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TWINS DAY!

HEXATHLON WINNERS Y3-6

We are studying Life Beyond Earth.  This is a picture of us holding a tape measure that shows to scale, where all the planets are in relation to the sun. Neptune is 4 billion, 500 million kilometres from the sun.

Kapa Haka 2014

Look at all these qualified first aiders! Well done everybody!

In Maths, we practiced reading scales to measure the volume of liquid in millilitres and litres.

We had to solve problems about how many glasses of drink we could get out of a 1.5l bottle and how long a 100ml bottle of medicine would last if we took 5ml three times a day.

To follow on from our Science Sound unit, we have been making musical instruments in technology.  We made guitars, drums, harmonicas, maracas and chimes.  Here is a selection.

Reading Challenge Winners!

Children were challenged with reading lots of different genres over terms 2 and 3.  These children met that challenge - well done!

Spiderman (aka Daniel) after face painting on Loud Shirt Day.

Caitlin (room 19) and Evie (room 18) performing on their recorders with their music teacher.

Fun at gymnastics!

If some photos are blurred - that's because they move so fast!!

Tiare with her football team at the Girls Only Football Festival

Pizza Making using our New World Voucher!

Our 5aday Super Heroes!

Matariki Stars made from harakeke and paua shells

Worms for our worm farms/compost

 Queuing for worms!

 Looking at the carbon wastes - dry materials such as paper, cardboard, ash, old leaves, hay, etc

 Filling up the container, layer by layer

 Adding nitrogen wastes - wet wastes such as fruit, vegetables, fresh leaves, manure, flowers,etc

 Worm queue

 Old bananas - nitrogen waste

 Carbon/brown/dry waste

 Instructions/layers

 Selecting worms

 Inside a worm farm

 Adding five capfuls of water to keep the compost moist.  Not too much though - worms can't swim!

 Adding water carefully.

 Dry waste from a vacuum cleaner.

 Heading to the enviro-centre to store them.

Planting Harakeke at Pharazyn Reserve, Waikanae

Egg shells in coke, milk, water and juice after 36 hours!  Did you know that egg shell is like 

the enamel on your teeth.

New class photo with egg friends

Egg class photo

SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

Filling the pans to boil eggs.  How long does it take to boil an egg so the yolk is runny?

Not two minutes from cold water!

Not four minutes either!  Worked out to be 8 minutes from cold water.

Fastest way to roll an egg down a slide.  On foam?  No

Wrapped in bubble wrap, bubble side out?  No

What else can we use? Green cloth?

Too slow. We need something fast and slippery, let's try the other side of the bubble wrap so there is less friction!

Yes fastest time on record!

How can we get a boiled egg to drop in the jar?

Get the right sized jar top!  Get an adult to light a piece of paper and drop it into the jar.  Place the boiled egg on top and watch as a vacuum is created and the egg plops down.  See Science experiment links to youtube clip.  Our experiment didn't work as well but then science experiments don't always work!

Next experiment - how can we safely drop an egg from 2m?  Use a parachute!  The air gets trapped in the bag and slows the descent.  No eggs were hurt in the making of this video.

Look at the air in that bag. Happy smiles for a safe landing.

Whole class experiment.  What will happen if we leave egg shell in water, milk, orange juice and coke overnight?

Results pending.

More photos of squeezing an egg to follow!

Nga Manu