Making Hokey Pokey 🍯😋

Aim:

I want to find out how to make Hokey Pokey.

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Sugar
• Baking soda
• Golden Syrup
• Tablespoon
• Saucepan/pot
• Something metal to mix with.
• Cookie cutter (if making honeycomb/dalgona 달고나)
• Non-stick baking paper
• Bunsen Burner
• Tripod
• Gauze Mat
• Heating tray

Instructions:

1. Wash your hands
2. Get all required equipment.
3. Set up the Bunsen burner and the tripod.
4. Put the pot on top of the tripod over the Bunsen burner.
5.  Light the Bunsen burner and close the hole. (medium heat)
6. Add 5 table spoon of sugar on the pot.
7. Wait till the sugar melts a little, then add 2 tablespoon of golden syrup to the pot.
8. Melt and mix.
9. Turn off the gas and add one teaspoon of baking soda and mix.
10. Scrape the hokey pokey on to the baking paper.
11. Let it cool for about a min.
12. Press a cookie cutter into the hokey pokey.

Results:

Discussion:

Reading Plus

 Hello everyone.

Today we worked on our reading plus again. I didn't manage to get a combo done because i was distracted with my surrounding. 

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	Vocab
What I found difficult today:	Getting work done
What my goal is for next time:	Work somewhere quietly

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Colouring Art

 Hello everyone.

Today in wananga we did a practice of the summer learning journey (SLJ). We had a go at this site where you colour in artworks. I coloured in the art work of a lady holding a letter, flowers in a vase and a girl brushing her hair. 

I decided to keep some of the original colours in the artwork.

Here is what i did:

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Continue of The Bus 🚌 Story

 Hello everyone.

For wananga we had to do a writing prompt. One of the choices was a free choice which you can write your own story with your own topic. I chose to finish one of writing prompts I made near term 3.

Here is a link to the first part. Link

Here is the continue:

“Meet me tomorrow at the last stop? What does that mean?” I asked myself. I turned the piece of paper hoping to find more clues but only ended up having my hopes up for nothing. I snuck the piece of paper into my pockets. While reaching for my pockets I felt a string of some sort touch my fingertips. I pulled it out of my pockets and to my surprise it was a hair tie. I decided to tie my soft brunette hair, pushing it back to allow me to see my surroundings better.

I went back inside the bus sliding my fingers across the seats looking for another clue. As I turn my head left to right I start to see words engraved on the metal walls. I moved towards it trying to take a better look at what it said.

“Hello, can anyone see this?” It wrote.

“Yes.” it answered. 

“What’s your favorite colour? Mine is green.” they wrote.

“I like green too but I prefer the colour brown, a light brown actually.” they answered by writing. Suddenly reading all these words I remember some of my memories that I lost before I had a coma. 

I could recall the exact emotions I felt while reading the engraved writings on the wall. I was at a seat next to a window and below the window, writing from my pen-pal was engraved on it. I would always sit on that seat hoping my pen-pal had already replied to all my writings. 

It was a seat found behind the 5 front rows of seats, barely in the middle of the bus. After a long day of school and barely surviving I found peace talking to this person. We met in person once or twice and shared contact numbers with each other so we actually trust each other. 

After zoning out I find myself smiling as I touch the engraved words on the walls. I stopped and brushed off the feeling and memories I felt. I started to look around at the front window of the bus trying to focus on my initial goal. 

I notice dents and light scratches on the hood of the bus. It’s surprising that they never thought to renovate the bus. I went outside to take a closer look at the hood of the bus. I saw traces of paint leaking underneath the bumper. I crouched down to see what it was. Words were written on it, though it was upside down from my view.“˙ ǝɹǝɥ ǝɹǝʍ ɹǝɥʇǝ∀ puɐ ǝǝlʎW”. 

I laid down on the green thick grass to take a closer look. It said “ Mylee and Aether were here”. I thought for a second…….and then I realized, My name was also Mylee?! Though I wondered to myself “Who is Aether?” Another mystery was yet to be solved….. 

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Business Enterprise 👩‍💼💼

 Hello everyone yesterday we had business enterprise. The business enterprise is our kete for this term. It's basically about how to manage your money efficiently and how to run a business. We started learning more about saving money and what income is on Banqer. After getting started on banqer we started working on the business enterprise. We got into groups between our kahui (Mohua) and planned what we were going to sell. 

