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.

Science Week 1 - Wind Turbine

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Aim: To test the wind to see how you would test the wind

Definitions:

1. Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

MATERIALS

1. 2x sticks  
2. Cello Tape
3. Pencil  
4.   4x cups
5. Pin
6. Sticky note
7. Scissors

STEP

1. Collect materials
2. Tape the 2 sticks together to form a cross  
3.   tape the sticks onto the cups
4.   plug the pin through the tape
5.   stick the pin into the rubber of the pencil
6. then write your names on a sticky note and stick it onto your Anemometer

Group Investigation.

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper ( watch)

• Counter

• Recorder ( Chromebook or refill )

• Anemometer Manager ( Anemometer)

• Wind Manager

Instructions:

• Go to the measuring place and set up your wind gauge.
• Make sure everyone in your group is ready to start their roles.
• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.
• Count the number of spins in 15 seconds.
• Record it on your chart.

FINDINGS

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	20
2.	Old J Block site	15
3.	Grass hill in quad	10
4.	Tennis Court gate	3

CONCLUSION:

This week in science we have been focusing on a wind power and how reporters tell how the weather is going to be. We had to be in a group of 5, in my group I was with Amanda, Latoiya, Bianca and Keghan.  We have made a wind power source that we are going to test in the areas above and with that we will be recording the number of spins. We have been focusing on the graph below on what the we found. There is a bit of maths that is in there but I had a little help, (Not by Cheating). This week with science was more complicated tan I had expected. I always love challenging myself aswell.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	Wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Based on your findings what was the Wind Speed and the Beaufort Wind Force for each area.

	Spins per minute	Wind speed ( kph)	Beaufort Scale
Field	16	6-12	2
Old J Block site	10	2-5	1
Grass hill	5	0-2	0
Tennis Court Gate	3	0-2	0

WHICH IS THE WINDEST AREA AND WHY?

WHICH IS THE CALMEST AREA AND WHY?

WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE ON LAND TO BUILD A WINDMILL?

1. The field is the windiest as the cars come past and make a lot of wind plus its a big space.
2. The Tennis court is the calmest as its all fenced off and there would be very little wind.
3. The best place to build a windmill would have to be the old J block site because people won't be over there most of the time and it's also out of the way of the children

CIP

Today for Community Impact Projects, we have been researching somebody that we dont know that much about. I choose to do Princess Diana (Diana Frances Spencer). Some of you guys may know that she was in a fatal car crash but didn't survive.

Here are some pictures of what I have been doing...

Oranna Wildlife Park

On Tuesday we had gone to Orana Wildlife Park. This was an amazing time apart from some disgusting things from the gorillas. We some adorable animals. My favourite animal would have to be the Meercats as they have some sanitary duty which they look out for predators.

3 things I know about climate change and how it effects the animals.

1. With the giraffes, this isn't really a bad thing it's a good thing, especially for our environment. As people are cutting down the trees the Giraffes eat seeds which when they poop those seeds come out and are now in the ground, which means they are creating more tress.
2.  With the White Rhinoceros there environment is a little bad. As they eat the grass from the ground and because of were they live there isn't much water and it barely rains there. Less rain means dryer land and dryer land means the Rhinos get extinct.
3. 
   

4 Facts I learnt:

Meercats have Sanitary duty 

Gorillas eat there own poop

Oranag would hide instead of out in the open

3 things I enjoyed:

I enjoyed seeing all of the animals and there habitats

I enjoyed some of the Birds

One of the things that I loved see is the Meercats santarty duty.

CIP Blog Post

I have chosen to do this blog post off a chart that our teacher has put together for us. Its pretty much a 3x3 bingo board and what we have to do is we have to complete 3 tasks to finish. 

What I hope to do this term in CIP:

I hope to do a lot of kindness themed things as you would get kindness back. I hope to do something like going out of school and making a card to a company close to our school. I would also like it if we could do something for the teachers that teach the older kids or even the tech teachers as they do a lot just like our homeroom teachers and Hurumanu teachers. Because they are tech teachers and they do wood work, soft materials, food etc. Maybe we could create something that they teach. For example the food tech teacher, we could cook, make or even bake something as a thank you for teaching the classes.

If you got to choose what kindness activity you would want to do and its around your school, what would you choose?

Holiday Recount

These holidays I have been doing some stuff that is tiring like packing, swimming and walking around A LOT. 

High Light:

My Highlight of the Holidays was going to the swap meet. We had left at approximately 8:20 and we got there at 8:45. With the Swap Meet, you don't swap things with people you are buying them as if you were in a warehouse. I found a lot of things at the swap meet but didn't bring any money. We had to find some motorbike boots for my dad as he needs them and we were also looking for a pot to put a plant in. I also had shoppers feet after all of this.

There was this stall that I had my eye on and had lots of squishes and rings. I was looking at some rings and I found the same one I had last year. This event is only once a year. The stuff that is at the swap meet is like old vintage stuff that people can buy and put on there cars or do something with it. This event is on the same weekend as the Belfast Racing.

Low Light:

My low light of the holidays was trying to pack to move into the new house. Packing is pretty stressful to be honest. There was also a lot of pressure on me as I was the only one packing our room. We also had to help with the others with packing the garages, bathroom and the Kitchen. 

