Drama

 Today in drama we are writing a reflection about this term. We have to write about what we did and what we enjoyed. I learnt that melodrama is a genre. My favourite genre is mystery and adventure. I also learnt what clowning is.  At the start of the term, we learn about F.A.R.T.S. F stands for focus. A stands for action. R stands for role. T stands for tension. S stands for space. The most recent thing we learnt was different types of drama/theatre. The drama/theatre types we learnt were tragedy, melodrama, comedy, physical drama and epic drama. My favourite game that we played would be park bench. 

1. Tragedy: I like tragedy because there are lots of stuff that happen. A tragedy movie is Romeo and Juliet.
2. Comedy: I like comedy because there are lots of funny stuff in their movies. A comedy movie is Deadpool.
3.  MeloDrama: I liked melodrama because there are different types of villains, heroes and victims. A MeloDrama movie is spiderman. 

Here is a video of comedy:

Create A Game

 Today in wānanga we got given three activities. We can choose what one we want to do. I choose to make a game. The game has to be created with two cones, a ball, and 5 minutes. We got to choose if we wanted to make the game with another person. I choose to make the game with my friend Alexia. It was Alexia's idea to make the game. Here are the instructions for the game.

Create a game activity
Partner - Carla

 . 2x cones 

.  1x Ball

Closer Cone

1. Put the cones 2 - 1 meters apart and grab the ball. 2. The first team in line has to roll the ball in between the cones without touching the cones in the process.3. Each time the person gets the ball in between the cones, the cones will get closer and closer.4. Each team will have a 5-minute timer to do this and try to get more in between the cones.

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Reflection - Week 9

 Today in wānanga our teacher said we are reflecting on this week. We have done lots of stuff this term. There are 4 things we have to talk about. Here is what we have to talk about. One of the things we have to talk about is CARR values. I showed respect in art, I wasn't like other people in the class and was yelling and annoying the teacher. I showed achievement in maths, I finished what we were supposed to do. Most of the people in the class I am in were not close to finishing. I showed commitment by finishing all of my work. The next thing we have to talk about is how we are doing on Arts kete and whats is going on. For arts kete, I am in wooden games. We don't have enough time to make them wood because of covid so we are now doing them on paper. We are going to laminate the games. The group I am in we are making a memory match game. After we talk about arts kete we have to talk about how we managed this week. I think I did pretty good this week even though there were a few relievers. Even though there were lots of hiccups with other people I did a good job managing this week (the hiccups were not with me). After we talk about that we have to make a goal for the last week of the term. My goal for the last week of the term is to try and get 3/2 full CARR cards. 

Art

 For around the past 4 weeks, we have been looking at Henri Rousseau and jungle print. We first looked at Henri Rousseau and his art. When we were looking at Henri Rousseau we got given one of his art and we had to cut it out. We cut it to measure the foreground, middle ground and background. Later on, we looked at jungle print. For jungle print, we had to go to the printer and make a jungle with the stuff we had. We had to do 3 prints. After we did that we had to trace it onto baking paper. We had to trace all three of the prints we did. After we did the trace the teacher printed it out. The teacher printed it out 2 times. The reason why she printed it out 2 times is so that one of them is full of colour and the other one is the same as when it came out of the printer. After we did that we have to do a blog. 

Sorry it is a bit blurry

Science - Neutralisation

 Today in science we are looking at Neutralisation. 

Aim: To look at the pH scale and neutralises acid and alkaline substances using a Univeral indicator.

Neutralisation experiment

Equipment:
1. Univeral indicator
2. 1 m HCI
3. 1 m NaOH
4. 4 test tubes
5. Test tubes rack
6. 2 plastic pipettes.

Method:

1. Take a test tube rack with 1 boiling tube at each end of the rack and 4 test tubes.
2. Half full the boiling tube at one with Sodium Hydroxide.
3. Half full the boiling tube at the other end with Hydrochloric acid.
4. Fill each test tube with 5 drops of Univeral indicator.
5. Using the pipettes you will add drops of acid or alkaline to the test tubes to make colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet.
6. Do not mix up the pipettes.

Challenge:
To use the acids and alkalines to make colours of the pH scale.

Out of the 6 test tubes, you should have the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. 

Once you have completed this you need to take a photo of your test tube rack.

Activity:
1. Make your own copy of the pH scale. On the paper provided make 14 boxes and colours them the correct colours according to the pH scale.

2. Make a drawing of the experiment from yesterday. Use the back of the paper with the pH scale. Label all of the equipment.

Conclusion:
For the challenge, the group I was in got all of the colours.

