SCIENCE IS FUN !

When we arrived on Wednesday there were six white shirts waiting for us!

We wondered what they were for…can you guess?

Yes you are right! 

Lab coats for scientists , because that is what we are going to be this term!

We wondered what scientists might do all day and this is what we came up with…..

You have to be very focused and aware because being a scientist can be very dangerous. 

You have to know a lot about the thing that you are working on.       Luke B

You need to work with dinosaur fossils to find out what they looked like.

You would have to be very careful with them.       Aaron

You make potions.      Luke U

Im not sure but they wear a white coat and safety goggles.      Gabby

So with all this knowledge we put on our lab coats and began our first experiment.

Can an egg go soft and gooey ?    That was our task to find out!

We put an egg in a glass and covered it with vinegar…We noticed that straight away the eggs colour changed and bubbles appeared on it.

When we arrived at class the next day there was a frothy mixture on top of the vinegar…was our egg starting to change?

We are going to have to wait and see!!     We will tell you next week.

With all that froth and bubbles we wondered if we could make some connections…..and yes we could!

Other things that are frothy or have bubbles are…..a fluffy, shampoo, dish washing liquid, bubble bath, baking soda in the Anzac biscuits, the sea, a spa and  milkshakes.

We made a milkshake yesterday and it was very frothy on the top.

                                                        SCIENTISTS AT WORK!

                                                        

  We are wondering how our eggs are going to look on Monday…. will there be more froth?
  Will the shell still be strong?                                                                   Will the egg be gooey ?

                                       We will just have to be patient and wait and see!!

A lovely surprise yesterday…..Jacob Lowson came to visit us.   He has grown so tall …he is even taller than Gayle.!    It looked like Gayle had shrunk!!!!     He stayed and tasted our milkshake ….he thought it was delicious.
Thanks for coming Jacob.

Time to remember…...

Welcome back!

We hope that you all had a fun filled holiday. We were so lucky to get amazing weather over Easter.

Did the Easter bunny come to visit you?
He came and visited all of us….Yum!!!

Our apologies for no blog on the last week…things didn't go according to plan!

A time to remember…..

This week has been all about remembering the soldiers that went to war 100 years ago.

We have listened to some beautiful stories, looked at pictures of Gallipoli from the war and how it is now, made poppies to put on the remembrance crosses at school, looked at war medals that belonged to Gayle's granddad and great granddad , made Anzac biscuits and talked and talked about how people must have felt…the soldiers and the families that they left behind.
We think that it must have been a very sad time.

We used sponges to paint our poppies red.

"I will just put my name on my poppy because I want to take this one home"

"I have loved learning about the soldiers''

'Now for the centre of the poppy'

Our Anzac biscuits….modified!

Have a wonderful weekend.

We are all going to spend some time tomorrow …Anzac Day….remembering what we have learnt this week.

It is important to  stop for a moment and remember.

A favour… could you please save all your cream bottle top lids as we are going to carry on with our bottle top art this term.  This time we are making a poppy so we need HEAPS of red bottle tops.
Thanks

See you next week

Gabby,Aieshar, Luke B, Luke U, Aaron and Ethan

It's hard to believe that we are nearly at the end of the term!

Hi from us all…it is week 8…only one more week and it is the holidays!

The term has gone by very quickly.

On Wednesday we all participated in the Waimairi Cross Country. It was held at St James Park on a beautiful still day.

Some of us aren't all that keen on running but we all took part and we all finished the course without stopping.    Gayle and Rachel were very proud of us achieving that milestone.

Guess what….   we have also been working extremely hard on our mihi.

A few weeks ago we wrote it out and have been practising it ever since.

When we did it yesterday we blew Rachel and Gayle away as we are just about experts at it now.

We have learnt that if you practise, practise, practise you get the rewards, as you get so much better at what you are practising at.

Ethan…we were so proud of you

Luke just about knows his without looking!

Amazing Aaron….you have worked so hard

Just about at the real expert stage…..

Whoo Aieshar fantastic work !

Keep up the great work Gabby

We will keep on 'trying' with our mihi's and then we might read them to Mrs Coleman or Mr Anderson.

Gayle would love us to read them at Monday Meet Up..…mmm we will just have to wait and see!!!!

Enjoy your weekend everyone .

Week 6

What a busy week we have had!

You should see the progress we have made with our rakau sticks...our motto is 'keep trying' and we are.

On Tuesday we celebrated Aaron's birthday..he is now 7!!

Happy Birthday Aaron !

Last term you all helped us collect heaps and heaps of bottle tops.

We asked Mrs Jenkins to draw a pukeko for us as she is an expert when it comes to drawing. Thank you Mrs Jenkins!

 We had the drawing and the bottle tops so it was time to begin....we were very excited as we have been waiting a while to start our project.

                                        Luke researched the colours that we would need for our pukeko

                                    Then it was time to sort out the colours that we needed

                                       
                                                            Time to start glueing.....

                     Guess what,,,,,we ran out of light blue tops. Do you have any at home that we could have please?    We would be very happy if you have!! Thank you in advance.

Enjoy your weekend everyone

It's raining!!!

Wow..it is raining! We had almost forgotten what  rain was!!!

Welcome to week 5. What a week it has been!

On Thursday a very old friend came to visit us. It was Hilary who used to teach in the Afternoon Programme. It was so good to see her.

We got her to help us with our learning with rakau sticks. We had to really concentrate hard to get the first action. When we get to learn all the actions we will put a video on the blog for you.

Gabby and Hilary 

Aaron and Hilary

Well done you two!

On Wednesday we all went to the Museum  look at what we have been learning about...our Maori culture and making connections with it.

There was so much to look at and learn about. The displays were fantastic and they told great stories of the past.

Talking about what we thought this display was all about and how different things are today

Photo shoot!

Wow...you should have seen the Moa in this display ..it was huge!

We all thought that this greenstone was amazingly smooth.

You must come to the Museum to look at the incredible pieces of greenstone.

Mmm...which one would I like?

Sharing what we had seen and learnt.


Thanks Hilary for coming and spending two days with us. It was great to see you!

Enjoy the weekend everyone.

If you haven't been to the Museum to see the amazing Maori display, why not go this weekend for a visit