Ice Cream Making

Team 12 made Ice Cream on the 29th of November. My ice-cream was called Uchiha (Ew-Chi-Ha) Choc Chip. Despite it's name, it tasted more like iced-coffee to everyone who tasted it.
Also, it was supposed to have a ripple in it, but instead, that failed and ended up making the coffee taste.
But enough with the negatives.
The fun part was when we were designing the ice-cream poster and slogan. It was exciting making the ice-cream as well, though we failed on separating the egg whites to the egg yolks.
When we had our first taste with our ice-cream we discovered that all of our MnM's had sunk to the bottom with the chocolate chips. It made the ice-cream taste funny once you found the bottom of the carton.
Here are some photos:

Quadblogging

In room12 we have a special arrangement with classes around the world to participate in a program called Quad blogging. This is when we post comments on a classes blog about their learning. We get to scan through their blogs and see all the cool things that they have been learning. They always have interesting things to show.
For this week, Hamilton East School RM 10 is the classroom we have to post on.

Classes should participate in Quad blogging because they will be able to see what other school are learning, and they get to give back constructive feedback on what they see.

A good comment has a nice greeting to start with and lots of perfectly reasonable negatives in their learning, as well as lots of positive reinforcement. It can even maybe have a question at the end.

I love quad blogging!

Weeks Words

When we have buddy spelling in the classroom on Thursday, some kids in the classroom use a app called weeks words.
This app has a variety of features that you can use and games to play that is still educational.
Here is my fotobabble on weeks words:

Thursday Experiments

On Thursday the 14^th of November, team 12 did some fancy experiments with baking soda and vinegar.

The first experiment we did onThursday was an experiment which involved a balloon, a bottle, and a lot of baking soda and vinegar.
First we poured in some vinegar into the bottle. Then we carefully stuffed baking soda into the balloon. When we hatched the balloon onto the bottle and the baking soda fell out, it created CO_2,Which pumped up the balloon.

Our next objective was to see if we could make a bag burst. Last time we did this, we failed many times. We decided to change up the variables:
1. We had more sellotape
2. We had two bags in one.
3. We folded over the snap-lock area and sellotaped it up.

Most of them failed, until we did the two bags in one idea. We put baking soda in one snap-lock bag and zipped it up 3/4 of the way. Then we poured vinegar into the bigger bag. We put the baking soda bag into the vinegar bag and tightly zipped it up.

We shook the bag, and the pressure began to build rapidly. Once we thought it was going to stop, we moved in to have a feel. To bad it blew up in our faces!

Finally, we did a volcano experiment. We wanted to see what would happen if we mixed vinegar and baking soda together in a bottle and poke holes in the lid.

Our result was a fountain of vinegar. The silly people in our classroom jumped in front of the bottle so they could get sprayed. They probably didn't know that vinegar smells really off-putting.

The WOW Factor

Last week, we had our WOW Factor. If you watch Choice TV, then you might know what it is, but it is unlikely since they usually play the WOW Factor based on houses.
This WOW Factor (Waste to wow) is about making an outfit using garbage. It was a very fun activity to do.
The other people in my group were Nazaryth, Emily, Ariana and Fazil. Desmond was in our group, but he was then moved into the Kiwi group.
Our main inspiration was Nature. We could make an outfit based on anything in nature. My group based our outfit on trees. It was originally going to be a Rimu tree, but we then changed our mind and instead just used all of the trees in Nature. This made it a lot faster.
Our outfit consisted of a tree trunk for leggings, a plastic bag with leaves on it for shirt and a nest for headwear.

100 Word Challenge

This is the 100 Word Challenge for Week 10. The prompt was a picture of a persons legs dangling in the air, in a deep puddle after a storm:
It had been a very wet day so far. But I loved it when it rains. Because I get to put on my flashy gumboots and jump around in the massive puddles that were outside. It was always very fun.

But not this time.

I found something that seemed as puddle, yet I was unaware that I was actually a small pool. I jumped into it, but I tripped. My head plunged into the pool of water. I struggled to get out but the weed was keeping me prisoner. I was running out of breath. My lungs were bursting...

