Maths, Maths and guess what! More Maths!!!

I have been doing Maths Online and I think it is awesome!
I have whats called a Snipping Tool on my computer. Its awesome!
so here are some photos (yes, if your smart, or have it, I took the photos with the snipping tool!!!)

This one is the times tables shoot 'em up game

If you want to go to their site, click HERE
and if ANYONE can do that puzzle swap thing properly - TELL ME HOW!!!! PLEASE!!!
Love Sara xox

Under the Scope

SCOPE this out: science is everywhere.
It’s behind the technology we use, the food we eat, the houses we live in, the clothes we wear, the medicine we take, the bridges we cross, the roads we travel, the athletes who become our sporting heroes and the health of the planet we call home.

Now there’s a science show for kids called Scope to explain the science that’s all around us.

Scope is a half hour of fast, funny and informative scientific entertainment for children aged 8-14 years. Each week Scope explores a different theme to discover the science behind everything. Each week, host, Dr Rob tackles a different topic, tears it apart, explores it, relates it to a child’s life and finally catapults the concept into the realms of technology and the future.

Dr Rob is not alone in his quest for all the answers and is joined by Julia, who seeks out cool experiments and scientific facts. Along for the ride are the scientists themselves who present many of the stories about their research and discoveries.

Scope’s mission is for its audience to never stop questioning how the world works to make the impossible become possible. Scope answers the how and the why, but more importantly, the ‘what if’ as it makes the ordinary extraordinary - under the SCOPE.

The Team

Dr Rob Bell
The term “mad scientist” may well be appropriate for the CSIRO’s Dr Robert Bell. He’ll tackle a hot vindaloo to explain chillies, eat a raw fish to better understand dolphins or spend a day on the slopes to better comprehend the physics of skiing (someone’s got to do it!). A madcap but dedicated scientist, Dr Rob gives his all to uncovering and explaining the ways and whys of our ever amazing world.
Growing up on a pineapple farm on the Sunshine Coast, Rob became passionate about the environment, and in particular the impact humans have on it and its resources.
Dr Rob, achieved his Bachelor of Science with Honours plus his PhD in the area of Materials Chemistry (awarded in 2000) at the University of Queensland, where he also held the prestigious title of “President – The Chocolate Appreciation Society” with over 700 sweet-toothed members.
Formerly Dr Rob was a science education officer for the CSIRO, enticing and educating our young minds in the many and varied fields of science, perfect training for SCOPE.

Julia Cleghorn
As soon as Julia learnt to talk, she was asking questions about the world around her.
Since then, she has done everything possible to find out the answers. Her love of science started at an early age and she has been questioning, and answering, and talking ever since.
Originally from Melbourne, Julia received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne before heading to the Nation's Capital to join the circus; well, the Science Circus that is. As part of this travelling group, she brought the fascinating and often explosive world of science to every corner of Australia.
Julia currently presents the weekly Scope experiments where she uses everyday stuff to make, demonstrate and explain all things science.


Ted Petrie – Newscaster
Ted Theodore Petrie has been a familiar face to Australian television audiences for over 30 years.
Legend has it that this icon of TV journalism was born with a microphone in his hand and that his first words were his now immortal catch cry, "It's great to be with me."
Ted began his career as the rural reporter for the Launceston Times but he had far greater ambitions and it wasn't long before he had become the news anchor of Newcastle Tonight on UHF channel 31. Nominated 16 years a row for the Logie for best regional news anchor*, Ted has read the autocue on some of the biggest stories of our time including The Berlin Wall coming down and Bec and Lleyton's wedding. Ted now continues his very unique, award nominated newscasting style on Channel Ten's Scope.
* Ted's 16 nominations without a win is a record that experts believe will never be beaten

The Scientists
The real stars of Scope are the scientists and experts themselves who present stories about their research and discoveries in a simple, informative and fun way.

Scope is an amazing show! I watch it every Saturday after ICarly and Me and My Monsters. Some of the BEST shows ever! Though I my eyes, Roman Mysterys will never be beaten. WOW!!!! I have just found out that all these shows have a website!!!! awesome!!!! just move your mouse over the words and click!!!!!!
Please check them out!!!! and comment on my blog!

Do YOU have a suggestion for a blog post? please tell me by commenting!!!!

Well, I'll see you next time, Under the Scope!
Sara

PS. the Roman Mysterys have a book series. check your local libary for them NOW!
Sara

PPS. look at my Photos Page; click HERE
Sara

The Strauss Family

The Strauss family must be included among Vienna’s greatest

and most important musicians. The ruling family and

aristocracy of this city loved the arts, especially music.

In view of this fact, Vienna produced the most magnificent

waves of musical genius anywhere

over a span of three centuries.


