The Wahine, April 10th 1968

 The Wahine 

I believe this is about a ship on April 10th 1986 that sunk among the water

I think I will find out the time that it happened, what happened to the people aboard the ship, and how it happened

1. The weather was very bad having two huge storms 

2.The Wahine was going to wellington harbour

3.Only three lifeboats, as only four could be released and one of them sinking immediately

4.The rest were forced to jump in the water and swim to shore

5.Rescuers were unable to get to shore because there was things blocking the road

6.In total 53 people died. 

Video #1

-The wreck sunk deeper into the harbour

-The ship was carrying 68 cars and 25 tons of general cargo

-It also had 144 bags of mail aboard

-The harbour was closed early that morning

-Skin divers went out to the wreck that day to get a good look at the ship

-There had been a report from one rescue craft that tapping had been heard coming from inside the house 

-They checks all around the ship inside and out but found nothing 

-Skin divers later that had investigated the wreck have found there is no sign of survivors aboard

-All available police had been working around the harbour that day

Video #2

-The Wahine laid on its side by the wellington harbour 

-46 bodies were found dead

-6 people were not found

-566 passengers and 110 crew were safe

-Some police think that the number missing may increase

-The search continued for at least another two days

Poster

Resources- The Videos above and the book; no safe harbour 

Reflection

I am learning about the Wahine, that sunk in 1968

This work shows my learning because its a reflection on what i have learnt about the Wahine

I am wondering how many people are still alive today that was on that ferry and if they ever went on another ferry

Looking back on my predictions i got the date and what had happened correct

Antarctica

 Antarctica

I have learnt that Antarctica is the windiest and the least populated place and is home to mount Erebus,

My word definition; 

	Word	Definition
1	possession	The owner of something
2	maintaining	Continue at the same pace
3	shear	Cutting the wool of a sheep
4	guarantees	A formal promise
5	determine	Your are focused on doing something and don’t stop / something that changes things, like a decision
6	discovered	Finding something unexpected
7	route	A way to get somewhere
8	elements	Element is different in many ways, its something that goes with the thing your doing like a specific element to add to your thing
9	success	Something good that happened / something that befits you
10	Feature	An attribute to something

My groups Jam Board;

Thank you :)

The Tangiwai Rail Disaster

This week we are learning about the Tangiwai Rail Disaster

My prediction / what i already know is that it is a railway / train disaster on the 24th of December 1953 (Christmas eve) in Tangiwai and something to do with Lahar

I think I will find out what time it happened, and how it happened, and how many people were on the train and how many people died

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1. 258 people were on the train

2. The Larah began at the top of Mt Ruapehu

3. It took place on the 24th of December 1953

4. There was a man waving a torch

5. The queen gave out medals for peoples bravery

6.  An early warning system about the Whangaehu river was installed in 2007

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Video #1

-The driver braked but it was to late for 5 carriages

-Christmas day awoke to the news that 151 people died

Video #2

- 21 dead people unidentified 

Video #3

-Mt. Ruapehu ring of fire

-Is a very active volcano / one of the most in the world

-Snow covers the mountain

-1945 Mt. Ruapheu sent Larah down the mountain

-The ice that covers the crater lake begins to melt once its summer

-Around 6:00 pm the train came through Palmerston 

-The ash walls around the glacier / crater lake gave out and the water and ice pouring down the mountain.

-It was a wellington to Auckland express

-The driver didn't know that the bridge was destroyed at the time

-The train didn't stop in time

-One first class and four second class carriages fell into the gab in the bridge taking 176 passengers with them

-The other six on the bridge was still connected to the first five in the water

-Only one person in the sixth carriage died, she was trapped under a seat and died because of impact.

-Some bodies were washed into the river never to be found again 

-Only two people survived of carriage 3

-The river slowly dropped allowing more people to get out of the sunken train

-You could make out what was left of carriages

-A bunch of children toys were washed up around the river bank

-The remaining survivors were put on a train and sent to Hamilton where relatives would meet them.

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Resources ; The videos above

Reflection

I am learning about the Tangiwai Rail Disaster

This work shows my learning because its facts about the disaster

I am wondering if you go into the lake that there is a possibility that you could find old bones from the missing people

Looking back at my prediction i got it right about being a railway disaster and that is involved Lahar and the date.

Making ginger beer

 Making ginger beer

Aim; To find out how to make ginger beer

Research; 

Funny Video;

How to video; 

How yeast ferments video;

Method;

Equipment;

• Yeast
• Sugar
• Ginger
• Lemon Juice
• Popsicle Stick
• Plastic cup
• Paper funnel
• Lukewarm water

Instructions; 

1. Collect equipment 
2. get funnel and put a tea spoon of yeast in the plastic cup
3. do the same thing with two teaspoon of sugar
4. put lukewarm into in the cup 180 ML
5. stir slightly with the Popsicle stick
6. put a few quirts of lemon juice into the cup
7. continue stirring lightly with the Popsicle stick
8. put a little bit of ginger onto the paper and pour half in.
9. as one more tablespoon of sugar
10. stir lightly with the Popsicle stick
11. taste it, add more sugar or ginger if you think it need more, but only if you think it needs it.
12. leave it for 24 hours or more before tasting.

Results;

once i tasted it it tasted like a lot of ginger mixed with some water to lighten the taste and a hint of sugar, you can't really tell there is Lemon juice, but better than yesterday, the smell is very strong and hard to avoid 

The photo is quite darker than it really is, its like when you go to a river with foggy water with a hint of yellow and orange in it, and ginger stuff if floating around the edges.

Conclusion;

I can conclude that over night the taste of ginger mixes with the sugar and water making the ginger less strong but the strong smell of ginger stays the same, it also is quite easy to make.

Space

 Hello, this week me and my group are learning about space.

We had to do some research, find 25 key words in an article (Below) and make a word cloud + a Screencastify. (Below)

Journal Article

Word Cloud

Screencastify

The Ballantynes Fire - Nov 18th 1974

This blog post is about the Ballantynes Fire - Nov 18th 1974

What do I think I already know

I know it was a fire in Ballantynes on Nov 18th 1974.

What do I think I will about this disaster?

What caused the fire, how they fixed it, and how they stopped it,  did people die is so how many, is it the same building or re built, how long it took to stop it

Read and research 

1. Ballantyne's was an exclusive store because there were expensive designer with ladies who wore hats and gloves and served by waitresses with aprons and caps 

2. The Ballantynes department store in Christchurch

3. November 18th 1947 at 3:46 pm

4. The workers weren't told there was a fire because they haven't finished their shift yet a plus they didn't have a fire alarm or evacuation plan and the downstairs and the downstairs workers thought it was only a cellar fire not bothering to tell the upstairs workers

5. 41 employees died, two women jump from the verandas and was unconscious but recovered 

6. No smoking inside, no walking past fire's, tell others, they have smoke alarms and now have a evacuation plan.

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Video notes

Video #1

Video #2

Worst fire in new Zealand's history,

46 people missing in addition to those dead

Fire started in basement of the furniture department at 4:46 pm

Few shoppers at that time

Employees mainly on 2nd and 3rd floor about 300 people worked in this space

Neighbouring shops were cracked by the heat and power lines came down

Army and air force helped the firemen, Navy helped with the crowd control

They sprayed/pumped water for 4 hours from 36 hoses

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The trapped were waving down to people passing in the streets for help before the fire engulfed them killing them

They began investigating

They had 25 minutes before the first flames were seen

Spring of 1947 

This resource wasn't useful because it was too long, and you couldn't hear the audio very well

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Poster

Resources; I used the video links above 

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Reflection

I am learning where the worst fire in New Zealand happened, how it happened, how many people were killed or trapped in the fire, and any other little piece of information

This work shows my learning because it shows the notes off of the videos we have watched about the Ballantynes fire and a poster of information I had made.

In a result on this learning I am wondering how long it took them to rebuild the building.

Looking back at my prediction I got it right that it was a fire but I got wrong I thought at first Ballantynes was a little town or city but learnt that it is a store / department place in Christchurch

The Napier Earthquake

 The Napier Earthquake

What do i think i know about the disaster?
i think it will be about a earthquake that happened in 1931

What do i think i will find out about this disaster?
where it happened, if anyone died, if buildings did fall

When was the Hawkes Bay Earthquake?

10:47 am Feb 3rd 1931

What was the official death toll of this disaster?

was 256, 161 in naiper and 93 in hasting and 2 in wairoa

Where are two main places where Doctors set up surgerys?

In the botanical gardens and the racecourses in Naiper.

What is one benefit that came from the earthquake?

They were able to rebuild houses in Art Deco style

How long did the main earthquake last for?

