Kapa Haka Performance

I went to my brothers Kapa Haka group last week and he was amazing.

Kapa Haka

One time in the week of school, my little brother, Caleb had a Kapa Haka performance at his primary school. My Brother was amazing. There were also other schools that had performed. One of my favourites was Templeton school as they had confidence. All of the other schools had pride in themselves. 

Caleb's primary school is South Hornby. South Hornby had been preparing a Hangi for  everybody that had paid for one. Caleb had been one of the leaders in his Kapa Haka group. Hornby High didn’t get their Hangi as their was not enough, but their parents had bought them food from the food trucks.

I met some of my friends that I had not seen for ages. One of  them I had not seen since primary. It was an amazing night. My Brother had performed wonderfully. 

I was thinking about performing, to represent hornby high school but, as I had done it for about 3 years I decided to have a break this year and maybe next year. All of the schools had put lots of time and effort into their performances.

I had noticed with one of the schools that, one of their students were a bit scared as there were lots of people out there looking at her. She started crying but she was confident that she would finish that performance and do her best.

Even though some people were going to every single practice they kinda mucked up. The thing with mucking up is that you can learn from your mistakes and its okay to cry and you don't have to be perfect, as long as you know that you have done your absolute best then that’s all that matters, You need to believe in yourself and never give up on you dreams. 

CIP - Last blog post

Today we had some tasks to do. One of the tasks was to reaserch 3 different countries and how they celebrate christmas. I chose Italy, France and Madagasgar. I found some interesting facts. The second task was to make a DLO about those 3 christmas's. I made a slideshow. Heres what I have

Japanese

Im going to show you my self introduction on myself in Japanese.

CIP - It's Cool to be Kind

Today in CIP we have made a poster about Kindness. As I wasn't here for P2 and 3, I didn't know what was happening. When I came over to my group they had done a very good job that I would not of thought to do. I didn't get to do much but I was fine with that, as they knew what they were doing and I didn't. The people in my group are Lhysette, Rieya, Danielle and I.

Science - Climate Change and the Future

Aim; To look at the different ways we can prevent climate change in the future.

How is sea level rise going to effect us in NZ

What places will be effected?

Pacific Island, New Zealand (Different places near the sea)

What else do we need to think about?

Where you live, Where to build houses,

What other places around NZ will be affected?

Auckland - Har bour, Lion rock, Nelson, Bay of islands and more

What does this do to our drinking water?

Salt water, Sea level rise

What are the main concerns?

1.  One of the main concerns are where to build your houses as the sea level rise can floud those houses  
2.  The second one is that we will stat to get salt water into our drinking system.

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Build our houses away from the sea
2.    STOP plastic

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no silver bullet 

What is the mix of things we need to start doing?

1.   Renewable 
2.   Solar heating
3.  Transport

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.  Walk
2.   Cycle
3. recycling

Activities:

Carbon Footprint: 

Carbon Footprint explained

Dwelling
Water
Recreation
Heating and cooling
Electricity
Transportation
Food
Waste
Air Travel
Consumption

Colour 1: for actions they are already doing 

Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

Ecological Handprint The Ecological handprint builds on the concepts from the Carbon Footprint. We will look at the positive actions of:

1. Transportation
2. Community
3. Consumption
4. Water
5. Food
6. Home
7. Waste

1 Colour: For each action you are already doing 

2 Colour: For each action you would like to do in the future

Science Decompistion

Aim: To learn about the rate that different materials decompose. 

Hypothesis: I think that...... The Banana is going to rot the fastest

Materials:

1.   Bread
2.   Water
3.   Test Tubes
4.   Banana
5.   Cardboard
6.   Styrophone
7.   Test tube tack

Steps:

1.   Add the bread, styrophone, banana and cardboard into a test tube each.
2.   Add water to the test tube that had bread
3. Put little lids on them
4.   Put them all in the test tube rack
5.   Let it sit for about 3 weeks
6.   See what had happened to it

Image:

Findings:

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Yellow	Little Brown	The banana started to go a little disgusting
Paper	Brown	Brown	The paper was just the same
Styrophone cup	White	White	It stayed the same
Bread	Cream	cream	The bread started getting hard

3 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Green	Mouldy	The banana had become completely mouldy
Paper	Brown	Brown	The paper stayed the same
Styrophone cup	White	white	The styrophone had mold around the edges
Bread	Green/Cream	mouldy	Was watery

5 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Green	Green	The banana has stated to become hairy
Paper	Brown	Brown	Its stayed the same
Styrophone cup	White	White	I has formed more mold in the tube
Bread	Cream	Bit of mold	Soggy

  

Conclusion:

This experiment was very disgusting. I didn't like it at all. The was a complete difference in 3 weeks. But this did turn out how it was supposed to and my guess was correct that the banana was going to rot the fastest There is also a very  big difference from 3 weeks to 5 weeks.

Science Week 2: Pizza Ovens

Renewable Energy
Aim: To make a solar powered oven

Equipment:

1. Sellotape
2. Scissors
3. Pizza box
4. Straw
5. Marshmallow
6. Biscuit
7. Glad wrap
8. Tin foil
9. Black plastic
10. Ruler
11. Vivid marker
12. Newspaper
13. Plastic Plate

Steps:

• Cut out the flap on the lid of the pizza box so that it is 5 cm around the edge
• Sellotape some tinfoil on the inside of the flap
• Sellotape some glad-wrap so that the whole you have cut on the pizza box lid is covered over with glad-wrap
• Put a piece of black plastic on the bottom of the inside of the box. 
• Make a paper square that fits inside the pizza box and lays around the edge
• Put a marshmallow on top of a chocolate biscuit, place it on a plastic plate and put it in the solar oven
• Put it in the sun to cook.

Conclusion:

Our experiment didn't work exactly. I think it should be in a place that the sun comes out more often and is close to our "OVENS". The smores were DELICIOUS.