Brendan.C

media type="custom" key="18663590"media type="custom" key="18677236"media type="custom" key="18677260" Treason means going against the goverment/king, Blasphemy means challenging religious beliefs, Poaching means catching food on someone elses property and Civial Crimes means breaking a promise. || I also learnt that the word peninsula means a long peace of land jutting out into the sea. The word squall means that it is a sudden and violent gust of wind with rain, snow or sleet. || media type="custom" key="18921214" date/week what I did what I learnt
 * **__date__** || **__What Did I Do Today!__** || **__what I learnt__** ||
 * 21.5.2012 || After school, I played golf today. When I got home, my granny said, time to do your home work. So I did my spelling then I moved onto my Contract. My topic is "List Some Of The Crimes That The Poor People Comitted In The 1700's" . || I learnt that the word poverty means that you're very poor, and social injustice means that one part of the society is not fair to the other part, Petty means small. ||
 * 22.5.2012 || Today, my granny and I were just finishing of my contract. I was writing how they had too many criminals for the death penalty, so they swapped to transportation. These people were the most evil criminals to stay back and receive the death penalty. || Slander means saying something that ruins someone's reputation,
 * 23.5.2012 || Today I did some drawings for my contract and I also did this with Miss Pan, our student .I did an Opinion / Fact game and one side was the fact and the other side is obviously opinion - 4out of 7 correct. Also I did soccer training with Samuel Nokes along with Brodey, Alex, Joel was sick, Sam Crane, Brendan,Eliagh,ryan and last but not least Hayden. || It's a bit hard to answer some questions and you do make some mistakes in your life. Learning from your mistakes is all part of growing up. ||
 * 25.5.2012 || Today I wrote a good copy of my exposition on palm cards it took up 4 cards. Granny and my grandfather Joe were looking after the baby, his name is Bailey. I played with him and later on in the day my friend Peter came over and we played a game and I smashed him I always smash him at it, im only 9 and he is 13 and simetimes he wins but not often. || I learnt that my granny thinks of the things that I would never think of, I know that my granny is very intelligent and smart. ||
 * 26.5.2012 || Today, my soccer team and I had a home game. It was a challenging match. I had a lot of action in both halves. In fact there was one kick that I was really devastated about. One kick, that for a moment, I thought I was going to save. However, there was this kid that approached me, he slid and kicked the ball while tripping me over, I tried to get up but his legs were on top of me and I yelled out at the top of my lungs GET THE BALL! but no one got it but luckily, it rolled out. || I learnt that when your coach is talking about something you have no idea about, you rely on him no matter what. ||
 * 26.5.2012 || What I did today was that, me and my dad went to Sylvania par 3 golf course and I won with a score of 30 and my dad had a score of 46, we had a good laugh about his score. || I learnt that it does'nt matter if you have a score of a hundred or one 1 as long as you have fun and play fairly. ||
 * 27.5.2012 || I did a voriety of things today, my cousin came over and I played tennis. I played tennis with my dad and we were at a tie of the scores, so it was the deciding ralley and I won. I did a high shot and my dad thought it was going into my court, but it went in his court and I //won.// || That its not about winning it's about making sure that you felt that you did your best and sportsmanship and etiquette. ||
 * 28.5.2012 || Today we went to the post office and got the forms for my passport, and got my passport photographs taken. || I learnt that there are a lot of different things you have to do to get a passport. I could'nt use my school photographs because the background was blue and on passports the background has to be white. I also learnt that you can't smile in passport photo's. ||
 * 03.6.2012 || Today I worked on my contract. I was searching for precise information about explorers/visitors to Australia before colonisation || I learnt that the Indigenous people of Australia had been visited for hundreds of years before the arrival of Captain Cook. The Indonesian people had visited for centuries. Then came the Papuans and the Portuguese and the Dutch. ||
 * 04.6.2012 || Today I did some more work on my contract and looked-up the meaning of some words from my list, in the dictionary. || I learnt that the first Englishman to visit Australia, was William Dampier, he came in 1688, way before Captain Cook. At that time Australia was known as New Holland.
 * 05.6.2012 || Today I did some more research for my contract, I read up on how the visitors got on with the Indigenous people of Australia. || I learnt that sometimes the visitors were unwanted and there were violent clashes between the two groups. At other times the contact was peaceful and goods were traded or exchanged. They indonesians traded knives, axes and fish hooks for tortoiseshell and pearl shells. ||
 * 12.6.2012 || The class went down to the library and looked up some information about the first and the second fleet. || I learnt that there were around about 759 convicts on each ship. There were 11 ships but 2 of them were naval vessels. The other ships were convict ships and even the captains of these ships did'nt have access to the navel vessels ||
 * 12.6.2012 || The class went down to the library and we looked up information about the first fleet and the second fleet. || I learnt it took about 8 months to get to Australia. ||
 * 12.6.2012 || Tonight I researched the first and second fleet || I learnt that that the ship ALEXANDER was the largest of the transport ships. The Scarborough sailed in the first and second fleet. ||
 * Week 9 || I was researching information for my spelling || I learnt that the Portuguese explorer, Christovao de Mendonca might have come to the East Coast of Australia as early as 1522. It is not really certain that he came to Australia, but many people believe that he did. ||
 * Week 9 || I was gathering information for my spelling, useing atlases, books with information about the explorers and the Internet. || I learnt that the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, travelled to the West Coast of Australia in 1616. I also learnt that Matthew Flinders, sailed all the way around Australia in 1801. It was very confusing because the internet and the atlases and the other books were saying different things about the same person. I chose the best information that I thought was right. ||
 * Week 9 || I went into the Internet to look up facts about the ships of the First Fleet. I was looking for the names of the ships and to see what the ships were carrying. || I learnt the names of all of the 11 ships and how many tons they could carry. I was absolutely amazed by how many pages there were, listing all of the things the store ships were carrying for the journey and to start the new colony. ||
 * week10 || I went into the internet to look up facts about the journey of the ships of the first fleet. I was looking for information about the actual journey. || I learnt that the first fleet four stops bofore they reached Australia. They first stoped in Tenerife, then Rio de Jeneiro, then Cape Town, before they reached Sydney Cove. ||
 * week 10 || In class we discussed the medicines that people used in 1788. || I learnt that people used Tea tree- leaves, herbs, leeches, rum and hot cloths to soothe headaches ||
 * week 10 || Tonight I read about the food which people ate when they arrived in tne new colony. || I learnt that there was hardly any food in the new colony. They had trouble growing crops and they only had one garderner out of the whole of the first fleet. People were absolutely starving before the second fleet arrived. If they got sick the only food that they had to help them, was a little bit of chicken soup. ||