Music

                                   Today in Music Hurumanu we did things along the lines of instruments and famous singers. We wrote down definitions for the instrument families. There are 4 different instrument families called woodwind, brass, string, percussion and orchestra.  Here's the slideshow to my famous singer who is Buddy Holly:

Tane Mahuta

This week after Hui we go into are CIP groups. Once we go changed into other clothes such as our PE gear we headed down to the back of the school. We all parted to what we were meant to do some went to the outside class and others went with mark to prune trees. The rest of us went to the same place we planted last week. We had to dig a whole and put horse poo mixed with vegetable pealing and mashed banana in the whole. We then covered the whole with the soil and turn the soil to mix it all together. We put the horse poo mixed with vegetable pealing and mashed banana in the soil because its compos and also organic so it helps the soils health.

In the time we had finished it was morning tea witch meant that once we came back we would have more people because they would be coming back from Kapa Haka and kiwi kaha. After morning tea ended we were weeding the green house near were we mixed the soil. Shontelle and I worked together to pull out a really difficult weed eventually we got it out or at least as much as we could. We were also taking out the broken pieces of concrete.
When my class went to kiwi kaha others were planting spinach, celery and coriander. I hope next week I can be there to plant.       

Maori

In Maori we have been doing stuff related to food. Yesterday we learnt how to make a hangi Hope and I worked together to make a list of instruction to make one.

here it is

 Did you know the in the Pacific they have a umu and in Hawaii they have something a lot similar umu and hangi but its called a luao?
As we have been learning about hangis I've learnt about all the layers.
Once when I was in primary I have tried a hangi I enjoyed it and I would eat it again.
When some people have hangi they take the top rock off to feed the spirit of Matariki.     

Tane Mahuta

This week for Tane Mahuta we started planting in the soil that we turned over last week. Anneleise, Keyana and I  were planting beetroot. Others were planting cauliflower and cabbage. we planted the cauliflower and cabbage in rows of three and we planed the beetroot about a hand apart. After we planted the plant we put a thin sheet on top of then and jammed sticks as pegs so the sheet doesn't fly away. we left the ends open so that the plants don't rot and die. because if the end a shut the plants well suffocate and have no air to breath.  Today was really hot day but it was still fun to do because my opinion I would rather get all dirty then doing school work. After all of that, people started to help the others because they had nothing to do. They help by picking up the wood and then put the wood at the back where all of the wood is. The period was success for me and I really enjoyed doing it and I am glad that I pick Tane Mahuta but we will be to work next Wednesday.

                                                                                

Tane Mahuta

This term we had a choice of what we wanted to do during cip I chose tane Mahuta. Last week we when to the back of the school because there was a area that had soil in tyres, logs of wood and tarpaulin. First our aim was to get the soil out of the tyres and put them in a pail then Carrie them to the back of the area once the tyres were moved we had to remove the accesses soil left over by the tyres.we also moved the tarpaulins and logs to the back. 

This week we were turning the soil so it was soft and healthy because the more we loosen the soil the quicker we can plant. once it was loose we mix the original soil with fresh soil to make it better for plants.


We found so many worms in the soil. this is because worms can not survive the sun and because Worms help to increase the amount of air and water that gets into the soil 

Drama

This week on Tuesday for drama we were working on improv scenes. there was a bucket that had a lot of scenes in it that we had to make a play from. The class got to do 2 plays the first one was to people only and in my group was Mattie and I our play was an old lady was in a rest home and a person bright the lady same food and she thought it was poison. For the second play my group was Shontelle, Hope and I our play that we got was a person comes in for a doctors appointment and the nurse over dosed the patient.

Also on Tuesday we talked about emotions not all the changes of puberty are to do with our body. Some changes are in your head when your going through Puberty you get hormones and they can make you feel overly emotional.

Hurumanu the Water Cycle

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING IT.

