The Tangiwai Rail Disaster

 The Tangiwai Rail Disaster

What do I think I know about the disaster?

I would think  that the Tangiwai rail disaster derailed from the track, or the track was covered by lahar, because I heard lahar had a part in the disaster.

What do I think I will learn?

I would love to hear about what happened. How many people died and if there are any stories from people who lived though the disaster.

Questions:

1. 258 people were on board the train.

2. The lahar began at the top of Mt Ruapehu

3. The Tangiwai Railway disaster happened on December 24th 1953 at 10.21 pm

4. The driver knew to stop the train because a man was waving a torch. 

5. The Queen gave out medals to 4 volunteers for their bravery

6. An early warning system about the Whanaghya ruver was installed.

Notes, sorry that they are a mess!

Crater lake

The ice melted

The wall began to weakening in the summer

The man who waved the torch when down to the river to get a tree for Christmas

Charles Parker was the train driver

Vibrations picked up at 8 o clock

The ash bank collapsed

The lahar broke the bridge pillars at the river

Despite the efforts the train didn't stop in time

151 dead

two women went on top of a train car

People helped others in the train to get on the top of it

Antarctica

 Welcome and thank you for stopping by! If you didn't know, this week I'm learning about Antarctica. I think Antarctica is a really cool place. Something I found was that some people think that Arctic and  Antarctica are the same, but they are polar opposites... Please laugh that was a joke 🥲 

Here we had to make a table of unfamiliar words we didn't really know the meaning of. Then after getting all 10 words we were unfamiliar with we had to find the definition of those words.

With some of my classmates we made a Jamboard, we had to add 2 - 3 different key things we found out about the Arctic ( I'm the top blue ones - the biggest 3 blue one )

If you are unable to read the notes, here are what they say.

1. Winter temperatures plummet to about -100 degrees Fahrenheit in Antarctica.

2. Antarctica is the highest continent on earth.

3. The Dry Valleys in Antarctica are the driest places on earth.

Thank you for reading about Antarctica with me, don't get sick and stay safe!

Kiwis in space

 Kiwis in space

Hello and welcome to my blog! I hope you have had a lovely day and I'm happy you are reading my blog. This week, my group and I have been learning about kiwis in space. I've found this very interesting.

Here is my key vocabulary from the thing we have read. 

With my key vocabulary I made a word cloud. I even made the words look like a rocket.

The last thing we had to do was a screencastify about three new things that I learnt.

Thank you for taking your time to read and listen to my blog! Please, if you saw any mistakes or anything you think I should add/change please let me know in the comments.

Did you know New Zealand launched satellites before listening to my screencastify?

 Making Ginger Beer

Aim:

To find out how to make ginger beer.

Videos

( Go to 1:48 to start to see their reaction )

Method:

Equipment

Ginger

Cup

Water

Lemon juice

Sugar

Yeast

paper

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Fold your paper into a funnel
3. Put a teaspoon of yeast onto the paper funnel
4. put 2 teaspoon of sugar
5. Pour Lukewarm water into your cup, 180 ml 
6. Stir slightly
7. put a few squirts of lemon juice
8. Stir is a bit more using wooden stick
9. Put the ginger onto the paper and pour half in
10. Taste it ( Add more ginger if you want )
11. Add a tablespoon of sugar
12. Taste it angain ( Add more of what you think it needs more of )
13. Leave it for a day before trying it

Results

It smelt very weird. I'm not sure how to describe it. It was a awful smell!

The taste was alright. Not the best ginger beer i've ever had but it was still very nice. It had a very strong ginger taste and a weird aftertaste.

It looked very yellowy-brown  with little bits of ginger. At the bottom a puddle of ginger was just sitting there.

The Ballantynes Fire

 Welcome to by blog! This week we have been learning about the Ballantynes fire. I found it really interesting and I hope you like it just as much as me!

Predictions

What do I think I already now about this disaster?

I know that this is a fire that happened on Nov 18th 1974.

What do I think I will learn about this disaster?

• What caused the fire?
• Did anyone die in the fire?
• What happened to the shop?
• How long did it take to put out?
• How expensive was the damage?

Read and Research

1.  People were served by waitresses in aprons and caps, expensive clothes were sold and ladies wore hat and gloves. It was a designer store.
2.  Christchurch
3.  November 18th, 1947 
4.  They had no smoke alarms or evacuations plans. People though it was just a small cellar fire so didn't tell the people upstairs.
5. 41 worker died in the fire. Two people from veranda and were unconscious but recovered.
6. No smoking, they now have smoke alarms, have an evacuation plan, DON'T WALK PAST A FIRE AND DO NOTHING! 

