Science Leaves and plants.

In science today i learned about leaves and plants. A gorse bush has leaves that are rolled up to from spines. Outline the advantage to the gorse bush of having these types of leaves. Rolled leaves like those on a gorse bush provide protection from grazing animals such as cows.

Plants on the forest floor often have large lamina. Outline the advantage to these plants of having such a large lamina. Because there is a limited amount of light on the forest floor, plants need large lamina to catch more of the available light.

List the two molecules joined to make glucose. Carbon dioxide and water.

Outline where the plant gets these two molecules from. Carbon dioxide through the stomata. Water is taken in by the roots.

State where photosynthesis occurs within the leaf. Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts.

Explain why plants are called producers. Plants are called producers because they are able to make (produce) their own food.

What are stomata? Stomata are small holes on the underside of the leaf.

Name the pigment responsible for the green colour of leaves. Chlorophyll.

That is my reflection of today's science.

English (Shakespeare) Act 2.

                                    ...ACT 2 SCENE 1...


1. It is because he is not christian or jew


2. If men fail the challenge from Portia they will not be able to date or marry Portia


3. He practices usury which is trading money but with interest


4. Shylock and Antonia hate each other because Shylock is a jew and Antonio is a christian


5. Portia doesn't like the people that the Prince Of Morocco has bring to her palace

English (Shakespeare)

                                ...Act one, scene Three...

1. He is very rich or he collects more money.

2. He thinks that if he doesn't give his money to Antonio 
because he wants business to keep going.

3. Shylock doesn't want to dine with Antonio, Bassanio 
because they are gonna eat pork and Shylock doesn't like pork.

4. He is breaking a rule about how he can't talk to a jew.


5. Shylock has maybe convinced Antonio to take the loan.


6. Antonio replies with don't think of it as being friend just think of it being villians.


7. He responds with a weird reaction.

Music...

For music we have been doing a choreography to a song called Aotearoa, the part that i mostly liked about the performance is when we go into a triangle, because i get to hide in the back where no one can see me. The hard thing to do was learning the choreography because everyone was all over the place until my music teacher Mrs. Richardson put us in our places. The hardest thing for me was learning the dance moves and the words to the song at the same time, and the clothes ill be wearing on the day will be a  costume that wraps around my shoulders.

That is my reflection for music this week.