I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 9 and in 2021 I will be a year 10. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Market Day - Oozy Oobleck
Yesterday in B - E My Group made Oobleck, at the start we had only sold 1 but like after a hour, and a half it started to sell out when the primary school kids started coming to our school... Our Oobleck colour was blue but it was spost to be green but we decided we would make it a different colour... Before market day came we all had to name our groups sort out what we was doing... and also last thing we had to make our product for the day... Here is a couple photos of the amount of kids that had made stuff for this amazing day... For our market we were selling oobleck for 2 dollars but since they weren't selling out we started selling them for 1 dollar or 2 for the price of one just to get money in for our market... Our group dont really know how much we had made to be honest. People in our group were Tennessee, Jessica, Lily and lucky last which was me the CEO...
Yesterday was a super hot day, and after most or everyone had sold out everybody started to feel like they either couldn't be bothered doing anything or some of them wanted to go home... The day was super fall on and a lot of people wanted to get wet because of the heat that occurred yesterday...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Mac n Cheese
Spaghetti Bolonese
Back when we did spaghetti bolonase we all had to help cooking it, like one person was doing the hot water waiting for it to boil and another person was also putting the spaghetti into the boiled water in the big pot. Here is a photo below of a example of what the spag bowl looks like
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 rashers smoked streaky bacon, finely chopped
- 2 medium onions, finely chopped
- 2 carrots, trimmed and finely chopped
- 2 celery sticks, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves finely chopped
- 2-3 sprigs rosemary leaves picked and finely chopped
- 500g beef mince
For the bolognese sauce
- 2 x 400g tins plum tomatoes
- small pack basil leaves picked, ¾ finely chopped and the rest left whole for garnish
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 2 fresh bay leaves
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 1 beef stock cube
- 1 red chilli deseeded and finely chopped (optional)
- 125ml red wine
- 6 cherry tomatoes sliced in half
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Can experiment:
Aim: To see what happens when you put the heated can in cold water.
Hypothesis: I thought that the can would just go cold... But when we tried the experiment the can scrunched up together...
When we boiled the water it turned from a liquid to a gas which means it Evaporated... The gas particles were contracting together with the can which made it scrunch up.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Particle theory
- All matter is made up of particles
- All particles in a pure substance are the same
- There is space between all particles
- Particles are always moving
- There are attractive forces between particles
- Temperature affects the speed at which particles move
Friday, September 4, 2020
Carbohydrates
Simple carbohydrates -
Fruits, milk, Sugars/Candy, syrups, soft drinks
Complex carbohydrates -
Complex carbohydrates are made up of sugar molecules that are strung together in long, complex chains. Complex carbohydrates are found in foods such as peas, beans, whole grains, and vegetables. Both simple and complex carbohydrates are turned to glucose (blood sugar) in the body and are used as energy.
Dietary Fibre -
Dietary fibre helps keep the gut healthy and is important in helping to reduce the risk of diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and bowel cancer2. Fibre reaches the large bowel undigested where it is fermented by bacteria.
Good sources include barley, oatmeal, beans, nuts, and fruits such as apples, berries, citrus fruits, and pears. Many foods contain both soluble and insoluble fiber. In general, the more natural and unprocessed the food, the higher it is in fibre.