The kitchen and garage was the hardest to do as mostly everything was in the garage but most of it was already packed and with the kitchen there was lots of glasses and food to be packed. To bring all of the junk from our old house to our new house took at least 3 days but a week to just unpack most of the essentials.

What did you do in the holidays?

This Holiday was pretty stressful if you ask me. I was tired after packing and I didn't have anything else really to do. Currently our house is a pig sti and needs to be cleaned.I hope you enjoyed reading my highlight and low light.  Goodbye

Saftety equitment in a science lab

Today we have been learning about the equipment in the lab and some of the safety rules as well. 

 Aim: To get across what the rules are in the science lab

Top five Safety rules in a Science lab:

1.  NO Running
2. Bags at the back of the classroom or under your desk
3. If you break a glass product tell a teacher right away and clean up the mess
4. Listen carefully to instructions
5. Make sure if there is any water involved, and any of it spills on the floor clean it up.
6. NO Food or drink
7. Only a murmur voice as someone could be trying to do there experiment and someone starts to yell which will put them of and may spill something
8.  Be careful of your surroundings
9. Have your hair tied up
10. Never inhale any chemicals

Safety equipment:

Beaker

Test Tubes

Spatula

Tongs

Funnel

Conical Flask

Measuring cylinder

Flask

New Bulidings

Wednesday 25 September

This week on Monday we had entered our new classrooms/Kahu's. This was an amazing time, apart from the new smell. That smelt disgusting. It's part of having new buildings. One of the things that I mostly enjoyed was that we got to have a look in all of the buildings which we get to see what the other teachers has set there classrooms like.

When I walked into our new classrooms I thought.... that it would not be long till it would become messy. But also I thought with Mrs Shehata being in this classroom it would be neat and tidy. I don't know to be honest, I never really had any thoughts.

When I walked into our new classrooms I saw.... An amazing teared seating. This was the biggest thing in our classroom. I also saw more classrooms around which was for older kids above year 7 and 8. One of the favourite parts of this building was that there was sheets of paper on most of the doors. Which showed us what classroom.
Example: T2, T2 is our classroom that we share with Mr Tisch's class.

When I walked into our new classrooms I felt.... A sense that some of us would get along as we have a combined class which means that there is a likely chance that children can work well together. I have to admit that I don't really work well with other classrooms, but it really depends on the noise level and how I can work.

As we have a new school it took about roughly 2 years to make. They still have some other buildings that they may start building. There's supposed to be 5 but it depends how many students we actually get. For these's new classrooms to get built it was $27.000000 to pay for. 

This experience was weird and amazing at the same time. They had layed this out perfectly. All of the classrooms are the same.

Art

On Monday for Art we have been creating the background for our animation. I am pretty happy with what we had painted. This is an amazing piece of artwork. My group had amazing ideas on what to paint. Here is my art work...

Science - Reflection

AIM: TO LEARN ABOUT WATER ON EARTH.

Definition:

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

THE WATER CYCLE SONG

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change

Material:

1.  Vivid
2.  2x Bags
3. 1/2 Water 
4.  1 tbsp of baking soda

Steps:

1.  Draw your water cycle
2.  Carefully add the water
3.  If your doing the acid one, add 1 tbsp of baking soda and litmus paper at the top
4.  Add some food colouring
5. Wait at least 2 - 3 wks

Two Images:

Findings:

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	2	3
Amount of Water	2	3
Acidity	1	3

Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none 

2 = small 

3 = large 

Conclusion:

The normal water cycle had less condensation than the other. The normal bag didn't have any Baking soda involved

The water cycle with the acid, had changed the colour of the litmus paper to red after it started out blue.

Art

I am making a charactor for my animation for my group, We all get to have our own character and create them our own way.  My charator fits in as we are all wolfs apart from 1. 1 of the wolfs are homeless as well so it connects.

I am mostly finding challenging is the clay as it's hard to get it the correct clay I want/need.

This is so far what I have created.
I had to redo this as it wasen't how I wanted it.

Kiwi Kids News

Today for Media Team I have been on Kiwi Kids News. I found a lot of interesting things.
A granny doing the floss, what's inside of a rattles snake's rattle, Emoji Challenge and more. These were so interesting.

CIP - Community Impact Projects

This week we have been learning about recycling stationery. We have signed up to a website that our used stationery can go to recycle. I made a slideshow explaining some of this....

Science (Solar Pannels)

Aim: To find out what colour attracts the suns heat.

Hypothesis:

I think that the colour is going to be silver/Tin foil.

Materials:

1.  1x Tin foil cup
2.  1x Clear cup
3.  1x Black plastic bag
4.  1x Small black bag
5.  1x Heat lamp
6. 1x White paper
7. 1x Thermometer
8. 1x Tin Foil 
9. 1x Plastic cup

Steps

1.   Collect the equipment
2.  Set it up, Put the white, tin foil and the black bag on the table.
3. Put with clear cup on the black bag in the middle
4. Put the little black bag over it
5. Put the white cup in the middle of the white paper
6. Put the tin foil paper in the middle of the tin foil
7.  Plug in the heat lamp
8.  Pour the water
9.   Wait 15 minutes
10. Record your findings

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16.c	16.c	16.c
15	20.c	25.c	19.c
30	20.c	35.c	20.c
45	20.c	30.c	20.c

Conclusion

This is a photo of all of the cups. Throughout this the black one spilled as we let the thermometer. 

The highest was the black one even though it was on the side. 

This was amazing