Video 1 - This video is restricted 

Notes - My messy notes :c

The fire was the most deadly

41 people went missing

All of the deaths were from worker

Near by shops were cracked by the heat

It took around 4 hours to stop the fire

They used 36 hoses to put out the fire.

Video 2 - This video is restricted  ( We didn't watch much )

Trapped people were waving to people down below

they had 25 mins before the first flame were seen 

This video wasn't that helpful

It was very long

Sometimes, the video was hard to hear

I does have some information but it's not really what we want.

Side Note - 25 MINUTES to get people out of the building because of the fire, and they didn't >:C

Thank you for reading. Have an amazing day, bye!

SOWN

 Snow

I love snow, when I was younger, I saw a LOT of snow. I would be so much fun if we had a lot of snow again. 

It was cold, and I was 3 or so, my mum and dad took me out to the park near mine. I was in a jacket, had mittens on and a woolly hat. I can't remember how the snow felt but, now that it has snowed a bit today, I can remember the feeling. It's light, very cold - my hands were frozen with snow, and weirdly crunchy and wet. 

Snow is created when tiny ice crystals stick tougher, they get heavy and fall to the ground. The more ice crystal that stick tougher the bigger the snow gets.

 The Olympic sport

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This week for hurumanu 1 I have been learning about Olympic rowing.

Here is my work I have done this term!

Here are some things about rowing and new Zealand!

If I were to make a new Olympic sport, I would make a wacky weird sport So I stole the idea of laser tag and...improved it....

I feel like this is a weird version of pro tag. If you don't know what pro tag is, look it up, you won't regret the time you've wasted. Or you will. 

Anyways, thank you for taking you time to read my blog! Please, if you saw any mistakes in my blog, tell me in the comments. Have a good rest of the day, or night.

 The Napier Earthquake

Predictions

Sadly, I have never really heard about the Napier Earthquake. All I could think the Napier earthquake was about is... Well, an earthquake causing a lot of damage or something like that.

Although I do think that I'll enjoy learning about this. I think I might find out how much damage it cause, what the aftermath was, and if there is anything special about it. 

Hopefully I can even learn when it happened! Oh wait, it happened on the 3 of February in 1931... 

Now, after reading about the Napier Earthquake

1. At 10.47 on Feb 3rd, 1931

2. The official death toll was 256.161 in Napier, 93 in Hastings and 2 in Wairoa

3. In the botanical gardens and the racecourse in Napier

4. They were able to rebuild the houses in an art Deco style, making it a tourist  attraction.

5. 2 and a half minutes... WOW THAT'S LONG

6. Children were sent around NZ because there were no school for them to go to and no houses for them to live. Also to keep children safe from aftershocks.

Notes from THIS VIDEO

There was a 90th anniversary for the Napier earthquake.

Nola was 9 when the earthquake hit and in the video she it just 1 year away from 100!

Eric Baggit was 2 when the earthquake hit, he didn't remember anything be seen the ciry rebuilt.

There were cracks in the road caused by the earthquake

The Vernoica bell rang for 2 and a half mintues.

Note from THIS VIDEO ( We only watched up to 10 minutes )

The first earthquake with high magnitude

Cruisers from Auckland had doctors on board to help

most of the damage was done by fire

A temporary hostility was made

6% of the population were taken out of the city

People had to live in tents

The water supply was damaged

The navy helped to clean up the damaged builds

In a school, boys were thrown out the building when the earthquake hit

The Nurse home collapsed and nurses were killed in their sleep

 Eating hot chills

Funny

Science

Exeperiment

Method:

Equipment

• Hot sauce
• Toothpick
• Stopwatch
• Water, coke, milk

Instructions

1. Get all of your equipment
2. Did the toothpick in the hot sauce
3. Suck the hot sauce off the toothpick
4. Start timing
5. stop timing when it stops hurting

Results

	Straight Chilly	Water	Coke	Milk
Time taken to stop the burning	5:57	6:26	5:38	4 mins +

Conclusion

I cant take hot food

Milk was the best at stoping the hot feeling.

The water was the worst at stopping the heat

Discussion

Chilly burns because of capsaicin