Making Hokey pokey

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make hokey pokey 

Research:

The hokey pokey dance

How to make hokey pokey

Method:

Equipment:

• Sugar 
• Baking soda 
• golden syrup 
• saucepan 
• table spoon 
• cookie cutter 
• baking paper 
• Bunsen burner 
• Tripod 

Instructions: 

1. Get all your equipment 
2. wash your hands
3. Set up the Bunsen burner 
4. Put the pot on the tripod under the Bunsen burner 
5. light the Bunsen burner (hole close)
6. Add 5 table spoons of sugar to the pot
7. Add 2 table spoons of golden syrup 
8. Melt and mix
9. Turn the gas off then add one table spoon of baking soda and mix
10. Scrape the hokey pokey onto the baking paper 
11. Let it cool down for at least 30 seconds 
12. Press a cookie cutter into the hokey pokey 

Results: 

Discussion:

Summer learning journey activities

So since its almost the start of the summer holidays we are starting to do some of the summer learning Activities. The one I did today was a colouring one online. Where you have to try and copy or make your own picture. Here is mine that I did.

Mine 

Original 

Businesses and Enterprise.

 So this term we started to learn about marketing and banking so we could start planning and making our own business for business and enterprise. 

We firstly started off learning about banking and money with banqer which helped us understand all the basics with marketing. After we had done that we did some group projects about money and bills and all of that.

After we had learnt how to make a good business and how to look after it we started planning. My group was with Eduarda and Skyla. We all had jobs that we were set to do like CEO, the marketing manger, production manger , and the finance manger. I was the CEO so I had to make sure that our marketing was gonna work. For our business we decided to make clay rings and call our stand unique creations.

We made sure we were gonna make profit for the money we had and then started making. We made around 50 for 1.50 each. 

Then yesterday all of the groups went out and sold our stuff. There was a lot of cool ideas like pants,Christmas cards,lolly necklaces that I thought look pretty cool and way more. Our stall sold most of our stuff and make quite a lot of profit. 

Making ginger beer

 Aim:

I want to find out how to brew ginger beer.

Research :

The first video is about what is alcohol and the science behind that. The second one if how to brew kombucha and all the step by step instructions and all about it. And the second one explains the science of fermentation.  

What is alcohol?

how to brew ginger beer

Science of fermentation

Method:

Equipment:

• Ginger (sauce of sugar)
• Warm water 
• Yeast
• cup
• spoon

Instructions:

1. wash your hands
2. Get the equipment 
3. put one table spoon of ginger in the cup
4. half fill the cup with warm water
5. add one teaspoon of yeast 
6. Mix it all together 
7. Leave it too ferment for a week.
8. After one week, drink it.

Results:

It didn't smell very nice it smelt like old milk. The taste was quite bitter though.

Discussion:

What is fermentation?

It is chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria( when yeasts, or other microorganisms breaks down sugar into alcohol.

what are the best conditions for brewing?

Normal ale fermentation temperatures range from 20 to 22 °C and lager fermentation temperatures from 7 to 13 °C. 

 

 

Reading plus

 Hello everyone!

 here is my progress in reading plus today.

Reading Plus Progress Report 30/11/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	I got my last combo to go on to level H
What I found difficult today:	Some questions in my story
What my goal is for next time:	Finish my set reading for this week

 

reading plus update

hello!

here is my progress from reading plus today. I am one combo away from level H and I just need to read 2 stories over %80 in a row.

Reading Plus Progress Report 23/11/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	I got a combo
What I found difficult today:	Some questions
What my goal is for next time:	Finish my last combo for the level

have a nice day:)

Red cabbage indicator

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

Research: 

Method:

Equipment: 

• beaker
• warm water
• red cabbage 
• test tubes 
• Acid(hydrochloric acid)
• Base (sodium hydroxide)
• dropper 

instructions:

1. wash your hands
2. get all your equipment 
3. put warm water into your beaker about half way
4. cut your red cabbage and put it in your beaker 
5. Let it soak all the colouring in while stirring it.
6. with your dropper put some of the cabbage water into each test tube and then experiment and try to make different colours with the acid and base.

Results:

Discussion: 

What is an acid and a base?

An acid is any hydrogen-containing substance that is capable of donating a proton (hydrogen ion) to another substance.  A base is a molecule or ion able to accept a hydrogen ion from an acid.

what do chemical indicators do?

chemical indicator, any substance that gives a visible sign, usually by a colour change, of the presence or absence of a threshold concentration of a chemical species, such as an acid or an alkali in a solution. ... The common application of indicators is the detection of end points of titrations.

Reading plus

Here is my progress on reading plus today.

