Arts Kete

 Over the past few weeks we have been working on a thing called arts kete. For this we had to make a poster/clay model about you or your culture. We needed to make these for displays around the school and to show our culture. 

For mine I wanted to make the New Zealand flag out of clay. This didn't really work. At first I had to make a rectangle which for some reason was quite challenging. Next I had to put the four stars on. I got about two on it then the next day it was destroyed. So after a few periods of thinking I decided to make a clay model of me like my friends. Unfortunately it fell apart and I couldn't get it to work before we needed to. So I ended up failing because I had nothing to present.  

Live Aid

This week we were learning about Live Aid. Live Aid was a concert held in Philadelphia and London to make money for poverty.  It was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.

In the 1970's Bob Geldof was a singer and musician was born in Ireland and was educated at a Catholic private school. He was famous for the single Do They Know It's Christmas. He produced this song with Midge Ure.  Bob was mostly involved in the band Boomtown Rats and Live Aid.

In the 1970's Midge Ure was a singer that was in quite a few bands and made a few popular songs. He was famous for the single Do They Know It's Christmas which gave him the motive to organise the event Live Aid.  Midge was involved in seven bands. His most famous band being Ultravox.

The song Do They Know Its Christmas was sung by many singers that were famous at the time. This song was made for the Ethiopian kids because people were wondering if they knew it's Christmas. All of the 200 million dollars went to people in Ethiopia. This is what inspired Bob and Midge to do the live aid show. 

Science | Acid Rain Experiment

 Over the past few weeks we have been learning about acids and bases. One thing we have been learning about is acid rain. Acid rain is mostly caused by factory's burning fossil fuels. The smoke go's into the clouds and mixes with the water molecules. When it rains it can damage people, builds, plant life, animals and make the water toxic. We done an experiment today on acid rain.

Aim: To observe the effects of acid rain 

Hypothesises: I think the petal will dissolve, the calcium carbonate will have no effect, the apple will dissolve, the universal indicator will weaken the acid, I think the bromothymol blue will not do anything.

Method: In petri dish place items around edge. Wet dry ingredients with drop of water. In the middle put a weigh boat

Observations: The universal indicator turned into a pale red because it was an acid. The bromothymol blue turned yellow. The apple did nothing. The petal went lighter. Calcium carbonate kind of bubbled.