Home Economics (Truffles)

Today in Home economics wee maid trufels and dey were good az Ghee. two make the trufels we needed kokonut white stuff, icing stuff that you put in baking stuff and finishly we made them. 

Science (gods)

 In Japanese folklore, animals play an important role in the origin of earthquakes. According to a popular story, the cause of earthquakes is the giant catfish Manama. Hiding somewhere beneath the Japanese mainland, sometimes he wiggles his tail, causing an earthquake in the human world. People thought that it was the weird things that cat fish do before an earth quake starts. 

P.E Gymnastics

Today in gymnastics I was practising the sequence that I am going to do in the future. I had a lot of muck ups during the time i was on the tramp because I wasn't landing my somersaults and I wasn't doing my handstand back rolls, but at times I landed my somersaults and almost did a forward roll on the parallel bar so i was proud of that.  

An inspector calls

 An Inspector calls 

1)what were the major events throughout 1910-1920?

1910. Jack Johnson beats Tommy Burns, Jack Johnson became the first black boxer to win the Heavyweight Boxing Championship was when he knocked out the reigning champion Tommy Burns on December 26th

1911. electrical advancements 

1912. Titanic sank 

1913. first cross word puzzle 

1914. federal change commission 

1915.

1916

1917.

1918. 

1919.

1920.

2)who was J.b.Priestly, and what did he do in his life 

3)what are symbols and motifs in narratives

4)what was life like in England in the 1910

Gymnastics

Today in P.E we did Gymnastics, today I went on the trampoline doing a bunch of sequence, although it was tough i managed to get through it, it wasn't perfect but i was proud of what I was able to accomplish in that short while in P.E. The sequence I did consisted in a bunch of moves, those moves was Tuck jump, 180 spin, straddle jump, bike jump, stomach jump, air role, stomach jump and a back jump turn and another back jump, we had to do this in one go. 

   

Science

 This week in Science we learned more about the layers and volcanos on the earth. There are four layers in the earth's crust, the thinnest and coldest layer of them is the crust. The crust holds the oceans and forms the continents below us, the second and most thickest layer is the mantle, the mantle is a thick layer made up of molten rock, the third layer in the outer core it is the second hottest and the inner core and is the hottest part of the earth. 

Volcano disaster 

Mt. Tambura is the deadliest eruption in recent human history, claiming the lives of up to 120,000 people. On 10 April 1815, Tambura erupted sending volcanic ash 40km into the sky. It was the most powerful eruption in 500 years. Upon entering the ocean, the force of the pyroclastic flow caused the creation of a series of towering tsunamis. Thanks to the enormous amount of SO2 emitted, the world experienced a severe temperature drop that led to global crop failures.

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Math

this week in maths we just worked on forces and motions

Wind racers

Today in science we are making wind racers for the next four periods. So I will be updating this blog as we go through this. 

Method:To make adjustments to the cart so it can blow further when we use the wind or the leaf blower, for this to work we need to make a big one and make sure the wind blows it perfectly. 

Design: We are going to make a wide triangular sail for our wind racer, We will use newspaper to make a triangular sail, we will also use sticks, strings/rubber bands for support.

Equipment:

• New paper
• Sticks 
• Tape
• Hot glue
• Pieces of wood 
• Pole
• Rubber bands or strings

Today in science i started making our sail. Stitched it with string and and now it starting to come together. I've also set up my stand for where the sail is gong to stay. I will be reinforcing it with sticks and cardboard next time i do this. 

last week on Friday we had a test race to see what we could improve on our wind racers. That was really good for us and gave us some things to work on our wind racers. 

Home Economics (Food around the world)

This is what i did today in home economics.

Art

Painting Techniques: In art this term we have been learning how do paint techniques. The techniques we used were Gesso, texture, blending, and layers. Gesso's are a liquids that you paint and its a base so that the paint doesn't get through. Texture is the type of painting that you create. blending and layers is just combining a bunch of different colours together. These re pretty much all the painting styles that we used. 

Here are some of the art that i have created using the techniques.

Maths

this week in maths we have learned a bit about algebra and some other stuff that has to do with finance and numbers for bank and force of motions and calculating the motion.  

