Carnivorous Plants

 Today In science we had to do a blog post about Carnivorous Plants. We watched a video about carnivorous plants. We also had to answer some questions and put some videos on. 

Video 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EElFe_zaIo

Video 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yvUjwt2-jI

Video 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNAJc_eHKSw

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Write about your favourite plant.

Name: Drosera Rotundfolia.

Colour: Green and Hot pink.

Where it lives: Europe, USA, Korea, Japan, Siberia.

Why is it your favourite plant? Because it is a funky shape which looks cool. I also like the colour and the way it eats bugs. 

Mask Making

 In drama this term we have been making masks from scratch. We had to do a lot of research about performing masks and we had to decide on what animal our mask was gonna be. Our mask had to be an animal and it could be fantasy or real. I decided on a Barn Owl. You can't really tell because there is no feathers that we could use and you can't see the pencil lines.

This is my barn owl mask.                                                    

Hopefully, we get to perform soon because I want to use my mask again. We haven't been able to perform yet because every time we are going to perform it starts to rain.

This is the slide that we have been using to do our mask making. Don't worry about the last few slides.

Acids and Bases

 Today in Science we were learning about Acids and Bases. We had to watch 2 videos and then answer a bunch of questions about acid and things to do with acid. Here are the questions.

1. What makes something acidic? a substance that contains 0-6 molecules of Hydrogen.

2. What are 3 examples of acids? Citric acid, Acetic acid, and Gastric acid.

3. What are some natural acids? Lactic Acid and Oxalic Acid

4. What is the PH scale? The pH scale is something used to measure how acidic/basic water is.

5. What does PH stand for? Potential (Power) Hydrogen

6. P stands for? Potential (Power)

7. H stands for? Hydrogen

8. What is the most famous indicator? Red cabbage leaves

9. How many numbers are there on the PH scale? 0-14

10. What are the numbers for an acid? 0-6

11. What numbers are for a base/alkaline? 7-14

12. What flavour are acids. Acids are usually very sour or Bitter.

HHS 2021

Today in hurumanu with Mrs. Alpers we had to write about a positive aspect about school this year for the students coming next year. I chose to do science because the experiments that we do in science are so much fun and the science teachers are really cool too. The experiments are really enjoyable and I was looking forward to science since term 1. Some of the experiments you will do in science are lighting your hands on fire, making sherbert, chili tasting, making hokey pokey, and heaps more. My favourite one was lighting my hands on fire or making some hokey pokey.

 There is also lots of stuff to do in sports. For Y 7/8 there isn't a lot of sports options but if you get chosen for something I can guarantee that it will be so much fun. There are lots of Friday sport options for winter and summer. There is also lots of fun stuff in PE as well. 

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Mask Making

 In Drama, we are building up to doing a performance with a mask that we have made. We have to create a mask for the outside and inside. The outside mask has to be real or fantasy and I chose to do an owl mask.

 It has to have eye holes and a way to breathe. My owl mask will be based on a Morepork Owl.

The mask has to have character and has to be facing the audience at all times so they can see what they are doing.

We also had to include some things that we need to remember when we are performing.

1. If it's loose hold the sides, not the front.

2. Always face the front.

3. Make different shapes with your body that relates to the character.

4. Do some gestures to keep the audience entertained.

5.  Your mask is your character role. STICK TO IT.

 We had to research some masks and include some pictures.

I'm going to make my mask with paper so it doesn't take as long to make it.

Chilli Tasting

 Today in Science we had to create a blog post about chillis. We had to find 3 videos and 5 interesting facts. 

1.  Videos 

1. Funny  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB_0yGGgicQ

2. Facts about Chilli. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtoM-UTeqMY

3. Explaining SHU.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD0_yWgifDM

2.  5 Facts.

1. There are over 1000 different types of pepper.

2. Some parts of pepper are hotter than others.

3.  The hottest chili's have heaps of Vitamin C.

4.  If you have a stuffy nose then you should eat a pepper because that clears it instantly.

5.  Eating chillis helps with weight loss. 

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Method

Equipment.

