Making Honeycomb

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make honeycomb.

Research:
Hokey Pokey

Dalgona Candy Factory

Method:

Equipment

• 5 teaspoon/tsp of sugar
• 2 teaspoon/tsp of syrup
• Pinch / half a teaspoon of baking soda
• Pot
• Stove/Bunsen Burner
• Spatula
• Baking paper

Instructions

1. Get your equipment.
2. Wash your hands.
3. Add your sugar and golden syrup to your pot.
4. Set up your Bunsen Burner.
5. Use a blue flame.
6. Melt then boil the sugar.
7. Turn off the gas.
8. Add the baking soda and mix.
9. Tip out the honey comb/hokey pokey on to baking paper.
10. Let it cool.
11. Clean up your equipment.

Result

Discussion

Monoprinting

Hello everyone, from the last few weeks, we have been working on our monoprint for art.

We first started off gathering plants so that we can photocopy it. We needed to add background, middle ground and fore ground. We had 2 photocopies, one is for us to colour in and the other one of the monoprint.

I added Mount Fuji as my background to add a little bit of spice, Mt Fuji is a big mountain that is located on Japan, it's also very famous. After we've done colouring it in, we had to start on our monoprint.

For some people, monoprint is hard, but you'll get used to it if you are interested on art, here is my monoprint:

Doing monoprint is actually pretty challenging for me, because we were using ink, it's not gonna be easy to take it off. That's why I was careful when doing monoprint.

Thank you for reading this blog post, this is gonna be one of the last weeks of art. So I will eventually miss art.

Making Ginger Beer

Aim: I want to find out how to (brew) make ginger beer.

Research:

How to Make Ginger Beer

EASIEST way to make alcohol QUICKLY!

Fermentation

Method:

Equipment

• Cup (disposable)
• Pen / Sharpie
• Powdered ginger
• Sugar
• Water
• Spoon
• Lemon Juice

Instruction:

1. Get your equipment.
2. Put your name on a disposable cup.
3. Put half a teaspoon / tsp of powdered ginger into the cup.
4. Pour half a cup of water.
5. Add 1 tablespoon / tbsp of sugar into the cup.
6. Mix with a spoon.
7. Add 5 drops of Lemon Juice.
8. Taste it and adjust the flavor.
9. Add 1 quarter of a teaspoon / tsp of yeast.
10. Let it brew for 1 week

Result:

Discussion:

What is Fermentation?

Yeast is a living thing and it eats the glucose/sugar and the yeast and breathes out or releases Carbon Dioxide /CO₂ and it excrete alcohol, this process is called Respiration.

What are the best conditions for brewing?

Based on google, the best condition to brew your ginger beer is to keep it in warm temperature and keep mixing it.

What is the difference between beer,cider,vodka,whiskey?

There is a difference between these drinks, vodka has the highest alcohol level out of beer, cider and whiskey. 

Result:

When I first smelled it, it smelled so bad that the scent can't erase easily. Mr Stock tasted it, but based on his facial expression, it looked like that my ginger beer was bad.

Based on google, the reason why it smelled bad is because of the bacteria that has snuck on my ginger beer.

pH Colours

 Aim:

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

Research:

Method:

Equipment

• Acid - Hydrochloric Acid
• Base - Sodium Hydroxide
• Test Tube Rack with test tubes
• Universal Indicator

Instruction

1. Get your equipment
2. Put 10 drops of Universal Indicator into the test tube.
3. Add different amounts of acid and base into the test tube.
4. Watch what happens to the colour.

Results:

(This picture is not mine, because I didn't email the pictures I took to myself.)

Discussion:

What are the pH colours?

There are many different types of pH ranges, the colour red has the highest acid, and indigo and violet has the strongest alkali.

Healthy Meal

 Hello everyone, 

For this week, we are working on healthy meals for health. Our task is to add foods on the slide with the description and the ingredients, Cate and I worked together on the slide. We haven't finished it so we are just going to post the ones that are done.

Eating everyday is good for your health, even if you are trying to lose weight, you need to eat food because it gives you energy. Protein, carbs, grains, dairy, fat and vegetables & fruits are important.

Thank you for reading this post.

