Changes and challenges

Hey, guys so today I'm going to show you a slide and this is going to show you what we had learned this week in drama. This is also a collab with Maia that is in my class.

Haiku- spring

Spring Poem

So for drama, we had to make a haiku poem about spring in groups of 2-3. So I went into a group with Lily and Maia, we had a job to do each. My job was to write down adjective words of spring, Maia's job was finding verbs about spring and Lily's job was finding words of nouns about spring.

So if you don't know what a haiku is it is a poem that has 17 syllables in it. In three lines of five, seven, and five. So then we added the words together to make it as a poem. Here is my poem that I had made:

           
                                              Spring

Pretty, bright, the sky as wonderful as a winter wonderland.

Animals blossom like a flower awakening from an autumn slumber

Sun shines bright like a single star in the night sky.

Here is a drawing that I did at the back of the poem so when my group reads it you can see the drawing of spring and know that it is about spring:

                                

Here is a poem that Lily had made:

Springtime

Sound of birds

Flying high in the sky

What a lovely spring

New science lab

Aim: To learn how to behave in a science laboratory.

Our R9 class treaty:

1. Pay attention
2. Act responsibly around dangerous objects
3. Do not run in the laboratory
4. Put your bag under the desk so people don't fall over it
5. No food or drinks in the laboratory
6. Do not sniff or taste substances 

Safety in a laboratory:

1. Follow the instructions given to you by the teacher
2. You must not enter the laboratory without your shoes
3. Report all breakages to your teacher
4. You must never eat or drink in a laboratory
5.  Shoes must be worn at all times
6. If you spill something you should tell your teacher immediately
7.  You should wash your hands after every practical activity
8. You should know what you are doing. If in doubt ask your teacher
9. Never taste or sniff chemicals

How do we work in the laboratory:

                                          

 100ml Beaker (Used for experiments related by liquid. They have a bung that goes on top)

250 ml conical flask (Use for experiments elated to liquid. Has a bung that goes on top and is fireproof.)

 Spatula (for holding a very small amount of chemical powders) 

                    Test tube tongs (Used to hold hot test tubes)

                    20cm Stirring rod (used to stir and mix any liquids)

            100ml measuring cylinder (used to measure liquids)

               10ml measuring cylinder (used to measure liquids)

                                          Funnel

                                            250ml Beaker

Asking questions

Why we ask questions in reading?
So the reason why we ask questions in reading is so that we can know that you can understand the story and that you can explain the story in your own words. 

So for example you had to read a book for a test that you are doing. You get called up by your teacher and he/she will ask you multiple questions. If you get most right they know that you can understand the story and can write it in your own words. 

It would best be good for when you have to buddy with someone and ask them questions about the story. IT can help you for asking questions so that they can answer them then they would understand the story. If you don't know what to ask your in luck.

So if you don't have any idea on what to ask here is 4 things that will help you:

2040 Documentary

Today in drama and science we had to work with SH and DS. What we did is watch a documentary in the auditorium. It was called in 2040. The video was about a man and he was telling his daughter about global warming and how we can prevent it from becoming more worse than now.

The documentary took 1 and a half of the periods, so it took very long. The man who was talking was Damon gameau. What he did was travel all around the world and talked to other people and how they prevent global warming. What surprised me was that Bangladesh was very smart, what they did was they had used this box. What it did was it collected the solar energy and then it would save it. Then if the owners wanted to they could share it to others that needed the power. 

At night when they needed power, they would use the box and use the power because what the box did was it saved the power and then when they needed it they could use it. 

In the documentary, they showed children and they had asked them several questions about what they wanted in the future and what they would do to prevent global warming. Most of them had said they wanted to make a thing that only used solar power, some had said we could stop eating animals and eat more of fruits and plants.

What really excited me in the documentary was that they had time travelled and showed what would happen if we do something about global warming and see how beautiful it could look. There would be self drivable cars charged by solar, buildings growing plants all over them. Seeing green everywhere. This is exactly what I really want see in the future. 

What I worry about is if we don't stop that we might all die and we might won't get to achieve that we wanted to see. But he makes it more possible but that is all I have to say it was really amazing but I won't watch it again.

Decomposing

Aim: To learn about the rate that different materials decompose. 

Hypothesis: I think that banana will rot the fastest.

Materials:

1.  Banana 
2.   White styrophone
3.  Paper  
4.   Bread
5.   4x Test tubes
6.   carboard
7.   Test tube rack  

Steps:

1. Have your ingredients in strips  (banana strips, styrophone strips, paper strips and bread strips)
2.   Grab your test tubes and rack, put a piece of banana and the rest of the strips in the test tubes
3. Add half a test tube of water to the bread only!
4. Depending on the size of your test tubes are , depends if you need a bung or not

Findings: All the strips are normal.

