Making Ginger Beer

Aim:

 I want to find out how to (brew) make ginger beer

Research:

How to make Alcohol 

How to make Ginger beer

Fermentation

Method:

Equipment:

• Plastic Cup
• Marker
• Ginger powder
• Water
• Sugar
• Spoon
• Lemon juice
• Yeast

Instructions:

1.  Get your equipment
2.  Get a plastic cup
3. Put a half a tea spoon of ginger into the plastic cup
4. Put half a cup of water into the cup
5. Add one table spoon into the cup
6. Mix with spoon
7. Add five drops of lemon juice
8. Taste it and adjust the flavour
9. Add one quarter of a tea spoon of yeast
10. Let it brew for one week

Results:

After a week of fermentation

It tastes like........ my dog's left overs while smelling like moulded bread and chicken with a side of barf and worms. it tasted so horrid my tongue almost killed itself. It smelt like my granddads beer factory

Discussion:

What is fermentation?

The yeast is a living think and it eats the Glucose and it makes CO2 and it also excretes alcohol.

What are the best conditions for brewing?

The normal temperatures for brewing ale is 20° to 22° and you need to keep light out of the batch of beer. You want the pH level to be either 5.2 - 5.4 so its higher then orange juice but less than distilled water so its just in a little bit less than the middle.

What is the difference between beer, cider, wine, vodka, whiskey?

Vodka is brewed for 6 years and must have at lest 40% alcohol and is brewed by potatoes, 

Meal plan thingy

 Hello,

Today I am going to tell you about what we did yesterday in health. The thing we did in health is kinda like in the title, yeah i'm posting about a meal plan even though I eat breakfast at 1:04 am that's still in the morning so shut up.

Here is my work:

Meal plan

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. Bye for now.

Gymnastics (PE)

 Hello,

For the past 2 weeks we have been doing gymnastics for PE and im here to tell you about it,

First day we had PE and we joined another class doing PE so we did rotations and I started a the tramp, but that dream was short lived because we had to rotate around the gym, we did the horizontal bar, the beam, 2 parallel bars and the mini tramp

Second day, I was sick :'(

Third day luckily we did not have to join another class and because of that we had the gym all to our selfs and with no rotations so yeah that was a thing. I started at the mini tramp and stayed there for a while, then I moved onto the horizontal bar then I moved back to the mini tramp and finally moved to the tramp just to realise that the period was over.

Fourth day, Me and a girl named Shontai were the only ones to get to do gymnastics for the first 20 minutes because we did a blog post about gymnastics, soon later the others came in one by one.

Thank you for reading my blog. Bye for now.

skittle colours

 Aim:

I want to find out what happens when you put skittles in water

Method:

Equipment:

• 8x skittles
• Warm water
• Petri dish
• Beaker
• Paper towel

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Put the skittles in the Petri dish
3. Spread the skittles out in a circle
4. Clean your beaker
5. dry with paper towel
6. fill beaker half way with warm water
7. Gently pour the water in the middle of the Petri dish so that it is half full
8. Obverse what happens

Results:

Describe what happened?

 

The warm water dissolved the colour part of the skittle, and the faded colour had nowhere to go so it went to the middle of the Petri dish.  

Why did the colour move the way it did?

The warm water made the hard outer shell made out of sugar dissolve 

Hand's On Fire

 Results:

Well i have no idea because I din't fully write this blog but from what my small brain can remember is that it did start to hurt after a while

I saw a Huge fireball of orange flames

I heard a poof from the fire 

I smelt burning hand hairs, gas, and the fire burning

I felt scared before my hands started burning, but when it happened I was more focused on the fire.

I could feel the fire start to burn my hand hairs

Maui and the sun

 Hello, 

For the past couple of days we have been reading and writing (Online, don't worry they aren't bullying us.  not yet at least ) about Maui and the sun. we have done approximately 5 slides of writing. If you really want to see my work, then here ya go.

My work:

Thank you for reading my blog. Bye for now.

 

Sherbet

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make sherbet.

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

Small cup

Paper 

Baking soda

Raro

Citric acid

Popsicle 

Instructions:

1. Gather your equipment
2. place down your paper
3. pour your baking soda, raro and citric acid onto your paper
4. grab a popsicle stick and pinch a bit of everything into your cup
5. use the popsicle stick to crush down the raro, baking soda, citric acid
6. use the other side of the popsicle to taste test the "sherbet"
7. then repeat the last 6 instructions
8. once you have found the perfect mix, do absolutely nothing because theres nothing else you can do.

