Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Creating Ice cream ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞

In Totara Whanau we have started a new task which is science, in science we learn all about different substances, new things about the topic we have chosen, and many more. There were three groups we got to choose from, they were:
1. Bread
2. Mould
3. Milk
I selected milk because I wanted learn more about milk. In milk we are learning about chemical changes, we are doing this because when we get older, we know what a chemical substance is, and we know the difference between all of the liquids, gasses and solids. Also in science we are doing lots of experiments, one of the experiments we did was.... CREATING ICE CREAM! Once we had created our ice cream (And gobbled it all up!) we were asked to create instructions on how to make it, so that we could share our scrumptious recipe with others. In our writing, our challenge was to put verbs at the beginning of all our sentences and hook the reader in with a great introduction,  Here is my piece:

Do you slurp down milk with your breakfast? Do you enjoy gobbling it down? I know I sure do! Milk is really entertaining to do experiments with and it creates many scrumptious things such as…. ICE CREAM!! Speaking of ice cream, Today I will teach you how to make your own homemade vanilla ice cream!


Ingredients                            Equipment:            
  • 30g sugar                                              > Small ziplock bag             
  • ½ Cup of milk                                         > large ziplock bag                                               
  • ½ a bag of crushed ice                       > Empty ice cream container
  • 2 cups of salt                                        > 1 measuring cup                                            
  • ¼ of a cap of Vanilla essence   


Method:
How to make your own freezer!
  1. Unzip your large ziplock bag and scoop ½ a bag of crushed ice inside    
  2. Pour 2 cups of salt inside the large bag with the ice (the reason we do this is to make a more bleak freezer)
  3. Secure the large ziplock bag shut and rapidly shake it.
  4. Set inside empty ice cream container.
Done!
How to make vanilla ice cream!:
  1. Grab the small ziplock bag and gradually tip ½ a cup of milk inside
  2. Tip in 30g sugar and ¼ of a cap of vanilla essence
  3. Place small bag inside larger bag of ice and violently shake until liquid becomes solid (Gradually the liquid will get harder and harder, but make sure that it is not to hard before you eat it).
  4. Remove small bag from larger bag, unzip and watch in utter delight as your taste buds burst slightly in your overwhelmed mouth!

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Mothers day Poem And I am Poem \ (•◡•) /

Recently In room 2, 3, 4 we we're working on a poem to describe how we feel and to describe us. My poem is all about my thought a feeling's towards others and myself. Here is my I am poem:

I am individual, I am Unique
I wonder if others feel the way I feel for them?   
I hear the sweet melody of songs as they explain to me their story  
I see clouds and visualize a whole new world, a whole new life
I want others to know they glister just the way they are
I am individual, I am Unique  
I pretend I am something I’m not
I feel youthful and free  
I touch the fearless hearts of others  
I worry I am nonexistent   
I cry at the thought that others feel they are worthless... so they hurt themselves  
I am individual, I am unique
I understand I can’t change others
I say my thoughts and beliefs
I dream of creativity, light, love and abundance  
I try to reach for the gleaming stars
I hope one day I make a difference in this wonderful world  
I am Individual, I am Unique.

Something that challenged me was trying to explain all the things about me in words because it was hard to decide which words fit it best

I have learnt to use adjectives in my poem, we have talked about adjectives to know what an adjective is and why we use it in our posts.

Also since  mothers day is here I have made a little song for my wonderful mum. My younger sister and I will be singing the parts to our awesome mum! Here is our song.


Yo Bubba, Yo bubba, What are we going to do? We haven’t made a present for mummy, to give to


Oh no! What a pitty, that sounds really bad, we don’t want to upset her or make her really sad!


Wait Bubba, Wait Bubba, I have an idea, lets do it quickly and hop into pairs

I like that idea, I said I like that idea, but what about we make a song, to show we really care  





Saturday, May 7, 2016

Technology ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

During class we have been given a subject to study. We have been given three options, they are:
  1. Lost in the bush
  2. Save the bush
  3. Fun in the bush
 I have chosen 2. Save the bush because I Know that we need to protect NZ's Bush. We are doing this because we are learning as children to keep NZ Beautiful, so that when become adults we will have a wonderful world to live in! The teachers asked us to write down some questions on pieces of paper. Once we completed that we all chose a question as our topic. My question is this: 
What can we do to stop littering in the bush?  
Next our group teacher asked us to create an invention to solve our problem. Our success criteria was:
  1.  To make sure it was safe for the bush 
  2. Your invention only caught the thing it needed to catch
  3. It didn't hurt any plants
  4. It made sense 
After we discussed our question with the teacher we planned it out in our planning book. Our plan had to have a diagram of our invention and a name. My inventions name is the bin-o-matic. Here is my plan that I created
My amazing plan! 
Once we presented our plan to the teacher and they said it was good to go we were allowed to create a prototype of our invention, BUT before we we're allowed to do that we had to create a diagram of all the materials we we're going to make it out of. My diagram contains all of the materials I need. Here is a photo of my diagram!
My diagram of all the materials I will need!

Next I presented my plan to the teacher she asked me what happens inside me bin? I replied saying
"Inside my bin there are 4 compartments, 1 for paper, 1 for cardboard, 1 for plastic, and 1 for glass" She liked my idea and said I was allowed to start creating! 

One thing that challenged me in my invention was figuring out how to make my inside compartments because I take the bottom off of my bin and then cut out my compartments and then glue bottom back on again.

Once I had glued everything on my invention came to life! Here is a video and some photos of my invention:

My inside compartments of my bin

My bin!