Definition:

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

We will be conducting an experiment that looks at the different ways that climate change is affecting the water cycle.

precipitation is the scientific definition for rain, rain is included and takes a part in storms. hurricane and storms are similar in ways like they both lead back to the ocean , hurricanes make flooding, flooding can come from the oceans, evaporation is because of sun and sun can evaporate water, evaporation can evaporate the salt from salty water to make fresh water, fresh water is clean and so is water vapour, back to evaporation, when water is evaporated it leaves condensation behind, when you breathe out your breathing out carbon dioxide and it sometimes creates moisture wich makes condensation
                  

Draw a labelled diagram of the Water Cycle

SOLO Hexagons Activity

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation: Is a scientific word for rain cause the water from the sea is taken up to the clouds and once the clouds get too full it rains
2. Hurricanes: They happen in warm water and travails till it dies out 
3. Storms: storms are a threat to our earth but if there was no storms then our nations wouldn't come together and help each other
4. Evaporation: Evaporation is when the sun  comes out and the water gets hot and starts to evaporation.
5. Carbon Dioxide: carbon dioxide is what we breath out 
6. Water: : water pervides us with the things we need to survive our earth thrives on water  
7. Oceans: Our oceans is our water and without it we would die
8. Water vapour: Water vapour is a gas form. 
9. Freshwater: it is water that we can fine just not in sea or brackish 
10. Flooding: It is a part of climate change because when the ice melts the water rises 

TODAY YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON THE WATER CYCLE.

1. Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change.
2. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:

You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie , on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

Picture:

Science Hurumanu

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	Wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS

1. Straws (x4) 
2.   Pencil
3. Pin  
4.   Cups (x4)
5.   Tape 

STEPS

1.   getting into groups
2.   get materials
3.   Make the straws into a x shape
4.   Put a pin through the middle of the x shape 
5.   Connect the pin in the pencil and put tape on top of the pin in the middle.
6.   Put a hole in the cups
7.   Put the straws through the cups

Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind generator

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the time keeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
1.	10s	1 1/3
2.	10s	1 1/2
3.	10s	4 1/4
4.	10s	4 1/4

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 
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CONCLUSION:

For the 2 first try they were slower then what they were when we done them outside I think it is because once we got them going by breathing in to the cups the wind carried them on. Once we did it outside it went around 4 and 1/4 in 10 seconds.I think if i was holding the anemometer and blowing in it at the same time it would have gone around a few more times inside. If i was holding it while outside it would have gone round more.

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1. cups (x4 
2.  water
3.  tin foil
4.  two sheets of white paper
5.  1 sheep black paper
6. thermometer
7. 1 large cup
8. 1 heat lamp

Steps

1.   get materials
2.  fill four cups up with water
3.  cup 1 put a piece of white paper under. Cup 2 put a piece of white paper under with a large cup on top. cup 3 put a piece of black paper under. cup 4 put a piece of tin foil   
4.  put a heat lamp on and wait 40 minuets 
5.   using a thermometer check the heat
6. once you check the temperature turn the lamp off
7. wait 15 more minuets to cheek the temperature.
8. then wait another 15 minuets to cheek it again. 

Which surface conducts / attracts the most heat?

Time + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper+ plastic.	Cup 3 Black paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil
0	8	8	8	8
40 minutes	12	11	22	20
55 minutes	13	13	20	19
70 minutes	14	14	19	16

Findings:

cup 1 and 2 went up 1 dirge each time but cup 3 and 4 went down 2 digress 

Conclusion

through time one of our cups fell over so that sucked but there was still water left so that was good .
I think that while the cups just sat there the sun was making the water warm so they were going up not down.

Water Temperature

Aim: To observe water as it changes states from solid to liquid and then to gas.

Equipment:

1. 250ml beaker
2. Thermometer
3. Bunsen Burner
4. Heatproof mat
5. Tripod
6. Gauze mat
7. Stopwatch
8. Ice cubes
9. Retort Stand
10. Clamp

Exploding coke

Exploding Coke

Aim: To see if coke explodes when a Mentos lolly is dropped into it using different temperatures and different kinds of coke.

