Gym sports

Today in gym sports we played tennis and crash pad cricket first we played tennis we got into groups of four and got a tennis racket and found a court and started to play. The aim of the game is to keep the ball-playing by hitting the ball to each other.

Aim; To look at the different ways we can prevent climate change in the future.


How is sea-level rise going to affect us in NZ


What places will be affected?land soth island

What else do we need to think about?

What other places around NZ will be affected? everywhere

What does this do to our drinking water? salty

What are the main concerns?
 

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

 
   
Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?



What is the mix of things we need to start doing?
 
 

What are 3 others you can think of?
 

 
Activities:

Carbon Footprint:

Carbon Footprint explained

Dwelling
Water
Recreation
Heating and cooling
Electricity
Transportation
Food
Waste
Air Travel
Consumption

Colour 1: for actions, they are already doing
Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

Ecological Handprint The Ecological handprint builds on the concepts from the Carbon Footprint. We will look at the positive actions of:

Transportation
Community
Consumption
Water
Food
Home
Waste


1 Colour: For each action you are already doing
2 Colour: For each action you would like to do in the future

Hurumanu Science safety!!

Today I am going to talk about some safety/rules in a science lab and some equipment that we use in science.

Here are some rules in a science lab:

1. No running because you could knock someone over.

2. Someone could leave their bags in the way and you could trip over so put your bags under the table.

3.No eating because you could mess up someone's excrement that would not be good.

4. If you brack something pick it up and tall a teacher right away don't leave it for someone else

5. No eating or drinking experiment!!!!

Some equipment in a lab

1.Test tube

2.watch glass

3.goggles

4.funnels

5.tongs

6.breakers

  

Hurumanu green house effect experiment

AIM: TO LOOK AT CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT.

THE GREENHOUSE GASES EXPLAINED.

The Greenhouse Effect experiment

Materials

1. 1 plastic bottle
2. 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid
3. 1 heat lamp
4. 1 Thermometer
5. 100 ml of water
6. 1 rubber 

Procedure

1. Add 100 mL of water to each of the beakers.
2. Prepare your lamps. Set them up next to each other with the necks angled so they will just fit over the tops of the bottles. Turn them on so they are ready.
3. Add Baking Soda mix to one of the beakers, and immediately cover both beakers with cling a rubber bung and thermometer. A tight seal around the edge will work best, and make sure thermometers are left visible so you can record the temperature.
4. Have students record the starting temperature – it should be the same in both beakers.
5. Turn the bottles so the thermometer is visible.                             
6. Record the temperature in both beakers every 5 minutes for 45 minutes or until the temperatures stabilize. In the end, have students answer questions at the bottom of their datasheets. 

Conclusion:The bottle with the co2 gas made the balloon blow up more than the other bottles because 

Description

Carbon dioxide is a colorless gas with a density of about 60% of dry air.

  

Hurumanu Fossil fuels

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined? Mining is used to extract solid fossil fuels, such as coal, digging, scraping, or otherwise exposing buried resources.


 How are they mined? Coal is preserved by the earth in a rock layer called a coal seam; mining is the only way to remove it whether it's near the surface or deep underground.

Where are they mined? fossil fuel Any fuel — such as coal, petroleum (crude oil) or natural gas that has developed within the Earth over millions of years from the decayed remains of bacteria, plants or animals.

1. Oil -
2. Coal -
3. Gas -

Activity: Cookie Mining


On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie.
1. Looking down at your cookie.
2. From Side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, bushes, flax, sea, etc)

Material:
cookies
toothpick
plate

  Steps:
The teacher will give you a cookie
Put the cookie ion the plate
Pick the chocolate out of the cookie with the toothpick


Conclusion: When fossil fuses get puled out of the ground every thing around it will get killed over time.

Wind power

1. Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

MATERIALS

  

1. paper  
2. pin
3. cups  
4. tape  
5. pencil 

STEPS

1. Get all of the stuff
2. Tape the sticks together 
3.  Tape the cups to the end of the stick
4. Pin the stick to the pencil

Instructions:

• Go to the measuring place and set up your wind gauge.
• Make sure everyone in your group is ready to start their roles.
• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.
• Count the number of spins in 15 seconds.
• Record it on your chart.

