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Wednesday 16 April 2014

Blake Griffin 2009-2012


Blake Griffin is one of the best players in the NBA and has one of the best leaping abilities . Blake Griffin was born in Oklahoma city on March 18th 1989 . In the 2009 NBA draft Blake Griffin was first pick in the NBA Draft and was drafted to the Los Angeles Clippers .



During a 2009 pre season game Blake broke his left kneecap and missed the rest of the season . The 2011 season Blake Griffin made his NBA debut and was selected in the 2011 slam dunk competition and won later on in the season he was named NBA rookie of the year . This was a break through year for him and was even called one of top NBA rookies ever.


In the 2012 season Blake Griffin and fellow teammate Chris Paul got voted in NBA allstar game . Next he got to compete in the rising stars game where all the young stars go to shine and then was number 1 pick for the Shaquille o'neil AKA Shaq team . In the 2012 NBA playoffs he and teammate Chris Paul helped Los Angeles Clippers to eliminate Memphis Grizzles but sadly in the next round San Antonio Spurs cut Clippers out of picture and went on to the next round, Blake then got in the ALL-NBA second team for the first ever time in his career .    



                         AND REMEMBER GO THE CLIPPERS

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Thursday 10 April 2014

Cops and Robber

This is a game called cops and robbers . It's a really cool game to do with coordinates . If you want to play it the link is down at the bottom . 


                                                                                                             http://nrich.maths.org/content/id/6288/CopsAndRobbers.swf
                                                         
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                  Heres the link

My Map

Directions to the barbers:

1. So start of from the entrance of Point England school and head north west and their should be a street named Elstree ave.

2. go around the roundabout and head down the road on the right(Elstree ave) go north. Once at the end of the road go left(west).

3. Once heading down that road (north) their should be a block of shops and the at the end of it is a place called Men@work.

Wednesday 9 April 2014

Plastic Fantastic

Plastic Fantastic?

1. Complete a PMI (see the chart below) for using plastic bags, and then one for using paper bags.

Using A Plastic Bag:
Plus
Minus
Interesting
1. It helps you carry groceries
2. It is waterproof
3. You could use it for shoes
4. It could be reused over again
5. It doesn't separate until a certain year and time.
1. It makes it way through the soil.
2. a animal could eat it.
3. it affects the environment.
4. birds could get tangled in it.
5. it will cause erosion.
1. that each year that 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bag are consumed worldwide.

2. Some 4 to 5 trillion plastic bags—including large trash bags, thick shopping bags,
and thin grocery bags—were produced globally in 2002.
3. that an average american family takes home over 1,500 a year.
 
4. Americans dispose over 100 billion plastic bags a year.

5. Less than 5% of plastic bags are recycled in the U.S.
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Using A Paper Bag:
Plus
Minus
Interesting
1. you can use them for carrying things
2. you can reuse them.
3. you can recycle them
4. you can keep them
5.
1. they're easy to rip.
2. it affects the earth
3. it affects the birds
4. people litter and sometimes it tends to be a paper bag.
5.  Takes up to much trees
1. Paper bags made from trees
2.
3.
4.
5.


2. Re-read pages 6 & 7. What are other countries doing? Which idea do you think is clever and why?
Norway because they make their bags out of potatoes.

3. Do you think New Zealand could do one of these ideas? Which one and why?
Yes, Irelands idea because they have to pay for their plastic bags

4. Make a list of things you can do with a plastic bag to re-use them. Which one do you think we could do here at school?
Make them out of potatoes.


5. Search on Google to see what is happening with Collingwood now. Are they still ‘Bag Free’? Have they added anything different to make it better?


6. Create a Google Presentation about the use of plastic bags. Think about what you want to include in this. Should we be using them? What should we use instead of plastic bags?

Thursday 3 April 2014

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Big Nate review

This is a reading review on a book called Big Nate . Big Nate is a very funny book the author is Jeff Kinney which is the author of Diary of a wimpy kid . The rating i would give it is a 10 out of 10 and I would suggest to buy it .