Hypothesis: 

Steve Spangler Mentos & Coke Experiment

We can do better: We need to try several experiements to see which one works best

Equipment:

Ruler

Beaker

Thermometer

Coke Mentos

Measuring flask

Method:

Stage 1: ( All groups)

1. Add 150ml of coke to a measuring flask
2. Place the flask in the sink.
3. Drop in 1 mentos a watch the effect.

Stage 2: 

Group 1 
Test 1

1. Heat up 50ml in a beaker of coke ( Using a thermometer heat it to 75 degrees)
2. Place the beaker ion the sink and add a mentos.

Test 2

1. Add 50 ml of cold diet coke to a beaker
2. Add 5 mentos.
3. Record the hieght it reachs

Group 2 
Test 1

1. Heat up 50ml in a beaker of coke ( Using a thermometer heat it to 45 degrees)
2. Place the beaker ion the sink and add a mentos.

Test 2

1. Add 50 ml of cold diet coke to a beaker
2. Add 5 mentos.
3. Record the hieght it reach

Group 3 
Test 1

1. Heat up 50ml in a beaker of coke ( Using a thermometer heat it to 30 degrees)
2. Place the beaker ion the sink and add a mentos.

Test 2

1. Add 50 ml of cold diet coke to a beaker
2. Add 5 mentos.
3. Record the height it reach

Group 4 
Test 1

1. Heat up 50ml in a beaker of coke ( Using a thermometer heat it to 15 degrees)
2. Place the beaker ion the sink and add a mentos.

Test 2

1. Add 50 ml of cold diet coke to a beaker
2. Add 5 mentos.
3. Record the height it reach

Findings:

Add your measurements to the table

Liquid	Height
Coke
Crushed mentos
Coke zero	didn't exploded
75 Degrees
45 Degrees
30 Degrees	it fizzed up but it didn't exploded
15 Degrees	didn't exploded

More investigations:

1. Does it work better with hot Coke( group 1) , warm Coke ( group 2 ) or cold Coke?( group 3)
2. Use Normal and Coke zero.
3. Does crushed Mentos work better than whole Mentos?( group 4) 

Ella West reply

Dear Ella,

My name is Addyson and I’m a year 8 student at Hornby High.
Last term my teacher, Mrs Allan Fletcher picked a book for my reading group. The book she chose for us happened to be Night Vision I loved this book a lot, It was interesting, mysterious and awesome.
If I had known about this book a long time ago I would have definitely have read it already.
Sadly I know that you are not doing a sequel for Night Vision but if you were what do you think you would write it about?
If you were Viola what do you think would be your biggest fear and why?
Can you remember how long it took you to write this book?
What was the hardest part of writing Night Vision and while you were writing this book did you connect with any of the characters or feel like you made a bond with him or her?
How old were you when to first decided to write books and did you ever have doubts about the career you went with?
When you were a little girl did you read a lot of books and which one was your favourite?
My favourite book is the goosebumps books.
Then you were younger what was your dream career?
This term my teacher has chosen rain fall I’m super excited to read this book. I hope it is as good as Night Vision
If you ever around Hornby please make sure you come and visit my teacher would jump up and down all across the room.
If you want to have a look at my blog my link it here

Sincerely

Addyson

Hi Addyson
The main reason I won’t write a sequel to Night Vision is because in it Viola will be older and so probably she will be dying of her condition and I don’t want to write a story about a dying kid because it would be so sad (think about me writing it – I would be crying every day!) I think dying from XP is her biggest fear, but she doesn’t admit it. She knows it will happen and tries to deal with it but it’s so scary and awful and sad.
From memory it took about six months to write the book then several years (yes, years) to get it edited, proofed and published. The book industry takes forever! Writing the story is the easy part!
I read heaps of books when I was a kid and loved lots of science fiction like the dragon books by Anne McCaffrey. I always wanted to write books and luckily I got to make it happen – a publisher gave me the chance.
Hope you like Rain Fall!
All the best
Ella

I enjoyed the book due to the fact that it was interesting. I can remember in one part of the book I was actually worried this was the bit where viola was caught by Geoff I knew something was going to happen but I still was like saying get out of there go inside hurry up in my head.I feel very Proud of my reading group for making this happen, Amazed because we are getting a chance to meet an author. Privileged to be in this reading group. One of the questions I want to ask Ella West is why she chose to write the ending the way she did.