Art

 Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog. I hope you are all doing well. Today's blog is relating to our last art class which is today in period 2. In this blog, in our class, we worked on a project that took a few classes to finish, and finally, we made it. Our first step was to trace around leaves that were hand-picked from around our school environment. Our teacher then photocopied that and we then traced that onto some plain a4 paper. Mr. Colllins (our teacher)  then gave us the instructions to trace dinosaurs in our photo. We then used ink in our assignment. I know it may be hard trying to picture what I am trying to explain, but these photos down below will help. 

I would like to thank Mr. Collins for taking our class this year, and this is my first year doing art class. I have enjoyed it so far. Thank you Mr. Collings for helping us and teaching us a lot about art, I could have not asked for any other teacher. I hope you enjoy the rest of your time teaching art and other subjects. Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you learned something. Cheers!

Colour run

 Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog, I hope you are doing well. Today's blog is relating to an event that had taken place on our school field. Every year our school takes part in something called the fun run, this is to raise money for kids can. Kids can is a charitable trust that helps many schools all over Aotearoa with some things some families can't afford, such as food, shoes, school uniform, and many more. This fun run is held to back their kind deeds. This took place on the 26th of November 2021. The years 7-10 all had a part in this fun event. The fun run is basically where we run with colored dye thrown at us and we go through obstacles, such as the water slide, bouncy castle, the hurdles, the cargo net, and many more. On this day we were told to come to school in a white t-shirt if we wanted dye thrown at us. Here are some of the photos that were take on the day :)

The teachers were all put into different stations, I really did enjoy this day because I got color thrown at me and I had to run with my mates. I also really did enjoy the target war, that was one that really did make my day. I also enjoyed the water fights I had gotten into. That day would have been one of the best days this year so far. I really did enjoy it, it was an amazing day, and the weather made it better. I would like to thank the teachers and kids can for the many kind things you have done for our school, thank you for everything. And thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day, Cheers!

Myths and legends

                                       Myths and Legends

Kia Ora readers welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you are all doing well. Today's blog is about our reading period which is Hurumanu 2. In this period we are finishing off the activities that we were given to do after we read our journal. This journal is about Maui and his brothers slowing the sun. I had enjoyed reading this because I got to learn and read one of Maui's adventures. In this story, there are not enough hours in the day, and Maui and his brothers have to do something about it. Maui steps up and captures the sun. In one of our activities, we were told to make a poster advertising for someone to help slow the sun, I had used canva to make a poster. And the email and number are not real so please don't call it. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you all have a great day thank you! Cheers!

🎨𝔸𝕣𝕥 🎨

 Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog, I hope you are doing well. Today's blog is relating to our art class, in this week's art class we had worked around information about Henri Rousseau, and we worked around some of his paintings. This week for our art classes we were given the instructions to name the different parts of the painting. And yes paintings do have specific parts, such as Foreground, background, Middleground, and repetition.

Foreground- the image that is close to you
Background- the information you see that is the furthest away in an art image
Repetition- Reapted use of the image of, shape, or color.
The middle ground-The area between the foreground and background.

Here is the work that I had done relating to the different grounds there are. Thank you for taking your time to read my blog, I hope you enjoyed reading what we had done in our art class with Mr. Collins.  Thank you Mr. Collins for taking our class. I hope you are all doing well. Cheers! Have a nice day!

Henri Rousseau

The Kea

 Kia Ora readers welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you are all doing well. Today's blog is relating to Uncle Don Knows Heaps Of Wacky Stuff journal. In this blog, I had chosen a topic to research that we were told to read in the journal. I had chosen the Kea to search about. Out of this, I had learned a lot and I put all I knew in a video I created through canva. Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you learnt something from this. Cheers!