Result

It tasted horrible 

Discussion:

Why did it foam, when you mix baking soda and citric acid the atoms recombine and when you put that stuff in your mouth it fizzs and bubbles up

Art

 Hello,

I am going to show you a picture about a painting from Henri Rousseau and that we cut it up into 3 parts, Background, Middle Ground and Fore Ground. I also had to write different things about the painting like mono which mean one.

Here is the picture:

Thank you for reading my blog, I made this blog really quickly and because of that the blog is really low quality. Bye for now. 

Blind Taste Testing (Science)

 Aim:

I want to find out if food tastes differently when you can't see or can't smell

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

Unknown food

Hands

Blindfold or a scarf

a mouth

Instructions:

1. get your equipment
2. wash your hands
3. put on a blindfold
4. put your hand out and pinch your nose 
5.  Eat the food and guess what it is
6. Release your nose and taste your food
7. where does the food react on your tongue.

Results:

Food #1:felt and tasted like sugar

Food #2 Diffidently salt

Food #3 Felt and tasted like nothing

Food #4 Citric acid

Food #5 Sour candy, felt and tasted like one of those coke gummys

Food #6 Felt like it was a crumbled cookie

Food #7 Dryed marshmallow

Food #8 Apple slice 100%

Food #9 Gummy bear 100% 

Food #10 Pear 100%

Food #11 Chocolate

Food #12 Lemon rind

Discussion 

Is there a difference between blocked and unblocked?

F.U.N Facts About Keas

 Hello,

Today in class we had to learn some CRAZY facts about Kea, and write them down and create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about Keas how AWESOME is that - ok fine i'll stop with the all caps words, anyway like i was saying we had to create a D.L.O about kea so here's my work.

The Kea is an awesome bird, I mean like a kea is just as smart as a 4 year old child! Now that’s pretty damn smart, not only is the Kea smart but their feathers are beautiful. Fun fact, the Kea is 19 inches, that's taller than my block o’ cheese!

Ok, now that i got that out of the way, let me tell you the truth… kea are endangered.

Back to the F.U.N stuff (F.U.N stands for Flamingo United Nation). Another F.U.N fact, Kea that are protected can live for more than 80 years! 

Thank you for reading my blog, Bye For Now.

Hot chilli

Aim:

I want to find out the best way to get rid of spice

Equipment:

- Wooden Popsicle stick

- Chilli

- Any liquid that you can drink 

Results:

Chilli without water = 10/10

Chilli with water after 2 minutes = 11/10

Chilli with coke after 2 minutes = 5/10

Henri Rousseau

 Hello,

today in art we had to do 5 facts about a french painter Henri Rousseau. Henri Rousseau is a french painter who painted in the 1893.

"The Dream, 1910"

Here are my facts: 

1. No one has told him that he is talented

2. Loves nature

3. poor

4. 41 years old

5. People are mean to him

I'll explain the facts now,

No.1 No one has told him that he is talented

Well no one has ever told him that he is talented.

No.2 He loves nature

Well he love nature, there really is nothing more I can say

No.3 Poor

Well he was poor

No.4 41 years old

Well he was 41 years old, now he's dead

No.5 People are mean to him

Well people were mean to him, now their all dead.

Thank you for reading my blog. Bye for now.

I got all of this info from this youtube video : VIDEO

Fun facts about trouts

 Hello, 

this blog post is about trouts, trouts are a type of fish, fun fact fish can swim and breath under water.

here is the slide:

thank you for reading this blog post.

Mentos and Coke

 Aim:

I want to find out what happens when you drop Mentos into Coke

Research:

Method:

Equipment

• Coke, Coke No sugar, Sprite
• MINT Mentos
• Detergent
• Beakers
• Safety Glasses
• Measuring Cylinder

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Get your measuring cylinder
3. Measure 30mls of coke into a measuring cylinder
4. Then drop the Mentos into the measuring ctlinder
5. Record your results

Results:

	Coke	Coke Zero	Sprite
Height Of Bubbles	90mLs	76mLs	73mLs

 

Discussion:

Why did the bubbles form?

