Trashing the planet - News Article

Today in social study our task was to make a News article about how we can help the environment to lessen the rubbish that we have. We need to have an appropriate headline, A explanation of the problem and the causes and effects.  I have put the news article that I have made in the link below. 

Here is the link for the news article:

 https://www.canva.com/design/DAEgAs5m8zg/ruDu3spjHMoGT0FV0v3tWw/view?utm_content=DAEgAs5m8zg&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink.

The Bully Chip

  The Bully Chip

Text Title: The Bully Chip 

Text Type: Fantasy Book

Text Creator: Glenn Wood 

Text Purpose: "A year after they defeated Lester Smythe, the evil mastermind, Callum, Sophie and Jinx are having problems with the new kids at Thanxton High. The bullies seem to be targeting them. And the friends soon discover they're in the middle of a dangerous plot for revenge."

Date: Publish on 2013

In those whose interest in those texts: Novel for children by a New Zealander author.

The Evidence: Someone said that this novel is great fun with laudable heroes. Callum and Sophie are great role models and Jinx has his place in spite of being heavily put upon. Ideal as a class read-aloud for school years 5-8 and for reluctant readers in the same age group. 

Helping Eco - Warrior

Today in Social study we have gone around our school and pick up the rubbish that we see. It was really fun picking up rubbish because I think that it really helped our environment to keep clean. 

What did we do to help? The way we have helped Eco-Warrior in our school is that we went around the school picking up all the rubbish that we have seen. We have collected the rubbish with a small bucket and gloves for our hand. It didn't take that long for us to fill the bucket full.    

What are your thoughts? My thought about picking up rubbish in our school is that we are helping each other to make the planet clean. I'm really happy that we have collected those rubbish because I think that it has helped the environment with less flooding. 

What do you want people to know? What I want for people to know is if you see rubbish in your way make sure to pick it up and throw it at the closes bin that you see. That way the rubbish won't get blown away by the wind to the river. If those rubbish has blown into the river, it will now go to the ocean affecting our marine lives. 

                                                

SOCIAL STUDY - Trashing the planet

What have you learned about the video? What I learned about the video is that the earth is dying, the ice is melting, the sea level is rising and there are more factories that are releasing carbon dioxide into the air. We need to work together with us humans to rebuild our planet by reducing plastic waste and making new reusable products.  

Some example that I could do to reduce pollution are:

• Riding a bike or walking instead of driving.

• Taking a bus or carpooling.

• Buying a car that has greater fuel efficiency.

• Turning off lights and appliances when they are not in use.

• Using energy-efficient light bulbs and appliances.

• Buying fewer things that are manufactured using fossil fuels.

 

What has the video encouraged you to think about? The video had encouraged me to think that if all the whales have died, then the ocean will die. If the ocean dies, that means we will also die because almost all the oxygen that we get in the world is from the ocean. 

 

What do you think? What I think about the video is that we need to start changing plastic to something we can reuse. Because more and more every day the ocean gets plastic and marine life thinks that it’s food for them. But they are actually plastic that will kill them.

What can be done to reduce what goes in the red bin? The things that we can do to reduce what goes in the red bin is that we should use more reusable things. 

Making a Metal Oxide

 Aim: To make a metal oxide and observe the difference in properties of the product compared to the reactant. 

Equipment: 

• A piece of magnesium 
• Bunsen burner 
• Safety glasses 
• Metal Scissor tongs

Method:

1. Light your bunsen burner 
2. Hold your piece of magnesium in the scissor tongs. Ensure you are holding onto the very tip of the magnesium. 
3. Place the other end of the magnesium into the Bunsen flame (at the top of the blue flame)
4. When the magnesium begins to burn, do not look directly at it, as the light emitted can permanently damage your eyes. 

Result:

Discussion: After we have covered the gas hole in the bunsen burner, the fire has changed to the colour blue which means it is really hot. We then hold the magnesium with the scissor tongs and put it right above the blue flame. In a very quick second, the magnesium started to burn while giving the effect of very bright light, while the magnesium is burning make sure to not look directly at it because it can forever damage your eye.   

Conclusion: What I think about the experiment that we did, is that it was really fun. I had a lot of fun doing the experiment and I'm looking forward to our next science experiment. 

Power to the People

For power, to the people, we have been set a task to make a poster about the New Zealand Government Structures. 

Here is my poster:

Vietnam War Protest

For the last work of my term 2 in hurumanu 6, we had to choose a topic which then we had to write about it. The topic that I chose to do was the Vietnam war which happen on the 12th of May 1971. After we have chosen a topic that we want to do we now need to answer the question about the topic that we had chosen. 

Here is the slide that I made about the Vietnam protest: 

Vanilla cupcakes!!

This Friday our group task was to make 12 vanilla cupcakes. While we were making our cupcake my group and I was working really hard to make the cupcake. My group is Vann, Janel, Elisha, Minseo, and I.  After we have finished making the mixture we now need to put the cupcake in the oven to bake. While the cupcake was getting baked, I and my other groupmate wash the dishes so that when we finish washing the dishes, the cupcake will also be finish baking.

