B&E

 B&E

B&E stands for Business and Enterprise. B&E is for making our own mini Businesses and selling them to other schools. This blog is to show what I did and how I felt about B&E. 

• The Business that I and my friend made was named Lolly-fizz. The business was selling a lollipop in a bag of sherbet.

• The process of making the sherbet was super easy, but the packing took ages to do because we were tieing bows on the bags. We had to make labels and write the flavors on them so we knew which flavor was which.

• My favorite part of making the product was making the sherbet and putting it the bags. The best part was the help that we got from friends to make the poster and labels.

•  The hardest part was just tieing the bows and adding the labels. We didn't have the labels when we started tieing the bows, so we had to untie the bows and tie them again which took ages.

• The day that we had to sell the product was super fun because we sold out at the first school.

• Once someone brought our product we told them to have a good day and that we wished them a merry Christmas.

I would put a picture if I could find any but I can't.

Thank you for taking your time and reading my blog post.

How to Make Hokey Pokey

 How to Make Hokey Pokey

Aim:

I want to know how to make Hokey Pokey.

Research:

Once the baking soda is added it begins to foam up into a frothy consistency.

 

Method:

Equipment:

• 5 Tbsp of Sugar
• 2 Tbsp of golden syrup
• 1 tsp of baking soda
• Pot (Saucepan)
• Tablespoon
• Teaspoon
• Popsicle Stick or Spoon
• Stove (something to cook with)
• Baking paper

Instructions:

1. Take out Pot and put it on a solid surface 
2. Put 5 Tbsp of sugar into Pot
3. Put 2 Tbsp of golden syrup into Pot with the sugar
4. Put the pot with sugar and syrup onto Stove
5. Mix the sugar and syrup mixture together
6. Mix until turned into a liquid substance
7. After turned into a liquid substance add 1 tsp baking soda
8. Mix the baking soda, golden syrup, and sugar together until well combined bubbly 
9. Cut a good piece of baking paper for hokey poke mixture
10. Pore the hokey poke mixture onto baking paper
11. Let cool until dry and hard
12. After dry and hard crack into bite-size pieces
13. Eat and enjoy the hokey pokey you have made

Results:

This was a really fun experiment we did in science. I would put this more into the cooking class than science. It was somehow easy to clean the pot. It did still stick to the baking paper and was hard to get off because I didn't wait for it to cool down completely. 

Term 3 Reflection

 Term 3 Reflection

Hola readers,

This is my term 3 reflection blog. This is one of those blog posts that tells you what I have done this term. I had some really fun classes this term.

What has been a Term 3 highlight for you?

Being able to make a toy car in wood tech would be my highlight because I was able to make it as different as I wanted it to be.

How did you find lockdown?

It was really fun because most of the time I would be doing archery in my backyard. Some of the time I would be playing an online game with my friends.

What have been your favorite subjects this term? Why? What have you been Learning/Making/Creating?

My fav subject this term is wood tech because we got to make toy cars and speakers.

What did you create in this term Arts Kete? Did you enjoy it? say why?

I and my team made a memory card game with Maori and English words. It was super fun when we were making them because we were just making each other laugh. 

What are you looking forward to in the holidays?

Having time to use my Air rife and Bow & arrow in my backyard. Also playing some more online games with friends.

Thank you for reading my blog post 

Gummy Bear Osmosis

Gummy Bear Osmosis

Aim: 

I want to find out what happens to Gummy Bears when we put them into different liquids. 

Prediction: 

I think that the Gummy Bears will large up or get smaller and taste different because of the liquids. 

