Olympic

 Kia Ora readers today I will be talking about what we had been doing for the past few weeks here in hurrumanu, for the last few days we had been learning about the Olympics. We also had to read some texts to be able to answer the questions, we were given a piece of paper that is shaped like a puzzle and we had to answer the questions so we can be able to complete the puzzle.

Here are some questions:

 What is one new sport at the Tokyo Olympic Games? One new sport at the Tokyo Olympic games is the Karate.

What is one water sport at the Tokyo Olympic Games?One water sport at the Tokyo Olympic Games is the Canoe, and canoe is basically a narrow boat with pointed ends and no keel, and for the boat to move they have to paddle.

What three sports are part of the triathlon? This three sports are part of the triathlon which is swimming,cycling, and running.

How does the Olympic flame connect the ancient and modern Games?The Olympic flame is a very visual way to show the connection between the ancient and modern games.

Where does the torch travel from? The torch travel from the ancient Olympia in Greece.

What is it used for when it reaches the Olympic venue? It is used to light the giant torch or cauldron that burns throughout the Olympic games.

Write three facts from Fact Card 4.

• The Olympic games are held every four years.
• There are total of 43 Olympic venues in Tokyo.
• They decided to completely rebuild the station which hold 68,000 spectators.

The Olympic symbol is five coloured rings liked together. The five rings represent the five inhabited continents ( Africa,Asia,Australia,Europe, and the Americas. 

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Blind Taste Testing

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 Aim: My aim is to find out how things taste when im blind folded.

Researches: This is a video explaining how the taste works.

Method:

Equipment:

• Blind food 
• Mystery/unknown food 

Instruction:

1. Gather your equipment's
2. Put your blind fold on.
3. Taste test the food 
4. is it, Sweet, Sour, Bitter,Spicy, Salty.
5. Guess what food it is 
6. Record you observations 

Results:

Food#1 

When I ate the food, it tasted like orange and felt chewy and when i blocked my nose the taste disappeared and when I unblocked it the taste went back.

Food#2 

When I tasted the food it tasted very salty/sour and looked like sugar and when I tasted  the food it was really sour on the side of my tongue.

Food#3 

Food 3 tasted like baking powder and the texture was like flour, and tasted really bitter.

Food#4 

Food 4 looked like salt and tasted like salt, and the taste was at the front of my tongue, and I also didn't liked the taste of it because it was bitter .

Food#5 

The food looked like sugar and tasted like sugar, and I really liked the food because it was really sweet.

Food#6

The food was bubbly when i looked like it and it was fizzy inside the mouth and the name of the food was sherbet.

Ukulele

Kia Ora readers today I will be talking about what we had been doing on hurumanu 2 which is counting the beat, and the purpose of this blog is to show what I had been doing on hurumanu 2 which is counting the beat. Hurumanu 2 is about music like learning the generation of it, genres, and learning how to play the instruments like Guitar,Ukulele and more.

For the last few days we had been learning on playing the Ukulele by using YouTube tutorials and some tips from my friends that knew how to play it. The first thing that we did in this hurumanu was to discuss about what we already know about the Ukulele such as the parts of it and types, after that Mrs. Allan brought us some Ukulele's for us to use. But I wasn't there to play it because I was at ESOL.

Here is a photo of the parts of the Ukulele. 

Here is also some types of the Ukulele

 On this hurumanu I have learned the parts of the Ukulele and learned how to play some songs using YouTube I hope that you enjoyed reading my blog post. Make sure you drop a comment about what you think about this blog. 

Stomp

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Welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we had been doing for the past few weeks which is making our own music using auto tuned instruments or non auto tuned instruction, most people used sticks, can, and more stuff's, apparently I wasn't able to do it because I wasn't there when the day they did it. We also did some researches about the music through the decades and here is one of the one that I made.

In 1900's the music that were famous at that time was jazz, blue’s,folk, country and gospel, and most of the songs has dance steps on it.

One of the songs that were popular at 1900's was “Tell me Pretty Maiden” the artist of the songs was Leslie Stuart and was originally made at 1899, this songs was also played by the floradora. Floradora are basically an Edwardian musical comedy, the floradora became one of the first successful Broadway musicals on the 20th century, Floradora had successfully performed 455 times. 

There was also a lot of famous bands at 1900's, and one of them was “ The Beatles” this band was an English rock band that became the most successful act at the 20th century, this band came up with their music, film,literature, art and fashion that made them more popular. The people who were at that band was Lenon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo star. 

Football/Soccer

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Welcome back to my blog, Today I will be talking about what we have been doing for the past two weeks which is Football/Soccer. For the past two weeks we had been learning some rules and tricks to do in football. For the past two weeks we had been learning a lot of tricks to do and one of them is the dribbling, which you have to hit the ball with the side of your foot. We also learned how to stop the ball by using the inside of your feet or the front, and we also did passing which we have basically just have to kick the ball to another person.  

Drills

• Passing 
• Shooting 
• Dribbling 
• Juggling 
• Changing the directions
• Stooping the ball  

One of the main rules that we have to follow on Football/Soccer was not to touch the ball with your hand except if your the Goa-lee. Each team must have a minimum of 11 players. 

