Te Poho O Rawiri

On a late Thursday night we all walked to the huge dining hall. We were going to have a show for all the parents who wanted to to come. First we had Kapa Haka and since the dining hall was so big it echoed and made us sound so loud. After Kapa haka the Jump Jam 

         Kapa Haka         team performed ( I am in the jump Jam team) I was so tired after that because I had put all my energy into Jump Jam( the song was called "Captain Jack")  . We made so many mistakes because we had not practiced enough. Then we had a few more shows and said goodbye to our parent and off they went , this is when the fun began. We got to set up our beds and we got some free time. 

In the early morning I heard some voices,  whispering. I woke to someone snoring like they had stayed up till midnight which they probably  had. Then Kya ( My sleeping buddy) got  ready together.  At this point I was exhausted and did not feel like walking up the Kaiti Hill but in the end I still did it. We packed our bags and got ready for our walk.

          Te Poho O Rawiri

After that yummy delicious spaghetti on toast with some milo I was so ready for the walk. But then someone vomited on the way up so we didn't have to do the walk after all and it actually did not look to long after all. Then it was time to welcome the Wai kids to the Marae it was some much fun and we got to hear some more stories about the Marae which was very interesting.  After that we had the yummiest hot dogs ever then had some free time. Then after a long and tiring day we got on the fancy, cool  bus and traveled back to school.                                                              Ukulele 

                                                               

                                                                   

Sweet VS Sour

In week 6 we did the House of Science about sweet and sour. . We learnt all about what is acids and bases ( in the slides it will show you what acids and bases are). I found this so much fun because we got to make sherbet.

We made sherbet to find out what would happen if you put acid and bases in your mouth, and it turned out saliva has a reaction to make the sherbet froth up. Making sherbet is very simple all you need is flavoring - (your choice), baking soda, citric acid and icing sugar for a bit of sweetness.

The next day after that we found out what was a base and what was an acid. To tell what was base or acid we used pH paper it would change color depending what substance it was. Then we would measure it with a pH measuring tape whatever color it was on the paper it would show you if it is a base or an acid .If it was higher 7 it is a base and if it was lower than 7 it was an acid. The ingredients were:baking soda,citric acid icing sugar, vinegar and flavoring. The ones that were a base were baking soda and the ones that were acids were citric acid,flavoring icing sugar and vinegar.

In our third experiment was making a pH indicator by using red cabbage.We added hot water which created purple water. Then we put the cabbage water into our test tubes then added all sorts of different subcines to the tubes to see if it changed color.  A base is the darker colour and the light colours were an acid. Over all my favorite experiment was the sherbet because we got to eat and we learned something new also the sherbet was really good.