The Ballantynes Fire

Kia ora everyone welcome back to my blog today we are learning about the Ballantynes fire, I hope you enjoy!!

I think this is about a fire in the Ballantynes store

I want to find out what has caused this fire and I want to find out how long it took to put it out. did the building burn down

1.People were served by waitresses in aprons and caps, expensive clothes were sold and ladies wore gloves and hats

2. Christchurch

3.November 18th, 1947 at 3.46pm

4.They had no smoke alarms or evacuation plans. downstairs workers thought it was just a small cellar fire so didn't tell the people downstairs

5.41 workers died in the fire, Two people jumped from the verandah and were unconscious but recovered

6.No smoking inside the building, dont just walk past fire and not tell others, they now have smoke alarms, have an evaluation plan.

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The fire started about 4 in the afternoon

Army and air force helped the fireman 

They pumped water for 4 hours from 36 hoses

This next video wasn't useful because it was to long, and the audio was unclear and hard to hear

Resources used the video link above

I am learning about the Ballantynes fire,

The poster shows my learning because it has the information from the videos we watched,

I want to know how long it took to put out the fire and rebuild the building,

My prediction about it being a fire in the Ballantynes store was correct.

Blind Taste Testing

 Aim:

I want to find out how we taste food.

Research: 

Taste buds have very sensitive microscopic hairs called microvilli (say: mye-kro-VILL-eye). Those tiny hairs send messages to the brain about how something tastes, so you know if it's sweet, sour, bitter, or salty.

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Method:

Equipment

• Unknown food
• Blindfold
• A person with a tongue

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. put your blindfold on.
3. Block your nose.
4. Open your mouth and taste the food.
5. Describe how it taste.
6. release your nose and describe the taste.

Results:

Conclusion:

Discussion:

Death of Dora

 Kia ora Everyone,

Welcome back to my blog today in art we made a stop motion based on Dora. The Title of the stop motion is named The Death of Dora. This stop motion is based on a Dora, Snake and A monster.

Here is The Video

Thank you for reading my blog post, Hope you like the animation. 

Shapes TZR

 Kia ora everyone,

Welcome back to my blog this term in Hurumanu 3/Shaping up we have been learning about shapes and different ways to position them. I Can rotate, reflect, Translate and enlarge a variety of shapes.

Rotation: You are able to move it to any angle from 3 to 360

Reflection:  A Reflection is like a mirror

Translation: It stays the same shape and size but moves around

Enlargement: Its when it stays the exact same but gets bigger

Thank you for reading my blog post, I hope have learnt learnt something new.

What do you know about shapes?

Goal Setting

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Welcome back to my blog, Today on my blog I am going to be sharing my Goal settings. 

Year 7/8 Wānanga Goal Setting

Name: Tia		Class:  TzR	Term: 2	Year:2021
Greatest achievement from last term:
I read senior chapter books from the Library
Subjects taken this term:
Hurumanu:
1	Hur1 (Outstanding) (Bn)
2	Hur2 (Maths) (Wt)
3	Hur3 (Shaping up) (Tz)
Technology: Laser Cutting
Language:
Other: Art, Drama, PE
Academic Goals
Short term (this term):
1	Learn all my times tables off by heart
2	To be able to speak confidently in front of people
Non-academic goal (can be out of school):
Knitting
What are my learning strengths (Refer to Year 8 Graduate Profile)		What are my learning work ons (Refer to Year 8 Graduate Profile)
I can work successfully with others, I understand how my feelings and actions and affect others, I us the internet and devices in a safe way		I know what my next steps are, I share my ideas and point of views with different people, I ask for help when i don't understand what to do
How will I achieve this?
When i'm sad or frustrated, i'll take deep breaths
End of term reflection

Hope you enjoyed my blog thanks for reading 

Skittle Colours Experiment

 Aim:

I want to find out what happens when you mix Skittle colours 

Method:

Equipment

• Skittles
• Petri Dish 
• Warm Water
• Becker
• White Background

Instructions

1. Get your equipment 
2. Place your Petri dish on the White Background
3. Put your Skittles around the inside edge of the Petri dish
4. Gently, Pour warm water into the middle of the Petri dish
5. Observe what happens.

Prediction:

I think all the colours will spread and the Skittles colour will fade

I was kinda right the Skittles Colour kinda faded, When the Colours touched they didn't mix 

Discussion:

1. The Colours Dissolved (When a solid is mixed into a liquid, creating a solution

     2,Why do Colours Move? (Skittles and coated in sugar and food colouring and each Skittle has a sightly  different chemical made up which so when it dissolved spreading through the water, then the sugar dissolve into the warm water.)

The Treaty Of Waitangi

 Kia ora Everyone,

Welcome back to my blog! These past few weeks we have been learning about The Treaty of Waitangi, We Had to pick two Questions and Answer them! 

Here is what I have put,

 1.How would the treaty of Waitangi be different if it was signed by Children?

It would be different laws then it is now and probably be less important, and it would be less mature.

1.If no one at all could translate the Treaty of waitangi how would life in New Zealand be different?

People that are new to New Zealand wouldn’t understand it, and it would be

less important because only some people can understand it.

Thank you for Viewing my blog post, How Would you think The Treaty would be different if it was signed by Children?