Kiwi facts :)

 Kia Ora readers, welcome back or welcome to my blog I hope you are all doing great, today's blog post is about Kiwis. So we were given the task to read through a journal-Uncle Don Know's Heaps of Wacky Stuff and choose a topic to research about. This took place in our Reading Hurumanu. I choose to research kiwi's and I used canva to create a video filled with facts about the kiwi bird. I choose to research the kiwi because I was very eager to learn more about one of the most endangered species in Aotearoa. 

I enjoyed this period because I got to learn more about Kiwis, more facts about them and I learned heaps from this. Things that I did not know about kiwis, what they look like etc. Kiwi is one of New Zealand's most endangered species, so please we as New Zealanders should try our best to keep them safe.  Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you do learn something from my blog. Keep safe! Cheers! 

My Labour weekend!

                                     My Labour Weekend :)

Kia Ora readers, welcome back to my blog I hope you are all doing well. Today's blog is referring to my entertaining labour weekend. As some of you may know last weekend we had a long weekend, thankfully. I am going to be sharing with you some of the most enjoyable things I did with my family and friends. 

S-I had spent so much time with my cousins and my family, playing games, having dinner, staying up till the early hours, telling scary stories. I had enjoyed partaking in all the activities I was welcomed to. 

P-I was given the instruction to wake up early for our early morning walk which lead us all around Hagley Park. I enjoyed this because I got to catch up with my aunts and cousins. On the same day of the walk, we were invited to the Groynes for a family bbq. In this bbq, we took part in physical activities such as volleyball and touch. 

I-Something that I did to extend my knowledge would have been to learn new games. I really enjoyed this because I got to learn it from my friends and cousins. 

L-I basically enjoyed every bit of my weekend, I was with the people I love, and as you may know that spending time with the people you love is priceless. I had a wonderful sleepover and an amazing bbq at the Groynes. 

E-My emotions would have been, lively, happy, sometimes annoyed. Because for those of you who have cousins they were a little bit annoying. 

S-My success in my weekend would have been that I woke up early to go for a walk with my aunties and cousins. This walk was at 6am in the morning and we had gone to bed at 4am in the morning so I was brain dead half the time. 

Thank you for taking your time to read my blog, I hope you also had an amazing labour weekend. If you have anything to share please drop it in the comment box. Have a good day! Cheers!

                          The Tuatara 

Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog I hope you are all doing well. Today I am going to be blogging about another topic from uncle Don knows heaps of wacky stuff journals. Although at this point I have been researching a totally different topic. As some of you may know the topic of my blog is the tuatara, the tuatara is one of New Zealand's endemic creatures meaning can only be found in New Zealand. The tuatara looks very similar to a lizard but is not, it is known to be the only living dinosaur alive. It is known for its third eye sitting in the top center of its skull. In this Hurumanu we were given the task to make a DLO filled with as many facts of the topic we had chosen. 

The tuatara comes from the Rhynchocephalia family that lived in the time of the dinosaurs. The name tuatara is a Maori word meaning peaks on back or spiny back. They adore cool weather such as lizards like warm weather. Tuataras can regrow their tails if it has been chopped off by a predator. Tuataras are found offshore and in the mainlands. I hope you enjoyed my blog so far, thank you for taking your time to read my blog. Don't forget to check out my other uncle don knows heaps of wacky stuff blogs. Hope you have a good one! Cheers!

Making hokey pokey

Aim:
I want to find out how to make a hokey pokey.

Research:

 

Equipment:

*Pot

*5 tablespoons of sugar

*2 tablespoons of golden syrup

*1 tablespoon baking powder (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Hydrogen carbonate)
*Wooden spoon
* Stove/bunsen burner
*Baking paper

Instructions:
*Get your equipment :)
*Set up your bunsen burner (Yellow safety flame)
*Put your pot on the bunsen burner and use the blue flame.
*Add the sugar and the golden syrup into the pot.
*Mix it with the wooden spoon
*Stop mixing and turn off the stove/ bunsen when the sugar begins to boil.
*Add the baking powder and mix

*Pour the mixture into your baking paper
*Let it cool!

