Chocolate Mug Cake!!!

Kia Ora everyone!

Hope you are all staying safe at home! So as you may know we are still in quarantine and have online school. On Fridays my class would usually be going to tech (Technology) today so it was kind of like our own tech at home! We were assigned to watch a cool video about physical and chemical changes! In the video it showed examples of physical and chemical changes and underneath the video there were paragraphs that summarized the meaning of physical and chemical changes.

Chemical change means: Chemical change is when a new kind of substance is made e.g if you mix a gummy bear with hydroxide together it makes a gas which is a kind of substance!

Physical change means: A physical change is when there is no new substance made e.g if you put mentos into coke it will start to fizz and carbon dioxide will come out of it. This is still a physical change because carbon dioxide is one of the things that are used to make coke!

So after taking in all the new information that i had learned it was time to move onto doing an activity! There were 4 different science experiments that we could choose from and we could either do all or just one. I chose to do one activity. By the title you can tell what experiment i chose to do, but if not I decided on making a Chocolate Mug Cake! 

While i was making it I was kind of worrying about it overflowing but when it came out it was actually small! I actually had made one in the morning but then just ate it and forgot to take a picture of it. oops. So i made another one remembering to take a picture before eating it. After making another one I didn´t like it as much as the first time and ended up not finishing it but it was still pretty good :).  After cleaning up everything I got it out of the microwave when it had finished.

It looked kind of weird the second time i made it but it was all good!

After taking it out and making sure to take a picture of it i topped it with ice cream and sprinkles and some chocolate. Yes i did eat 2 but the first time it had nothing on it and I was sharing it with my sister and mom!

For the experiments the reason we  had to try at least one out was because it was to see if we thought there was a physical or chemical change in it. For me I thought that this was physical change because all that happened was the appearance of it changed. So It was only a physical change that happened.

I didnt really have any troubles with doing this experiment and it was actually really fun and easy to complete! 

Here is the link to the way to make the Chocolate Mug Cake if you are interested in making a quick and easy dessert!

Like i´ve said before hope everyone is staying safe and remember to stay home and wash your hands!

Under The Bed

Kia Ora Everyone! 

We have cut a week off from school so now it is the school holidays! But I am still finishing work that I haven´t done or completed finished yet and I have just finished my writing activity that I needed to do! In the writing activity there was a slideshow which had 1 picture in each slideshow and there were boxes with questions in them that we had to answer. For instance one of the pictures was of a boy looking under his bed and it seemed that something had frightened him and here there were questions about how he felt and what was under the bed etc. There were 10 slides and pictures that we could pick out of and I chose the one about the boy looking under his bed! I put all my work in a google doc and for one of the activities it included drawing so I did it in a google drawing!

Here´s my work!

Question Time

Question: What was the noise that Michael heard?
Answer: Michael heard knocks and tapping coming from underneath his bed trying to lure him in.

Question: What did he see under the bed? 
Answer: He first saw scratch marks on the wooden floor of his bed and the hands and long jagged nails that did that to his floor and as he looked up there were two bloodshot red eyes staring at him with a menacing glowing smile. 

Question: What will happen next? 
Answer: The mysterious being ended up talking to Michael and Michael thought that he just made a new friend but really this is all part of the creatures plan to capture him. 

Question: How did he feel when he first heard the noise? 
Answer: He was drowned with a feeling of dread and was instantly thinking about running to his mum 

Question: How did he feel when he looked under the bed? 
Answer: When he looked under the bed he was taken aback and frightened of what he just saw because that was not a normal thing and he was questioning how long that thing had been under there.

Question: What time of day do you think it is? 
Answer: I think that it is night time because he is wearing pyjamas and he was lying in bed at the time. 

Question: Have you ever been frightened of anything? 
Answer: Yes. When I was younger I used to be so scared to sleep by myself at night because I felt as if someone was watching me while I was sleeping. I´m actually scared of a LOT of things. 

Question: Why do things seem more frightening at night? 
Answer: I think it's because it's more dark and everything has shadows to it and when the lights are turned off your mind can see things that aren't really there like you could think that something looks like a monster sitting in your room when it's just laundry. 


Sentence Challenge

 The sounds of tutting comes from underneath the bed. This tutting noise slowly starts mutating into a low growl then an aggressive growl threatening to jump out at any time.


Story Starter

The scuttling noise had disturbed Michael, and he’d shot bolt upright in bed. After taking a deep breath, he flung himself onto the smooth wooden boards of his bedroom floor and took a peek…

Staring into pitch darkness he seemed to have noticed something weird along the wooden floor boards. Scratch marks. But these were no ordinary scratch. They were jagged and looked as if a tiger was clawing at the floor. But how could that be? There definitely was not a tiger underneath his bed. Right? *grrr* A low growling noise made little Michael take aback. He jumped a bit but got the courage to ask who was there. ¨Uhm hello?¨”asked Michael nervously. *grr* another low growl answered Michael but it seemed to have gotten louder which meant it was either being loud to scare him or coming closer. ¨Hi. If 
anyone´s there it's alright to come out. I won't hurt you. I'll even become friends with you if you want to. Hello?¨ 

 It seemed that Michael´s kindness was not paying off anything and it looked as if the creature would not attack. Michael thought to himself¨Maybe it just wants to stay underneath my bed. Yeah. Maybe it doesn't have a home and that's the only place it can stay.¨

 Michael slowly climbed back into bed having a slight feeling of nervousness and kindness in his heart. He felt bad for whatever was underneath his bed so he didn't want to tell his mum. Well this was a very poor choice to make. *Tap* *Tap* *Tap* ¨Hello?” Michael was starting to get a bit annoyed and scared by this thing that was staying underneath his bed. *Scrape* *Scrape* It sounded like the thing was scratching the floor!?

