New Zealand Sand Dunes.

 Kia Ora, Here is my sand dunes work for today.

Reading

 Kia ora, Today I have Been researching facts around pages 12-16 In the book called Uncle Don Knows Heaps Of Wacky Stuff. 

Longfin eels breed only one time in their whole life. These eels breed once near the end of their life, When they want to breed they leave New Zealand. There are seven hundred and twenty species of eel and Long finned eels usally lay around twenty million eggs while the american eel will lay 500,00 - 4,000,000 eggs.

Cricket legends

 Kia ora, This week we have learnt about Cricket legends. Here is my work and information about them.

Acid

 Kia ora, today we are learning about acids, An Acid you may have had at home could be a Lemon wich contains Citric Acid or Vinegar which has Acetic Acid. Have you tried any of these Acids?

Aim: To make red cabage pH indicator for use on different household chemicals.

Red cabage indicator experiment

Materials:

1. Red canage

2. Beaker 

3. Bunsen burner

4. Pipette

5. sodium hydrum 

6. hydrochloride acid

7. test tubes

8. paper towles

9. test tube

10. water

1. Chop up the red cabbage into small pieces. Place in a beaker and cover with small amount of water.

2. Bring the solution to the boil using a bunsen burner and then turn off the heat. Let it sit to cool down.

3. Pour the cabbage water through a paper towel into a beaker. The dark purple liquid in the jar is the pH indicator liquid. 

4. Suck up the indicator into a pipette.

5. Use the cabbage indicator to test the acidity of the different household liquids by slowly putting a drop at a time in the test tube.

Sherbet

 Kia ora, Today we are learning about bakingsoda and what to make with it or clean with it. 

Baking soda Can be used to make things like, Cakes, bread, Sherbet and more.

Baking soda can be used to:

10. Scrub away scuff marks on the wall.

9. Use it as a deodorant.

8. Clean and unclog smelly sinks.

7. Cleans away your mould.

6.  Add abrasive to cleaning products.

5.  Deoderise your kitty litter trey.

4. Clean your non-Self cleaning oven.

3. Wash build-up in your hair.

2. Deodrise you carpets.

1.  Adding it to your laundry soaps/powder.

Equipment:

1. Citric acid.

2. Icing sugar.

3. Baking soda

4. Raro.

5. Spoon.

6. Cup.

7. Mixing stick

Recipe:

1 Tea spoon of powdered drink crystals. (eg Raro)

1/4 Tea spoon of Citric Acid.

1 Tea spoon of Icing Sugar

1/4 Tea spoon Baking Soda.

Steps:

1. Put the ingredients together in the cup. 

2.  Mix the ingredients.

3. Eat the sherbet.

Lisa Carrington facts

Kia ora, This post will be facts about Lisa Carrington.

 Lisa Carrington: In June 2009 she won a bronze medal at the World cup regatta held in Szeged, Hungary, competing alongside Teneale Hatton in the women's K‑2 1000 metres event. In May 2010 the pair won the gold medal in the same event at a World Cup regatta in Vichy, France. In late 2010 she started working with coach Gordon Walker.

Lisa Carrington and Hatton won three gold medals at the 2010 Oceania Canoe Championships; they won the 500 and 1000 metres K‑2 events and were joined by Rachael Dodwell and Erin Taylor to win the K‑4 500 metres.

Born: 23/6/1989 Tauranga, New Zealand.

Height, 1.68 m (5 ft 6 inches)

Weight, 63 kg (139 lb)

Ginger beer in Science

 Kia ora, Today we made ginger beer in class. 

We did this by activating the yeast first by adding sugar to the yeast, putting some ginger and warm water in a cup together. Once we had done this we put it to the side and left it to ferment while we made the rest of the ginger beer. We made the ginger beer in an ice cream container by adding first the sugar, then the water, some lemon juice and lastly the ginger beer bug. Once everything was mixed up we put it in a bottle. It is going to take about 6 days to turn into ginger beer. Mr Palmer is going to keep it in his office for the next week