Results:

                             Lab equipment :)

Kia Ora readers welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you all are doing well.  Today this blog post is relating to science lab equipment. I am going to be sharing with you some equipment that was taught to us by our amazing science teacher Mr. Stock. Here is some basic lab equipment...

Beaker: Beakers are used to sample different substances, and is normally a container that contains liquid or solid samples.

Conical flask: Conical flasks are used to make solutions in and to hold liquids, and are also used to measure the substance. 

Funnel: The funnel is used to channel liquid or some type of powder into another container. 

Measuring cylinder: The measuring cylinder is a piece of measuring equipment and mixing equipment as well. This is normally known as laboratory equipment.

Spatula: Used for scraping, mixing, and other things. Referring to transferring substances from one place to another. 

Test tube rack with test tubes: Used for holding liquid and test tubes, these are used to mix substances to see the reaction of different liquids being mixed together.  

Bunsen burner: The bunsen burner used in chemist labs, it produces a single gas flame thaqt is used for heating and combustion. The bunsen burner is named after the famouse chemist Robert Bunsen. 

Petri dishes: A petri dish is a shallow transparent dish that is used to collect diffrent types of cells etc. 

This are some of the lab equment that we had used this term in our chemistry class. This term class was a heaps of fun, personerly I had so much fun doing the experiments and learning more facts about the diffrent substances they are. I would like to thank my scince teacher Mr Stock for taking us for this class, thank you Mr for everything that you have done for us, spending your own money to buy the experiment indgridiants. You have been such a amzing teacher thank you for teaching me all that I know about chemistry Mr Stock :). Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you all are doing well, I hope you learn somthing from my blog. Don't forget to check out my other blog posts. If you have anything to say please drop a comment. Thanks :) Have a great day! Cheers!

 

Drama

 Kia Ora readers, welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you are all doing well. Today's blog is relating to our drama class, throughout this term we have learned so much about drama. And today I am going to be blogging about some of the things we learned as a class. In this class, MR Wilkes has taught us lots of games that push us out of our comfort zone. We have learned the different types of theater, what F-a-r-t's is, the different types of clowns, etc. To be honest we have learned so much in this class and it is one of my favorite classes.

What we have learned...

*The different types of theater

*The different types of clowns

*The different genres of movies

*Different games

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you enjoyed reading what I did for the past 8 weeks of school. I have learned so much from this class and I thank our amazing teacher Mr. Wilkes for being so nice and just an amazing teacher.  Thank you for everything. I think that comedy is a great genre because everyone likes to have a little laugh at the dumbest things so that's why I think comedy is one of the best. 

Willow tree facts

                          The Willow Tree

Kia Ora readers welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you are all doing well. Today's blog is regarding our reading period. In this Hurumanu we are given a journal to read and choose facts to research about. I had chosen to do a little bit of research on the Willow tree. I had chosen this topic because a few weeks ago I had been walking in town with my family and we would walk past willow trees and I think they're pretty.  I have created a DLO on canva with facts about the willow tree. This hurumanu is called Te Ao whanui, this is our reading hurumanu. 

Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you enjoyed it, from this blog I have learned so many facts about the willow tree and I hope you do too, they are so many facts that I did not know. Learning this fact has definitely extended my knowledge of willow trees. If you have any facts drop them in the comment section. Have a great day! cheers!. 

What is a base?

Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all well today I am going to be blogging about what a base is in chemistry science. 

An acid is a substance that has a Hydrogen H atom that can react. 

For example:

*Nitric acid- HNO3
*Sulfuric acid- H2SO4
*Hydrochloric acid- HCl

A base is the opposite of acid and has OH (hydroxide) that can react. A base consists of oxygen and hydrogen atoms that are held together by a covalent bond. When an acid and a base react, they NEUTRALISE each other. 

 

What is an acid?

