Science T4 - Making Honeycombe

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make honeycombe.

Research:

ELMOOOOOO

How to make it

Method:

Equipment

• 5 tbsp or tsp of sugar
• 2 teaspoons of golden syrup
• half tsp of baking soda
• pot 
• Bunsen burner equipment (tripod, gauze mat and heat mat) or stove
• spatula
• baking paper

Instructions

1. Get your equipment.
2. Wash your hands.
3. Add your sugar and golden syrup to the pot.
4. Set up your Bunsen burner.
5. Use a blue flame.
6. Melt then boil the sugar for roughly two minutes.
7. Turn off the gas.
8. Add the baking soda and mix.
9. Tip out the honeycombe onto the baking paper and let it cool for approximately 5-10 minutes.
10. Clean up your equipment, and that is the final instruction for 2021.

Results:

Discussion

Business and Enterprise T4 Blog

 Hello readers, welcome back to my blog.

This term we did Business and Enterprise and I am going to describe most of it today.

Me, Bryce and Kamen's business name was The Brightwork and we supplied painted rocks.

The process of painting the rocks was very painful and we got into lots of arguments. 

I did enjoy being able to paint whatever I wanted on the rocks.

The challenges were having enough paint to do everything. 

Market day went fine, I enjoyed having money to be able to go buy stuff, especially the fizzy drinks from a certain group.

I showed I was using the school CARR values by never giving up when times were difficult, agreeing to disagreeing, and respecting all my customers.

Science T4 - Ginger Beer

 Aim:

I want to find out how to brew ginger beer.

Research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjifwNexix0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoWVQxuYv4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsQNmXVIxQk

Method:

Equipment

• ginger
• disposable cup
• water
• teaspoon and tablespoon
• lemon juice
• yeast
• sugar

Instructions

1. Get your equipment.
2. Put your name on a disposable cup, preferrably plastic.
3. Put half a teaspoon of ginger into the cup.
4. Add half a cup of water into the cup.
5. Add one tablespoon of sugar into the cup.
6. Mix with a spoon.
7. Add 5 drops of lemon juice to the cup.
8. Taste it and adjust the flavour to perfection.
9. Add 1/4 of a teaspoon of yeast.
10. Let it brew for a week.

Results:

When I added the ginger to the lemon juice, it sort of looked like diarrhoea. When you mix it, it does not lose its brownish color but most of the ginger dissipated. When you add the yeast, the yeast will not dissipate easily. 

TASTE TEST:

It was absolutely horrible and I have nothing more to say about it.

Discussion:

The yeast (micro organism), a living thing, is going to try to "eat" the sugar and when it does, it will release a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2), and effectively, it is going to excrete (poop) out some Alcohol. CO2 is the same thing humans breathe. This process is called Fermentation. This is the same thing that happens while making bread. When the yeast excretes, it will form bubbles on the bread from the CO2. This full process is called Respiration.

The best conditions for brewing ginger beer is in a warm place and let it sit for approximately a week. The optimal temperature for proper ginger beer brewing is 21-29 degrees celsius.

T4 Art - Jungle Prints and Facts about Henri Rousseau

 Hello again readers, second blog in less than an hour.. wow.

Over the past week or two in art we have been doing jungle prints. It has been quite frustrating but at the same time fun, having to trace and colour to perfection. I spent about 4 days tracing, then another 4 colouring. I tried to put a lot of different colours into the scene for variety. Here is my work. 

Tyler, Bryce and Kamen's Healthy Food Menu

 Hello readers, welcome back to my blog. Today I've got something special for you to read.

Today and yesterday me, Bryce and Kamen have crafted a healthy food menu! It is part of our health class and the "healthy eating" module. Surprisingly we only spent about 40 minutes on doing this and it was very fun! We got to choose our own meals to put into the menu (keep in mind they have to be healthy) and list the ingredients. We tried to keep the meals appropriate for the days, like roasts early in the week, slightly unhealthy stuff later in the week, and healthy stuff in the middle. We made the breakfasts very healthy every day, like smoothies, toast, and weet bix. Here is the menu, I hope we gave you some ideas. 

Science T4 - pH Colours

 Aim:

I want to find out what the colours of pH are.

