Art

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For the past few weeks, here in art we have been focusing on "Jungle Mono-print" and "Colour pencil Dinosaur compositions" How the Jungle Mono-print works is you get a variety of different colours of paint and put them on this plastic sheet, and then you get a piece of paper and put it on top of the paint (make sure not to press hard, otherwise the paint will imprint on to the paper with no partner) Next you are going to lay your colour pencil dinosaur composition on top of the paper, next thing is you're going to trace the leafs, by pressing hardly, so this way, the leafs you trace imprint onto the paint, by pressing hard. (Sorry if it doesn't make sense because I don't really know how to explain this properly) Then after that carefully lift both of the papers of the paint, and then there you go, you made a leaf imprint onto the paper. 

Reflection:

Both of them was kind of complicating (in my opinion) especially the Jungle Mono-print since it took me three tries to make it look good for my perspective, because the aim was basically to make the leaf imprint visible, rather than just seeing random colours that has transferred onto the paper. My thoughts on the Colour pencil Dinosaur compositions, it was kind of boring because all we did was trace dinosaurs and leafs onto the paper and colour them, plus it took a while to get done, maybe the approximate to get it done was about 4 days (2 weeks) since we have art every week for 2 days. 

Here is the ones I did: 

This is the First Jungle Mono-Print I did (You can see that there's barely any leaf print)

This is the second Mono-Print I've done (Now you can see one leaf that has actually imprinted)

This is the last attempt I've done (You can see more leafs has transferred onto it)

And this is the colour pencil dinosaur composition ;)

Advertisement - Slowing Down The Sun

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For the past week we started a new topic about Myths And Legends, we talked about the ones here in New Zealand then later on we were listing down a few countries to start Myths and Legends for. We mostly just listed a bunch of different countries, but the one I chose was Japan because I was able to find a lot of interesting Myths. But, for now we are working on the Myths and Legends on Maui and The Sun. What we had to do is finish off activities in this google slides, I was only able to finish quite a few, but then after that we were told blog our work, we don't have to blog about the whole thing since no one finished everything that quickly. The one I decided to blog about was a small advertisement of who can be the next person to pull the sun so they could slow it down. (Warning: The number I put on there is something I just had to make up since the activity told me to do that, please don't actually try calling the number, because I have a fear that it's actually someones number)

The thing I enjoyed was that we got told that we were working around Myths and Legends, because I was actually hoping we would do one of these cause' I find it really interesting, and hopefully we would be able to work around on other countries so I could find out about their beliefs in these sorts of things. And I also liked using Canva to create my advertisement poster. What I wasn't really enjoying was that we only got to do a country of the teachers choice, it's not like it's a bad thing, but I'd like it if we were able to work on other countries after this one, like I said I wanna know more about peoples beliefs in these sort of things, and it's really fun to do these kind of research. 

Anyways, here is my small poster of Advertisement. (Also I'm not really good at advertising but I really tried my best on this) Hope you enjoy! 

Art - Henri Rousseau

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For the past week, we have been talking about art from Henri Rousseau and talking about the jungle prints, we have also been learning about: Background, Middle-ground, fore-ground and all those sorts for the basics. But first, we had to warm, up which is like draw a jungle, and watch a video to get to know about Henri R. If you don't know who he is, he goes to a botanical garden in Paris and studied the plants and zoo animals there, and fun fact he's never been to a jungle or forest, that's why he goes to a botanical garden. 

Terms:

Repetition: Repeated use of image, shape or colour. This can help create unity in Art

Background: The information you see as the furthest away in an art image. 

Middle ground: The area between the foreground and the background. 

Foreground: The information you see as the closest to you in Art image. 

Mono: one, single. 

Print: A copy. A transfer of pigment from one surface to another. Here we use it to make Art work. 

Foliage: leaves of a plant, leafage. 

Flora: Plants of a region or era. 

Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff - Kiwi Birds and Stoats

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This is our third part of Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff. This time we are asked to read from pages 17-22, the one that caught my eyes were about Kiwis and Stoats, the description said: "Did you know 95% of Kiwi chicks die before 6 months old, some of them are killed by Stoats" I used Canva again because I didn't have to guts to use other apps, because Canva is the most app I was comfortable with. Like last time we were encouraged to use other editing apps rather than google draw, docs or slide presentations. 

Reflection:

What I mostly enjoyed was researching about the Kiwis and Stoats and getting into more of like an investigation, I enjoyed it just like the others because it included about research, but this one is probably the one I enjoy the most it's because its about our native animal. What I didn't enjoy was that I had to write down some notes on a piece of paper and write them out in my own sentences. 

Here is my poster that has some facts and statements about the Kiwi and Stoats. ( Zoom in to read please )

Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff - Eels

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For the last few days we have been creating DLO's from the book Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff. There is a lot of things we can research about that is on the book, and each week/day we got to read from specific pages. For yesterday and today we got to read from pages to 11-16 and see what we can research about, the one that caught my eyes were long finned eels, or just eels specifically. I can tell you the other pages are better because they have even more of items/things I can research about. 

 Here is my DLO that I created. 

(Zoom in, to read the DLO)

Reflection: 

What I thought about this was it was pretty fun because I thought that I found a bit more that interests me. What I didn't enjoy is the fact I only had 1 hour to work on this because of ESOL, but overall I think I did a lot better than I would most of the times. 

What about you? Do you know any other facts about long finned eels, or eels by itself? 

Drama

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I have had two terms of drama in this year and term 3 drama is one of my favourite one because the teacher got us to play lots of games, do a mini script play and watch videos. And we also got to talk about theatre style/genres. Something that I found challenging was trying to remember all the style/genres that we were supposed to learn, I also found some games challenging because some I didn't knew but some I did.

The games we played:

• JFK
• Wink murderer
• Blindman
• YOU
• Hide n seek 

What theatre style/genre did you learn about?

I'm not sure what I learnt about but the one I enjoyed was definitely Comedy, because it's the most entertaining one that I found, it wasn't funny but I did get a couple of giggles. 

Making Hokey Pokey

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This week we will be making hokey pokey, but we will unfortunately make it on Friday just because we are making this blog post today. The reason we won't do it today is because when we make the hokey pokey, we won't have enough time to make this blog post on the same day we try to make the hokey pokey. 

Aim:

I want to find out how to make hokey pokey. 

Research: 

Find three videos: Funny, How to make Hokey pokey and science of Hokey Pokey. 

How to make Hokey Pokey:

Science of Hokey Pokey (basically how to make it but it has some scientific stuff): 

Funny Version: 

Method:

Equipment:

• Pot
• 5 tablespoons of Sugar
• 2 tabelspoons of Golden Syrup 
• 1 tablespoon of Baking Powder (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate)
• Wooden Spoon for mixing 
• Stove or Bunsen burner 
• Baking paper 

Instructions:

1. Get all of your equipment ready and gather them in one spot 
2. Set up your Bunsen Burner  (Yellow Safety)
3. Put your pot on the Bunsen Burner on the tripod and use the blue flame
4. Add the sugar and golden syrup to the pot.
5.  Mix with the wooden spoon
6. Stop mixing and turn of the Bunsen when the sugar begins to boil 
7. Add the Baking Powder and mix
8. Pour the mixture onto the baking paper
9. Let it cool 

Results:

What is a base

An acid is a liquid that had Hydrogen atom that can react.

For example:

• Nitric Acid               HNO3
• Sulfuric Acid            H2SO4
• Hydrochloric Acid    HCI 

A base is the opposite of an acid and has OH (Hydroxide) that can react. 

When an acid and a base react, they NEUTRALISE (cancel out) each other. 

Where do you find acids?

