I have some good news: I am now a published author! Last night (Wednesday 26 November 2014) I won 2nd place and my sister won 3rd place in the Lionel Bowen Young Writers Award 2014 held in Randwick City. This competition runs every second year and Eve won 1st prize in 2012. I entered a […]
Read MoreEverlasting fields of green grass. The perfect home, gone. All I have ever wished for, gone. I blame it all on the malicious drought. The drought struck last January on our multi-talented cotton, wool, dairy and beef farm. It was a perfect home for farming. The horrible drought had made the previously overflowing lake filled […]
Read MoreMy biggest school project is done. Our project is called the S.K Austin and it is very important. This year our teachers Mr Paton and Miss Divers told Year 5, that we all had to do a digital project. I chose to create a video documentary on the famous Australian, Dick Smith. Creating my documentary […]
Read MoreToday is the 1st of August 2014 and I noticed it was exactly one year ago that I created this blog about my Rewarding Recycling video. I had almost forgotten about the competition that my teacher, Mrs Affleck, had entered my video into. The competition is called GRIN and it stands for ‘GReen INnovation’.
Read MoreI did a test to see which Microsoft Surface keyboard is better, the ‘Touch’ or the ‘Type’. I put the two Surface keyboards up for the ultimate words per minute (wpm) battle. The result was very clear. I had much more experience with the Touch that came with the Surface, although I felt the […]
Read MoreI make a lot of desserts. I want to tell you about the best one I have made so far. Tuesday night, 7pm. I thought I didn’t have enough time to make dinner but I certainly had enough time to make dessert! I decided I would make something that I had the ingredients for, or […]
Read MoreThis term at school we had to do our Year 5 assignment about rainforests for our Guided Inquiry Project. I did a lot of research on rainforests and I learnt many new facts. I also did a video and I had a lot of fun making it. I went to Tree Top Adventure Park, which […]
Read MoreI was looking for a simple way to play music all around my house. Our house has an amplifier and we have the new XBox One and the Apple TV. I knew both devices could play music and I was curious to see which device would be the easiest to play on our home amp. […]
Read MoreIt has been an exciting journey on Khan Academy earning my first 50,000 points. I am 9 years old and about to turn 10 and I have been using Khan Academy in my spare time. I find it an amazing program and I have learnt so much about maths, computer programming and many other cool, […]
Read MoreI have made a new discovery. Pinterest is a great app for tagging photos. I like it even better than using Google Maps Engine that I did a video on earlier this year.
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