Research:

Method:

Equipment

• Test tube rack
• Test tubes
• Base - Sodium Hydroxide
• Acid - Hydrochloric acid
• Funnel
• Universal Indicator

Instructions

1. Get your equipment.
2. Place the test tube rack in front of you on a table, with the test tubes in their respective places.
3. Put 10 drops of Universal Indicator into each test tube.
4. Watch what happens to the color.

Results:

Discussion:

1. What is an acid?
An acid is a toxic substance that is used in many science experiments all over the world. If you pour it into water, it will make it red.

Maori Myths and Legends

 Hello readers. Welcome back to my blog. Today in Hurumanu we have been learning about Maori Myths and Legends. The main legend we were learning about was called Maui and The Sun. I will be sharing with you, one of the activities I did in the TWENTY NINE PAGE activity slide.

So, we had to make up our own poster to find someone who was willing to make the sun move slower, in the event had Maui not done it. Here is what I did, it is fairly straightforward.

       

Hmm.. hefty cash prize. But, being paid that much by having to overcome having 1000th degree burns, burning an arm off, and getting screamed at by the sun at about 1000000000dB, doesn't sound like enough. For me, at LEAST $100,000,000 is worth it.

Well I think I have done enough talking. I'll see you in the next very boring blog.

Science T4 - Making Sherbet

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make sherbet.

Research:

Method

• Equipment
• Raro
• Citric acid
• baking soda
• water
• popsicle stick
• little cup

Instructions

1. Get 3 separate piles of raro, citric acid and baking soda.
2. Put some into your cup.
3. Mix it together with your popsicle stick.
4. put water in it.
5. D R I N K

Results

When you add each thing into the cup and mix it, it creates a different taste. The more citric acid you pour, the more sour it gets. The more raro you pour, the more flavor it gets.

Discussion

Why did it foam?

It started foaming because the baking soda was put into it, which mixed with the citric acid. This then made the atoms in the acid recombine into carbon dioxide gas that made it fizz up.

T4 Art - Foreground, Middle Ground and Background + Facts

 Hello readers. On Monday in art we learnt about the foreground, middle ground and background in photos. We each had a photo of Henri Rousseau's painting and we had to cut out the foreground, middle ground and background and point out the different plants and stuff. Here is my work. 

As you can see, we had to point the different things out in the different grounds and notice the differences.

FACTS - 

1. One of his most popular artworks were The Sleeping Gypsy.

2.His first published painting was created in 1886.

3. 

Well I hope you enjoyed reading this blog and I'll see you next time.

halloween poem

 Hello readers. Welcome back to my blog.

Today in wananga as a halloween-themed activity we made halloween poems. Mine isn't the best but it was just a short activity so I figured why not make the poem short.

Here is my poem and I hope you enjoy reading it I guess.

Science T4 - Blind Taste Testing

 Aim:

I want to find out if food tastes differently when you can't see or smell.

Research:

Method:

Equipment

Hands

Blindfold (OR SCARF)

mystery food

Instructions

1. Get your equipment

 2. Wash your hands.

3. Put on your blindfold.

4. Put your hand out for food

5. Pinch your nose with the other hand.

6. Eat the food and chew it.

7. Guess what the food is.

8. Release your nose and taste the food.

9. Where does the food react on your tongue?

Results: 

Food #1. I think it was sugar because it felt like there were a lot of small sugar pieces.

Food #2. It was 100% salt. There was no difference when my nose was pinched and unpinched.

Food #3. It felt and tasted like baking powder.

Food #4. It was definitely citric acid.

Food #5. It was a sour lolly. It felt very squishy, and I could slightly taste the citric acid in my mouth.

Food #6. It was half a burger ring. It was very crunchy and jagged.

Food #7.  Dry Marshmallow. It felt quite dry and hard. 

Food #8. 100% apple slice. 

Food #9. It was a gummy bear. 2nd favorite lolly! :D

Food #10. It was a pear. 

Food #11. IT'S DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Food #12 (final food) EW ITS LEMON EW EW EW EWWWWWWWWWW (I spat it out into the trash)

Discussion 

Is there a difference between blocked and unblocked nose taste?

Yes, because when your nose is blocked it cuts off taste buds that are in your nasal cavities, and it also kills your sense of smell. You therefore cannot determine the food that easily.

