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