Method: 

Equipment 

• 3 solutions - water, sugar and salt
• 4 Gummy Bears of the same colour
• 2 Petri dish 
• Marker/Pen
• Electronic Balance
• Measuring Cylinder
• Beaker

Instructions 

1. Collect your equipment
2. Label the Petri dish with dry water, salt water and sugar water
3. Weigh the Gummy Bears and record the weight on the Petri Dish
4. Add 40ml of the solution onto the Petri dish

Results: 

Weight:

	Dry	Water	Salt water	sugar water
Starting weight	5.58g	5.58g	5.58g	5.58g
Final weight	5.41g	6.93g	6.15g	6.57g
weight change	0.17g	1.32g	0.57	0.99
Final volume	0mL	32mL	21mL	23mL
Water lost	0mL	8mL	19mL	17mL

 

Chill Eating

 Chill Eating

Aim:

To find out how long it takes to reduce the spice after eating chili.

Research:

Equipment:

• Hot sauce
• Milk, Coke, and Water
• Toothpick
• Stopwatch

Instructions:

1. Get Equipment

2. Dip the toothpick in the hot sauce

3. Suck the hot sauce off the toothpick 

4. Start timer

5. Stop timing when the burning reduces

6. write down the time that you get 

7. put some more hot sauce on your tongue 

8. but this time wait for the burning to start then drink one of the liquids 

9. then start the timer

10. repeat the instructions again

Results:

It was very painful for my tongue but I really enjoyed this experiment. It was the most painful experiment by far that I have done in science.

The time it took to stop the burning 

Just Chili: 50 secs Water: 12 secs Coke: 11 secs Milk: 7 secs

Conclusion :

I found out that milk is the best to stop the burning

Discussion :

Why does chili burn your mouth and why does milk stop it? 

Chili burns your mouth because the capsaicin is released into your saliva and then binds on to receptors in your mouth and tongue and the milk stops it because many milk products contain casein, and casein stops the spice.

Ginger Beer

 Ginger Beer

Aim:

This week our aim is how to make ginger beer.

Research:

It takes three days to 2 weeks for the ginger beer to fizz.

Method

Equipment:

1. Ginger
2. 180ml of Hot water
3. lemon juice
4. sugar
5. yeast
6. cup or jar

Instructions:

1. Get your equipment
2. Fold your paper into a funnel
3. Put a teaspoon of yeast onto the paper funnel
4. put 2 teaspoons of sugar
5. Pour lukewarm water into your cup, 180 ml 
6. Stir slightly
7. put a few squirts of lemon juice
8. Stir is a bit more using a wooden stick
9. Put the ginger onto the paper and pour half in
10. Taste it ( Add more ginger if you want )
11. Add a tablespoon of sugar
12. Taste it again ( Add more of what you think it needs more of )
13. Leave it for a day before trying it

Results:

It didn't taste good and it looked weird. It smelt a lot like ginger, which I was hoping for, but it was too strong of a smell. The taste was just too strong for me to handle but I think that it was just because I added all the ginger I was given. It did have a kind of sweet taste but it didn't really help it.

Names of Acids

 Names of Acids

Names of acids                              Formula of acids

Hydrochloric acid                            HCL

Sulfuric acid                                    H2SO4

Nitric acid                                       HNO3

Phosphoric acid                              H3PO4

Acetic acid                                     CH3COOH     

Citric acid                                      From lemons and oranges   

Formic acid                                   Poison in bee-stings

Tartaric acid                                   

Where do you Find acid?

Plaque Acid on your teeth.

stomach acid in your stomach 

Battery acid is Sulfuric acid

Lemon and orange have citric acid

vinegar contains acetic acid

Bee stings have formic acid

Coca-cola has carbonic acid

What is acid?

An acid contains Hydrogen atoms that break off to react with a substance.

 

Litmus color

Litmus paper changes color in acid

Blue litmus paper changes to red

Litmus changes to red

What is a Base

What is a Base

Aim: 

I want to find out what a base is.

Acid has Hydrogen in it.

The strength of an acid is measured on the pH scale.

It goes from 1-14.

Acid

0-1. Red

2-3. Orange

4-6. yellow

7. Green

8-10.Blue

11-12. Indigo

13-14. violet

Base

 A base is the opposite chemical to an acid.

A base contains hydroxide (OH)

An acid and a base NEUTRALISE each other and make water.

Red Cabbege Indicator

 Red Cabbage Indicator

Aim:

I want to find out how to tell if something is an acid.