Parihaka

Today in Nga Tangata we are still looking at Parihaka. We have been looking at Parihaka since last week. We have to do some vocab. The vocab words are confiscate, Te whiti, Tohu, Peacefull protest, Te Raukura Feather. After we do the vocab we have to do flash cards. To do the flash card we get a piece of paper that has 4 puzzle pieces on it. On the puzzle pieces we put stuff from the flash card on it. When we are finished doing the flash cards we have to cut out the puzzle pieces to make a feather. After we do that we have to take a photo of the feather and make a blog about what we did today. Here is the vocab and a photo of the feather.


Confiscate: Taking someones stuff with authority.

Te Whiti: Te Whiti is a person and they were a leader.

Tohu: Tohu is a person and they were a leader.

Peaceful Protest: Peaceful protest is a protest without harming people. 

Te Raukura Feather: Ta Raukura is a feather that means hope, faith, spiritual power.

Tongan Language Week

 For the past week in wānanga, we have been looking at Tongan language week. The reason why we are doing it this week and not last week is because we didn't have enough time and the teachers didn't have anything for us to do. We have to make a slideshow with our work on it. Our teacher sent us a slideshow with what we have to do on it. Here is the work I did.

Litmus Paper

 Today in science we are looking at litmus paper.

Litmus is a tree lichen fungi and is made into small paper strips or a liquid for testing acids or alkalines.

1. Blue litmus paper determines if something is acidic. It turns red in solutions with a pH less than 7.

2. Red litmus paper determines if something is alkaline. It turns blue in solutions with a pH greater than 7.

Litmus experiment:

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. Add 3 drops of hydrochloric acid to the red litmus paper in test tube 1.
3. Add 3 drops of hydrochloric acid in the blue 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 red litmus paper in test tube 4.

Findings:

The blue litmus paper with hydrochloric acid went red
The red litmus paper with hydrochloric acid went didn't change
The red litmus paper with sodium hydroxide went blue. The water went yellow
The blue litmus paper with sodium hydroxide went didn't change.

Conclusion:
Blue litmus is an acidic
red litmus is alkaline.

Dogs - Puppies

 For the past 2 and a half weeks, Me and my family have been looking after 7 puppies. The reason why we are looking after 7 puppies is because my 2 dogs had them. My dogs are chocolate labradors. One of my dogs is skinny, very tall and dopey. My other dog is big and small but fast. Since the puppies are 2 and a half weeks old they are starting to walk and most of them have their eyes open wide. All of the puppies are chocolate. There are 2 runts out of all of them. Here is a photo of the puppies.

Parihaka

 Yesterday in Nga Tangata we started looking at Parihaka. We had to read 3 articles about Parihaka. We had to make a copy of a slideshow and do our work on there. Here is my work.

Science - Acids and Bases

 Today in Science we are looking at acids and bases. 

What makes something acid?
An acid contains Hydrogen atoms that break off to react with a substance.

What are 3 examples/names of acids:
Hydrochloric Acid
Sulfuric Acid
Nitric Acid
Citric Acid
Acetic Acid
Formic Acid
Carbonic Acid

What is an acid?

An acid (HA) is a solution that breaks into H+ and A-

Aim: To make red cabbage pH indicator for use on different household chemicals


Red Cabbage indicator

Materials:
1. Red cabbage
2. Beaker
3. Bunsen Burner
4. Pipette
5. Sodium Hydroxide
6. Test tubes
7. Paper towels
8. Test tube rack
9. water
10. Hydrochloric acid

Steps:
1. Chop up the cabbage into small pieces. Place beaker and cover 
2. Bring the solution to boil using a bunsen burner and then turn the heat off. Let it sit to cool down.
3. Pour cabbage water through a paper towel into a beaker. The dark purple liquid in the jar is the pH indicator liquid.
4. Suck up the indicator into a pipette
5. Use the cabbage indicator and the pH chart below to test the acidity of the different 3 household liquids plus the hydrochloric acid and ammonium hydroxide.

Science - Sherbet

 Today in science we are looking at baking soda. We are also looking at sherbet.

My 10 points for baking soda:
10. Srub away marks on your wall
9. Using it as deodorant
8. Cleans your sink and gets rid of the smell
7. Cleans your grout lines (in between your tiles)
6. Makes a better cleaning product
5. Helps kitty litter
4. Oven cleaner
3. Wash build-up from your hair
2. Make a deodorant for your carpet
1. Its a good laundry booster

Recipe:

1 tsp of powdered drink crystals (eg Raro)

1/4 tsp citric acid 

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp icing sugar

Put all ingredients into a ziplock bag,  stir, and enjoy.