P.E

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Welcome back to my blog today here in P.E we were doing some stuff around netball, we also did some drills,fitness and games, here are somethings that we played: piggy in the middle to practice our toss by tossing the ball to the other person, bounce pass to pass the ball even if someone is blocking you  and chest pass so you can pass the ball directly to the person you are aiming for,and so far im really enjoying it. MY favourite part of netball is probably when we play a round of netball game, that's my favourite part because it makes my defending better. 

Here are some of the main rules that we had to follow.

• No stepping with the ball
• No dribbling 
• No short pass 
•  Stand a meter away from the person you are blocking.
• No jumping with the ball.
• When someone shoots on the ball, the ball must got back to the center.

This are the positions that we had on Netball.

• GA= Goal attack, this person is allowed on the circle but not on the other teams circle. 
• GD= Goal defence, this person defends the goal attack and allowed where Goal attack is.
• WA= Wing attack, this person is not allowed on the circle, but allowed on the outside of the circle.
• WD= Wing defence, this person is basically the same as the Wing attack but only defends.
• GS= Goal Shoot, this person is basically allowed on the circle but cannot pass the yellow line.
• GK= This person cannot shoot, this person mainly do is defend the Goal shoot from shooting on the goal.
• C=Center, this person stands in the middle where the circle is in, this person basically gets the ball first from the rest because he is the one who gives the ball to the people on their team.

For P.E we had approximately had 3 games, and has two weeks to play it, and each week we had two lessons of it. My favourite positions are Center and Goal keep After netball we were gonna go start playing football/soccer. 

Kiwi innovators

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Welcome back to my blog this past weeks we had been doing some works about the inventions that were created or made here in New Zealand like EasiYo, and pavlova. We also had to read some articles about the invention that we had pick which has to be latest 3x, For one of my inventions I picked the EasiYo, which is a Yogurt  maker. This Yogurt make is much healthier than the normal Yogurt that is there on the super marker according to the article.

Here are some questions that was there on the google slide.

Who invented EasiYo yogurt? The person that invented the EasiYo was Len Light and the reason why he did it was because he had eight children who loved yogurts but then he was worried because the cheap yogurts didn’t have that much nutrients which means it’s not healthy for the children's but then if the buys the healthy one it will be too expensive since he had 8 children's . 

Why do you think they chose the name “EasiYo”?

I think they chose the name EasiYo because the Easi represents that it's easy to use and the Yo for the Yogurt.

Why does yogurt not remain healthy for very long,even in the supermarket fridge? Even though the yogurt is made by fruits sometimes it’s not healthy because of the amount of time that it has been stuck in the fridge, and as that time goes the bacteria will start to grow more and more and it will be worse and that’s why sometimes the yogurt is not healthy but if the yogurt was made at the same time that your gonna eat the yogurt then it will be most likely to be healthy to eat. 

What does the word deteriorate mean?The word deteriorate means that it will get worse and worse.

What steps are required to make yogurt with the EasiYo system?

To make the yogurt on the EasiYo system you have to mix the powder with cold water, and then put some warm water on the thermos and leave it on a bench overnight. 

When was EasiYo sold?

The  EasiYo was introduced 1992 at Auckland and the  EasiYo was soon sold in 2010.

We also had to create our own type of flavour of yogurt, and make a packaging   about it, I decided to pick my flavor as the boba drink because I love to drink boba.

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Here is the pavlova one.

Why is the Pavlova a controversial  dessert?

The pavlova is a controversial dessert because two countries claimed that they have created the dessert.

Who was Anna Pavlova? 

Anna Pavlova is a ballet dancer that has visited New Zealand and Australia, Anna Pavlova was also named as a dessert called pavlova that was created here in New Zealand .  

What is a meringue?

Meringue is a dessert that is sorta similar to pavlova, and the meringue was made in 1720, and the person who created the dessert is Gasparini. This dessert is made by beaten eggs and sugar.

When and where was Mrs. Mc. Rae’s meringues cake recipe published?

 The recipe of the cake was published in Wellington in 1927.

Who was the first to name a large cream and fruit topped meringue cake the pavlova?

The first name for the dessert was pavlova which is a name of a ballerina dancer that has visited New Zealand.

Do you think the pavlova had a New Zealand or Australian inventor? In my opinion I think New Zealand created the pavlova because in the article it says that the creator of the pavlova was a New Zealander. 

We also had to create our own design of what type of pavlova design we want and toppings, mines pretty simple it just has some cream and chocolate on it.

The last things that I picked for the Kiwi Innovators was the Spring free Trampoline, and here are the questions that were there on the google slide.

Where is Dr.Alexandra a professor?

Dr.Alexandra was a professor of Canterbury University.

What was the problem that Dr.Alexandra was trying to solve?

The problem that Dr. Alexandra was trying to solve the problem of the amount of children's that keep breaking their bones because of the trampoline, so he decided to create a safe trampoline for the kids so they won’t get hurt anymore whenever they play on the trampoline. 

In the spring free trampoline design, what is used instead of springs? In the spring free trampoline design instead of using spring they used fibreglass reinforced rods.

Why was the trampoline tested with 3 million bounces?

The trampoline was tested by 3 million bounces to show 10 year of children jumping on the trampoline. 

Why do you think trampoline is more popular due to covid?

In my opinion the trampoline began to be more popular due to the covid because you can use it at home without leaving the house, and some kids love to jump on the trampoline when they’re bored.

I also created a poster about the safety poster for the trampoline.

There isn't that much safety things needed because the spring free trampoline were build to give more protections than the normal trampolines that was

out there.

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