Holiday Reading Challenge Week 2 Day 4 Bonus Activity

Today I did the bonus activity for the fourth day of the second week, for it I had to continue a story from a point that it was started off at.

One day you are walking along the deck of the ship when you hear a loud bang. You start to run as you see smoke coming from the far end of the ship. You run towards the room where your patients are waiting to receive treatment from the doctor. Just as you arrive at the door to their room you hear another loud bang and you…

One day you are walking along the deck of the ship when you hear a loud bang. You start to run as you see smoke coming from the far end of the ship. You run towards the room where your patients are waiting to receive treatment from the doctor. Just as you arrive at the door to their room you hear another loud bang and you quickly rush towards the area that the smoke is emerging from, while there you see other nurses rushing towards the scene as well. The reason being because there is a hole in the boat and people are frantically trying to leave the ship, they're jumping off the boats just to try and escape but not before checking to see if they're going to jump into oil that's in the water. You take one last look back at the smouldering remains of the boat and then close my eyes and jump.

Many hours later you come to your senses with several others looking at you, it seems that you're in one of the lifeboats. One other passenger says "You've had quite the head knock, just before you landed a piece of the ship broke and travelled far enough for you to knock your head on it." And with that you fall asleep only to wake on a destroyer later on, you then sail back to England and after a short time's rest you board another medical ship set to sail to Dunkirk.

Holiday Reading Challenge Week 2 Day 4 Activity 2

Today I did the second activity of the fourth day in the second week, for it I had to read about one person who got the Victorian cross and then write down some information about them.

I chose to research someone called John Grant from Hawera who, before the war was a builder. He earned the Victorian cross because when his battalion attacked German machine gun positions him and another soldier rushed the guns by leaping into the centre and destroying it, he repeated this process again with another machine gun post.

Holiday Reading Challenge Week 2 Day 4 Activity 1

Today I did the first activity of the fourth day for week two, for it I had to go to this timeline and take two events and then write them both down below with all of the names of the people involved.

• 1 September: Germany invades Poland

When that happened it basically started the world war because Poland is under the British rule, that also meant that when Britain declared war all of the other countries under it had to follow on.

• 30 April: Hitler commits suicide

That marked the beginning of the end because without their leader the central powers crumbled quickly although they were already starting to fall before Hitler's death.

 

Holiday Reading Challenge Week 2 Day 3 Bonus Activity

Today I did the bonus activity for the second day of the second week, for it I had to pretend that I could bring some gifts to my ancestors in the 1930s and say what I'd bring them from the present.

I'd bring them some Favourites and Milo so then they'd have something to eat and drink.
Photo by Britain W, CC by 2.0

Holiday Reading Challenge Week 2 Day 3 Activity 2

Today I did the second activity for the third day of the second week, for it I had to say what I'd do to fund raise for families in the 1930s that had barely any money.

1. Collect useful items that were thrown away and sell them.
2. Doing jobs for people (Cleaning cars, washing windows etc)
3. Reuse items for other purposes (eg; Empty container for water)

Holiday Reading Challenge Week 2 Day 3 Activity 1

Today I did the first activity for the third day of the second week, for it I had to say what I do if I'm stressed.

When I'm stressed I either play a computer game or read a book, I do those because I like to do them and if I beat the game or I find a really good book and start to read it I feel a lot better.

Holiday Reading Challenge Week 2 Day 2 Bonus Activity

Today I did the bonus activity for the second day of the second week, for it I had to write a poem about what I would feel like if I was a passenger on the plane called Southern Cross when its radio stopped working and the pilot couldn't see anything.

I am scared, the cold is feared.
I can't see a light, not one to help our plight.
When I boarded this flight I thought it would be a magnificent sight, to see all of the land below.
Although I am stranded in a few hours we will have landed.