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Yellow & brown	-	The banana was brown and yellow as it was going yuck.
Paper	White	-	The paper turned out to be cardboard.
Stylophone cup	White	-	In a strip, coloured white.
Bread	White & brown	-	Bread was normal, had half a test tube of water in it.

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3 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Green	colour	Looks like it was smashed and turned green.
Paper	White	-	The paper turned out to be cardboard.
Styrophone cup	White	-	In a strip, coloured white.
Bread	White	colour	Looks like it was smashed and turned white.

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5 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana
Paper
Styrophone cup
Bread

  

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Images:

Conclusion:

Water cycle

Ki Ora everyone today in science we are updating on our water cycle experiment. So by using this table we are going to see if the experiment worked.

Findings:

	The Water Cycle	Acid Water Cycle
Does it cycle?	1	1
Amount of Water	1	1
Acidity	0	2

Key: Water and acidity amount: 0 = none 

1 = small 

2 = large 

The water cycle is a very slow process. It takes a lot of patience to get everything right, also to see the changes in the bag. AS you can see in my table above both bags have worked for this experiment. (The 0 doesn't mean it didn't work it means there is no acid in it). How you know the experiment has worked, you will start to see the cycle come into place, condensation will appear. 

Maths DLO

Kia Ora everyone todays DLO id very interesting because I had added something a bit new. Anyway this is what I had learned in maths this week and its been really useful. The work that I did was for once fun for me so I hope this is fun for you. So hope you enjoy and have an awesome day kakite.

Solar energy

Today in science we had to be in buddys and Mr Mitchel had read a text then we had to put it in key points. Then we went into a group of 4 and we had to make our key points into a sentence then share it with each other, which one that was the best we all copied it. 

Then in the same groups, we have to used the hexagons and put them into the correct order. Just like the one post I did, with the hexagons. Then we had to do a table to show the most valuable sources of energy. Solar power is the most abundant source of renewable energy.

Factor	Solar	Coal
Livability	10	2
sustainability	10	2
Accessibility	9	3
Cost	10	3
Your Choice ...	Y	N

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To learn about how solar energy is used.

Hypothesis: I think that black will stand out the most.  The explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

Materials:

1.  Heat lamp
2.  Thermotre
3.  3 cups (2 white cups and clear cup)
4.  Black plastic bag
5.  Paper (white)
6. Tinfoil (2 pieces)

Steps

1.   Grab the heat lamp and plug it in
2.  Put the black plastic bag, white paper and tinfoil and lay them out into a line
3.  Put the white cup on the white paper, wrap the tinfoil around the white cup put on top of the tinfoil  and then put the clear cup in the black bag on top of the black bag
4.  Put the heat lamp directly at the cups
5.   After every 15 min put the thermometer in each cups, have them in for 1 min each 
6. Then record them on the chart

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16	16	16
15	21	24	22
30	21	23	21
45	21	22	21

Cookies

Hey, guys so this week in home economics we got to make chocolate chip cookies. So we had prepared the dough on Tuesday then on Friday we go them prepared for the oven. My partner was Alliah.

When we had weighed the dough on Friday it was 404g. Then we had to do maths, what we had to do was get 404 and then divided it by 12 so we got 33g but our teacher told us to weigh each cookie as 34g. So we had divided the dough evenly then made sure they all weighed the same. We had to make 12 cookies so that is why we had to divide 404g by 12.

Then we put the cookies on the tray that had a cooking paper on than we used a fork and pressed down on them so they wouldn't roll off. The cookie that was the right amount we had to make a cross with the fork so we would know that it was the one that was perfect.

While the cookies were cooking Alliah and I started cleaning up so when the cookies were done we just had to wash the tray. We knew that the cookies were done because they were spread out and was golden. Once they were cooled Alliah went to measure the cookie to see if they weight had gone down and it did. The weight was 32g so it went down 2g.

They turned out so well and had tasted so delicious. The chocolate chips were melted when I tried it and it was soo good. Here they are:

Now because they are soo good I'm gonna go and have it with milk. Bye guys.

Drama

This week in drama we had to learn why we have to eat healthily and how it affects us and what junk food does to us. To learn this Mr Tisch sent us a doc and we had to fill in the gaps. We also had to make puppets so we could film a video with them then share it to the class. We had to work in our normal form class so 1 class would do the puppets and then the other class would do the worksheet for the Hauora health. I learned that healthy eating is really good for you and if you constantly keep eating junk food you would be overweight and would get very sick. Here is what I wrote about Hauora:

So here is my puppet that I had made:

We had to use paper bags, paper and colouring pens. I had traced the face, the wing and the tails then I folded the paper so it wouldn't make the dragon big and then glued the face,  the wing and the tail. I added some colours to make it nice. 