P.E T4 - Gymnastics

Over the past couple weeks in P.E we have been doing gymnastics with Mr Hilliard. It has been fairly fun, and I learned to do a lot. We had a good amount of equipment to work with, and I'm going to go over the list of equipment that we have learnt to do.

Mini Tramp

Horizontal Bar

Trampoline

Beam

Parallel Bars

Floor

I think out of these, my favourite two were the Mini Tramp and the Trampoline. They were both very fun to do, and it was a good challenge to learn how to rotate forwards nearly all the way. On the trampoline, it was also a good challenge to land a front flip which I could do before but not a lot of the time. I also liked the beam, because I learnt how to jog on it, and walk across it with my eyes closed. The other people in my group can't do it that well. I guess I'm off to the Olympics ;)

I have gone from thinking gymnastics was bad to it being one of the best P.E subjects I've done all year just because of the fun variety of the equipment that I conquered and because of the amount of skills I have learnt to exhibit when doing the different things.

We also had a document to tick off and highlight all the stuff we learnt. The stuff that is ticked is the stuff that I could already do, and the stuff that is highlighted is the stuff that I learnt to do.

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading this blog and I'll see you in the next one.

art term 4 - henri rousseau

 Today in art term 4 we started studying about Henri Rousseau. 

Henri was a world-famous painter who lived in France. He gradually became more and more popular as his paintings improved. We watched a 6-minute video about him twice, second time was to take notes of words we don't know. Anyways, more about Henri. 

He created cool paintings every year to show them off at the yearly exhibition. Most of the time, the other artists mocked him. But, after a while, there was one time that actually a lot of people loved it and credited him, and from there, he lived happily as other artists credited his works of art. Once, the man himself, Pablo Picasso threw a banquet for him.

After that, Henri lived a quiet live until his death in 1910. Henri died after he got gangrene in his leg.

Hot Chilli - Science T4

 Aim:

I want to find out the best way to cool down your tongue after eating hot chilli.

Method:

Equipment

• Hot Chilli Sauce
• Popsicle Stick
• Drinks - Soda, Water, Milk
• Timer

Instructions

1. Get your equipment ready.. obviously.

2. Get a drop of hot saucy on your Popsicle stick.

3. Lick the Hot Chilli sauce.

4. Optional - swirl the sauce around your mouth.

5. Start the timer.

6. After two minutes, drink your soda, milk or water.

7. After five minutes, how hot is your mouth?

8. Repeat the experiment but with a different drink.

Results:

The Carolina Reaper lives up to its name. 

After the first chug of water and the first dose of the death, I rated it a 10 for burning.

After the second time, I scored it a 10. 

After the third time, with coke, I scored it a 9.5.

After the fourth time, with milk, I scored it a 0.5.

Discussion

Why does chilli burn your mouth? 

The alkaline (oil based molecules) triggers the temp sensitive pain receptors in your mouth which then sends a message to your brain that is basically screaming "IT HURTS, IT HURTS!!".

Why did the milk reduce the burn?

Milk hosts a handy protein called casein, which helps dissipate the alkaline in the chilli, thus killing off the taste quickly. 

        

term 4 wananga goal setting

 Hello everyone. Welcome back to my very boring blog.

Today in wananga we had to set our goals for the final term of the year, pretty straightforward task.

Here's my work because I can't be bothered writing.. as usual. 

List of stuff you need to go camping - DLO

 Hello readers! Hope you're hyped for the holidays. 

As ANOTHER activity for the Uncle Don Knows Heaps Of Wacky Stuff book, we did ANOTHER DLO about an optional nature thing. This time, instead of animals, I created a DLO about what sort of stuff you need to go camping. It was very fun to create, and I hope you enjoy reading this.

Idk if I'm allowed to self promote on blogger, but uhh go subscribe to my youtube channel (buddy_beret12)

drama - tableaus

 Hello readers, hope you're having a good day. 

This term in drama we have been doing tableaus. It was kind of.. meh, mostly just because I had drama P1 on a monday, and P5 wednesday. I'm very tired both of those class times. Anyways, here's the photos and stuff because I can't be bothered writing. Oh and also, I couldn't find the proper photos or videos so I'll just put in any photo with me in it.