FINDINGS

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	20
2.	Old J Block site	15
3.	Grass hill in the quad	10
4.	Tennis Court gate	3

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CONCLUSION: On the field there 80 spins per min The wind speed was 13-20 mph on the Beaufort scale was three. On the old j block site spins per min was 60 wind speed was two Beaufort scale 0. On the grass hill, spins per min were 40 wind speed was 6-12 on the Beaufort scale it was two. On the court gate, it was12 wind speed was10-20 on the Beaufort scale.

	Spins per minute	Wind speed ( kph)	Beaufort Scale
Field	80	13-20	3
Old J Block site	60	2	0
Grass hill	40	6-12	2
Tennis Court Gate	12	10-20	1

C.I.P

This week in C.I.P it was a bit wet so we started to make a 3D version of our dream house to make the dream house we used tinkered. Tinkered is a great way to help you make your dream house. When I started to make my dream house I thought is was hard but as I got us to it, it got easier. My favorite part of using the app was there were lots of shapes maps and to choose from. The hardest thing about using there was that you had to find the right size shapes for the right size areas. I chose this because it was a lot of shapes to choose from. 

 In the second half of the day, we went out to the field to plant some plants. First, we got some gloves and there we got the plant and the shovel and we dug a hole size of a bucket than we put the plant in the hole and filed it in without killing the plant.

In the holidays

Today I am going to share two high lights in my holidays. I was very excited because we were off school for two weeks. In the first week of the holidays, I went to my nanas house on Monday an Tuesday because my mum was working. For the rest of the week, I stayed at home and I was getting really excited for the last week of the holidays because I was going to Auckland as I was getting more and more excited It was time.

On Tuesday I woke up at 4:30 am I was really tired me and my dad went to the airport we got on the plane, on the plane was fun we got food like biscuits and more when we got there my dads friend picked us up and we went to a truck we got in the truck and we got food. After that we had to drive to wellington and driving there took nine hours. We stopped every two hours to some time get food or go to the bathroom. when we got there at 9:00 pm we had to wait until 11:00 pm to get on the ferry so we sat there trying to go to sleep but could not so we waited and waited. Then we got on we got out of the truck and we went to our room and went to sleep.

The bout left at 3 am so we would get there at 6 am we woke up and went down and got some breakfast. When we got to pickdin we drove to chch that took 5 hours when I got there we went home and slept for 15 hours.

Orana park

On Tuesday we went to Orana Park. Orana Park is were there a lot of animals like monkeys tigers and lions/grillers/wiled dogs/kiwi and more. My favorite animals were the lions and grillers they were my favorite because of how big they were, and how independent they are.

When we got there we dropped our bags and had some morning tea. after that, we went to the meercats we look at them for 5 mins and we moved on. we walk on this long path when we got to the end we went into a cage with some keas we stayed there for a little bit when we went out we went into a room our instructor talked about some keas.

We went to the kiwis we were going to took some photos but we were not allowed. In the cage the were two kiwis and one howl. when we walked in we had to get us to the dark. we look for a long time but we did not see one.

Four things that we learned at Orana park!!

1. There is only one black rhino in the world 
2. Dogs in the wild let other baby dogs eat before them
3. Elephants are the only animal that can't jump
4. A rhinoceros horn is made of hair.

ART/painting

Last week for art, in our stop motion we started to make our backdrops. My group's backdrop is about the ocean. Before we started to paint we got one vivid and screeched some rocks and waves. Then we started to paint the colors that we used was black blue and white. For the rocks, we mixed black and white, for the ocean we just painted it blue. For the sky, we mixed blue and white. My favorite was the painting because of the different colors. What would be your favorite thing to paint? My favorite thing that I would paint is about league!!

 

         

move

Today we watched a documentary, the documentary was about climate change. I think this was the most interesting documentary I've ever watched I think this because I learned a lot about it.

I was surprised about how much information/facts was there was. I was excited about how much I learned. My favorite thing that I learned was how much refuges there is. I was worried about how much smoke the factory is proposing.  

In 2040 I think I would like to see is no body is using fil 

DIVISION

This week we have been working on division, division is my favorite because it is easy and it is a faster way to work out your answers to questions.
 

ART

This week in art we have made our stories come to life we have started to make the creatures that we're in our story out of clay. I and my group were really excited to do this because it had been a long time that I had done a stop motion with clay so far I'm my favorite part about making clay is the different ways that you do stuff. 

In our story, we were supposed to have 5 characters but we only had three so as we went on we had to make up some characters and characters are a great white shark a green turtle and octopus and a whale. I made the octopus and the green turtle the easiest out of the octopus and the green turtle I think was the turtle because there were small legs that you had to put on the octopus and they kept on breaking off. 