Home Economics Week 3

 Food has significantly in the last 100 year in New Zealand, such as how it was made and how it was produced. People hunted for their foods but now they, but now they get foods from the supermarket. foods will be packed and made for you with machines. machine and AI will take over some of the food industries meaning food gathering, food preparing and food cooking will be made by machines. 

Science (measuring speed)

In our experiment yesterday we were measuring speed of the vehicles with timers. we did that by timing the 

vehicles speed and then dividing it by 50 and then time-sing that number by 3.6, the results were the km per 

hour the vehicles went. The 50 in the calculation was the distance the vehicle covered. 3.6 was just the 

converting to meters per second to km per hour. None the vehicles did not reach over 60 km per hour. The 

vehicles did not speed because because of the traffic lights. I 

really don't know if these calculations are accurate and i would rather use a more accurate tool for this job, 

but overall it was a good experiment. 

Science (Circuits)

There haven't been many things that we have done on this topic in science, but so far it was enjoyable. We've learned about electricity, circuits, voltage, and magnetism. we have not done many experiments on how to make a circuit, but I'm pretty sure we will be doing that soon.

here is the stuff that I have learnt during this topic so far.

Cooper Coin (Science)

Today we did an experiment on a copper coin. we tried to turn in from copper to silver than to gold. at the start of the experiment we got our on individual coins then we cleaned them if they were dirty in salt and vinegar water, after that we put 50mL of 2molL Na HO into a beaker, we proceeded to set up the bunsen burner, we put the beaker with the chemical on top of the fire and waited for a light boil. we added Zinc power into our chemical and stirred the mixture, then we put it back on the heat and put the coin in with it after a while, it turned into a silver coin then we gave it a rinse and put it on the fire then soon it turned into a gold coin.

Sience (Acid Rain)

What is acid rain?

Acid rain is chemical weather, buildings, and statues made up of rocks that can get damaged during the acid rain. The acid rain is caused when chemicals in factories, cars, or any other type of technology that uses fossil fuel, coal, oil, and natural gases burned, these gases go up into the atmosphere where the clouds are and contaminates the clouds making the clouds turn acidic.

Method:

1. set up Petriadd 
2. add few drops of water to these
3. add spatula of sodium sulfate to weigh boat
4. take starting photo
5. add 5 drops of sulfuric acid and quickly put a lid on
6. watch and take a photo

Observation

I saw the different types of things that we put in, the blue litmus turned red as you can see on the picture, the two drops of chemical turned a different color as you can see, the calcium carbonate should have started to get eaten away but I guess it needs more time and the leaf should have started turning brown 

Social studies

These past few weeks of social studies we have been learning about migration and the migration topic my class has been working on is refugees and how different refugees around the world migrate. They migrate because of their corrupt government and wars in their countries, people in those countries cannot live in those harsh environments. What I found interesting was how they migrated across the seas just for a better life for themselves, but what they don't know is they would arrive at their destination only to be disappointed because those countries don't let people in.

Maths

this week we continued on our work on GeoGebra, I liked making our own shapes and angles and overall I liked working on it. 

Science

In science, we have been learning about acids and bases, this topic has been kind of difficult, but I got through it just fine. We have used this thing called the universal indicator. so basically, I showed us weather the chemicals that we used were either acids or bases. Then we learned about the Ph scale, it was basically a range of how acidic or basic the chemicals were, the Ph scale was numbered from 1 to 14. acids are obviously acidic the most acidic acids are red and they are lower than 7 in the Ph scale and the base is the chemicals that are higher than 7, 14 are the most alkali.

this is what we did in science today. 

we use chemicals such as the universal indicator to find out if the other chemicals. 

   

Music

The Piano is the instrument that I am playing because I haven't done a solo performance with it. I haven't really chosen anything really. I am performing to the class because I feel confident in myself

Syrian Refugees (Social studies)

The past few weeks we have been learning about migration and this work that I have done is a topic about migration, we had to pick a country that had refugees and we had to answer kind of easy, but I liked doing them at the same time I hope you learned something from my work.