What worked well while we were doing tableaus was being able to quickly spark new ideas and bring them into it.

If I had to improve something, it would be doing better face expressions and taking our heights to... new heights.

Our transitions between each tableau worked because, once again, we were able to spark new ideas quickly and them quickly move ourselves into a position that sort of brung that to life.

So, I hope you enjoyed this blog. To be properly honest I did the bare minimum this time, just tired and wanna go home.

term 3 reflection

 Hello readers, once again I hope you're having a good day.

Today in this blog I'm going to be doing a term 3 reflection, I hope you'll enjoy reading it.

1. A term 3 highlight for me was definitely lockdown, because of the reasons below.

2. I liked lockdown a lot because I could sleep in, play games whenever I wanted to, and eat whenever I wanted to. It also sparked one of my new hobbies, making NASCAR stop motions, like the one at the bottom of this blog.

3. My favourite subject this term was probably cooking, because.. well.. it's a cooking class, and I like cooking and eating food.

4. Me and my group created miniature chess, but we gave the different pieces different names like Chuck. (my name idea) we also did a lot of planning ahead of making it, like doing a google slideshow and planning how we would  make it. 

5. I am looking forward to sleeping, playing games, and making more stop motions. LIKE THE ONE BELOW.

Oh well, I'm done writing. I hope you enjoyed reading this blog, and settle back and watch an absolutely horrible stop motion.

Jersey Cow Facts

Hello readers! I hope you're having a good day.

Today in Hurumanu 3, as another activity on the topic of the book called "Uncle Don Knows Heaps Of Wacky Stuff" we did another DLO on an animal that was either mentioned or made an appearance on pages 8-11. I chose the Jersey Cow, and I had a lot of fun scrolling through pictures and facts. I did this on a Google Jamboard, like I did for this blog. I hope you enjoy the new Mona Lisa! 

New Zealand Half Crab FACTS!

Hello readers. Over the past few days we have been reading a text called "Uncle Don Knows Heaps Of Wacky Stuff!". The text was pretty interesting, and in addition to reading the text we had a follow-up activity. The activity was to research a sea animal (read the title or look at the image below) then create a DLO (digital learning object) about it. And.. that's what I did. It was actually quite fun and simple, and I was able to detail it and get it done pretty quickly, while also making sure that it makes sense, goes along the lines of the animal, all that sort of stuff. 

STATE OF THE ART PAINTING 

2021 reflections: Term 2

 Term 2 was a fun term, again apart from some other things that happened, "but that's a different story." -Swiss001 

First week was a bit of a shocker, because of the fact that I was just coming off my first term, and I had to search all around the school pretty much on monday morning to get to what I had period 1. (woodwork) Then, after that the week was fairly calm, apart from science which started right of the bat being obviously my favourite choice class of the term.

Second week was slightly calmer, wananga was once again my favourite class, followed by science. I loved being able to just be alone as long as I wanted without interruption. 

Third week was a highlight for sure, as in science we were able to do our first experiment, Hands on Fire. 

Fourth was the same as the third week, and I'm getting tired of doing week logs so I'm just gonna note highlights from now on. 

In week 6, we started our steam kete for the end of term display thing, and err my group came up with something very interesting. NOT. Our product was a rocket that travels in a network of tunnels and it travels very fast across the whole world.

Not much happened from there on but it was definitely a fun term and I was looking forward to the holidays.

Mentos and Coke experiment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Aim: 

I want to find out what happens when you drop mentos into coke.

Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBq3f5nRr5U 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4MLPkTrOq4

Method:

Equipment

Coke bottle (no sugar) (size optional)

Pack of mint mentos, optional size (The more size, the more craziness!)

Towel (paper or not is optional)

Detergent

You could either use coke no sugar or sprite.

Remember, if it's a big pack of mentos, it has to be a big bottle of coke.

Instructions

1. get your equipment

2. put on your safety glasses

3. pour some coke into test tube or cup

4. place a towel under the cup

5. place the mentos into the test tube or cup

6. observe

Results

In the coke bottle, the surface of the mentos is rough, and that allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gases and the coke, to break easier, helping the creation of carbon dioxide bubbles as the surface of the lolly is dissipating into the coke while the coke is busy fizzing about. Because the mentos are rather dense and collect moisture, they sink through the coke while dissipating and becoming a part of the coke which triggers a large bubble build up.

