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Thursday, 2 December 2021

Christmas Wishes! Buisness and interprise

 Kia Ora,

Today I am sharing with you my work that I have been doing for a compitition between Kahui's to make a successful business with 4+ people from the Kahui your in. In my group was me, Divine, Tiana, Letitia Ann and Michaela. I was the CEO, Divine was the marketing manager, Tiana was the production manager and Michaela was the finance manager. Our name was Christmas Wishes for Christmas. We were selling little clay toys, DIY bath bombs and DIY lip scrubs. The different flavours of lip scrub were Gingerbread, Candy cane and snowflake. 


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Thursday, 18 November 2021

Mountain buttercup

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Today I am sharing with you amazing readers my work from hurumanu 1. This term we have been reading this book named Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff. I worked on my presentation about mountain buttercups on Canva. Here is my work:



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Thursday, 11 November 2021

Moa's

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Today I am sharing with you some information about the Moa. I decided to do some work on the Moa because I saw it in an amazing book called Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff that me and my class have been working on for awhile. 




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Friday, 5 November 2021

Earthworms

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Today I am sharing with you amazing people some information about earthworms. I got the inspiration to write about earthworms from the book Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff. The text in the book was "Our largest native earthworms grow up to 1.4 metres long and are found much as 3 metes under the ground." I did a presentation about earthworms on canva. On the presentation I wrote facts about them and their habitat. 






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Friday, 29 October 2021

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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Friday, 22 October 2021

Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff and Flora and Fauna

 Kia Ora,

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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Wednesday, 20 October 2021

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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Thursday, 30 September 2021

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.


Wednesday, 29 September 2021

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.


Wildboy by Brando Yelavich - Penguin Books New Zealand

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Monday, 27 September 2021

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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Friday, 24 September 2021

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

 

Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Lockdown Paralympics

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Today I am sharing with you my work for the lockdown Paralympics. Tokyo Paralympics 

Name

Event/

Sport

Disability

Gold Medal

Silver Medal

Bronze

Medal

Tupou Neiufi

Backstroke

Left sided hemiplegia

Gold



Lisa Adams

Shot put

Cerebral palsy

Gold



Sophie Pascoe

Swimmer

Lost her leg



Bronze

William Stedman 

Athletics

Cerebral palsy


Silver


Anna Steven

Sprint

Leg cut off cancer




Ben Tuimaseve

Shot put

Cerebral Palsy




Rory Mead

Riding

Spinal cord injury






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My lockdown experience

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Today I am sharing with you my lockdown experience in 5 sentences. Here it is: It was very boring and I had no friends. I learned how to cook but also nearly burnt down the house. I did online video calls with my teacher Mr Tisch and did some work. I was on call and got knocked out by my swing. Me and my sister fought my family. I went for walks with my mother. 

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Monday, 20 September 2021

Neutralisation

Acid+Alkaline (base)=water and salt 

Equipment:

  • Universal Indicator

  • 1 M HCl ( Hydrochloric Acid)

  • 1 M NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide)

  • 4 Test tubes

  • Test tube rack

  • 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 Fill the boiling tube at one end with Sodium Hydroxide.

  3. Half fill the boiling tube at the other end with Hydrochloric acid.

  4. Fill each test tube with 5 drops of Universal indicator.

  5. Using the pipettes you will add drops of the acid or alkaline to the test tubes to make colours. DO NOT MIX UP THE PIPETTES


Results:

I tried to make purple but failed and we were stuck with only red and blues. 


Friday, 17 September 2021

Sophie Pascoe

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Today I am sharing with you my work and some fun things about New Zealand's most successful paralympian Sophie Pascoe! She lost her leg in an lawnmower accident and had to get her leg removed. That didn't stop her and she still did swimming and did really well and got into the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Here is my work:

Sophie Pascoe participated in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She lost her leg on the 23 September 1995 from her dad accidentally running over her leg with their lawnmower and because of that he leg was amputated under the knee. She won 2 gold 1 for silver and one for bronze and she won the world record while taking her total tally to 15 Paralympic medals. This success has now made Sophie the most decorated New Zealand Paralympic ever!

Sophie Pascoe MNZM #166 - Para swimming - Paralympics NZ

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Thursday, 16 September 2021

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 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 drop 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


Findings

The blue litmus paper with hydrochloric acid stayed blue.

The blue litmus paper with sodium hydroxide went red.

The red litmus paper with hydrochloric acid went blue.

The red litmus paper with sodium hydroxide stayed red.