Sanjit

= = =media type="custom" key="18641944" media type="custom" key="18795024"media type="custom" key="20372420"= = = = = === Hi and welcome to my wiki. My name is Sanjit and my teacher is the wonderful Mrs Martin!!! I am 9 years old and I am turning 10 this year. I was born in India and I don't remember when I came to NZ. Have a great time looking around!!! ===

=== Our landscape learning topic is mangroves and they have adapted to live in mud and salt water. Wow!!! They have breathing roots called pneumatophores! They are found in the North Island of NZ and are found in harbours and estuaries. Their seeds have to grow very quickly and infact they can do it. They have to grow their roots very fast because otherwise they will be washed away by the tide that comes every 12 hours. ===

Mangroves are very special types of plants.
=== Some people don't like mangroves because they think mangroves look ugly and they really smell in the Summer but they can attract fish because they are a home for small creatures such as crabs. The bigger fish will eat the small creatures that live in the mangroves and it will help fishermen because the fishermen will know where to go fishing because there will be much more fish in the mangroves. === media type="custom" key="13856204" media type="custom" key="18814970" media type="custom" key="18815284" media type="custom" key="20372330"

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TERM 2

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=== WW1 started like this. The declarations of war that lead to WW1 was because of an assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Turkey got so angry so they decided to be mean. They decided to shoot down the ships that are going Russia and to shoot down the ships that are coming out of Russia. The ships carried supplies to give to Russia such as food because in Russia, you can't grow crops there because it is to cold so it is hard to get food in Russia. This is why the ships were coming to give the supplies to Russia. The ANZAC soldiers decided to help Russia. The word ANZAC stands for Austalia, NewZealand, Army Corps. The ANZAC's went to train in Egypt to get ready for the Gallipoli campaign. The ANZAC's were told that they would land on a nice flat beach. When they went to Gallipoli, they landed on a rocky beach with high mountains. The Turks could fire down at them from the high montains and that is what they did. On the first day of their canpaign, 1out of every 5 soldiers died. They lost many, many soldiers on their very first day.to The ANZAC soldiers were forced to build trenches. They got to have mainly bully beef, dirty water and biscuits what the soldiers called dog biscuits. The ANZAC soldiers planned that if they captured Chunick Bair, the tallest mountain in the battle feild, they would have control and that they would be more successful. They did capture Chunick Bair but then it was recaptured by the Turks. The surviving soldiers were then shipped of to France for another battle. In France, their is a place called Flanders Field. When the soldiers were buried there, poppies started to grow. The red part of the poppy is said that it resembles the blood of the soldier. There was a soldier who wrote a poem their and many, many years later, the poem was found. Now, that poem is famous through out the whole world. The poem was written in Flanders Field and it has a title of Flanders Field. ===

Dear Mum,
=== At 6:00 am in the morning, my life is going to change. I have a choice. To shoot someone, or to be shot! I wish this day never had never come. In the trenches, the constant shell fire brings random death to soldiers all around. Rats in their millions have infested the trenches. They even eat the remains of the dead soldiers. Lice is a never ending problem. They breed in mens clothes causing them to itch. Some of the men even shave their heads to prevent them from getting nits. The smell is awful. The stench from the dead bodies and other things smell like rotten. The food supply is limited and we mainly get bully beef and dirty water. Trench foot is another thing. It is caused by cold, wet and other dirty trench conditions. It can result in amputation. The stench from our feet is probably the worst. I just want to go home. Patrols are sent out to NO MAN'S LAND! Some repair the barbed wire. In NO MAN'S LAND, sometimes soldiers come face to face with their enemy and they are defenceless. Some even run away for dear life. The taste of the dirty water we get is horrible but it is the only water we get. Seeing everybody die makes me cry. The sound of flies sound like cicadas and just makes me go mad. I just wish I could go home.=( ===

Sanjit
media type="custom" key="19699388" = Never give up! = media type="custom" key="20517530" = = = It is now term 3 and our landscape learning topic is about biodiversity. =

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= = === It is now the 2012 Olympics! The Olympics are being held in London for the 3rd time! How many sports do you know that are going to be in the 2012 Olympics? I know Badminton, Tennis, Fencing, Swimming, Equestrian, Cycling, Weightlifting, Long Jump, High Jump, Archery, Wrestling, Boxing, Volleyball, Rowing, Gymnastics, Judo, Shooting, Sailing, Canoe, Kayak, Table Tennis, Golf, Basketball, Handball, Rugby, Triathlon, Aquatics, Athletics, Luge, Skating, Skiing, Ice Hockey, Hockey, Taekwondo, Bobsleigh, Curling, Biathlon, modern Pentathlon, shot put and water polo! ===

