New kahuis

Hi guys and welcome back to another blog post for his year. Today I will be talking about moving into the new Kahuis/Buildings. We moved into them on Mondy but settled into them on Wednesday/Today because we went to Orana park yesterday.

The buildings names are called Tieke, Riroriro and Mahua. The building that we are in is Tieke. We are the building on the far side of the school. I was hoping that we were in the middle building but now I actually like being at the far end of the school.

The building are named after birds. Tieke means thanks. T is for tough for you are not easily broken. Riroriro means a small, slender, insect-eating songbird of greenish-grey colouring with a darker tail tipped white has n undulating floating, feather-like flight. Last but not least Mohua. It means a small insect-eating bird which lives only in the forests of New Zealand's south island and Stewart Island.

When we moved into the new buildings I saw that all of them were identical and that none of them were actually different to the others except that Japanese was in one Building and Art was in another so all of the different classrooms were all in different buildings.

When we moved into the new buildings I thought that there was going to be fewer classrooms and that we would have had a bigger workspace to learn in but we didn't which is kind of disappointing to me because we have 2 classes in one medium-sized room.

When we moved into the new buildings I felt quite squished in the little space that each of our classrooms that we had because they were much smaller than where we were working in before such and the science lab and the art room. Before we actually moved into these new buildings we were working in the classrooms that we were in before/The classes that are moving into Hornby Primary.

I was surprised by how long these classes took to build and how much money it cost to actually get them built. Overall of the new building that was built like that learning commons, The learning stream and these new Kahuis, it took 2 years to build and it cost 27million dollars to get these NEW building/Kahuis.

Overall I really appreciate everything that we have got. I like what classroom we are in which is the one at the far end. I thought that these buildings were gonna be a little bit smaller in the inside but actually, it is really big.

2040 Documentary

Hi guys and welcome back to another blog post for 2019. Today I will be talking about 2040 and what I would like to see when it comes if I am still alive. I will also be talking about a documentary movie that I saw today and what I have learnt or learnt more about.

Here is a little blurb about it and what it is about.

Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifting them into the mainstream. 
Structured as a visual latter to his 4-year old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary footage with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and our planet.


I have learnt so much from this movie. I thought that even tho it isn't an action or comedy movie, I found it really exciting and interesting to watch and I would recommend you to watch it because it could help you learn more then what you already know.

The 2 things that I have learnt from this movie is that well if you start to reuse more of what you already have you could keep this world healthier and a more beautiful work Environment to us to live in. I have also learnt that there is an electric car that drives itself. The use of this is so that no more smoke and fuels such and fossil fuels are being used to destroy the lovely area that we are living in right now.

The thing/s that I would like to see in 2040 is less plastic and factories and more greens and plants being grown. I also want to see people getting good educations that aren't destroying our environment. Something else that I want to see in some places on this planet is healthier in what they are doing now including our country.

More Gardening

Hi guys and welcome back to my blog. Today I have been pulling ou more ivy. I have also been pulling out lots of tree stumps that are really deep into the ground. I have made a slideshow to tell you more of what I have done today so far. I hope that you enjoy it.
Here it is.




I hope that you enjoyed it even tho it isn't that much.

Hurumanu-Solar energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To find out which colour attracts the suns heat.

Hypothesis: I think that the black will attract the suns heat because the sun absorbs dark colours.

Materials:

1.  Lamp
2.  Tinfoil
3.  3 cups, 2 styrofoam cups and one clear cup
4.  water
5.  plastic bag
6. thermometer
7. Paper
8. Heat lamp 

Steps

1.  Get all the materials from the teacher
2.  Wrap tin foil in one of the white cups
3.  Wrap clear cup in 30ms of black bag/ needs to be cut. leave one cup
4.  Add in a quarter of water into the cup
5. Turn on the heat lamp and wait for 15m, 30m and 45m
6. Wait 15 minutes and then put in the thermometer for one minute on each

Findings: This photo shows the cups heating up. Right now the black is the highest and the tinfoil is the least. The light needs to be shining on all of them so that all of them heat up.

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16	16	16
15	17	18	16
30	18	19	17
45

 Climate Chaos

Title	Solar Energy
Aim	To see which colour attracts the suns heat the most.
Hypothesis	I think that black will attract the suns heat because the sun absorbs dark colours
Materials	White Paper White cup Black plastic Clear plastic cup Black plastic cover Tinfoil Silver cup 100mls water Thermometer Heat lamp Timer
Steps	Get all of the materials from the teacher    Cover one cup in tinfoil and the other in the black plastic cover   Place the white paper on the table as well as the black plastic bag and the ripped tin foil Pour the water into the cup so that it reaches a quarter of the cup   Set up the lamp and shine it on all 3 cups  Wait for 15m and then put the  thermometer in one of the cups  Wait and other 15m after you have put the thermometer in each of the cups for a minute Wait for another last 15m and do the same again. Write down the temp when each minute passes for that cup.
Data/Finding	The tinfoil cup heated up the least and the blck cup heated up the most.
Conclusion	In conclusion, my findings are that black absorbs the suns heat. I never knew that before. I found out that the tinfoil doesn’t heat up the most because the sun doesn’t get attracted to the colour silver.