Method:

Equipment:

• Becker
• Red Cabbage 
• Hot water
• Test Tube
• acid + Hydroxide
• Dropper

Instructions:

1. Get your equipment
2. Rip up the cabbage into tiny bits
3. Fill the beaker with 1 ml hot water 
4. Add the cabbage to the water in the beaker
5. Fill a beaker with 2cm of Acid using the dropper
6. Fill a different backer with 2cm of Hydroxide using the dropper
7. Add a squirt of cabbage into both of the beakers using the dropper
8. And mix mixtures that should be yellow and pink in a different test tube 
9. You should have a green-colored liquid in the tube 
10. After you get the green-colored liquid start to mix the different colors to create more colors

Results:

It was really easy to do this experiment and it was also super fun to make the colors. 

Making the blue was super hard but the other colors were easy to make. My partner Bronte was trying to layer the colors to make a super cool pattern.

Thank you for reading my blog.

Making Sherbet

 Making Sherbet

Aim: 

I want to find out how to make Sherbet, and what I need.

Research:

It shows me one method of making sherbet and the chemistry in sherbet.

Method:

Equipment:

• Cup or any bowl
• Baking powder
• Citric acid
• Sugar ( Raro)
• stirring rod (Popsicle stick)
• Teaspoon

Instruction:

1. Get your equipment
2. add a teaspoon of sugar into cup
3. add half a teaspoon of baking powder into cup
4. add half a teaspoon of citric acid into cup
5. Mix together with stirring rod 
6. taste the sherbet mixure 
7.  Adjust the flavor if needed to 

Results:

It foamed up inside my mouth because the sherbet reacted to the moisture in my mouth and foamed up. I add alot of citric acid so it was super sour. After I added some more citric acid the sherbet didn't foam that much so I added another half teaspoon of baking powder and I started to foam alot more than before, Because I evened out the citric acid and baking soda.

The Chemical word equation is:

Citric acid + Sodium bicarbonate --} Carbon dioxide

C6H8O7 + NaHCO3 --} CO2

The Christchurch Earthquake

 Christchurch Earthquake

1. It was one of the biggest and longest earthquakes in nz and destroyed a lot of places

2. How many people died in th earthquake

1. People had time to escape unstable places and get to a safe place

2. 6,659 people injured and 185 Dead

3. Making something into a liquid which is a water based substcance. Sometimes just adding was can make something into a liquid like if you add water to dirt it makes mud and mud is a water based substance

4. 115 people died when it collapsed

5.    1. Large    2. Big    3. Colossal 

I still can't put the notes in but I will do it soon.

Thank you for reading my blog post.

The Pikes River Mine Disaster

 Pikes River Mine Disaster

1. This is a very well known disaster and I know that it was an explostion that happened in a mine that had people in it when the disaster 

2. What caused the explosion 

1. It is near Reefton and punakaiki practicality in between but I don't really I was just looking at google map but it might be in a place called pikes river.

2. November, 2008.

3. 31 men died.

4. 2 men were able to escape the mine.

5. Looking for surviviors but they didn't get that far to see.

6. She promised to unseal and re-enter the mine.

Some extra facts:

Once unsealed the mine the roof caved in 

after they failed they 2nd time they ended up making it a men grave practicality making it into a tomb

The explosion was caused by coal 

it was a coal mine which made it worse

I well upated it later just because im at school and can't watch the videos because in need headphone but I forgot my headphone attachment so I will update it at home.

Thats all that I found out but Thank you for reading and have a good day

Tangiwai Rail Disaster

 Tangiwai Rail Disaster

It was something that included a train or a tram that is on rails and it crashed and people died.

What happend with the rails and why lahar was involed and how many people died and lived.

1. 258 people were on board.

2. At 8:00 PM a 6 meter tidal wave of lahar came down the mountain

3. the train was going from Wellington to Auckland and the lahar it happen near Mt Ruapehu

4. the train drive saw someone flashing a torch so he put on emergency and he stop just in time to save the last 3 carges.