1. Oven CLeaner
2. Caustic Soda
3. Drainers 
4. Toothpaste 

Litmus colour 

• Red 
• Blue

Willow Trees

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Last week we have been working on Flora and Fauna. We read a book that has some things that we can research about, the one that caught my eye was about Willow Trees, I did that one because I found it the most interesting of how when you pour poison in it, it won't harm any animals or plant, instead they will continue sheltering the fishes and other creatures until other plants takes its place. And I'm also not really into plants. 

We had to create a DLO for this but trying out different apps such as: Canva, Biteable, Powtoon and such and such, because a lot of people would usually use Google drawing or google slides. 

Reflection:

I enjoyed researching about Willow Trees, because I'm not really a huge fan of plants. What I found something different from using Canva is I can't really edit much unless I use the templates they provide because I'm not used to other apps besides Google drawings or Google Slides. 

What is an Acid?

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Aim:

Names of acid:

• \Hydrochloric Acid 
• Sulfuric Acid 
• Nitric Acid  

Formulae of Acids:

• HCl
• H2SO4
• HNO3

Where do you find acids?

• Plaque Acid on your teeth
• Stomach Acid if Hydrochloric Acid
• Battery Acid is Sulfuric Acid
• Lemons and Oranged have Citric Acid
• Vinegar contains Acid 
• Bee-Stings have Formic Acid
• Coca-Cola has Carbonic Acid 

What is an Acid?

• An acid contains Hydrogen atoms that break off to react with a substance. 

Litmus Colour:

Litmus Paper changes colour in acid, it changes to a RED colour. 

Red Cabbage Indicator

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Aim: 

I want to find out how to tell if something is an acid. 

Method:

Equipment 

• Beaker
• Red Cabbage
• Hot water 
• Dropper 
• Test Tubes 
• Different samples for testing 

Instruction:

1. Get your equipment
2. Rip the cabbage into small pieces and put them into the beaker 
3. Add about 100mL of hot water into the beaker
4. Let it sit for 10-15 minutes
5. Get 2 test tubes and put both the hydrochloric acid and the Hydroxide along with the red cabbage water. (It should turn pink or bright green/yellow)

Results:

Message in a bottle

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Yesterday we have been set a task to, write about A message in a bottle, the stuff we had to do were: Where has the bottle been found? Who found it? Who wrote the letter? Why was the letter written? What does the letter say? It wasn't easy for me because I couldn't come up with an idea of how to start the story. Here is the story I made. 

Making Sherbet

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Today in science we are going to be making sherbet, we were supposed to do something else but we missed almost 3 weeks of class. 

Aim:

I want to learn how to make sherbet.

Here is a video of how to make sherbet: 

 Method:

Equipment

• Icing sugar and Raro
• Cup or any other sort of container
• Citric Acid or Tartaric Acid
• Baking powder
• Popsicle stick 
• Teaspoon 

Instructions:

1. Get all of your equipment ready 
2. Add one teaspoon of sugar/raro to the cup
3. Add half a teaspoon of acid to the cup
4. Add half a teaspoon of baking powder to the cup
5. Mix with the stick
6. Taste the sherbet and adjust the flavour 

Results:

What happened in the cup? Nothing happened in the cup, but it did turn pink because of the raro.

What happens in your mouth? My mouth starts sizzling and it felt foamy in my mouth.

The scientific word for fizzing is effervescence.

 

Activity 5

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I have been looking at different activities/tasks and one caught my eye, it was to interview everyone in your family what their favourite place in the country is. I also put why they like that country in a small sentence. 

Here it is! 

Make sure to comment down below what your favourite country would be! And mostly stay safe!! <3

Origami

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I hope you guys are at home and staying safe! Today one of our school tasks to do was an origami, what we had to do is go to YouTube and find an origami that we would like to do. The one I found was called a Mini envelope origami and another separate one is a mini book origami that its perfectly in the envelope. Then our next task to do was find a video tutorial + a picture of how yours turned out and upload it onto here so others can try it out!