Hurumanu-Climate chaos

Hi guys and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be showing you a template about the water cycle. It has instructions on how to make it. It has the science words for each of the parts out of the water cycle. I think that this is kinda cool.
Here it is.

Climate Chaos

Written by: 

Title	How to make the water cycle
Purpose	To see how the water cycle works, To understand the water cycle.
Materials	First experiment 1 zip lock bag 1 vivid ½ a cup of water 1 drop of blue food colouring Double sided tape	Second experiment 1 zip lock bag 1 vivid ½ a cup of water 1 drop of blue food colouring Double-sided tape litmus paper
Steps	Step one Grab one zip lock bag Step two Grab a black or blue vivid Step three Draw the water cycle on zip lock bag and the scientific words on where the cycle is/what the cycle means Step four Put in ½ a cup of water into the opened zip lock bag Step four Add 1 drop of blue food colouring. Be careful when adding in the drop to not get it on clothes or hands. Step five Cut 2 four cm double-sided tape Step six Plac the 2 pieces of double-sided tape on the middle of the top and bottom of the bag. Make sure that the tape that you put on top is below the zip and the tape down the bottom is somewhere so that you can actually stick it somewhere. Step seven Peel of the backing of the double-sided tape to stick on the window. Step seven Place on a window that gets the sun Step eight Leave the zip lock bag on the window for around 2 weeks.	Step one Grab one zip lock bag Step two Grab a black or blue vivid Step three Draw the water cycle on zip lock bag and the scientific words on where the cycle is/what the cycle means Step four Put in ½ a cup of water into the opened zip lock bag Step four Add 1 drop of blue food colouring. Be careful when adding in the drop to not get it on clothes or hands. Put 1 teaspoon of baking soda into the bag and shake it up Step five Cut 2 four cm double-sided tape Step six Place the 2 pieces of double-sided tape on the middle of the top and bottom of the bag. Make sure that the tape that you put on top is below the zip and the tape down the bottom is somewhere so that you can actually stick it somewhere. Step seven Place the litmus paper in one of the top corners of the bag and save a little bit to fold on the top so it hangs and doesn't fall into the bag. Carefully zip the bag up. Step eight Take off the back peeling of the double-sided tape and stick onto a window that gets lots of sun.
Conclusion	Experiment one I think the outcome of this experiment will be successful because it looked simple to do and it is what happens in the water cycle but inside a zip lock bag.	Experiment two I think the outcome of this experiment will also be successful because it is like that other bag except with baking soda that is creating Co2 ( Carbon dioxide).

Hurumanu-Greenhouse effects

AIM: TO LOOK AT CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT.

THE GREENHOUSE GASES EXPLAINED.

The Greenhouse Effect experiment

Materials

1. 1 plastic bottle
2. 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid
3. 1 heat lamp
4. 1 Thermometer
5. 100 ml water
6. 1 rubber bung

Procedure

1. Come and collect all of the materials from Mr Palmer
2. Setting up the lights, bottles, thermometer and bung
3. Mr palmer adds the baking soda mix and adds 100ml of water
4. Wait for 5 minutes and start recording the temperature

Variables:

All the water added to the bottles was from the classroom tap

Findings: The Greenhouse Effect Data 

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	18c	18c
5	22c	24c
10	25c	24c
15	26c	25c
25	30c	41c
30	No recording	No recording
35	No recording	No recording
40	No recording	No recording
No recording	No recording	No recording
No recording	No recording	No recording
No recording	No recording	No recording

Conclusion:
This week we have been learning about climate change and greenhouse gases.
 We have also been learning about Fossil fuels and how they are made. Today we did
an experiment with baking soda, and water. We had one bottle with just water and one with water and baking soda. The bottle with the baking soda went up the highest temp was the baking soda bottle.

Hurumanu-Climate change

Hi guys and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be talking about climate change and what is causing it to happen, how it is affecting us and the environment.

Transport
Transport is like cars, trucks and boats travelling round to get to there destination. They are puffing out fume from there pipes that are attached to the car at the bottom of the back of the car.

Electricity
Electricity is a form of energy powered to light or make something go in our homes.

Factories
Factories have big pipes on the top and blast of lots of fume and smake which is bad for us because it gets into the air which can harm us.

Landfill
Landfills are growing and using up more healthy land. When waste breaks down in landfills, greenhouse gases are created.

Food
We need food to survive but it creates a lot of pollution.

Cows
When cows burp or fart they create a gas called methane gas. this as is 25 times more powerful then carbon dixide.