Andrew

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= = = Hi my name is Andrew. = = I like rugby and making model planes. I go to Meadowbank School. =

This is me in a plane

In writing we have been making our stories on a fairy tale. I did Jack and the bean stalk.

In reading we have been summirising the main parts.

=Puppet making= I made a puppet I made one on jack and the bean stalk.I did the old man that sells beans to jack. =Now were writing stories on fairy tales, then making puppets to act them out.We are all doing the= =stories in groups of 5 or 6.But we will do them by ourselves and our teacher will pick little bits= =out.= =In topic I have been making my puppet.= =I am doing a stick puppet. My teacher said= =we can make one part move on the body.= =I think I will make my arms move!= = = = = = = (as told by our friend Steve Wallace) For those interested I was in Orlando,Florida a couple of weeks ago and took time to visit the Kennedy Space Centreand see Atlantis sitting on the pad ready for the last ever space shuttle launchthis coming Friday (US time). Shame I couldn’t stay another couple of weeks andwatch. Some interesting facts I picked up during theguided tour: The shuttle engines consume 1.8 millionlitres of liquid fuel in 8.5 minutes during a launch. The solid rocket boosters consume fuel at arate of 10 tons a second each, for two minutes. The shuttle accelerates from 0 to 25,000km/hr during the launch. This subjects the astronauts to 3G’s of acceleration for 8.5minutes (that’s the bottom of a glider loop for over 8 minutes!) A shuttle launch produces 162 decibels ofacoustic energy. The shuttle is only designed to withstand 145 decibels. Toremedy this, 400,000 gallons of water is poured onto the launch pad momentsbefore launch. This is immediately vaporised at launch and in doing so the acousticreflections are reduced to 142 decibels (note for those of you who don’t knowthe decibel scale every 3dB represents approx a doubling in power/loudness). Within 800’ of a launch the acoustic energywill kill you if the heat doesn’t fry you. A launch can be heard from 1,100 miles away. The closest they let you view a launch fromis 10 miles. The heat on your face is meant to be most impressive. On the launch pad the shuttle leans forwardand then swings back as its engines come to full power. This is known as thetwang. The shuttle is held on the launch pad bylarge ‘explosive bolts’ as the engines and solid rocket boosters come to fullpower. If it wasn’t the shuttle would launch and fall over (took NASA a whileto learn this one, they show some nice footage of rocket launch failures fromthe ‘early days’). =﻿= =In the holidays I went to Motat and the Sky Tower.=







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= One cold wintery day at school it starting snowing.I didint know this because I thought it was = = hail.In the afternoon, I found out that it had snowed.I heard it also snowed in lots of other places = = too! =