Eels

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Welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we have been doing in hurumanu 1( Nga tangata) this hurumanu is about reading, and for the last few weeks we were reading this book called Uncle Don Knows Heaps Of Wacky Stuff which has a lot of interesting facts about Flora and fauna. We also were doing some DLO about the creatures and other stuff we think that is interesting. This week I choose to do the Eels because I think it's interesting and has good facts on the book that I was reading. I also picked it because of the facts that I have seen in the book that I have never know about it. 

Here is the poster that I have made for the Eels 

The Eels were really interesting to research about, and I also learned a lot of stuff about them. I also like using canva because it looks more interesting and fun to read because of all the designs that they have than just using a google doc. I also think that this hurumanu went well because I really enjoyed reading the book because it wasn't really like the other books it was more fun to read because of how they placed the paragraphs around the book.

Here is one of the pages of the book that I was reading.

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Drama

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Welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we have been doing for the last few weeks here in drama. I've been here in drama for the whole term this term and through those years I've really liked it because of how the teacher thought us the lessons and we also did some games that are about drama to improve our acting skills and other stuff. Drama thought me some lessons such as how to act your role properly, and it also improved my confidence of standing on the stage.

Here in drama we did a lots of stuff like acting and we also played some games like:

• Wink murderer-  which basically needs quite a bit of people to play it, two players has to be the murderer and detective. The detective has to go outside so he/she won't know who the murderer is, and the other players has to pick the murderer for the game. The murderers job is to wink to kill the other players before he/she gets caught.
• Hide n seek- this game is also famous since a bunch of people know this game, this game includes a seeker to find the players and the other players have to hide, and whoever gets caught the last wins. 
• Night in the museum- This game is really good on testing how still you can be for a certain amount of time. This game needs a police that checks the museum and the rest of the players needs to be a statue of something and stay still till the game is over. We also played some games like park bench, JFK, and you. 

In my personal opinion the drama this term is really fun because the teacher is nice like other one's and our teacher this term is also really good at making things interesting and fun. Thank you for reading my blog I hope you enjoyed reading it! leave a comment below on what you think about it.

Camping

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Welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we are doing here in wananga which is the mental health week task board, this board includes making a flyer, creating a map of your favourite place and including some photos etc. For me I chose to do the task where we had to do a flyer about that can advertise some local activities that can be here in the Canterbury area, I choose to do camping for my flyer because I wanted to advertise it,and because I also like going on camping. 

Here is the flyer that I have made.

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Willow trees

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Welcome back to my blog and today I will be talking about what we've done last week on hurumanu 1 also called as Nga Tangata (hurumanu 1 is about reading). In this hurumanu we we're doing some DLO about the creatures and plants that were on the book. We basically have to read the book pages 8-11 and pick a plant to research about and make a DLO, for me I picked the Willow tree because of the facts that we're written on the book, and I also find the willow trees good looking. I used canva for this DLO since I've used it for almost all of my DLO. I think everything went well except when I had to save the DLO, it didn't let me save it but only let me to take a screenshot which game the DLO a blue box around the text.

Here is the poster that I have created for this hurumanu.

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Flora and fauna

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Welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we had been doing last week at hurumanu 1 which is making DLO about what we picked on the book pages 4-7. For me I decided to pick the Paikea because of the facts I saw on the book about it, and they also looked interesting to research about.  

Here are some facts that I have found out.  

• According to a legend the Paikea is originally from New Zealand from the Pacific Islands, Paikea are also humpback whales which can live for 50years or more. They travel about 7,000 kilometers each year.

• Pakia is the youngest and also the favourite son of the chief Uenuku that was from the Islands of Mangai in the present day Cook islands. Since Paikea was the favourite it made his elder brother jealous and tried to plan on killing him and tell Uenuku that he drowned. But the plan didn’t work because Paikea overheard them, and the plan failed.

• The Paikea is important to the Maori people because it’s the key link to the ancient Hawaiki homeland. It’s also known as the biggest/large whale in New Zealand/ Aotearoa.

• Humpback whales weigh about 80,000 pound and are 6 feet long, and in the southern hemisphere there are about six humpback whales.

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Hot chilli tasting

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Aim: 

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

Research:

Here is the video of people reacting to the chilli sauce and the science of chilli. 

Method: 

• Hot sauce 
• Toothpick
• Stopwatch  

Instructions:

1. Gather all of your equipment's.
2. Dip the toothpick in the hot sauce.
3. Suck the hot sauce off the toothpick.
4. Start timing 
5. Stop the timer when the burn stops. 

Results:

The chilli sauce was really burning my taste buds, and when I first tasted it it wasn't that spicy but then it started to be.

Coke - it went away at 1:20, it really depends on how much hot sauce you eat.

Water - It dosent really remove the burning off the tongue. 1:46

Milk - the milk was the fastest to remove the burn from the hot sauce and it went away at 1:02

 

What is an acid?

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Names of acid:

• Hydrochloric Acid 
• Sulfuric Acid 
• Nitric Acid 

Formulae of acid:

• HCl 
• H2SO4 
• HNO3 

Where do you find Acids?

• Plaque Acid on your teeth.
• Stomach Acid is Hydrochloric Acid.
• Battery Acid Sulfuric Acid 
• Lemons and Oranges have Citric Acid 
• Vinegar contains Acetic Acid
• Bee-sting have Formic Acid 
• Coca-Cola has Carbonic Acid

What is an acid?

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

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 

Instructions:

1. Gather the equipment's ready.
2. Rip the cabbage into small portions/pieces and put them into a beaker.
3. Add about 100ml of hot water on the beaker.
4. Then let it sit for a few minutes. 
5. Add in 2 cm of Sodium Hydroxide in the test tube same for Hydrochloric acid .
6. Then for both of them add the Red Cabbage liquid using the dropper and identify the colours.
7. Then mix the other liquids to create different colours.

Results:

Message In A Bottle

 Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we were doing this week on wananga which is either Making a story about a message in a bottle or Make a letter. I choose to make a letter to myself because I want to know what change on my self. The letter was also about asking what I've done for the last few years. 

This is the letter that I have made for this task. 

Making Sherbet

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Aim: I want to find out on how to make sherbet.

Research: A clip on how to make sherbet.

Method:

Equipment:

• Icing sugar and Raro 
• A container/ and other sort of container 
• Citric Acid Tartaric Acid 
• Baking powder 
• Popsicle stick for mixing 
• Teaspoon 

Instructions:

• Get all of your equipment ready.
• Add one teaspoon of sugar/taro to the cup.
• Add half a teaspoon of acid to the cup.
• And half a teaspoon of baking powder to the cup.
• Mix with the stick.
• Taste the sherbet, and adjust the flavour.

Results:

What happens in the cup? When I mixed all of it the powder turned pinkish and there wasn't any reaction.

What happens in your mouth? When I tasted the Sherbet it fizzed inside my mouth while it was dissolving  and it tasted really good.

Discussion: 

Why did it foam up in your mouth?