Hello Fellow Bloggers! At school this term, we have been focusing on science. This explanation is about how colours can affect your emotions. Comment below what your favourite colour is, and what you have learnt.

Explanation

Firstly, when a person sees three colours, red,

blue and green, it might influence a certain

emotion.These emotions can change the temperature 

of our bodies, making your facial expressions different. 

For example, when we are angry our upper body, arms, 

and feet have more energy because our bodies

are preparing to fight. Or, with surprise, our eyes

show more activity because they need to open as

wide as possible to take in the sight of whatever

caught us off guard. What colour do you associate

with blue?

People develop favourite colours to make them

feel individual. They develop them because they

feel they need to, like it’s expected of them.

Colours also affect emotions, like the expression,

“I’m feeling blue.” They may also affect the

choices we make, like buying a pen, there may

be a blue, a red and a green. They’re all the

same but yet colours still affect the purchase.

In the experiment, we found that most people

who chose red said they were feeling hungry,

the people who chose blue said they weren’t

feeling much (fine), and the people who chose

green either said they were excited or happy.

What emotion do you connect with green?

When someone is happy or excited, they may feel hot in the

chest or head. When someone is sad or depressed, they may feel numb,

because there is less heat circling the body. Do you ever get that feeling when

you’re embarrassed and your cheeks go hot? That is because that’s where the

heat is mostly circulating when you’re feeling embarrassed. When you see the

colour red what emotion do you think of?

Lastly, Emotional feelings are associated with discrete, yet partially

overlapping maps of bodily sensations, which could be at the core of the

emotional experiences. Perception of these emotion-triggered bodily changes may

play a key role in generating consciously felt emotions. Our cupcake experiment

was to see if people’s emotions were influenced by the colours, and if they chose

colours because of those reasons.

Hello fellow bloggers!
In literacy we have been learning the process of making chocolate. Here is an
explanation of what we have learnt.



The first step is to grow and harvest cocoa beans. They're found in little pots on trees,
located in the Equatorial forest. It can take up to five to six months to grow cocoa
beans and harvest them. The next step is to ferment the beans.Once the cocoa beans
have been extracted from the pots, they're left for 5-7 days to be fermented.
After fermentation of the beans, you must leave them covered for 6 days in the sun to
dry.



At collection centers, the dry cocoa beans are weighed and checked for quality.
They're then packed into bags and shipped to the cocoa factory.



After Arrival, the beans are sorted into groups, cleaned, dried and broken into nibs,
which are then ground and roasted into liquid mass. This is called cocoa liquor.
Cocoa liquor can be processed into cocoa butter or cocoa powder. Depending on
the chocolate recipe, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, sugar or milk powder are mixed.
This substance is constantly kneaded in a process called conching.




Other ingredients can be added during the conching. The chocolate is then
delivered in either liquid form, blocks or drops to all the chocolate lovers of the
world.

Here is a link to the video

Let me know in the comments what your favourite stage of the chocolate making process is, and your favourite type of chocolate!

Flying Tea Bags!

First, the contents of the tea bag are emptied out and the bag is unfolded into a tube. This tube is then stood up straight ( and open ) on a sheet of Aluminium Foil. This will later trap the heat and make sure the fire only burns the bag.

Secondly, the bag is lit on fire, preferably with a gas lighter, on both sides. The fire will burn down the teabag
until it reaches the aluminium foil, then it will stop because the foil traps the heat inside of it, so it will not catch
fire.

Thirdly, when the fire finally reaches the bottom of the tea bag, the flame will disappear, being absorbed
into the aluminium foil. The air inside of the tea bag will become lighter than the air surrounding, giving it
the ability to soar through the air. This is when someone will swiftly move their hands upwards to push the
ashes into the air, and to make matters more fun, they will shout “Wingardium Leviosa!”

Lastly, the cold air goes underneath the tea bag to push the ashes upwards to make it go rocketing into the air!
It’s so magical when the ashes fly up. The fire does not burn the tinfoil because it absorbs the heat, making it
unable to burn.

When the fire is first put on the tea bag, it’s made less dense, giving it the ability to lift in the air. The
bag then gets to a point that it’s just light enough to give it that reaction.