Maori Myths and Legends

Hello everyone,

Lask week for hurumanu 1, we discussed about Maori Myths and Legends. We already started on the activities.

The activities are about Maui and the Sun, our task is to complete the activities that they have for us. One of my favourite activities was probably making the advertisement if Maui was unavailable at that moment.

Here is my work:

The poster of Capturing Tamanuitera is not real, please don't dial the number!

Thank you for reading, I hope you have learnt something new about Maui.

Making Sherbet

 Aim: 

I want to find out how to make a good sherbet

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Citric Acid
• Raro (Any flavour)
• Baking Soda
• A cup
• A stick
• A piece of paper

Instruction

1. Get all of your equipment ready.
2. Pour some of the dry ingredients on the paper, make sure it's all separated.
3. Scoop a little bit of baking soda using your stick and put it in your cup.
4. Scoop a little bit of Citric acid and add it to the cup.
5. Scoop a little bit of Raro and add it to the cup, for some flavour. 
6. Blend the dry ingredients on the cup.
7. Wet your stick and dip it on the sherbet, if you feel like it doesn't have that much foam, add more baking soda, but if it doesn't have that much flavour, add raro. If its not sour enough, add more citric acid.

Results:

Honestly, it tasted good for me. It's because I like sour foods and I liked the sherbet I made. Once it touched my tongue, it started fizzing.

Discussion:

Why is Citric acid really sour?

Originally, Citric acid is made out of derived lemon juice, lemon juice is also sour. 

Why did it foam?

Once sherbet touches water, it starts foaming and fizzing. The reason why it foams is because, Citric acid is a sort of acid that is made out of lemon. Once you mix citric acid and baking soda and pour water on it, some atoms combine into carbon dioxide.

Henri Rousseau

 Hello everyone,

Yesterday we we're tasked to label one of Henri Rousseau's art work. We have to label the background, middle ground, and fore ground. Actually, it was really easy to do. Since we just had cut it out.

Background:

Middle ground:

Fore ground:

Here is my work:

Thank you for reading this post.

P.E Gymnastics

Hello everyone,

Last week on PE we have been learning about gymnastics. Our task was to blog about the Takaporepore that we have on PE. It's basically a checklist on what we have done on gymnastics. I don't know that much things on gymnastics. 

I didn't do that much gymnastics last week because I weren't there on Wednesday, which we have P.E on period 5. Instead, I have ESOL.

Gymnastics is fun for me, because I can see people doing some amazing flips and balance, the best part was probably the parallel bars, I was still having some troubles.

Here is a link for my Takaporepore

The ones highlighted on red means that I am still learning on it, the yellow highlighted ones are the ones I can do. If they are already ticked, it means that I have tried it and did it successfully.

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learned on what we have been doing on P.E.

Hot Chilli

Aim :

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

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

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

Instruction

1. Get your equipment ready.
2. Get a drop of hot sauce on your Popsicle stick.
3. Lick the Hot Chilli sauce
4. Start the timer
5. After 2mins
6. After 5mins, how hot is your mouth?
7. Repeat the experiment but with a different drink.

Result:

The first chilli I did was without water and I am scoring it a 7 for burning, although it was the first taste. It was still spicy.

The second chilli I did was with water and I am scoring it a 9 for burning, it was burning so bad.

The third one was hot but I rate it a 5 we also drink coke which lessen the burn.

The forth one was less spicy, because I got used to it. The second one was more spicy I guess. At first the spiciness was about a 8. But as soon I drink the milk, it was less spicy. I rate it as 2.

Discussion:

Why does chilli burn your mouth?

Hot chilli contains capsaicin, capsaicin is a chemical compound. As soon as your tongue touches the hot chilli. Your brain reacts to it. The best one to drink is probably milk, it can help down break down the capsaicin, because it contains casein. Casein is the main protein in milk.

Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff (Pg 17-22)

 Hello everyone,

For this week, we worked on 'Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff. It's an article that talks about NZ flora and fauna. We are currently looking on Flora and Fauna. 

I created a canva slideshow because I have more options to customize my own work. I add informations about Kiwi, Haast Eagle, Moa and Gondwanaland. Haast eagle and Moa are already extinct .

Here is the Link for my presentation.

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learned something.