1. Hot Chilli Sauce,

2. Popsical Stick,

3. Drinks - Soda, Water, Milk,

4. Timer.

Instructions

1. Get your equipment ready.

2. Get a drop of hot sauce on your popsicle stick.

3. Lick the Hot Chilli Sauce.

4. Start the timer.

5. After 2 mins drink your drink.

6. After 5 minutes, how hot is your mouth?

7. Repeat the experiment but with a different drink.

Results.

The first time, I had water and after 5 minutes I scored it a 4/10 for burning.

The second time, I had Coca-Cola and after 5 minutes I scored it a 2/10 for burning.

The third time, I had milk and after 5 minutes I scored it a 6/10 for burning.

Discussion. 

I though that the milk would help because everyone says it helps but It made it worse for me. The coke was the best because it was flat and it tasted yummy even with the burning.

Why does chilli burn your mouth?

In chilli and hot sauce there is a chemical called capsacin which sticks to your tounge and triggers the temperature sensitive pain receptors in your mouth and it doesn't go away untill you wash it out.

Why did the milk reduce the burn?

It didn't help for me it made it lots worse.

Creating a brand

 For the last week, we have been working on a task leading up to the business and enterprise launch next week. We had to create a brand and a logo and everything to do with a brand. Reuben, Kody, and I chose to do a lemonade business called "Lemonade Lounge". It sells different flavours of lemonade and there is lots of seating and couches for everyone to sit on. We had to create a mood board that helps us create our business. Here is our mood board.

Bacteria

 Today in science we learnt about bacteria and then we had to do a science experiment with agar. Agar is a jelly-like substance that I don't know much about. We had to wet a cotton bud and then get bacteria from anywhere in the science room. Then we had to wipe the cotton but on the agar. Mr Palmer is going to put our agar in the incubator and when we come back next week we will have a look and it should have different types of bacteria growing.

Aim: To learn about bacteria and how they grow.

Equipment:

1. Agar Dish,

2. Cotton Bud Swab,

3. Vivid Pen,

Method:

1. Collect the bacteria on a cotton bud swab from taps, computer keyboards or desks.

2. Divide the agar in half by drawing a line on the lid.

3. Wipe the swab on the agar solution.

4. Put the petri dish into the incubator for one week to let the bacteria grow.

5. Draw and label a bacteria.

6. Draw and label a scientific diagram of the experiment. 

Holiday Blog

 Hello everyone!

Welcome back to my blog, today we had to do a blog post on what we did in the 2 week holiday that we recently had. We had to follow a template with what we did. The template was called SPILES. SPILES is what you did in the holidays and each letter stands for something.

S. Social Activities,

P. Physical Activities,

I. Intellectual,

L. Likes,

E, Emotions,

S, Success,

For social activities, I hung out with my friends and family. I also went to the park and played some volleyball with a group of my friends.

For Physical activities, I went mountain biking at the adventure park on my Trek Remedy 9.8 which is my new bike. I also played football a lot and jumped on the tramp a lot too.

For Intellectual activities, I read some books and played video games with my friends which helped me communicate.

For Likes, I really enjoy a lot of physical activities like mountain biking and playing football. Hanging out with my friends and family too.

Some emotions I felt during the holidays were happy, bored, tired, hungry, and sometimes mad when I was losing my game.

Some success that happened was when I finished the Yoda trail at the adventure park which is the hardest trail and has a rating of 5 out of 5 for difficulty level. It was really difficult and it took me about 5 tried because I kept stacking on the same kicker like 3 times in a row.

Thank you for reading :D

Drama: Maui and the Fish Tableaus.

Today in drama we had to create a blog post about our Tableaus that we did about Maui and the Fish.

Tableaus are a fancy name for freeze frames. Something you need to make a Tableau good is Levels (The different height), Physicality (Body Movement), and Facial Expressions.  We did a set of Tableaus to do with Maui and the Fish. There were 3 Tableaus, one for the start, one for the middle, and one for the end.