5. The queen gave out medals to the 4 volaunteers for their bravey.

6. An early warning system about the whangahau river was installed.

Everyone in the first carges died

150 dead

Many of the dead peoples famliys came to the bridge to have a funeral

21 people weren't able to be named

The ring of fire is around Mt Ruapehu

There is a crater thats on the mountain

Later the water from the crater is emptied out 

As it gets hotter the ice melts and the ash walls starts to get weaker

The ash brakes and water rushes down and collects everything in its way

All of the 5 front carriages plunged into the lahar river

One survivor was sleeping and woke up to water around her but this other girl on the outside grabs her and pulls her out thinking shes her sister

One girl died because she was traped under a seat because of the impact 

Some of the bodys were not found

Only 2 people in carriage 3 survived

The water level starts going down and people on the roofs of carriages were able to get to shore

The light of Chrismas day reveals a horrific scene of the disaster.

Thank you for reading stay safe

The Wahine

 The Wahine

1. It was a boat that was heading towards wellington and it got stuck in a reef.

2. How it got stuck and were it got stuck. What happened to the boat after a disaster.

1. Two huge storms crashing into each other. A Tropical Cyclone Giselle and a southerly storm collided.

2. Wellington Harbour.

3. only four life boats could be launched and only 3 made it to shore.

4.The rest of the passngers were forced to jumpinto that water and swim to shore.

5. The roads we blocked and most rescures were help people with the storms.

6. 53 people died from the lack of medical attention, drowing or hitting rocks.

Notes

734 people on board the boat.

One of the most violent storms ever.

Hit Barrett reef.

Worst disaster in NZ.

Swells tipped over life boats throwing more people into the water.

It was 10th of April 1968.

46 Bodies found.

only 6 missing. 

106 people sent to hospital.

They tryed to pump out the boat.

People had to put people onto the boat to stop them from drowning.

5 children seprated from familys.

3 children in hospital.

Video1

 Video 2

Thank you for read stay safe

Kiwis in Space

 Kiwis in Space

Hola Readers,

This week in my reading group we are learning about kiwis in space, and by kiwis I don't mean the bird I mean New Zealanders. But we have to find out facts and word that relate to kiwis in space. 

The words can be like Gravity or Orbit. Those were words that I already knew

The first Task that I had to do was find word out of this book we were given to read:

It took me a while to find good words to put in and to find words that relate to space. Alot of these words are in the book the book has alot of facts about space

Heres a link to the doc and the book if you want to try:

Document

Book

The next task I did was word art I made 2 that I liked:

I don't know which is the best but I like them both. I like the black a bit better but I still can't decide which because the blue colour gives it more of a pop.

Heres the link:

https://wordart.com/create

I also had to do a screencastify as my third task.

It took me many trys just to get the perfect video. Didn't really liked how I sound in this video but it was the best one by far .

The link to what I was reading is on the first task I talked about and it is the book link. 

Heres a link to a place in NZ where they launch rockets

Map

If you could go to space would you?

Thank you for reading my blog post and I hope you enjoyed my blog post.

Ballantynes Fire

Ballantynes Fire

 

Predictions- 

What do I think I know about this disaster? That it is a fire because of the name

What do I think I will find out about this disaster? How and why it started and the people that were invold with the fire.

1. It is one of NZ oldest department store and was one of the most deadliest fire in NZ.

2. Cashel street, Christchurch Central city, 8011,

3. 1947, 18 November at 3:46 pm with 41 deaths.

4. People just thought it was a cellar fire so they didnt worry and when the fire got larger the people up stairs couldn't get down because the fire was on already on the stair.

5. 41 people out of 640 shoppers died some people jumped on to the verandah an d were unconscious.