This was also the last science period until term 4, I'll miss you mr stock

End of term 2 hurumanu 1 learning story

 Today, since it's the end of the term, we did some sort of a term reflection called learning story. I am just lazy and don't want to write much so I'll just put in a screenshot of it.

thanks for reading

Hurumanu 3 - Term 2 Reflection

 Hello there, come to see the new disney movie? Well, you're in the right place.

This term in Hurumanu 3, we have been doing a unit called Shaping Up. This unit was about geometry and shapes, and we learnt a lot. It was very difficult.

First, we started learning about different types of lines. Our first activity of the term was drawing a matariki star in our math books. It was fun, and I enjoyed drawing the lines to the precise spot I wanted them to be.

Next, we started learning about polygons. We read something on what they are and answered 10 questions about them. It was also fun, literally failing stuff that I thought was correct and they dying of laughter, and then after we did all that we did a polygon investigator activity where you had to draw random lines across the paper and then investigate to see whether any of them were polygons.

Then, we started learning about different angles and learnt about stuff like parallel lines, intersecting lines, points, rays, and normal lines. Like hell we didn't already know what a normal line was.

After that, we started learning about reflection, rotation and translation. No, I'm not talking about the rotation in a lowering mesocyclone convective system with a base wall cloud. I'm talking about the rotation of shapes. It started becoming more difficult here.

THEN, we started learning about lines of symmetry, and this was probably the last of the easy activities. At least it's what it felt like.

After THAT, we started learning about nets, and we did 2 kahoots for general knowledge. We did an activity where we had to connect the lines to the correct nets and shapes.

We learned about different cubes and stuff, and did a fun activity where we had to create different shapes with cubes.

Finally, we learnt about directions in the form of a map. I didn't find this fun for some reason, but a lot of other people did. It was still enjoyable to work everything out.

Milk Plastic

 Aim: I want to find out how to turn milk into plastic.

watch this and i'll give you cookies

Method:

Equipment

• Oven or stove
• Measuring cup
• tablespoon
• a cup of milk
• pot or microwaveable container
• white vinegar
• paper towels
• spoon mug
• optional - food colouring, glitter       
• teaspoon
• plate or petri dish
• plate

     instructions

pour a cup of milk from a measuring jug (if you were using a jug like THIS - 

you would want to pour about 600mLs) into a pot or microwaveable container. if you're using a beaker then you pour 200mLs.

then, you heat the milk in a microwave or on a stove until it is steaming. 

put it on a bench or something and add four teaspoons of vinegar to a mug.

add the hot milk to the mug with the vinegar

once the milk is added and the vinegar has taken its effects, stir the milk with a spoon

stack four layers of paper towels on a surface that is safe to get damp

scoop out the curds with a spoon and place them on the paper towels

fold the paper towels over the curds and pres down on them to absorb any excess liquid

knead all the curds together into a ball of dough

once you're done, mold and colour the dough as much as you like 

if you want to, add glitter

put the dough on a plate or Petri dish and let it settle overnight

and you've done it!

SKittle Colours

 Aim: 

I want to find out what happens when you put skittles in water.

Method:

Equipment

• 8x SKITTLES
• warm water
• beaker
• petri dish
• paper towel

Instructions

1. get your equipment
2. put the skittles into the Petri dish
3. spread them around the sides
4. clean the beaker and dry it
5. gently pour the water into the middle of the Petri dish
6. observe how the skittles react.
   
   
   

This was a very fun experiment all in all.

Results: the skittles leaked their colours into the middle of the petri dish as soon as the water was tipped into it, and the only colour left in them was at the top where they could not be submerged by the water. That's called diffusion. As a result, most of them appeared to take a crystallised form. But, the reason the colours didn't MIX while they were taking the travels to the middle of the dish is because of something called water stratification.   That is the reason. The reason that the bottom half of the skittles will appear crystallised is because of the skittle's coating (called Shellac) being ripped off the lolly by the water along with the colour. It will also feel bumpy as it takes on the form. (don't take that the wrong way please. if you do that's not my fault)

The water also tasted very sugary because of all the colour of the skittles going into the water, obviously, and the colours have sugar in them. That's my explanation.

