The Blue-eyed, Sandy-haired Kid Detective

Rebekah's Lances Lab Report

Pop star Lance Bass has moved into space and is living on the international space station. His module is his new home, so it has to have everything he needs to live, record music, do science experiments, have fun and relax.

 Recording Music

His music area has specialised equipment such as a Skype TV to talk with and play to his producers, and a 2011 model laptop with an exceptional voice recorder to record his music. He also has a guitar to try out and play new songs. On his laptop he can send his recorded music to earth through a satellite internet connection.

Science Experiments

Lance has a new science lab to carry out educated experiments. His science table is firmly bolted to the ground with bottles attached to the surface of the table. On his wall behind his experimental table are pieces of metal that can clutch bottles so they don’t float away. One of his experiments is to make a formula that can keep him from becoming ill in space. He also experiments on ball point pens. Lance is attempting to find out why they do not work in space. There is no gravity in space so the ink can’t run to the tip of the pen. He has a TV to communicate to children on earth and educate them on his experiments.

Daily life.

Mr Bass has all the things he needs to live. At the end of his module is a toilet which he can use in space. His toilet uses a suction pump and his human waste is put into a large sewer at the end of the space station. The suction pump is crucial in space because there is no gravity. He also has a washing machine that uses very little water and because there is no gravity in space the clothes tumble around by themselves. His dryer is almost the same, but instead of uses water it shoots out hot air to dry the clothing. He has three beds with straps to hold him down so he can sleep without hitting his head or body on surrounding objects such as the roof or the bottom of the next bed above him. He has cupboards that are attached to the wall, that contain prepared and cooked meals and snacks. His cooked and prepared meals and snacks to eat in space are different and because there is no gravity in space water or any fluids form bubbles. In space lance must be careful with water because there is a lot of electronic devices in his module.

Fun and relaxation.

Lance Bass has a giant flat screen TV that is connected with the satellite dishes. He has a game arcade with 40 loaded games that he can play when he needs to relax and have fun. He has a comfortable bean bag with straps to hold him down. The bean bag is bolted to the ground so it can’t float. This is a place where he can have fun and rest.

Pop star Lance Bass has everything he needs in space to live a daily life, record music, do educated experiments and communicate back to his friends and family on earth. There are many challenges while living in space such as water mixing with electronic devices, communication back to friends on earth, and living without gravity.

By Rebekah Robb

A Freaky, Fish Tale

“Come on fish, keep swimming!”  I yelled as I frantically searched for somewhere safe to hide.

“Ahhhhh!” shouted one of my friends as a big, thick net swooped around her and picked her up.

“Marcie!” I shouted. The big net lowered down again and began to scoop my family and friends up. ‘Keep on swimming’ I told myself as the dangerous net cornered me. I was coming to the end of the stream, when suddenly I was lifted up into the outside world.

“Mum I caught one,” the human said.

 “Good job Courtney,” another one answered.

“I think that’s enough.” I was carefully lowered into a white bucket.

 “Abby!” cried my friend Marcie.

 “What’s happened?” she said.

 “I don’t know,” I replied. I turned around to see all the worried townsfolk talking quietly amongst themselves.

"Let’s go mum,” a voice beamed. Suddenly the bucket was lifted up.

“Let’s get some rest,” I advised. When everyone had seemed to have nodded off, I slowly opened my eyes. Hopefully everything would be alright.

When I woke up I screamed. Obviously it woke everyone else up too.

“Oh my fish fins!” one of the stubborn fish said.

“Arhhhhh!” I yelped. I slowly swam forward.

“Where am I?” I cried. All of a sudden the other fish swam forward.

 “AHHHHHHH!” she yelled.

“Seriously,” I said “Can’t you see there are other things to think about?”

 Instantly, a man opened the top of the glass tank. Immediately we all swam up to get some of this heavenly smelling food that had been sprinkled on top of the water.

After we had all had a marvellous feast, one of the youngsters swam over to this black thing.

“What’s this?” he said peering underneath it.

 “Help!!!!” he screamed. I quickly turned around. He was gone! ‘I better stay away from that thing’ I thought.

“I bags the jug!” I yelled. I could be here a while so I had better get the best bed!!!

By Rebekah

The Long Holiday - Rebekah R

I sighed as the alarm on my phone went off. I rolled over and reached out for it. I hit the snooze button a tried to get back to sleep. Five minutes later it went off again. I lazily turned it off and headed down for breakfast. With my eyes half open and my tummy rumbling, I opened the pantry and grabbed the cornflakes. I had just poured the cereal into my bowl when I looked over at the counter to see that there was no milk. This was going to be a long holiday.

A few days later, near the end of January, we all got up and dressed because mum told as that she had a surprise for us. We jumped in the car and headed into to town when mum was hit with questions. “Where are we going?”, “Can we get sushi?”, “Tell us mum!” My younger sister Heather just smiled. I knew she had something to do with it. She had seemed to be able to keep her secret, whatever it was. As we got closer I realised what our surprise was. Mum was taking us to see Tangled! Even better it was in 3-D! It was an awesome new version of Rapunzel. After we had enjoyed watching our movie, we thanked mum with lots of  hugs and headed home for a tasty, fresh lunch.

About a week after, dad got some time off work. He decided that we should all go to the beach. We stopped at Woolworths for some things for lunch and went on our way. We pulled up at Wellingtons Bay, opened the back of dad’s Ute and ate our delicious picnic. We got into our togs and jumped into the slightly, rippling water. My sisters and I had an awesome time floating on our backs and splashing each other with water. I tried snorkelling in the shallow waters, but I found it difficult for the small, murky waves kept pushing me around gently. After 2 or 3 hours, we packed up and relaxed on our peaceful drive home.

So after a lot of fun events in the holidays, I was more than happy to get my first bit of homework and to catch up with my friends. Also to tell them about all the cool times in my holidays that you have just read about.