Our group was really indecisive and went back to forward with our ideas over and over again.  Though we ended up with an idea of making clay charms. Honestly I think our last minute change was a good choice. After that we had to decide on each of our roles in our groups. I became the finance manager. There were 4 roles, the CEO, the marketing manager, the production manager and the finance manager. My job (the finance manager) was to look after our company's money and manage how much we were spending.  The products that we got were bought with the chairman's money (the teachers that guided each groups)

I think, financially we made enough profit to pay back our debt from the teacher. I counted about half of our money and ended up gaining $31 from selling our products. I don't know if that's accurate cause I didn't count all the money we gained. We didn't end up getting all of our products sold out but I think we sold enough clay charms to get a lot of money.

I also bought products from other businesses. I bought slime, some candy and a bookmark and a glass spottily plaque.

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Making Ginger Beer 🍠🍺

Aim:

I want to find out how to brew/make ginger beer.

Research:

Link

 

Fermentation

Results:

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 After -->  

It tasted really disgusting. It tasted sour at first but then it tasted bitter. It smelt like barf and rotten drinks. It look like lemonade but don't let it's looks deceive you. The sweet taste disappeared compared to before i left it out.

Discussion:

What is fermentation? 

Fermentation is like brewing. It's a process in which the sugar breakdown into alcohol. The yeast eats the sugar and releases carbon dioxide and alcohol.

What is the difference between beer, cider, wine, vodka and whiskey?

They all have different sources of sugars that get fermented. For example, cider's source of sugar is apple, vodka's source of sugar is potato.

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Reading plus

 Hello everyone.

Today we worked on our reading plus. I read about crystal caves and about cells in our body. I managed do get a combo but i got a bad score before.

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	Got a combo
What I found difficult today:	Answering correctly
What my goal is for next time:	Get higher scores

Thank you for reading this blog psot.

Reading Plus 📚➕

 

Hello everyone, today we had reading plus. I had a hard time focusing today because of how noisy are class were. I read a book about sugar and about how important hair is to some religions. 

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	My combo
What I found difficult today:	Focusing,
What my goal is for next time:	Get a combo

Thank you for reading this blog post. 

📚➕ Reading Plus😁

 Hello everyone.

Today we also did reading plus. I have been more focused lately and getting more combos than usual. I think my report will be the same as my recent report. I read a book about lions and a country which both got me a combo. Though sometimes I answer the questions wrong I still get a stable score.

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	My combo and vocab
What I found difficult today:	Not daydreaming.
What my goal is for next time:	Finish level G

Thank you for reading this blog post.

Reading Plus Progress 📚➕

Hello, everyone today we did reading plus.

I finished a lot of combos lately but i have never got to blog about. I recently read about the forbidden city in China. The text talked about why it was called the forbidden city and how special it was. I also read a lot about science and astronomy.

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	Combos
What I found difficult today:	Nothing much
What my goal is for next time:	Leveling up to H

Thank you for reading this blog post.

Red Cabbage Indicator

 Aim:

I want to find out how red cabbage can tell if a liquid is an acid or base.

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Beaker
• Red Cabbage
• hydrochloric acid (the acid)
• sodium hydroxide ( the base)
• Something to mix with. (we used a dropper)
• Boiling water.
• Test tube. 

Instructions:

1. Get all your equipment
2. Wash your hands.
3. Pour boiling water into a big beaker.
4. Rip the red cabbage into little pieces.
5. Add the bits of red cabbage into the beaker.
6. Mix the red cabbage with the boiling water until it becomes a dark colour. (we used a dropper to mix it together)
7. After mixing, with a dropper, add about 10 drops of the red cabbage juice into each of the big test tubes.
8. Add 10 drops of the acid on one of the test tubes and add 10 of the base to the other test tube.
9. The test tube that has only acid on it and the test tube that only has the base in it are the full colours if you only add acid or base.
10. Experiment with the red cabbage, the acid and the base. Add as many drops to make different colours.

Results:

Discussion: 

What is an acid and a base? 

An acid is a substance that contains a lot of hydrogen ions. Hydrogen ions is when a hydrogen atom loses or gains an electron. A base is a substance that has a lot of hydroxide ions. Hydroxide ions is when oxygen and hydrogen atoms it is held together by one pair of electron. Acid can give protons to base. And base can accept protons given from the acid.

What do chemical indicators do?

Chemical indicators gives a visible sign to represent what substance it has. The visible sign is the liquid changing colours.