Well, I don't know what else to say, apart from this MAY have been the most enjoyable experiment I've done yet. Maybe apart from the edible slime one, but as I'm writing this I don't know.

I hope you enjoyed reading this longer than average blog and I'll see y'all next week probably. 

published at 1:43am NZST

How to be Normal text answers

 In our reading group, my group was assigned a text where we had to read it and complete the answers.

How To Be Normal text - ANSWERS.

Charley smacked into Michaela’s desk. (Michaela is a protagonist)

The main purpose of this paragraph is to set the scene and immerse the reader into the story, and what this paragraph tells us about Charley is that she’s a person that is trying to detach herself from habits she does not like.   (Charley is the main character)               

The impression that the author gives about Charley is that she appears to be a very isolated and secretive person.

I think that Charley is angry with Amy because Amy had no right to enter the situation. (Amy is another protagonist that comes into the story about halfway through)

Angry, secretive, isolated, introvert

Definitions of screeches, apologise, and introvert

Screeches: a verb used to describe a loud sound that car tires often make when locking up the tires or drifting around a corner. (TCS DRIFT) 

Apologise: a word used to describe saying “sorry” to someone.

Introvert: someone that gets energy from being by themselves, and doesn’t rather company.

Putting three versions of They into the story.

They’re at the park.

The tornado is over there!

No, it’s their turn.

I think we were assigned this work because our main topic for this Hurumanu is outstanding, and Amy was sort of being an outstander. That’s the best I can think of.

Adjectives work:

Apologetic

Drifting

Careful

Busy

Bright

Calm

Blue

Perfect

Huge

Fantastic

Those are all adjectives that are in the story.

edible slime

 I want to find out how to make edible slime without getting poisoned. Here's a video I found on how to do it with certain recipes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Zh0YCr81Y

Method:

Equipment

bowl

spoon

marshmallows

cornflower

Instructions

put around 15-40 marshmallows inside a bowl or paper cup and put them in the microwave for 30 seconds

get them out after 30 seconds and start stirring and mixing the marshmallows together until they're kind of like goo

add two tbsp of cornflour and mix it into the marshmallow-y goo

if you would like to change the colour of the slime, add a tsp of food colouring

start kneading the marshmallow goo

make it into a ball

make it into whatever shape you want and now you can eat it! :D

published at 4:45pm NZST

FINISHING RESULT: 

Gummy Bear Osmosis :)

Aim: 

I want to find out what happens when gummy bears are put in liquids.

Method:

Equipment:

Salt water aka Sodium Chloride (NA on the periodic table of elements) 

Normal water aka H2O 

Sugar water aka Sucrose aka Sugar Cane 

SOUR HARIBO GUMMY BEARS HAYEEEEEE (or any gummy bears)

Two Petri dishes      

Marken pen

Electronic Scales

Safety glasses

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Get your equipment   
2. Wear safety glasses
3. Get your marker pen, and write your name and the conditions, AND the weight of gummy bears.
4. Do the experiment yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Finishing results: 

Without Difference:

With Difference:

My sugar gummy gained the most weight out of the two. WHY? Because the gummy bear, before the sucrose was added into the Petri dish, had a low concentration of water to begin with. Then, when the sucrose was added, the small holes in the gummy did not allow large amounts of sugar molecules into the gummy bear, only a few could enter at a time, but the little water molecules could enter large amounts at a time, so over the night a lot of water molecules got in, and only a small amount of sugar molecules entered the gummy. It only really TASTED like sugar was in it because the colour of the gummy bear (red) had dissolved into the sucrose and the gummy was in the sucrose for the night. And the dry gummy only gained a little bit because of the dust that built up on the surface of it.

How to Light a Bunsen Burner

 Aim:

I want to find out how to safely light a Bunsen Burner.

Method:

Equipment

• Bunsen Burner
• Heat mat
• Gas
• Matches or lighters
• Safety Glasses

Instructions:

https://www.twinkl.de/teaching-wiki/bunsen-burner          teacher told us to link it idk

1. get equipment

2. put on safety glasses

connect the hose to the gas tap

turn the collar to close the air hole

turn the lighter and hold it over the barrel

turn the gas on

turn the collar to open the gas hole

you have fire

when you are done make sure to eliminate all flames then turn off the gas

Hurumanu/reading activity - Kate Sheppard and the Women's Suffrage

 Over the past few weeks we have been working on an activity, and that activity is identifying and describing Kate Sheppard and the Women's suffrage. I suppose my work was pretty good, here it is. 

