Hydraulics!

Hello everyone!

My birthday was on the twenty-first of May.So,my best friend Emma Seth bought me a hydraulic excavator.What is that you ask?Well,a hydraulic excavator uses liquids(since they are incompressible!) to do simple machinery work.Here are some photos and a video of me:

 Hope you liked it!
From,
Maya.

Matariki Creativity Day!

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Yesterday,Habitat 17 was in for a surprise.Mr Allison,our teacher,brought in his mum to help us learn.She said we were going to expand our imagination,and bring out our passion.Well,we were going to do something relating to Matariki. We had a variety of choices to do (We had free choice on what we would do!)and we had to express that in the form of Matariki,the seven stars.I chose to do a poem.We were told that we would watch a video though.I was jittery. I wanted to start now!We watched a video about a boy named Caine. He loved playing arcade games,so he created an arcade at the front of his dad's shop.He had no customers at first but then he got lots of customers!So we had to choose what we wanted to do and then we were all set to do it!Here is a videos of me reciting my poem:

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From,
Maya.

The new element names!

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Today,my dad sent me an email.Four elements have just been named in scientists' labs today!

These are the old names and periodic table:

1:Ununtrium

2:Ununpentium

3:Ununseptium

4: Ununoctium

 These are the new ones and why they are called that:

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 From,

Maya.

 

What is the difference between soap and body wash?

Hello everyone!

I have done a article on what the difference is between soap and body wash.Here it is:

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between soap and body wash?The difference is the main ingredient.No,not water(they both have that!)The main ingredient for soap is sodium palmate,and for shower gel it is sodium laureth sulfate.

Some people think that soap is better.And some think that body wash is better.This is why people think that soap is better:

• Well,nothing on the web,but dad says it’s cheaper at the supermarket!!

And this is why some people think that body wash is better:

• Well,most people think that body wash is cheaper-not do dad!
• Britain has gone crazy about it-200 million bottles sold a year!
• Shower gels are more friendly to the skin.
• For men,shower gels has menthol,which gives a cooling and stimulating sensation on the skin,and many mens shower gels are also designed specifically for use on hair and body,thus more convenient to use.

What do you think?

(Please leave your answer in the comments below!)

Hope you liked it!
From,
Maya.

Habitat 17 picking up rubbish!

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Last Wednesday,Habitat 17 got an opportunity,a chance to link mathematics with sustainability.Statistics to be precise.Out teachers proclaimed that we were going to pick up rubbish around the school to make sure our environment stays clean and healthy.They said we needed to get into group of minimum 3,maximum 5.I chose four other people,making 5 in my group.Then we set off,and then we all wandered around the school picking up rubbish.My group found lots of disgusting things.EVEN A MANDARIN PIECE!We also found wood(rotting and smelly!),feathers,two lemonade bottles,pencils,straws and wrappers from fonterra milk for schools,and even a burger ring packet,and when we tipped out the rubbish,there were still burger rings in there,and they all tipped out!Yuck!We found that there was so much plastic...almost fifty percent!then,thirty percent wood,and the the other twenty percent wood.My group did a bar graph.Here are some photos and videos:

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From,

Maya

My fish!

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On Friday,I was sitting at a hut outside my school,and there were little fish all around it!Not real,no,but wooden and iron.Everybody in the school did one,and so I decided to find my own one.I found it on one of the sides.It looked really nice.It has a dark purple base colour(since purple is my favorite colour),an orange spiral in the middle,a black eye and so much more!Here are some photos:

My fish is the purple one.
Hope you liked it!
From,
Maya.