tomato. 

 

5.Get the second slice of bread and put it on top of everything. 

 

6.The last step you need to get if you want your sandvich to work is to get a green olive without the seed and put your toothpick through it. 

 

7.Now stab the sandvich with the toothpick olive on top and enjoy this ancient recipe. 

 

If done right it should look like this: