Blind Taste Testing

 Aim:

I want to find out if food tastes diffrently when you can't see or smell

Research:

Method:

Equipment

• Blind fold
• Mystery Food

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Wash your hands
3. Put on a blind fold
4. Put your hand out and pinch your nose
5. Keep your nose pinched and put the food in your mouth
6. Guess what it is
7. Release your nose and taste the food
8. Where does the food react on your tounge?

Results: 

Food #1 Tastes like sugar.  

Food #2 Tastes like salt

Food #3 Tastes like baking powder. 

Food #4 Tastes sour or something

Food #5 Sour lolly/gummy or something

Food #6 burger rings

Food #7 tastes dry but not like a mashmellow

Food #8 tastes like a apple and it is an apple

Food #9 tastes like a gummy bear

Food #10 Tastes like a pear

Food #11 chocolate

Food #12 lemon 

Disscussion:

Is there a diffrance between blocked and unblocked nose taste? Yes (To me no)

Why? Taste is only limited to the five senses sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umamai(idk what this is). All other types of flavours that we are able to experience comes from smell. When our noses are blocked most foods would taste bland or tasteless. The sense of smell rasies your abillity of taste. Smell helps with taste and taste helps with smell.

PE: Gymnastics

Good morning everyone,

How is your week? :) mine's great(but nobody asked;-;)

This term in PE we have been learning about some gymnastics and trying out some new skills. To be honest I have never really liked gymnastics. When I found out we were doing gymnastics I was actually thinking of pretending to be sick. Epspecially the part where we need to take our shoes and socks off disgusting. 

Anyway back to topic we have been doing gymnastics for exactly about 4 periods. When we do gymnastics a bunch of equipment is put out for us to use. The parallel bars, Mini tramp, Floor, Beam, horizontal bar and trampoline. My favourite equipment is the Beam because you can just lie down on the mats that surrond the beam. 

I learned how to do a jump to front support(a flip) on the horrizontal bar. Also I learned how to do a cat leap on the beam. Learning new stuff is exciting i guess but I hope I can soon come to like Gymnastics.

My goal is to be a master on the beam maybe hopefully I am capable of such coolness. 

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Hot Chilli

 Aim:

I want to find out the best way to cool down your toung to cool down your toung after eating hot chilli.

Research:

                                                       (SO FUNNY ps:its not -_-)

Method:

Equipment

• Hot chilli sauce (Carolina Reaper sauce)
• Popsicle Stick
• Drinks - Soda, Water, Milk
• Timer

Instructions

1. Get your Equipment ready
2. Scoop up a drop of sauce on your posicle stick
3. Lick the hot chilli sauce and swerle it around your mouth
4. Start the timer
5. After 2mins, drink your drink
6. After another 2mis rate how hot it was after ur drink 
7. Repeat experiment with diffrent drinks.

Results:

(Btw I didn't do the experiment cause i'm allergic to chilli so I am basically mixing in other peoples opinions)

Rating of hot chilli with each drink

The first chilli I did was without water and I am scoring it a 10 for burning. (Dying from the chilli)

    

Second Chilli with water(After Drink)

Chilli was still lingering on tounge and basically made it worse. (Water tasted disgusting)`I still rate it 10 for burning.                                                                                                                                                            

Thrid chilli with coke.                                                                                             

The burn got better after drinking the coke 5/10 because the bubbles and coldness cooled down the tounge.

Milk /10

Fourth chilli was 4/10 Milk fat cooling down the hottness and helping feel better. Dairy keeps you feeling better.

Disscussion:

Why does chilli burn your mouth?

In spicy food there are certain compunds that activate the type of sensory neurons called Polymodal Nociceptors. You have these all over your body including your nose and mouth. They are the same receptors that are activated by extreme heat. So when you eat something like a chilli peper your mouth feels like its burning because it sends messages to ur brain which thinks your mouth is burning. 

Why did the milk reduce the burn?

That's because milk contains casin which helps break down and disolve capsaicin in chilli. Casin is like a 

What is Capsaicin

Capsaicin is a part of chili peppers which is a chemical that 

Pekapeka

 Hello Everyone,

How is your day? :)

For hurumanu one, (You may already know this) but we have been reading Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff. Pages 17-22 and pick one of the things that interest us and make a DLO about it. I chose a Pekapeka which is just the maori name for bat. Did you know that bats are as small as a mouse?

Here is the LINK if you want to use that instead

Here is my DLO on Bats

Did you like my DLO?

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Goodbye ;-;

Henri Rousseau

Namaste and welcome back,

How was your holiday? 

In this art period we have been learning about Henri Rosseau. We watched a video called "The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau" which talked about him. In a google doc we used a split screen and wrote down five facts about him that we got from the video.

Here is an artwork made by Henri Rousseau called The Dream

Screenshot taken from this SITE

Five facts

1. Henri Rousseau is a talented artist but when he aspired to become one nobody believed in him and mock him for his efforts.

2. Henri wants to be an artist because he loves nature. He takes a stroll around the parks of Paris and is inspired by the beautiful flowers, trees and sun that blushes as shiny as a ruby.

3. To learn more about anatomy he studies photography, illustrations from postcards and more.

4. Every morning Henri wakes up and smiles at his pictures despite all the cruel criticism and harsh opinions people have.

5. He started to share his paintings around the age of 40.

All these facts came from THIS VIDEO

5 things about Henri Rousseau's Artwork

1.  Beautiful landscape 
2. Nature and flora type
3. Main colour is green
4. Repettitive leaves layering eachother
5. Leaves, bush, tree main stuff heri uses in his paintings.

Two words from the quizlet

Repetition - Using the same image, shape or colour again and again

Mono - only one

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Uncle Don: Possums

 Hello everyone :)

Do you know a pest in NZ? If yes, which one? 

I am learning about the pest called a Possum!

In class we are still reading Uncle Don knows lot's of wacky stuff but this time pages 15 - 25 ?. I made a DLO about possums and to be honest I have always been learning about Possums. Ever since primary school when I read a school journal filled with facts about possums I have always been fascinated by them.

Here is my DLO if you want to check it out

Picture of Possum

 

I am grateful to uncle don for telling me more about possums.

Did you know all of these facts about possums before you read this post?

Do you like or dislike possums?

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Drama: Maui and the fish Tableaus

Namaste readers,

Do you know the story of Maui and the fish?

In drama class we have been making some tableous about maui and fish. We made a tablou with the start, the middle and the ending. I was a group of 6 with Lita, Riley, Delilah, Shontai and Kate.

Tablous

Tablous are like frezze frames. Showing or representing a scene from anything usinhg your facial expressions, physicality and levels.  

Start: Maui and his brothers riding the boat

Lita is sitting on the chair which kind of shows she leading the way as the eldest brother. Maui (Shontai) was hiding. I think we were working well as a group and our expressions were't that good. I think to improve we should of acted like we were rowing.

Middle: The boat shaking in the storm.

In this Tableaou were meant show us holding onto the boat hoping not to fall off. Our expressions need some work and it dosen't seem like it's really shaking I think this tabelou needs some work. But I think we would have done better if it showed someone halfway off the boat.

Ending: Brothers stabbing the huge fish which turned out to be a island.

Were using our hands to make it look like were holding a staff/paddle board to stab the fish which looks pretty good. Lita is like the fish were trying to stab and has pretty nice energy.

Our transitions were not that great. We had to think of what tableaous to do at the time we were said to all suddenly. It was quite hard to work as a team like that.

What is a Transition?

A trasition is basically the time we use to change our actions, expressions, etc.

I enjoyed having drama this term and looking forward to next year :) If we have it again

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