Reading Plus Progress Report 17/11/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	Finished all my work for reading plus
What I found difficult today:	Vocabulary
What my goal is for next time:	Finish my last combo for the level

Making sherbet

 Aim: I want to find out how to make sherbet 

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Popsicle stick or spoon
• Citric acid 
• Raro 
• baking soda 
• paper or plate 

Instructions:  

1. Get your equipment 
2. wash your hands 
3. put your paper or plate on the table 
4. get a pile of your 3 powers on the plate  
5. using your Popsicle stick mix some of each powder together 
6. taste the sherbet 
7. if there if too much baking soda add more citric acid 
8. if there is too much citric acid add more baking soda 
9. And to make it taste better add more Raro if theres too much of the other powders

Results: 

The first time i tried making it it tasted very bitter but after a couple of trys I got it right.

 

Discussion:

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

Because it needs liquid to foam and when its in your mouth it foams because of your saliva. 

What was the chemical reaction in the sherbet?

The fizzing sensation experienced when eating sherbet is a result of the chemical reaction between the citric acid and the sodium bicarbonate. The reaction also produces small bubbles of carbon dioxide but only when the dry ingredients are wet by saliva in the mouth.

What type of chemical reaction is this?

Neutralization 

what is clowning

 what is clowning?

Clowning is someone doing something funny or comedy. All though you might think clowning is dressing up in massive red shoes and a red nose but since now people have turned it into horror instead of comedy. 

Normally clowns use sounds instead of words.

Me and my hurumanu have been going to drama this term ! Our teacher is Mr Wilkes, He is really nice and really good at acting.We are learning about type of clowns in drama . 

1. The clown who wears the flower, big shoes, white paint in his/her face and a red nose.
2. The clown who is in horror movies, like killer clowns.
3. The clown which is just a silly person who makes people laugh but just wears a normal outfit.

Mr Wilkes told us that a lot of people lost there jobs of being clowns that paint their face with funny and colour outfits with a red nose because a lot of people these days are afraid of clowns because of the type of horror movies these days. Usually people are just in plays and ACT like a clown, like funny, silly and even gibberish like minions:

We did some activities like icebreakers and some acting games which were pretty fun! sadly I didn't do a two games since I was feeling well, but besides that, drama was awesome! :)

                                 

                                          Funny clown without the makeup and everything---------------

Killer clown-------------------------------

Clown with makeup--------------------------------

 

Here is a link to a funny clown video:

Funny clown video

I am going to be making my own clown:

My clowns name is going to be Mr.Fun

The type they are? well my clown is just funny but no clown outfits.

My clown will walk like the penguins or minions

He talks gibberish

reading plus

 I haven't done a reading plus update in awhile so here is one from today and yesterdays progress. 

Reading Plus Progress Report 3/11/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	Got a combo
What I found difficult today:	Vocabulary
What my goal is for next time:	Finish all my tasks for next week

Blind taste testing

Aim: 

I want to find out if food tastes differently when you cant see or smell and don't know what it is. 

How do we taste

Eating something disgusting blindfolded 

 Method:

Equipment:

• blind fold  
• mystery food
• Popsicle stick 
• someone to feed you food

Instructions:

1. wash your hands
2. get all your equipment 
3. put your blind fold
4. block your nose (So you cant smell/taste)
5. put your hand out 
6. eat it and try to guess what it is
7. un block your nose and see what it is

Results: 

unknown food	first taste	Last taste	Food guess
Sugar	NA	Sweet	Sugar
salt	NA	Salty	Salt
Baking powder	NA	Bitter	baking soda
citric Acid	NA	sour	citric acid
Pickle	Salty	Salty and bitter	olive first then pickle
potato	couldn't taste it	kinda bitter	Didn't know
Apple	kinda sweet	sweet and fruity	Apple
pear	bitter sweet soft	sweet fruity	i didnt know what is was called
marshmallow	Hard kinda sweet	sweet	marshmallow
Burger ring	kinda bitter	Meaty	burger ring
sour lollie	sour	sour sweet	sour lollie

Discussion: 

How do you taste food? our taste buds pick up clues about how a food tastes and sends messages about it to your brain along with wires called nerves. To taste something properly, you need to chew food into small pieces and to have a lot of drool, or saliva. This help the flavour molecules (also known as “tastants”) reach your taste buds.

What are the different tastes? Sweet, sour,bitter,salty and a new one savoury

does smell affect your taste? Our sense of smell in responsible for about 90% of what we taste. Without our sense of smell, our sense of taste is limited to only five distinct sensations: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and the newly discovered “umami” or savory sensation. All other flavours that we experience come from smell.

Performing arts

 What actually is performing arts? 

The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. It is different from visual arts, which is when artists use paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. 