Mentos has a rough shell, When you put the mentos in the coke or sprite the mentos reacts with the coke and makes carbon dioxide bubbles and the rising bubbles react with the carbon dioxide  still in the bottle and that creates more carbon dioxide and that causes the eruption.

Freeze Frames

 Hello,

For the last 2 - 3 weeks we had a new teacher who taught us freeze frames but before we did some freeze frames  we had to listen to a story about a demi god and his four brothers and so on. after we listened to that story we had to make freeze frames of parts of that story.

here are some pictures

this is the first freeze frame

this is the second to last freeze frame/accidental funny faces 

this is the last freeze frame we did

for next time we could use levels

thank you for looking at my pictures

here is link to video

Thank you for reading

Duck facts

 

Hello,

Today we are reading something called Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff and we were told that we were going to research Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff and we did, because we didn't have a choice. Before researching the book our teachers gave us a little run down of what we have to do and then we did after that we were told to “Go open this book” and “It’s just one click” and so I did after just barely getting a charger and charging my chromebook till it was around 17% then I gave back the charger and came to our side of the room and then started to do this blog post.

Then I got sick and had to go home

A FEW DAYS LATER

I'm back at school, We were doing a blog post about UNDHWS (Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff) and since I wasn't here I had no idea what we were doing so I asked a friend and they said that we had to do a blog post about a animal and so I started this blog post about ducks, ducks are the best animal and if you don't think that they are the best animal I will shove SO many duck fact in your face you won't know what too do, sorry got a little mad.

Anyway here is the slide about the animal I was talking about:

If you have made it this far into my blog you deserve a medal

Thank you for reading my blog. Bye for now.

Milk plastic

 Aim:

Method:

Equipment:

• Stove, oven, microwave 
• Measuring cup
• Measuring spoon (tsp)
• milk (1 cup)
• Pot or microwaveable container
• white vinegar
• paper towels
• spoon
• mug

Equipment (Optional):

• Tripod 
• heat mat 
• beaker (250 mls)
• Bunsen burner
• Gauze mat

Instructions:

1. Pour 1 cup of milk into a pot or a microwaveable container
2. Heat the milk in the microwave/oven/stove until it is steaming
3. Add 4 teaspoons of white vinegar to a mug
4. Add the hot milk to the mug with the vinegar
5. Stir the milk with a spoon 
6. Stack 4 layer of paper towel on a surface that is safe to get damp
7. Scoop out the curds with a spoon and place them on the paper towels
8. Fold the paper towels over the curds and press down to absorb excess liquid
9. Knead all the curds together into a ball of dough
10. Now you can shape the milk into anything
11.  When you have done making shapes, put the shapes onto some paper towels to dry overnight

Instructions (Optional):

Results:

Paper-in-Air Challenge

 Aim:

I want to find out how to keep a piece of paper in the air the longest.

Method:

Equipment:

• A4 paper
• Scissors (Optional)

Instructions:

1. Get your equipment
2. Grab a chromebook
3. turn chromebook on its side
4. put paper on Chromebook

OPTIONAL instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. fold paper
3. cut the middle of the fold with the scissors
4. attach the paper to a door nob or your bag

Results:

 

Edible Slime

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make edible slime without dying.

Research: Recipe

 

Method:

Equipment

1 tablespoon of cooking oil of your choice

1 tablespoon of cornstarch (Cornflour)

1 1/2 cups of mini marshmallows

stir rod

Instructions 

1.Gather your ingredients

2.Prepare marshmallows and oil

3.Heat in microwave for 10 seconds or 20 seconds

4.Remove the marshmallows from the microwave and stir the marshmallows with a stir rod

5.Add cornstarch and stir the marshmallows quickly, if the mallows become too sticky and runny add the other half

6.Start to put in the other ingredients and knead until the slime has formed

Result:

Samoan Words

Hello,

It was Samoan week, so today I will be writing down English words and then writing down Samoan words of those English words. So here is a list of English words changed into Samoan words.  

 1. Hello = Talofa

2. Goodbye = Tofa soifua

3. How are you? = Oa mai oe?

4. How was your day? = Na a mai lou aso

5. Welcome = Afio mai

6. Good morning = Oa mai le ataeao

7. Good night = Manuia le po

8. Good afternoon = Oa mai le aoauli

Did you like my list of words, I did. Bye for now.

Gummy Bear Osmosis

Aim:

I want to find out what happens when gummy bears are out in liquids.