Materials:

1. Citric acid
2. Baking soda
4. Raro
5. Teaspoons 
6. Cup

Steps:

1. Get your cup
2. Put the raro into your cup
3. Get a 1/4 of a tsp of baking soda and put it in your cup
4. Put a 1/4 of a tsp of citric acid into your cup
5. Mix and enjoy

Findings:

How does sherbet react when you put it in your mouth? The sherbet dissolves. 

What ingredient in the sherbet is tingly in your mouth? The ingredient in the sherbet that is tingly is baking soda.

Conclusion:
Make sure to do the measurements properly or it will taste bad. baking soda has lots of different uses.

Reading - MeMe & Me

Today in Wga we have time to do work that we did earlier in the week. The work I am doing is hurumanu. I read a story called MeMe & Me. In the story, the girl begged her parents for a phone and also did cleaning at her nan's house to get money. The girl's name is Nina. We have to answer some questions from the story.

The main points of the story are Nina gets a phone, she gets a friend called MeMe. MeMe is very rude to her. At the end, Nina gets trapped in the phone and MeMe is now in her body. MeMe looks like Nina.

MeMe is a person on the phone who looks like Nina. MeMe is a person who is friends with Nina. We think MeMe is a robot. 

There is a possibility that this can happen in real life but I don't think it will. The reason why I think at it will not happen in real life is because there is lots of things that are like this already. 

I don't know what the author is trying to tell us. 

Lockdown - Baking

 In lockdown, me and my sister decided to bake stuff. We baked pancakes together. The pancakes were plain because we didn't put anything on them. Next time I might add some jam or butter on them. I also tried to make banana doughnuts but they turned out to be like muffins. I tried to make cinnamon butter but it turned out like it was just sugar mixed with butter. The banana muffins turned out very plain and dry. It was my first time making banana doughnuts. Next time I could try and bake them on something different and not cook them for so long. 

Lockdown Movies - Edge Of Tomorrow, The Platform

 In the time of the lockdown, I had watched some movies. The movies I have watched are "Edge of Tomorrow" and "The Platform". There is another movie I am watching is "The Loud House". Two of these movies are ones my sister picked. She picked "The Platform" and "The Loud House". We have to rate the movies out 10. For Edge of Tomorrow, I would rate it 8.5/10. I rate it that because there are a few things they could have done better, but it was also made in 2014. For The Platform, I rate it a 7/10. I rate it that because there are also a few things they could do better, I also didn't understand some parts of the storyline. The characters in Edge of Tomorrow are, Rita Vrataski, Lt Col Bill Cage, Karen Lord, Master Sergeant Farell, General Brigham, Nance, Dr Carter, Kimmel, Griff, Kuntz, Skinner, Cruel Sergeant, Colonel Walter Marx, Slovakain Soldier, Pilot, Julie, Drop Ship Pilot, Doctor, Ford, Dog Soldier Summers, Takeda, Dr Whittle, Dog Soldier, J Squad Soldier. The character in The Platform are, Miharu, Trimasgasi, Imoguiri, Goreng, Baharat, Sr Brambang, Baharats Friend, Inmate #1, Amigo De Baharat, Cook #1, Cocinero, Preso, Mail, Chef, Presa Nivel 5 and Jefe de Restaurante. I would recommend these movies to people who like action and a bit of gore. In "The Platform" there is a lot of gore. In the movie "The Platform" there is a platform with food the comes down every day. You have to get on the platform and survive. You start at a level and you have to go down to level 1 and then the platform will go very fast back up. At the start you can bring anything you want in(don't know about food though). In the movie "Edge of Tomorrow", a person replays the day again and again till he does what is set for him. 

Bacteria

 Today in science we are learning about bacteria. We watched two videos telling us about bacteria.  Bacteria is good and bad because it helps you in different ways. Bacteria looks like a rod or spiral shape. Bacteria is inside your cells. 90% of bacteria is in your cells. 

Walt:
To look at different types of bacteria.

What is bacteria?

1. Feeding:
Most bacteria are consumers, this means they cant use the sun to make their own food, which means why to have to feed by using other living things. Bacteria do not have a digestive system likes other things. Bacteria will wait for things to decompose before they eat them. They start to eat it when it is rotten.

2. Reproduction:
With bacteria, there is no women or male. The name for the way they reproduce is mitosis.  One bacteria does not need another bacteria to reproduce. They make more bacteria by constantly splitting when they need to. They can split every 15 - 20 minutes. The smaller cells are named daughter cells which means they will become identical, it will be the same colour and look the same.  They will stop splitting when they stop getting food.

