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James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (book review)

This story is about a boy named James who was sent to live with his aunts because his parents had met with and accident. His aunts treated him very badly once he arrived and every day he was asked to do lots of things that children could not do. One peculiar day, James was doing work as usual, and his aunts were sitting down comfotably, drinking lemonade as it was a very hot day and talking about how pretty they were. James was thinking about how other children were so free to do what they liked like going down to the seashore to built sandcastles, splash in the water and do lots of other things he was not alowed to do. As he was thinking tears started to fall down his cheeks and he started crying and asking his aunts whether they could take the bus down to the seaside. His aunts said no and asked him to get out of their sight so, he ran and hid behind a bush. suddenly he heard a noise behind he and turned around and saw a old man taking out a small white plastic bag. He told James tha...

Astro Night

Last Friday, my family and I went to Science Centre. Over there, I was very surprised to see an extremely long queue to enter the inflatable planetarium. While queuing, I met Bailey and Dominic. Since the queue was so long, we decided to try some of the hands-on activities while daddy stood at the queue. At one station, we saw some mini rockets flying all around. The lady put a tablet into the film container filled with some water. Awhile later, the lid popped opened, pushing the water out. This was my favourite station as it was exciting waiting for the it to pop! After that, we headed back to the queue to wait for our turn to enter the planetarium. Inside, a man taught us about the star constellations. I knew all of the constellations that he mentioned. Next, he made the fake stars spin around us like it would, in the North Pole. I felt very dizzy. I liked the exhibit very much and next time, I hope to go up to the observatory tower to stargaze, without the queue.

Chemistry

We just came back from the Chemistry Lab at NUS. Over there we were splitted up into pairs of two, and together with a student scientist, we did some exciting experiments. Most of the chemicals that we used were harmful to our skins. So we had to wash our hands immediately after an experiment. My favourite experiment was called the "elephants toothpaste". We used detergent, food colouring and some other chemicals to form a warm soapy paste. The end product looked like a giant toothpaste. I had a fun time at the chemistry lab today .