Making Sherbet🍧🍨🥄

Hello everyone. One tuesday we tried to make sherbet. Here is what we did:

Aim: 

I want to find out how to make sherbet.

Research:

How to make sherbet:

Sherbet

Method:

Equipment:

• Citric Acid
• Raro
• Baking Soda
• Tartaric acid
• Paper

Instructions:

1. Wash your hands
2. Get all required equipments
3. Place the paper on your table.
4. In piles, separate the 3 powders
5. Using your popsicle stick, mix some of each powder.
6. Taste the sherbet.
7. IF there is to much baking soda, add more citric acid.
8. If there is too much citric acid, add more baking soda.
9. If the flavour tastes bitter and sour add more Raro to balance the taste.

Results:

It tasted sour at first but i liked it sour. I had more fizz in my sherbet than taste. I liked adding more raro than fizz so it tasted more like Raro than sherbet.

Discussion:

Why did the sherbet not foam on the paper but it did in your mouth? 

Citric acid and baking soda some atoms contained into these powders turn into carbon dioxide. As the gas escapes the sherbet starts to bubble up in water or your mouth.

What was the chemical reaction in the sherbet?

The foam was caused by the liquids in your mouth which reacted to the carbon dioxide mixed into sherbet.

What type of chemical reaction is this?

Neutralization.

Clowns🤔🤡

 Hello everyone.

In drama we are learning about clowns. Clowns portray the acts of a day of a human's life but they purposely mess up. Clowning in drama is more of like comedy. Clowns will fool around with the audience, trip over, copy someone, act like a 'child', etc. Most clown also make a lot of white makeup and red lipstick marking of their lips and making a big smile. They wear oversized clothes and big shoes.

After researching about clowns we had to make our own clown.

My clowns name is Misery. My clown creeps up behind people and will play a creepy song with a flute.  Misery likes to walk with slow and big steps. She has red and black stripes on her collar and black and white stripes clothes. She wear purple lipstick and marks on her face like a sad face. My clowns' famous trick is juggling on a unicycle. My clowns voice sounds a very deep and goth voice.

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Blind Taste Testing Challenge 🙈 🍊🍇

Aim: 

I want to find out if food taste differently when you can't see or smell the food your eating.

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Blindfold
• Mystery Food
• Popsicle stick

Instruction:

1. Get all Equipment.
2. Wash hands.
3. Put on your blindfold.
4. With one hand pinch your nose.
5. With the other hand have your hand out and wait for the unknown food.
6. Get your food and eat it.
7. Unblock your nose and see if the tastes are different.

Results:

Unknown Food	Blindfold taste	without nose blocked	Food Guess
1	sweet	sweet	sugar
2	salty	I tasted it at the back of my tongue the most	salt
3	bitter	it taste bad bad bad bad bad bad	something bitter
4	lemon	sour, and sweet	citric acid
5	salty, bitter	pickle	pickle
6	crunchy, bitter	starch	raw potato
7	crunchy sweet	sweet	apple
8	sweet, crumbly	rotten	pear
9	feels like chalk	sweet, powdery	marsh mallow
10	taste like crisp	taste like pickle	burger ring
11	sour sweet yummy	orange	orange gummy lollie

Discussion:

How do you taste food? Your taste buds on your tongue are very small. some of your taste buds can only detect one kind of taste some taste buds can taste all kind of different taste.

What are the different taste? 

Sweet, sour, bitter, salty or uman which is like a meaty taste that you enjoy to eat. Like what you taste when you eat your favourite meal kind, of like tasting a juicy rich, flavour.

Performing Arts

 Hello everyone.

Today we are learning about performing arts.

What actually is performing Arts?

Performing arts is a performance of an audience. The performances might have music, drama and dance. It can be a play, theatre drama, a musical, opera, illusion, mime, hand mime, spoken word, poetry, puppetry, circus arts and etc. There others examples of arts depend on what story you are telling. Mostly performing arts is a story told by action or the music but they don't have to tell a story.

Here are is an example of dance.

link    

Van Gogh, Impasto

 Hello everyone.

For the past few weeks we have been learning about impasto in art. One of the famous artist who was known for making painting with the Impasto technique was, Van Gogh. One of his famous paintings was the 'Starry Night'.

We answered questions about him and also about the painting technique.