Method:

Equipment:

• Salt water (Sodium Chloride)
• Normal water
• Sugar water (Sucrose)
• Gummy bears
• 2x Petri dishes
• Marker pen
• Electronic Scales
• Safety Glasses

Instructions:

1. Get your Equipment
2. Put on Safety Glasses
3. Using a marker pen write your name and the conditions and the weight of gummy bear
4. Do the experiment

Results:

The water gummy bear gained the most weight

Why? 

There are little holes in gummy bears and since water molecules are small and sugar/salt molecules are big the water molecules and rush into the gummy bear while sugar/salt get blocked while trying to get into the gummy. Since the water molecules are small they don't get blocked so the gummy bear is absorbing the water molecules and it grows.

Lighting a Bunsen Burner

 Aim:

I want to find out how to SAFELY light a Bunsen burner.

Method:

Equipment

• Heat mat
• Bunsen burner
• Matches/Lighter
• Safety Glasses

Instructions 

TWINKL

1. Get your equipment

2. Put on safety glasses

3. Connect Bunsen to gas cap

4. Turn the collar to close the air hole

5. Light the lighter/matches and hold it over the barrel

6. Turn the gas on

7, Turn the collar to open the air hole

8. when you are done turn off the gas

9. When using the Bunsen burner don't get tangled up 

Photo

 

Protest

Hello! 

This term we are learning about protests like women's suffrage and other protests. This blog post is about women's suffrage and the person who started the protest Kate Sheppard. Kate Sheppard was born in Liverpool, in the UK 1847. Kate grew up and married Walter Sheppard and both Kate and Walter moved to Christchurch and Kate joined the WCTU (Woman's Christian Temperance Union).

 Kate wanted women to have right and to vote so Kate travelled around NZ, writing newspapers, holding public meetings and talking to members of parliament. Kate Sheppard even got the support of the prime minister!

Kate Sheppard started a petition and got 32,000 people! 32,000 just look at that number of people, like wow.

ITS FACT TIME!

NZ was the first country for women to vote.

Kate Sheppard is on the $10 note in NZ

Thank you for reading my blog. Bye for now. 

Drama thing

 Hello, 

So for drama we are making masks and I didn't get to make one because I was sick on that day, I was going to make a plague doctor mask but I couldn't because I wasn't  here on that day. 

When we started drama on the first day of school we did movement and games and it was really fun, a few weeks later we started our first blog post and it was about masks and making them, I wasn't here on the day that we started the blog and I think the day after. I was 2 days behind so I got to work with getting the materials and every thing else that I needed. Like I said before I didn't get to do my mask cause I wasn't here on that day... well I'm pretty sure I wasn't here on that day.

And now after that mask stuff we are here which we are now practising lines for a play but that's for another blog post.

Well we are still doing that mask stuff, Oh yeah! We did a play, I don't have the video, sorry.

I hope you liked reading this blog post you wonderful person, Bye for now.

Cultural Terminology

 Hello,

Today we were told to make something about culture.... Yeah here's my work.

Cultural Terminology

Heritage,

Thing that got passed down from generation to generation

Values,

Something that is important or worth a lot

Whakapapa,

Family tree

Tikanga,

Practices of behaviours

Traditions,

Food, Clothing, ect.

Kiwiana,

Stuff that was made in NZ

Cultural Identity

About your culture?

Cultural Practices

How people behave

Hope you liked my blog post, Bye for now.

somting about music

 Hello, 

I will be talking about an orchestras,

I will be talking about instruments now,

1. Wood Wind

Wood wind is instruments that you use your mouth to make music like a flute, and most wood wind instruments are made out of wood.

2. Brass

Brass is like wood wind you use your mouth to make noise but you have to make vibrations with your mouth.

3. String

String is instruments that has string, so the instruments that you use strings to make music or noise like guitars, or guitars.

4. Percussion

Percussion instruments are the instruments that you hit or scrap like a piano or a gong.

Glossary's about instruments

1. Wood Wind

Not all woodwinds are made out of wood

2. Brass

They're sometimes called labrosones, meaning lip-vibrated instruments.

3. String

• The strings are usually made from nylon thread or steel wire.

4. Percussion

Did you know that the oldest percussion instruments.

Here is a video about a Orchestra <~~~ CLICK THERE.

Thank you for reading my blog, Bye.