Maths (geogebra)

 This is what we have been dong in our maths lessons. We have been playing around on this website called GeoGebra. we have been learning about angles and making angles, we have also been making random shapes with this app. I have enjoyed this and I hope we do more of it in the future

Music Reflection

1. What instrument did you choose to learn and why? I would like to play on the piano because I find it easy to play and I would like to learn more about it.
2. What song did you choose to learn and why? I haven't chosen a song yet, but I hope to learn and master the song I would like to learn.
3. What was challenging about this piece and how did you overcome the challenges? I had some challenges of my own while I was playing, one of them was always pressing the wrong key on the piano.
4. Were you happy with your final recording/performance? why? I didn't record, but I did get to play some songs.
5. What would you change about your performance if you could do it again? no, I wouldn't because I didn't get to do it.
6. Were you happy with your overall grade and why? I wasn't happy nor sad because i didn't get to perform.
7. What have you enjoyed about Music this semester? Playing on the piano.

1. Why did you decide to do the research project? Because the teacher told me to do it.

2. What did you choose to research and not perform/why? I and my friend Jordan decided to do "Rap" as our research task.

3. What interesting findings did you find when researching? I found out that Rap originated in the streets of New York.

4. Were you happy with your final project? Yes, because I thought me and my friend worked hard on it.

5. Were you happy with your overall grade and why? I haven't gotten my overall grade so I don't really know what to feel about it right now.

6. What have you enjoyed about Music this semester? I have enjoyed everything weather it was playing the instruments or having fun with my friends by working together to succeed in our work.

BST) Entrepreneur Bill Hamilton

In the lesson of BST, we were looking at Entrepreneur and we had to choose one of the people that we were assigned to do, I chose Bill Hamilton and I had to talk about what he did and what made him an entrepreneur. I found out so many things about him during this lesson and here are my end results. 

Social studies (Slavery)

this is what we did in social studies today and I just finished it.

Science

I have learnt many things during this lesson of bones there are different types of bone, but one of the interesting one that caught my eye was the the femur. the femur is the biggest bone in your body, the femur is your thigh bone and it is also one of the strongest bones in your body.

Another bone that interested me was the tibia and the fibula the tibia and the fibula are the two bones in your shin. the tibia is thicker than the fibula and it is parallel to the fibula, it has a role to play for supporting the ankle. the fibula is the thinner bone that is parallel to the tibia and it does pretty much the same as the tibia it helps to support the ankle.

The has a significant role to play in your body, it is one of your vital organs and you wont be able to live without it. The heart pumps blood to your whole body and lungs, it also pumps energy and oxygen through out your body and takes out the carbon dioxide. The heart is a muscle and it was one of the strongest one in your body, the left side of your heart is the stronger side of the heart because it needs to pump the blood throughout your whole body and the right side pumps to the lungs so it wont been to be as strong.

The biceps and triceps. they are two muscles that work together in order for your arms to move, when you stretch out your arms the triceps tense up because it need to support the fore arm bone to go down and the same thing happens when you curl up your arm inwards, the muscles will help the fore arm to go up and down. when the arm goes out the triceps contact and when the arm curls up the biceps contract. 

Richard Pearse

this is what I had to do in Business Studies last weeks. I made a time Line of Richard Pearse and made a fact Profile about him. I have learnt a lot about Richar Pearse during this learning lesson. I loved this lesson because I got to learn one of the first people in the world to achieve flight.

Timeline-->Link<-- Timeline

social studies

this is what I did in social studies today. I finished off what I started the other week. I learnt a lot about Harriet Tubman, one thing I learnt about Harriet Tubman is that she saved the slaves back in the civil war and even before that. I enjoyed learning about the slave trade in America and the underground railway.

What does it mean to be a good mathematician?

What I think a good mathematician is when someone chooses his/ her answers carefully and takes their time to do their math in order to complete their math with great results because of their careful thinking and their diligence in their work, and that is what i think a good mathematician is.

Music

My kinds of music:

1. favourite singer/bands (why?) Xbattailon, because they post a lot of great music that I enjoy.

2. what instrument do you play? I play the drums and I kinds know how to play the piano.

3. what would you like to learn in music this year? just to learn anything the teacher gives us.

What is a genre? (in informal use) a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.

Human rights

This is what we did in our social studies class. We had to make a Human Rights poster and this is what the end result of my work. I learned what the Human rights are. What I thought was interesting was the human rights were made because of the holocaust in the World Wars. my work link to all 30 human rights and the pictures represent human rights.