3. Excretion:
The food bacteria eat is important which helps them survive. It gives them energy and helps them grow.  Exceritions also helps them repair parts and damage parts. There is also waste products of their digestion.  These wastes must be excreted or got rid of so that the bacteria do not poison themselves. They pass out through the bacterium's cell membrane, and into whatever they are living on or in. Bacteria feed on living things and causes diseases and are called pathogenic bacteria and they are harmful.

4. Breathing: 
All different types of living things need oxygen so their cells can convert food into energy. The process is called preparation. Bacteria can carry out both aerobic and anaerobic respiration. Anaerobic respiration is when there is plenty of oxygen. Anaerobic respiration occurs when the supply of oxygen is very limited or non-existent.

Clowning

 Hi, guys today I'm writing about what we did last week. We did some clowning in the theatre. Clowning is basically being a mimic and mining things. Something that I think about clowns is that they are ugly. For clowning, you basically pretend you trip over something, pretend to get hurt, be dumb, and act like a child. Sometimes they look like clowns or just have white paint on their faces while acting. We also watched some videos about clowning.

Women Suffrage - tic tac toe

 Yesterday in Nga Tangata we started looking at women suffrage. The group I am in has to read 3 articles about Kate Sheppard. After we read the articles we have to do an activity. The activity is a tic tac toe(do 3 in a row). I asked my teacher if I could do a Kahoot with my friend about women suffrage and Kate Sheppard. The other tasks I did were list 2 things you're learnt from the text and your opinion about the text. Here is the work I did(not the kahoot). 

Science - Yeast Alive Film

 Today in science we are doing Yeast Alive Film. On Thursday we are making ginger beer. Yeast is alive in a hibernation state. Yeast is a fungi. The experiment we are doing is with a bottle, yeast and a balloon. We have to get into groups of three.

Experiment:
Here is the yeast experiment with a bottle, yeast and a balloon. The experiment is done in 3 bottles. Let's see what happens after 20 minutes.

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

Research:
What effect does sugar have on yeast?
- The chemical reaction between yeast and sugar produces ethanol and carbon dioxide.

What is fermentation?
- A simple way of an expansion of fermentation is that it is a chemical reaction. 

What are 3 foods/drinks that have yeast?
1. Bread
2. Ginger beer
3. Crackers 

Equipment:
- Spoons
- Kettle
- Bowl
- Beaker
- Cloth sieve
- Funnel
- Plastic Bottle

Materials:

Bug (groups of 3)

- 50ml
- 1/2 tsp to active dried yeast
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger

Ginger beer (for 1 litre)

- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1L cold water
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 tsp ginger beer bug.

 Method:

1. Ina large bowl, put sugar and cream of tartar, then add the warm water.
2. Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding the cold water.
3. Add the ginger beer bag to the large bowl of cold water.
4. Stir well and then pour into your clean bottle.
5. Label your bottle with your 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 dunk over the 6 days.

You must provide your own bottle.

We wanted to see how yeast was best activated. To do this we used 3 conical flasks, a teaspoon of yeast in each one, some warm water in each one and some sugar in one flask. We then put a balloon on the top of each flask. We found out that the flask that had the yeast and sugar inflated the balloon. It showed that when yeast has sugar it activates and creates a case called carbon dioxide gas.

Women Suffrage

 Today in Nga Tangata we are learning about women suffrage and Kate Sheppard. I have learnt about women suffrage before. We looked at some videos about Kate Sheppard. After we watched the videos we shared back with the teacher. Then after sharing with the teacher we have to define some words in our own words. After we did that we have to do a comprehension. The comprehension is about women suffrage. After we read the article it came with we have to answer some questions. Here are the definitions and the answers to the questions.

Definitions:
Parliament: Parliament means a group of people in the government. 

Suffrage: Suffrage means wanting the right to vote.

Convince: Convince means trying to make someone do something/agree. 

Prohibitionist: Prohibitionist is someone who prohibition.


Answers:
The year that Maori men could vote is in the 1867s.

The reason why men thought women should not vote is because they thought they should be in the kitchen, keeping the house clean and looking after the kids. Another reason why they thought women should not vote is because they thought women should stay home and cook

The statement drinking their wages means that the men would go out the spend their wages on alcohol.

The WCTU help the poor by visiting hospitals, prisons and also setting up a soup kitchen to help men not spend their wages on alcohol.

The main forms that they used in their protests were giving out newspapers, leaflets had meetings and also held huge protest gatherings with inspiring speeches. 

The reason why she is on our 10$ note is so we can remember her and what she did.