Kate Sheppard was born in Liverpool, ENG. 

I think Kate was put on the $10 note because she fought gallantly for women’s rights to vote.

WCTU stands for Women’s Christian Temperance Union. 

Four actions Kate took in her quest to fight for women’s right were: 

1. She joined the WCTU club.

2. She tirelessly wrote pamphlets every day she could.

3. She organized meetings and lectures.

She presented a series of petitions to parliament.

True or False:

Kate Sheppard was born in 1847. TRUE.

Aussie was the first country to let women vote. FALSE.

Nearly 32k people signed the petition for women to vote. TRUE.

Kate Sheppard is on the $20 note. FALSE.

Summarise the article in your own words. 

Kate Sheppard was born in Liverpool, England on 10th March, 1847.

She grew up in Scotland ENG, then moved to New Zealand.

She married Walter Sheppard (1835 - 1915, married 1871 - death) at the age of 24.

She started to fight for women’s rights to vote, by writing pamphlets and getting people to sign the petition.

Even the prime minister at the time was behind her for the petition!

However, when the bill needed the governor’s signature, but there was a problem.

The governor, David Boyle, did not support women’s suffrage and was slow to sign the petition.

However he reluctantly agreed to sign it on September 19th, 1893. And it was final.

Afterwards, Sheppard was a hero in the world.

She received large amounts of support and letters every year.

Then after she hit the age of 65, she became less active and didn’t do much.

She later died of natural causes at the age of 86 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

In 1993, a century after women were allowed to vote, a memorial in memory of her was put in place on the Avon River.

It was officially unveiled in 2005.

If you don't think it's good well then you're probably right. IN YOUR OWN MIND YOU ARE. Opinions buddy, opinions.

mid-term art reflection

Hello readers, my name is Tyler Redmond and here is my mid term art reflection. I hope you ENJOY!

 1.This term in art we have been doing a lot of stuff in art. Here's just a mid term reflecc. (reflection in meme language) Oh also I will be doing a recap on what we did when I get to the chapter.

2. Flip books - I did a flip book about a man who witnesses a tornado. He captures it all on camera and gets so excited that he explodes..

3 . Scenario choice - Me and my group (Kamen Rogers and Bryce Clemett) made a google drawing/story called ALIEN story. Yes, you heard it. The story is about an army of aliens who were fake but they were releasing bad worms into people's brains and making them see aliens. 

4.  Character development - this ugly booger thing. A person in our group found an SCP and put it here. I still think it's an ugly booger.

5. Ideas I have for scenery - mountains I guess.. I can't really think of anything else. MOUNTAINS IT IS! I plan to put in some sun too, and maybe a road. Kind of like the highway into Radiator Springs in Cars, but just a single road.

6. Pinching out a figure - I learnt that clay is not as easy to build with as I first thought. The clay was apparently heavily used and recycled, so it was close to solid and also close to impossible to pinch out a figure. I ended out pinching a head.

Thanks for reading this blog, time to go waste my life on better things..I guess

Science - Hands on Fire

Aim: 

I want to find out how to light my hands on fire SAFELY.

The Method: 

Equipment

• gas 
• lighter
• water
• tray
• hose
• liquid soap
• safety glasses

Instructions

1. get the equipment ready
2. fill the tray with water
3. put soap in the tray
4. put the liquid soap in the water and gently mix it around 
5. connect the hose to the gas tap and make bubbles of gas
6. wear safety glasses
7. put water on your hand and arms up to your elbows
8. scoop the bubbles with both hands, but make sure not to scoop up the water since you already have some

take two steps forward

1. hold the bubbles as FAR away from your face as possible 
2. get the teacher to use the lighter on the bubbles
3. L I G H T  Y O U R   H A N D S  O N  F I R E  

Results:

heres a video of bryce lighting his hands on fire

I saw fire.

 I heard flames roaring to the ceiling.

I smelt smoke.