Examples: 

performing art examples

Eating hot chilli

 Aim:

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

Research:

Find a funny video of eating chilli

Find a video about the science of chilli

Method:

Equipment

• Coke
• Chilli
• Popsicle
• Water
• Coca-cola
• Timer
• Cup

Instructions

1. Get your equipment.
2. Scoop some chilli onto your stick.
3. start your timer and eat the chilli.
4. stop the timer after 4 minutes.
5. Rate how hot you mouth is.
6. do experiment again but drink water after 2 minutes drink water.
7. do the experiment again but drink coca-cola.
8. drink milk

Results:  (4 minutes each)

The first chilli i did was without water and i am scoring it a 10/10 for burning.

the second time, i did was with water and i am scoring it a 8/10

the third time i did was with coco cola and i'm scoring it a 9/10 (but i thinks its because i did more)

The last time i did it was with milk and i'm scoring it a 5/10

Discussion: 

Why does chilli burn your mouth? 

it contains an alkaline, oil-based molecule called capsaicin, which sneakily triggers the temperature-sensitive pain receptors in your mouth/taste buds 

why does the milk reduce the burn? 

it helps your mouth handle capsaicin, Capsaicin binds to a receptor in the tongue and creates a burning sensation. ... Since capsaicin is fat-soluble, rinsing with milk fat helps ease the burn

Gummy bear Osmosis

 Aim:

 I want to find out what happens to gummy bears when left in liquids. 

Method: 

Equipment:

• Gummy bears 
• Liquids - Water,salt water,sugar water (Sodium Chloride) (Glucose)
• Electronic Scale 
• 4x Petri dishes
• marker pen 

Red:dry 2.43

Yellow:Sugar 2.19

Instructions: 

• Get all of your equipment ready 
• write your name the condition on the petri dish.
• weigh the gummy bear and write it down on the petri dish
• put the liquid in the petri dish.`
• Then leave for 24 hours 

Reading plus update

Hello, This is what I did in my reading plus session today.

Reading Plus Progress Report 20/10/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	I finished my vocabulary task for this week
What I found difficult today:	Some questions in my stories
What my goal is for next time:	Earn a combo

My holidays

So my holidays where pretty boring and I cant remember much of what I did but i'm gonna share some of the things that I remember and enjoyed. So I went for a couple walks around the hills but one of them I quite enjoyed but I forgot the name of it. It was also my mums birthday in the holidays so we went out for dinner with some friends at bears and the food was actually quite good. Then on the last day I went to qe2 with some friends.  

Bacteria around our school

 Aim: 

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

Research:  

Method: 

Equipment:

• Cue tips /cotton buds
• Agar plates 
• marker pen
• tape 

Instructions:

1. Get out equipment 
2. Wash your hands 
3. Use a marker pen to write your name and location on the lid
4. Wet the cue tip and swab the surface 
5. Gently swab the agar plate with the cue tip
6. Tape around the edges of the agar plate 
7. Put the agar plate in a incubator over night 
8. observe the plate the next day

Results-

I wasnt there that day that we looked at the results but here are some photos of some of them.

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Reading plus

 So today was our first reading plus section this term but instead we had it with Mrs Alpers. 

Reading Plus Progress Report 18/10/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	I got over %80 on my story
What I found difficult today:	My other stories that i got %2 under to be able to get a combo
What my goal is for next time:	Earn a combo

My pepeha

For wananga we got to to our pepeha i used the app "Create your pepeha"  so here it is. 

Reading plus

Here is some of my progress from reading plus today:)

Reading Plus Progress Report 3/9/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	My first story
What I found difficult today:	My second story that i only got 2 points below %80
What my goal is for next time:	Earn another combo

Coding update

Hello, i'm going to be telling you about what I have been doing the past few weeks in coding. I'm on lesson 10 part 1. At the moment we have just been learning how to do speeches and asking questions also playing around with the behaviours and the sprites. 

I have made a little game asking some questions about yourself its just something little so its not the best. But here is the link in case you would like to try it out.

My game

Hurumanu update

For keeping up with the hurumanus in lock down we have just been doing the same reading plus and math which has been pretty easy to handle during lock down and of course still keeping track with coding. For math we have been learning about adding and subtracting in columns which for me has been pretty easy when you get the hang of it.

 And for reading plus I have just been focusing on my stories and getting more combos although I did complete my goal in getting into level G so now i'm just working into level H. At the moment though I have read 127,039 words in reading plus. 

Reading Plus Progress Report 3/9/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	Punctuation tasks
What I found difficult today:	Some of my stories
What my goal is for next time:	Earn another combo

 

And for coding I have just been working through my code.org tasks.