2 minutes and a half minutes

why do you think children from this region were sent around New Zealand?

Children were sent around new Zealand because there were no homes or schools for them to go to and to homes for them to live in and children can get in the way of the clean up making it messier and it wasn't that safe for children as there were many aftershocks.

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Video #1

by Napier sea shore 

the veronica bell rings for 2 and a half minutes, the length of the earthquake

one boy got hit a brick from a chimney 

Cracks in the road

Naiper rebuilt in art decor style

The earthquake killed 256 people in total.

99 year old Nola Manly was 9 at the time

people had to live in tents

Video #2

-Napier us on the east cost above wellington

-Naiper was very damaged during the first earthquake mainly caused by fire

-HMS veronica was birthed in Napier 3 hours before

-Cruises from Auckland 

-Fire started in two pharmacies  

-1% of the population was killed 

-6% of the population were taken out of the city, mostly women and children were taken south

-Water supply stopped an hour after the earthquake

-Took weeks for the sewage to begin going again

-The railways to wellington were restored 2 days after

-The navy helped clean up the demolished buildings

-300 boys at the school and were thrown out the building.

-The next day one boy was rescued cheerful but angry

-The nurses building collapse and many night nurses were killed (they used to give the overnight nurses a nurse house to sleep in since they worked over night)

My poster information of the Napier earthquake.

Source ; The videos above / my notes

Chili taster

Aim; We want to find our what can be a remedy to eating Chili

Research;

Funny Video

Science Video

Remedy Video

Method:

Equipment;

• Hot sauce
• Toothpick
• Stopwatch
• Water
• Coke
• Milk

Instructions;

1. Get your equipment
2. Dip the toothpick in the hot sauce
3. suck off the hot sauce from the toothpick
4. start timing
5. stop timing when it stops burning.

Results; 

	Straight Chilli	Water	Cola	Milk
Time taken to stop the burning	2 minutes 40 -Susie's time	5 seconds - Susie's time	30 seconds - Susie's time	4 seconds - Susies time

 Conclusion; 

I can conclude that i have found out that milk is the best remedy for Chilli burn and the lest effective remedy was nothing.

Discussion;

why does chilli burn your mouth and why does milk stop it?

there is a thing in Chilli called capsaicin which makes your brain think your tongue is on fire but oil breaks it down, and oil is found in milk.

Sir Edmund Hillary

  Sir Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first people to climb to the top of mount Everest, before the climb Edmund, became part of the British reconnaissance  expedition to a mountain in 1951 He also was once a beekeeper. He was also born in New Zealand, Auckland. Sir Edmund Hillary was 6 feet 5 inches. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth the second once he climbed up mount Everest. He was a navigator with the New Zealand Royal Air Force during WWII.

here is my word cloud

Here is our screencastify. 

Would you ever climb Mount Everest?

Its Disastrous! - disasters -

 It's Disastrous! 

This term in Hurumanu 3 we are learning about disasters and words that are related to disasters and what they mean

This work shows my learning because it is the words and what they mean.

I am wondering more about different words and what they really mean.

You could either do a kahoot or a crossword i created a Kahoot

Here is a list of all the words and what they mean

Natural Disaster - A Disaster that was made by natural causes.

Wreckage - What is left of a breakage / Disaster 

Bravery - The condition of not feeling fear

Lahar - a mudflow down the side of a volcano

Heroism - Act courageous / courageous behaviour 

Aftershock - a small earthquake after a few large ones

Richter Scale - A logarithmic scale from one to ten that is used to measure the intensity and magnitude of an earthquake 

Disaster - Something bad that happens and destroys stuff or harms people

Casualty - A person that is killed, harmed, or missing in action

Destruction - Ruining or completely destroying something

Damage - a harm or injury that can make an item less valuable or less usable.

Debris - Scattered pieces left after something that has been destroyed 

Cook island week bell blog post

 Cook island week bell blog post

This week is Cook Island Language week and the bell has changed to fit the
Theme, 

The bell has changed for cook island language week, and the song is Hiede Ben - Vaine Kurakura. The cook islands are at the south Pacific ocean. The names of the cook island islands are, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mitiaro, Atiu, Mangaia, Palmerston, Manuae, Takutea, Mauke, Penrhyn, Rakahanga, Manihiki, Pukapuka, Nassau, Sawarrow. The language people of cook island speak is Rarotongan and English.

Flag of cook islands;