Weird, huh?

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Lifecycle of the bean: Day 39

We have got really stuck with these beans, ’cause they’re so tall they started to droop over!

Mom went over the moon when I showed her and insisted we buy big canes (at first I thought she was going to whack them for growing so fast.) But as we went to the nursery she explained she was not going to give them a hiding, but just support them instead… This is what they look like now.

 

Spider Top Trumps

I was unwillingly forced to do these top trumps by my mom. She wanted them for work as she has to make some random classwork science stuff. They actually are quite good though. And I learnt lots of cool things about spiders. I hope you enjoy them, cut them out and they make cool cards!

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Lifecycle of the bean: Day 31

 Here I am, still watering the beans after 31 days.

I water them about twice a week, except if it’s sunny – then I water them a bit more (but it’s not, because it’s winter and freezing cold and rainy).

Mr Bean is catching up in the height race. Can you see he’s nearly as tall as Human Bean (previously known as Mrs Bean by my mom, not me.)

A few more beans have finally popped up.  I replanted all ten beans in the pot, so I think it’s going to look like the Amazon rainforest before long…

Rewriting history: The Match the Earth Stood Still

Here is a story that I wrote at school today and finished for homework:

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞

Today so far, school has been BORING and now, in ‘Big Write,’ I’m hoping for a twist…

Boom! Lightning lit the classroom and everybody was screaming: I had been hit!!! One moment I was surrounded by green lightning; the next I was in the middle of a game of soccer, in the Jo’burg stadium!

It was a game that had been played over a week ago – Germany v England – and I was the ref! The England team were advancing to the goal and the goalie was in a bad position.  Gerrard shot… the air was full of anticipation. The ball bounced once, hit the top bar, bounced in then out again… GOAL!!! I blew my whistle. The score was 2-2 and England were going in for a third.  Rooney was on the warpath…

He shoots.  The goalie dives for it and the ball ricochets around the net! 3-2 to England, and they are soaring in for another. In fifteen minutes England scored a record sixteen goals and Germany one: the score is 19-3. The game went on to a brilliant finish, and England got to the semi’s with Spain…

I don’t need to write about this game: Rooney scored 7 goals, and his coach fainted. Spain are Number One in the world, and the predictors have all died of heart attacks. Paul the Octopus has been shot! Spain had only 7 goals, which is still amazing because we think the England goalie has developed superpowers! The final score is…

SPAIN 7 – 12 ENGLAND

The final… I have been chosen for linesman in the final!!! I feel so proud of myself! Holland has qualified for the final. A Holland – England game could go bad!

In the first half I was amazed at the Dutch skill… They were absolutely outstanding! By the end of the first half the score was 7 – 7. In the second half Schneider scored a perfect goal – centimetres from being offside, he flicked it up and headed it home! This game just gets worse and worse… Three minutes later Joe Cole scores! It was kicked in from the corner and he caught it on his boot and sent it flying to the net! An equaliser! My hopes are soaring! The game went into extra time and the Orange Lions kept advancing! Robben shot to score… and suddenly the crowd stopped roaring… The ball stopped too… Time had frozen!

I walked across the pitch and pushed the ball through the air to outside the Dutch goals. I even rearranged the guys on the pitch! As soon as I stepped over the sideline, time began again! AND THE ENGLISH SCORE!!! The commentator’s voice echoed around the stadium. Extra time ended with a final score of 8 – 9 to England. WE HAD WON!

There was a flash of lightning and I was back in the classroom… Ludwe leaned over the table and said, “Hey, Nathan, did you watch that England/Holland game?”

Later on I found two strange metal devices in my pockets. Were these causing my good luck (not getting vaporised in lightning, but going back in time instead)?

Columns in Cape Town

Greek Architecture is still around… in other countries as well… here are a whole load in Cape Town!!!

At UCT…

These are Ionic columns and a frieze… THEY ARE AT UCT!!!

At Hout Bay Hotel…

Here are some Corinthian columns from a restaurant  in Hout Bay called

Hout Bay Hotel.      I had lunch there today – calamari and prawns… Yum!

Here’s the column… and here’s the closeup..

Lifecycle of the bean: Day 25

Now it is quite a few days after we planted the beans in a big pot…

Would you believe it, there are actually 10 beans in there!!!

The biggest bean you can see Mom has  named Mrs Bean, even though I was going to name it human bean, because it’s growing to the size of one. Mr Bean has been outgrown almost twice (he’s the one furthest from the camera… oh yeah,remember that rotting one, I called it hasbean…

Geography Project: Tsunamis

Here is my project on tsunamis.

I spent AGES on this one!

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Lifecycle of the bean: Day 19

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I woke up this morning and this is what I found: Mr Bean’s root has turned black! This is exactly what happened to the other bean whose root rotted… Both of these were broad beans.

Yet all the kidney beans are fine. Have a look at this one:
I think that the two broad beans rotted because they had a long root and needed less water. The kidney beans had shorter roots that needed more water near the bean. Thats why the kidney beans are growing well and the broad beans aren’t.

So we decided that, in order to save the rotting beans, we should plant them in soil. Plants need  water, sunlight, nutrition from the soil and warmth and I think that we didn’t give them enough nutrition from just being in kitchen towel instead of soil.

This is me planting the beans in a big pot outside (and eating soil…)

I hope now they are in soil they will grow.

Joke

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Amos
Amos who?
A mosquito…

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Anna
Anna who?
Another mosquito….

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Arthur
Arthur who?
A third mosquito!