Henri Rousseas

 Hello everyone,

Today is the first day of arts on term 4. It's also the last term of this year. We learned about Henri Rousseas, Henry is a French painter. We watched a video on Youtube sharing some information about Henri, our task for today is to make a google doc and list facts that we discovered on the video. I made it simple so that people can properly read it.

Here are some paintings that Henri Rousseas painted.

Tiger in a Tropical Storm (1891)

 

I listed 7 facts about Henri, here is my work:

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learned something about Henri Rousseas.

Uncle Don (Page 12 - 16)

 Hello everyone.

From the past few weeks, we've been reading an article called 'Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff'. It's a great article that give lot's of information relating to Flora and Fauna. 

We are reading Page 12-16, our task is to create a D.L.O about the information that they gave on that page. They mentioned about eels. I created a google slide, here is the link.

Thank you for reading this post.

Pingao & Sand Dunes

 Hello everyone, on hurumanu 3, we have been reading an article that talks about interesting things.

Our tasks is to create a D.L.O about the article, the article is called 'Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff'.

I used canva to create a poster about pingao and sand dunes, I made it look interesting because it's a way to make the reader interested on your work.

Here is my poster that I created:

Thank you for reading this post, bye.

Flora and Fauna

Hello everyone, on hurumanu 1, we are learning about flora and fauna. Flora is basically the native flowers of New Zealand, and fauna is about the native animals. 

Our task was to read an article that is somewhat related to flora and fauna. It also gives some interesting facts. We had to make a D.L.O about the facts that were written on the article. The site that I used to create my D.L.O is Prezi.

Here is the link for my D.L.O.

Thank you for reading this post about flora and fauna. Bye.

Tourist Attraction

 Hello everyone, in wananga time. We have been working on our tourist attraction work.

Our task is to pick at least 5 famous cities or towns in New Zealand. I chose Queenstown, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington and Wanaka. We also have to research why that place is famous in New Zealand, and add it to the presentation that we are working on. I chose google slideshow to present my work.

Here is my work:

Thank you for reading my post, have a great day, bye!

Writing & Grammar

 Hello everyone, today for hurumanu 1 we learned about verbs & adverbs.

Verbs is a doing thing, like running or talking. Adverbs are words that describes a verb, for example: I ran quickly to school.

I used google doc to write my work on, here is my work:

Thank you for reading my post, bye.

Places In New Zealand

Hello everyone.

In wananga we are learning about places in New Zealand. We basically have to label the boxes and write a fact about that place. 

Here is a picture of my work:

Facts:

Tasman Sea - Tasman Sea is named after Abel Tasman.

North Island - North Island has the country's largest city, which is Auckland.

Auckland - Auckland is a big in North Island.

Christchurch - The population of Christchurch is 383,200 for this year.

Wellington - Wellington is the capital of New Zealand.

Pacific Ocean - Ferdinand Magellan is the one who named the Pacific Ocean.

South Island - South Island is known for it's golden beaches.

South Pacific Ocean - South Pacific Ocean covers 30% of the earth's surface, it's also the deepest ocean.

The teacher printed the paper for us to work on, which is more easier to do in my opinion.

Thank you for reading this post, I hope you have learned something about New Zealand, bye!

P.E Reflection

 みなさん、こんにちわ 
Minasan, kon'nichiwa (Hello everyone).

In P.E we have been doing, football, hockey, volleyball and fitness. We haven't done netball yet. The sports sport that I really enjoyed was volleyball.

I enjoyed volleyball because it's my favourite sport and I get to play it with my friends during class. Playing volleyball was fun for me, we also learned lots of new technique that some I didn't know. Even tho my hand hurts it was still fun.

The second sport that I enjoyed was hockey, because hockey is also one of my favourite sport. I play hockey for Friday sports, so I'm very familiar with it. It was fun to play with my classmates, some of the were good.

I also enjoyed football, but, I didn't know anything about it. It was fun to play with my classmates.

さようなら
Sayonara (Good-bye).

Cyberbullying

Hello everyone, today in wananga, we are working on resilience board. These are the choices:

I chose the cyberbullying definition, I created a slideshow with information about cyberbullying. Here is the slideshow:

Thank you for reading my work, bye.