After a few minutes, the cupcake is now cooked, when the cupcake came out of the oven I already like the smell of it. When we took the cupcake out of the oven we set it to the side to let it cool down. 2 minutes later our teacher gave us some icing to put in the cupcakes. My feedback about the cupcake is that the inside was really soft and the outside was crispy.

My group and I work really good together because we all followed the method carefully to get the cupcakes done.


Feedback for my stakeholder: I gave one to my friend and he said that the cupcakes were really nice and so appetizing.

Ingredients:

• 125g margarine/ butter
• 1/4 c sugar
• 1 t vanilla essence
• 2 eggs (Size 7)
• 1 1/2 c plain flour
• 2 t baking powder
• 1/2 c milk

 Method:

1. Cream margarine in a large bowl. Use a wooden spoon.
2. Add sugar and continue creaming until light and fluffy in texture.
3. Add vanilla essence and beat briefly.
4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after you have added each egg.
5. Sift flour and baking powder onto a large plate.
6. Using a rubber scraper, scrape all the mixture in the wooden spoon.
7. Add 1/3 sifted flour/ baking powder mix and fold in half the milk using the rubber scraper.
8. Repeat step 7 for the next 1/3 flour mix and the rest of the milk. Do not over mix.
9.  Add the last of the flour and gently fold this into the cake batter.
10. Carefully spoon the cake batter evenly in the 12 paper cases.
11. baked at 180 degrees for 7 minutes then turn oven to fan bake for a further 6-8 minutes.

Political poster

For power, to the people, my last task was to make a political poster about Barack Obama. I made my political poster in google drawing because I think that it is easier to do. 

Here it is:

Barack Obama Poster

This week in power to the people our second task after we finish the timeline is to make a poster about the person that we chose in the list that was shown to us. I made a poster about Barack Obama because I think that he is a really nice person and has also inspired a lot of people because of his quotes. 

Here is the poster that I made:

Mini Pastry Savouries

This week on Home economics our task was to bake the mini pastry savories. The miny pastry savories are really easy to make and have a really yummy taste. The look of the mini pastry savories is like a small pie, I really like the taste of the mini pastry because it has eggs and a little bit of ham. While you are making your Miny pastry savories you should remember to keep the pastry as cold as possible. And also remember to stack the pastry before re-rolling it, if you roll the pastry in a ball it will lose the flaky layers of it. 

Ingredients:

• 1/2 sheet pre-rolled pastry
• 1 egg
•  salt
• 1T Milk
• Diced Bacon

Method: 

1. Using pastry cutters, cut circles to fit patty pans. Chill in the fridge.
2. Mix: 1 egg, pinch of salt, and 1T milk.
3.  Whisk together with a fork.
4. Transfer egg mixture to a measuring cup.
5. placed some thawed peas and corn in each pastry case.
6. Carefully pour egg mixture into each case. Make sure you don't spill any.
7. Bake at 200 celsius for 8-10 minutes.
8. Let it cool and enjoy it.

Heroes and Villains timeline

This week for the power of people our task was we have to choose one of the heroes or villains, once we have finished choosing the person we know need to make a timeline about it. We are doing this task because we want to learn what has happened in their life. 

This is my Timeline for Barack Obama: 

Types of Government

These past few weeks we have to do the 5 tasks that were given to us in Hurumanu 6 ( The power of People). One of the task that we did is we to find out what are the different types of government. My group and I made a slide to present the different types of government. The politics that we need to know about our Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, Communism, Totalitarianism, Oligarchy, Anarchy.  

Here is the link for the site that we went through:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKo8mckomGIHmOl_ZkPVwDlRCyoIjlr78lI2oYphzGo/edit?ts=5ee69dc2

Here is the slide that my group and I made:

Home Economics

This Friday in Home Economics our task was to make chocolate chip cookies. While we were making the cookie it already smells good, I was really excited once we finish making it. The chocolate chips cookie is easy to make you just need to follow the instruction really carefully. After a few minutes, the cookies are ready to be bake. While we were waiting for the cookies to be bake we have to wash the dishes so that when it finishes we don't need to wash a lot of dishes. 10 minutes later the chocolate chips are now ready to be taken out of the oven, to let it cool down. Once the cookies were cool down, we then need to taste it. The texture was good because it was soft in the inside and a little crispy in the outside. The taste was really good because it was sweet with the taste of chocolate.   


Ingredients: 

• 1/2 cup of Chelsea white sugar  
• 1/2 cup Chelsea Soft brown sugar
• 1 Eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp cups flour
• Pinch of salt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Method:

soften butter, and add both sugars and cream these together. Beat in the eggs and vanilla then mix in the dry ingredients. Roll into medium-sized balls, making sure the mixture is not too wet!put on a well-greased baking tray. They shouldn't spread too much so flatten slightly. Bake at 180 celsius for 8-10 minutes.

What we did last week in P.E

Last week in P.E we did some ping pong and also practiced how to do the juggle. For me, the most difficult part of P.E that we are doing is juggling because you have to really concentrate to catch the balls.  

The first activity that I did was to played ping pong, I haven't played ping pong yet so it is kinda challenging to me. When I first played ping pong it was hard to hit the ball but then when I keep practicing it I think that I've gone better.

The second activity that our class did was juggle which was probably the hardest thing to do. If you keep trying you will soon get better.