Reading Task

What’s For Lunch? This book we’re reading is about what the students had for lunch. Alex always had a nutty bar for lunch everyday. Mr Kenna was wondering why’d he always bring nutty bars for lunch everyday. So Mr Kenna decided to ask everyone what they had for lunch. He also put up a poster which had a pyramid with the right and bad food. The top had the treats, the middle had the oily fat ones and the bottom had the healthy food. You only eat the top ones sometimes, the middle ones not too much a day, and the bottom one you eat plenty. After that Rangi suggested to share his healthy lunch with Alex. Alex gave Rangi half of his nutty bar too.

Reading Task

Reading Task

Linking the World: The Internet

1. How does the internet work?

   Cables and wires

2. List 5 interesting facts that you have learned about how the internet is used:

(For example: 168 Million emails are sent all over the world every minute.)

1 ~ 600+ videos uploaded onto one video sharing site

2 ~ 1500 blogs posted

3 ~ 70+ new websites created

4 ~ 370 000+ minutes of voice call mode

5 ~ 11 000 000 conversations take place on instant messenger

All in sixty seconds (one minute)

3. Is there a cost to the internet? What are they and how do they impact us?

   No because its all free

4. When was the internet created? What was it’s main purpose at the time?

It was created in 1969! They developed the Advanced Research Projects Agency     Network (Arpanet), four large computers that could exchange information.

5. List 5 new words you have learned from this article.

Machinery

Megawatts

Hydroelectric

Arpanet

Shillings

Summary (Cochlear Implant)

The article we’re reading is about a little boy Dylan who was born deaf. The government said that they will pay for one cochlear implant. His parents tried really hard to raise $50,000 to pay for a second cochlear implant. Dylan then had his operation in September 2012. Dylan’s hearing really improved his development thanks to cochlear implant. Now the government will pay for two cochlear implants for children under six year old starting from July

Here is a link to the article we're reading: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/east-bays-courier/10023010/Government-boost-cochlear-funding