This term, all the year 5's are going to Llyod Elsmore for swimming lessons! Here are some photos of us swimming!
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This term, we are also learning about Bridges!
= = === Have you ever wondered what a world without bridges would be like. Well imagine you were driving to work this morning and got thinking: each morning we get into a car, drive down a street, highway or in some cases take public transportation. At some point in your journey, there is a river you need to pass and at this point, you imagine the world without bridges. if there were no bridges, you cannot get to point A to point B reliably. Bridges are very important because you can easily cross a river without difficulties. ===

= Term 4 =

Wow. It is nearly the end of the year! This term, we will be learning about space. Here is a project that I have done on the Milky Way.
= The Milky Way =

What is the Milky Way?
=== The Milky Way is just one of billions of galaxies in the universe. The Milky Way is special to us because it is our home galaxy. The solar system, the sun, the Earth and all the other planets we know are in the Milky Way. The solar system is not in the centre of the galaxy. The solar system is about half way between the middle and the edge of the Milky way. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. Other galaxies have different shapes. Some galaxies are elliptical galaxies which means ball-shaped galaxies.Some galaxies are classified as irregular galaxies which means they do not have a particular shape. ===

How did the Milky Way get its name?
=== The Milky Way is a broad white band of light stretching from horizon to horizon. You can see the Milky Way at night time. The ancient Greeks thought that the white band looked like spilled milk. They called it, the Milky Circle. The ancient Romans called it, the Milky Road. Over time, the name changed to the Milky Way. ===

Why does the Milky Way glow?
=== Stars produce tremendous amounts of energy. They get this energy from nuclear fusion reactions occurring deep inside. Nuclear fusion is the combination of two or more atomic nuclei(cores) to form the nucleus of a heavier element. Nuclear fusion releases the energy that powers stars. In most stars, nuclear fusion joins the nuclei of hydrogen to produce a nucleus of helium. From Earth. you see so many stars in the Milky Way from a variety of distances that they seem to be close together. The unaided eye cannot pick out most individual stars.Instead, the light from all the stars seem to blend in together to create the blurry glow of a white band in the sky. Powerful telescopes, however, can obsereve most of the individual stars in the Milky Way. Some of the most massive stars in the Milky Way are in the centre of the galaxy. ===

How big is the Milky Way?
=== Light travels through space at 186,282 miles(299,792 km) per second. At this speed, light can cross a distance of about 5.88 trillion miles(9.46 trillion km) in one year. Therefore, astronomers and physicists call the distance that light can travel in one year, a light year! Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across. They estimate that the central buldge is about 10,000 light years thick, and the central bar is about 27,000 light years long. But the thinner disk of the Milky Way is only about 1,000 light years thick. ===

Does the Milky Way move?
=== The spiral arms of the Milky Way rotate the centre of the galaxy. The central bar moves around it's midpoint like a whirling propeller blade. The central bar and spiral arms move because the stars in them orbit the centre of the Milky Way. The sun orbits the centre of the galaxy at a speed of about 155miles per second( 250 km per second). The entire Milky Way is also moving through space. In fact, the Milky Way and the nearby Andromeda Galaxy are approaching each other at about 75miles per second( 120 km per second) that they might collide in several billion years. The 40 galaxies nearest to us also move as a group, sharing a speed of more than 930 miles per second( 1,500 km per second). ===

What is at the centre of the Milky Way?
=== Vast clouds of gas and dust in the centre of the Milky Way blaze with infrared light(heat energy) from massive young stars. At the very centre of the galaxy is a supermassive blackhole surrounded by a rotating ring of gas and dust. The central buldge of the Milky Way is tightly packed with millions of stars. There are also thick clouds of gas and dust and a massive blackhole. ===

=== The centre of the Milky Way is about 25,000 light-years from Earth, about 54 million times as far away as Neptune. The opposite edge of the Milky Way is about 75,000 light-years from Earth, about 150 million times as far away as Neptune. ===

Astronomers believe that our galaxy is more than 13 billion years old. It is almost as old as the universe, which formed in the Big Bang 13.7 billion years old.
= What was the first planet ever discovered besides Earth? Who discovered that planet? - =

=== Only three of the planets in our galaxy have official 'discoveries' and 'times of discovery' and the reason is simple. All the other planets can be seen with the naked eye so the other planets were probably discovered when looking at the night star was first done. ===

Pluto was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.


= What is a Solar Eclipse? =

A Solar Eclipse is an eclipse when the sun is getting obscured by the moon!


= What is a Lunar Eclipse? = = A Lunar Eclipse is an eclipse when the moon appears dark as it passes into the Earth's shadow! =

= What is the order of the planets from the sun? = === The order of the planets from the sun is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune! The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are Rocky Midgets. The planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are called the Gas Giants. The planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are also called the Outer Planets. The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are also called the Inner Planets. ===

= What is a ball of gas? = === A star is a huge glowing ball of hydrogen gas which shines because of nuclear reactions in its core. The hottest stars die within a few million years. Red Dwarf stars are the coolest and they live the longest. ===