For some reason the video of my group didn't save so I had to use another group's images. We also had to answer a few questions for each Tableau.

What works well in this tableau? The levels are very good and how they are crouched and standing up.

What would you improve/change in this tableau? I would change the physicality because there isn't a lot of body movement and everyone is sort of in the same position.

Where did your group use facial expressions, Physicality, and levels well? This group didn't use a lot of facial expressions very well everyone is just blank-faced. They used okay physicality but there isn't a lot of body positions. The levels though are very good because they aren't all in the same height.

What works well in this tableau? This tableau is very good because the facial expressions are all different and everyone is shocked.

What would you improve/change in this tableau? I wouldn't change much because it's quite well done. I would only change Reuben's physicality because he's just sitting there looking at Adrian standing up.

Where did your group use facial expressions, Physicality, and levels well? This group used facial expressions really good but the Physicality is better than the last one but still not amazing.  The levels are good too but not amazing.

What works well in this tableau? This tableau is not the best but it is okay. The levels are pretty good and the physicality is okay but there are no facial expressions anywhere.

What would you improve/change in this tableau? I would change the facial expressions because everyone is just staring at Adrian standing up.

Where did your group use facial expressions, Physicality, and levels well? This group had good levels, Okay physicality, and terrible facial expressions. This tableau isn't the best.

Thank you for reading.

Learning Story No. 2

 Today I did a Writing / Literacy learning story there might be one more but this is my Writing learning story with Mrs. Allan. Fletcher, and Whaea Raewyn.

Learning Story No.1 Maths.

 Today I did my first learning story for this term and it was about maths. We did a bunch of stuff this term even with the lockdown. I will post more learning stories maybe about 3 but I'm not sure. Here it is.

Kei te pehea koe?

Today for wananga we had to do an activity about Kei te pehea Koe? In English that translates to How are you feeling. We had to create a DLO about it and write some responses. This is my DLO. Reuben also helped with it as well. :D 

Litmus Experiment

 Hello everyone welcome back to my blog. Today in Science we did an experiment using Litmus Paper. It's a paper that can detect whether a liquid is an acid or an alkali. This is what we did.

Materials:

1. Red Litmus Paper,

2. Blue Litmus Paper,

3. Sodium Hydroxide,

4. Hydrochloric Acid.

5. Pipette,

6. 4 Test Tubes.

Steps: 

1. Rip the litmus paper in half and put half in each test tube.2

2. Add 3 drops of hydrochloric acid to the blue litmus paper in test tube 1.

3. Add 3 drops of hydrochloric acid to the red litmus paper in test tube 2.

4. Add 3 drops of Sodium Hydroxide to the blue litmus paper in test tube 3.

5. Add 3 drops of Sodium Hydroxide to the blue litmus paper in test tube 4.

Conclusion:

The experiment was amazing and I did not expect what to happen. If you want to know what happens you should try it yourself. 

Football in Level 2

 Hello Everyone welcome back to my blog!

Today in Mrs. Alpers's class we had to do a blog post on something that we have been studying or experiencing at Level 2 lockdown and the return to school. I chose to do Football because that's one of my passions that I enjoy doing.   

I've been enjoying being back at school and socializing with people instead of talking through a screen. Playing football is much more fun with more than 1 person and it's really fun at school because there is a lot of people. Football training is quite difficult now that I'm not used to it and all of the exercise. I am enjoying actually being with people at school and learning at home just isn't the same. Thank you for reading and have a good day :D.

Baking Soda

 Sherbet

Today in science we made sherbert. We watched a video about Baking Soda because it's one of the main ingredients and its uses. There are a lot of uses for baking soda and here are some of them.

1. Scrubs away marks on walls.

2. Underarm Deodorant.

3. Clean and unclog smelly sinks.

4. Clean your tiles.

5. Deodorise your kitty litter tray.

6. Clean your oven.

7.  Wash build-up out of your hair.

8. Deodorise your carpets

9. Helps wash clothes.

Here is how to make it.

