Curiosity Quest - Cats

In Wananga we have been doing something called a Curiosity Quest, Maddison and I decided we should make a slide about Cats. If you want to know some facts about cats then you should check out this slide. BYE :)

Impasto Painting

This term in Art we have been focusing on Impasto painting. We first got given a practice piece of paper to practice on and then we got given a small piece of a Van Gogh painting and once we have finished painting it all the pictures connect together and makes a pot of flowers. Impasto painting is a painting technique that uses thick layers of paint. It took a few tries to get the colours right because I either put to much or not enough of a colour so when all the painting's came together some painting had different colours then others so they all weren't the same but they still all looked good!

Here is what the painting's looked like!

The Empty Pot

Today in Hurumanu we listened to a story called 'The Empty Pot.' It was about a boy named Ping and he lived in China and all the children had to grow a beautiful flower using a seed that was given from the Emperor. After we listened to the story we had to do a few activities, the first activity was we had a few questions to write a sentence about. We then had to make our own word find with some of the main words about the story. This is what my word find looks like!

You could have a go at trying to find the words highlighted!

Any feedback is appreciated :)

 

Math Games

For Maths we have been working on long multiplication and place value. We had some questions to answer about multiplication. I found that the questions were quite hard to do because I couldn't really figure out how to work out the answer. My score at the end was 5/10 from the long multiplication.

 

Paralympian Sophie Pascoe

Hi Everyone!

In Hurumanu 2 we have been learning about Sophie Pascoe. We had some questions to answer about her in a slide.

Here is my slide! Feel free to share your questions or feedback :)

Lisa Carrington

Lisa Carrington is a New Zealander. She is 32 years old and she was born on the 23rd of June. She was an Olympic athlete in canoeing. Her weight is 53kg, and her height is 1.68 m. She has been in the 2012 Olympics, and in the 2016, 2011 and 2021. She won 3 gold medals and 1 bronze. She has been so great at her canoeing!

FIJI WINS GOLD!

Today in Hurumanu 2 we did some activities about the Olympics. We did some research and wrote about Fiji winning a gold medal at the Olympics in the Rugby sevens.

Olympic Gold was won by the Fiji Rugby Sevens team on 27-12 last evening (NZ time).

The game was against New Zealand who ended up winning Silver Medals.

Fiji’s captain is Jerry Tuawai. He said this win was very special because they had to go into lockdown after Easter. They have not seen their children since.

They spent most of that time shut up in a hostel in Suva, training in a gym they built in a garage. When they were on their way to Japan the Fijian team got stuck on a cargo flight, along with some crates full of fish and these sort of experiences helped them form a very tight group of people which makes for a great big celebration after their superb teamwork.

Here are some images of the winners.

Art

For Art we have been learning about logos. So we first got a piece of paper and drew our own personal logo. Then we got a big piece of paper and put folded it into 4 pieces and repeated our logo till we liked how it looked. After that we traced our logo onto some lino, we then used a carving tool to carve out the pasts we wanted covered with ink. The colours I did was purple, green and black. The purple one I didn't like the most is because it smudged a bit. What makes my logo me is that there are symbols on it for who I like, such as Karl Jacobs. 

                                                                          MY LOGO :

Setting hands on fire

Yesterday in Science we light our hands on fire. We had to first put on safety googles and then get some water and put it on our arms and hands. We then had to scoop up some bubbles and then walk over to the green mat and Mr Stock got his lighter and put it underneath our hands so our hands could light on fire. If we wanted to make the fire stop or we were panicking to much we had to push our hands out like we were giving somebody a high five with our two hands.

Here is a video of what it looked like:

Hour of Code

 Kia Ora!

In my coding class I have been making a project using coding. We used Hour of Code, Scratch. I mostly used Hour of Code. It is a website that you can play different games on that website. My favourite game on Hour of Code is the Dance Party and Minecraft coding. I played the Minecraft coding the most. I got up to stage 9 in the Minecraft coding game.

Here is all the links for the games:

Scratch

Hour of Code

Timing Reactions

Yesterday in Science we got into groups, one person dropped a ruler and the other person had to catch it with their hand/fingers and the record the answers by centimetres on a sheet of paper. I was in a group with 2 people, Ayla and Maddison.

It made it easier to only touch the ruler slightly, it made it more easier if you practice more so you got better.

Using a Microscope

 Today in Science lesson we worked on Microscopes. We had to pair up with 1 person instead I paired up with 3 :). We used an onion that we looked at through the microscope. When I looked through the microscope I could see squiggles and lines going in different directions.

Matariki

Matariki is the Maori New Year for all New Zealanders.

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Matariki is a cluster of stars in the sky.

Only 2 stars have been discovered but the rest of them haven't.

Matariki is one of the star clusters nearest to Earth.

Taste and Smell

Yesterday in Science we did an experiment using taste and smell. In a group of 2 or 3 we tried types of foods that we had to taste and name what the food is. I started to find out that once I tried the foods I started to remember the taste of it. We also tried powders and moved them around our mouth and listed the parts were it tastes, sweet, salty, bitter, and sour.

Neuralink Technology

Neuralink is an advanced technology made for people that can control the minds of a robot. For example, in the video the monkey could change the movements from the computer using a joystick. This is what technology could do to the world and how it reacts, it could make progressive species that would make it change differently. I think Neuralink is a very advanced technology for the way that it gets implanted into your body, many things could go wrong if you got it.

