WEEK 4

Luke B was very thoughtful when he was choosing experiments for us to explore.

He decided that it would be kind to choose an experiment for Gabby and Aieshar…..so this week we put on our lab coats and prepared lavender and rose petals as we were making pot-pourri.

We had to put the petals and flowers on paper then put heavy books on top to help press the flowers down . It takes four weeks before the petals will be dry.
The roses smelt beautiful…we are wondering if they will still be smelling at the end of the four weeks.
We will let you know!

First we had to cut the stems off the lavender ...

Then carefully put the petals on the paper..

Four weeks is quite a long  time to have to wait to see if this works…but then scientists have to be very patient!!


We tried doing our bark rubbings on bark that Gayle had collected from a park. We were a bit disappointed at the results as the bark kept on breaking….mmm….how could we fix that?

After much thought we headed down to the trees on the field and tried with the paper straight on to the bark of the tree.
It worked!!!   It was such a windy day so we had to press the paper very firmly against the tree.

Next week we are painting blocks of wood which we are going to put the colour in Maori on them, so yesterday we went to the Resene paint shop at Tower Junction to purchase the paint.
We had to tell the lady what colour paint we needed in Maori and then we could choose any shade of that colour.

The staff there must have thought that we were amazing…and we are…because we were given a game, allowed to keep the paint chart, a balloon and a lollipop !!

After choosing all the colours we had time to play with the toys there and eat our lollipop.

There were so many colours to choose from!

Wow.. a paint tin filled with lollipops!

Ready to head back to school with our bag of goodies!!

              We have had a VERY busy week. We hope that you have had a busy week too.