The first wave included Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and the senior Strauss. The second wave: Brahms, Mahlar, Richard Strauss1, and the younger Johann Strauss. Finally the third wave: the twentieth-century geniuses – Schoenberg, Berg and Webern.


Johann2 Strauss, Sr. lived for his orchestra and sadly, not for his family. He was restless, demanding and tyrannical3. Even so, his sons idolized him. Strauss, Sr. created cheerful and happy music. His ‘Rachetzy march’ was his greatest success. It is the unofficial Austrian national anthem.




Johann, Sr. didn’t want any of his children to become musicians, but encouraged by their mother Anna; his three sons, Johann, Jr., Josef, and Eduard4, studied music and contributed more to the waltz 5 than their father did.


Strauss, Sr. was called the Waltz King. He joined Joseph Lanner, in 1826, and they began to formalize the Viennese Waltz that Lanner had created earlier. They formed this into the kind of waltzes that we know today.




After his father left his family, Johann, Jr. became the new ‘Waltz King’. He was already writing music, in ¾ time, at age 6. This is an amazing accomplishment, as it is an extremely difficult time to play, let alone write in.



Beethoven6 often complained that “the Viennese were Waltz
 mad!” Maybe he had a point. Many waltz enthusiasts danced
 through the night until early morning, and the large elegant dance
 halls of Vienna often over flowed. These magnificent dance halls
 could hold over 500 people.


It was not unusual to find Johann Jr. writing music at night and usually under stress. In ill health, and urged by his wife, Jetti, he handed over the responsibility of the family orchestra to his brother Josef.


Reluctantly, his brother, took over conducting, yet handled it with outstanding success. Josef also wrote beautiful waltzes and was called ‘the Schubert of the Waltz”. Unfortunately, Josef died young of brain tumour. After Josef’s untimely and upsetting death, Eduard directed the family orchestra.

In Johann Jr.’s famous operetta masterpieces, “Die Fledermous” and “the Gypsy Baron”, he took ballroom to the theatre. Jr.’s music remained fresh and young. His genius went far beyond the realm of light dance, inspiring many great composers who wrote waltzes.


When Waltz King Johann Strauss, Jr. died in 1899, he had composed nearly five hundred works – waltzes, polkas, marches, operettas, and more.


Vienna and the world, owes much to the Strauss family. If it wasn’t for their passion and hard work we would not have the music we have today.





1 not a relation; 2 pronounced Jo-han, 3meaning bad, bad, and bad; 4Ed-r-ed; 5 wal-s;



6Bay-toe-van

thanks!!!!
Sara 

From my Newspaper

Hi all!
Here is something from last months newspaper:
Women in disguise

During the early days, ballet was only performed by men, as were acting of any from on stage usually done by men. If a woman wanted to dance or to act on stage, she first had to disguise herself as a man, before she was allowed to perform. If a female role had to be performed, slender men or boys were dressed in ladies clothing, and wore wigs. Ballet dancer’s donned masks to portray their character further. The costumes were elaborate, and it is a wonder that the performers managed to dance in them at all. After that many more ballet schools were opened across the world. Ballet remains a popular form of art, and a popular sport. Many sportsmen and women use ballet in training for their actual sport. Pelé – a famous soccer player used ballet to warm up before matches. Many ice skating performers and gymnasts use ballet in both training and choreographing their sport.

i haven't put up a wordless Wednesday in a while. maybe I'll put one up later 

Sturt’s Desert Pea

It roams over sands in its crimson and black,

Magnificent flower of the deserts – out back.

With dryness and heat—oh, how sad they would be

Without the gay blooming of the Sturt's Desert Pea!

Rivers

The Tigris and the Euphrates rivers are located in Turkey, and the Tigris has a latitude 33o north, a longitude 91 o east, and its length 1900 km. While the Euphrates River has a latitude 39o north, and a longitude 38o east, and its length is 526 km.


Some of the cities on these rivers include Cizre, al-Qurnah, Shattal al-Arab, Mosul, Samarra, and ruins of the great Mesopotamian cities such as Nineveh, Calah, Ashur, Seleucia, Ctesiphon, Baghdad.

Notably, the countries they run though are Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. They rise in southeastern Turkey at Lake Hazar in the Taurus Mountains and flows southeast for about 450 km.

Typically, these rivers are used for drinking, fishing, and trading with other countries.

The Geebung

The fruit of the Geebung is not a berry, even though it looks like one. It is really drupe. A drupe is soft, fleshy, and has a stone in the middle of it, and inside the stone is a seed.


The small, yellow flowers grow in clusters and are very heavy. Their branches are often seen hanging right down, with the weight of the flowers bearing down upon them. The flowers fall very easily and quickly, and have large, smooth leaves that have a twist in the stem so they face sideways to the sun. The Geebung is in the Waratah family, flowers only in the summer, and has 80 species.