6. They added fire alarms and fire drills, no Smoking inside.

VIDEO NOTES

• one of worsed fires
• 46 people missing
• 4 in afternoon in basmend
• employes on 2nd and 3rd floor
• other shops cracked and power lines came down
• army and airfoures helped
• the pumped water for 4 hours from 36 hoses

VIDEO LINK

MORE VIDEO NOTES

• 50 years ago
• the traped workers waved a the people on the street asking for help .
• they had 25 minutes before the first flames were seen
• The resource wasn't usefull because it was to long and we can't really hear it

VIDEO LINK

How many fire fighters do you think were there helping?

Thank you for reading my blog bye

Olympics Rowing

 Olympic Rowing

Hola readers,

For my research group we have to research about olympic rowing. We had to do a quiz about the olympics, then we had to find some sports that are'nt in the olympics and then we had to find facts or texts about rowing.

My score on the quiz:

It has 9 questions about the olympics they are easy and the site is : https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/summer-sports-quiz

This is the facts and text the I found out about rowing:

Its mostly about Emma Twigg because she is the only Person I know who is a part of the olympic rowing in the tokyo olympics.

The next one is the games that are'nt in olympics:

 Surfing is the one sports that I just want to see in the olympics, because it is one of my favorite sports to see people do.

Bye I hope you liked this blog and what sports do you want to see in olympics ?

The Napier Earthquake.

The Napier Earthquake.

Hola readers

What do I think I know about this disaster?

its an earthquake

What do I think I will find out about this disaster?

more on what happened

1. 1931, Feb 3rd, at 10:47

2. The official death toll was 256. 161 in napiar, 93 in Hastings and 2 in wairoa

3. In botanical garden and the racecourse in Napier.

4. They were able to rebuild the houses in art Deco style, making it a toursit attraction.

5. 2 and a half minutes

6. Children were sent around NZ because there was no schools for them to go to and no houses for them to live in. Also, It wasn't safe with all the aftershock.

I now have to watch a video and write notes about what happend and facts in the video.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/4559/napier-after-the-1931-earthquake

1. 90 years ago.

2. nz deadlyest disaster.

3. killed 256 people. 

4. veronica bell rings for 2 and a half minutes.

5. one boy got hit with a birck from a chimney.

6. people had to live in tents.

7. eric Baggit was 2 when it happened he doesn't remember was happened but the city was rebuilt in Deco style. 

8. windows cracked and railrode was twisted.

1. Napier is on east coat 

2. first earthquake in popular place

3. napier was badly damged

4. 2 half hour crusies with doctors and nurses arived

5. a fire started

6. a tempory hospitral

7. 1% people dead

8. 6%  people taken out of city and childern were sent south

9. people weren't aloud in houses so they lived in tent

Water stoped an hr after quake

Took week for quakes to stop

high way built on a flat mud and so rode was destrod

the rail ways was gone 2 days later

navy destord damgeerest walls

spludd water and food

collage roof clapes and boy were tron out of school with 300 boys

the nurse house collapesd and nurses at night were killed

one building is still around

The video

Edmund Hillary

 Edmund Hillary

Hola readers,

This term in my class we were given research groups, my reserch group is researching Sir Edmund Hillary. So this blog post is about Edmund Hillary and The stuff I researched. We were given tasks about Edmund Hillary that we had to finish.

The First task

This Task is my Favorite task out of all the task. This task is a word art, we had to research words that were linked to Edmund Hillary like mountian as one of the words, but there are many different word to discribe Sir Edmund Hillary.

Here is the site

https://wordart.com/create

Screencastify

This screencastify shows the different path and tracks to get up mount everest on a 3D map it is a really helpful to find the tracks.

Here is the site

https://mount-everest3d.com/3d-map/

Did you learn anything new about Sir Edmund Hillary? 

Thank you for reading hope you learnt things.

Taste Testing

 Taste Testing

Hola readers,

This week we are taste testing so see how well are taste bud works. We are spending 2 peirods on taste testing one is writing the blog and the other is tasting the foods and adding to the blog.

Aim:

I want to find out how well are tastebuds work.

Research:

The 5 main flavors are:

Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Savory

We have bitter tastbud on the back of our tongue and sour tastebuds on the sides of our tongue.