Help...
Please comment :)

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Kapa Haka

At Kapa Haka we learn heaps of cool waiata with Whaea Kiri, Matua Sean and Mrs Anderson. We have lots of fun. At Kapa Haka I have my friends Desmond and Sam and we are always laughing.

Soon at Kapa Haka we will be having a performance in front of the school. I am very nervous about it.

I like Kapa Haka. It's fun. I hope there is a Kapa Haka group at Maeroa intermediate. 

Mascot project

In room12 we were asked if we could make a project and back story on our new class mascot, a Sumatran tiger. 
We had it as homework throughout the holidays. That way we would have plenty of time to complete it.
My idea for a name was Stripes, because Sumatran tigers have stripes on the fur and body. So if you shaved their coat off, you would still find Stripes.
The most challenging part of making the project was finding some information on the tiger because I do not have the internet, and we do not go the library often.
The easiest part was writing it down :)

Kiwikids quiz

100% I scored 100% Yesss!
Posted By Chayse

Kiwikids news

My total for the kiwikids quiz was 50% out of 100% Awesome score!

Assembly

What I am going to write about today is a post on our 2013 Team 12 assembly.

It was a pretty quiet morning. Everyone had hurried into the hall to find their places. No-one was talking until  all the classes came in. The noise level seemed to go through the roof!

Anyhow, Katie opened up our Assembly by telling everyone to stand for the national anthem. We stood and sang our hearts for NZ.

Then, the Ode group put their part into action. They began to argue about what food was better. Mainly they were arguing about pancakes and chocolate. (Pretty tough decision for me...) Then I jumped in and asked what the heck was going on. They told me the story. Then Katie asked what in ode was and Corban and Sam explained everything.

About 1/2 an hour later, everything ended. My favourite part was when they shared the puppet plays. They were funny as!

ANZAC Research

For home learning we had to go to WickED and find out some stuff about ANZAC. Our main job was to answer the questions that were there. Here are my answers:

1.The ceremonies occur at dawn because that was the time the ANZAC's landed at Gallipoli
2. Gallipoli is in Turkey, adjacent to the Dardanelles.
3. ANZAC stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps
4. What happened is special to us because some of those fighters were New Zealanders, so it is remembered of those who fought in the battle as they struggled to defeat the Ottoman Empire.

Two of my great grand uncles fought against the Central Powers in WW1. One of them were shot in battle at Faenza, Italy.

Post camp project

To:Parents of the kids of vardon school
Message:
Hello parents. This post I have for you is to tell you about the 'Karakariki camp'. This is what I predict it will be like in 2040.

The things that will be the same will be:
1. The camp layout  -
When you enter the camp, it will still look the same.
2. The camp activities-
Some activities will have changed, but there will still be some of the same old activities.
3. The camp Karakia-
The camp Karakia will still be the same as the Karakia we had.

Some things that I think will have changed would be the owner, the camp dog may still not be alive, and they may have different food that they eat.

At camp, we had 4 nights their, but you can buy more. You get to do fun activities like BMXing* and caving* plus you get to have great food and accomadation.
Another thing you may want to know is that they have a karakia before they eat their food. They will teach you how to sing it so everybody should be able to sing.
They also have a little shed at the back of their field which has the archery and shooting area, which you may be able to do if you payed for it.

Drought activity

This is my Audioboo on our drought activity that we had to do for home learning. I hope you enjoy listening to it.
For more information on this boo, go to Kiwikidsnews.co.nz and find 'Drought hits North Island'

listen to ‘Chayse boo ’ on Audioboo

My Fotobabble

The Balloons over Waikato

This is my post on the balloons over Waikato activity we had to do for our home learning.

Here are my answers:

1. I think the Balloons festival is an important event to hold because it provides lots of entertainment to the people of the city.
2. Benefits that come from the city is that it provides money to all the stores which will help the general economy.

