Seeing sound

Materials we used for our science experiments:

Jar

Balloon

Scissors

sugar

Step 1: We cut the end of the balloon.

Step 2: Stretch over top of jar.

Step 3: Sprinkle sugar on top of the balloon and finally we had to humming to make the sugar vibrate.

Conclusion: We notice that when we were making a humming the sugar was bouncing up and down.

Do you think the sound make the sugar bounce up and down or was it your breathe or your nose.

Balloon experiment

Today room 7 students did a science experiment. We had to put baking powder in the balloon and then blow it up and see what it would sound like.

Here some tips to do this.

Step 1: Put the balloon over the funnel

Step 2: Add a few spoonfuls of icing sugar into the funnel and shake it down to the balloon.

Step 3: Remove the funnel, inflate the balloon and tie the neck to stop the air and icing from escaping. Don't inhale when blowing up the balloon - you'll get icing in your mouth.

Step 4: Go outside to your large open space. Your helper should hold the balloon and a pin. Walk 100 large paces away from them to see if you can hear a sound come out from the balloon.

Step 4: Ask your helper to hold the balloon away from their body. Look at the balloon and signal for your helper to pop it. Watch and listen very carefully - you will hear the balloon pop and see the icing sugar escape.
This is what we did today for our science experiments.

Kakapo fair trade chocolate

Last week Tuesday the 14 of June 2016, The Kakapo group made some chocolate because it was a part of our reading. This is how we made chocolate.

The 1 step: We had to do was roast the cacao nibs (pieces of cacao beans that have been separated from their husks.) 

Step 2: We grind the cacao nibs to become cacao powder.

Step 3: Next we melted the cacao butter.

Step 4: Add cacao nibs, milk powder and sugar gradually while stirring

Step 5: Final step place the mixture in moulds and leave to set in the fridge until ready. 

Final we get to eat the chocolate after when it is set. If you want to make this kind of chocolate here are some of the ingredients you can use.

Kiwi Can

Today room 7 students had kiwi can lessons. We talked about Accountability and Integrity, Accountability means accepting responsibility and Integrity means looking up to someone and making the right choices also being a good role model to peers. We played an energiser game called buddy buddy, If Mr Numia called out buddy buddy right or left or buddy buddy under, player two has to stay inside the circle and wait until the caller calls for buddy buddy under out, If a team comes late their out.

After playing that game we went back to class and played another game called overtake. In overtake we have to be in two teams number one and number two, the teams were called Soccer and Basketball. It was simple because if we are in team one we pass the ball to the next person not the one that is right beside you because they would be in group two if you drop the ball you do one star jump and try and catch up with the other team, The teams were called Soccer and Basketball.

We finished off with GKQ's. Today I learnt that Accountability means accepting responsibility and making good choices. For GKQ .

Facts about chocolate

Facts About Chocolate

Fact 1: If you eat chocolate you may die from it because it's almost the weight you have , Over 60 kilograms and 40 kilograms of the milk chocolate depending on your body weight. Most people can get heart failure and kidney damage from chocolate. Chocolate is made with cacao beans that are from a tropical fruit tree and inside the beans are forty or thirty beans inside.

Fact 2: In the west most men give chocolate to the women's for a valentine day present like ferrero rochers and other chocolates. But in Japan it opposite for their valentine day, The women gives chocolates to the men for valentine.

Fact 3: Every year , nearly 200,000 children are illegally trafficked in the west and central Africa to harvest cocoa. Chocolate are taken and sold but the worst thing every was the children how they don't get to try chocolate because it was to sell. A lot of children have became slaves on the cocoa farms were they are forced to work on.

Here is a link for a video and how the poor children are working for other people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk9b3jbJroM

This weeks reading

Fair Chocolate

           We are learning to identify the author’s purpose for writing a text.

Vocabulary	Meaning
fair trade,	Fair trade is where people help companies and give the same amount they have to the other company.
profits,	A financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying,
consumers,	A person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
shareholder,	Meaning of a shareholder is an owner of shares in a company.
commodity broker	Commodity broker is a firm or individual who executes orders to buy or sell commodity contracts on behalf of clients and charges them a commission.

What is fair trade? When you share something and they give something back equally.

What is an example of fair trade? If someone gives 5 dollars to their friend they can pay them back the next day or week. That if they haven’t got 5 dollars on that day if they need it.

     Do you think this article is for or against fair trade? Or both? Both because companies can probably trade and never give something they took from another company.

     How is chocolate made? Cacao tree

     Why might the author include this information? Because what is in the chocolate and they're probably warning the people but in the book it doesn’t say how we can die from chocolate.

     Why might the author tell us about chocolate in NZ? Probably people want to know what is in the chocolate because they probably want to make chocolate.

     How do you think the author feels about fair trade chocolate? The person that is telling this story might tell us what is going to happen with this chocolate.

    

      Why have they written this article? Probably warn us how much chocolate we can eat per kilograms probably.

What is the difference between fair trade chocolate and chocolate that is non fair trade? Fair trade is good because their getting an equally amount of money they earn and non fair trade is when their not giving the people that make the chocolate enough money they earn. Their forced to work for people that sell the chocolate.

Non fair trade chocolate is… Non fair chocolate is when companies don’t share the profit with the other company.

This week we read a book about Fair Chocolate.

Maths

Today in maths we did a word problem but it not finished because we only discussed what the kilometres meant. We had to remember nine what to do mathematicians before tomorrow, If we remember all nine we get a price.

I learnt that 14kph is 1 hour so for an example: if I left my house in a car around about 12 and I got to Wellington it would only take an hour to get there or less it doesn't matter what vehicle you going in.