Pocket Rocket

 Pocket Rocket

During the last week of the term in science we did an experiment called pocket. It is a thing in a small container and it pops and shoots up into the air. It is made from vinegar, and baking soda. We put both ingredients in little containers and quickly shut the lid it exploded like rocket. I did the pocket rockets with Riansha. Another group had one of the rockets and it shot up into the air.

Indicators

Indicators

Last week in Science we did a project using Indicator's. 

What is an acid?

There are many acids that there are to use, the acid we used for the project Hydrochloride acid and Hydroxide acid.

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What is an alkali?

An alkali is a base that is soapy like many cleaning products.

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What is an indicator?

An indicator is a small tube that changes colour when you put it in an acid.

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We poured our substance into the Indicators and mixed it with all the other mixtures we had. The colours in the Indicators changed colours from it mixing into the substance.

Thanks for reading!

Sports Heroes

 For the past few day in Hurumanu 3 we have been working on a slide about sports heroes. It is about people that play famous sports and are heroes of achieving it and some making it to the Olympics. We had to write 2 slides for a type of hero that plays a sport. But for local hero I only did one which was my brother.

Here is my slide!

Invention Story

For the past few days we have been learning about wheels and inventions. Then we all made an invention story adding a person making an invention. We first did a draft in our book and then copied it onto a google doc. My story is about 3 pages long. This is my story that I did.

One Morning a 16 year old boy named Simon Cycle woke up in the morning for a school day. He got breakfast and combed his hair, just it was a normal school day.

Simon turned on the tv and it was on the News channel. News reporter David, he had his own show for training wild animals. It was quite big on tv.

Suddenly on the screen David started to say the daily news. “Welcome to channel 4 news. This morning we have breaking news, a blackout sale has started at about 7:30 AM. There have been 2 car crashes early this morning because of all the clutter of people trying to get into the mall.

Then Simon turned off the tv and thought of an idea. He planned a vehicle that could get him to school faster than ever. The invention he was planning on doing was a ‘Gliding Bus!’ The bus had shiny yellow paint and crystal clear windows on each side of it.

The best part about the bus was the engine that made everything come to life!

A few minutes later Simon started up the bus and the garage opened. He drove up to the street and pulled a lever that made the bus fly.

So the flying bus flew over the traffic. He thought “Wow that could’ve been me in one of those cars stuck in that big traffic jam. It took about 5 minutes to get to his school but if he would be in a car it would’ve been 20-25 minutes!

As he got to his school Simon landed, and parked it.

Simon walked inside the school and noticed that there weren’t many people at school there because of how early it was. He probably thought that the reason why nobody was there was because of all the traffic on the road.

Next Simon did everything he wanted. He grabbed all the food from the cafeteria and ate all the food. 

 

Jelly Baby Osmosis

 Jelly Baby Osmosis

What we did was we first got 8 jelly babies in 2 colours ( pink and yellow ) each of us got 2 per each person. We then got our petri dish and filled it up with either sugar/salt and water.

We took our jelly babies and placed to in each dish. There were 3 petri dishes in total for (Maddison, Ayla, and Me). Maddison used Water, Ayla used Salt, and I used Sugar.

Hypothesis : What will happen to the jelly babies in each solution?

Ayla : I think they will all expand but the water one will have the least growth

and the salt will have the most.

Erin : I think the jelly babies all with grow but the water one won't grow as much as the salt and sugar one,I also think the salt one will grow the biggest.

Maddison : I think they will grow but salt will be the smallest and sugar would be the

biggest and they would dissolve in the bath if salt,sugar,water ,i feel like the the jelly babies that

go in salt water will dissolve 

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The results were :

The salt one was falling apart when we moved it.

The sugar one felt the hardest and most put together but still a bit moshed.

The water one fell apart but not as much as the salt one.

Maori Battalion Heroes

 In period 3, 4, Hurmanu 1 we are learning about Maori Battalion's. We had to read about the Maori Battalion's and then write the answers about the paragraph's we read. 

This is my google doc about the Maori Battalions

Skittles Observation

Yesterday in period 2 Science we did a experiment using Skittles. The things we used were Warm water, Petri Dish, and Skittles. We all worked in buddies, I worked with Maddison. One of us brang the Petri Dish up to the table to fill it up with some warm water. Then got 5 individual colours of Skittles to put in the water. It was fun to see the Skittles dissolve into the water and spread.

These are some pictures of what the Skittle Experiment looked like.

Start

Colours forming

Bunsen Burner / Boiling Water

Yesterday in period 2 ( Even though I wasn't really at school that day). But we got out the gear and we put it together, then we got the beaker and filled it with cold water, and then we lit the Bunsen Burner. Then let it sit and boil for 5 minutes. We also put a thermometer and took its temperature. Then we had to rinse the beaker and let it sit otherwise it burn our hand.

  

Lab Rules & Safety

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No running.

Do not eat or drink.

If your a girl or a boy with long hair make sure

your hair is tied up.

If your doing an experiment make sure

to wear safety goggles.

If you ever spill something on the table or on

the ground tell the TEACHER.

Make sure you are wearing covered shoes.

Do not go inside the lab unless a teacher tell 

you to do so.

Ask a teacher before you put something in the bin 

( such as glass ).

Make sure that your backpack is under

your desk.