Method:

Equipment:

• Unknow food
• Blind fold
• A taster with a tongue

Instructions:

1. get equipment
2. put blind fold on
3. hold your nose shut
4. put the food in your mouth and taste
5. Describe how it taste
6. Release your nose and descride the taste

Results:

Food#1

it was crunchy and wet and tasted sweet

I think it was apple

food#2

Was round and bitter and i got the flavor stright away

I think it was

food #3 

it was wet and it didn't taste like anything but it was crunchy

I think is a potato

food #4

It felt like a lolie and it had sugar and it felt like half of and apple

i think it was a sweet orange lollie

food #5 

i felt like it had sugar on it and it felt buppy but it was sour

so i say it was a sour lollie

Powder #1

It looked like sugar 

so i say it was sugar

Powder#2

it looked looked powdery and it looked like tablet salt

so I say table salt

powder #3

I looked super powdery so I thought it was icing sugar

But it was baking soda

Powder#4

I looked like malic acid and it was

powder#5

I didn't really know what it was 

it was a mix of all the powders that we had

Conclusion:

Our Teacher said that the last one was all the powders mixed together and that the baking soda and the malic acid where mixing together and made a bad version of sherdit and it foamed up in our mouth. 

I have better taste when im not blocking my nose but i can still taste the main flavors even tho i have my nose blocked. 

Discussion:

My bitter tastebuds at the back of my tongue reacted as soon as I swollowed the baking soda to that connects to my past research.

Bye thanks for reading

Book Review

 Book Review

Hola readers.

This is going to be a blog about a book that me and my class read all to gether as a class.

1. What is the name of the book we have read as a class and who wrote it?

          The book is named holes and it was created by Louis Sachar.

      2. What was the book about?

        

           It was about this kid who was acused of stealling and got sent to camp green lake as a punishment               of stealling and was made to dig hole in the hot waste land

       3. Who was your favorite character and why?

           I would say Zero because he stays quite and doesn't talk till he tryes to make his escape. He also                 confices to stealing the shoes and then apogices for everything.

        4. Did you enjoy the book? Why?

            I would say that I kind of liked it because i got a bit confuese because I had watch the movie first                and the book was a bit diffeerent from the movie so it was a bit weird.

         5. What were the similarities and differences between the book and the movie? (Write one thing that                 was the same and some thing the was different)

    

            The charaters names and the layout of the camp were the same. But the differents was how the                    shoes landing in stanlys hands in the book thay fell off a car and in the movie they were tossed of                the bridge and hit stanly in the head.

         6. Did you enjoy the movie and why? 

             I really enjoyed the movie because it gave me the real idea of the story.

 

          7. would you recommed the book? who to?

               I would only recommed the book to people who are in to stories like holes.

Thank you for Reading bye

term 2 reflection

Reflection 

Hola Readers,

This blog post is my term 2 reflection. It reflects what happen last term and what I thought about the classes I had. 

Art: 

art was a bit boring until I finshed my work and I got to make pokemon out of clay. For our progict we had to make a stopmotion with clay characters  had a little help from rye when i was making it, it does look a bit weird because someone had destoryed our clay creation.

Deigital teach:

It was so fun when we were aloud to play games, but the work that we had to do was super fun. we had to use PIXEL ART whitch was fun when we had to make stopmotion. If the stopmoiton had about 100 pages we got a mashmalow. we got to use vr headsets to look at our games that we made and we got to use our phones to watch vr youtube videos just so that we got to play around on the head sets.

PE:

PE would be my favorite by far. we got to play hockey and volleyball, I really like hockey a lot more than most sports because it includes running, rules to keep people safe and lots of people can join. we also got to play football/soccor, netball and basketball. 

Drama:

Drama was really fun because got to make our own play. Me and my friends made a wedding sence and a court sence. Sometimes we had to practice a play from a book that we were given we even recorded our practice but it got ruined with someone walking in on our play. 

I will be doing a reflection blog post each term. They will mostly be about what classes I had that term. I would normal think that PE wouldn't be one of my favorites but it is. 

Thank you for reading my blog post