Homework

Good morning room 17.Today I am doing news current events and I have 2 short articles to talk about.

Swimmer buried alive

An Austrian Olympic swimmer accidentally buried himself alive on a beach in Florida and had to be saved by 60 rescuers.

19-year-old Jakub Maly had been taking time off from training with teammates when he decided to dig an enormous hole for fun.
But when he jumped into the two metre hole, the sand collapsed over him covering his entire body.
Friends quickly cleared the sand from around his face so that he could breathe - but they were unable to pull him from the hole.
Emergency services were called and cave-in specialists spent nearly two hours trying to dig him up
Jakub spent a night in hospital before flying back to Australia.

Bursting Watermelons!!!

Watermelon farmers in china are losing acres of fruit in attempt to make more money and have bigger watermelons to sell.

The farmers sprayed a growth acceleration their watermelons, during overly wet weather and put it on too late in the season, which made the melons burst. It said most watermelons sold at a wholesale market in nearby Shanghai were believed to have been treated with it. This has made the melons explode all over the place!!! . Farmers resorted to chopping up the fruit and feeding it to fish and pigs. The CCTV report described the watermelons as "land mines" and said they were exploding by the acre. Farmer Liu Mingsuo ended up with eight acres of ruined fruit and told CCTV he couldn't sleep because he kept picturing exploding watermelons."On May 7, I came out and counted 80 bursting watermelons but by the afternoon it was 100," Liu said. "Two days later I didn't bother to count anymore."

About 20 farmers and 115 acres of watermelons were affected.

Homework

Spain’s Earthquake

On the 11^th of May, a 5.2 earthquake hit the ancient city of Lorca on the southeastern coast of Spain. It was Spain’s deadliest earthquake in over 50 years and has killed at least 9 people, injured 130 and left more than 300 homeless.

The epicenter was only 1 km deep and as it was so shallow, the shaking was quite violent which caused damage to nearly all the buildings in town. The day after the earthquake some residents where allowed back into their properties to salvage their belongings.

As with our own earthquake, many families left the city to go to neighboring towns to stay with family or friends and schools, restaurants and shops were closed.

Homework

TORNADOES

Tornadoes happen on land. They have very strong winds and destroy most things in their path. Did you know Tornadoes are smaller and faster than Hurricanes?

A Tornado spins very fast and makes a funnel. When the funnel touches the ground, it works like a giant vacuum cleaner and sucks things into the air.

A Tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of doing tremendous destruction with a wind speed of up to 300 mph. They can destroy large buildings, rip trees off the ground and throw vehicles hundreds of meters.

Did you know in an average year 1000 Tornadoes are reported in America?

Did you know the fastest tornado recorded, was 457 kmh? It happened in Texas U.S.A 1958.

TORNADO IN A BOTTLE

Materials:

2 1.5 liter bottles or 2 2.00 liter bottles

Tornado tube

Water

What to do:

1. Fill one bottle ¾ of the way to the top with water.
2. Screw the Tornado tube on to both tops of the bottles.
3. Tip the bottle with water in it.
4. Spin the bottle around and around until you see a Tornado shape which is called a vortex.