I felt a lot of heat.

themed bells a u t h e n t i c s

 HELLO READERS! This blog is about themed bells and NZ Music Month. Today I will be explaining the current bell, which is Six60 - All She Wrote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQO2DEplRw

The song is about.. life, I guess.

The members of the band are Matiu Walters, Chris Mac, Ji Fraser, Marlon Gerbes, Eli Paewai and Hoani Matenga.

The band formed in Dunedin in 2006.

I think that the themed bells idea for the bells is pretty cool. Though some of the bells are pretty irritating...

and that's all i guess bye :P

safety in da lab

 1. Liquids do not go into the bins, because they could stick to the material in the bin, then when they would be emptied into the trash and sent to landfill, they would seriously pollute the landfill.

2. Solids do not go down the sink because they will poison all the water ways, and if someone drinks it, there is a high chance they will die.

3. Wear safety glasses when you do experiments,

because something could squirt into your eyes and it wouldn't be very nice.

4. Put your chair under the desk, and stand at the bench

when you do experiments, because if you have your chair out, if something goes wrong, it would leak onto your seat.

5. Bags do not go on the desks, because if something leaks, it could go in your bag.

6. Long hair should be tied back, because you can dip your hair in something and you could either have hair loss or your hair could light on fire.

7. Do not smell the chemicals, because you could pass out and some could even melt the membranes of your nose.

8. Walk, don’t run around the room, because you could trip over and sprain, dislocate, or break a bone,

9. Do not eat or drink in the lab, because you could poison yourself by touching other chemicals and the food.

term 1 reflection

 Term one was pretty fun for a first term in high school. I had some good moments, and some bad moments where I wish I could just go home. "But that's another story."- Swiss001

For subjects I had sewing, Maori, drama, Hurumanu, and Wananga. (obviously) My favourite class out of those is Wananga. Last term we made a tree to put on our wall, made a class treaty, introduced well being time and more. 

Something challenging about term 1 was sewing. It is super hard since you need to know what everything is, and my family just carries some sort of gene that makes us all horrible at it. I have no idea why.

I would like to set 3 goals for this term and they are: 1. Get 5 or more full carr cards. 2. Meet some more people. 3. Get work done a bit faster.

Planning A Newspaper Report!

 Over the past few weeks in Hurumanu 1 - Heroes, we have been looking at the features of a newspaper article and then making our own COMPLETELY random events in the world..that never happened. I did my fantasy newspaper report about a plane crash (to be completely specific the plane was a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-311 Dash 8) near fictional Greater Rockford airport. 

It all began with an engine failure, then rocks, and..wait why are you reading this part? You're meant to be reading the newspaper! ;)

nz flag

As a bonus task after we finished our cultural stuff, we had to do a flag activity. We picked a flag and researched WHY it was like that. I didn't realise we had to do it until today. 

Edit: Okay, just got back from an announcement from the Kiwi Kaha team, they gave us gifts for the effort we put in this term! Thanks leaders, you're the best :)

H2 Famous Musicians Task

Yesterday in Hurumanu 2 we did a Famous Musicians task. We had to pick a musician and do a slideshow about them, listing facts about them. I picked Mr. Moonwalker himself, Michael Jackson. Here's my slideshow. 

 Ukulele Research 

Today in Hurumanu 2 we started Ukulele Research. We did it on a google doc and we had to make it look all fancy and stuff. It had to include at least three facts, but because I'm an over achiever (not really :/) I did five. And....

HERE'S THE NEW DISNEY MOVIE

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nearly there

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i can taste it

AH FINALLY

 

drama mask performance

 Last week for drama we performed in masks. I didn't complete mine so I used a school mask. Here is the video link.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13Zh2vqw8M68oDVckeeC9ljD8QS9mTAGI

might be some problems idk

ORCHESTRA A U T H E N T I C S

 Today in H2 we have been doing research on Orchestras. We researched facts and then put them on our doc/drawing IN OUR OWN WORDS. 

Glossary - Orchestra - A group of musicians playing instruments together in sync.

Cello - Bowed string instrument

Trumpet - Bass instrument that you blow into

Keyboard - NOT a computer or Chromebook one. You tap the keys and it plays different tones. 

Instrument - an object used to play music.