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