 Michael swiftly jumped off of his bed and lay on the floor trying to catch this creature, but as Michael looked into the darkness he screamed a terrifying scream and when his mother came running she found Michael in tears rocking back and forth on the ground…


Perfect Picture!

Can you draw a picture of what Michael saw under the bed?

Hope everyone is safe and again try to stay home as much as possible and wash your hands daily! 

ANZAC Activities!

Since ANZAC Day is coming up our class was set to do some ANZAC Activities while at home due to COVID - 19. In these activities we had to make different DLOs for the activities that were set and we had to post 2 from the activities that we have completed. There were 8 activities that needed to be done. 

The first activity that I did was to try and come up with a creative way for people to still acknowledge the ANZAC´s  because since the COVID - 19 has spread very quickly and we can´t go into big groups all ANZAC services were cancelled. So I decided that we should dress up in red on the ANZAC day! I made this poster on Canva.

Here is my poster.

Another activity that I did was 10 items that I would miss if I were a soldier having to go to Gallipoli.  Here we had to give detail about these 10 items that we would miss if we had to leave. So I made my poster on Piktochart for this one because it´s a big space that can be used when Canva is a very limited space if you want to just use one box and fit it in. 

So here is my poster! 

Something I found hard with making these is on Canva I had a bit of trouble with the space and it was a bit hard trying to fit in everything. Something I found hard with my other poster was trying to make it able to read what was on it because I wanted the background to have a war theme but you couldn´t really see the writing properly so I was trying to see what I could do for that. 

Something I liked with making these poster was doing all the fonts and the backgrounds and just designing it mostly.

I hoped you liked my blog post and remember to stay home,wash your hands daily and don´t touch your face!!!

Maori Dictionary

Kia Ora Everyone!

 This week because of COVID - 19 all schools have had to lock down which lead into online school. We have been doing all of our school work at home and for RE we had to kind of make a glossary for some Maori words and make a DLO for it. We had to also think about SISOMO again which is Sight, Sound and Motion so if someone has a disability with hearing we have to think about how they can get the message so I made a DLO using Piktochart and used Screencastify to record my voice while showing my DLO still! 

I have been sick through the week and I have a sore throat so I had to keep redoing my Screencastify but I was ok with this!

Here it is. 

Do You Know What An ANZAC Mascot Is?

Kia Ora! 

These few weeks we have been learning more about ANZAC Day and writing about how it was and reading stories. This week we have been reading and learning about ANZAC Mascots which were animals that soldiers brought to war for many different reasons e.g comfort.

This week we were given 2 activities and the first one was to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) on what we have learnt about how mascots were used in the war and the second was to make our own ANZAC Mascots and we had to show how it could help the soldiers while they are fighting in the war!

I put all of these things in a slideshow because it all related together and it was easier to do.

Something I enjoyed with making this was definitely tracing my Mascot because it was so CUTE!

I didn´t actually struggle with anything and enjoyed doing all the tasks!

Father Francis Vernon Douglas

Kia Ora! This week and last week we have been learning about two priests named Father Maximilian Kolbe and Father Francis Vernon Douglas. There were two readings that told us about the lives of them and how they died and there was one video for Father Maximilian Kolbe. After we had read both of these or watched the video as well then we had to pick one to make a DLO for. I chose Father Maximilian Kolbe.

In the DLO we had to answer 4 questions that were given to us, the questions that we were given were ¨Who was he?" ¨What was his cause?¨ ¨ Who did he upset and why?¨ "How did his work of love lead him to death?¨

Something that we had to think about while we were making these DLO´s was SISOMO which stands for Sight, Sound and Motion and so if someone has a disability with their vision we have to be able to make something where they can still understand it so I used Voki which is a website where you can write things into the text box and there is a person that reads it out!  

I wasn´t able to fit in my answer for the last question because it only allows 600 characters in the text space so my answer to ¨How did his work of love lead him to death?¨ Answer : He was lead to death because he wanted to stay and be by his peoples side while they were fighting and he wouldn´t say anything about them while he was being tortured and kept quiet the whole time¨

Something that I found hard in this was trying to summarize my answers myself without using words that aren´t mine. 

Something that I enjoyed was using Voki and playing around with it because there are so many different types of characters that you can choose from!

ANZAC Diary Entry

WALT use descriptive language

This week for writing we wrote a diary entry for being in the war and in the diary entry we had to be really descriptive with our writing. We used an attribute chart to help us with our writing and give us more descriptive words to use. We had to write words for see, hear, location, movement and temperature!

At the beginning of this we read a book called ¨The ANZAC Violin¨ Written by Jennifer Beck and Illustrated by Robyn Belton. This is where we got our theme from! We could choose a place that we would write about like being on a boat or being hit and what we did. My writing was being on a boat.

Something that I enjoyed about writing was the descriptive words that we had to put in, and something that I found hard was trying to come up with exciting things to write about.

I hope you like the writing!

As the ocean crashes against the boat a nauseous feeling overcomes my body threatening to burst at any moment but I do my best to contain it. Looking out to sea the unsteady swaying of the boat is not helping at the least to make me feel better. BOOM. The deafening sound of bombs going off takes away the feeling of nausea and everything else. A freezing sensation travels up my spine as I follow the direction of the next bomb firing down.

 The next bomb pulses the sea and the boat starts shaking recklessly. The restless howls of bombs ache my ears each second of the ride and I try blocking it out but the screams seem to be getting inside my head. I give up. I'm faced with the feeling of nausea over again and my face turns light green. Trying my best to tame the feeling for just a few more minutes it's useless. I feel something chunky and wet climbing up my throat at a high speed. I sprint as fast as I can to the nearest window but itś too late. The substance bursts out like lava flowing from a volcano onto the floor. Nonstop.