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Monday, 25 March 2019

Plants

AIM: TO LEARN ABOUT THE NATURE OF PLANTS

Plants fall into two categories:

1. Evergreen
2. Deciduous

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Deciduous
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Evergreen

Find three examples of each:

Evergreen: 
1.  Pine Tree
2.  Magnolia Tree
3.  Eucalyptus

Deciduous;
1.  Oak
2.  Maple
3.  Beech

LEAVES


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Simple                                 Compound   

Example:
Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen
Leaf type: Simple / Compound
Leaf colour: Green
Photo of leaf: Image result for simple leaf
Plant drawing:Image result for tree drawing


MY LEAF COLLECTION


1.
Plant type: Deciduous
Leaf type: Simple
Photo of leaf:









2. 
Plant type: Evergreen
Leaf type:Compound
Photo of leaf:









3.  
Plant type: Deciduous
Leaf type: Simple 
Photo of leaf:









4. 
Plant type: Evergreen
Leaf type: Compound
Photo of leaf:








5.  
Plant type: Evergreen
Leaf type: Simple 
Photo of leaf:





RESEARCH 4 TYPES OF PLANTS




Carnivorous plants
Pine trees
Fruit trees
NZ Natives

Example

Title: NZ Natives
Examples:
1. Jazmine
2.
3.
4.

Habitat: Where do they live?
Country:
Climate:




Friday, 22 March 2019

Hurumanu Drama

This week for drama we made freeze frames, chorus's and captions to the freeze frame. The people in my group were Haylee, Nykachia, Shalizeh and me Hayley. We made the freeze frame about dance and gymnastics because that's how you stay healthy by being physical. We made the caption say " Don't give up" because you should never give up on something. The song we played the chorus to was cha cha slide. Read my blog next week to find out how the performance went.

What is that white powder?

Today you will be a forensic chemist. 
A bag of white powder has been confiscated by the airport customs.  You need to find out what white powder it is?

Aim: To learn about the makeup of different white powders.

There are  a number of different white powders in our everyday life. Some of these are harmful and others are not. Test the four white powders listed to see which one has been found at the airport.

Here are some examples of everyday kitchen white powders.

Flour, Cornflour, Sugar, Salt, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Icing Sugar, Tartaric Acid

Citric Acid, Gluten Free flour

You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. On the black cardboard using a magnifying glass look at the powders.
Look at them under your magnifying glass and record what you see. 

These are the four powders we will be using. Upload a photo of each powder. 

1.  Cornflour

2.  Baking Soda
3.  Salt
4.  Sugar 

Before you add the iodine, vinegar or water you will need to divide each powder into 3.


Materials

1.  Salt 

2.  Sugar
3.  Baking Soda
4.  Corn Flour
5.  Black paper
6.   1/2 A teaspoon
7.  Magnifying glass

Steps


1. Get your piece of black paper and mark out four boxes.

2. Place your powders on the paper, in the boxes.
3.  Look at the powders, feel the powders and smell the powders and record the results.
4.  Split each powder into three and put four drops of Iodine, water and vinegar and record the results.



Findings:





Sugar
Salt
Baking Soda
Cornflour
Appearance
Like saltCrystal lookingFlour lookingcloud like
Texture
Softer than saltHard like rockFluffy like cloudsSuper rubbery 
Smell
SweetLike nothingLike poisonGross
Iodine
Spread a little Spread a lotTurned tinyTurned purple in some parts
Water
LeftLeftLeftLeft
Vinegar
Turned wetTurned wetFizzed up a lotFizzed a little



Making Sherbet


Once you have completed your blog and cleaned up all your equipment you can make sherbet.
Using the following recipe you can make sherbet.
Sherbet recipe

Recipe: 

1 tsp of powdered drink crystals (eg refresh)
1/4 tsp citric acid
1/2 tsp icing sugar
1/4 tsp -baking soda.
Put all ingredients into a zip lock bag, stir, and enjoy.


Materials:

1.  Teaspoon's
2.  Powdered Drink Crystals
3.  Citric Acid
4.  Icing Sugar
5.  Baking Soda
6. Zip Lock Bag
7. Spoon

Steps


1. Put all of your ingredients in your zip lock bag

2.  Stir your ingredients with a spoon 
3.   Put in your drink crystals
4.  Stir the mixture again
5.  After that enjoy!

Findings:


Sherbet
Disgusting
Taste
Sour and salty
Colour
White

Conclusion

I didn't like the sherbert because I had to leave class early and that's when they put the drink crystals in so mine tasted like rotten cheese.

Thursday, 21 March 2019

New Zealand Women Timeline

Today in my class for reading we had to do a reading task. The reading task that we had to do was a timeline about five women from New Zealand that are famous or have left a legacy in New Zealand.The women I chose were Jean Batten, Nancy Wake, Fleur Adcock, Rachel Hunter and Valerie Adams. Here is my timeline.


Wednesday, 20 March 2019

C.I.P Reflection

This week for C.I.P we have been discussing what we should make the mural / art look like in our school. We decided we were going to create a mural that is of birds and native animals related to HHS / Hornby community. I'm really excited about doing this mural because we are going to add bits of rubbish to the art work and it will keep our community cleaner.