                                     (If you'd want the book to be smaller, grab a smaller paper)

I actually had fun making these and it is so cute, here is how mine turned out. That's it guys! Stay safe <3

Bacteria's at School

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Aim: 

I want to find out where the dirtiest and contaminating places at school. 

Research:

These are 2 videos of science of bacteria and how to swab surfaces.

Method: 

Equipment:

• Petri Dish 
• Cotton Tip 
• Marker Pen 
• Sellotape 

Instructions:

1. Get your equipment
2. Divide your plate using a marker (2) - Table, faucet 
3. Label the sections with what you swab 
4. Take a cotton tip and swab a surface 
5. Gently swab the agar jelly 

Kerri Welsh Jennings

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For this past week we have been working on the Olympic Games, the first one was the one where we had to connect the puzzles and make a screencastify video of what we learnt about it (one of my posts last week) this time we had to choose which one was our favourite Olympian and we had to create 5 or more slides about them like: Reference, photos, notes and the title that includes their name and where they came from. 

The one I chose is Kerri Welsh Jennings and she is a beach volleyball player, I chose her because volleyball is one of my favourite sports, that's all the information I'm gonna give you because most of them is in the slides I already made. 

Enjoy!

After seeing that what Olympian do you like? 

Ginger Beer

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Aim: 

I want to find out how to make a ginger beer. 

Research: 

Here are three YouTube clips of Tasting ginger beer, how to make ginger beer and how yeast ferments drinks. 

Method 

Ingredient: 

• Ginger beer 
• Sugar 
• Lemon 
• Warm Water 
• Yeast  

Equipment: 

• Spoon
• Plastic Cup 
• Kettle (For the lukewarm water)

Instructions:

1. Put 4 table spoons of yeast into your cup 
2. Put 1 tablespoon of sugar in your cup
3. Pour in the lukewarm water halfway into the cup 
4. Mix it around
5. Leave it for 10 minutes 
6. Put in some ginger powder
7. Squirt some lemon or lemon juice 
8. Let it sit for 2-3 days 

Here is a picture of how mine turned out:

It tasted sour because the ginger powder sank to the bottom of the cup, it smelt sour again because of the lemon juice I put in. And it looked like a light yellow but some of the others looked like a dark yellow. 

If you do make one make sure to mix it after because the ginger powder will sink to the bottom of the cup.

Olympic Games Worksheet puzzle

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For the past two days we have been working on the Olympic Games worksheet puzzle, group 4 had to do a novel study which left 1,2,3 doing the worksheet puzzle. The teacher said we could either do it in a group or individual, I chose individual because I for sure know that if I did it in a group I'd get distracted, and probably end up doing nothing. The worksheet puzzles had different types of questions about the Olympic Games, and the fun thing was we got to draw and colour. 

After we have finished the worksheet puzzle, we had to cut it out and glue it to a paper and connect it like how a puzzle would work, then we were told to make a screencastify about it, and what we learnt about it. (Screencastify not finished yet sorry).

What I enjoyed with these sessions is that I got to learn something new from the Olympics now and then, because I'm not really into sports. 

Hot Chilli tasting

 Kia Ora readers! 

Aim:

I would like to find out if milk really does help reduce the burn of the hot sauce.

Research: 

Here is 2 videos I found of people reacting to chilli and the science of chilli

Method:

• Hot Sauce
• Toothpick
• Stopwatch 

Instructions:

1. Get all of your equipment 
2. Dip the toothpick in the hot sauce 
3. Suck the hot sauce off the toothpick 
4. Start timing 
5. Stop timing when it stops burning

Result: 

The chilli sauce was so so  hot that I felt like I almost died and it felt like my mouth was on fire. I had my mouth on the tap because it wont stop 

 (Coke) It went away at 1:40

(Water) IT NEVER WENT AWAY 

(Milk) It went away at 1:37