Put in 1 teaspoon of powdered drink crystals. (eg Raro)

1/4 teaspoon of citric acid.

1 teaspoon of Icing Sugar.

1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda.

We also had some questions to answer about the sherbert.

1. Which two ingredients in the sherbert are involved in the chemical reaction? Baking Soda and Citric Acid.

2. Which ingredients are not involved? Icing Sugar and Raro.

3. Can you think of any other chemical reaction that might happen in the kitchen?

Bread making with Yeast.

4. Which ingredient is an acid? Citric Acid.

5. Which ingredient is a base? The powdered drink crystals.

Digital Task Board

 Today in lockdown I did a task for wananga called drawing with sand. Its a really cool website that all you have to do is click and drag and it creates sand that you can use. You can also change the colour so if you wanted to draw a person you could but it would be very hard and it would take a while.

Here is the website if you want to have a go :D https://thisissand.com/

Digital Task Board

 Paint Like Jason Pollock

The activity I chose today was called Paint Like Jason Pollock. 

It's a website where all you have to do is move your mouse and it follows with black lines but if you click it changes colour!.

Jason Pollock was an American painter that was known for painting random lined on a canvas and they sold for a lot of money.

It's really enjoyable and it cures boredom pretty easily. I spent a good 20 minutes on it just going back and forth. 

Here is the link to the site if you wanna have a go! https://manetas.com/pollock/

Digital Task Board Lockdown

 Hi all!

This is my first post in lockdown since we've been in lockdown. Today I did a task about rice. It's a website with a quiz and for every question you get right you donate 1 grain of rice to a country in poverty. eg. Kenya. I did it for 10 minutes and earned someone 913 grains of rice. That's basically a full meal of rice! Here is the link to the website if you want to do it :D.

https://freerice.com/categories/english-vocabulary

Integers

 For the past few weeks in maths, I have been learning about Integers. Integers are negative numbers below zero. Integers are really weird because if you multiply a negative number by a positive number it will still be a negative number. So say if you want to work out -7x4 it will be -28. But if you multiply a negative number by a negative number it will be a positive number depending on the equation. So if you want to multiply -8x-4 it will be 32. Thank you for reading and if you want leave a comment :D 

Report: The Heart Of Erebus

 Today in English with Whaea Raewyn we were learning about Mount Erebus in Antarctica. We had a few tasks and questions to do with it so here are the questions.

What makes Mount Erebus so special?

It's a really big Active Volcano on the edge of Antarctica that is surrounded by strange formations including Ice caves, Frozen Collums of Steam, and hundreds of giant black rocks sprouting up from the ice.  There are people that stay right next to it and study it during the year at a place called the Mount Erebus Observatory near the summit. 

Yeast

 Today in science we learned about Yeast. We watched a video about Yeast and then we did an experiment with Yeast, Sugar, and lukewarm water once we combined that we put a balloon over the top of the flask.

 Yeast is a fungi that grows all around us.

Yeast has been used for hundreds of years. 

Yeast needs to be woken up from hibernation state.

We're going to use yeast to make ginger beer and this is part 2 of the post. Equipment and Method.

Aim: To look at how Yeast is used in foods.

Equipment:

Spoons,

Kettle,

Bowl,

Beaker,

Cloth Sieve,

Funnel,

Plastic Bottle (PET) and Bottle Cap.

Materials:

Bug (for a group of 3)
50ml warm water,

1/2 teaspoon active dried yeast,

1/2 teaspoon sugar,

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger.

Ginger Beer 1 Litre.

3/4 cup sugar,

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar,

1L cold water,

Juice of 1/2 lemon,

1 teaspoon ginger beer bug.

Method:

1. In a large bowl, put the sugar and cream of tartar, then add the warm water.

2. Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding cold water.

3. Add the ginger beer bug to the large bowl of cold water.

4. Stir well and then pour into your clean bottle.

5. Label your bottle with group names.

6. Place all the bottles in the class container.

7. Store in a cool dark place for one week before drinking.

8. Make sure you open the bottle in the kitchen sink as it might overflow. Open the cap bit by bit to allow the air to escape.