 3 acids:
Hydrochloric acid-HCl
Sulfuric acid-H2SO4
Nitric acid-HNO3

What is acid?
An acid contains hydrogen atoms that break off to react with a substance

Litmus color
It changes to a RED colour

Red Cabage indicator

Kia Ora readers! This blog is relating to an experiment that took place in our science class. In this experiment, we are using red cabbage, hydroalcoholic acid and hydroxide acid.

Aim:

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

Methode:

Equipment:
*Beaker
*Red cabbage
*Hot boiling water
*Dropper
*Test tubes
*Different samples for testing

Instructions:
1. Get your equipment ready
2. Rip the cabbage up and put it into the beaker
3. Add 100 ml of water boiling water
4. Let it brew till the water turns purple
5. Put 2cm of acid into the test tube
6. Put some cabbage water into the test tube
7. Do the same with the hydroxide
8. Mix both the acids and the cabbage water 

Results:
We were given 2 different types of acids, hydrochloric acid, and hydroxide acid, we then dropped 2 cm of the 2 different acids in 2 different tubes, and then we used a dropper to absorb the cabbage water and we then added it to the acids and the colour changed. 

Message in a bottle

 Kia Ora readers, welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you are doing well. Today our task was to write a letter in a bottle, we did not really get to put it into an actual bottle. I wrote this letter as a kid who wants to travel the world but can't because of covid. Then he/she puts it in a bottle and floats it down the lake that ends up in the ocean. This letter is a short letter just expressing how she feels being locked in because of the things that have been happening around the world. The writer also hopes he/she that the letter ends up in a kid's hand, giving the kid advice about being a kid. Not gonna lie but I think this letter is not bad, I mean I would really put it in a bottle and realize it into the ocean for someone to find. But there is a possibility that it would not get found. Although I hope you enjoy it, thank you for reading my blog. Have a nice day! Cheers!

Making sherbet

 Aim:
I want to find out how to produce sherbet

Research:

Method:
Equipment
*Icing sugar
*Raro
*Cup or any other sort of container
*Citric acid tartaric acid
*Baking powder
*Popsicle stick for mixing
*Teaspoon 

Instructions:
1. Get your equipment ready
2. Add 1 tsp of sugar/ raro to the cup
3. Add half a tsp of your acids to the cup
4. Add half a tsp of baking powder to the cup
5. Mix with the popsicle stick
6. Taste the sherbet, and adjust the flavor.

What happens in the cup? There was no reaction in the cup
What happens in your mouth? The sherbet sort of dissolved in my mouth straight away, and then it fizzed up in my mouth.

Discussion:
Why did it foam up in your mouth?

Reading activties

                                                             Reading activities

Kia Ora readers, welcome back or welcome to my blog. Today I am going to be blogging about reading activities that we were given to do. In this task, we were given a novel to read and task and questions to answer according to the novel. I had put all the answers in a doc. I hope you enjoy it. Keep safe, keep warm. Thank you for reading my blog. Cheers!

The big dig - Google Docs

Mahinga Kai Crusaders-SJ L3 Sept 2014.pdf - Google Drive

The Big Dig-SJ L3 Sept 2014.pdf - Google Drive

Mahinga kai Crusaders - Google Docs

Art

 Kia ora readers, welcome back or welcome to my blog. Today we have been looking at impasto art, and for a few classes, we had been working on a piece of painting, we got given a piece of painting that we had to redo. We had a few classes to work on this painting, and at thy end of the classes, we had put them together. We got this painting from the famous artist Van Gogh. The painting is called the sunflower in the vase. 

Aotearoa! Video

 Kia readers, welcome back or welcome to my blog. My name is Lucy, today I am going to be sharing with you a little video I had put together according to the task I was given. This task was to make a video about a country of your choice and to put as many facts as possible in it. I filled this video with photos and as much information as I could. I hope you all learn something from it. If you have any facts you have about the beautiful country of Aotearoa please don't forget to drop a comment down below. I hope you enjoy, keep safe and warm. Thank you for taking the time to read my blog post, don't forget to check out my other post. Vinaka! Cheers!