Warriors visit

By the very moment you are reading these words, you could probably have already guessed that this post is on the day the warriors came to visit our school. And it was awesome. So let me tell you what happened:

First, we were told to line up outside the classroom and then walk over to the field so we could sit down. We got to go face-to-face with them and listened to them introduce themselves (Oh, and one last thing. There was only 4 of them including Stacey Johnson and the warriors team coach and cameraman). It was interesting as I had no clue on what their names were.

Then, each of them picked a classroom to have a special game with. We got to have a game with a warrior player named Zane. That game was when we had to line up in two teams with the exact same amount of people in it. Then we had to run around a cone then pick up a ball and score a try. Then the next person would go and then the next and then so on. In the end, the opposing team from my team won instead because some of the people were not focusing.

Ah, well. At least the day was really fun. Plus at the end of the day, I got
given a signature book. It had the face of a Taniwha on it. Awesome! And, I even got the signatures of the team! Sweet!

School Production

School Production on Photo Peach
Color my world

The school production was so cool. It was called colour my world. It was based on all the pollution in the air and how we need to do something about it. It consisted of 4 scenes with 4 main characters. The main characters would travel to these scenes discovering lessons on their way, and out from almost nowhere, there are always minor characters.
As for me, I was a major character. Everybody should know this man, even some kids maybe, because he used to be on 'What Now'. If you guessed it, your probably right:
My character was Tamati Coffey. I played him really well. I was so proud of myself after that night. I hope that when I go to my next school, I will act just as cool. :)

Maths

Maths

For the past weeks (and in term two), the Tapawha math group have been learning how to multiply 2 digits by 2 digits.
These equations involve questions like:

1. 36x58
2. 28x88
3. 21x97
4. 11x39

I will answer one of these questions.
To succeed, you can either:

     A. Multiply the tens digit by the tens digit as it's value (e.g: 30x50 equals:____) and recieve that answer
     B. Multiply the tens digit by the tens digit as it's single value (e.g: 3x5 equals:____) and recieve that answer. But if you do take the path B, you must add the amount of zeros their are from the true whole vale of the number (3x5 equals 15. But because they were actually tens digits, you add 2 zeros, thus making the total answer 1500)

Then you leave that answer aside and the multiply the first tens digit by the second numbers ones. (e.g 30x8 equals 240)

You then multiply the first numbers ones by the second numbers ones. (e.g: 6x8 equals 48)
Finally you multiply the second numbers tens digit by first ones digit. (e.g: 6x50 equals 300. (Remember about the adding zeros rule from the tens...)

With your answers, you add them all together to make the true grand total:
300+48+1500+240 equals: 2088. So 36x58 is 2088.

Welcome bloggers!

Welcome fellow bloggers! Today's post is just a little post to get your juices running.

First, I would like to say what a wonderful year I had in the previous year. It was very exciting with cross country and the Te Puke exchange.

I hope you will have as much fun reading my post as I do experiencing them!

But anyway, This year so far, I am looking forward to:

• Becoming a librarian
• Becoming a member of the i.c.t suite club
• Becoming a house captain or environment agent
• Joining the choir and going to sing with Suzanne Prentice

Hopefully everything will go as planned.

This year, so far, we have been making our name art (Which I have finished), learning log covers, home-learning covers, and our desk mats. 

For our name art, we had to fold our paper in such a way that it will either come out as 6,8 or 10 squares(For Katherine who has 9 letters in her name). Then we had to write out our name individually in each square. with any other squares, you draw the things you like, or like to do.

With our home-learning covers, we had to do a summer scene of what you would do in the summer. So I made a beach scene filled with stuff that you would take to the beach, swimming things, and a boat and clouds with a sun in the sky.

Oh, an one last thing For all the Bloggers who are reading this. I have included a special chance for you to guess in this game known as 2 truths and 1 false.

Now all you have to do, is comment below and say which one of the following is a lie:

1.    I have a  ½ brother

2.   I like ice blocks

3.   I like unusual animals

Now all you have to do, is comment or leave a message.

See you all this year!