The ginger beer must be drunk over the 6 days.

You Must Provide your own bottle.

Chilli Tasting

 Today we were doing Chilli Tasting in Science. We had to do some research about Chillis. We had to find out what they look like, what the chemical is called that makes them spicy and name some types of Chillis. 

Section 1.

The definition of a chilli: a small hot tasting pod of a variety of capsicum used in sauces and relishes.

The chemical that makes chillis hot is called Capsaicin.

Section 2.

Carolina Reaper Pepper.

Moruga Scorpion Pepper.

Habanero Pepper.

Section 3.

Top 6 hottest Peppers and where they grow.

6. Naga Viper. Grows in England.

5. Butch T Trinidad Scorpion. Grows in America.

4. Primo Pepper. Grows in America.

3. 7 Pot Douglah. Grows in the Caribbean Islands.

2. Moruga Trinidad Scorpion. Grows in America.

1. Carolina Reaper. Grows in America

Part 2. 

What takes the hotness away after you eat chilli.

Aim: To see which is the best way to cool down the hot chilli taste in your mouth when eating a chilli.

Hypothesis: I think that by using milk I will be able to remove the hot chilli taste from my mouth

Equipment: 

1. Milk

2. Water 

3. Coca Cola

4. Tasting Cup

5. Chilli

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What works the best.

Coke.  Immediately Yes, After 3 Minutes Yes. 

Milk. Immediately Yes, After 3 Minutes Yes. 

Water. Immediately No, After 3 Minutes No.

Conclusion. 

 Milk could be a solution when eating spicy foods -- literally, That's because milk helps your mouth handle capsaicin, an oily chemical compound in chilli peppers. Capsaicin binds to a receptor in the tongue and creates a burning sensation... Casein protein found in milk can also bind to the capsaicin and wash it away.

Standing Up To Our Rights

Learning Outcome: Demonstrate how social messages and stereotypes can affect feelings of self-worth.

Discrimination - the act of treating some people unfairly because of prejudice.

Prejudice  - an opinion formed without knowing all the facts.

Stereotypes - a standardized and oversimplified and inaccurate conception held in common by many people.

Protest - an objection or complaint, to express objection in a planned, organized way.

Social Messaging - the passing of a message/idea from person to person in a community.

Dawn Raids.

In English with Mrs. Handley this morning we had to read a text about the Dawn Raids in New Zealand and answer a few questions.

- What happened?

Police were allowed to go into people's homes and stop people on the street to prove that they belong in New Zealand.

- How did Stereotyping and Social Messaging play a role in this incident?

People with coloured skin were the only ones asked because they were "Foreigners"

- How has this protest impacted NZ?

Cops aren't allowed to go into people's houses without a warrant now.

Bastion Point 

We did the same task with Mrs. Handley but today we learned about Bastion Point and what happened. We also had to answer similar questions.

- What happened?

The police were trying to demolish the places that people were living at Bastion Point because the Government wanted to build a housing development on it but the people who owned the land didn't want to.

- How did Stereotyping and Social Messaging play a role in this incident?

- How has this protest impacted NZ?

The land was eventually given back to the original owners on the 1st of July (Today) 1988

Hornby High Student Recipe

 Today in Mrs Handleys class we had to create a recipe for the best student at Hornby High School. Mr Sutton (Our Principle) wanted us to create the best student at Hornby High School with different ingredients and a method of making them. This is my student recipe.

Promoting Outstanders

 Today in English we had to choose from 2 different tasks. The first task was to get photogenic where you had to take some photos of bystanders and outstanders. The second task was to create a poster about bystanders and outstanders. I chose the Get Photogenic task with Pheonix, Ken, Reuben, and Jed. These are the photos we took for the bystanders and outstanders.

Vocab Task

 Today in Mrs Handleyls class we had to create a Kahoot on the meanings of different words.

Here is the slide I made for the Kahoot as I cannot link it to this blog post.

STEAM Problems.

