Sports Heroes

Sports Heroes 

Today I did a slide to do with sports heroes. It was fun learning about different sports. I made a slide with their birthday and how old they are and what the do or did and a photo down at the bottom of them. 

Gummy Babies Osmosis

Gummy Babies Osmosis

what did keah and I do for science 

we got the gummy babies and some ingredients we put water,sugar solution and salt solution in little containers and then we put the gummy babies in the containers with the liquid then we put the containers in a green box and we came back the next day and they all grew a bit to the point some of them creaked in half but they felt like jelly and water it felt weird and soft.

we left its for about 24 hours we got given 8 gummy babies we put yellow and orange 

This is keah's and mine saying what we would think that would happen 

Keah’s Hypothesis:

I think they will loose there colour and they will grow bigger 

I think the salt solution and the water solution is going going to grow less than the others and and that the sugar solution will grow more than the others 

Gemeve’s Hypothesis:

I think that one of them will grow bigger and one of the them will lose its colour on of them was all ready starting to lose there colours and all so on of them started to grow big it was bigger the the original one the water one is just getting bigger 

What happened: 

The water one grew the most and the salt one that grew less they had lost there colour and the water ones split in half 

We think the water one split in half because it had absorbed all the water and got to a certain point were it just split.

Water:biggest lost most colour split in half

Sugar:Medium lost a bit of colour

Salt:smallest didn’t do mush and only really lost colour

Here is the photo before Here is the photo after

  

Yesterday Keah Ayla and I made coloured water with skittles we got warm water and put skittles in it  and the water discoloured the water and it made the water coloured the water it was pretty cool to see the colours also made lines where the colours met. 

Skittle Observations

Instructions:  

1.  ¾ fill a petri dish with water. 

2. Carefully place 4 differently coloured skittles evenly spaced around the outside of the petri dish. 

3. Watch...

 

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Observations

• What things did you notice?  Can you make five observations?

•   The colours faded  from the skittles. 

•   the skittles made lines in the water from where the skittle colour faded.

•   It coloured the water.

•   the water made the skittles drain the water 

•   The coloured water mixed together and made an ugly colour

• Did anything surprise you?  What weren’t you expecting to observe? 

No-Keah

I wasn’t expecting the colours to stay in their own bubble I thought they would automatically merge with their neighbour boarders and make a mixed colour line where they joined. - Ayla

Not really- Gemeve

Wanderings

• What questions arose in your mind as you did this activity?

what colour is more dominant 

                            Why was the lines forming in the water from the skittles- Gemeve

•  Do you have any ideas about why certain things happened?

no-Keah

       No-Gemeve

yes-Ayla

Battalion

Today I have done this work the answers are a bit short because I was not here the last time the class has done this

Reference:  Gardiner, W. (2019) Ake Ake Kia Kaha E! Forever Brave! B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Bateman Books.

..”Walter (Waata) Heretini, ‘was as blind as a bat. He couldn’t hit a barn if it was 50 metres away from him’. Like a number of others who joined the battalion, Heretini persuaded a mate to do the medical for him so he could ‘get away’.” (pp. 60-61).

“Lieutenant-Colonel Leckie ordered (Captain) Love to send a company to Musaid to strengthen the position… Love assigned the task to B Company, allocating Bren carriers to provide mobile reconnaissance. B Company was armed to the teeth, having ‘raided the enemy arms depot to some purpose. The return showed six spandaus, three anti-tank rifles, one 2-inch mortar, six tommy guns, and fifty stick grenades from this source’.” (pp. 165-166)..

Question 1.  Why were the soldiers of 28 (Maori) Battalion heroes?

Some were brave because they  could not see very well and they wanted to go to the war so bad  They were also brave because they got weapons that they did not even know how to work them

“Two B Company stretcher bearers won immediate Military Medals for their bravery in this action. Corporal John Tuneup ‘worked unceasingly throughout the night scouring the battlefield administering to and personally evacuating friend and foe alike… In one instance under heavy enemy fire he dressed and splinted the limb of a soldier of another unit and carried him out to safety’. Temporary Corporal James Pirihi worked cheerfully and untiringly treating, evacuating and burying casualties until none remained on the field.’ A week later, Pirihi ‘again showed great devotion to duty administering to friends and foe alike. In one instance in the face of enemy MG fire he dressed the wounds of a German soldier and finally carried him out to safety personally.” (p. 210).

Question 2  Why were the stretcher bearers heroes?

Because they went to the middle of the battle field to get hurt people

3. Read this account from a hard-working officer, and his concern for the soldiers with the teacher, discuss the meanings, and answer the question:

“B Company, commanded by Major Bennett, started 15 minutes after the forward companies….. With his company having lost contact with the others, Bennett dug in and awaited developments. The prospect of a German counter-attack was uppermost in his mind. ‘I was fearful for the forward troops’ welfare… We were like a little finger poked out into the enemy positions and likely to be nipped off with ease. I was not apprehensive of enemy troops but I was of his tanks. Without anti-tank defences I knew I was absolutely at the mercy of tanks should they have attacked.’ Going back to Battalion Headquarters, he found that Baker had been wounded and the temporary commanding officer, Major Hart, mortally wounded. Bennet assumed command of the battalion, a position in which he would soon be confirmed.” (pp. 212-213).

Question 3:  Why were hard working soldiers’ leaders heroes?

Because they worked harder to fight for their country