1. What does the word impasto mean? Look up the word in lexipedia.com, then type your answer here:

A painting style that uses thick paint so that the brush or palette knife textures appear on the painting. Basicly the painting should look like a painting.

2. How can an impasto brushstrokes express emotions?

The amount of thickness of paint in each stroke can value someone's emotions. 

3. Was Van Gogh one of the first painters to use impasto technique?

No he was not, it was Rembrandt though Van Gogh is one of the famous artists for using the impasto technique.

Eating Hot chilli 🌶🌶🔥🔥🔥🔥

Aim: I want to find out how to get rid of burning chilli off my tongue.

Research: 

Method:

Equipment

• Fizzy
• Milk
• Water
• Popsicle stick
• Chili sauce (carolina reaper)
• cup
• Timer

Instructions

1. Get all required equipments.
2. Scoop some chilli onto your stick.
3. Start the timer and eat the chilli
4. Stop the timer after 4 mins.
5. Rate how hot your mouth has become.
6. Do the experiment again but drink water after 2 minutes.
7. Do experiment again but drink coca-cola poured into a cup after 2 minutes.
8. Do experiment again but drink milk after 2 minutes.

Results:

The first time I had chilli, It was burning my mouth. I had it without any liquid score 10.

The second time I tried the chilli I did it with water, I rate it a 10 

The third time I did tried the chilli I did it with coca cola, it made it made worse, I rate it 11

The fourth time I tried the chilli I did it with milk, I rate it a 4

Discussion:

Why does chilli burn your mouth?

A chilli has this oil-based molecule called capsaicin. It gets released to your saliva and bins onto the receptors in your mouth and tongue. Which then triggers the receptors to send signals to your brain, thinking you are currently burning.

Why did the milk reduce the burn?

Milk mostly contains casein, which i learnt in the plastic milk experiment. The casein helps wash off the capsaicin in your tongue or mouth. Think of it like soap washing off grease.

What is Income?? 💸💼

Hello everyone.

This term our kete is all about money or otherwise called business enterprise. In our wananga we started of learning about money and how to manage money in a site called Banquer.  After starting with Banquer we had quiz questions on the site and if you had answered them correctly you would earn money.We were learning about words like expenses and income, we started working on how to pay bills in the site.

Speaking of income, we had to write down what we thought it meant. 

It basically means getting money. This money could be earned from the bank your job, an allowance, etc. Getting a job is probably a smart thing to do because you can earn income daily depending on when and how you work. 

We also thought about what kind of jobs we would have for our class.

Here are some of my ideas:

• Chair monitor
• Carr card stamper
• Barista
• Equipment monitor
• Pencil monitor 
• Table Cleaner

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Bacteria Around Our School 🦠

 Aim:

I want to find out what type of bacteria are around our school.

Research:

 

Method:

Equipment: 

• Cotton Buds
• Agar Plates
• Marker Pen
• Sellotape

Instructions

1. Wash your hands.
2. Get all equipment
3. Use a marker pen to write your name and where you got the bacteria on the lid.
4. Wet the cotton bud with water and swab the surface.
5. Gently swab the agar plate.
6. Tape around the edges of the agar plate.
7. Put the agar plate in an incubator overnight.
8. Observe what happens on the plate the next day.

Results: 

      

   

The types of bacterias in my agar plate contained different types of bacteria.

The white blobs could be are poop bacteria or known as E. coli.

The yellow, gold or orange blobs could be streptococci or throat infection.

The pink blobs (found on my classmates experiments) could be salmonella, something that makes you have food poisoning.

The red blobs (which no one had) could be meningitis something that can make you have a brain infection.

Thank you for reading this blog post.

Have you grown bacteria before?

Reading Plus Progress📚➕😁

 Hello everyone.

Today our class worked on reading plus again. This time I got a combo after reading a book about chess and a story about a diamond necklace. I think reading books that I like are very important to get a higher percentage. Though where I was reading it was very distracting and noisy.

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	combo
What I found difficult today:	focusing
What my goal is for next time:	Leveling up

Thank you for reading my blog post.

What types of books do you like?

Reading plus 📚➕

Hello everyone.

Today is the first day of term 4 and we are back to starting on reading plus. I think I got better over the holidays because I got a 100% on my reading comprehension. So far I'm doing okay in Reading plus. I read a story about people who perform speeches and about ice cream.

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	Comprehension and vocab
What I found difficult today:	Getting another 100%
What my goal is for next time:	Leveling up

Thank you for reading this blog post.