What is flax?

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Today I am sharing with you lovely people my work for my Hurumanu 3 class. Lately my Hurumanu 3 class has been reading Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff, it is about this boys uncle named Uncle Don and hes a doc ranger, the doc in doc ranger means department of conversation. The boy went with his uncle and found out a lot of fun facts and went on some adventures. While reading on page 11 I saw flax/ Harakeke and a fun fact to that and I got interested and went to find some information abort it and then made a canva presentation about it. 

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Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff and Flora and Fauna

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Today I am sharing with you some of my work of this great book called Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff and also Nz Flora and Fauna. The reason we were watching a video of Nz Flora and Fauna is to practice copying down information for the future. Here is some things I found out about Flora and Fauna. 

Kakapo in Maori means night parrot. They can live up to 80 years old. They are the worlds largest parrot but cannot fly. They were thought extinct in 1977 but then they're were discovered 213 adults. They start breeding at the age of 5 years old. Every 2-5 years they breed. 40% of Kakapo eggs don't become adults. 

In 1978 this different kind of wasp was discovered in Hamilton in a aircraft. They were a danger to bird's bats and native animals. They ate the bugs and insects that the animals need to eat to survive. 

The Horopito is found all over New Zealand but they are mostly found in Stewart island. They have blood looking splotches all over the Horopito. It is a traditional spice used over meals so it is edible. 

Finally my favourite and interesting fun fact from the book Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff is about starfishes. 

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Deer Rind Co

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Today I am sharing with you my awesome viewers me and Michaela's business Deer Rind Co. Our business is about skincare. We did the whole business for this market that the Hornby High School is hosting. We first had to get some inspiration and tested some logos, then we had to choose our colour palette and me and Michaela both had different colours but we made them work. We chose some different font's for the writing and they were Lora and Indie flower. I went Canva and made some logos for it. Michaela than made some things that the name should be and she said "It should be unique and flawless and be nature's shine" She actually found the name Deer Rind Co on this site and we both liked it.  

  
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Making Hokey Pokey

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Aim: To make hokey pokey using sugar, golden syrup and baking soda.

When the sugar and golden syrup combine what the baking soda it froths and makes carbon dioxide gas. This is why the hokey pokey has bubbles.

 Materials:

1. 2 Tablespoons Golden Syrup

2. 4 Tablespoons sugar

3. 1 Heaped teaspoon of baking soda

4. Pot

5. Tablespoons and teaspoons 

6. Bunsen burner

7. Grease proof paper

Method

1. Put 4 teaspoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of golden syrup in a saucepan and melt. 

2. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for 5 minutes.

3. Add baking soda and stir vigorously 

4. Put the hokey pokey on a piece of grease proof paper to cool.

The more the sugar syrup is cooked the browner it becomes. If it is left cooking for to long your hokey pokey becomes burnt.

Explanation: 

1. Why do we stir it? We stir it to make sure the sugar and baking soda doesn't get all clumpy.

2. Explain why the hokey pokey rises and has bubbles? It has bubbles because it has carbon dioxide.

3. What gas is made by the baking soda? Carbon dioxide.

Diary of a Wild boy

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Today I am sharing with you some information about this awesome book Diary of a Wild boy. 

• Brando was bored in life and needed to turn it around so he set a mission to walk around the coastline of New Zealand

• He brought with him a hunting knife, sleeping bag, water and food, tent and more essentials.

• He spent 600 days walking around the coastline.

• While the big walk he ran out of food and hunted pigs and cows and other wild animals.

• While he was on the walk he was hungry and saw 3 pigs. He charged at them with his hunting knife and 2 got away and one he caught. The pig squealed and Brando tied the pig up not knowing what to do. He went back to get his hunting knife and on the way he locked eyes with the pigs mother. The mother pig ran at him, Brando climbed into a tree remembering the advice his uncle told him. "If you're ever chased by a pig climb a tree" He jumped off the tree onto the pig and wrestled it until it got worn out and he killed them.

• He walked to Kahurangi Coast and said it was his favourite part of his walk. They're was thousands and thousands of nikau palms, limestone cliffs which he described as giant cheese graters. They're were also birds, animals and seafood.

• Brando was walking around Canterbury coast which is just a big cliff and on the 4th day he was met by a sheep which had fallen onto the beach. She was stuck tired and hungry so Brando hand fed her some grass and named her Bettie. He helped her into a sheep pen.

• After the huge 600 day walk he felt happier in his life and saw everything different.

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Tips for new student's coming to Hornby High School

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Today I am going to be sharing with you some of my own opinion tips if you're new coming to HHS. When I first came to HHS I was so nervous and now that I think of it I would've been better if I had some tips becoming a year 7 at HHS. This is my opinion and things that I think would make school easier for new students. Here is my work:

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Stories from New Zealanders

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Today I am sharing with you my information on these 4 New Zealanders who moved from different places and their life before and after. The story I got this from is this. Here is my work. 

Name	Country of origin	Feeling’s before they moved	Fears	Positives	Negatives	Their thoughts after
Barkhadle	Kenya, Africa	Scared because he didn’t know much english.	Not getting along with them and failing	All his classmates were nice to him.	Thing’s are different and it will be confusing.	That he was happy because he had good friends.
Diana	Alesia, Samoa	Wanted to go to NZ but missed her parents	In Samoa when someone talked they would get in big trouble	She can talk to her family and friends on her cousins computer	Everything is different from Samoa.	Happy and sad that she can talk to her family and friends but not see them
Mohibullah	Pakistan	He wanted to go cause his dad died in 2011.	Not getting to know english.	He found stuff like cricket to do for fun.	He didn;t know english and it was different there.	Happy because he has soccer and new friends.
Ane	South Africa	She wanted to go to NZ but didn’t want to leave her family and friends	She didn’t know if her english was good enough.	Everyone was nice and welcoming and her neighbor was also from Africa	She thought her family and friends would be in danger back in South Africa	Happy and scared because she doesn’t want her family hurt and happy because her life is better