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.

Site

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

 Kia Ora,

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? 

Positive and Negative of Social Media

 Kia Ora Everyone,

 Today I will be sharing some information I have learnt about the Positives and Negatives of Social Media 
We have put all the information that we have learnt over the few days is on this slideshow 
                                                                                                                                                                                                              

I hope you learnt something new 
What could I do better next time for your Enjoyment I would like to know?
 Bye has a nice day, Stay safe.

DayLight Saving

 

1.When does Daylight saving start each year in New Zealand?

Answer: Last Sunday in September

Daylight saving starts each year at 2am on the last Sunday in September, and ends at 3am on the first Sunday in April.

2.What year did Daylight saving start

Answer: New Zealand first introduced daylight savings time in 1927 

3.Why was daylight saving started? 

Answer: In 1909, the parliamentarian Thomas Sidey proposed to move the clocks 1 hour forward in New Zealand's summer period to allow for an extra hour of daylight in the evenings. But is wan't officially introduced until 1927.

4. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107348361/times-up-should-we-end-daylight-saving-in-new-zealand

Answer: I think Daylight Saving shouldn't continue because we are losing an sleep 

5. Do all the states in Australia have daylight saving? Who does? Who doesn't? 

Answer: In Australia, Daylight saving is observed in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island. Daylight saving is not observed in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

6. Write 3 tips to help others adjust to daylight savings this weekend.

Stick to your bedtime routine

Go to bed earlier 

Relax before bed

Maori Language Week!

Kia Ora Everyone,


This week is Maori Language week! so i had to make a DLO.

I created a Document about it so here it is,


    
Maori Language Week!

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Monday - Rāhina

Tuesday - Rātū  

Wednesday -Rāapa

Thursday - Rāpare

Friday - Rāmere

Saturday - Rāhoroi

Sunday - Rātapu

Last day of PE

  Kia ora,
                                     

Welcome back Today I will be sharing about what I have done and learnt about in P.E.

   I liked how we got to play fun games.
I enjoyed playing long ball.
Their were heaps of links with maths we did measurements.

What could I do better next time for your Enjoyment I would like to know?
 Bye has a nice day, Stay safe.

PE And Math

 P.E, Math 

                                     

Welcome back Today I will be sharing about what I have learnt In Hurumanu 5 (P.E), 

We were learning about

• Perimeter 
• Area 
• Volume 
• Measurement 
• Heart Rate 
• Pulse 
• Weight 

We have been working on all of these in our Hurumanu 5 group.

The progress I feel I have made is getting better. I do want to push harder to my personal best. My next steps are to continue this outside of this Hurumanu. 

Have you heard about all of this stuff?

What could I do better next time for your Enjoyment I would like to know?

 Bye has a nice day, Stay safe

Solar Oven

Malo e lelei,

Last week we got into groups of 4. I went with Nici, Nevaeh and Susie,

We used cardboard, tin foil, tape and kebab sticks to make our solar oven to make smores.





In the end it kinda worked
The chocolate melted but the marshmallows didn't

Tongan Language Week!

Malo E leilei,

This week was Tongan language week and I made a Doc all about it here it is,

Hopefully You learned some new words off of this
What is your favorite saying?

                     

World War 1

Hey everyone,

welcome back today in Hurumanu 1 we are starting to learn about world war one, I hope you will enjoy. Have an amazing day.

Hope you guys enjoyed reading my Blog, Did you learn anything new?

Planet Detective

Kia ora this is my blog post for science hur3 

did you know any of these

1.What are two reason Mercury lost most of it atmosphere?

Answer:Mercury is so close to the sun, the solar wind blows pieces of Mercury away

2.Compare how close Mercury & Earth are to the Sun.

Answer: Negative 92.631, Mercury is 58 billion kg away from the sun and Earth is 151 billion kg away from the sun

3.Compare how much mass Mercury & The Earth Have.

Answer:The Mass of Mercury is 0.055 and Earth sill have 20 times more than Mercury

4.How does not having an atmosphere affect the temperature on Mercury?

Answer: The temperature changes from very hot to very cold. From 430C to -180C. Theres no Oxygen 

Bonus:Where do the names "Mercury" and "Whiro" come from? What are some other names for planets. The Maori Name for Whiro is the lord of darkness

Kindness

Kia Everyone,

Welcome to another blog post, Today I worked with my friend Susie to create a poster about kindness. I'm really Happy about how it turned out,

Here is the kindness poster.

Six Photographs

Hey Everyone,

Welcome Back to my blog,

at school we read a Story called Six Photographs, we made a DLO about it.

I worked with Susie

Here is it.......

(Click on this link for the video) 

Hope you enjoyed my DLO , Did you learn anything new today?

Term 3 Goal Settings

Hi everyone,Welcome back to my blog, Today we finished of our Goal settings that we started yesterday, 

Name: Tia		Class:  Tz	Term: 3
Greatest achievement from last year:
To be able to write big stories
Subjects taken this term:
Hurumanu:
1	Hur5- PE & Maths
2	Hur1-Reading & Social Sciences
3	Hur2-Drama Hur3-Sciences
Technology:  wood Tech
Language:  Japanese
Other:
Academic Goals
Short term (this term):
1	to get 70 blog post
2	to get 10 CARR cards
Long Term (whole year):
Get a award
Non-academic goal (can be out of school):
to read 3 books
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 think creatively  I ask for help when i don't understand what to do I take responsibility for my own actions		I use feedback to improve my writing To give good feedback I share my ideas and point of views with different people
What will my next steps be?
To be able to finish more work Use feedback to improve my writing
How will I achieve this?
To stay focused and work harder, To Read my comments and reply to them.
End of term reflection

Thanking for reading, What are your next steps? 

The Pandemic of 1918

Hi everybody,

Welcome back to my blog, Today I have some facts about the pandemic called the Spanish flu

I really enjoyed looking for all the facts about the Spanish Flu, This is what I have came up with.

Hope you enjoyed my blog post 

Have you heard about the pandemic?