 Today in Wananga we have started a Kete called STEAM. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths. It's called Hornby 2050 and we have to think of a problem that we could fix to benefit the planet and make Hornby 2050 a good place. The problem that I thought of was Global Warming making Ocean levels rise. I was thinking that you could use the seaweed and kelp you find on beaches to make some sort of biofuel to power cars. Or, you could filter the seawater a bunch of times to make it drinkable and send it away to different countries so you can water crops with it and drink it.Z

This is the slide I made for my problem(s).

Values Task

 Learning Outcome: Identify our rights and responsibilities as students at Hornby High. I believe a value is something that you stand by and follow to make you a better person.

Our School Values at Hornby High are:

Commitment

Achievement

Resilence

Respect.

Our school values are very important because it forms us into a person for after school when we are out in the real world. They also help us be good people and kind to other people so we don't get mistreated.

10 Fun Facts about Wellington

 Wellington, a place where you go if you would like to be blown over by the wind. For our quick write today we had to try and find 10 facts about Wellington. 

1.Location. Wellington is at the very bottom of the North Island.

2.Population. Wellington has just under 250,000 people. That's a lot of people and I bet you can imagine what it's like in peak hour traffic.

3.Māori name. Wellington's Māori name is Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

4. Celebrities from Wellington. A few famous people from Wellington include Russel Crowe, Kerry Fox, Karl Urban, Emmet Skilton, and a few more.

5.The Beehive. The Beehive is the parliament building in Wellington. That's where you go if you have an issue that you want the prime minister to fix. Or if you work there of course.

6. Fact 1. Wellington is actually the capital of New Zealand. It took over from Russel or Waitangi as some people call it. It became the capital on the 26th of July 1865.

7. Fact 2. It's just been named the worlds best city. Because of its affordable house prices, heaps of things to do, and everything is close together.

8. Fact 3. They still deliver Mail by boat. Yes, you heard right. Wellington delivers mail to Picton by boat.

9. Fact 4.Wellington is very windy. Wellington is the Windiest city in New Zealand. It's also the second windiest city in the world following closely behind Chicago in America

10. Fact 5. I've been to Wellington once and it was my first time out of the south island. We went up to Mount Victoria and I couldn't stand straight because it was way too windy.

I hope you enjoyed my blog.

Supernova Task

 Today we had to create a DLO and answer some questions about Supernovas. I had 2 other people in my group and we had to do a lot of research. This is the DLO we created.

Mrs Handley Task

 Welcome back to my blog. Today we read through 3 scenarios of uncomfortable situations. We had to choose one of those then choose one of 2 different tasks for it. Task 1 was to write a roleplay on how to deal with the situation and task 2 was to create a Powtoon and write some tips and tricks on how to deal with it. I chose Task 1 the roleplay. This is the existing text. 

• Monique’s parents expect her to come home directly from school

• each day. But today, Jamila wants Monique to come to her house

• for a little“get together” after school. Some of the other kids are

• coming over and Jamila’s mother won’t be home. Monique doesn’t

• want to go because she knows her parents will be really angry if

• she goes and she isn’t sure it is safe without any adults there.

• Jamila doesn’t want to take “no” for an answer because Monique is

• her best friend.  

This is my roleplay on how to deal with it.

Monique: "I'm sorry but I can't come over right now my parents want me to be home now."

Jamila: "Come on, It'll only be for a bit."

Monique: "I should be getting home now."

Jamila: "No, Come inside with me now!"

Monique: "I have an idea, how about I ask my parents and you ask your parents and we can organise it for another day?"

Jamila: "That's a good idea but I want you to come in now."

Monique: "Or another thing I can do is I'll come inside and I'll borrow your phone so I can ring my mum."

Jamila: "Yessssss! quickly come in so we can get more time"

If you're ever stuck in this situation try and negotiate with the other person for another time or negotiate with your parents somehow if you have contact with them.

Here are some tips and tricks for this.

Try and plan ahead.

Try and Give a believable excuse.

Walk away.

Use the cold shoulder.