The shark the turtle the octopus and the whale they fit into our story by!! Our story is about stopping bullying. The shark is trying to eat the turtle and the octopus The Whale says what is happening and tries to help.

What I find hard, The thing that I found hard was to not get frustrated when my creations break like for example when my octopuses leave fall off and I have to recreate the whole thing. What I found easy, The thing that I found easy was not getting distracted and keep working and working till the creations were finished.

C.I.P/ Tane Mahuta

Today we went to c.i.p/Tane mahuta and we started today off we went to the outdoor classroom first in the outdoor classroom we built a lip around the garden and moved all the rocks out of the way after we moved the rocks we trimed the trees. 

After that in C.I.P, we went to the garden and first, we took the cover off the garden and then we water the plants. After that, we raked the other side of the garden and we took all of the weeds out. Then we planted new plants like cabbage and more. Across from the garden is a little garden that was used for potatoes. We made a spot and raked it out. we got some seeds and sprinkled them all over.

Hurumanu Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To find out which color attracts the sun's heat.

Hypothesis: I think that the color black attracts the most heat because it absorbs everything coming in from the sun is the darkest color.

Materials:

1.  tin foil 
2. black plastic  
3.  clear cup
4.  white cups x2
5. paper
6. heat lamp
7. hot mixing  

Steps

1. get one plastic cup with tin foil on it   
2.  one clear cup and one normal cup
3.  find a plug for the heat lamp
4.  put water in the cup every 
5.   every 15 mins check how hot the water is.
6. 
   

Findings: 

ConclusionToday we did a Science experiment,First we got all of our stuff and brought it to a table we set it all up, the teachers put the water in the cups And then we waited a few minutes and we tested what the water temperature was in each cup. 

This photo shows that we set up the cups and just put water in them. We were unfortunate enough that we did not get the heat lamp before everybody else we did not have one spare for us so we copy it off other people's findings are what their temperatures were. The unique aim of this experiment was to see what attracted the most heat the colors were silver black and white from our findings black attracted the most heat and then silver than white.

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16	16	16
15	20	25	19
30	20	35	20
45	20	37	20

Ella west!!

Today Ella west came to our school Ella west is a book writer. She loves to write books she is also very good at it. She has one son she lives in Dunedin her son works on a farm. Ella west does not get a lot of money writing books but she said that she does it because she loves it.

One of the books that she wrote was night vision. She got the Idea from a journal the main idea that she got from the journal was there was a kid with XP, XP is a genetic disorder that makes you basically allergic to the sunlight. anther idea was a murder the person got murdered by getting burnt in a car on fire.

Rainfall was one another book Ella west wrote the book was made on July 22, 2002, the book was set in new Zeland/west to cost it rains a lot there the set was a murder/ crime scene.

My favorite thing about the story was the idea of getting murdered because I love the stories that are dramatic.  My favorite thing about when she told us how much money and how long it took to make the book. 

hunter and Paea

                                  Maori

This week in Maori we have learned how to make a hangi. we watched a video on how to make a hangi. we watched a real-life version and a carton version. How to make a hangi. dig up a hole, make a fire then put the rocks on top, then put the wood on top then wait  for like 1 or 3 hours so the fire goes out  then take the hot rock with a shovel and put it in the hole we dug out.

Hurumanu Cellmate change

Today in science we have been learning about cellmate change and how. We have learned about the five things.

Cows, cows create a greenhouse gas called methane when cows fart of burp. methane is a greenhouse that is 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide.

Food, we need food to survive, but it creates a lot of pollution landfill, our landfill is growing up an using up more healthy land.

Transportation, most cars need gas or diesel to work.

Electricity, electricity is a form of energy used to power almost all in homes.

factories, making clothes cars, electronics, and processed foods.        

These are the five things cows, food, transportation, electricity, factories that can destroy the climent change   

Tane-Mahuta

This week in the garden we have done three things. 
We cleaned the outdoor classroom, We sweep the floor we moved the old cabinets out of the room we moved the cabinets that we wanted to keep into a place that they were not in the way. Then we went outside we got some tools like hammer and a sledgehammer and some other tools and we smashed the old cabinets and the metal from the smashed stuff we put it in a trailer to get money for the school.
  
What we planted,  We took the cover off the garden and we got more compost first we planted spinach we planted this in rows. Then we planed celery, We planed coriander. We weeded the other plants. We think that the metal is worth about 120 dollars.