For the show I'm with Lily and Maia, so what we are doing is eating healthy. The story is to eat healthily.

NYLD

On the 30th of May, I and a few other students from the year 7 & 8 classes were chosen from Miss Tozer to go to Horncastle arena for NYLD (National Young Leaders Day). This was a thing every year where students from all the schools in Ōtautahi and they teach kids how to be a real leader and they have special guests that teaches you how to be a true leader and how they think being leader means. We had lots of fun and Miss Tozer and the other people in our group has taken photos of the day. Here is a slide where there are Photos and video from the day. Here is the photos of the day;

Here is when we had first arrived

                                                                Here are the speakers

                                                              Here is me talking to the singer
                                                                         kings

Relationships and Patterns

Hey guys, so in maths, we have gone back to being in groups and working on different things so here is my DLO of what we did this week.

The green house effect

The Greenhouse Effect experiment

Materials

1. 1 plastic bottle
2. 1 teaspoon baking soda and citric acid
3. 1 heat lamp
4. 2 thermometer
5. 100ml water
6. 1 rubber bung

Procedure

1. Collect 2 bottles, 2 bottles, 2 lamps and 2 thermometers from the teacher
2. Set up bottles and lamps beside a powerpoint on a flat surface
3. Pour 100ml water and Baking soda mixture into one of the bottles. Add just water to the second bottle
4. Start to record your findings taken from both thermometers. These must be every 5 minutes

Findings: The Greenhouse Effect Data 

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	18C	18C
5	20C	24C
10	22C	24C
15	22C	25C
20	23C	27C
25	25C	29C

Conclusion:

The temperature of the CO2 bottle goes higher than the normal bottle. This showed that CO2 heats up our atmosphere very fast.

Water cycle experiment

Hey everyone today for science we had to do procedural writing for our water cycle experiment. First, we did a draft of the work then we email it to a buddy so they could give us feedback of it. Then we had to fix it up in our final writing. Then they would rate us on our final writing. So here is my procedural writing:

Draft: 

Title: Water cycle experiment

Purpose: How water cycle normally works and how the water cycle works when CO2

Materials: 

• 50ml Water (each bag) 
• Blue food colouring
• 2x  bag
• Vivid pen
• Soda water
• Litmus paper
• Baking soda
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Procedures:

Experiment A

1. With the vivid draw clouds, trees, land, rain and mountains on the plastic bag
2. Name each step of the water cycle
3. Then add water (50ml)
4. Add 2 drops of the blue food colouring in the water
5. Tape it to a window so the sun is shining through it Experiment B
   1. With the vivid draw clouds, trees, land, rain and mountains on the plastic bag
   2. Name each step of the water cycle
   3. Add sparkling water (50ml)
   4. Add baking soda (1 teaspoon)
   5. Then add 2 drops of food colouring in the water
   6. At the middle of the plastic ziplock, it locks put a strip of litmus paper in the middle and zip.
   7. Tape the plastic bag on the window
   8. There we have a water cycle with CO2 added (carbon dioxide)
   
   
   Conclusion: This experiment was to tell us more about how the water cycle works. The first one showed us how the water cycle normally worked and the second one was when CO2 was added.

Final:

Water cycle experiment

Purpose: How water cycle normally works and how the water cycle works when CO2

Materials: 

• 50ml Water (each bag) 
• Blue food colouring
• 2x ziplock bag (A4 size)
• Vivid pen
• Soda water
• Litmus paper
• Baking soda
• Tape

Procedures:

Experiment A

1. With the vivid draw clouds, trees, land, rain and mountains on the plastic bag
2. Name each step of the water cycle
3. Then add water (50ml)
4. Add 2 drops of the blue food colouring in the water
5. Tape it to a window so the sun is shining through it Experiment B
   1. With the vivid draw clouds, trees, land, rain and mountains on the plastic bag
   2. Name each step of the water cycle
   3. Add sparkling water (50ml)
   4. Add baking soda (1 teaspoon)
   5. Then add 2 drops of food colouring in the water
   6. At the middle of the plastic ziplock, it locks put a strip of litmus paper in the middle and zip.
   7. Tape the plastic bag on the window
   8. There we have a water cycle with CO2 added (carbon dioxide)
   
   
   Conclusion: This experiment was to tell us more about how the water cycle works. The first one showed us how the water cycle normally worked and the second one was when CO2 was added.

Experiment A

Experiment B